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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) £18.00603. 1984 USSR v The World. Keene, Goodman & Groser: Docklands Encounter.
Batsford/U.S.Chess Fed.1984. VG, d/w. 144pp. 40 games from the match plus photos (not in p/b edn) and profiles of the players. LIMITED EDITION, No.357/600, SIGNED BY RAY KEENE, including extra background information by John Groser. (A.) £25.00590. 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. 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. £160.003816. 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." £18.00715. Flear (G.): Grandmaster Chess.
Cadogan 1995. 1st. p/b. VG. 191pp. 41 annotated games of the best events of 1994, and comments on the key personalities. (A.) Signed by Flear on title-page. £14.00706. 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. £12.001122. HEIDENFELD (W.): Lacking the Master Touch.
South African Chessplayer, Cape Town, 1970. 1st Edn. G, d/w (faded on spine, corners torn). 115pp., portrait, 50 annotated games. Loosely inserted is a copy of a 3 page article by Heidenfeld in "The South African Chessplayer" with various corrections. A scarce work. "Immensely readable and stimulating" (d/w.) Signed presentation from Heidenfeld on endpaper. £40.00110. Littlewood (J.): How to Play the Middle Game in Chess.
Batsford 1983. 2nd Edn (corrected). p/b. VG. 192pp. “Thought-provoking, instructive and entertaining.” (J.Grefe.) Signed by Littlewood on title-page. £10.001532. Pritchard (D.B.): The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants.
1994. Imitation blue leather, F, 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. (Also: standard edition, blue cloth, VG,d/w. £20.00) £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. £9.00909. SPASSKY. Cafferty (B.): Spassky's 100 Best Games.
Batsford 1972. 1st Edn. Inner hinges weak o/w G, d/w. 255pp., biography, 100 annotated games. (Another copy: G,d/w, Inscribed by Bernard Cafferty. £12.00) £9.002878. Wade (R.G.): Playing Chess. Based on the ATV Series 'Checkmate'.
Batsford / TVTimes, 1974. Oblong p/b. Stain to edge of title-page o/w G. 96pp. General primer, plus some famous annotated games and interesting photos. (A.) Signed by Wade on title-page. £12.00