The White King by White, Alain C - 1914

ix+221 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative stamp on front cover in pictorial dust jacket with a black and red globe with chess pieces on it and white lettering. Signature card laid-in (Betts:24-46) First edition.A vivid record of activities in the leading chess centers of the world (1953) with fifty examples of brilliant games played by modern chess-masters. The games include masterpieces by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Euwe, Fine, Horowitz, Kashdan, Keres, Najdorf, Pinkus, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Stahlberg and other experts. Each game is profusely illustrated. Introductions and explanatory notes to moves provide the reader with both entertainment and instruction (front flap)Condition:Signature card laid in with date 9 Nov 1959 on verso. Spine ends and points rubbed, corners bumped. Dust jacket spine ends and corners chipped, edge wear with some chips and tears. Over all a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

[viii ad]+287+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") rebound with original wrappers tipped to front and back boards. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5229) First edition.The 6th Deutscher Schachkongress took place in Breslau in 1889. It included the 6th Meisterturnier (master's tournament) organized by the Deutscher Schachbund (DSB) since its first in Leipzig (1879). As in the previous four editions the round robin tournament was an international event, pitting German masters against the best of Europe at the time. Germany was represented by its usual field of strong masters, including Louis Paulsen, Siegbert Tarrasch, Alexander Fritz, Max Harmonist, Johannes Metger, Jacques Mieses, Emil Schallopp, Curt von Bardeleben, Johannes von Minckwitz, and Johann Bauer who had won his spot by winning the Frankfurt Hauptturnier (1887) master title. The German masters were joined from Great Britain by Joseph Henry Blackburne, who was the winner of DSB's 2nd… Read More

Three books bound together: 72 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in quarter cloth with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. From the library of Albert Becker. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5400; 5463; 5478) First edition.An international chess master tournament was organized and held at the Grand Hotel Panhas in the Semmering Pass south of Vienna from March 7th to the 29th, 1926. The event was organized by Ossip Bernstein, who invited 18 players to participate in the round robin tournament. Among those invited were the very best masters of the day, including Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Siegbert Tarrasch, Milan Vidmar, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, and Rudolf Spielmann. The hypermodern school was well represented, and in the first half of the tournament Nimzowitsch and Tartakower lead the field. However, toward the end of the… Read More

301 pages with illustrations. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial boards. Signed by Marian Stere. First edition limited to 222 copies of which this is number 66.
Marian Stere's (Romania - A Bibliography of Chess) is a definitive bibliography of Romanian books, periodicals and other items related to chess. The book is intended for chess collectors, historians and chess history lovers. Most of the book is written in English, small parts of the text are simultaneously in Romanian. The material is ordered into several sections and each item has its own reference number. The sections are: Books (described 186 items), Magazines (30), Rules, trainers' handbooks, documents of the Federation (50), Tournament bulletins (146), Chess in literature, in mathematics etc. (157) and Chess columns in non-chess periodicals (42 items). In all, 842 items are described, all containing detailed bibliographical record that includes (when available): item number - author - title - place and date… Read More

One sheet (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") stamped "Stockholms Schacksallskap in Bogoljubow's hand, scored on both sides in pencil ending in a 69 move win for Bogoljubow.
This tournament round is not in Chessgames and it is NOT the 4-player tournament (Spielmann, Bogoljubow, Rubinstein and Reti) played in December 1919. This round played 22 November 1919 is in Bogoljubow's hand and is on both the recto and verso of the score sheet comprising 69 moves with Bogolubow win.
Bogoljubow won ahead of Spielmann, Reti, Nyholm, A. Olson, E Jacobson and Loewenborg (who did not finish the event). Rubinstein intended to play but did not arrive in time. (Tidsskrift för Schack 1919 p226)
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubow was a Russian-born German chess player. His reputation was cemented by his great success at Bad Pistyan (1922). After sharing 1st with Alexander Alekhine and Geza Maroczy at Karlsbad (1923), he won both the USSR Championship (1924) and the USSR Championship (1925). He then relocated to Germany. His greatest… Read More

