1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)
by Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (1943- ) signrf
Complete set of original octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") score sheets in Kavalek's hand. Signed by all his opponents except Christiansen, Reshivsky and Shamkovich.The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the Zonal, a playoff between Larry Christiansen, Lubomir Kavalek and Sammy Reshevsky, who tied for third would have... Read More
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Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States
by Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) signed
3 volumes: xvii+[1]+537 pages with 90 lithographs plates including the usual expunged bathing plate, many in color, including 3 "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints (2 folding); 6 maps and charts (2 folding); 79 woodcuts in the text; [2]+414+[4]+14-1+xi pages with 4 color lithographs of Chinese scenes; 2 uncolored natural history engraved plates; 6 hand-colored lithographs of birds; 10 hand-colored steel-engravings of fish; 5 lithographs of shells, 2 hand-colored; 16 diagram plates of winds and currents; 14-page facsimile of Japanese language... Read More
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The Black Camel: A Charlie Chan Mystery
by Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) inscribed
312 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with red lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Inscribed on second front end-paper. First edition in second state jacket.Earl Derr Biggers is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907.... Read More
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1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)
by Larry Mark Christiansen (1956- ) signed
A complete set of 14 original hand written score sheets in Larry Mark Christiansen 's hand. The game with Kogan is in Kongan's hand. The Reshevsky, Tarjan and Benjamin score sheets are unsigned, the others signed by Christiansen 'sopponents. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) The games with Seirawan, Shamkovich and Tarjan include the carbons with the originals.The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two... Read More
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1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)
by Yasser Seirawan(1960- ) signed
Complete set of fourteen games in Yasser Seirawan's hand of the games. All signed by his opponents except the games with Christiansen, Shamkovich, Kogan and Benjamin. The game with Benjamin is the carbon.The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the Zonal, a playoff between Larry Christiansen, Lubomir Kavalek and... Read More
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Turnabout
by James Thorne Smith (1892-1934) signed
312 pages with illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with front board and spine stamped in turquoise in original publisher's pictorial jacket. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. First edition.Though Thorne Smith's most popular works involve elements of fantasy and science fiction, the clever novel Turnabout takes his penchant for incorporating supernatural and magical themes in his work and puts one such plot twist to use as a... Read More
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1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets) Robert Byrne vs the field
by Robert Eugene Byrne (1928-2013) signed
Complete set of fourteen scores sheets in Robert Byrne's hand, including the Evans game, and both the the carbon and original of the Shamkovich game. All signed except the Reshevsky score sheet. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the Zonal, a playoff... Read More
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Valitud Partiid 1931-1958
by Paul Petrovich Keres (1916-1975) signed
485 pages with diagrams, plates and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") issued in grey cloth with black and white cover and black lettering to spine and white and red lettering to pictorial cover. signed First edition.Paul Keres was born in Narva on 7 January 1916. At the University of Tartu, he studied mathematics from 1938 to 1941. In 1935, he became the Estonian chess champion for the first time. In the years 1936-1940, Keres was the editor-in-chief of the... Read More
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A Collection of Voyages round the World: Performed by Royal Authority. Contaning a complete historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken for making New Discoveries, &c viz
by Cook, James (1728-1779) etal
4 of 6 volumes. Volume 1: i-ix]-372 pages with 23 plates, including frontispiece plate of Cook, and 4 folding maps; Volume II lacking; Volume III: [793]-1184 pages with 11 plates, including frontispiece of Possession Bay, and 5 fold out maps; Volume IV: [1185]-1546 pages with 26 plates, including frontispiece of Woman, Child and Man of Van Diemen's Land, and 6 folding maps; Volume V: [1547]-1938 pages with 30 plates, including frontispiece of A View of Huaheine, and 8 folding maps;... Read More
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The Wept of Wish Ton-Wish: A tale
by Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
2 volumes. i-[x]-251 pages; 234+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in full leather with black label to spine in gilt lettering. (BAL: 3844) First American edition. Published in London first in the same year.Cooper was one of the most popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world. While on his death bed, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert wanted most to read more of Cooper's novels. Honoré de Balzac, the French... Read More
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The Brownies: Their Book
by Cox, Palmer (1840-1924)
xii+144 pages Illustrated throughout. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket in a custom slipcase. First edition, first state, with the De Vinne Press seal immediately below the copyright notice.The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from English traditional mythology and Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children, The Brownies was published in... Read More
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
by Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
vi+158+[12 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's cloth with black lettering to spine, red decorative florets to cover and Maggie in gilt with black back ground, deckle edges. Housed in red slipcase. (BAL 4075) Two states noted, (1) Title page printed in upper and lower case letters and (2) Title page printed in capital letters only. First edition, first printing under Crane's name.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by... Read More
