2412. - ANTIQUARIAN (Mainly pre-1900 items): ***** THIS SECTION UPDATED 8 OCT 2024 *****
RETURN TO HOME PAGE Tony Peterson, 15 Harbour View Park, Rope Walk, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN17 5DQ, UK. Tel: 01903 730371. email: tony@chessbooks.co.uk £0.006067. ----: An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess; containing 100 Examples of Games...Philidor's Analysis...Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois &c...Caissa: A Poem, by Sir William Jones; The Morals of Chess by Dr.Franklin.
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy... 1820. New Edition, carefully Revised. Original blue boards, backed with grey paper, worn at head and foot of spine with about 3cm paper loss at foot, page edges are uncut so page margins are a good size. Contents in very good condition. pp (viii), 254. Without the engraved plate as often found. Whyld & Ravilious, Chess Texts 1820:5. LN 613. £70.00528. 1911 SCHLECHTER-TARRASCH. Tarrasch (Dr.): Der Schachwettkampf Schlechter-Tarrasch auf dem Jubildums-Kongress des Kolner Schachklubs im Sommer 1911.
Leipzig 1912. 1st Edn. Original grey boards, VG, inside staples are rusty with one section partly loose. Frontispiece, pp xviii,1,136. 16 games from the match plus 36 from the Jubildums-Kongress des Kolner Schachklubs. LN 5054. £45.005606. Anderson (A.): The Game of Draughts Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams.
Glasgow & New York, 1878. 3rd Edn., Revised & Extended by Robert McCulloch. Original plain brown cloth, worn at head and foot of spine, 2 pages loose. Frontispiece diagram, pp xxxii, 136. £20.001408. BLACKBURNE (J.H.) Graham (P.A.): Mr.Blackburne's Games at Chess Selected, Annotated and Arranged by Himself. Edited, with a Biographical Sketch and a Brief History of Blindfold Chess by P.A.Graham.
Longmans, Green 1899. 1st Edn. Large octavo, original cloth, small split to top of spine otherwise a very good copy. Portrait, pp ix, 331. 407 games with brief notes, 28 problems, index of games. £75.00214. Christmas Series No.11. White (A.C.): More White Rooks.
Stroud 1911. Original purple cloth, nice copy. 220pp. 400 problems. Without Christmas slip. Christmas Series No.11. £65.003276. Du Mont (J.): Chess Openings Illustrated. I. Centre Counter.
Bell, 1919 1st Edn. Original pictorial cloth, G. 75pp. 31 illustrative games. LN 1935. £12.00445. Dufresne (J.): Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels.
Leipzig (1922). 10th Edn edited by J.Mieses. A small volume, original beige cloth, slightly spotted o/w G. 543pp. LN 1007. £18.00847. EUCLID. (Alfred Crosskill): Analysis of the Chess Ending King and Queen against King and Rook by "Euclid." Edited by E.Freeborough.
Kegan Paul &c. 1895. 1st Edn. Original maroon cloth, gilt, very good. Coloured frontispiece, pp xii,120,(11). LN 2187. The definitive work on this ending. £80.003156. Freeborough (E.) & C.E.Ranken.: Chess Openings Ancient and Modern.
Trubner & Co. 1889. 1st Edn. Original blue cloth, spine edges worn, some fading on front cover o/w G. 256pp. The openings are tabulated in a similar way to the later MCO volumes. LN 1841. "The most useful book on its subject until the later editions of MCO." (Murray, Short History.) The first edition seems scarcer than later edns. £35.0035. Freeborough (E.) & C.E.Ranken.: Chess Openings Ancient and Modern.
Kegan Paul &c. 1896. 3rd Edn., revised & corrected. Original brown cloth, wear to spine edges, inner hinges split, paper rather yellow o/w G. 292pp., plus 62pp publisher's book catalogue. The openings are tabulated in a similar way to the later MCO volumes.This edition not in LN. "The most useful book on its subject until the later editions of MCO." (Murray, Short History.) £20.001198. Gittins (F.R.): The Chess Bouquet; or The Book of the British Composers of Chess Problems.
