The Chess-Player's Handbook: A Popular & Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess
Howard Staunton
Published by George Bell, 1890
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Hardcover
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1890. No edition remarks. 544 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white diagrams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Seller Inventory # 1727332716IEV
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Title: The Chess-Player's Handbook: A Popular & ...
Publisher: George Bell
Publication Date: 1890
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with faded spine. Seller Inventory # 9999-99991104622
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Published by
George Bell & Sons, 1893
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. heavy, extra postage may be required. the boards are worn and marked. foxing. binding has been repaired. all pages remain clear and much legible. fair condition [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 42ry
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The Chess-Player's Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess Exemplified in Games Actually Played By The Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions, by Howard Staunton, Esq.
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London, Bracken Books, (1989)., 1989
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Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
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Facsimile edition, Thick Cr. 8vo; pp. x, 518; diagrams, illustrated endpapers, original cloth, dustjacket, fine condition. The original edition was published in 1847, the book remains a good source of ideas for the chessplayer of today. Seller Inventory # 31931
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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR004676553
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Chess-players Handbook, The: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest . Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions
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Chess-players Handbook, The: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest . Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions
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The Chess-Player's Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess. With an Alphabetical List of the Principal Openings and a Bibliography, By R. F. Green
Published by
George Bell & Sons, London, 1900
Used
Hardcover
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. First published in 1847, this is an umpteenth revised 'Bohn's Library' impression of 1900. Red cloth boards, with gilt chessboard on front cover and gilt titling. Covers somewhat worn and rubbed, some white splashes to back cover, spine faded, contents slightly shaken, endpapers browned, some dust and fingerprint staining to page fore edges, but overall a vg reading copy for its age. 544pp. An easy introduction (still useful today) to chess by maestro and world champion Howard Staunton (1810-74), inventor of the world renowned Staunton chess service. Seller Inventory # 012278
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The Chess-Player's Handbook. A popular & scientific introduction to the Game of Chess, exemplified in games actually played by the greatest Masters & illustrated by numerous diagrams of original & remarkable positions
Published by
Henry G. Bohn, London, 1861
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Second (First Revised) Edition. Invaluable guidance for the chess enthusiast. Second (First Revised) Edn., 1861; full burgundy cloth; decorative borders/designs blind-stamped to front/rear boards; chess-board illus. blocked in gilt (very worn) to front board; floral pattern blind-stamped full to spine, with titling/library classification number blocked in gilt (very worn); black silk marker; replacement endpapers (not recent) of plain brown paper; viii+518pp.; illus. col. (including gold) frontispiece/bw. diagrams. Slightly scuffed/sunned spine lightly worn at top/tail, but intact/quite clean; stained/very soiled boards rubbed/slightly bumped at corners; page edges very tanned; printed 'Norwich Free Library' leaflet (rules/regulations) affixed to front paste-down endpaper; neat 'Norwich Free Library' stamp to verso frontispiece/recto title page/p.518 at bottom margin/sporadic pages at bottom margins, but no further internal library disfigurements; pages clean/quite crisp; rear hinge weak, but binding secure, all intact. Poor. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Hardback. Seller Inventory # 26149
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