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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1888. Photograph available upon request. First Edition. A single issue of this monthly magazine. NOT print on demand or a modern reprint. NOT a library discard. Near Very Good condition. Cover is intact with only light wear and minimal chips. Minor waviness to the margin of some pages [in the margin only, no text or illustrations are affected]. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original decorated wraps. Complete with all ads. Questions on content? Please inquire. This issue includes MERE POCHETTE, A STORY by Sarah Orne Jewett; CHESS IN AMERICA by Henry Sedley (with an engraved portrait of chessmaster Paul Morphy). Also in this issue: MODERN SPANISH ART by Prescott; CANADIAN VOYAGEURS ON THE SAGUENAY by Farnham, with illustration by Howard Pyle and A. B. Frost; A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN by William Dean Howells; etc. Also a full page illustration by George du Maurier.. First Edition. Softcover.… Leer más

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1974. 9.25" wide by 6.25" tall. Clean, square, unmarked copy. Photo illustrations throughout. Summary: "Introduces the history of chess and chess pieces and gives instructions for making twenty-five different chess sets out of easily available materials." Step-by-step procedures for making 25 chess sets out of lag bolts, screws, nails, wood, paper, playing cards, coin stacks, tread spools, rocks/stones, aluminum foil, cork and bottle caps, etc. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition.. Oblong 8vo. 151pp..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Illustrated with 133 drawings and diagrams. Bibliography. From the Dust Jacket: "Here are choice games, puzzles, illusions, and uncategorized diversions from around the mathematical world, some of them easy, some of them tough and supertough, all of them illuminated by what TIME magazine has called Martin Gardner`s 'playful genius for mathematics and logic.' Among the delights and surprises…..." Some examples: Twists on the Mobius Bands; Cocktail Cherry Puzzle; dice diversions; game theory; coin and card trickery; surreal numbers; factorial oddities; finger arithmetic; the post-Tictactoe game of Tri-hex; 26 ridiculous riddles with mathematical/logical answers; a part-chess, part-checkers game;… Leer más

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1969. As New condition. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Full title: Mental Prodigies, An Enquiry into the Faculties of Arithmetical, Chess, and Musical Prodigies, Famous Memorizers, Precocious Children and the Like, with Numerous Examples of "Lightning" Calculations and Mental Magic.. Reprint of the 1952 original. Hardcover. As New condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. 256pp.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight. Flat spine. No creases. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Originally published in 1956 as PSYCHOANALYTIC OBSERVATIONS ON CHESS AND CHESS MASTERS in volume 3 of PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY. This Dover edition, first published in 1967, contains a revised selection of portraits and a new Appendix consisting of two letters by Ernest Jones. Chapter headings are: Review of the Literature; General Remarks on Chess; The World Champions; Psychoses among Chess Players; Summary: Theory of Chess. Appendix. Bibliography.. Revised illustrated edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps/No dust jacket, as issued. (viii), 74pp.

Dallas, Texas: Chess Digest, 1974. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good+ dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO chips, tears or fading. Square and reasonably tight. Corners are NOT bumped. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. One or two chessboard diagrams on nearly every page. English descriptive notation. Index of Games. Index of Variations. Bound in the original red boards, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiv, 192pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Fireside Book / Simon & Schuster, Inc , 1987. A beautiful, pristine copy -- bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Obviously never read. Not price clipped (6.95). A Paperback Original (PBO). 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Illustrated with 101 chess board diagrams. A volume in the Fireside Chess Library series. Algebraic notation. From the rear cover: "A complete course in intermediate chess logic, based on six games actually played by the 'Kasparov generation' of Soviet chess players... offering an instructive question and answer for every single play... Puts the most current concepts and personalities in world-class chess at the intermediate player's fingertips." Appendix has biographical sketches of grandmasters. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. As New condition.. 219pp.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1993. Near Fine condition. Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips, tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Square and reasonably tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. One or two chessboard diagrams on nearly every page (178 diagrams total). Algebraic notation. Index of Variations. Bound in the original white and green pictorial wraps, lettered in black and green.. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 210pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1992. Near Fine condition in Near Fine dust jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve). Not price clipped (£25). No chips. No tears. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Bright, clean, square, and tight. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 photographs, 138 in full-color. Index. From the author's Preface to the Second Edition: "The opportunity has been taken in this edition to correct a few errors and to incorporate fresh research and scholarship... More colour pictures have been introduced." The author, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, reveals and delights in the intriguing stories behind many of the collection's greatest treasures, including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, Egyptian mummies, Botticelli and Michelangelo drawings, Assyrian reliefs, the Lewis Chessmen, Sutton Hoo ship burial, Hoa Hakananai'a,… Leer más

Quality Chess, 2006. Appears unread. Fine condition. Flat uncreased spine. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. Profusely illustrated with chessboard diagrams -- mostly 3 or 4 per page. From the rear cover: "Chess is 99% tactics is an old saying. This may be an exaggeration, but even the remaining 1% still depends on tactics. When Martin Weteschnik started working as a trainer in his local chess club, he quickly realized that even the stronger club players had great weaknesses in their tactical play. He also discovered that simply asking them to solve a huge number of puzzles did not fix the problem. These players clearly needed a good book, but when Weteschnik looked for it he found nothing suitable, so he decided to write it himself. But Weteschnik was not completely satisfied with the book and decided to restructure and rewrite it completely. This is [that] book...".… Leer más

New York: R. H. M. Press, 1975. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips or tears. Price clipped. Previous owner's small ink stamp on the endpaper. All other pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Well illustrated with 150 chess board diagrams. Includes 208 annotated games (most of which are previously unpublished) and 2 studies. Also includes the games from his match victory over Corzo which gained him the title of Cuban Champion at the age of 12. First Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Translated from the Russian. Has numerous appendices: The Chess Record of Jose Raul Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 - 8 March 10, 1942); Tournaments record; Team Events record; Individual Matches; Exhibition Games; Consultation Games; Simultaneous Displays record; Index of Players; Index of Openings; Index of Endgames; Index of Sources. Bound in the original maroon boards, lettered in bright gold on the spine.… Leer más

New York: Advanced Computer Techniques Corp, 1977. Near Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 8" wide by 10.25" tall. Illustrated. Complete with errata sheet that corrects the chess diagram (in a game contested between David Levy and the computer program, Chess 4.5). Original brown cloth. . First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. x, 186pp.