3846. --- BIBLIOGRAPHIES (BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS OR LISTING BOOKS ON CHESS.): ***** THIS SECTION UPDATED 20 DEC 11 *****
RETURN TO HOME PAGE Tony Peterson, 11 Westbury Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS2 4DW, UK. Tel: 01702 462757. email: tony@chessbooks.co.uk £0.004618. ----: My previous printed chess book catalogues:
- I have a very small number of the following printed catalogues available at £1.00 each: 63,61,60 antiquarian supplement, 58,57,55,54,53,52,51,50,49,48,47,46, 45,44,43,42,41,40,39,38,37,36,35. £0.004660. ---- JUST PUBLISHED: John van Manen: The Chess Literature of Australia and New Zealand. 4th Edition Updated to June 2009 by Bob Meadley and Paul Dunn.
Academic Mind, Belgrade 2011. New hardback. 242 pages, coloured illustrations. Includes 524 Australian Items and 72 NZ Items, newspapers and chess columns, tribute to John Van Manen, Bob Meadley's Chess Library. A high quality production. £22.004669. ---- JUST PUBLISHED: Serruys (H.) & G.van Habberney: Belgian Chess Publications: An Annotated Bibliography.
2011. New p/b. 157pp. Coloured illustrations of book covers and title-pages. Full collations of all books and magazines plus profiles of Belgian chess personalities. £25.004620. ---- RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Drajic (D.): An Overview of Yugoslavian Chess Literature. (An Annotated Bibliography). III. Period 1968-1979.
Belgrade 2011. Hardback. 156pp. First 75 pages are in English, with introduction, some additions to the second volume, details of books, periodicals, bulletins, programmes and games collections, index. The remaining part is in Serbian. Limited to 200 copies. (I also have a copy badly split along the top joint, internally ok, £5.00) £16.004108. .: Book & Magazine Collector. No.109.
April 1993. Magazine. VG. 164pp. Includes an article "Early Chess Books" from Cessolis to Stamma by Rupert Neelands, 10pp., with illustrations, bibliography, and guide to values (in 1993). £6.004436. .: Book & Magazine Collector. No.116.
November 1993. Magazine, VG. 164pp. Includes article on chess "Chess Books from Philidor to Staunton" by Rupert Neelands, 12pp in all, with illustrations, bibliography, and guide to values (in 1993). £8.002949. Betts (D.A.): Chess. An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968.
Facsimile reprint of 1974 edition, Moravian Chess, Czech Rep.2005. Thick heavy hardback bound in red cloth. pp xix, 659. Divided in subject areas, each entry with collation and often notes, and large index by author and title. The most important work of its kind for this period. The original edition and the Chess Player reprint are both very scarce and expensive. £34.002940. Bloomsbury Auctions: Books and Prints on Sports, Pastimes, Food & Wine including Books on Chess (lots 1-156.)
24 July 2003. Sale catalogue. 46pp., 391 lots with estimates and price list. Includes a fine collection of famous chess books from the 16th to 19th centuries, with descriptions, some illustrated. Also includes sections of books on food & wine, angling, cricket and other sports. £15.003631. Bloomsbury Auctions: Catalogue of (Books on) Natural History, Travel & Topography, Sports & Pastimes.
5 July 2007. Sale catalogue. 136pp., 622 lots, many illustrated in colour. Includes many fine books on natural history and 80 lots of angling books. A nice catalogue. £12.002988. Bloomsbury Auctions: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games including Remaining Chess Sets from the Ernst Boehlen Collection.
14 Apr.2005. Sale catalogue. VG. 54pp., 255 lots with estimates and price list. Includes some books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated throughout in colour. £18.003890. Bloomsbury Auctions: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games, including Major Chess Sets from a Private Collection.
18 May 2006. Sale catalogue. 57pp., 163 lots with estimates and price list. Includes 45 lots of mainly antiquarian books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated throughout in colour. A nice catalogue. £15.004250. Bloomsbury Auctions: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games.
