Chess.- An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess..., new edition, publisher's catalogues at front and back, lacking plate, a few ff. pencil annotations, doodles to pastedowns, staining, spotting and offsetting throughout, contents separating, Philadelphia, 1817 § Tylor (Louis) Chess: A Christmas Masque, first edition, title in red and black, 1888 § Bachmann (Ludwig) Pillsbury und Charousek..., plates, illustrations, Ansbach, 1914 § Bibliotheca van der Linde - Niemeijeriana, A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague, The Hague, 1955 § Betts (Douglas A.) Chess: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968, Boston, 1974, first original paper-backed boards, second and last original cloth, third original gilt vellum, yapp edges, fourth original wrappers, first and third edges uncut, first spine broken and boards loose, each stained and/or marked, first and third rubbed; and a small quantity of others, 8vo & 4to (sm.qty.) ⁂ The first contains Benjamin Franklin's entertaining essay 'The Morals of Chess'. Reuben Fine wrote of the tragic Charousek : "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled." Literature: Fine (Reuben) The World's Greatest Chess Games, New York, 1976, p103.
Chess.- An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess..., new edition, publisher's catalogues at front and back, lacking plate, a few ff. pencil annotations, doodles to pastedowns, staining, spotting and offsetting throughout, contents separating, Philadelphia, 1817 § Tylor (Louis) Chess: A Christmas Masque, first edition, title in red and black, 1888 § Bachmann (Ludwig) Pillsbury und Charousek..., plates, illustrations, Ansbach, 1914 § Bibliotheca van der Linde - Niemeijeriana, A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague, The Hague, 1955 § Betts (Douglas A.) Chess: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968, Boston, 1974, first original paper-backed boards, second and last original cloth, third original gilt vellum, yapp edges, fourth original wrappers, first and third edges uncut, first spine broken and boards loose, each stained and/or marked, first and third rubbed; and a small quantity of others, 8vo & 4to (sm.qty.) ⁂ The first contains Benjamin Franklin's entertaining essay 'The Morals of Chess'. Reuben Fine wrote of the tragic Charousek : "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled." Literature: Fine (Reuben) The World's Greatest Chess Games, New York, 1976, p103.
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