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The World's Great Chess Games
by Reuben Fine (1914-1993)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
viii+287 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket.
An annotated treasury of the greatest games ever played... Now you can savor the strategy, psychology and sheer brilliance behind a host of landmark struggles.... [Dr. Fine] has leavened his tale of master strokes and miscues with delightful anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories of the celebrated combatants, many of whom he knew personally and faced across the chessboard.
Condition: Former library copy with usual extensive library stamps and markings, tape stains to covers, corners bumped and rubbed. Jacket with library label to spine, edge wear with chips and tears, spine head mostly chipped away, price clipped else a good copy in fair jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C2752
- Title
- The World's Great Chess Games
- Author
- Reuben Fine (1914-1993)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- viii+287 pages with diagrams
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Bookseller catalogs
- /chess;
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Fort Worth, Texas
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