23 Oct 2006. Sale catalogue. 91pp., 285 lots with estimates and price list. Includes 46 lots of mainly antiquarian books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated throughout in colour. A nice catalogue. £18.003366. Bloomsbury Auctions: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games.
3 Nov.2005. Sale catalogue. 85pp., 300 lots with estimates and price list. Includes 97 lots of mainly antiquarian books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated throughout in colour. A nice catalogue. Prices handwritten against many lots. £15.003578. Bloomsbury Auctions Collectors Sale: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games. Lots 1-217. Medals, Shares, Banknotes & Coins Lots 218-1034.
30 May 2007. Large sale catalogue. VG. 175pp., with lot descriptions, estimates and price list. Includes 47 lots of mainly antiquarian books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated in colour. A nice catalogue. £15.003724. Bloomsbury Auctions Collectors Sale: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games. Lots 233 to 469. (Also includes Fountain Pens, Medals, Shares, Banknotes & Coins to Lot 1007.)
25 Sept 2007. Large sale catalogue. VG. 141pp., with lot descriptions, estimates and price list. Includes 32 lots of mainly antiquarian books, memorabilia, a few pictures and prints, and many chess sets illustrated in colour. A nice catalogue. £15.003873. Bonhams Knightsbridge Auction: Fine Chess Sets and Games.
13 May 2008. Large sale catalogue. 106pp., with lot descriptions, estimates and price list. Includes 28 lots of books, and many chess sets illustrated throughout in colour. A nice catalogue. £18.001304. Christie's Auctioneers: Early Chess Literature from the Celebrated Library of the late Dr.Robert Blass of Zurich.
8th May 1992. Sale catalogue, large p/b, cover corner creases o/w G. 62pp., many illustrations, 208 lots with estimates and price list. Includes medieval manuscripts and many of the most famous early chess books. One of the finest auctions of antiquarian chess books ever held in Britain. £30.003874. Cooper Owen Auction Gallery: Fine Chess Sets and Traditional Games, including the Robert Waters Collection..
London, 4 Nov 2002. Sale catalogue. 61pp., with lot descriptions, estimates and price list. Includes 24 lots of books, and many chess sets illustrated in colour or black & white. £20.003859. DeLucia (David): David DeLucia Chess Library.
Self-published, NY, USA 1990. 1st Edn. 4to, p/b. F. iii,71pp. Interesting foreword on how the author built up his collection and some of the highlights, followed by over 3000 catalogued items with collations, arranged in categories, ending with letters, autographs, manuscripts, ephemera etc. One of the finest collections in private hands including numerous early books. Limited Edition of 250 copies. £25.004189. DeLucia (David): David DeLucia’s Chess Library. A Few Old Friends.
USA,2007. 4to (22 x 28cm), blue cloth. Printed on high-quality shiny paper, 394pp, every page illustrated in black & white or colour (750 in all). The books include collation, notes and value at 2007. Details highlights from DeLucia’s library, including autographs & ephemera. A superb book and of great interest to anyone who likes antiquarian and rare chess books. Limited to 225 copies, signed with compliments of the author. (Greatly enlarged from the 2003 first edition which had 236 pages.) £250.004168. DeLucia (David): The David DeLucia Chess Library. Vol.1 Books & Periodicals. Vol.2 Autographs, Letters & Ephemera.
Self-published, Darien, USA 2009. 2 volumes, comb-bindings with card covers. Vol.1 catalogues well over 3000 books with collations and occasional comments, arranged in various categories. 177 pages. Vol.2 lists c.6000 autographic items and c.2500 ephemera items arranged alphabetically. 111 pages. The book section has been enlarged since the 1997 catalogue, while in Vol.2 the greater portion has never been published before. One of the finest collections of chess books in the world including numerous early books, and probably the best regarding the autograph, manuscripts and ephemera. £45.004374. Di Felice (G.): Chess Periodicals. An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008.
