The Gambit - Official Publication of the Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club. 1930. Vol. 8. No. 5., No. 6. Souvenir edition., No. 10-11-12.

Published by St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A., Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club., 1930

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The Gambit - Official Publication of the Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club. 1930. Vol. 8. No. 5., No. 6. Souvenir edition., No. 10-11-12. Official Organ of the Western Chess Association. L. T. Maenner, Editor. W. A. Krauska, Associate. - No.5.: This Issue Contains Mr. Soloman Hecht's Article how Emanuel Lasker refutes his own unsound Chess Principles by Wholasale violations. - No. 6.: Souvenir edition. The John G. White Collection in the Cleveland Public Library. - No. 10-11-12.: This Issue contains M. Soloman Hecht's article "Playing Chess in Accordance with Principiles of law that Govern the Universe". St. Louis, 1930. Mo. U.S.A., Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club. 141-167 p. ; [6] 21 p. ; 255-280 p. with pictures. First edition. Later half cloth binding. Original covers of No. 5 and No. 10-11-12 bound in. - -- - The John G. White Collection: The Gambit, Official Publication of the Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club, issued a Souvenir Edition in June 1930 devoted to the John G. White Collection in the Cleveland Public Library. - Following a page of Acknowledgments and a portrait of the late John Griswold White by Sandor Vago, there is a biography of White written by Mrs. Ina B. Roberts, the publicity representative of the Cleveland Public Library. A detailed description of The John G. White Collection of Folklore and Orientalia is given by the collection's librarian Gordon W. Thayer. The Chess Collection: The chess and checkers collection contained around 12,000 volumes in 1930; the most recent estimates that I can find give figures of between 32,000 and 35,000, including over 6,000 bound volumes of periodicals. Chess columns from newspapers and magazines formed an important part of the collection which had 400 bound volumes of these cuttings, including 140 bound volumes from the J. W. Rimington Wilson collection. Bound chess periodicals in all languages numbered about 1,000 and were, with one or two exceptions, complete. J. G. White specified in his will that all advertising pages were to be bound up with the periodicals, a practice, unfortunately, not adopted by many magazine publishers when binding up there own volumes. White's greatest interest, in the latter part of his life, was in manuscripts, and he went to great trouble and expense to acquire either originals or copies of these. Seller Inventory # 363

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Title: The Gambit - Official Publication of the ...

Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A., Missouri Pacific St. Louis Chess Club.

Publication Date: 1930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition