Watts W G Editor (16 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper that is age-toned to rear panel, the text is clean and is unmarked, 96pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Small quarto hardback. 96 pp, illustrated Illustrated boards no dust jacket issued Near Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Corner clipped (title page), some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and a little worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96 pages, 370g. Pictorial laminated boards with slight bump to bottom front corner, with internally slight foxing to first and last few pages. Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Chapters include 'Company Single-deckers of the Thirties', 'The First London Wides', 'Variet at Manchester' & 'National United' amongst others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some handling wear to spine edges with marks and scuffing to surfaces; rubbed and bumped corners. Mostly clean inside, with tanning and foxing to pages, edges and end papers. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. No jacket. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 64 pp. Original black wraps w/ mild edge wear. Faint dampstain along bottom edge of rear cover and to corner of the inside of the front cover. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some marks to cloth surfaces. Clean inside, with tanning to page edges. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. Jacket has some marks and tears to hinges and edges, price clipped. Magazine cutting of a motor boat stuck in on the title page. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A Very Good copy in blue cloth of this large volume, in an edge-worn Good dust jacket with several short tears. Book.

paperback. Condition: Fair.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 976 pages. 8.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 513 pages. 9.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. the dust jacket is shelf worn. the edges are a little frayed with small tears. it still presents very well in cellophane. the book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent. the rear pocket contains a folded large map of what was then Rhodesia and Nyasaland. this is very attractive and would be suitable for displaying. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

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).…