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[4]+7-180 pages with frontispiece portrait and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Christmas salutations tipped in. Edited by George Hume. Whites Christmas series number 40. (Betts: 38-5) First edition.Contains 147 of Kipping's Problems (3 movers) with solutions. Hume contributes and introduction and notes on the solutions.Cyril Kipping was an International Judge. He composed more than 7,000 problems, most of which were three movers (he sometimes used the pseudonyms C. Stanley, S. Henry and S. Mere). He collaborated with the most important magazines of the 20th century: Chess Amateur, Chess, The Problemist (whose editor he was during 32 years) and also wrote many books: 300 Chess Problems (1916), Selected Gems (1922) and The Chessmen Speak in the White Christmas series (1932), which included 147 three movers and can be read and downloaded from here.Condition:Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. A very good copy issued…
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Sonatas in Chess: 136 Three-move problems of C. A. L. Bull (Signed)
by McIntyre, D[onald] G.; Allain White (intro)
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An annotated study of 136 three move problems composed by fellow South African master, C. A. L. Bull. 159pp. Inscribed and signed by the author: "For Hans Liebeck, / in memory of many happy rounds / of collaboration, from / Donald McIntyre / 24.6.1960" Liebeck was a reknowned mathematician and chess enthusiast. Green cloth with gilt lettered title on spine and front board. Gilt faded, rubbing to edges and corners. Betts, 38-9
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300 Chess Problems
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A Account of Two Voyages ... into China
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London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .
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American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West; Being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America, many centuries before its discovery by Columbus. And inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins. With conjectures concerning what may have become of them. Compiled from travels, authentic sources, and the researches of Antiquarian Societies
by PRIEST, Josiah
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Albany, NY: Hoffman and White, 1833. 2nd Edition Revised. Leather bound. Good. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Large folding frontispiece, additional folding map, full-page and text illustrations. 400 pp. Leather worn. Front hinge split but firmly attached. Contemporary signatures in front and end matter. Foxing throughout, mostly marginal. Frontispiece intact but tender at creases. One crease appears to have once been torn and repaired with thread. An excellent copy. This is a scarce 2nd edition of popular 19th century historian Priest's most influential book. All of Priest's books, including this one, toe the line between history, speculation, religion, and outright fantasy. American Antiquities promotes the theory that a lost Israelite tribe once existed in America and built elaborate "mounds" and architectural wonders -- a popular idea at the time, owing to the disbelief that the perceived savage indigenous people couldn't have had the skill and intellect to build these themselves. Racism is a theme…
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka
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SCIESZKA, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. [Illustrated by Lane Smith]. [NY]: Viking [1992]. 8vo, [48]pp. Color pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, price-clipped). Signed by the artist, Lane Smith, with a full-page drawing of the Stinky Cheese Man on the front free endpaper. Scarce thus.First edition. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book! Following up on the success of their previous collaboration, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, this award-winning duo created 10 new tales filled with humor and heart. With its unconventional page arrangement, and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, this delightful spoof has captured readers imaginations for nearly 30 years and influenced a generation of picture book authors. Copies signed by Lane Smith have grown quite scarce.
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Vaiden Trilogy: The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral [FIRST EDITION]
by STRIBLING, T.S.
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with pastedowns on spines and covers. This is a lot of first editions of Stribling's Vaiden trilogy. The middle volume, The Store, won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. All three volumes are in Good condition and lacking their dust jackets. Each has sunning to the spines and some scuffing to the edges. Hinges are tender in all volumes. All were owned by a single collector, whose inscription is on the front free endpaper of each volume. An affordable complete set of first editions of the classic trilogy of Southern literature.
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Der Dreizehnte Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. Hannover 1902
by Rudolf Gebhardt (1859-1929), Johanne Metger and Carlo Fillipo Schultz
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xlviii+204 pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") beige with original wrappers laid on front with spine in gilt. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5259) First edition.The thirteenth Congress of teh German Chess Association is to take place this year at Hanover, from July 19th to the middle of August, in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Hanover Chess Club's foundation. We have received the programme from which we learn that there will be first, an International Masters' Tourney, with 18 entrants at 25 marks each, the entries to be made to Herr W. Ottemann, of 7 Gretchenstrasse, Hanover, at latest by July 1st. Another 25 marks must also be paid as caution money, which will be returned if the player carries out all his games. Each competitor to play one game daily with every other, at a time-limit of 30 moves in the first two hours, and 15 moves an hour afterwards. Adjourned games must be finished before the close of the tournament. There will be eight prizes, the…
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Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants of our Fields and Woods
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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 chromolithograph illustrations with text beneath, printed rectos only, with title page, and bound in the orignal printed plum colored wraps, measuring 7.5 x 10.5' Some loss to spine and and bottom front cover, and fading along the edges, else a Very Good complete copy. // A work by this author, with this title, place of publication and publisher was published in 1857. Cf. English catalogue of Books. However that work has the following collation: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined.