ix+221 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative stamp on front cover in pictorial dust jacket with a black and red globe with chess pieces on it and white lettering. Signature card laid-in (Betts:24-46) First edition.A vivid record of activities in the leading chess centers of the world (1953) with fifty examples of brilliant games played by modern chess-masters. The games include masterpieces by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Euwe, Fine, Horowitz, Kashdan, Keres, Najdorf, Pinkus, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Stahlberg and other experts. Each game is profusely illustrated. Introductions and explanatory notes to moves provide the reader with both entertainment and instruction (front flap)Condition:Signature card laid in with date 9 Nov 1959 on verso. Spine ends and points rubbed, corners bumped. Dust jacket spine ends and corners chipped, edge wear with some chips and tears. Over all a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

[viii ad]+287+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") rebound with original wrappers tipped to front and back boards. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5229) First edition.The 6th Deutscher Schachkongress took place in Breslau in 1889. It included the 6th Meisterturnier (master's tournament) organized by the Deutscher Schachbund (DSB) since its first in Leipzig (1879). As in the previous four editions the round robin tournament was an international event, pitting German masters against the best of Europe at the time. Germany was represented by its usual field of strong masters, including Louis Paulsen, Siegbert Tarrasch, Alexander Fritz, Max Harmonist, Johannes Metger, Jacques Mieses, Emil Schallopp, Curt von Bardeleben, Johannes von Minckwitz, and Johann Bauer who had won his spot by winning the Frankfurt Hauptturnier (1887) master title. The German masters were joined from Great Britain by Joseph Henry Blackburne, who was the winner of DSB's 2nd… Read More

Three books bound together: 72 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in quarter cloth with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. From the library of Albert Becker. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5400; 5463; 5478) First edition.An international chess master tournament was organized and held at the Grand Hotel Panhas in the Semmering Pass south of Vienna from March 7th to the 29th, 1926. The event was organized by Ossip Bernstein, who invited 18 players to participate in the round robin tournament. Among those invited were the very best masters of the day, including Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Siegbert Tarrasch, Milan Vidmar, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, and Rudolf Spielmann. The hypermodern school was well represented, and in the first half of the tournament Nimzowitsch and Tartakower lead the field. However, toward the end of the… Read More

301 pages with illustrations. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial boards. Signed by Marian Stere. First edition limited to 222 copies of which this is number 66.
Marian Stere's (Romania - A Bibliography of Chess) is a definitive bibliography of Romanian books, periodicals and other items related to chess. The book is intended for chess collectors, historians and chess history lovers. Most of the book is written in English, small parts of the text are simultaneously in Romanian. The material is ordered into several sections and each item has its own reference number. The sections are: Books (described 186 items), Magazines (30), Rules, trainers' handbooks, documents of the Federation (50), Tournament bulletins (146), Chess in literature, in mathematics etc. (157) and Chess columns in non-chess periodicals (42 items). In all, 842 items are described, all containing detailed bibliographical record that includes (when available): item number - author - title - place and date… Read More

One sheet (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") stamped "Stockholms Schacksallskap in Bogoljubow's hand, scored on both sides in pencil ending in a 69 move win for Bogoljubow.
This tournament round is not in Chessgames and it is NOT the 4-player tournament (Spielmann, Bogoljubow, Rubinstein and Reti) played in December 1919. This round played 22 November 1919 is in Bogoljubow's hand and is on both the recto and verso of the score sheet comprising 69 moves with Bogolubow win.
Bogoljubow won ahead of Spielmann, Reti, Nyholm, A. Olson, E Jacobson and Loewenborg (who did not finish the event). Rubinstein intended to play but did not arrive in time. (Tidsskrift för Schack 1919 p226)
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubow was a Russian-born German chess player. His reputation was cemented by his great success at Bad Pistyan (1922). After sharing 1st with Alexander Alekhine and Geza Maroczy at Karlsbad (1923), he won both the USSR Championship (1924) and the USSR Championship (1925). He then relocated to Germany. His greatest… Read More