Beautiful book, clearly uncirculated despite ex-library origin. Faults include one small sticker to face, one neat tidy sticker to title page, and one stamp to last page. Withdrawn stamp small at bottom edge. Pristine inside and out. Digitally printed. Originally published in England in the 1940's. Includes memoir by J. duMont. The author explains the thinking behind the skill of the great chessman Jose Capablanca of Cuba. Illustrated with drawings. Includes an index of openings. Biography combined with an analysis of Capablanca's top 100 games. 270 pages View More...
Crisp, clean book marred only by small crease to lower back corner. Pages and page edges pristine. No names or writing and no spine crease. This edition offers color strategy charts Entirely rewritten and enhanced. 350 pages. View More...
Three crisp, clean booklets with attractive vintage cover designs, all published by a playing card manufacturer as a promotion. Only faults a two small spots on the front of one which does not detracts from the image and a small black mark on the back of another. The bookslets all measure 4-3/4"x7-1/2" . Collectively they have 87 pages. View More...
Very nice clean book with no defect of note. No bumps to boards, no names or writing, and no tears or chips to dustjacket which will arrive in a brand new mylar cover. The book measures 8-3/4" x 11-1/4" and has 203 pages. Black and white photographs provide instruction to augment the text. There are many tricks, all with intriguing names such as Ayes of the Gods, A Stripper Catches A Card,Fixing the Vegas Split,Marlo's third Solution to Hofzinger's Card Problem, Surreal Monte, and The Dreamy Dream Clock. View More...
Crisp, clean book, clearly never read. No cover lift, no spine crease, no names or writing. Illustrated with instructive drawiings throughout. The author is a Soviet theorist and grand master of the game. 189 pages. View More...
Very nice quality reprint of an 1807 book two hundred years after its debut. The book is clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or writing. Includes drawings of 70 table configurations as well 212 pages of text. Very clean and attractive with no names or writing. Measures 5-1/2"x8-1/2" View More...
