Gambling and Gaming

140 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 35. (Betts: 7-50) First edition.Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition: Stained, small worm hold through pages else about very good.

180 pages with diagrams, tables illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 32. (Betts: 7-50) First edition. Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition: A very good copy.

200 pages with diagrams, tables illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 29. (Betts: 7-50) First edition. Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition:Some light damp stains at head edge. Else a very good copy.

[9]+226 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bjound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and black embossed decoration to cover. (Betts: 15-6) First edition.Contains an analysis, with illustrative games, of the variation commencing 5. P-Q4 (d4) in the Kings Gambit, by W T Pierce; "Chess Papers", a collection of miscellaneous articles and poems, by J Pierce; and 134 problems by both authors, including 42 two-movers, 65 three-movers, and 27 longer problems, with solutions at the end (a few self-mates are included).Condition:Corners bumped, spine ends and corners rubbed, spine head chipped, soiled, spine age darkened else a good to very good copy issued without jacket.

272 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, pictures and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in green and white pictorial wrappers. Volume 12, 12 issues. (Betts: 7-106) First edition.Published from 1946-1967), published monthly from 1946-1965, varies after 1965. Incorporating Check and The Australian Chess Review. Volume 1 was first published in February and is a combined issue of numbers 1 and 2. The Nov/Dec 1967 number was not published. Editor was Cecil John Seldon Purdy. (Betts 7-106, Van Manen 355) Condition: Edge wear.Condition:Some edge wear, number 1 front wrapper sunned A very good set.

[i-viii]+324 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve issues with index. Volume 21 numbers 253-276. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.Incorporated The Social Chess Quarterly, July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain).
Baruch Harold Wood was born in Sheffield, England. He founded CHESS magazine in 1935 and was its editor until 1988, when it was sold to Pergamon Press. He was also a FIDE Arbiter, a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and also wrote an interesting weekly column for Illustrated London News from 1949 to 1979. He co-founded the Sutton Coldfield Chess Club.Condition:Some light edge wear, corners bumped a very good copy issued without jacket.

288 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, pictures of this era. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") issued in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume XV (15). (Betts: 7-50) First edition.Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933.Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963.Condition:Back page damaged, affecting some text, rebound else a very good copy.

x, 552 pages with diagrams, illustrations, plates, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in green with gilt lettering to spine. Volume XXX (30). (Betts: 7-27) 1st edition.Published monthly from January 1881, Huddersfield, Leeds, London, Trench, Trubner, (1881-1919); London, Walbrook & Co (1920); Leeds, Whitehead & Miller, (1921-1937); London, Pitman (1938-April 1949); London, St Leonards-on-the-Sea (1949- ) Editors John Watkinson (1881-1887); Robert Frederick Green (1888-1893); Isaac MacIntyre Brown (1894-1919); R C Griffith (1920-1937); acting, September 1940-November 1940; Harry Golombek (1938-August 1940); Julius du Mont (December 1940-April 1949); B Reilly (May 1949- ). Continued the chess section of The Huddersfield College Magazine.Condition:Rebound a very good copy.

384+[24] pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in green cloth . Includes Unterhaltungsbeilage. Volume XXXI (31). (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5957) First edition.The Wiener Schachzeitung, an Austrian chess magazine, published in German which was one of the great magazines of chess ran from 1898 through 1916 and then from 1923 through 1938. Originally founded in 1855 by Ernst Falkbeer, but was only published for nine months. In 1887 it enjoyed a rebirth, but even this publication lasted only nine months. In 1898 Hugo Fahndrich, Alexander Halprin and Georg Marco re-established the name again. As time went on Georg Marco became the sole editor and even the publisher. Marco edited the magazine until 1914 and during that period it became the best chess magazine in the world (Golombek:342). When it was renamed in 1923 it was called the Neu Wiener Schach-Zeitung and was edited by I R Wahle and A Lewitt; however, within a year it had recaptured its old title… Read More

