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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 112 pages with tables and indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 10 1/2") type script spiral bound in original publisher's stiff boards. (Betts: 29-63) First edition. Emanuel Lasker was Chess Champion of the World for 27 years. He won the title in 1894 at the age of 25 in a match against Seinitz, who was then 57 and had been champion since 1866. Lasker also won a return match against Steinitz in 1896, and held the title until beaten in a match in 1921 by Capablanca, then 32. Volume I contains 283 games played in the period 1894/1921; tow, however, do not count for the record, and are not numbered, Marco-Lasker and Chigorin-Lasker, Paris 1900. The rule in that tournament was that a drawn game had to be replayed. There are no notes to the games, as this record is intended to be purely factual. The reader is referred to the books and magazines of the period. The date of publication is in disagreement with Betts who has it dated 1956. The stated date to the title is November, 1955. Condition: Heavy foxing through out, corners gently bumped, some sunning to board edges else a good to very good copy.…

Large format, slide binder, plastic cover, VG. 40pp. Limited Edition of 40 numbered copies. A series of weekly articles first published in the "Pittsburg Leader". The checker editor comments that this "is the first complete and comprehensive history of draughts ever printed." Checkers is of course the American name for draughts.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 4th Edition. ix+242 pages with frontispiece, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in stiff pictorial boards. Foreword by Ralph Binnewirtz and Michael Negele. Updated with additions by Bob Meadley and Paul Dunn. Fourth edition, limited to 250 copies. The fourth edition brings the bibliography up to June 2009. The authors searched through most of the newspaper chess columns in Australia and New Zealand to try and bring forward as much detail on chess as possible. Numbers around brackets at the end of each item are the item number the three booklets published between 1978 and 1989 by van Manen. Numbers in the square brackets are the item number in the third edition. With the advent of digital publications and the World Wide Web, there is now a blurring of the definition of literature. In this book, the authors treated videos, DVDs, Cd-Roms and digital publications in the same way as traditional printed literature. The index includes publication titles, and authors, but newspaper titles are not included as they appear in alphabetical order in Part 3. Condition: A fine copy. …