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Home page: www.chessbooks.co.uk Tony Peterson, 11 Westbury Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS2 4DW, UK. Tel: 01702 462757. email: tony@chessbooks.co.uk £0.001861. 1950 DUBROVNIK.: IX Olympiade. (Bulletins 1-15, plus 5 extra.)
Dubrovnik, 1950. 20 issues, stapled, one issue provided in photocopy. G. 163pp in all, 480 games. LN 5801. 1.Yugoslavia 2.Argentina 3.W.Germany. (Another copy: p/b, original covers, corners and spine worn with loss, SIGNED ON FRONT COVER BY S.GLIGORIC. £30.00) £18.00590. ALEXANDER (C.H.O'D.) SPECIAL SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Golombek (H.) & B.Hartston: The Best Games of C.H.O'D. Alexander. With a Memoir by Sir S.Milner-Barry.
Oxford Univ.Press 1976. 1st Edn. VG,d/w (a little bumping to edges). Oblong 4to. 167pp printed on green paper, 4pp photos. 70 annotated games. "Special Tournament Edition" Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by all 16 players in the Alexander Memorial Tournament, Teeside, Sept.1975 - Bronstein, Geller, Gheorghiu, Golombek, Hartston, Hort, Hubner, Kavalek, Keene, Lombardy, Miles, Olafsson, Sax, Smyslov, Stean, Timman. £130.003816. Barden (L.): A Guide to Chess Openings.
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. 1st Edn. VG,d/w (wear to spine). 238pp. Inscribed on endpaper "With best wishes to my good friend Martin Blaine. Leonard Barden." £18.001484. Bisguier (A.) & A.Soltis: American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer.
MacMillan, NY 1974. 1st Edn. G, d/w (little frayed at edges.) 291pp., photos, biographies, around 100 annotated games. SIGNED BY GM A.BISGUIER on front endpaper. £25.003627. GLIGORIC (S.): Igrayu protiv figur. (Games collection in Russian.)
Moscow 1983. 1st Edn. VG. 240pp., illus, playing record, 105 annotated games from 1939 to 1981. Signed presentation from Gligoric in English dated 1988 on title-page. £35.00706. Griffith & Sergeant:: Modern Chess Openings.
Pitman 1946. 7th Edn Completely Revised by W.Korn. Joints partly split on cloth o/w G. 390pp. Signed by Elaine Saunders, 1947, 4-time British Woman Champion. £12.00871. Konig (I.): Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik. A Century of Chess Evolution.
Bell 1951. 1st Edn. Outer edge of covers waterstained o/w G. 202pp. 107 annotated games arranged by openings. Signed presentation copy from Konig. (Another copy, unsigned, VG £12.00) £24.00447. Mason (J.): The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice.
Field & Queen, n.d.(1915). 5th Edition Revised, with the Addition of a Number of Brilliant Games from Recent Tournaments, Matches &c., Selected & Annotated by Amos Burn. Original maroon cloth, gilt, small splits to lower joint o/w G. Portrait, pp viii,330. Signed on endpaper by G.E.H.Bellingham, who has also handwritten in pencil on rear endpapers two of his games both against Gunston, which won Brilliancy Prizes at tournaments in Southampton 1897 and Craigside 1898. Bellingham was a strong British player who came 4th in the first two BCF Championships of 1904-05. £25.00573. Nunn (J.): Tactical Chess Endings.
Batsford 1988. 1st p/b Edn. G. 208pp. Around 134 endings mostly from actual games, grouped by themes. (Also: 1st Edn. Allen & Unwin, 1981. VG,d/w. 204pp. Signed by John Nunn. £15.00) £8.001532. Pritchard (D.B.): The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants.
1994. As new in d/w. xix, 364pp. A compilation of board and table games related to, derived from or inspired by chess. DE LUXE EDITION, Limited to 150 copies numbered and signed by the author. £30.003626. Soltis (A.): White Opening System with 1 P-Q4.
Chess Digest 1974. p/b, covers marked o/w G. 72pp. Signed by Andy Soltis on title-page. £9.001454. YATES (F.D.): 101 of My Best Games of Chess. A Posthumous Work Arranged and Completed by W.Winter. Edited by W.H.Watts.
Printing-Craft 1934. 1st Edn. Spine faded as usual, and small piece torn from top. Without portrait, 182pp. Includes biography, tournament record and appreciations by Em.Lasker, Marshall and others. Scarce and sought-after. Inscribed on endpaper: "To P S Milner-Barry with best wishes. W.Winter. Dec 31st 1934." £40.00