Feilden, McAllan & Co. 1897. 1st Edn. 4to (21 x 27cm) orignal red cloth, gilt, spine torn with some loss of cloth at head and foot, a few small stains on covers, binding a bit loose, the contents are good. Frontispiece, 257pp, errata, photos and biographies of British composers and prominent chess editors, 663 problems, essays on composing and solving. With a loose advertising sheet for the book. With a bookplate of the British Chess Problem Society, presented by Daphne MacLeod. A comprehensive and invaluable work. £100.00319. Green (R.F.): Chess.
Bell 1893. Original red pictorial cloth, G. 116pp. Includes 17 Master games with brief notes. "The Club Series." £15.006026. Greig (E.A.): Chess Recipes on the Principal Openings.
"Chess Amateur", Stroud, 1914. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Original red cloth, covers waterstained in the past, inner hinges cracked, paper yellowed. 159pp. A scarce book. LN 1888. £25.0044. Gunsberg (I.): The Chess Openings.
Bell 1920. (Reprint). Original limp green pictorial cloth, covers worn. pp (xvi),104, plus adverts. £8.001955. Hobart (Young (F.J.)): BCM Guide to the Openings in 178 Games. Selected and Arranged by "Hobart."
n.d.(1898). Only Edn. Original dark blue cloth, paper yellowed, a few chess club ink stamps o/w G. (vi),102pp. 178 named games arranged by opening, with notes. LN 1878. Hobart was the pseudonym of Francis Joseph Young who emigrated to Australia and died in Hobart, Tasmania in 1922. £25.002143. Klett (Ph.): Schachprobleme. Mit einer Einfuhrung in die Theorie des Schachproblems.
Veit, Leipzig 1878. 1st Edn. Contemporary black half leather, very rubbed, otherwise good. pp (vi), 227. 112 of Klett's problems. With a stamp of the British Chess Problem Society to title-page, old chess club label on endpaper. LN 2438. A leading exponent of the so-called Old German style of the problem art. £70.002193. Kotrc (J.) & K.Traxler: Schachprobleme aus den Jahren 1884-1910.
Published by the authors, Wien 1910. 1st Edn. Original brown cloth. G. 2 portraits, 46pp introduction, 110 problems of Kotrc, 137 of Traxler (two well-known Czech problemists), solutions, list of subscribers (89 copies.) With a problem solving prize label on endpaper. LN 2605. £60.00589. Lasker (Edward): Chess and Checkers. The Way to Mastership.
Appleton, NY & London, 1919. (Reprint a year after 1st Edn). Original boards with green cloth spine, VG. 284pp. Includes elementary tactics, principles of chess strategy, 2 illustrative games of Edward Lasker, a few problems. The last 62 pages deal with checkers (or draughts). LN 1339. £12.001376. Longman (F.W.): Chess Openings.
Longmans, Green, 1874. 2nd Edn., revised and corrected. Original mauve cloth, faded on spine o/w G. pp xv, 64. LN 1808. There is a bookplate of Washington Jackson, Town Thorns. Jackson was an American merchant who moved to England in 1861 and Town Thorns is the mansion built for him, situated between Rugby and Coventry. The bookplate includes a dire Latin warning to book thieves. £35.002398. Macdonnell (G.A.): The Knights and Kings of Chess. With Portrait by Arthur Hacker, and Seventeen Illustrations.
Horace Cox, London 1894. 1st Edn. Original green cloth, gilt lettering, a very good copy. Frontispiece, pp xii, 206. LN 2982. A follow-up work to the author's "Chess-Life Pictures", including anecdotes of Blackburne, Zukertort, Steinitz, Bird, Mason, Paulsen, Kolisch, Gunsberg, Falkbeer, and on numerous other subjects and personalities. With inscription on endpaper "To The Rt. Hon The Lord Mayor with the Author's Respectful Compliments." £180.00204. MARSHALL (F.J.): Chess Openings. With Biographical Sketch and Selection of Thirty-Two Games, Played 1899-1904.
