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93 pages with pictorial double page title, photographs, figures, charts, tables, drawings, figures, appendix and bibliography. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine and cover.. Contributions by David R Berry, Andrew L Christe and Beverly M Larson. Museum of Cultural History, Monograph Series Number 22. First edition. The Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition (RBMVE) Archives results from excavations that were conducted between 1933 and 1938 along the Colorado River basin directed by Ansel Hall, Head of Education for the Western Region, National Park Service, based in UC-Berkeley. The interest of the National Park Service to establish a park in the Rainbow Bridge area of southeastern Utah and down into Tsegi Canyon in northern Arizona gave Hall the opportunity to organize an intensive survey of this extended area, covering 3,000 square miles. Intending to take only ten experienced men from UC-Berkeley for a preliminary exploration of the area… Read More

Dover Publications 1983 New York, 1983 Very good issued in wrappers Reprint Wrappers Octavio x, 468p Edge wear.. Soft cover.

[1]+107 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 63, number 2 Part 2. First edition.The index covers material in American Anthropologist published between 1949 and 1958 (Volumes 51-60) as well as Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association during this period (Memoirs 71-88). Compiled and edited by Sally Spencer with the collaboration of Lynne and Ross Crumrine.Condition: Spine sunned, previous owner's name to front wrapper, corners bumped else very good.

32 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and table. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5353; Kieler Schachkatalog 3769) First edition.The tournament was a double round robin with each player playing both colors. Aron Nimzowitsch captured first prize, playing at that time, the hyper-modern openings. He did not lose a game with a score of 8. Tied for second were Friedrich (Fritz) Samisch and Savielly Tartakower with scores of 6. Rudolf Spielmann took 4th with 5 1/2. Ernst Jacobson was 5th with 3 points and Jorgen Muller was 6th with 1 1/2. With the Nimzowitsch win, this gave the hyper-modern school more respect.Condition:Spine ends and corners chipped, edges and spine sunned else a good copy, internally very good.

100 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's maroon cloth with black lettering to cover. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5339) First edition.In October of 1921, ten chess players of strength ranging from master to amateur met at The Hague, The Netherlands to participate in a round robin tournament. Among the participants were veterans like Jacques Mieses and Georg Marco, and established masters like Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, and Savielly Tartakower. Max Euwe, an amateur, participated by virtue of having become the new Dutch champion earlier in the year. The event was another victory for Alekhine, who would go on to dominate tournaments and the elite for decades to come, most as world champion. First Alexander Alekhine (+7 -0 =2) a full point ahead of second place finisher Savielly Tartakower; third was Akiba Rubinstein half point behind. Borislav Kostic and Geza Maroczy shared fourth and fifth a point behind Rubinstein. In sole sixth was Jacques… Read More

8 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/4") rebound in green cloth with original wrappers laid on boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5060) First edition.The Great War was entering its final destructive year when Rubinstein and Schlechter met in a short six-game match at the Cafe Kerkau in Berlin. Bachmann writes, "...This match didn't fulfill all of the great expectations it had aroused because recently Schlecter, under the influence of the war, is not at the peak of his game. His play is still always clear and tenacious, but his preference for early draws appears to have grown even stronger." The socre result Schlecter +1 -2 =3. (Goldman: Carl Schlechter! Caissa Editions)Condition:Rebound with original wrappers laid on both the front and back boards, pages brittle with age, page one repaired with small hole else a good to very good copy.

20 pages with table. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher;s stiff boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5329) First edition.The Schachjahrbuch declares the "Grandmaster Tournament of Berlin 1918" to have been not only the most important in Germany, but in the world! It brought together the four foremost players of the period: Lasker, Rubinstein, Schlechter and Tarrasch. Like it predecessor a few months earlier, the tournament was organized by Kagan and played out in the Cafe Kerkau. Cafe sponsors provided an unusual first-place prize: 1000 cigaretts made of the finest tobacco! It is matter-of-factly recorded by Bachmann that the cigar-smoking Lasker greatly enjoyed his valued prize in view of the tobacco shortage plaguing German during the closing months of the war. The story of the tournament is quickly told: world champion Lasker, appearing in his first tournament since St Petersburg 1914, and Rubinstein recovering from his disastrous form of April, made the running… Read More

