G Bell and Sons 1949. INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR (3 TIME BRITISH CHESS CHAMPION) octavo, green buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 226pp, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 312712
Title: The World Chess Championship 1948
Author: GOLOMBEK, H
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G Bell and Sons 1949
Keywords: games hobbies chess signed H Golombek tactics strategy past games

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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...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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