Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become national champion and to play the world grandmasters
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Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Artikel-Nr. G0394528018I5N10
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Anbieter: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6 x 9 in. Black cloth and paper boards with white chessboard. Stated first edition with complete number line. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, sunned just at edges. Minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. Text spotless with no markings. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, spine moderately sunned. Price-clipped. Edges have mild wear, but no chips. In a new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. RGR. Artikel-Nr. 50392
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Anbieter: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Random House, New York. 1983. 243 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends have closed tears present). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Pastedowns lightly soiled. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn moreand steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US championand Russia awaits . . . E-290; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 243 pages. Artikel-Nr. 63416
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Anbieter: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine/Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 243pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with number sequence to "2" as called for by Random House. Bound in 1/2 black cloth over black paper-covered boards with lettering in white on spine and chess board illustration on front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A touch of toning to top board edges. Very faint spotting to fore-edges but barely noticeable. Small, erasure on the front paste-down. No page toning or foxing. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket ($13.95), Has some moderate toning but is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. Made into the delightful 2020 mini-series film starring Anya Taylor Joy. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price. Artikel-Nr. 016815
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Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First English edition. Small shadow from a sticker removed from front pastedown, else fine in price-clipped fine dust jacket with a small affixed publisher's price-sticker on the front flap. Fifth novel by the author of *The Hustler*, about a young woman who has the potential to become the first top-ranked female chess player. Artikel-Nr. 564577
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Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with creases to the front flap fold and hint of edgewear. Fifth novel by the author of *The Hustler*, about a young woman who has the potential to become the first female top-ranking chess player. Artikel-Nr. 543619
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