Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. 317 pages. Illustrated in text with black and white photographs from various collections, archives, libraries and chess clubs. Pages are white and clean. Book is solid. Front endpapers have illustration of "The Match Between France and England, featuring William Staunton (England) and Pierre Saint-Amant in Paris 1843 across both pages. Back endpapers have illustration of the St. Petersburg Chess Tournament in 1914 across both pages. Red cloth with gilt title on spine. Edges and corners lightly worn and bumped. Black dust jacket with roane and grey titles. DJ price clipped. DJ worn at edges and corners with a few tears at the top. VG/Good. Hard Cover.

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Bookseller: J. Wyatt Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 026727
Title: GRANDMASTERS OF CHESS
Author: Schonberg, Harold C
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
Place of Publication: Philadelphia and New York
Date Published: 1973
Keywords: Chess, Games,

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...