Gambits Accepted: A Study of Opening Sacrifices [Chess]
by Fletcher, L. Elliott
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good (in mylar)
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Endpapers are moderately aged and foxed. First British Edition; Very light musty odor to textblock. Chess label on fep with offset staining on ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Binding has a sunned spine, with moderate edge and corner wear. Top edge shows light environmental soiling; Unclipped but sunned and very edge-worn dust jacket, edge chips, a few closed tears, chipped corners; 254p., including index.. First British Edition. Cloth. Good/Good (in mylar). Illus. by Diagrams. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB7381
- Title
- Gambits Accepted: A Study of Opening Sacrifices [Chess]
- Author
- Fletcher, L. Elliott
- Illustrator
- Diagrams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Chess Championships, chess Strategies, Chess playing, Board Games, Games, Chess Opening Sacrifices
- Bookseller catalogs
- Games & Humor;
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About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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