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| Bird, H. E. | Chess History & Reminiscences | London 1893 | ||
| LN 236 | Has sections on chess history, blindfold chess and a few game scores. Original brown cloth with bright gilt titles. | 138pp | VG+ | £85.00 |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Practice being a condensed and simplified record of the actual openings in the finest games played up to the present time, including the whole of the beautiful specimens contained in Chess Masterpieces, comprising those of Anderson, Bird, Blackburne, Boden, Buckle, Cochrane, Kolisch, Labourdonnais, Lowenthal, Macdonnell, Morphy, Staunton, Steinitz Zuckertort, and 35 others | London 1st ed. 1882 | ||
| LN 1822 | Original dark cloth. Front binding a little tender o/w | 96pp | VG | £75.00 |
| Bird, H. E. | The Chess Openings considered Critically & Practically. | London 1st ed. 1877 | ||
| LN 1819 |
Includes interesting long lists of subscribers in UK & US, including Sam Loyd who composed a special letter B problem for the book. Original blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Binding a little tender o/w |
248pp | G+ | £60.00 |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Novelties and their latest novelties with comparisons of the progress of chess openings of the past centuries and the present not dealt with in other works. | F. Warne 1st ed. 1895 |
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| LN 1855 | Original blue cloth boards bearing attractive gilt design and lettering. Spine dulled o/w |
304pp | VG | £55.00 |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Novelties and their latest novelties with comparisons of the progress of chess openings of the past centuries and the present not dealt with in other works. | F. Warne 1st ed. 1895 |
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| Original maroon cloth boards | 304pp | VG+ | £55.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Masterpieces comprising a collection of 150 games of the past quarter century, with notes, including the finest games in the Exhibition of 1851 and the Vienna Tournament of 1873. | London 1st ed. 1875 | ||
| LN 3166 | Maroon cloth boards. Insc. One of Bird’s scarcer titles. | 140pp | VG | £75.00 |
| Boden, S. S. | Boden On Chess – A Popular Introduction To The Study & Practice of Chess, by an Amateur | London 1851 | ||
| LN 789 | Some bubbling to blind-stamped brown cloth covers. Some splitting to spine & paper starting to brown. Top ⅓rd of title page excised o/w |
196pp | G | £35.00 |
| Cook, W. | The Chess Primer – A stepping stone for beginners, teaching the preliminary details, supplemented by a series of illustrative games with reasons for every move appended. | London 1880 | ||
| LN 992 | Original olive cloth boards bearing attractive design in black. | 55pp | VG | £25.00 |
| Cook, W. | Cook’s Chess Synopsis – a synopsis of the chess openings 4th ed |
London 1888 | ||
| LN 1818 | Original maroon cloth boards with some staining to front cover though internally clean. | 142pp | G+ | £20.00 |
| Cook, W. | The Complete Players’ Compendium – a practical guide to the openings. With new supplement by Alfred Emery. 5th ed. |
London 1910 | ||
| LN 1883 | Original green cloth bearing attractive chess piece design & gilt titles. | 142pp | VG | £20.00 |
| Cook, W. | The Complete Players’ Compendium – a practical guide to the openings. With new supplement by Alfred Emery. 5th ed. | London 1910 | ||
| LN 1883 | Re-bound in plain green cloth with original title page pasted in. | 142pp | VG | £12.00 |
| Crawley, Capt. R. | Chess & Draughts – Chess: its Theory & Practice to which is added a chapter on draughts. |
London 1858 | ||
| Original maroon cloth bearing gilt title and diagram. | 180pp | VG | £25.00 | |
| Ellis, J. A. | Chess Sparks or Short & Bright Games of Chess. 1st ed. | London 1895 | ||
| LN 3182 | Re-backed retaining original fawn cloth with amusing blind stamped chess piece design. 200 miniatures games plus 7 page list of all tourneys & matches 1824 – 1894. Small bookplate “Gervas Powell Glyn”. Insc. Neat pencil ticks by games played through o/w |
160pp | G+ | £85.00 |
| Foster A. W. | Chess: An Easy Game with R. E. Kemp |
London 1914 | ||
| LN 1307 | A beginner’s guide with no games or diagrams. Small format. Insc. Yellow limp covers with chess piece design. Marginalia on 1 page. Uncommon. |
44pp | G | £20.00 |
