Breve tratado do Jogo do Whist, que contem as leis do jogo, e algumas regras, pelas quaes se póde conseguir o jogá-lo bem. Addicionado com duas computações: huma sobre as apostas em qualquer ponto do jogo; e outra para dar a conhecer ao parceiro huma, e mais certas cartas. Traduzido da lingua ingleza na portugueza (by Luiz de Vasconcellos Botelho). Segunda Edição by [HOYLE, Edmond] - 1818

140 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 35. (Betts: 7-50) First edition.Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition: Stained, small worm hold through pages else about very good.

180 pages with diagrams, tables illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 32. (Betts: 7-50) First edition. Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition: A very good copy.

200 pages with diagrams, tables illustrations and pictures of this era. Octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 29. (Betts: 7-50) First edition. Published monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. Condition:Some light damp stains at head edge. Else a very good copy.

x+149 pages with tables, indexes and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and black chess vignette to front cover. Introduction by Max Euwe (Betts: 29-153). First edition.An account of his chess career accompanied by fifty three complete games and nineteen game positions with full annotation. Includes indexes of openings and opponents.D A Yanofsky was born to a Jewish family in Brody, Poland (now western Ukraine), and moved to Canada when he was eight months old, settling with his family in Winnipeg. He learned to play chess at the age of eight. Yanofsky won his first Manitoba provincial championship at age 12 in 1937, also making his debut in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship that same year in Toronto. In 1939, just 14 years old, he played for Canada at the Buenos Aires Olympiad. Yanofsky was the sensation of the tournament, making the highest score on second board. He won his first Canadian Chess Championship in 1941 at age 16, at home in… Read More

223 pages with diagrams, tables, photographs and index. Quarto (9 1/2" x 7") rebound with original front wrapper laid on. Prolog by Rey Ardid. Errata tipped in. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5672) First edition.The Barcelona Chess Club sponsored the tournament with 14 contestants. Najdorf was the clear winner with 11 1/2 loosing no games. Yanofsky captured second with 9 1/2 points. C E Guimard and A Medina tied for third through fourth with 9 points each. M Albareda was alone in fifth with 8 1/2. Sixth through eight were R Llorens, A O'Kelly and F J Perez each with 6 1/2.Condition:Rebound with original wrapper laid on front cover. Corners bumped, some internal soiling else a very good copy.

Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944.. Small quarto. Quarter gilt cloth and boards, gilt label. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition. Edited by Alain White. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of two hundred and fifty copies printed on laid paper. CAHOON, p.42.

384 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Volume XXIX (29). (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5957) First edition.The Wiener Schachzeitung, an Austrian chess magazine, published in German which was one of the great magazines of chess ran from 1898 through 1916 and then from 1923 through 1938. Originally founded in 1855 by Ernst Falkbeer, but was only published for nine months. In 1887 it enjoyed a rebirth, but even this publication lasted only nine months. In 1898 Hugo Fahndrich, Alexander Halprin and Georg Marco re-established the name again. As time went on Georg Marco became the sole editor and even the publisher. Marco edited the magazine until 1914 and during that period it became the best chess magazine in the world (Golombek:342). When it was renamed in 1923 it was called the Neu Wiener Schach-Zeitung and was edited by I R Wahle and A Lewitt; however, within a year it had recaptured its old title and in 1926 another great editor, Albert… Read More

xi+344 pages with diagrams, illustrations, tables, photographs and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in three quarter leather with stiff boards and label to spine. Volume 41. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6203). 1st edition.This is the periodical for the Dutch Chess Federation, and through the end of World War II the organ for the Dutch Chess Problem Society. This publication, started in 1893, is the longest continuing chess magazine in The Netherlands. The name was changed in August 1943 to Mededeelingenblad van den Nederlandschen schaakbond through August 1944, when it recaptured its old name.Condition:Edge wear, some age toning, corners gently bumped and rubbed, previous owner's stamp to title and front end paper, label chipped else about very good.

224 pages with diagrams, photographs and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 1. (Betts: 7-122). First edition.The California Chess Reporter ran for 25 year from 1951 to 1976. It was published six times a year. The first issue of the California Chess Reporter, that promised continuous coverage of the entire state, appeared on June 1951 and was published in ten issues that year. Editor Dr. H. J. Ralston's first editorial explained it best, "The unhappy demise of the Chess Digest early this year left the chess players of California without any organ for the systematic publication of chess news. It has been the fate of chess publications in the past to quietly expire unless they enjoyed the support of some solid organization of chess players. The present issue of the Reporter is made possible by the generous financial support of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, which voted funds for the publication at the meeting of May 6, 1951.Condition:Some light edge… Read More

55 pages with illustrations, diagrams and problem index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt pictorial and lettering to front cover.inscribed by the author. (Betts 43-45) First edition.Chiefly a miscellany of articles and extracts from chess literature. Includes "Anecdotes and witticisms from various sources", "Various references to chess", a chapter on the "The hobby of collecting chess pieces", and a problem section containing 21 unusual compositions by various composers, with commentary by A J Souweine. The section on chess references comprises a partial list of periodical and other references, 1697-1931.Condition:Inscribed on front end paper, light rubbed to spine else a very good to fine copy.