Sydney knight (20 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1967. First Edition Thus. 125 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has moderate edge wear with noticeable creasing and chipping. Moderate tanning and markings. …

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. A VG or better 9" x 12" program book. 18 pages. Book.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New York : St. Martin's Press [Published Date: 1975]. Hardcover, 240 pp. First US Edition. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing to edges. Moderate discoloration from sun along top edge and spine. Black and white illustrations.[From front jacket flap] Mysterious, inexhaustible, implacable, chess is a game that has, for over a thousand years, fascinated - some might say obsessed - millions. This anthology of over 250 passages of prose and verse, culled from many different countries and centuries, dramatically recaptures the basic excitement of the game - and explains its perennial fascination. E. M. Forster's attempts to play the Evans, the needle championship in Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love, and Luzhin, the chessmaster hero of Nabokov's The Defence, arc outstanding among the book's delights. But besides seeing the game through the eyes of a host of novelists (including Tolstoy and Hardy), the reader will discover how the game has also featured in poetry, drama and history, and how it has been linked with love, war and. religion. These are some of the many aspects of the game explored by Norman Knight and Will Guy, who have spent many years compiling this volume. Its distinction is to reveal not so much what the chess masters (and grandmasters) have written as what the masters of literature have said about chess. Complete with explanatory notes on authors and passages quoted, specially prepared text decorations and a foreword by the late Hugh Alexander, this is a book that will delight anyone interested in this ancient, complex and absorbing game. …

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hard Back. Condizione: Book VG ++. Condizione sovraccoperta: Dustjacket VG ++. First Edition. 240 pages incl index plus XV pages of preface. Minimal wear to edges and surfaces of dustjacket & book, very light wear to spine-ends. Spine of dustcover is colour faded/has changed colour but titles are absolutely claer. Boards very clean, text is spotless. Illustrated in B&W. Excellent condition. Greenwood, Sydney (Decorations by) (illustratore).…

Collins: London 1970. 6 x 4", cloth, 176pp, 46 figures, index, acidic text paper else vg in vg, price-clipped jacket. First edition.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 472 pages. 8.35x5.51x1.26 inches. In Stock.

First US Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 240 pages; Descreiption: 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Chess --Miscellanea --Anthologies. 1 Kg.

First US Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 240 pages; Descreiption: 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Chess --Miscellanea --Anthologies. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Gear Up and Throw Down! When sword and spell just won t be enough to win the day, it s time to power up your game with clockwork gears, lightning coils, and black powder! Guns &amp Gears (Remastered), the latest rulebook for the Pathfinder Roleplay.

First Edition. Photographs by Norman Quicke. Pp, 26, 16 plates, text figures; post 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn, with several tears and chips; a little light foxing; Collins, London, 1965. First edition. Donovan & Murdoch 59390.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Gear Up and Throw Down! When sword and spell just won t be enough to win the day, it s time to power up your game with clockwork gears, lightning coils, and black powder! Guns &amp Gears (Remastered), the latest hardcover rulebook for the Pathfinde.

Condizione: New. Gear Up and Throw Down! When sword and spell just won t be enough to win the day, it s time to power up your game with clockwork gears, lightning coils, and black powder! Guns &amp Gears (Remastered), the latest hardcover rulebook for the Pathfinde.

Photographs by Norman Quicke. Pp. 126, 16 plates, text figures; paper wrappers with printed title label on upper wrapper, the backstrip titled by hand, lightly creased, edges a trifle worn; half-title page slightly offset, a little light foxing; Collins, London, 1965. Uncorrected advance proof copy. [Donovan & Murdoch 59390]. …

Condizione: New. Wenn man um eine Strassenecke der Stadt biegt, erstreckt sich ein Marktplatz, auf dem man beinahe alles finden kann! Schlendere durch die Staende auf dem Grossen Basar, waehrend deine Charaktere sowohl das Gewoehnliche als auch das Wundersame betrachten auf der .

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. 1984. First Edition. Fine large wraps. Limited to 300 copies. Macabre poetry and a few weird prose tales by G. Sutton Breiding. Introduction by Arkham House poet Donald Sydney Fryer, who places Breiding in the line of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith in American Decadent weird poets. Illustrated throughout by Jeff Knight Potter, lately of Dark Horse Comics. Harry O. Morris of Silver Scarab Press is best remembered for the Lovecraftian journal "Nyctalops" and for being the first publisher to issue any book of tales by Thomas Ligotti. Jeff Knight Potter (illustratore).…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 199 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 199 Language: English.…