Chess - Games from Glynn's Books

Hamburg: Schach-Archiv Kurt Rattmann, 1976. In German. Pb, 155pp, b/w photos. 2nd enlarged edition. Good, light edgewear to spine, contents clean, light foxing along edge of page block. 36 games (with notes) which Capablanca lost, from 1909 to 1938. Plus a few earlier games and some from his Simuls.. Soft Cover.

Dallas: Chess Digest, 1990. Pb,156pp, b/w portrait frontis. Good, clean contents, interior smells slightly smoky. Biography/career (approx. 50pp) and 30 annotated games of Tigran Petrosian from 1946 to 1983.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Batsford, 1975. Hb, vi + 201pp. Good with clean contents and slight tanning to page edges in a Good dj which has slightly darkened edges. Over 200 of Capablanca's games including his tour of Europe, match and exhibition games, consultation games, simultaneous games, casual games, early games and his sensational match against Corzo when he won the Cuban championship… Read more about this item

London: Carroll and Nicholson, 1954. Hb, grey boards, no dj, vii + 271pp, b/w photos including frontispiece of Botvinnik. Good(-), white ring mark on front cover, slight edgewear, a couple of marks along edge of page block and on inside front cover/fep. Biographical background and annotated games taken from matches of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, and Botvinnik, many… Read more about this item

Tallin, Estonia: Paide/Demerlen, 1995. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, no dj, 479pp, b/w frontis and photos. Good(-), foxing/speckling along edge of page block, clean content . Multi-lingual Foreward by Maria Keres and Preface by Fridrik Olafsson. Over 1900 of Paul Keres' games from 1929 to 1975 (without notes) plus tournament and match records.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Chess Review, 1942. Hb, vi + 242pp, b/w photos. Good in a Poor dj which has extensive tears and some minor loss. Occasional inked tick marks. Career ( 26 pp with photos) and 140 of Marshall's games with annotations, from 1893 ( vs Steinitz) to 1941 (vs L. Levy). There is also a brief section analysing openings. Descriptive notation..… Read more about this item

Zaragoza: La Academica , 1934. In Spanish. Hb, pictorial cloth covers, no dj, 267pp. Fair+, light edgewear top/bottom of spine; endpapers and inside covers heavily tanned but pages only slightly tanned at edges; previous owner's name on fep; cracked inner hinge; 10-12 pages have either underlining or marks. 100 games taken from international chess tournaments between 1930 to 1933… Read more about this item

London: Horace Cox, 1900. Hb, brown cloth covers, gilt titles, xv + 174pp, two b/w plates. Good+, small mark on spine, light foxing on first/last few pages, contents clean. Includes over 130 annotated games, mostly miniatures, by players ranging from Napoleon Bonaparte and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to Blackburne, Anderssen, Morphy and Rosenthal, plus an extensive introduction on the history/development of chess.… Read more about this item

Notingham: The Chess Player, 1995. Pb, 79pp. Good+, clean contents, interio smells slightly smoky. Includes brief biography, career record and 142 games with brief notes, of the German grandmaster.. Soft Cover. Good.

Jefferson: McFarland, 2009. Hb, green library binding, xi + 348pp. Good+, small bump to base of spine, a tiny white speck on front cover, contents clean. Biography/career (70 pages) and 757 chess games, of which approx. 10-20% have notes, of Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985). His peak years were the early 1930s. He was also a publisher and writer, co-founding the Chess… Read more about this item

Moscow: Fizkultura I Sport, 1980. In Russian. Hb, 224pp, portrait frontis. Good with clean contents in a Fair+ dj which has a couple of tears and edgewear. Endpapers slightly browned, contents clean. Biography and over 100 of Rubinstein's games, most with in-depth annotations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2022. Pb, 201pp. Signed by Steve Giddins on half title page with brief inscription to previous owner. VG, contents clean other than author's inscription. 45 exciting chess games, selected from a long-running questionnaire in New in Chess magazine, with nominations by chess players, authors and commentators. The games are annotated either as they appeared in the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1983. Pb, ix + 182pp, b/w photos. Good, spine slightly sunned and has small chip at the top wear; contents clean, tanning to page edges. Uses numerous examples of Keres' chess games as a "virtual text-book on attacking play". Contents: Combinations; Creation of a Tactically Favourable Situation; Calculation of Variations; Attack - preconditions for, and ways… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge, 1922. Hb, decorative boards, no dj, 80pp. Good, edgewear to spine, previous owner's name on inside front cover, browned endpapers, light foxing to first and last few pages. Includes 45 of Morphy's games with brief annotations, to instruct the beginner. Descriptive notation.. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Leeds: Whitehead & Miller, 1948. Hb, blue cloth covers, no dj, 204pp. Fair+, spine sunned and edgeworn, light foxing along edge of page block and on a few pages. 100 briefly annotated games of the great American chess player plus a short biographical introduction. Descriptive notation.. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Olomouc: Moravian Chess Three volume set published 2000-2001. Each is Hb, laminated pictorial covers, 392pp, 496pp and 464pp, respectively, with b/w photos. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Translated and edited by Ken Neat from the original first three volumes of Botvinnik's " Analiticheskie i Kriticheskie Raboty". Together, the three volumes contain 381 of Botvinnik's annotated tournament and match games,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1946. Hb, xxiv + 220pp. Good in a Fair+ dj which has a red stain on the back, chips and edgewear. Tape residue on inside covers/endpapers and a red stain on inside back cover, contents clean. Biographical introduction and 62 annotated games, up until 1945. The first volume in Reinfeld's "Wizards of the Chessboard" series. Descriptive notation..… Read more about this item

London: Cadogan, 1998. Pb, 192pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. 60 of Averbakh's games with his detailed annotations, from 1943-1975, against players such as Botvinnik, Lilienthal and Fischer. . Soft Cover. Good.

Tallin: Eesti Raamat, 1977. In Estonian. Hb, 382pp, b/w photos including frontispiece. Good+ with clean contents in a Good dj which is wrinkled on the front. Extensive biography, games, and numerous photographs, with the emphasis on Keres' formative years.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Yorklyn, Delaware: Caissa Editions, 1993. Hb, red cloth with gilt titles, no dj (as pub.), 341pp, frontis, b/w photos. Good, foxing along edge of page block, contents clean. Part I analyses some of Morphy's games and re-examines existing preconceptions about his play. Part II presents every available Morphy game (over 400, without notes). Part III offers perspectives on Morphy by… Read more about this item