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Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture Containing Hints, Suggestions, and Bits of Practical Information for the Building of Inexpensive Country Houses
by LENT, Frank T.
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New York: W.T. Comstock, 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and burgundy decorations. iv, 98pp, (16pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous line drawings and floor plans. Near fine. Exceptionally, unusually tight and bright revised second edition of this study first published in 1893. Scarce in this incomparable, outstanding condition.
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Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Caldecott Medal)
by Dillon, Leo and Diane (Illus); Musgrove, Margaret (Auth)
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New York: Dial Press, 1976 Violet cloth, faint foxing to a few pages; dust jacket with light dust soil, creases, and wear, award seal present, original price intact ($8.95). The second Caldecott Award winning book by the Dillons, beautifully illustrated in color.. Stated First Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. 4to.
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Hiawatha Alphabet
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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1910 Correct info on copyright page for a 1st Edition. Tan cloth with color pastedown. cloth soiled with fraying to extremities, binding reglued, roughness to edge of first few pages otherwise fresh and clean inside. Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a full page color illustration and quatrain relating to Hiawatha and / or Native American life. Scarce.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H D Pohl. 4to.
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Kongressbuch Hannover 1926. Festschrift zum 50 jahrigen Jubilanum des Hannoverschen Schachklubs 1876-1926
by Bernhard Kagan (1866-1932) editor
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96 pages with six plates, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in wrappers. Includes problem tournament. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5394) First edition.The chess club in Hannover, Germany celebrated its fifty year anniversary by organizing a small, international chess master tournament in 1926. Eight players were invited to participate, including two very strong masters: Aron Nimzowitsch from Denmark, and Akiba Rubinstein from Poland. They met with six German chess masters that included Jacques Mieses, Friedrich Sämisch, Oscar Antze, Hans Duhm, Hermann Von Gottschall, and Walther Von Holzhausen. Games were played from August 9th to the 18th. Nimzowitsch won with a near perfect score of 6½ of 7, edging out Rubinstein by half a point. The prizes were awarded to the players at the Hotel Luisenhof. In conjunction with the tournament was a problem tournament which a number of problems were presented from contestants in Europe.Condition:Spine heal bumped, light edge…
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Chess : Games To Remember: [FIRST EDITION]
by I.A. Horowitz
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1972 McKay trade hardcover. No indications of later printing on the copyright. Not remainder marked, dj is not price clipped($7.95). Dj has faint penmark below price, light shelfware and spinewear, no discoleration, looks very good in Brodart protective sleeve. Pages clean, unmarked & not aged. Red cloth covered boards clean & square. Black lettering on spine fine. Binding firm & straight.
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The Good Companion Two-mover
by George Hume (1862-1936) and Alain Campbell White
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xx+418 pages with diagrams and illustrations including portraits. Small square Octavo (7 1/2" x 7"). Issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Christmas salutations tipped in. From the library of Edgar Holladay White's Christmas series volume XXVIII. (Betts: 36-5) First edition.In part 1, 175 terms and themes are explained and discussed by the editors, and each is illustrated by four two-movers by members of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of Philadelphia. Part 2 consists of a supplementary selection of problems, with whole work containing 912 problems by 174 different composers, selected from the Clubs periodical, 1913-1921. Includes and index of composers and portraits.Condition:Holladay's underlining and notes through out and on paste downs and end papers, corners bumped, some rubbing to extremities, else a good copy issued without jacket.
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XXI° Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Mar del Plata (Daily Bulletins)
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15 unpaginated daily bulletins, each 3 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") issued in wrappers. First edition.Mar del Plata has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2007. The international tournament started off in 1928, but only in the period from 1941 to 1970 was it a truly international tournament with considerable reputation. After 1970, only seven international tournaments have been played. The 1951, 1954, 1969 and 2001 editions were zonal tournaments. The 1958 contest was held at the Hotel Provincial in Mar del Plata. and is part of an iconic beachfront complex, built in 1946 by the celebrated architect Alejandro Bustillo.Eighteen contenders battled for the trophy and placed in descending order: Bent Larsen from Denmark capture first with 12 points ahead of William Lombardy from America with 11. In a three way tie for third was… Read More
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The Manual of Chess: Containing the Elementary Principles of the Game; Illustrated with Numerous Diagrams, Recent Games and Original Problems
by Charles Kenny (1815,-1875)
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xiv-[15]-122 pages with diagrams including frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover. [Hagedorn 54, Betts 10-2] First published in Britain in 1846 and in United States in 1847.An elementary text, containing a brief survey of chess literature (Chess and chess writers), a description of the elements, a chapter giving the first few moves of the openings, and other sections on "ends of games" (elementary mates), Games actually played (5 examples), prob3ems with examples (7) and general rules for playing the game, with a list of places where chess is played (in England) and a list of chess periodicals. The American edition is slightly re-arranged pagination, otherwise as the English edition except for the omission of the final list of places where played and periodicals.
