Weissenstein Helen (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original orange cloth. Few small smudge spots on leaves, Very Good, in Very Good Minus Dust Jacket with small edge chips and edge tears. Egon Weiniger. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Publication of 150 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What can a lively, active boy do when a bad accident suddenly deprives him of the things he loves best: his friends and all the fun he used to enjoy with them-baseball, hiking, fishing John Lane thought there was no answer to this question until he met his neighbors, the twins Pete and Paul Dailey, young chess enthusiasts who introduced him to the Royal Game.How the chessmen put an end to John's loneliness, how they bring him new friends, how he wins membership in the Chess Club of the Grinning Knight and how, because of his new interests, he finally begins to recover his health make an absorbing story for readers of ten to fourteen.Boys and girls who follow John's progress will acquire not only a thorough introduction to chess, but, also, a good deal of information about the game's long and fascinating history and the legends and lore that have grown up about it.The text is accompanied by Kurt Werth's gay, humorous drawings, and 36 clear diagrams explaining the moves, so that even a reader who has never before played chess will be able to follow with ease the exciting games that take place during the course of the story.Author Helen Weissenstein, a chess player since childhood, was born in Vienna, Austria, and was graduated as a Doctor of Law from the University of Vienna. She left her country when Hitler invaded it and went to Switzerland, from which country she later came to the United States. Two days after her arrival in New York she joined the Manhattan Chess Club and in doing so found a place where she at once felt at home. She has since won prizes in several women's championship tournaments.John and the Chess Men is Miss Weissenstein's second book for children. It was published in 1952.…

Condition: Good. London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1955. 1st thus. 12mo. 150pp. Illus. by Kurt Werth; diagrams. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket worn and a bit chipped at folds; slightly dampstained inside. Clear cover has been added. Minor shelfwear, mostly to spine ends. Pages a bit spotted. Inquire if you need further information. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp.150. Detective novel which also describes the rules of Chess: "Thirty-six clear diagrams explain the moves so that readers who have never played chess at all will be alble to follow the exciting games which take place in the book." The author was a chess player "of national prominence in the United States." Drawings and diagrams by Kurt Werth.PublisherÕs own retained copy with their stamp on the free endpapers reading ÔFile.Õ Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket very slightly used but complete.…

Condition: very good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.150. Green cloth covers. Spine lightly sunned and gently knocked at tail. Faint foxing to front and rear pastedowns. book.