Jack L Spence (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. faintly soiled covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, light shelfwear to covers. "G-4B" written in red ink on front endpaper. Contents clean and tight. 188 pages, index, b&w illus.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Volume III (3) ONLY!!! No publishing date listed, though with some research approx. 1970. Book has light rubbing/smudging to covers, light wear to corners, a faint spine twist.otherwise book is in very good condition. Pages are clean, crisp and bright with tight binding, and an unbroken spine. A very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 177 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductoins of chess diagrams, including a few photographs. Very good in original cloth boards with gilt design and titling, some faint bumping and rubbing to edges and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rubbed spine. Former owner's name in block letters.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 17.5 x 13 cm. 152pp. 92 annotated games, chess figures. Blue paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 254 pp., with numerous diagrams and additional pages of errata. Minor shelf and handling wear. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards gently bumped/rubbed. Mild soiling/mottling to text block, endpapers, and pastedowns. Previous owner's name stamp on rear pastedown; faintly visible erasures of previous bookseller notations on ffep. Significant soiling and wear (including chips, creases and tears) to dust jacket (see photos); dust jacket is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover. …

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 5 x 7in. 255pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Descriptive Notation; Endpapers and textblock are gently aged but clean and tight; Bound in blue cloth, with a classic chess piece stamped in gilt on the front cover; The cloth is worn and frayed at the spine tips and board corners, and the rear outside gutter is torn along the hinge from the bottom up; Lacks dust jacket: Includes biography of the Russian Grandmaster Vassily Smyslov, his tournmant and Match Record, and his essay on the Problems of Development in Chess. 177p., including index of openings. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Photos; Chess Diagrams (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. . First edition, No 46 of a Limited Edition of 100 copies. Format quarto, 278mm. Physical description, typescript, printed on recto's only [1], [3] 4- 35. Contents stapled, very lightly browned and tending loose. Introduction and Index of openings. Limp printed card wrappers detached. Overall, a good copy only. All the the 20 games from the main event annotated by some of the players. Betts 25-176. VdL 5698.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Published. The Chess Career of Rudolf Spielmann, 1903-1926 is a rare, highly regarded chess game collection and biographical work edited by Jack L. Spence. Originally published in 1961 by A. Kalnaj, this book serves as an exhaustive historical record of the early-to-mid career of Austrian-Jewish Grandmaster Rudolf Spielmann. Spielmann was famously dubbed "The Master of Attack" and "The Last Knight of the King's Gambit" due to his fierce, romantic, and sacrifice-heavy playing style. A very nice copy. Illustrated. Book.…