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Chessmen
by Mackett-Beeson, Alfred Ernest James (1914-?)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 070640050X
- ISBN 13
- 9780706400502
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
97 pages with 123 illustrations in color and black & white and map. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with white lettering t spine with color pictorial cover in original pictorial jacket. (Lusis: 2556) First edition. A E J Mackett-Beeson traces the history of the game, and describes the few pieces which have survived from the medieval period. Then he considers the contribution of different countries, Europe, Russian and the Middle East. And finally he surveys the wide variety of attractive and individual sets made in the Far East. Condition: Light rubbing to spine heal else a very good in a very good to fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS004356
- Title
- Chessmen
- Author
- Mackett-Beeson, Alfred Ernest James (1914-?)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 070640050X
- ISBN 13
- 9780706400502
- Publisher
- Octopus Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size
- Royal octavo
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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