viii+339 pages with diagrams, illustrations, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") rebound in wrappers with red spine and no lettering. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5238). First German edition.This has good claims to be considered one of the strongest tournaments ever held in England. The first Hastings tournament witnessed both the rise and fall of a number of brilliant careers. At the beginning of their eminence were Lasker, the 26-year-old world champion who was playing in his first major event outside Germany; Teichmann, Janowski and Schlechter (at 21 the youngest entry), who had made their international debut at Leipzig 11 months earlier, and the surprise tournament winner, 22-year-old Pillsbury of New York. At the opposite end of the scale were such venerable names as Blackburne, Bird, Mason, Steinitz and Tchigorin. Central to the drama of the tournament was the unavailing struggle of these older players to maintain their footing against the new generation of continental… Read More

x+412 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, photographs and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped ruled edges. From the library of Hans Thanhofer. Volume XIV (14). (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Miemeijeriana:5957) First edition.The Wiener Schachzeitung, an Austrian chess magazine, published in German which was one of the great magazines of chess ran from 1898 through 1916 and then from 1923 through 1938. Originally founded in 1855 by Ernst Falkbeer, but was only published for nine months. In 1887 it enjoyed a rebirth, but even this publication lasted only nine months. In 1898 Hugo Fahndrich, Alexander Halprin and Georg Marco re-established the name again. As time went on Georg Marco became the sole editor and even the publisher. Marco edited the magazine until 1914 and during that period it became the best chess magazine in the world (Golombek:342). When it was renamed in 1923 it was called the Neu Wiener… Read More

[i-xii]+538 pages with diagrams, illustrations, plates, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volume XLV (45). (Betts: 7-27) First edition.Published monthly from January 1881, Huddersfield, Leeds, London, Trench, Trubner, (1881-1919); London, Walbrook & Co (1920); Leeds, Whitehead & Miller, (1921-1937); London, Pitman (1938-April 1949); London, St Leonards-on-the-Sea (1949- ) Editors John Watkinson (1881-1887); Robert Frederick Green (1888-1893); Isaac MacIntyre Brown (1894-1919); R C Griffith (1920-1937); acting, September 1940-November 1940; Harry Golombek (1938-August 1940); Julius du Mont (December 1940-April 1949); B Reilly (May 1949- ). Continued the chess section of The Huddersfield College Magazine.Condition:Rebound in quarter leather, some wear to first few pages, some pages creased, occasional pencil marginalia else a very good copy.

[4]+32 pages with table. Octavo (9" x 7") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 17. (Betts: 25-86) First edition limited to 220 copies of which this is number 101.
The 45 games typescript in algebraic figurine notation are chiefly taken from German chess magazines. In 1928 the Berliner Schachgesellschaft celebrated its centenary with a tournament from February 4th to the 20th followed by another tournament, the Ehrenpreis der Stadt Berlin, held from September 22nd to October 6th. It was on the heels of this event that Jacques Mieses organized an 'Elite Turnier' through his newspaper, the Berliner Tageblatt. The Elite Turnier was held in the Café König, Unter den Linden, Berlin from October 11th to the 29th. Eight of the world's best players were invited to participate in the double round robin event, including former world champion Jose Capablanca, former world challengers Siegbert Tarrasch and Frank Marshall, and potential world… Read More

viii+388 pages with plate, diagrams, illustrations, tables and index. Royal octavo (9" x 6 1/4") rebound in blue with white lettering to spine. Volume LIX (59). (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6047) First edition.Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine. Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872. (Another magazine used the title Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1846 to 1848.) When it ceased publication in December 1988 it was the oldest existing magazine in the world, having been published regularly since its founding in 1846 except for a five-year break (1945–1949) during World War II. Since January 1989, the Deutsche Schachzeitung was merged in the Deutsche-Schachblätter - Schach-Report which was edited in Hollfeld. The resulting magazine appeared with the names of both former magazines on its cover till December 1996. Since January 1997, this magazine again was merged in… Read More

Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel. Reynal & Hitchcock First Edition, 1941. MYSTERY. Used. Good/Good rare unclipped dust jacket Original $2.00 item price appears on the back flap. now protected in a mylar wrap.