Ali Hazelwood

Signed by the author, YA novel Check & Mate written by Ali Hazelwood

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

signed copy

In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious “Kingkiller” Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan’s loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What’s even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory’s victory opens the door to sorely needed cash-prizes and despite everything, she can’t help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist.... As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins to rekindle, Mallory quickly realizes that the games aren’t only on the board, the spotlight is brighter than she imagined, and the competition can be fierce (-ly attractive. And intelligent…and infuriating…)

Check and Mate

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Vermont

Dark Olympus 1-3

Eternal Embers special edition set. Unread. Unsigned. Comes with a book journal that came with the first two books purchase. 

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The books arrived to me with creasing all over the spine/binding. There’s crease lines on the front of the covers by the binding. Small dents to the tops and bottoms, left and right of the spines; for example, Vicious has a bump at the top from being nicked by the book journal & top back spine of Bane also has a small dent. Bottoms of the books have most creasing. 

Corners of the books also have small dents. Below the top back corner of Vicious, there’s an indentation / dent. Tops of Scandalous & Bane are a little crushed. Bottom back corner of Ruckus also has a small dent. 

Pages are wavy because this set didn’t come with a slip case so the pages became warped with small gaps between the pages. The top and bottom of the edges are good, just the fore edge is wavy 🤷🏽‍♀️

Inside endpaper art have creasing along the binding too (they assured me this was normal) 


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