BCM, Leeds 1904. 1st Edn. Original blue cloth, good. Portrait, pp iv,185,(3) adverts. The first collection of Marshall's games. £35.00321. Mason (J.): Chess Openings.
H.Cox 1905. 2nd Edn. Original maroon cloth, slightly faded, small crease on front cover o/w G. pp xx,120. LN 1864. £12.00254. Mason (J.): Social Chess. A Collection of Short & Brilliant Games with Historical and Practical Illustrations.
The Field & Queen (Horace Cox), (1901). Original maroon cloth, gilt, stamped 1901 on front cover, good copy. xv,174pp., 2 plates. Includes 131 annotated games. LN 3196. With a small label of the ECF collection. £18.003729. Mieses (J.): Chess Endings from Modern Master-Play. Edited, with Notes.
Routledge, (1901). 2nd Edn. Sm8vo, original purple cloth, slightly stained on edges o/w G. pp xi,115, adverts. 30 endings from named games. LN 2195. A scarce work. With small label of the ECF collection. £18.004725. Miles (J.A.): Poems and Chess Problems.
The Author, Fakenham, Norfolk 1882. 1st Edn. Original red cloth, spine slightly faded, a good copy. Frontispiece diagram, pp (iv),116, including 50 problems, selection of poems (only a few on chess), list of subscribers, errarta. LN 2465. £100.00844. Miller (J.W.) Editor: The American Supplement to the "Synopsis" containing American Inventions in the Chess Openings: together with Fresh Analyses in the Openings, since 1882.
W.W.Morgan, 1885. 1st Edn. Roy8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, partly split on joints, endpapers torn o/w G. pp 91, plus adverts and sample issue of Chess Player's Chronicle. Not separately listed in LN catalogue. With small bookplate of ECF, Pollard Collection. £40.00914. Montigny (A.): Stratagems of Chess, or a Collection of Critical and Remarkable Situations, Selected from the Works of Eminent Masters, Illustrated on Plates.
T.& J.Allman, London 1818. 4th English Edn. Small 8vo (10 x 16.5cm), contemporary half leather, rubbed, some small leather loss, and part loss of title-label, still a tight copy and pages in good condition. Engraved frontispiece of a chess diagram (with marginal stains), pp 229. Includes120 engraved diagrams of endgame studies. LN 2158. £80.00828. Morgan (M.): The Chess Digest, containing the Moves of Over 15,000 Games Systematically Arranged under the Various Openings.
Philadelphia, 1901-03. Volumes 1-3 (of 4), quarto size (20 x 28cm), original maroon cloth, gilt, 2 vols rubbed on spine, one back cover stained, otherwise good. pp 472, 446, 518. "Practically including All Games Played in the Leading Tournaments and Matches from 1850 to 1902. Together with Names of Players and References to All the Tournament Books and Periodicals in which the Games have been Reported." A VALUABLE REFERENCE WORK. LN 1879. With bookplates of the ECF, Wade collection. £100.00730. PERIODICAL: Lasker's Chess Magazine. Vol.1 - 2.
New York, Nov.1904 - Oct.1905. 2 volumes bound in 1 roy8vo, dark blue half leather, with gilt stamp of Baruch H.Wood on front cover, some staining or rubbing especially to back cover, with magazine front covers included (first one torn at edges), internally good. Complete with index and 288pp in each volume. Nos.1-6 in each volume. Includes games department conducted by Lasker with 140 games, Problem department by Sam Loyd, news and results from around the world, miscellaneous articles. A scarce magazine which ran to 9 volumes in all. £150.00779. PERIODICAL: The Chess Monthly.: Edited by L.Hoffer & J.H.Zukertort. Vol.I.