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Five Crowns: Kasparov-Karpov World Chess Championship 1990 New York-Lyon
by Yasser Seirawan (1960- ) with Jonathan Tisdall signed by Seirawan
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iv+252 pages with diagrams, photographs and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Yasser Seirawan. First edition. The 1990 WCC match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov was held from October 8 to December 30. The match locale was split, with the first 12 games played in New York, USA, and the final 12 in Lyons, France. The prize fund was three million dollars, with 5/8 going to the winner. In case of a tie, the prize fund would be shared equally with Kasparov retaining the title.Unlike the 1987 WCC cycle in which Karpov was seeded directly into the final candidate match, this time he was only reserved a spot in the quarter finals, and thus had to win three mini-matches in order to face Kasparov. This he accomplished by defeating Johann Hjartarson 3½ to 1½, Artur Yusupov 4½ to 3½ and Jan Timman 6½ to 2½.Perhaps as a psychological ploy, Karpov suggested a last minute change to the rules in the pre-match press conference. Karpov argued…
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Chess World Volume 9
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296 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, pictures and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green and white pictorial wrappers. Volume 9, 12 issues. (Betts: 7-106) First edition. (Published from 1946-1967), published monthly from 1946-1965, varies after 1965. Incorporating Check and The Australian Chess Review. Volume 1 was first published in February and is a combined issue of numbers 1 and 2. The Nov/Dec 1967 number was not published. Editor was Cecil John Seldon Purdy. (Betts 7-106, Van Manen 355) Condition: Edge wear. numbers 4, 8, 11 and 12 indicated as volume 8, but dated 1954. A very good set.
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Torneo Campeonato Argentino 1955 (Daily Bulletins)
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19 unpaginated tournament bulletins (approximately 55 pages) with tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) bound in individual bulletin wrappers. First edition.The first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and challenger, a winner of Torneo Mayor. The matches were done away in 1950 year, except for 1952. From 1953 the tournament was changed to an all-round invitation, although in many cases it was played with the Swiss system.The 33rd championship was played in 1955 with Miguel Najdorf the victor in a twenty player contested event. Hector Rossetto was a clear second with a score of 14.5 one and half points behind the leader, followed by Erich Eliskases at 13.5.Condition:Edge wear, occasional notes, punch hole to hinges, hand drawn cross table indicating game pages else a very good copy.
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The Chessmen Speak
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[4]+7-180 pages with frontispiece portrait and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Christmas salutations tipped in. Edited by George Hume. Whites Christmas series. (Betts: 38-5) First edition.Contains 147 of Kipping's Problems (3 movers) with solutions. Hume contributes and introduction and notes on the solutions. Cyril Kipping was an International Judge. He composed more than 7,000 problems, most of which were three movers (he sometimes used the pseudonyms C. Stanley, S. Henry and S. Mere). He collaborated with the most important magazines of the 20th century: Chess Amateur, Chess, The Problemist (whose editor he was during 32 years) and also wrote many books: 300 Chess Problems (1916), Selected Gems (1922) and The Chessmen Speak in the White Christmas series (1932), which included 147 three movers and can be read and downloaded from here.Condition:Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. A very good copy issued without jacket.
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Schachprobleme aus de Jahren 1884-1910
by Jan Kotrc (1862-1943) and Karel Traxler
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xlvi+[2 portrait]+[110 problem]+2 portrait]+[137 problem]+[58 solution]+[5 subscriber] pages with portraits and diagrams, paisley end papers and paste downs. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and cover with pictorial chess board to cover. Text in German and Czechoslovakian. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2605) First edition.Jan Kotrc was a Czech chess master, chess publisher and chess problem composer. Born in Bielsko (then Austrian Silesia, now Poland), he was an editor of chess magazines Sach-Mat (1884-1885), Ceske listy sachove (1896-1900) in Prague, andArbeiter Schachzeitung in the 1920s-1930s in Vienna. He shared 2nd with Karel Traxler, behind Jan Kvicala, at Prague 1891 (the 3rd Congress of the Bohemian Chess Association), tied for 4-6th at Dresden 1892 (the 7th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Paul Lipke won). He won a match against Josef Kvicala (+3 -0 =2) at Prague 1893, and took 8th at Vienna 1899/1900 (Kolisch Memorial,…
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