Jack L Spence (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Annotations by G Marco from Wiener Schachzeitung. Chigorin wins ifo Marshall, Marco, Pillsbury, Maroczy, and Schllechter in a field of 10. Chessplayer No. 67. 90 games. 41 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. faintly soiled covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, light shelfwear to covers. "G-4B" written in red ink on front endpaper. Contents clean and tight. 188 pages, index, b&w illus.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Volume III (3) ONLY!!! No publishing date listed, though with some research approx. 1970. Book has light rubbing/smudging to covers, light wear to corners, a faint spine twist.otherwise book is in very good condition. Pages are clean, crisp and bright with tight binding, and an unbroken spine. A very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 177 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductoins of chess diagrams, including a few photographs. Very good in original cloth boards with gilt design and titling, some faint bumping and rubbing to edges and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rubbed spine. Former owner's name in block letters.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 17.5 x 13 cm. 152pp. 92 annotated games, chess figures. Blue paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 254 pp., with numerous diagrams and additional pages of errata. Minor shelf and handling wear. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards gently bumped/rubbed. Mild soiling/mottling to text block, endpapers, and pastedowns. Previous owner's name stamp on rear pastedown; faintly visible erasures of previous bookseller notations on ffep. Significant soiling and wear (including chips, creases and tears) to dust jacket (see photos); dust jacket is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover. …

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Descriptive Notation; Endpapers and textblock are gently aged but clean and tight; Bound in blue cloth, with a classic chess piece stamped in gilt on the front cover; The cloth is worn and frayed at the spine tips and board corners, and the rear outside gutter is torn along the hinge from the bottom up; Lacks dust jacket: Includes biography of the Russian Grandmaster Vassily Smyslov, his tournmant and Match Record, and his essay on the Problems of Development in Chess. 177p., including index of openings. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Photos; Chess Diagrams (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. . First edition, No 46 of a Limited Edition of 100 copies. Format quarto, 278mm. Physical description, typescript, printed on recto's only [1], [3] 4- 35. Contents stapled, very lightly browned and tending loose. Introduction and Index of openings. Limp printed card wrappers detached. Overall, a good copy only. All the the 20 games from the main event annotated by some of the players. Betts 25-176. VdL 5698.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 177 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ b/w photos and a b/w frontispiece of Vassily Smyslov. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 256+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Slight bumping to bottom corners. Small "Chess" label on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. (No Date) 152 pp. Original blue wraps, moderately soiled. Title page detached from top approx. 3". Contents nice.