Cordingley Editor (11 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Our copy is a new paperback showing light shelfwear.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 260 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Sixth Edition. Quarto, quarter cloth, printed title to spine, decorated boards, some wear at corners. Illustrated with architectural drawings throughout. Title page with a corner crease o/w fine internally. 62pp.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, limited, copy no.152. Hardcover book . Plain blue cloth, no dustjacket, 132p, quarto, h: 25.5cms. January 14th - January 26th. Partly funded by subscribers, this is not a subscriber's copy. Text is by a Duplication process, with a few chess board illustrations in text. Detailed commentary and analysis of games at the Tournament, some by participants. Cordingley had produced various personally published chess books of this format; this was the first post-war publication. Scarce. Very Good condition: clean covers and pages with a few small marks, some pencil notations, light rubbing to cover edges, binding sound. Limited Edition of Tournament Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 72 pages with 2 tables and index. Octavo (8" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 18. (Betts: 25-197) First edition. Typescript. Limited edition of 360 copies of which this is number 199. The first candidates' Tournament in the newly inaugurated series of world championship qualifying tournaments. All 90 games are given, most with notes from various sources. Includes an introduction and indexes of players. Re-issued Nottingham, The Chess Player, 1967. After the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948) was held, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) began a series of cycles that would select a challenger to Mikhail Botvinnik. The tournament was held from April 9 through May 16 (and the subsequent play-off was held in July and August) . The world was divided into various Zones, from each of which one or more players would qualify for an Interzonal tournament. The highest finishers in this, combined with other seeded players, would compete in a Candidates tournament to select the Challenger. When Bronstein and Boleslavsky tied for first, they played a match to determine who would go on to challenge Botvinnik for the World Championship in 1951. The Match was to the Best of 12 games. If tied after 12, the winner of the next decisive game would advance. Condition: Corners bumped, spine ends moderately rubbed, lightly soiled. A very good copy issued without jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has some water stains along bottom half inch of front and back covers, with a larger area of staning 2.5 by 2.5 to back, half inch chip in middle of back spine gutter, modest wear to corners. binding is solid and pages are clean. Photos on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [3]+43 pages with tables, index and diagrams. Quarto (10" x 8 14") bound in original publisher's blue cloth. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 16. Notes by I Konig, supplemented by notes of M Euwe, H Steiner, etal, specially written for this record of the first large post-war chess congress. (Betts: 25-86) First edition limited to 270 copies of which this is number 247. Typescript, numbered as leaves, but stenciled on both sides. All 132 games, annotated with and index of openings. In January 1946, less than one week after Hastings (1945/46), the newspaper Sunday Chronicle sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things had been lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it became clear that the Russians would not turn up. Moreover, the participation of the World Champion Alexander Alekhine was protested against by Max Euwe and the Dutch Chess Federation, and by Arnold Denker and the USCF, because of alleged Nazi sympathies. In November 1945, Hatton-Ward wrote to Alekhine and cancelled the invitation. The players were divided into two supposedly equally strong groups, A and B. The A-group consisted of Steiner - California champion (1945) and US Open winner (1942), Bernstein - who had "quit" chess in 1907, Tartakower - nearly 60 years old and recent Hastings winner, Opocensky - the Czechoslovak champion, Prins - winner of Dutch tournaments before the war, List - UK immigrant from Russia and also almost 60, Pomar - child prodigy from Spain and a pupil of Alekhine, Fairhurst - British (1937) and Scottish champion, Broadbent - the UK Northern Counties champion, Golombek - soon to become British champion, and Stone of Britain and Friedmann of Czechoslovakia. On Saturday 26th, Steiner won the A Group, and garnered one of the two silver cups given by (James) Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsely. The second cup went to London B (1946) winner Max Euwe. Section B: First Euwe, second Christoffel and third Denker. Condition: Corners bumped, touch of rubbing to hinges else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. [5]+49 pages with table; [5]+49-99 with table and index. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 8") bound in stiff boards. Translations from the Russian Daily Chess Bulletin by Loyd Storr-Best. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 7, volumes 1 and 2, limited to 240 copes of which volume one is number 136 and volume two is number 80. (Betts: 25-112 and 25-113). These were published in paper and cloth-cover editions. Volume one typescript, stenciled on rectos only. This volume gives an introduction by the translator, with a general description of the setting and the first 93 games, with notes translated from the Daily Bulletin of the Moscow News. Mixed descriptive and algebraic notations. First tied Flohr and Botvinnik, Lasker 3rd. Volume two also published in paper and cloth-covered editions in typescript. This volume contains games 94-190, about one half annotated, with and index of openings, and a review of the openings employed by A M Konstantinopolski. Mixed descriptive and algebraic notation. Condition: Points and spine ends rubbed, corners bumped, volume two boards scuffed else a better than good set of a scarce set.