Kenneth Matthews (260 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Boyce, Kenneth (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 192pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A good softcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean but has yellowed. Previous owner's name is stamped on first front end paper. Softcovers are mildly yellowed. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Chess, Games, History) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good hardcover 9780070409637. Price written in pencil on first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Highlighting on several inside pages. Minor shelf wear to the red cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of One Short Novel, One True Crime Feature, One Lost Story and Five Short Stories. The short novel is: Dead Man's Heritage by Brett Halliday. The New True Crime Feature story is: The Fall of Al Capone. The Five Short stories are: Rub the Wrong Way by Paul Felder, Raft of Fear by Cayton Matthews, Why Don't You Answer Theodore? by Garen Drussai, The Fatal Black Chip by Richard M. Rose, The Woman in Black by Edward Wellen. Light edge wear. Light reading creases to cover of the magazine. Earlier owner's doodle in pen on the rear cover. In good condition.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small stains. Small Tears to the Dust Jacket, Slipcase, or cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked. Trivial surface wear.

Green Pictorial Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated in Black and White and Full Color (illustrator). Library Bound Edition. Endpaper mark where sticker removed, very small endpaper edge nick, else Very Good Plus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. British Chess. Matthews, Kenneth. Published by Collins, London, 1948. 50p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed/rippling/in mylar, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib 5.00.

Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Timothy Hsu (Cover Design); Robert P. Matthews (Cover Photo) (illustrator). 380 pp. Flawless book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Library binding.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A clean, tight, unmarked, VG+ copy in a good dust jacket. 50 p. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Cook, Alfred W. (photographs) (illustrator). 160 pages. Oversized. Moderate wear and discoloring; some moisture staining to the covers and a couple page edges; a reading copy. Musty from storage. The jacket is heavily worn and torn; some stains. Illustrator: Cook, Alfred W. (photographs) . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 197164.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A short history of chess in England. Some games, plates, and fotos. 50 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. name of previous owner on ffep.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Moderate rubbing to the edges and corners. Binding is tight and square. Trivial shelving wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. Vg condition in good dj. Contents mildly & uniformly age-toned, otherwise clean, no marking, no foxing or "thumbing" to pages, binding & hinges firm. Dust jacket lightly browned, chiefly at rear, w/ spine edges rubbed, small chips at spine ends. 49 p., w/ 4 color plates, 24 b&w illustrations. Includes nine chess-related newspaper articles from the early 1970s laid in: many on Eddie Fischer, one on "Chess supremacy as tool of Soviet Union policy.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 50 pages with frontispiece, illustrations and plates (some in color). Octavo (9" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with white lettering to spine and cover with pictorial to cover in original jacket. First edition. British Chess is a picture book containing information almost available nowhere else. It has the first chess man, the first chess board, the first chess picture, the first chess diagram. It has games, diagrams, problems, positions and stories about chess that no other book else has. We are shocked to learn that an 17 year old British boy was the youngest person ever to be accepted into the British championship and finished third and after that defeated Soviet Grandmaster Kotov. He on his way to gaining the grandmaster title himself, when he died suddenly from appendicitis. Condition: Some rubbing to extremities. Jacket edged wear this small chips and tears, hinges rubbed else very good in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Collins, London, 1948, 1st edition, 49 pages, short bibliography, 4 color plates including the frontispiece, 24 illustrations in b&w, 6.5"x 9", hardcover, paper covered boards in black with white titles and white chess illustration on front and white titles on spine, white ruled lines around edges of both covers, light edge and corner wear, good dust jacket with a 1"x 1/2" triangular piece out of top left of front cover, 3/8" white line bottom right front cover, closed tear across bottom of spine, corners and spine ends chipped, spine and back panel a bit darkened, dust jacket protected in a new archival plastic cover, endpapers darkened, free front endpaper top right corner clipped, light yellowing around page edges, otherwise contents clean and tight, book good+ (G+/G-) 5249 [Hs0208/0121EC].

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 26, no. 6. Edited by Cylvia Kleinman. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Dead Man's Heritage" (short novel) by Brett Halliday; "The Fall of Al Capone" (True Crime Feature) by David Mazroff; "Three Wives Too Many" (Dept. of Lost Stories) by Kenneth Fearing; "Rub the Wrong Way" by Paul Felder; "Raft of Fear" by Clayton Matthews; "Why Don't You Answer, Theodore?" by Garen Drussai; "The Fatal Black Chip" by Richard M. Rose; "The Woman in Black" by Edward Wellen. Uncredited illustrations. Creasing; minor soiling and rubbing; edge and corner wear; mild tanning. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wraps, 92pp. Contributors include Vasko Popa, Miodrag Pavlovic, Ivan Lalic, Borislav Radovic, Kenneth Bernard, Horst Bienek, Manuel Duran, Alwin Nikolas, Yannis Goumas, Jack Matthews, and others. From the library of poet Bill Knott. Light toning to edges, else a nice condition pb.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Collins, 1948. 50pp., 8 plates in colour, 23 illustrations in black and white. 8vo. discoloration on inside gutters, Very Good hardcover, Very Good d/j.