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xxi+826 pages with bibliography and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's gray cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
This volume, the third of three on Shaw, covers commentary on Shaw from 1957 through 1980. It includes biography, comparative studies, criticism, bibliography, reviews, dissertations, newspaper articles, notes and adaptations of Shaw's works to other media. Items in the bibliography are verified and substantially annotated, with most abstracted in lengths ranging from a few sentences for minor notes to several paragraphs for major scholarly works.
Condition: Jacket with small closed tear to front head edge else a fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Pages clean, binding tight. Minor shelf wear to cover.

32-36 pages with plates, figures and bibliography. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. American Antiquity Volume XIV, Number 1 complete issue. First edition.In 1932 and 1933 the Laboratory of Anthropology and the University of New Mexico started independently on research projects which involved certain provocative cultural manifestations in north central New Mexico. Dr. H. P. Mera published the results of his investigations in 1938 under the title, "Some Aspects of the Largo Cultural Phase, Northern New Mexico." In the same year, the author reported on some preliminary work in the same area in an article entitled "The Gallina Phase." As the university has continued its work in the more easterly section of this area, the name "Gallina" is retained in this connection, although the two types of material are obviously referable to the same cultural horizon.In the excavating seasons just prior to the war, sporadic excavations were carried on in this area and a survey of… Read More

This is the true story of how Gamaliel Painter transformed Middlebury, Vermont, from a loose grouping of rough log huts into the beautiful village that it is today. Painter was a man of many trades and occupations. He was a captain in the Continental Army who was with Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, a sheriff, judge, legislator, industrialist, and philanthropist. This fascinating biography tells how Painter guided the town of Middlebury from pre-Revolutionary War days and started Middlebury College, which still celebrates his leadership today. Condition: Light edge wear. Jacket light edge wear else a better than very good copy in like jacket.

91 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publishers pictorial wrappers. Translated by Jim Marfia. First edition.
In this work Yakov Estrin presents a convincing case for players to adopt gambit play. Only by playing gambits will the chessplayer begin to understand that getting active positions with the possibility of landing combinative shots, will compensate him for the material sacrifices. Estrin presents concepts and line of ppay8 in every major opening as well as examples from his own games.
Condition: Near fine.

112 pages with diagrams, glossary and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This is part of the Think Like a Chess Master series, written by young ambitious players on popular topics. It uses questions and exercises to draw the reader into the subject, and offers practical tips which will bring results.Condition: Light edge wear points bumped and rubbed else very good.

91+[1 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by Jim Marfia. First edition. Alekhine's Defense, English, Marshall Attack, and more including the Urusov. Yakov Borisovich Estrin was a Russian chess International Master, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and world champion, chess theoretician, and writer. Condition: Heal corner bumped else better than very good.

159 pages with diagrams and bibliography. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bond in original publisher's illustrated wrappers. First edition. IM's Donaldson and Silman are completing a series of volumes on the Slav Defense which will cover the opening in unprecedented detail, as well as bringing previous work up to date. This first volume to appear presents a number of gambit lines, including the Winawer and Slav Gambits. The first is one of today's hottest variations! Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners else very good.

182+[6 ad] pages with six color plates including frontispiece, with numerous decorations by Henry Hutt and T C Laurence. Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and gilt decoration and lettering to spine and red lettering and white and brown pictorial decoration on front board. (BAL 11886; Sisson & Martens 24 7 121) First edition with large rubber rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Company on copyright page. A run of 26, 420 were printed in jacket. The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations. Condition: Book plate on front paste down, corners rubbed, light shelf wear, spine ends rubbed else better than very good.

267[+4 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in1954.
Harry Golombek was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948.
Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

viii+131+[blank]+1 ad] pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with label to spine. (Van der Linde 1523; Whyld: 1828,5) First edition. The London and Edinburgh chess match, which was played by correspondence, was begun in the year 1824. It was the result of a challenge given by the Edinburgh Club, which was then only in its infancy. The terms agreed on were, that the match should consist of three won games; and that, in case of any game being drawn, a new one, begun by the same opener, should take its place. The match commenced on 23d April 1824. Two games were opened simultaneously. The first game was opened by the Edinburgh Club; and in sending their first answering move, the London Club also sent the first move of the second game. The first game, which consisted of 35 moves, was, on 14th December 1824, declared to be drawn. The second, which consisted of 52 moves, was resigned by the London Club on 23d February 1825. The third game—opened by the… Read More

lvi+371 pages with two tables and diagrams. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to spine and embossed chess board, pieces and lettering on cover. Edited with the assistance of the English Masters, Zukertort, Steinitz, Mason and Bird. Annotated by Zukertort, Steinitz, Mason and Bird. (Betts 25-16) (Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 5216) First edition.The London 1883 chess tournament was a strong chess tournament among most of the leading players of the day. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort (22 points out of 26) ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz (with 19 points). Remarkably, Zukertort was already assured of victory with three rounds to go, having scored an astonishing 22/23. He then lost his last three games against relatively weak players, probably due to exhaustion. The tournament established Zukertort as rivaling Steinitz to claim to be the best player in the world, and led to the World Chess Championship 1886 match between the two… Read More

