Newspaper Clippings From a Weekly 1866 Chess Column Concerning Chess Games and News
Language: English
Published by 1866
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Sandhill Books, Spring Green, WI, U.S.A.Sandhill Books
AbeBooks seller since June 17, 2022
Condition: Used - Fair
£ 83.37
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Black leather with gilt title and decoration, raised bands on the spine, 10 in tall, sewn binding. A scrapbook of 14 weekly chess columns pasted on 34 pages, 18 blank leaves. The chess columns were published in 1866 in the New York Leader, a weekly literary newspaper, and were probably written and annotated by Charles H. Stanley, although the columns show no attribrution. The 51 annotated chess games reported in the newspaper clippings include the 5 games of the 1866 match for the championship of the United States between G. H. Mackenzie of the New York Chess Club and G. Reichhelm of the Philadelphia Chess Club. Also included are 3 games played by Wilhelm Steinitz, 2 played by Paul Morphy, and 9 played by Adolf Anderssen. A library discard, noncirculating copy. Label affixed to pastedown identifies this copy as part of the Peter G. Toepfer chess collection of 1918. Spine shows paper label with library code. Covers have surface wear at tips and hinges, soil spots to the rear cover.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Newspaper Clippings From a Weekly 1866 Chess Column Concerning Chess Games and News
- Author
- Stanley, Charles H. (?)
- Publisher
- 1866
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Games
Sandhill Books
Spring Green, WI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 17, 2022
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