easy introduction game chess containing (49 resultados)

PF. Condición: New.

Condición: New. In.

Condición: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condición: New.

Gebunden. Condición: New.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Condición: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Missing backstip. Front board detached. Lacking title page and other preliminary pages; text begins with the introduction. Most of textblock separated from the rear board. Owner's name on front pastedown and introduction page. Dampstained. (Chess, Games).

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Stained and faded pale brown boards and spine, the latter with a maroon label lettered in gilt; internally brown splodges and staines throughout; binding tight; half title present but lacks frontis. Pp (6), 254. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

viii, 254 [2, ads] pp. Lacks the frontispiece diagram. 12mo, original boards with printed paper label on spine. A New Edition, Carefully Revised. Bookplate; old ownership signature; chipped along the joints and at the extremities of the spine; contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Original 1820 Baldwin Cradock & Joy edition beautifully rebound at a later date in navy cloth covered boards with gilt letter to spine. Corners good. No visible wear. Bookseller label on front endpaper for Bookselller Stephen Phelan, Warehouse Quay, Waterford. Book commences with 12 pages of book advertisements for Longman et al. There is no frontispiece. Pages are clean and binding tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Pages are uncut. Some pages shorter than others. More book advertisements for Baldwin Cradock and Joy at the end. Please examine all seller photos.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Smallish book about 4 by 6 1/2 inches with some 142 pages. Bound in tan paper over boards with red leather spine and tips. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine only. With stiff tan paper end papers. This is volume two only from the original two volume set. Perhaps the most noted contents of this book is the early printing of the famous Benjamin Franklin piece on 'The Morals Of Chess'. Also includes a substantial number of chess anecdotes about famous people. Bit of rubbing to the leather; some darkening to the covers paper apparently from the glue used. An unusually nice copy of this book. VERY GOOD.

Original boards, rebacked with original spine label. 267 pp., folding frontispiece plate. Edges are untrimmed. Moderate foxing throughout. Early American chess book which attempts to introduce a new system of game notation, illustrated by the plate. The text includes the short essay "The Morals of Chess" by Benjamin Franklin at pages 237-241. The plate, depicting a chess board with squared numbered as a guide for the new system of notation, is very rare. Neither OCLC 3252237 nor the American Antiquarian Society entry (#251824) mention this plate as part of the proper collation of this volume. American Imprints 16032.

[8], xx, 184pp; [4], 142, [2]pp, half titles, frontispiece. 12mo. Old brown mark to upper corner of two leaves vol I. An uncut copy bound in original drab grey boards, expertly rebacked with cream paper; some dusting to e.ps. Early inscription at head of half title. This was first published in London by Ogilvy in 1802, and in America in 1817. The name of the compiler has never been established.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Frontis, 7 x 4, blue-grey boards, printed paper spine labels, 184pp, 142pp. Covers loose and spotted, Volume I front cover and ffep detached, corners bumped, spines gone except for small piece on Volume II, spine labels missing pieces, ink name & inscription (Evey? ? from her grandfather 31 dec-'87), a few loose signatures in Volume I else good. Dr. Franklin's essay "The Morals of Chess" is to be found in Volume II, pages 115-119. Benjamin Franklin started playing chess in the 1730s, which is also the time period that he started working on "Morals", it didn't become public until 1786. This essay was reprinted several times by the end of the 18th centrury and translated into French, German and Russian. It was originally printed on Franklin's Passy Press but no known copy has survived. This book, "An Easy Introduction" was extremely popular and was reprinted many times. FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY SCARCE.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

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Condición: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. [8]+254+[2 pages publisher's advertisements]. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") rebound in half leather with paisley boards. Contains Sir William Jones' poem "Cassia: or The Game of Chess, A Poem"; based upon Pratt's "Studies of Chess". (Van der Linde: 613) Fifth English edition. This was first published in London by Ogilvie in 1802 (2 volumes). First published in America in 1817 and reprinted in 1824. The name of the compiler has never been established. The miscellaneous collection of anecdotes, essays and poems at the end is not without interest. The openings and games are all in the numerical notation and no diagrams are given. (Hagedorn: 55p) Condition: Rebound in decorative half leather with red spine label with gilt lettering, new end papers and paste downs, lacks frontispiece fold out chess board, else about very good.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 298. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1817 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 298.

LeatherBound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 282. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1820 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 282.

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 270. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1816 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 270.

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 284. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1824 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 284.

Condición: Very Good. New edition. Hardback. Octavo. viii, 246pp. Bound in recent plain brown cloth. Lacks frontis and last couple of pages, otherwise very good indeed with slight scattered foxing to contents.

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 374. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1806 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1-2 Language: English Pages: 374 Volume 1-2.

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Folding plate, 7 x 4.25", leather backed marbled boards, 267pp, covers heavily worn, extremities bumped, hinges broken (holding on by threads), couple of inkstamped ownership names, ink inscription from former owner, pp heavily foxed and toned, folding plate has an ink stain and is tearing at folds; an As-Is copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 267 pages. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with a new spine and label and original boards. (Hagedorn: p54-55, 7. 1824) Willard Fiske noted that this was first published in London by Ogilvie in 1806. Editions in one volume afterwards appeared in 1809, 1813, 1819, and at other times. the name of the compiler has never been made public. the miscellaneous collection of anecdotes, essays, and poems at the end is ot without interest. The openings and games are all in numerical notation and no diagrams are given. Condition: New spine in a custom made slipcase, ruminants of old book plate on front paste down, lacks folding plate else a very good copy.

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