Books on Chess And Related Games
Arranged alphabetically by author.


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  • Horowitz, I. A., and Jack Straley Battell:  Chess Tactics for Beginners.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965. First Edition, First printing. Very good- in black cloth covered boards with white text on the spine and red chess pieces on the front board and one on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and light dust staining to the top edge of the text block. Without its issued dust jacket. 412 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with diagrams.
    TB23556  $10.00



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    Liddell, Donald M.:  Chessmen.  New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Stated First Edition. Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with the cloth on the boards slightly faded. Without its issued dust jacket. Written with the collaboration of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer and J. Maunoury. 171 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with several sections of black and white photographs.
    TB23547  $150.00



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    Marshall, Frank J.:  Marshall's Chess Swindles Comprising Over One Hundred and Twenty-Five Of His Best Tournament and Match Games At Chess.  New York: The American Chess Bulletin, 1914. . Poor in its original dark red, ribbed, cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the front board. An octavo o 8 3/4 by 6 inches with the text block dis-bound from the boards as a result of the front and rear hinges broken and with the signed, first free end page, frontispiece and title page loose from its binding. The remainder of the pages are tight and clean. This copy is signed and inscribed on the first free end page by the author as follows: "Attleboro, Mass.| Jan 12th, 1923 | To | Dr. J. L. McCarthy | For his fine game | this evening against | Frank J. Marshall | author." 130 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece with portraits from photographs of four chess masters of the time and a few game board images. A good candidate for repair and re-backing.
    TB32295  $350.00




  • Reinfeld, Fred:  The Way To Better Chess.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed and a prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 229 pages of text. Illustrated with 119 diagrams.
    TB23548  $10.00



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    Sullivan, M. W.:  A Programmed Introduction to The Game of Chess.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963. . Very good+ in 1/2 gray and red paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/4" by by 7 3/4" with the paper on the spine slightly faded. Without its issued dust jacket. 206 pages of text with recto pages printed normally while verso pages are inverted. This is not a binding error, this was intentional so that the reader could learn the game of chess in by answering the questions without seeing the answers which are to be covered with a slip of paper on the right edge of the book. Illustrated with chess board diagrams throughout.
    TB23546  $30.00






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