My Chess Career
by José Raúl Capablanca
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Very good, 1923, hardback in blue cloth with rounded corners to the boards and page edges, gilt signature to front and gilt titling and chess piece image to the spine. Binding good and tight. Internally very good with browning to front/rear free endpapers and spotting to page edges. No dustwrapper. Capablanca, a Cuban, was the third International Chess Champion (1921-1927). (03/24).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dorothy House (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Y29
- Title
- My Chess Career
- Author
- José Raúl Capablanca
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. Bell and Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Dorothy House
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About the Seller
Dorothy House
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Bath, Somerset
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.