Handbuch der Schach-Eroffnungen: Band 24: Franzosisch

576 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Rolf Schwarz was a German chess player and chess writer. He wrote over a period of forty years over thirty opening books. He was one of the most famous German chess writers and the most productive world. His activities as a chess author began in 1950 when he commissioned by the German Sports Committee of the German Democratic Republic when he reported on the GDR championship in Sömmerda. The following year his first opening book, a monograph on the French defense appeared in Sport the official German publication in the series "collective library of Physical Culture". 1958 began his collaboration with Kurt Rattmann , during which he continued until the mid-1980s and wrote a total of 22 opening books in the series "Handbook of Chess Openings". In this (so-called after the uniform format for the cover) "green number" was the 1960 volume published to the little played Bird Opening. 1997 this work by Manuel Fruth was issued as a reprint (but without the green cover). Condition: Corners bumped, shelf wear, water glass ring on front board, spine gilt dulled, soiled else a good copy.