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Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 384 pages; Description: xi, 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Chess --Endgame -- Chess problems.
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- PublisherNew York Pitman Publishing
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0273072153
- ISBN 13 9780273072157
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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American Chess Art: 250 Portraits of Endgame Study
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Pitman Pub, New York, 1975
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ISBN 13: 9780273072157
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American Chess Art: 250 Portraits of Endgame Study
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ISBN 10: 0273072153
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Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xi+384 pages with diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Lusis: 2474) First edition. This work set forth for players at all levels a marvelous aspect of chess: artistic composition, specifically the composition of the endgame study. Long popular in Western Europe, the USSR and South America, chess art has for the past century been unjustly ignored in the United States, although there have been a number of very gifted American composers. Walter Korn sets the record straight and opens up a whole new area of enjoyment for chess enthusiasts. Condition: Jacket crease at front cover heal, chipped and creased at edges else a very good copy in a good jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS000358
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American Chess Art : 250 Portraits of Endgame Study
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ISBN 10: 0273072153
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 384 pages; Description: xi, 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Chess --Endgame -- Chess problems. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 102003
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American Chess Art : 250 Portraits of Endgame Study
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ISBN 10: 0273072153
ISBN 13: 9780273072157
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 384 pages; Description: xi, 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Chess --Endgame -- Chess problems. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 102003
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