david mckay 1972 (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. [1958 edition], 2nd printing ; xxi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.; LC: GV1451; Dewey: 794.1; LCCN: 58-9801 ; OCLC: 221505530 ; ISBN: 0486244296 ((pbk.)); 9780486244297 ((pbk.)) ; pictorial black, orange, grey and white stiff paper wrappers ;"Original publication . 1933"--Preface. ; "This rich book distills the experience gained during one of the most brilliant chess careers of our time - a career that has been distinguished equally in chess play and in chess analysis. Lessons from My Games combines the best of Reuben Fine the famous grandmaster, who has been a top contender in many of the century's greatest tournaments, with the best of Reuben Fine the writer, whose matchless books have been landmarks in chess history. Here are Fine's games with World Champions Capablanca, Alekhine, and Euwe, with Dake, Horowitz. Flohr, Kashdan, Tartakower, Lasker, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, and other masters. Here are scintillating games of ten-second blindfold chess, at which Fine is sensational. And perhaps most important for both the amateur and professional, here in generous profusion are Fine's incisive notes and comments on every game, with searching discussion of alternatives, blunders, brilliancies, and turning points. Here, indeed, are not only. the outstanding games of a great career but the lessons from the games, drawn as only Fine could draw them. All this would be enough, but this book offers something else as well, for enlivening the accounts of the matches and tournaments in which he played are Reuben Fine's personal impressions of his great antagonists. As an observer of human nature, he is entertaining and astute, and he shows how the ability to take a foe's psychological measure can help to win. Reuben Fine has been a member of three U. S. World Championship Teams. He tied for first prize with Keres in the great AVRO tournament of 1938 and has won the U. S. Speed Championship four rimes. Among his famous books are The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, The Middle Game in Chess, Basic Chess Endings, Practical Chess Openings, and his great and continuing best seller, Chess the Easy Way." ; "Reuben Fine was an International Grandmaster and one of the world's greatest chess players ever. His books, including 'Basic Chess Endings' and 'The Middlegame in Chess,' are among the all-time classics of chess literature."; Formerly entitled "lessons from my games" ; front cover and front endpaper corner-clipped ; store stamp on inside front cover ; else G. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. x, 244 pp. Ex-Library copy ; knocked ; labels, stamps, pocket and cards ; tear to end pages ; LCCN 74-185128 ; FAIR. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. [1946 edition], 3rd printing ; xii, 179 pages illustrations 20 cm.; LC: GV1451; Dewey: 794.1; ISBN: 0679140050; 9780679140054; National Library: 009596113 LCCN: 46-3209 ; OCLC: 1355003 ; pictorial black, purple and white stiff paper wrappers ;"Original publication . 1933"--Preface. ; "A superb collection of fifty of the greatest master games ever played. Its painstaking research, analytical clarity and graceful exposition are not only much admired by average players but by famous ones as well. Typical of its distinguished acclaim are the statements of world-master Sammy Reshevsky who called it 'one of the finest books on chess ever written, as readable as it is useful.' and of grandmaster Reuben Fine who said, 'I recommend Chess Strategies and Tactics to every player who is earnestly desirous of improving his game.'"; "Chernev was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)[1] and emigrated to the United States in 1920. Chernev was a national master strength player, and was obsessed with chess. He wrote that he "probably read more about chess, and played more games than any man in history."--Wikipedia ; "Chernev's output - clear, humorous and easy-going - gave the impression of effortlessness, but much industry lay behind it all."--Edward Winter ; FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Carl Kock (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo; xvii, 172 pages, maroon cloth; dj with cellotape on verso, light-ish vertical waterstain at rear cover at spine Foreword by Euell Gibbons. "This is an important book because it shows that one doesn't have to travel to far countries nor to a distant wilderness in order to become a great naturalist." - Euell Gibbons. "This is probably the last book I will ever write about nature in a big city. The city I live in and write about is Chicago." - Introduction.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, 1st printing ; x, 289 pages illustrations 22 cm ; LCCN: 72-85843 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.8/09; B ; OCLC: 508434 ; black cloth ; no dustjacket ; ownership stamp and writing on front endpaper ; Contents: The biographers and the legends -- Oxford -- Sharing rooms in London -- On show in America -- Paris and an English lecture tour -- Marriage and editorship -- Bosie Douglas -- Plays and playthings -- The enemy -- Card with hideous words -- The trials -- Prison -- Freedom -- Frivolous last years ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 1-357, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with four double-sided plates of black and white photographs. The second installment in Arthur Marx's life story: here he recounts his experiences with his father, the famous comedian and actor, Groucho. Light foxing to the textblock; jacket is price-clipped with minor edge wear.