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Chess in Icelandic Literature with Historical Notes on other Table-Games
by Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904)
ix+400 pages with frontispiece, one illustration and diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 6-33) First edition.Also published in New York, Stechart, 1915. Includes an account of chess in Iceland (chapters: Polar chess, Chess in the sagas, The story of Frithiof) whence it came from England in the 12th century, and it developed peculiarities in rule and nomenclature which existed until the 19th century. Only part... Read More
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Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary among the Indians of Ohio
by David Zeisberger (1721-1808)
2 volumes [xxii]+464 pages; [iv]+535 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and double blind-stamped ruled edge to cover. Published by Robert Clarke & Co for the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Translated from the original German manuscript and edited by Eugene F Bliss. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt head end pages. [Howes Z5] First edition. David Zeisberger was a... Read More
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The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, By Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquerors. Written in the year 1568
by Dïaz del Castillo, Bernal (1492-1585)
viii+514 pages with frontispiece map. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 3/4") housed in a custom slipcase. Translated by Maurice Keatinge. First English edition. Bernal Dïaz del Castillo was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortes. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Cuba... Read More
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Kunst und Religion der Mayavölker
by Dieseldorff, Erwin Paul (1868-1940)
3 volumes: 234+[2 ad] pages with 53 plates; 44 pages with figures and 24 plates; 52 pages with 73 plates (one foldout) and bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in stiff boards with pictorial covers and dark brown lettering to spines and covers. First editions. Erwin Paul Dieseldorff was something of a renaissance man for the Alta Verapaz. Born in Hamburg, he emigrated to Guatemala at the age of twenty to join his uncle and cousin, who had established... Read More
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Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trade Center of the Gran Chichimeca
by DiPeso, Charles Corradino (1920-1982) etal
8 volumes. [iv]+287 pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, photographs, maps and notes. [288]-755 pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, photographs, maps, foldout map tipped in at back and notes. [756]-1104 pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography foldout map tipped in at back and index. xi+474 pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, tables, charts, photographs, maps, and three foldout maps and one fold out table loose in back pocket. viii+[475]+940 pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, tables, charts, photographs, maps, index... Read More
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The Irish Chess Chronicle
by Alfred S Peake (editor)
108 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4")bound in original stapled wrappers. Published fortnightly the first and fifteenth of the month. Volume 1, numbers 1 through 13. (Betts: 7-35) Not in Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana. First edition.Includes chess problems as well as chess news with a heavy emphases on chess in Ireland.Condition:Volume one front page professionally repaired else a very good set of a scarce chess periodical.
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Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten Schachzeitung Volume 1
by Bernhard Kagan (1866-1932) editor
382 pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5") in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 1 with out index, with supplement Das Problem-Heft Schach in Deutschland (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... Read More
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Moscow Chess Congress, Feb 14th-Mar 14th, 1935
by Edgar George R Cordingley (1915?-1962) editor
2 volumes. [5]+49 pages with table; [5]+49-99 with table and index. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 8") bound in stiff boards. Translations from the Russian Daily Chess Bulletin by Loyd Storr-Best. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 7, volumes 1 and 2, limited to 240 copes of which volume one is number 136 and volume two is number 80. (Betts: 25-112 and 25-113). Limited first editions. These were published in paper and cloth-cover editions. Volume one typescript, stenciled on rectos... Read More
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The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume X (10)
by Howard Staunton (1810-1874) editor
374+vi pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume X (10). (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841-56 and 1859-62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The... Read More
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The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume XII (12)
by Howard Staunton (1810-1874) editor
viii+376 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume XII (12). (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The... Read More
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The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume VIII (8)
by Howard Staunton (1810-1874) editor
422+[viii] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Title in red and green. Volume VIII. (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The earliest chess... Read More
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The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume V (5)
by Howard Staunton (1810-1874) editor
viii+376 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Title in red and green with published 1845 but published in 1844. Volume V. (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications... Read More
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The Chess Player's Chronicle Volume II (2)
by Howard Staunton (1810-1874) editor
432 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in period cloth with blind stamped covers with gilt insignia, and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Title in red and green. Volume II (2). (Betts: 7-1) First edition.The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902. The earliest chess magazine... Read More
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