xvi+382+[1 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 5 complete, with Sonderheft no 1 and 2. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6073) First edition.Bernhard Kagan, Polish born German amateur who lived in Berlin and published Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten in the years 1917-32. This chess magazine first appeared as a quarterly and then monthly in the years 1921-32. It was published in Berlin and used as a vehicle for giving many master games and articles by such writers as Grunfeld, Tartakower, Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch, Reti and Spielman. Many of the great tournaments of the period appeared in supplements to the magazine. It died when Kagan himself died in 1932. (Golombek: 157)Condition:Spine ends rubbed and age darkened else a very good copy.

198+[2 ad] pages with diagrams and portraits. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's cloth over paper boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5355) First edition.The third master tournament to be held in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia was held from April 27 to May 22, 1923. Twenty-two masters were invited, the same as in 1911, but only seventeen were able to accept their invitations. Among the players who could not attend for various reasons were Milan Vidmar, David Janowski, and Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky. Friedrich Saemisch was brought in as a reserve to create an even number of players.
The eighteen participants played their games in the Helenenhof Imperial Hotel. Among them were an array of European chess masters, including Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Akiba Rubinstein. Only the world champion Jose Raul Capablanca, former world champion Emanuel Lasker, and Frank James Marshall were not invited. Although Alekhine had arrived late due to… Read More

102+[1] pages with table and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in stiff boards with black lettering to cover. Forward by Herausgeber. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5358) First edition.In the summer of 1923, the Witkowitzer Eisenwerke organized a round robin chess event to be held in Mährisch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia (Mährisch is German for Moravian, Ostrau is Ostrava). In addition to thirteen other European masters, a contract was secured for former world champion Emanuel Lasker to participate. The players were billeted at the Hotel Royal and games were played from July 1-18 in Witkowitz, a suburb of Ostrava. The event culminated in another victory for Lasker, who finished undefeated in his first tournament since 1918, a full point ahead of second place Réti.Condition:Some soiling with a stain at the head hinge, corners bumped spine ends rubbed, some pencil notations through out, previous owner's name on front end paper, pages age darkened else a good to very good copy.

xvi+382+[1 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5") in original wrappers. Volume 2 complete, with supplement in honor of Dr Tarrasch. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6073) 1st edition.Bernhard Kagan, Polish born German amateur who lived in Berlin and published Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten in the years 1917-32. This chess magazine first appeared as a quarterly and then monthly in the years 1921-32. It was published in Berlin and used as a vehicle for giving many master games and articles by such writers as Grunfeld, Tartakower, Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch, Reti and Spielman. Many of the great tournaments of the period appeared in supplements to the magazine. It died when Kagan himself died in 1932. (Golombek: 157)Condition:Spine ends rubbed and age darkened else a very good copy.

ix+229 pages with photographs, diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Co-authors D Djaja, M E Morrison and A Elo. (Lusis: 160) First edition. With the increase in the number of tournaments and weekend congresses over the past years, the understanding of the Laws of Chess, and the way they work in practice, is of importance to all chess players. Bozidar Kazic the Chief Arbiter of FIDE, with contributions from Dragutin Djaja, Arpad Elo and Martin Morrison fill this need. The book includes a detailed explanation of the FIDE Rating system and the method by which International Titles are awarded and all controllers will benefit from the various forms of the Swiss System and other tournament system. Condition:  Lightly rubbed spine ends. Jacket soiled, spine sunned else a very good copy in like jacket.

2 volumes.[2 ad]+463+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and maps; [2 ad]+467 pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and appendices. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in brown cloth with black labels in gilt lettering to spine, marbled end pages. Later printing, first published in 1856.Elisha Kent Kane, American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. Educated as a physician, Kane became a naval surgeon in 1843. After the Arctic search for Franklin, he made plans for his own attempt to find Franklin and also to establish whether or not there was an open sea around the North Pole. Leaving New York City on May 31, 1853, he sailed aboard the Advance to northwestern Greenland and entered the sea now called Kane Basin. The ship became icebound, but the party accomplished much geographic, meteorologic, geologic, and other scientific… Read More