London, Sept.1879 - Aug.1880. Roy8vo, Original grey cloth, some wear to head and foot of spine o/w G. pp iv (title & index), 384. 79 annotated games, endgame section by B.Horwitz, 122 problems, letters, and news etc. £80.00268. Pierce (J.& W.T.): Chess Problems.
Longmans Green 1873. 1st Edn. Original green cloth, slight edge wear o/w VG. Frontispiece, pp xii,381. 301 problems, from two to six movers. The subscribers list accounts for 130 copies. LN 2421. With a bookplate of the British Chess Problem Society, presented by Mrs. P.H.Williams. A scarce book. £100.002473. Pierce (James & W.Timbrell): Pierce Gambit, Chess Papers and Problems.
Trubner & Co. 1888. 1st Edn. Original blue cloth, spine darkened, cloth partly split on top joint, foxing on endpapers otherwise internally good. Frontispiece, pp (viii),227. Includes 134 problems, analysis of the Pierce Gambit, and various articles mainly concerning problems, and list of subscribers. LN 1839. A scarce work which appears in various binding colours. £70.00808. Preti (J.): ABC des Echecs. Deuxieme Edition augmentee de Nombreux Exemples Pratiques et d'une Classification Methodique des Debuts par Numa Preti suivi de 126 Problemes d'Echecs Inedits.
Paris, N.Preti, 1895. Contemporary dark red half leather, back inner hinge cracked, joint partly split, leather rubbed o/w G, a prize label on front cover (2nd prize F.R.Gittins - the author of Chess Bouquet). Large folding table of openings, pp viii,356. Includes 101 miniature games, 126 problems, numerous "fin de partie", openings etc.. LN 948. With a bookplate of the British Chess Problem Society, presented by F.Bonner Feast. £50.001377. Rowland (T.B. & F.F.): Chess Fruits: A Selection of Direct Mate, Self-Mate, Picture and Letter Problems, Poems, and Humourous Sketches... Popular Games by Leading Players and others of General Interest.
The Authors, Dublin, 1884. 1st Edn. Original red cloth with black ruling and lettering, slight wear to head and foot of spine, two dark marks on front cover with small loss of cloth (c.1 x 2cm) otherwise a good copy. pp 172, (4) adverts. Includes a list of subscribers. With a stamp of the British Chess Problem Society on title-page. LN 2463. £80.001340. Sarratt (J.H.): A Treatise on the Game of Chess.
Longman &c. 1822. New Edition Revised & Improved by William Lewis. Contemporary half calf, spine nicely gilt-tooled, slightly rubbed, top joint is cracked and tender. pp xxii, explanation of diagrams leaf, 351. LN 618. Sarratt introduced a new style of play based on that of the Italian school, and Lewis was the strongest of his pupils. (Murray, Short History.) This New Edition also has 78 diagrams which were not used in the 1808 edition. £170.00241. Selkirk (G.H.): The Book of Chess. A Popular and Comprehensive Guide...with Full Instruction for Blindfold Chess.
Houlston and Wright, 1868. 1st Edn. Original green cloth, spine and front cover with gilt decoration of chessboard and pieces, VG. pp viii,439. Includes many games, and 78 studies. LN 946. £60.004909. Staunton (H.): Chess. Containing The Elementary Portion of "The Chess-Player's Handbook."
Henry J.Drane n.d.(1905). Small hardback (11 x 14cm), original red cloth, white lettering, faded and stained o/w G. 164pp., plus adverts for Drane's ABC series of which this is one. Paper yellowed. Also includes 13 additional games mainly from 1890s at the end. LN 760. Betts 10-74. £12.001195. Staunton (H.): The Chess-Player's Handbook.
Bohn 1848. 2nd Edn., Revised. Original red cloth, covers discoloured, some splits to joints, otherwise a good tight copy. Coloured frontispiece, pp viii,518. LN 740. £40.004328. STEINITZ. Edited by C.Devide.: A Memorial to William Steinitz. Containing a Selection of his Games.
G.P.Putnam's, NY & London 1901. 1st Edn. Original blue cloth, VG. Portrait, pp vii, 99, advert page. Biographical sketch, c.70 annotated games. LN 3198. £80.001230. Stubbs (C.F.) Publisher: Canadian Chess Problems.
C.F.Stubbs, St.John, N.B., Canada, 1890. Small 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering. VG. 224pp. 206 problems with solutions at end. LN 2506. With a stamp of the BCPS Library on title-page, A scarce book. £100.00642. Tomlinson (Charles): Amusements in Chess: I.Sketches of the History. Antiquities and Curiosities of the Game. II.Easy Lessons...Selection of Games. III...Problems.
John W.Parker, 1845. 1st Edn. Original cloth, spine gilt, some sections loose otherwise good. With a label and stamp of British Chess Problem Society. pp ix,352, adverts. Includes chapters on chess writers and players, the automaton chess-player, including illustrations, the knight's tour, blindfold chess. LN 4540. £120.001235. Walker (G.): Chess Studies: Comprising One Thousand Games, a Collection of Classical and Brilliant Specimens of Chess Skill.
Kegan Paul &c.1893. New Edn, with Introduction by E.Freeborough. Roy8vo, original brown cloth, wear to top of spine otherwise a good copy. pp xvi,(172). 1020 games. "Walker established the custom of recording games, and his Chess Studies...has become a classic." (Oxford Companion.) Includes all 85 games from the Bourdonnais - McDonnell match, other games by these two players, 62 games by Philidor, 50 games by Mouret while conducting the automaton etc.. Same content as 1844 edition except with new introduction. LN 3146. £80.006032. Walker (G.) Ed: The Philidorian; A Magazine of Chess, and other Scientific Games. No.2, 4, and 6.
G.Walker & Son, 1838. First Edition in book form, bound in plain cloth, staining on covers, wear to head and foot of spine, contents in good condition. Title-page, No.2 January p.41-80, No.4 March p.121-160, including folding diagram "Three Pawns against King.", No.6 May p.201-256, including "Bibliographical Catalogue of Printed Books, and Writers, on Chess, up to the Present Time, by George Walker." LN 6121. Whyld/Ravilious p.122. The earliest British chess magazine and very scarce. ALSO BOUND IN IS: The Chess Player's Chronicle Vol.2 p.1-16, Vol.5 p.353-400, Vol.6 p.33-64, 97-128, Vol.12 p.1-64, 97-128, 161-223, 289-318, Vol.13 p.1-32, 65-128, 257-288. £100.00921. Wallis (E.): 777 Chess Miniatures in Three. Introduction by P.H.Williams and Hints to Solvers by A.N.Brayshaw.
E.Wallis, Scarborough (1908). 1st Edn. Narrow 8vo, original light brown cloth, VG. pp (xl),272. Text in English, French and German. LN 2590. £30.003109. Williams (P.H.): The Modern Chess Problem.
Routledge (1903). 1st Edn. Original purple cloth, gilt, gilt on spine a bit faded and wear to head and foot o/w G. Portrait, (viii),252pp. Sections on solving and composing, and 100 problems (half two-movers.) With an inscription from composer W.H.Thompson. LN 2566. £20.00370. Young (F.K.): Chess Strategetics Illustrated. Military Art and Science Adapted to the Chessboard.
Sampson Low &c. 1900. 1st Edn. Original red pictorial cloth, spine is faded, covers are marked and stained, contents are starting to loosen. Frontispiece, pp xxiii,284, positions and examples from Morphy's games. A previous owner has made pencil notes and marks on quite a few pages. Young was a leading Boston player and lawyer who applied a military approach to the game and produced some of the most eccentric works on chess. LN 1172. I can send photos on request £20.00