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SOVIET CHESS
by Grekov, Nicolai/Reich, Theodore (Translator)
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- Used - Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.00
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New York City, NY/Philadelphia, PA: Chess Review/Distributed by David McKay Company, Inc. (1949) 256 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Covers a bit cocked; corners and spine ends bumped. Edges of leaves a bit age toned, otherwise, contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 30.00
A PICTURE HISTORY OF CHESS
by Wilson, Fred
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780486238562
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 57.28
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New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. (1981) 182 pp. Original pictorial wraps w/ light edge wear. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
SGD 57.28
BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE: Volume XVI (16) (Sixteen), 1896
by Brown, Isaac M. (Editor)/Ranken, Rev. G. E.; Wayte, Rev. W.; Rayner, J.; Blake, J. H.; Tinsley, S.; Cunningham, J. G.
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- Used - Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 347.77
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London: Trubner & Company 496 pp. Red cloth covers w/ dark red leather spine and corners. Lacks most of spine. Binding rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Includes a full year--12 issues, January through December, 1896.. Hard Cover. Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 347.77
MINOR TACTICS OF CHESS: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle
by Young, Franklin K. and Howell, Edwin C.
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- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1915
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 43.64
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Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. 222 pp. Original green cloth covers, lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to corners. Spine a bit sunned w/ light fraying to ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Light dampstains at outer margin of last few leaves, not affecting text. … Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 43.64
HOW TO BE A JUGGLER: A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Book
by Meyer, Charles R.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780679204077
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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New York: David McKay Company, Inc. (1977) 56 pp. Original red cloth covers, very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to spine ends. DJ lightly soiled. Price clipped. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 23.18
DARK HAZARD: The Story of a Gambler/A Hillman Publication No. 20
by Burnett, W. R.
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- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Published
- 1949
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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New York: Hillman Periodicals, Inc., 1949. 192 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ light edge wear. Small crease to top corner of rear cover. Edges of leaves a bit age toned.. Soft Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 23.18
PLAY IT YOURSELF: Puzzles, Quizzes, Brain Teasers, Problems and a Host of Other Games to While Away the Hours on a Trip or at Home--You Need No Adversary But Yourself!/Perma Books #M-3054
by Bassett, Jack and Monath, Norman
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Printing
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.00
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New York: Permabooks (1956) 149+1 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. All puzzles appear to be blank.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 30.00
MORE PUZZLE FUN: A New Collection of Adult Word Games/Permabook Edition #M-4296
by Dell, Martin
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Printing
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 36.82
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New York: Pocket Books, Inc. (1963) 143+1 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Otherwise, contents nice. All puzzles appear to be blank.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 36.82
PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK: 33 Flying Planes--Fold 'Em & Fly 'Em/Pyramid Books #T-2482
by Max, Peter
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- Used - Very Good to Fine
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Printing
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 36.82
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New York: Pyramid Books (1971) Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ mild edge wear. Illust. w/ color drawings and paper airplanes ready to be folded. Contents nice.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good to Fine/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 36.82
14TH BOOK OF DELL CROSSWORD PUZZLES: Dell Books #2711
by Rafferty, Kathleen (Editor)/Moore, Rosalind (Associate Editor)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Second Printing
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.00
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New York, NY: Dell Publishing Company (1968) 192 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Leaves a bit age toned. All puzzles appear to be blank.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 30.00
1000 BEST SHORT GAMES OF CHESS: A Treasury of Masterpieces in Miniature
by Chernev, Irving
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- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1955
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 139.11
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. 556 pp. Original gray paper covered boards w/ gilt title on yellow cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled w/ wear to corners. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper; old tape ghost (?) at bottom edge of front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ moderate wear, tear, and chipping to edges.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 139.11
CHESS COMPANION: A Merry Collection of Tales of Chess and Its Players, Together with a Cornucopia of Games, Problems, Epigrams & Advice, Topped Off with the Greatest Games of Chess Ever Played
by Chernev, Irving (Selected and Annotated)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good-
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- First Printing
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 36.82
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New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (1968) 288 pp. Original brown tweed paper covered boards w/ green cloth spine. Light sunning to spine ends. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Approx. 1/4" closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. Few creases to front flap. Contents nice.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 36.82
CHAMPIONSHIP CHESS: Match Tournament for the Absolute Chess Championship of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad--Moscow, 1941/Complete Text of Games with Detailed Notes & an Introduction
by Botvinnik, M. M. [Mikhail Moiseyevich]/Garry, Stephen (Translator)
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition in English
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 70.92
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Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company (1950) 186 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed w/ small dark stain below title on front cover. Contents nice. . First Edition in English. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 70.92
GRANDMASTERS OF CHESS
by Schonberg, Harold C.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780397010042
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company (1973) 318 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. DJ has wear, tear, and chipping to edges. Large piece missing at top edge of front panel. Creases to flaps. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 23.18
CORRESPONDENCE CHESS YEARBOOK #9 (Nine): Correspondence Tournament News Review/Contains the New ICCF Rating List
by Curtacci, S. (Supervisor)/Tirabassi, M. (Editor-in-Chief)/Barillaro, L.; Battistini, R.; Cimmino, P.; Cogan, S.; Del Rio, R.; Falchetta, G.; Hawkes, J. E.; Madonia, L.; Minerva, E.; Moscatiello, A. (Editorial Team/Staff)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9788886127165
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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Bologna, Italy: S1 Editrice (1993) 240 pp. Original yellow wraps, lightly soiled. Spine sunned. Contents very nice.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 23.18
A PICTURE HISTORY OF CHESS
by Wilson, Fred
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- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780486238562
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 50.46
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New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. (1981) 182 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ creases to covers. Date written in ink at top edge of front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos.. Soft Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
SGD 50.46
CHESS COMPETITORS' HANDBOOK
by Kazic, B. M./Djaja, D.; Morrison, M. E.; Elo, A. (Co-Authors)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780668049634
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 16.37
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New York, NY: Arco Publishing, Inc. (1980) 230 pp. Original yellow wraps, lightly soiled. Spine sunned. Evidence of small price label removed from top corner of half-title page. Contents nice.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 16.37
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
by Gligoric, S. [Svetozar] and Wade, R. G. [Robert Graham]/Edwards, Lovett F. (Translator)
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- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780060115739
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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New York: Harper & Row (1972) 192 pp. Original purple cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and gilt decoration of chess pieces on front cover. Light soiling to top edge of text block. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ mild edge wear. Contents very nice. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 23.18
SAHOVSKI INFORMATOR (CHESS INFORMANT) #65 (Sixty-Five), X 1995--I 1996: (Schach-Informator); (Informateur D'Echecs); (Informador Ajedrecistico); (Informatore Scacchistico); (Schack-Informator)
by Matanovic, Aleksandar (Editor-in-Chief); Rabar, Braslav; Molerovic, Milivoje; Bozic, Aleksandar; Milic, Borislav (Inventors of the Chess Informant Systems)/Krnic, Zdenko (Assistant of the Editor-in-Chief)
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 30.00
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Yugoslavia: Sahovski Informator (1996) 428+pp. Original green wraps w/ modest edge wear. Covers very bright and clean. Text in several different languages, including German, Russian, English, French, and others. Contents very nice.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 30.00
WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF CHESS
by Chernev, Irving
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- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 23.18
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New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. (1974) 204+pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Creases to covers. Faint dampstain along foredge of rear cover, and foredge of text block. Contents nice. . Soft Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
SGD 23.18