TABLE OF CONTENTS To view a particular category within the catalogue please click on the headings below 1. Antiquarian 2. Reference; Encyclopaedias, & History 3. Tournaments 4. Game collections of specific players 5. Game Collections – General 6. Endings 7. Problems, Studies & “Puzzles” 8. Instructional 9. Magazines & Yearbooks 10. Chess-based literature 11. Children & Junior Beginners 12. Openings Keverel Chess Books July – January. Terms & Abbreviations The condition of a book is estimated on the following scale. Each letter can be finessed by a + or - giving 12 possible levels. The judgement will be subjective, of course, but based on decades of experience. F = Fine or nearly new // VG = very good // G = showing acceptable signs of wear. P = Poor, structural damage (loose covers, torn pages, heavy marginalia etc.) but still providing much of interest. AN = Algebraic Notation in which, from White’s point of view, columns are called a – h and ranks are numbered 1-8 (as opposed to the old descriptive system). Figurine, in which piece names are replaced by pictograms, is now almost universal in modern books as it overcomes the language problem. In this case AN may be assumed. pp = number of pages in the book.// ed = edition // insc = inscription – e.g. a previous owner’s name on the front endpaper. o/w = otherwise. dw = Dust wrapper It may be assumed that any book published in Russia will be in the Russian language, (Cyrillic) or an Argentinian book will be in Spanish etc. Anything contrary to that will be mentioned. PB = paperback. SB = softback i.e. a flexible cover that cannot be torn easily. HB = hardback of thick card that cannot be bent without considerable pressure. LN = Bibliotheca Van Der Linde-Neimeijeriana. When Dr. Neimeijer died in 1948 he bequeathed his vast library of chess books to the Royal Library in the Hague. lands where it was absorbed into the other donated libraries to form the Van der Linde-Niemeijeriama . All the books were catalogued & codified, each now having a unique reference number, which is used here. Payment via Paypal preferred (via my e-mail address). Cheques payable to “R. H. Jones”. 1. Antiquarian Dr. Finlay loses again 1. Antiquarian Bird, H. E. Chess History & Reminiscences London 1893 138pp Has sections on chess history, blindfold chess and a few game scores. Original brown cloth with bright gilt titles. LN 236 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 London 1st ed. 1882 Masterpieces, comprising those of Anderson, Bird, Blackburne, Boden, Buckle, Cochrane, Kolisch, Labourdonnais, Lowenthal, Macdonnell, Morphy, Staunton, Steinitz Zuckertort, and 35 others. 96pp Original dark cloth. LN 1822 Front binding a little tender o/w VG £75.00 Bird, H. E. Chess Practice London 1892 96pp LN 1823 A 2nd printing a decade after the first, but with a much more colourful red cloth cover with Art Nouveau titles and £75.00 chessboard. Insc “Edward Metcalfe” VG . Bird, H. E. The Chess Openings considered Critically & Practically. 1st ed. 1877 London Includes interesting long lists of subscribers in UK & US, including Sam Loyd who composed a special letter B problem for the book. 248pp Original blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. LN £60.00 1819 Binding a little tender o/w G+ Bird, H. E. Chess Novelties and their latest novelties with comparisons of the F. Warne progress of chess openings of the past centuries and the present not 1st ed. 1895 dealt with in other works. 304pp Original blue cloth boards bearing attractive gilt design and lettering. LN 1855 Spine dulled o/w VG £55.00 Bird, H. E. Chess Novelties – another copy. 304pp Original maroon cloth boards. £55.00 VG+ Chess Masterpieces comprising a collection of 150 games of the past London Bird, H. E. quarter century, with Notes, including the finest games in the 1st ed. 1875 Exhibition of 1851 and the Vienna Tournament of 1873. 140pp Maroon cloth boards. Insc. One of Bird’s scarcer titles. LN 3166 a little foxing to title page & back cover is tender but intact o/w G+ £75.00 Another copy in green cloth boards. Fine split to green material covering Bird H. E. spine and c.10 small pencil ticks detected. o/w VG £75.00 Another copy with by far the better covers. Maroon cloth boards with title in Bird H. E elaborate lettering & ornate patterns in gilt. Year (1875) in gilt and a 3-move problem set out on a chessboard in gilt, as is the author’s name. Page edges are also gilded. Blind stamped pattern on back cover. Possibly a first £85.00 printing with subsequent print-runs of a more modest nature. Internally there is some light