Glas Slavonije, Osijek, 1973, in Serbo-croatian language, paperback, 249 pp, 335 grams, good condition, no inscriptions.

Contents:  1st part  -  THE CHESS WAY OF THE GRANDMASTER   2nd part  -  64 selected games,   Gligoric results 1945-1973, 12 photos.

Svetozar Gligorić (2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1958, he was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia.  

Gligorić was born in Belgrade to a poor family. According to his recollections, his first exposure to chess was as a small child watching patrons play in a neighborhood bar. He began to play at the age of eleven, when taught by a boarder taken in by his mother (his father had died by this time). Lacking a chess set, he made one for himself by carving pieces from corks from wine bottles—a story paralleling the formative years of his contemporary, the renowned Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Gligorić was one of the top players in the world reaching the Candidates Tournaments multiple times. During his career he won both team (1950) and individual board 1 (1958) gold medals at the Chess Olympiad thus becoming one of the few players in chess history to do so. He was also among the world's most popular players, owing to his globe-trotting tournament schedule and a particularly engaging personality.