| Freeborough | Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. With Rev. C. Ranken. 3rd ed. |
London 1896 | ||
| Original brown cloth boards with chessboard motif. Not in LN. Endpapers splitting & pages browning at edges. o/w |
282pp | G | £25.00 | |
| Freeborough & Ranken , C | Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. With Rev. C. Ranken. 4th ed. |
London 1910 | ||
| LN 1843 | Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif & feint stain o/w |
284pp | G | £25.00 |
| Gottschall, Dr. H. von | Adolf Anderssen der Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst. 1st ed. |
Leipzig 1912 | ||
| LN 3034 | 750 analysed games & 80 problems. V. Good group photo of Leipzig 1877 including Zukertort and the Paulsens, plus individual portraits.Original grey cloth boards with a few marks in bottom corner. |
553pp | VG+ | £80.00 |
| Green R. F. | Chess. 1st ed | London 1890 | ||
| LN 1046 | Original red cloth boards with games motif. Spine rubbed o/w |
116pp | G | £10.00 |
| Green R. F. | Chess. 1st ed 4th reprint | London 1896 | ||
| LN 1047 | Original red cloth boards with games motif. | 116pp | G | £6.00 |
| Green R. F. | Chess. 7th ed | London 1912 | ||
| LN 1052 | Original red cloth boards with games motif. | 122pp | VG | £6.00 |
| Green R. F. | Chess. 17th ed | London 1930 | ||
| LN 1046 | Original red cloth Insc. | 116pp | VG | £5.00 |
| Green R. F. | Chess. Revised & updated by J. du Mont | Bell 1941 |
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| Red boards with blind-stamped chess piece motif. | 114pp | VG+ | £6.00 | |
| Greig, E. A. | One Hundred Pitfalls of the Chessboard New ed. revised by M. Stevens |
London 1941 |
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| LN 1890 | Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif. | 72pp | VG | £10.00 |
| Gunsberg, I | The Chess Openings | London 1901 |
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| Original blue cloth boards with games motif. Insc. | 104pp | VG | £10.00 | |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 1st ed. | London 1892 |
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| LN 1080 | Red cloth boards | 246pp | VG | £12.00 |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 6th ed. | London (s.a.) |
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| Original red cloth with chess picture. Insc. Short split to cloth on spine o/w |
246pp | G- | £5.00 | |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 7th ed. | London 1908 |
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| LN 1083 | Red cloth boards bearing charming chess-playing couple. | 246pp | G+ | £5.00 |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 8th ed. | London (s.a.) |
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| Insc. | 246pp | VG- | £8.00 | |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 14th ed. | London (s.a.) |
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| New cover design with fawn cloth and chesspieces. | 246pp | G- | £5.00 | |
| Hoffer, L | Chess. 15th ed. | London (s.a.) |
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| 244pp | VG | £5.00 | ||
| Lasker Em. | Common Sense In Chess - Published by J. S. Ogilvie in (1917) |
New York | ||
| LN 1120 | Original maroon cloth. | 139pp | VG | £9.75 |
| Lasker Em. | Common Sense In Chess | New York | ||
| Although no date, also published by J. S. Ogilvie, this is a different edition, rather more crudely bound in green cloth with 8 pages of adverts for other Ogilvie publications e.g. Actors’ Monologues & Jokes and Blunders of a Bashful Man et al. Sticker on title page “London - A. F. Bird – Agency for American books”. |
139pp | £9.00 | ||
| Lasker Em. | Common Sense In Chess - Corrected by D. A. Mitchell. Published by McKay 1942 |
Philadelphia | ||
| LN 1208 | Original maroon cloth boards. | 139pp | VG+ | £9.75 |
| Lee & Gossip | The Complete Chess Guide - 1st ed. 1903 |
Edinburgh | ||
| LN 1208 | Stamp of the Edinburgh Ladies C.C. Photographs tipped in of the 1910 British Champions. Some pencil marginalia o/w |
429pp | G | £12.50 |
| Lee & Gossip | The Complete Chess Guide - 1903 | Edinburgh 1903 |
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| Another copy | 429pp | G | £5.00 | |
| Lee & Gossip | The Complete Chess Guide - 1914 | Edinburgh 1914 |
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| Another copy | 429pp | G | £5.00 | |
| Lowenthal, J | Morphy’s Games of Chess - 1st ed. | London 1860 | ||
