3846. ---- BIBLIOGRAPHIES (BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS OR LISTING BOOKS ON CHESS.): ***** THIS SECTION UPDATED 21 MAR 08 *****
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 £0.003845. .: Book & Magazine Collector. No.109 & 116.
April & November 1993. 2 magazines, wear to one spine o/w G. 164pp each. Includes two articles on chess by Rupert Neelands, 22pp in all, with illustrations, bibliography, and guide to values (in 1993). Comprises "Early Chess Books" from Cessolis to Stamma, and "Chess Books from Philidor to Staunton. 1749-1875)." £10.002949. 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. £30.002940. 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 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. £12.003578. 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. 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. 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. £15.003190. Chamonal (Francois & Rudolphe, Libraires): Jeux et Sports. Livres Anciens.
Paris, 1990. Bookseller's catalogue, oblong format (25 x 20cm) p/b, coloured pictorial covers, VG. 50pp., illustrated. Lists 226 antiquarian books with descriptions and prices, on sports and pastimes, including many chess. £25.002939. 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. £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 G,d/w (slightly torn on edges). 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. £45.002565. Hauswedell & Nolte auctioneers: Auktion 314. Schachliteratur aus Funf Jahrhunderten.
Hamburg, 24 Nov.1995. A4 size photocopy. 88 loose pages. 720 lots, fully described, sometimes with extra notes, including many antiquarian, tournaments etc. The copy quality is poor with darker shading to lower half of pages although still readable. Prices for those sold written in red pen at side. One of the most important chess book auctions in the last 25 years. £14.001482. Kieler Schachkatalog 2000.: Katalog der Schachbibliotheken W.Massmann und G.Meyer in der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesbibliothek, Kiel. Bearbeitet von Horst Luders und Christine Mohle.
Kiel & Gottingen, 2000. Royal 8vo, red cloth, gilt. pp xviii,603,(2). In all 8360 entries, with collations, divided into various subjects, and large author, title, place, name and subject indexes. This catalogue contains books up to the 1990's, whereas the Linde-Niemeijeriana catalogue only goes to 1954. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES. £48.001309. 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. £45.00633. 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. F. 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.. £30.003504. Mokry (K.): Ceska Sachova Literatura 1806-1945. (Czech Chess Literature 1806-1945. An annotated bibliography of chess literature in Czech language published before 1946.)
Self-published, Prostejov 2006. Hardback green cloth. xxii,170pp. The description contains 441 entries, of which 229 are books, 32 magazines and 180 chess columns in non-chess periodicals. Detailed index at the end. The book is in Czech language but includes a small Czech-English vocabulary with c.100 most frequent terms and also the complete introduction appears simultaneously in Czech and English (8 pages). Edition Limited to 100 numbered & signed copies. £49.003378. Olson (C.): The Chess Kings. History, Politics, and the Fine Art of Mythmaking in Chess. Volume 1.
Trafford Pub, Canada 2006. New large p/b. 319pp. A very well researched history of chess, with the emphasis on 19th century up to 1939. Included are very useful appendixes on world champions, team events, major tournaments to 1940, chess & psychology, and a large annotated bibliography. Also there are 31 annotated games mainly from world championship matches. (A.) £20.003465. Rumball-Petre (E.A.R.): Rare Bibles. An Introduction for Collectors and a Descriptive Checklist.
Duschnes, New York 1963. 2nd Edn., revised & reprinted. VG. 54pp. Lists 378 bibles with notes. £15.001746. 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. £30.003114. Sanvito (A.): Lineamenti di una Bibliografia Italiana degli Scacchi 1987-1996.
Roma, 1997. p/b. F. 63pp. A supplement to the 1987 bibliography by Chicco & Sanvito, with additions and publications published in Italy from 1987 to 1996, arranged alphabetically by author. 393 entries. £7.003505. 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 (main work original, other two are copies.) VG. 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. £28.003163. 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