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Published by Holt Paperbacks (edition First Edition), 1998
ISBN 10: 0805060286ISBN 13: 9780805060287
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by Thomson Reuters Australia, Limited, 1998
ISBN 10: 0752817582ISBN 13: 9780752817583
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Phoenix, 1999
ISBN 10: 0753806711ISBN 13: 9780753806715
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 139 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. At the opening of this book a cadaver is discovered, the body of an impeccable businessman from Munich, in an elaborate garden where topiary shrubs delineate a hidden chessboard behind the hedges. The death seems to be a suicide, with no plausible motivation, but then, as the plot of this thriller unfolds, we begin to see that its apparently random moves are variations on an opening gambit, and it can end only in a checkmate that annihilates the possibility of a rematch. Gary Kasparov has defined chess as "the most violent sport in existence", and that is true in this extraordinary novel, too. For the mortal duel around which it is constructed is between two chess players who are opposed human types - a clever, persecuted Jew and a ruthless, persecuting German - and when they face each other over a chessboard, at first in big international tournaments and then in a Nazi death camp, the stakes are nothing less than life itself. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First FSG edition, no later printings indicated. Author's first book. Ex-library hardcover with typical markings to edges and end pages; jacket is free of markings/stickers. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($19.00 price intact). Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in white. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 138 pages. ISBN: 0374194351. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998
ISBN 10: 1861590865ISBN 13: 9781861590862
Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First American Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Small owner name and date to corner of front pastedown. Text is clean throughout. ; 8.20 X 5.60 X 0.90 inches; 139 pages.
Published by Phoenix 1999, 1999
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
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Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997, 1997
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1997
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Lippincott, Jonathan D. (book design); Tarsches, Abigayle (jacket photograph); Cohen, Marc (jacket design); Cannarsa, Basso (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition photographic dust jacket. Translated by Jon Rothschild. "At the opening of this gripping book - "the best debut novel of the year," critics called it when it appeared in Italy in 1995 - a cadaver is discovered, the body of an impeccable businessman from Munich, in an elaborate garden where topiary shrubs delineate a hidden chessboard behind the hedges. The death seems to b a suicide, with no plausible motivation, but then, as the plot of this passionately colored, cooly controlled thriller unfolds, we begin to see that its apparently random moves are variations on an opening gambit, and it can end only in a checkmate that annihilates the possibility of a rematch. Gary Kasparov has defined chess as "the most violent sport in existence," and that is true in this extroardinary novel, too. For the mortal duel around which it is constructed is between two chess players who are opposed human types - a clever, persecuted Jew and a ruthless, persecuting German - and when they face each other over a chessboard, at first in big international tournaments and then in a Nazi death camp, the stakes are nothing less than life itself." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Lucid and tight from start to finish, with no break in the style .[Maurensig] follows in the tradition of Nabokov, Joseph Roth, and Stefan Zweig.Readers even more than critics are impassioned by the beat of an unpredictable drum: The Luneburg Variation, a first novel, has become the most significant book of the literary year. Their enthusiasm gives hope." - La Stampa. "The real proof of this first-time author's abilities is evident in how he uses the plot of a mystery story, so that it is only on the last page of the book that we discover the dead man's horrible secret .Thus does he introduce the theme of memory and its actualization with those who were responsible for the Holocaust." - L'Unita. "From Maurensig's point of view, chess is a way of life - life itself, in fact. His psychological thriller begins with a mysterious suicide which is discovered to be. rather, a kind of death sentence administered from afar .Maurensig is a master of that controlled, suggestively rticent language that we have encountered in the great Middle European classics, with Zweig, Durrenmatt, and others .This is a dark enchantment." - Corriere Della Sera.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)., 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FSG (New York), 1997. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine but for remainder mark top edge. A tight unread copy. Fiction-Stacks-M.
Published by Phoenix House, London, 1998
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Translated by Jon Rothschild. Pp. [iv]+140; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Phoenix House, London, 1998. First U.K. edition. *Originally published in Italian.
Published by Phoenix House, [1998]., London, 1998
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First U.K. edition. Translated from the Italian by Jon Rothschild. Fine in dust jacket. The body of Dr. Dieter Frisch, an elderly German chess master, turns up in his topiary garden beside his old army pistol. A homemade chess set of cloth and buttons is found on his desk in a complicated mid-game position, in lieu of a suicide note. Starting from this enigmatic clue, we rapidly discover that Dr. Frisch's assassination was the final move in a deadly, decades-long match between world-class competitors. We meet the rivals as young boys in pre-Nazi Germany. The more orthodox and methodical player of the two is blond and Aryan; his creative, curly-haired Jewish opponent will eventually develop a daring attack requiring the sacrifice of his knight for two pawns. At first they play in tournaments. Later the duel is continued within the barbed-wire borders of a concentration camp, where the stakes are human lives.
Published by Phoenix House. First English edition, London, 1998
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A murder victim on a giant chessboard, and in Vienna as well; translated by Jon Rothschild. Fine in dustwrapper. book.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374194351ISBN 13: 9780374194352
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. 1st US Edition; First Printing. A handsome first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket. Translated from the Italian by Jon Rothschild; The Lüneburg Variation is a 16th century choral song written by Paolo Maurensig. The song is known for its unique harmonic structure, which features a descending bass line that eventually resolves to the tonic chord.; 8vo.