71 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. In chess, Wing Gambit is a generic name given to openings in which White plays an early b4, deflecting an enemy pawn or bishop from c5 so as to regain control of d4, an important central square. (Or in which Black plays ...b5, but Wing Gambits offered by Black are very rare.) The most common Wing Gambit is in the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.b4). Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

59 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Supplemental material by Paul Janicki. First edition.
The Polish Defense is the name commonly given to one of several sequences of chess opening moves characterized by an early ...b5 by Black. The name "Polish Defense" is given by analogy to the Polish Opening (ECO A40), 1.b4. The original line was1. d4 b5. as played by Alexander Wagner, a Polish player and openings analyst, against Kuhn in the 1913 Swiss Correspondence Championship. Wagner published an analysis of the opening in Deutsches Wochenschach in 1914, when he was living in Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b5 and other variants where Black delays playing ...b5 until the second or third move, which are sometimes called the Polish Defense Deferred.
Condition: Light edge wear else very good to fine.

x+44+[4 publication list] pages with tables, appendix and cited references. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Foreword by Clyde Kluckhohn. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Volume XLII, Number 2. Reports of the Ramah project Number 6. First edition. Kaplan's monograph represents a unique contribution both to the cross-cultural study of personality and to that of values. For the latter subject the contribution is largely that of highly significant data. Members of the Values Project research team must carefully examine these materials as they bear upon the internalization of cultural values. They must give special attention to the wide variation in personality that Kaplan discovered in each of the four cultures. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else very good.

xvi+358 pages with diagrams Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed card laid in. (Lusis: 1286) First edition.This work is the first book to answer the question "How Karpov Wins?" with the intent of instructing players of all levels and improving their game. Although it contains analysis o each of the games (about one hundred) that Karpov has won in major competition since he became a world-class player, this work is much more than just a "best games" book. Dispensing with long, complicated, exhaustive variations an sub-variations. Edmar Mednis - an International Chess Master - considers each game from the standpoint of how Karpov actually won it, explaining simply Karpov's tactics, strategy and even his psychological approach. Beyond its instruction effectiveness How Karpov Wins reveals many interesting aspects of Karpov's play itself" Does he win more with white or with black? what openings is he most effective… Read More

xiii+477 pages. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition. 6 famous movie scenes. From Ninotchka to The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, Catch-22 to Tootsie and everything in between! Contains: Monologues for Men and Women, Scenes for Two Women, Scenes for Two Men, Scenes for One Woman and One Man, etc. Condition: Underlining, edge wear else a very good copy.

[7]+152 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, two tables and index. octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Principle games annotated by I Kashdan and others. (Betts: 25-101) First edition.The next Olympiad was scheduled to be held in Spain, 1932 but it was cancelled short before the start due to financial problems. Spain waited for their second chance until 2004, by the way. Another offer came from USA who wanted to host the event in Chicago. Since the idea of making chess one of disciplines of the Summer Olympic Games finally fell through there wasn't even a discussion about possible 1932 Los Angeles contest. The FIDE congress, the Olympiad and the Women World Championship commenced on June 12th opened by the Major of Folkestone. Despite of modest financial capabilities of BCF they organized the event games without reservation. 19 teams applied but Mexico, Spain and Argentina scratched and Estonia did not arrive. Estonia were, however,… Read More

2 volumes: xix+240 pages with frontispiece illustrations (including portraits) table, diagrams and index; xxxiii+288 pages with illustrations, table, diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") volume one bound in original red with silver lettering to spine and black and silver decorative cover in original pictorial jacket; volume two bound in original publisher's sea green with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 25-340; 25-388) First editions.Volume one annotated by Samuel Reshevsky and other participants. All 56 games, annotated, with an index of openings. Each competitor annotated the game he considered his best and Reshevsky the remainder. Volume two annotated by Jan H Donner, Tigran Petrosian, Robert Fischer, Lajos Portisch, Boris Ivkov, Samuel Reshevesky, Bent Larsen Minguel Najdorf, Wolfgang Unzicker. Introduction by Gregor Piatigorsky. All 90 games annotated with an index of openings.In 1963 famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jaqueline gave a cup… Read More