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The Year-Book (Yearbook) of Chess 1908
by E A Michell (1879-?)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
vi+301+[4 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and indices. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Betts: 8-15) First edition. Articles (General review of the year, by L Hoffer. History of the Queen's Gambit) Leading events of the year 1907 (reports, with annotated games, of the main national and international tournaments and matches). Statistics (masters' averages, etc.). Problem section (results of competitions, with prize winners and 28 selected problems of the year; edited by P H Williams) Chess club directory. Condition: Spine ends rubbed, some light soiling, book plate to front paste-down else very good.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C2304
- Title
- The Year-Book (Yearbook) of Chess 1908
- Author
- E A Michell (1879-?)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Whitehead and Miller
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size
- Small octavo
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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