| LN 3155 | Original maroon cloth boards with gilt chessboard & titles. Fine engraved portrait. The only collection of his games in which Morphy was directly involved. Protected by clear cellophane cover. Rare item. 1 endpaper is loose o/w |
488pp | G+ | £150.00 |
| Marshall, F. J | Marshall’s Chess Openings - 1st ed. | Leeds 1904 | ||
| LN 1884 | Includes biographical sketch and 32 annotated games played 1899 – 1904. Early portrait photo. Original green cloth with bright gilt titles. 1cm split to spine o/w |
185pp | VG | £30.00 |
| Mason, J | Chess Openings - 1st ed. | London 1897 | ||
| LN 1863 | Original maroon cloth boards. | 114pp | VG | £15.00 |
| Mason, J | Chess Openings - 1st ed. | London 1897 | ||
| LN 1863 | Another copy with small section cut out of front endpaper o/w | 114pp | VG | £12.00 |
| Mason, J | Chess Openings - 2nd ed. | London 1905 | ||
| LN 1864 | Insc. maroon cloth boards | 120pp | VG | £10.00 |
| Mason, J | The Art of Chess - 2nd ed. revised & enlarged |
London 1898 | ||
| LN 1114 | Original bright blue cloth boards with gilt design. Insc. | 423pp | VG+ | £20.00 |
| Mason, J | The Art of Chess - 4th ed. revised & enlarged |
London 1914 | ||
| LN 1116 | Insc. Original green cloth rubbed o/w | 492pp | G | £15.00 |
| Mason, J | The Art of Chess - 4th ed. working copy only |
London | ||
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| Mason, J | The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. - 1st ed. |
London 1894 | ||
| LN 1101 | Original maroon cloth with gilt design. | 492pp | VG | £15.00 |
| Mason, J | The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. - 1st ed. |
London 1894 | ||
| Another copy with front cover splitting from pages. | 492pp | G- | £9.00 | |
| Mason, J | The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. - 2nd ed. revised & enlarged |
London 1896 | ||
| LN 1102 | Another copy with front cover splitting from pages. | 324pp | VG- | £12.00 |
| Mason, J | The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. - 4th ed. revised & enlarged |
London 1902 | ||
| 330pp | G+ | £10.00 | ||
| Mason, J | The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. - 5th ed. revised |
London 1915 | ||
| LN 1106 | 330pp | G | £5.00 | |
| Murray, H. J. | History Of Chess - 1st ed. | Oxford 1913 | ||
| LN 264 | “Perhaps the most important chess book in English… Mostly concerned with the evolution of modern chess from its oriental origins up to early 18th century”. Hooper & Whyld. Grey cloth boards with bright gilt title on spine. |
900pp | VG+ | £195.00 |
| Murray, H. J. | History Of Chess - 2nd ed. | Oxford 1962 | ||
| Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the original – hence internally indistinguishable from original. DW price-clipped and a little wear to top & bottom o/w |
900pp | F | £95.00 | |
| Peachey, H. | Everybody’s Guide To Chess & Draughts | London c ‘96 |
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| LN 3625 | Problems & examples. Original red cloth | 226pp | VG | £12.00 |
| J. & W Pierce | Pierce Gambit: Chess Papers & Problems - 1st ed. |
London 1888 |
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| LN 1839 | Poems, 134 problems, analyses of the Pierce Gambit with 23 games, and various articles. List of subscribers. Original blue cloth, Endpapers foxed and short split to rear of spine, which is dulled. o/w | 226pp | VG- | £110.00 |
| Selkirk G. H. | The Book of Chess – A Popular & Comprehensive Guide to all Players of that Intellectual Game with Full Instructions for Blindfold Chess - 1st ed. | London 1868 |
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| LN 946 | Original green cloth boards bearing bright gilt titles & chessboard design. Many games & 78 diagrammed studies | 439pp | VG+ | £85.00 |
| Staunton, H | The Chess Tournament – A Collection of the Games Played at this Celebrated Assemblage Illustrated by Copious Diagrams and Notes, Critical & Explanatory. |
London 1852 |
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| LN 5179 | Re-backed retaining original maroon cloth and gilt chessboard motif, making a tight copy of this contemporary report on the world’s first chess tournament. | 377pp | G | £150.00 |
| Staunton (ed) | The Chess Player’s Chronicle Vol. 5 | London 1845 |
