Caissa, First Edition (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Slight lean, faint rubbing and toning. Photo on request. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages.

Condition: New. Agarit, Irene (illustrator). 2024. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

1st Edn. G,d/w. 167pp., 12 plates. An anthology including poetry, drama, fiction, history, proverbs, cartoons, paintings. (No games.) Presentation inscription from Peter H.Clarke, chess author and one of the leading English players of the 1960's.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 37 pages with diagrams. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's green wrappers with black lettering to front wrapper. C M Fox Fairy Series, number 5). (Betts: 39-20) First edition. Thomas Rayner Dawson was an incredibly active problemist: inventor of many fairy pieces (Grasshopper, Nightrider, etc) and conditions, composer of thousands of problems (fairy, directmates, selfmates, endings), founder-editor of "The Problemist" and of "The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement" which became "The Fairy Chess Review", writer of numerous books and problem collections. An inspection of his study and what he left behind helps us to realize the scale and scope of his non-professional activities, the great collection of thousands of classified fairy chess problems in twenty filing cabinets, six more of orthodox chess problems and mathematics, his own problems in fifteen loose leaf binders, a binder with a sheet for every FCR solver, recording solving scores; two further books of cross references by classification to all his chess problems and to the puzzles and problems of numerous types of which he had a large collection; five ms. quarto note books on pure geometry, in effect the solutions of over a thousand geometry problems, all beautifully set out: three large quarto ms. books, "Notes on the Theory of Numbers"; five volumes of chess problem "stories" from which Caissaâ's Fairy Tales appear to have been compiled Condition: Corners bumped, some sunning to edges, lightly soiled else a very good copy.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. Bueno/ Good.

Book Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Croydon: T.R.dawson, 1947. 1st Edition . Very Good. 40 pages stapled into a green card cover with black titling. 254X190mm portrait. Deals with Fairy Chess, unorthodox problems employing unorthodox rules of play. A strip of the covers somewhat faded, otherwise a very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 311 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume XIII (13) (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6451) First edition. Caissa: Revista Argentina de Ajedrez started in 1936 by Arnold Ellerman, one of the foremost problemists in South American and an international master. This periodical was one of the major South American journals to devote its self to chess world wide, but also focused on Latin American chess. It ran from from 1936 to 1955. Condition: Some foxing, pages aged toned, edge wear to wrappers with chipping and tears, heavy rubbing to hinges, spine and corners chipped, wrapper beginning to separate else a good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 276 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume XIV (14) (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6451) First edition. Caissa: Revista Argentina de Ajedrez started in 1936 by Arnold Ellerman, one of the foremost problemists in South American and an international master. This periodical was one of the major South American journals to devote its self to chess world wide, but also focused on Latin American chess. It ran from from 1936 to 1955. Condition: Some age toning to pages and foxing, edge wear to wrappers with some chips, heavy rubbing to hinges, some original wrappers bound in else about very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 317+[3 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") in original wrappers. Volume XII (12) (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6451) First edition. Caissa: Revista Argentina de Ajedrez started in 1936 by Arnold Ellerman, one of the foremost problemists in South American and an international master. This periodical was one of the major South American journals to devote its self to chess world wide, but also focused on Latin American chess. It ran from from 1936 to 1955. Condition: Some foxing, edge wear to wrappers, heavy rubbing to hinges, spine chipped, pages age toned else good to very good.

First Edition. Ownership indications to both title pages. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly cross-ruled in gilt. An uncommonly good set - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; 2 v. : front. ; (8vo). Other names; Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794. Philidor, F. D (Franc ois Danican), 1726-1795. Pratt, Peter, active 1799-1822. 2 Kg.

First Edition. Ownership indications to both title pages. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly cross-ruled in gilt. An uncommonly good set - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description; 2 v. : front. ; (8vo). Other names; Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794. Philidor, F. D (Franc ois Danican), 1726-1795. Pratt, Peter, active 1799-1822. 4 Kg.

THE CANARIS CONSPIRACY von Roger Manvell und Heinrich Fraenkel. William Heinemann Ltd. London, 1. Auflage 1969, ERSTAUSGABE / FIRST EDITION, 268 SS. gebunden (Hardcover Oln. 8°), mit Schutzumschlag, ordentlich erhalten - von beiden Autoren eigenhändig signiert, von Heinrich Fraenkel zudem noch mit einer eigenhändigen Widmung für HASSO VON ETZDORF (1900-89, deutscher Diplomat, Rittmeister im AA, anfangs im Widerstand) versehen, London April 69.