McFarland, US 2010. Large p/b. 349pp. A comprehensive reference work containing 3163 entries and many cross-references. Information for each entry includes year and country of publication, frequency, publisher, editors, subject, language, alternate titles, holdings in chess libraries. Part 1 is Magazines, Bulletins, Newsletters; Part 2 Miscellaneous Publications such as Yearbooks, Handbooks, Almanacs, Calendars, Directories etc. Includes general index of periodical titles and index by country. £35.004357. Drajic (D.): An Overview of Yugoslavian Chess Literature. (An Annotated Bibliography). I. Period 1886-1952.
Belgrade 2010. Hardback. 105pp. First 48 pages are in English, with introduction, summary of chess literature classification, sources, pre-war books and periodicals, Yugoslavian chess literature 1946-1952, index. The remaining part is in Serbian. Limited to 300 copies. £16.004495. Drajic (D.): An Overview of Yugoslavian Chess Literature. (An Annotated Bibliography). II. Period 1953-1967.
Belgrade 2011. Hardback. 120pp. First 56 pages are in English, with introduction, some additions to the first volume, details of books, periodicals, bulletins, programmes and games collections, index. The remaining part is in Serbian. Limited to 300 copies. £15.002939. Dunne (A.): Great Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English.
McFarland, US 2005. New p/b. 208pp. An objective look at the best chess books of the 20th Century, including bibliographical details, description and author information, and reasons for the books importance. Includes one or two books for most years 1901-2000. £24.002685. Hagedorn (R.K.): Benjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America. A Review of the Literature.
University of Philadelphia Press, 1958. 1st Edn. Paper somewhat yellowed as usual o/w VG,d/w. pp92, plates. Details 60 works printed in America from 1802 to 1859, Franklin's "Morals of Chess", with commentary and essay on Franklin. A scarce and useful reference work. £50.004617. Klittich auctioneers: 59. Auktion. 23+25 June 2011.
Antiquariat A.Klittich-Pfankuch. Braunschweig, Germany. Thick catalogue. 274pp. 1520 lots. Lots 514 to 1520 concern chess books, plus a few photos and autographs. Includes collations and descriptions in German and copy of results list. £10.001309. Kruijswijk (K.W.) Compiler: Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana aucta et de novo descripta. A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague. Vol.1 Chess: Bibliography & History.
ALL PUBLISHED. 1974. 4to, black cloth. VG. 150pp, 8 plates, copy of corrections leaf, 1300 annotated entries. £45.003972. Lasa (T.H. von der): Erneutes Verzeichniss meiner Sammlung von Schriften uber das Schachspiel.
Wiesbaden 1896. (Facsimile reprint by Moravian Chess, Czech Rep.2008). New hardback. 208pp. A catalogue of over 3300 chess books in Lasa's collection, arranged alphabetically, some entries with notes. Only 100 copies of the original book were published. £25.004519. Lasa (von der): The Catalogue of von der Lasa's Collection of Chess Books Published in Wiesbaden in 1887. A reprint with an English Translation of v.d.Lasa's Preface by Robert Sherwood.
Caissa Editions, US 2011. Quarto p/b, spiral bound. 6 page preface, 168 page facsimile of the German catalogue, printed two pages to a sheet. Includes over 3000 books arranged alphabetically. The original title "Verzeichniss meiner Sammlung von Schriften uber das Schachspiel" was limited to 75 copies. I am told 50 copies of this new reprint have been made. £25.00633. Linde (A. van der): Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana. A Catalogue of the Chess Collections in the Royal Library The Hague.
1988 facsimile of 1955 work. Limited Edition of 750 copies. VG. 342pp. Lists some 6500 items published up to 1953/54, divided into subjects, plus index. £30.00203. Linde (A. van der): Das Erste Jartausend der Schachlitteratur (850-1880).
Caissa,USA,1979. Facsimile Reprint Limited to 700 numbered copies. 112,(4)pp. F. Includes most of the chess publications known of until its publication in 1880, arranged alphabetically by author.. £30.003144. Phillips Auctioneers: Chess & The Library of Kevin O'Connell.
