The Queen's Gambit
by Tevis, Walter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394528018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528014
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House Inc, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1983 Random House 1st Edition/1st Printing in VeryGood+/VeryGood+ condition. The HB retains its black color with embossed chessboard and WT initials and crown on the front. Bumps on three corners but in line. Tightly constructed without lean. Foxing on page edges but none on the page face. DJ is bright. Not price-clipped. Wear at top and bottom spine with 3 professionally repaired tears. A striking painting on the front of Beth Harmon, the protagonist, playing chess with a cat on the windowsill. Adapted in 2020 as a highly praised Netflix Mini Series starring the inimitable Anya Taylor-Joy and the great Bill Camp.
Synopsis
Walter Tevis was an English literature professor at the University of Ohio. He is the author of seven books, including three that were the basis of major motion pictures: The Man Who Fell to Earth , The Hustler , and The Color of Mone y . His other books include Mockingbird, Far From Home and The Steps of the Sun . He died in 1984.
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- Bookseller
- Bren-Books.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010000
- Title
- The Queen's Gambit
- Author
- Tevis, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394528018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528014
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 243
- Keywords
- Novel, Chess, Book into Film, Book into TV Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; Book Into Film; Book into TV Series;
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