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| LN 6123 | This was the 3rd issue after the magazine had become a shilling monthly publication. There are many games and problems, while throughout the year there was a full account of the tortuous negotiations for Staunton’s 3rd match against St. Amant, postponed from the previous year, due to Staunton’s pneumonia. All 12 issues nicely bound in patterned leather with gilt edging and title. Light foxing on the endpapers o/w a sound, clean copy. |
400pp | £120.00 | |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook - New Ed. | London 1868 |
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| Not in LN. Insc. Original maroon cloth boards bearing gilt titles & chessboard design. | 518pp | G | £35.00 | |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook | London 1885 |
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| LN 749 | Small elaborate bookplate “Wormald – Norbury”. Original maroon cloth boards. | 518pp | VG- | £25.00 |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook - with input by R. F. Green |
London 1890 |
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| LN 752 | Original maroon cloth boards. Bookplate | 544pp | VG | £30.00 |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook | London 1893 |
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| LN 753 | Original Maroon cloth boards. | 544pp | VG | £15.00 |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook | London 1904 |
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| Not in LN Front endpaper and binding loose | 544pp | G- | £10.00 | |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Handbook - revised & edited by E. H. Bermingham | London 1931 |
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| Not in LN Insc. Original blue cloth boards | 543pp | G | £10.00 | |
| Staunton, H | The Chess-Player’s Text Book – A Concise & Easy Introduction to The Game. Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams of Instructive Situations. Revised by Rev. E. E. Cunnington. |
London No date |
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| LN 787 | Originally published in 1849 but date given to any subsequent edition. | 132pp | G | |
| Staunton, H | Chess Praxis | London 1860 |
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| LN 871 | A supplement to the Chess-Player’s Handbook. Includes big section on Morphy’s games. Insc. Maroon cloth somewhat dulled and rubbed o/w |
622pp | G+ | £75.00 |
| Staunton, H | The Laws and Practice of Chess. New ed. edited by R. Wormald. |
London 1920 |
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| Staunton’s final book, completed by Wormald. A section on the origin & history of chess, plus much on the openings with many illustrative games. Original red cloth, spine dulled o/w | 509pp | G | £12.00 | |
| Staunton, H | The Laws and Practice of Chess. New ed. edited by R. Wormald. |
London 1922 |
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| Staunton’s final book, completed by Wormald. A section on the origin & history of chess, plus much on the openings with many illustrative games. Original red cloth, spine dulled o/w | 509pp | G | £10.00 | |
| Steinitz W | The Modern Chess Instructor. Part 1 1st ed. 1889 |
NY & London | ||
| Starts with the basics and proceeds to his ground-breaking theories. Big section on openings and gives all 20 annotated games of his match against Tchigorin. Original brown cloth, gilt chessboard design on front cover. |
193pp | VG+ | £80.00 | |
| Swinton, R. B | Chess For Beginners and The Beginners of Chess 3rd ed. |
London 1897 |
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| Original pale green cloth. More about the 2nd part of the title i.e. the origins of chess. Pages browning around edges o/w | 200pp | G | £20.00 | |
| Walker, G | Walker On Chess – A New Treatise on Chess. - 3rd ed. | London 1841 |
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| LN 667 | Includes a useful 35pp bibliography of books and writers on chess up to 1841. Brown cloth boards with blind stamped design. Some wear to top & bottom of spine o/w internally | 296pp | VG | £85.00 |
| Young, K | The Minor Tactics of Chess – a treatise on the deployment of the forces in obedience to strategic principle. With E. C. Howell. | London 1910 |
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| LN 1109 | Authors apply a military approach to the game’s language. Original brown cloth boards bearing chess piece design. |
221pp | VG | £17.50 |
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