48 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth in stiff boards. Annotations by F D Yates and W Winter. (Betts: 27-32) First edition.Contains short biographies of the players, with a brief history of the Championship matches, followed by the 25 annotated games and a theoretical review.A few days after Alexander Alekhine won the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927), both masters made a general agreement to play a rematch sometime within the next year, under the same rules as they had played the first match. Jose Raul Capablanca did not, however, issue a formal challenge at this time. On February 10, 1928 Capablanca wrote FIDE president Alexander Rueb, explaining his ideas about future changes to the world chess championship. Capablanca recommended altering the playing times and reducing the number of games to 16. He also forwarded this letter to Alekhine. Alekhine interpreted this as a wish to change the… Read More

John Wiley & Sons 1967 New York, 1967 VG- 7th HB Tall 8vo xix,509 Covers soiled, some underlining of text, spine extremities lightly rubbed.. Hardcover.

iv+28 typescript pages on rectos only with table and indices; ii+20 typescript pages on rectos only with table and indices. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with spiral binding. Spence limited editions of tournament books. American tournament series number 20. (Betts: 25-243) First edition number 41 of 150 copies.All 236 games, without notes, from the Metropolitan New York are championships. Max Pavey, Manhattan Club Champion in 1953, regained his title by scoring 13-3 in the 1955/56 renewal of the annual championship. He suffered a lone loss to Arthur Feuerstein while defeating his closest rivals William Lombardy and Albert Pinkus to insure victory. Pinkus and Lombardy share second with scores of 10.5 well ahead of the U S Champion Arthur Bisguier and 1944 American title-holder Arthur Denker. Bisguier could only early 8.5 points to tie for sith with Alexander Kevitz. Dinker, with 9-6 finished fifth behind the youthful Feuerstein a half point ahead. Pavey, slow to take the… Read More

87 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Betts: 25-39) First edition.A selection of 50 lightly annotated games played in the annual Monte Carlo tournaments of 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904. No more volumes published. The Monte Carlo chess tournament was established in 1901. There were a series of very strong tournaments held in Monte Carlo, from 1901 to 1904, and again after a long break from 1967 to 1969. David Janowski won the first edition of the tournament. In the second edition Geza Maroczy was the clear winner over Harry Nelson Pillsbury. In the third edition Siegbert Tarrasch captured first in a hard fought contest over Maroczy. In the fourth edition Maroczy was again the winner over Carl Schlechter. The tournament went on an hiatus until 1967 when Bobby Fisher won the tournament.Condition:Points rubbed, light shelf wear. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped, spine age darkened else a… Read More

xvi+64 pages with illustrations, portraits, diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 25-31; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5241) First edition limited to 500 copies.At the closing banquet for the Hastings 1895 tournament, Chigorin announced that the top prizewinners had been invited to St. Petersburg for a match-tournament to begin in December of that year. The top three finishers (Pillsbury, Chigorin, and Lasker) plus fifth-place finisher Steinitz agreed to play; fourth-place finisher Tarrasch declined. Even so, St. Petersburg was enormously strong; the top five places on the December 1895 Chessmetrics list are occupied by Lasker, Tarrasch, Chigorin, Steinitz, and Pillsbury respectively. Each entrant played six games against the other three. The tournament began on December 13, 1895 with 23-year-old Harry Nelson Pillsbury, the victor at Hastings, crushing the 26-year-old world champion, Emanuel Lasker. After… Read More

584-605 pages with tables and references cited. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 61, number 4. First edition.In their classic cross-cultural study "Games in Culture," Roberts,Arth, and Bush (1959) delineated a three-category classification for games (i.e., physical skill, strategy, and chance) as well as a definition of games. Both the classification system and the definition have become anthropological standards. Roberts et al. also found that several variables correlated with the presence-absence of different game types. However, the sample that Roberts et al. used was relatively small (50 societies) and nonstandard. The purpose of this study is to replicate the Roberts et al. study using codes for games for the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. In addition, minor extensions of the results found by Roberts et al. are presented.Condition: Spine sunned, previous owner's name to front wrapper, corners bumped else very good.

75+[5 note] pages with diagrams and tables, Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Second edition.
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was the third World Champion, reigning from 1921 until 1927. Renowned for the simplicity of his play, his legendary endgame prowess, accuracy, and the speed of his play, he earned the nickname of the "Human Chess Machine".
Capablanca s style also heavily influenced the styles of later World Champions Botvinnik, Robert James Fischer and Anatoly Karpov. Botvinnik observed that Alekhine had received much schooling from Capablanca in positional play, before their fight for the world title made them bitter enemies. While not a theoretician as such, he wrote several books including A Primer of Chess, Chess Fundamentals and My Chess Career.
Condition: Near fine.

462 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Robert Fischer was US Champion at 14 and World Champion at 29. This revised survey of his career includes every traceable serious game (nearly 700) that Fischer played between 1955 and 1977. The book also includes a record of his matches and tournaments and scores against opponents. Condition: Light edge wear, gently bumped corners else very good.