The Queen's Gambit
New York: Random House, 1983. 1st Edition. Very Good / Very Good. Item #17873
First edition of the book that inspired the wildly popular 2020 eponymous miniseries.
"Tevis based the chess scenes on his own experience as a "class C" player and on his long study of the game. He elaborates on this in the Author's Note for the novel:
The superb chess of Grandmasters Robert Fischer, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov has been a source of delight to players like myself for years. Since The Queen's Gambit is a work of fiction, however, it seemed prudent to omit them from the cast of characters, if only to prevent contradiction of the record. I would like to express my thanks to Joe Ancrile, Fairfield Hoban and Stuart Morden, all excellent players, who helped me with books, magazines, and tournament rules. And I was fortunate to have the warm-hearted and diligent help of National Master Bruce Pandolfini in proofreading the text and in helping me rid it of errors concerning the game he plays so enviably well."
Tevis died the year after publication and never got to see the success of the miniseries.
Quarter black cloth over paper-covered boards. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Chess board design on front cover with author's initials in white. Mild fading to boards along top and bottom edges. Dust jacket with mild edge wear and a very lightly sunned spine. Presents handsomely in archival mylar.
Overall a superb 1st printing of this desirable Tevis novel.
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