TABLE OF CONTENTS To view a particular category within the catalogue please click on the headings below. To return to this Table of Contents click on the red text at the bottom of each section 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 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 Masterpieces, London 1st comprising those of Anderson, Bird, Blackburne, Boden, Buckle, ed. 1882 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 1819 £60.00 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. VG+ £55.00 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 printing £85.00 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 with London 1880 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 stamped 160pp chess piece design. 200 miniatures games plus 7 page list of all tourneys & matches 1824 – 1894. LN 3182 Small bookplate £75.00 “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 & Ranken Present Time From the Best Authorities 1st ed. 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. Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. With Rev. C. Ranken 3rd ed. London 1896 282pp Original brown cloth boards with chessboard motif. Not in LN. Endpapers splitting & pages browning at edges. o/w G £25.00 Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern - another copy. London 1910 & Ranken , C 4th ed. 284pp LN 1843 Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif & feint stain o/w G £25.00 Gottschall, Adolf Anderssen der Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst Leipzig Dr. H. von 1st ed. 1912 553pp 750 analysed games & 80 problems. V. Good group photo of Leipzig 1877 including Zukertort and the Paulsens, plus individual £80.00 portraits. LN 3034. Original grey cloth boards with a few marks in bottom corner. VG- Green R. F. Chess 1st ed. London 1890 116pp LN 1046 Original red cloth boards with games motif. Spine rubbed o/w G £10 Green R. F. Chess another copy. 1st ed. 4th reprint. London 1896 LN 1047 Original red cloth boards with games motif. G £6.00 Green R. F. Chess another copy 7th ed. London 1912 122pp LN 1052 Original red cloth boards with games motif. VG £6.00 Green R. F. Chess another copy 17th ed. London 1930 116pp LN 1046 Original red cloth Insc. VG £5.00 Green, R. F. Chess another copy. Revised & updated by J. du Mont Bell 1941 114pp Red boards with blind-stamped chess piece motif. VG+ £6.00 Greenwell, W Chess Exemplified in One Hundred & Thirty-Two Games of the most Leeds (1890) celebrated players LN 1061. Only ed. Brown cloth boards with blind-stamped covers and bright gilt covers. 132 games with notes and diagrams. Index of £60.00 141pp openings & players. 3 small rubbed spots on front edge of spine o/w internally clean. G+ LN 1061 Greig, E. A. One Hundred Pitfalls of the Chessboard New ed. revised by M. Stevens London 1914 72pp LN 1890 Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif. VG £10.00 Gunsberg, I The Chess Openings London 1901 104pp Not in LN. Original blue cloth boards with games motif. Insc. VG £10.00 Hoffer, L Chess 1st ed. London 1892 246pp LN 1080 Red cloth boards VG £12.00 Hoffer, L Chess 6th ed. London (s.a.) 246pp Another copy Not in LN. Original red cloth with chess picture. Insc. Short split to cloth on spine o/w G- £5.00 Hoffer, L Chess 7th ed.