Chess by Alexander: Signed (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No DJ. First Edition. This is a near fine, unmarked, hardcover first edition copy, brown cloth binding, no DJ. Flat signed by the author on the half-title page. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Near Fine octavo vii + 143pp., text ills., Stamped & signed by Chess editor of the Bulletin o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 273, [3]pp. publishers ads. Illustrated. Original printed boards, some wear to spine, some toning to boards, stamp of Klug on front board and pastedowns.This copy inscribed in 1928 by noted Seattle historian Clarence Bagley, and then President of the Seattle Chess Club, to V. Childs Klug in recognition of him winning the Seattle club championship in 1928. A great local slant to monumental chess tournament held in New York in 1924.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxii+291 pages with frontispiece, tables, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") Privately bound in blue artificial leather with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped edge ruled. Facsimile jacket from Printing Craft edition. (Betts: 34-234) Signed by J.R. Capablanca, M. Botvinnik. Dr. Alekhine, W. Winter, G.A. Thomas, M. Euwe, and E. Bogoljubow  on paper slip laid in. Round by round commentary by A J Mackenzie. First edition. Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time.Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen". It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik)! A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) one of only five tournaments in history that had the top eight players in the world playing, and was (in terms of the leading players playing) the third strongest in history. All of the top twelve players on Chessmetrics' August 1936 rating list competed in the tournament except for numbers nine and ten (Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres). The event is also notable for being Lasker's last major event, and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union. In parallel with the main tournament, the venue also played host to the 1936 British Women's Championship. The event was won by Edith Holloway (1868-1956), age sixty-eight and a former winner in 1919. David DeLucia's chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, manuscripts), and about 1,000 items of "ephemera". DeLucia's library contains such items as "a 15th-century Lucena manuscript, score-sheets ranging from Fischer's Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by Morphy, over a hundred Lasker manuscripts, Capablanca's gold pocket watch, [and] the contract of the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match". Condition: David DeLucia's book plate and Reginald George Hennessey Chess Library plate to front paste down. Points lightly rubbed. Signature leaf laid in else a very good copy. Signature leaf signed at the tournament and married to the book after publication. Leaf in fair condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 68+[4 ad] pages with photographs of each of the players, diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with blind stamped ruled edges in original jacket. Annotations by A Alekhine. An account of the tournament by G A Thomas. (Betts: 25-65; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5344) Autographed envelop by Alekhine laid in. First edition. In September of 1922, the organizers of the Hastings chess congress decided to hold a masters tournament which would pit two English masters against four of the best from the European continent. The participants of the double round robin were Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Akiba Rubinstein, Siegbert Tarrasch, George Alan Thomas, and Frederick Yates. Alekhine managed to edge out superstar Rubinstein by half a point in the final, winning his most famous game ever against long time rival Bogoljubov, whereas Rubinstein struggled for over a hundred moves against Thomas only to come up short at the end. The 30 games are fully annotated by Alekhine, with some notes from The Field column added. A distant third and fourth was a tie, Bogoljubow and Thomas with 4 1/2 points. Fifth was the aging Tarrasch with 4 and Yates sixth with 2 1/2. Condition: Jacket with edge wear, small tears and chips else a better than very good copy in like scarce jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 7 page Program booklet Octavo (8" x 5") bound in original publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers. With With 12 autograph signatures of Soviet chess masters on the inside cover, including former world champion Mikhail Tal (1936 1992) and grandmasters Yuri Averbakh (1922 2022), David Bronstein (1924 2006), Salo Flohr (1908 1983), Paul Keres (1916 1975), Alexander Kotov (1913 1981), and Andor Lilienthal (1911 2010). Lev Polugaevsky (1934 1995), Alexei Suetin (1926 2001), Mark Taimanov (1926 2016), Yevgeny Vasyukov (1933 2018). The 1966 World Chess Championship was played from April 9 to June 9, 1966. Tigran Petrosian successfully defended his title against Boris Spassky, winning the match with a final score of 12.5 - 11.5 after 22 games. The match was planned for 24 games, but Petrosian secured victory before all games were played. Petrosian's victory was notable as he was the first world champion in 32 years to win a title defense. Spassky, who was considered the favorite going into the match, qualified by defeating other strong players like Keres, Geller, and Tal in the Candidates matches. The match was characterized by contrasting styles: Petrosian's strong defensive technique against Spassky's more aggressive and versatile play. The tenth game of the match is particularly renowned for its strategic ideas and tactical finish. Condition: Edge wear, damp staining to front wrapper else about very good. Signed by Author(s).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three of the thirteen original hand written score sheets in Aleksandrov's hand in Russian chess-notation. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") Signed by him and his three opponents Tenis Melngailis, Reinholds Balinsh and Igor Zhadanov. Fricis Aspenieks (1894-1941) was Latvia's chess champion in 1926 and 1934 and one of the strongest players in Latvia before WWII. He died from tuberculosis in 1941. The Memorial Tournament was held in Riga from December 10 through the 26th. Aleksandrov won with a score of 11 of 13, distantly followed by V Mezhgailis with 8 1/2; Tied for third through fifth was M Beilin, G Bezruchko and T Melngailis with a score of 7 points. J Kruzkop was clear sixth with 6 1/2. R Balinish was a half point behind and took seventh. Tied for eighth and ninth were M Zvirbulis and I Zhdanov with 5 each. Z Solmainis took tenth with 4 1/2. Eleventh and twelfth were I Blek and M Robs with 4. A Paklas with a score of 2 1/2 was last. A Bushkov withdrew and his score was not counted even though he and lost one, won one and equal two before withdrawing. Aleksandrov won both of these games with Melngails a French Defense, playing white; and with Zhdanov the Spanish playing black. He won against Reinholds Balinsh with white. Condition: Some edge wear with corners creased, some age toning else a very good set. Signed by Author(s).…