foxing opposite the title page & a few pages inside. VG Bird, H. E. Another copy with the title Chess Masterpieces Compiled by H. E. Bird. On the front endpaper is pasted a blue label bearing the words “Awarded by Robt. J. Buckley – Chess Editor of the Birmingham Weekly Mercury to Mr. A. W. Best – Seventh prize in the solution tourney. In the centre of this is a chessboard with pieces. The words “Birmingham Weekly” are on the left side of the board and “Ercury” is on the right, with the pieces on the board forming the letter M with the challenge beneath “White mates in 2” £55.00 At the bottom is neatly written “Recu” (received) “May 13th 1890 A. W. B.”). Facing the title page is the signature “H. E. Bird April 26th 1890”. Inside the back cover is an identical blue slicker indicating an award to Mr. J. Hunter for 2nd prize. Mysterious. One of these two miscreants ticked a number of games in pencil. Internally, the page sections between 40 &41 have split apart. Not a good specimen of the book but it is interesting and signed. Boden, S. S. Boden On Chess – A Popular Introduction To The Study & Practice of London 1851 Chess, by an Amateur 196pp LN 789. Some bubbling to blind-stamped brown cloth covers. Some splitting to spine & paper starting to brown. Top ⅓rd of title £35.00 page excised o/w G Cook, W. The Chess Primer – A stepping stone for beginners, teaching the preliminary details, supplemented by a series of illustrative games London 1880 with reasons for every move appended. 55pp Original olive cloth boards bearing attractive design in black. £25.00 LN 992 VG Cook, W. Cook’s Chess Synopsis – a synopsis of the chess openings. 4th ed London 1888 142pp Original maroon cloth boards with some staining to front cover though internally clean. LN 1818 G+ £20.00 Cook, W. The Complete Players’ Compendium – a practical guide to the London openings. With new supplement by Alfred Emery. 5th ed. 1910 332pp Original green cloth bearing attractive chess piece design & gilt titles. LN 1883 VG £20.00 Cook, W. The Compete Player’s Compendium – another copy Re-bound in plain green cloth with original title page pasted in. VG £12.00 Crawley, Chess & Draughts – Chess: its Theory & Practice to which is added a London 1858 Capt. R. chapter on draughts. 180pp Original maroon cloth bearing gilt title and diagram. VG £25.00 Ellis, J. H. Chess Sparks or Short & Bright Games of Chess 1st ed. London 1895 Re-backed retaining original fawn cloth with amusing blind 160pp stamped chess piece design. 200 miniatures games plus 7 page list of all tourneys & matches 1824 – 1894. LN 3182 Small £75.00 bookplate “Gervas Powell Glyn”. Insc. Neat pencil ticks by games played through o/w G+ Ellis, J. H. Chess Sparks Another copy. On the front endpaper is signed “R.P from J. H. E. 24:: X:: 95. (see game No. 392)” Beneath that is a contemporary newspaper cutting referring to the newly-published book and the Thatched House Club of which Ellis is/was a member. After p. 143 is a card, printed in red ink “Thatched House Club – Winter Chess Handicap – Prize for the most £85.00 brilliant game won by Ross Pinsent Esq. Easter 1895. followed by the score of a game by Pinsent, who was the “RP” referred to earlier. Tipped in to the title page is a slip on which is printed “With the Author’s Compliments”. A little foxing on some pp but structurally sound. VG Foster A. W. Chess: An Easy Game with R. E. Kemp London 1914 44pp A beginner’s guide with no games or diagrams. LN 1307. Small format. Insc. Yellow limp covers with chess piece design. £20.00 Marginalia on 1 page. Uncommon. G Freeborough Chess Openings, Ancient And Modern – Revised & Updated up to the London 1889 1st ed. & Ranken Present Time From the Best Authorities 256pp Original brown cloth boards with artistic patterns & bright gilt titles. LN 1841. A little light foxing on endpapers and corners slightly £50.00 bumped o/w a fine example of what became an invaluable series. Chess Studies: Comprising One Thousand Games. A Collection of Classical & Brilliant Specimens of Chess Skill by George Walker. A London 1893 Freeborough republication of Walker’s 1840 book of games played from Philidor to Staunton’s Handbook of 1847. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles. £75.00 Dark brown endpapers. Structurally sound. LN 3146 172pp Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. With Rev. C. Ranken 3rd London 1896 ed. 282pp Original brown cloth boards with chessboard motif. Not in LN. Endpapers splitting & pages browning at edges. o/w £25.00 G Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern - another copy.