7 Nov 2000. Sale catalogue, VG. 58pp., many illustrations, 333 lots with estimates and price list. The first 130 lots comprise the O'Connell collection of mainly books, the remaining lots mainly chess sets and memorabilia. £24.001301. Phillips Auctioneers: The Important Library of Chess Books of the Late Richard John Ford.
3 Oct.1985. Sale catalogue, VG. 29pp., 4 plates, 357 lots with estimates and price list. Many lots comprised multiple volumes and the total library was over 2000 volumes. It was the largest auction of chess books in England since the famous Rimington-Wilson auction in 1928. £25.00299. Quaritch (Bernard, Ltd., Bookseller): A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Works Relating to the History and Theory of the Game of Chess, being the Greater Portion of the Famous Library Formed by J.W.Rimington-Wilson, and Maintained and Added to by his son R.H.Rimington-Wilson.
Bernard Quaritch, Cat.No.428. 1929. (Facsimile reprint.) 4to, spiral bound with plain card covers, VG. 96 pages printed single-sided, listing 1657 lots, with notes and prices. The original catalogue is very scarce and expensive. £50.001746. Sanvito (A.): Bibliografia Italiana degli Scacchi. Dalle Origini al 1999.
Milan, 1999. (New Revised Edn.) F, d/w. 229pp., illustrations of title-pages from old works. A bibliography of chess books in Italian, or published in Italy, up to 1999, with 1420 items, with collations and notes. Arranged by subjects, with author index. £30.004527. Schmidt (L.C.): Dansk Skakkatalog.
Kobenhavn 1973. p/b. VG. 183pp. 1116 items of Danish chess literature from 1230 to 1973 arranged in many categories, with indices of author, title, and subjects, a few articles, all in Danish. Limited to 300 copies. £35.004115. Stere (M.): Romania - A Bibliography of Chess.
Gambit, Bucuresti 2009. New hardback, illustrated covers. 301pp printed on quality shiny paper. Around 800 entries, of which 663 numbered (613 being distinct items). Front covers of most of the books and magazines are shown in colour. A comprehensive bibliography, covering all the Romanian chess books, magazines, regulations, tournament bulletins ever published, and most of the titles from literature and philately domain. Limited to 222 copies, each numbered and signed by the author. £60.003505. van Manen (John): The Chess Literature of Australia and New Zealand. An Annotated Bibliography. WITH: Supplement & Second Supplement.
Self-published, Sydney 1978 (+ 1983,1989). 3 vols p/b. G. pp 51, 16, 16. A historical review of Australian chess literature is followed by 121 numbered entries for Australia (from 1868) arranged chronologically within various categories, and 35 for New Zealand (from 1887), plus index. The Supplements extend the entries to 253 Australia and 44 NZ. £12.003163. Whyld (K.): Chess Christmas.
Moravian Chess, 2006. New hardback. 475pp. The book contains 17 articles by the late Ken Whyld, produced between 1985 and 2002 and sent by Ken to his friends as Christmas cards. The articles range from 7 to 60 pages long and are devoted to various themes from chess history. They include: The Story of Chess; Biobibliography List; Blackburnes Matches 1887, Letters on the History and Literature of Chess; Development of the Chess Problem; The Beginning of Modern Chess; The Chess Board; Cafe de la Regence; The Worst Chess Book in the World; A la recherche du temps perdu; Lasker the Composer; According to Hoyle; Cordingleys Cuts; Chess Texts in the English Language before 1850; Address to the Automaton Chess Player; The Meeting of the B.C.A. at Cambridge 1860; Chess in Literature. £30.002164. Whyld (K.) & C.Ravilious: Chess Texts in the English Language, Printed before 1850. An Annotated Bibliography.
Moravian, Czech Rep. 2003. Black cloth, gilt lettered. 189pp. Introduction, chronological listing with collation and notes, listing of newspapers and journals, index. £32.00