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(1878, Paris) Schallopp, Emil: Der Internationale Schachkongress zu Paris im Jahre 1878.
Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1879, VI, (2), 175, (9) pages. 300 grams. Contemporary halfcloth, spine lettered. Fair to good: binding is tight. Edges a little rubbed, binding and corners somewhat rubbed. Old ex-libris label of previous owner on front inner board. Front endpaper a little/somewhat stained. Both original wrappers are bound in, of which the front wrapper ( picture 3) is somewhat damaged on the back. Title page a little/somewhat soiled. Pages occasionally a little stained, one leaf at the end repaired near the margin. Text with no writings. (3x real photo). LN 5208. Code #535042.
Kč 3000,-

(1916, Kobenhavn) Collijn, Gustaf / Collijn, Ludvig: Nordiska Skakforbundets sjunde Kongress med turneringar. Kopenhamn 2 - 16 Juli 1916.
Stockholm, Englund, 1916, portrait (group photo of participants), title, 108 pages numbered 121-228. 270 grams. Later paper binding with no lettering, with part of front cover pasted on. Large 8vo (23-25 cm). Fair to good: front cover is somewhat spotted. Title page was damaged at the top but is well repaired with paper tape. Some leaves are a little creased near the top corner. Page 121 is a little stained at the top. Last blank leaf is browned. Text is OK with no writings. (Special issue of Tidskrift for Schack 8-9/1916. Real photo). LN 5324. Code #10476.
Kč 780,-

(1919, Goteborg) Collijn, Gustaf / Collijn, Ludvig: Nordiska Skakforbundets nionde Kongres med turneringar Goteborg, 3 - 17 August 1919 (cover title).
Stockholm, Englund, 1919, 1 plate (group photo of participants), 96, (2) pages. 200 grams. Softcover. Large 8vo (23-25 cm). Good to very good: spine and cover a little browned by age, rear cover has ca 0,5 cm tear at the edge. Text is clean, with no writings. Still an uncut copy. (Title page not issued. This is a complete separately published tournament book. The tournament was also published in Tidskrift for Schack no. 9-11, 1919, pp.133-224, but there without index and games no. 3415-3418. Real photo). LN 5332. Code #10135.
Kč 1500,-

(1923, Scheveningen) Kagan, Bernhard: Internationales Schachturnier zu Scheveningen vom 23. Juli bis 4. August 1923.
Berlin, Kagan, (1923), 1st edition, 120 pages. 280 grams. Later cloth with no lettering, orig. front wrapper pasted on the front cover. Ca 23 cm. Fair to poor: binding is okay, missing top left corner of pasted front cover. Title page is frayed at the top. Its entire top part is missing, but without loss of text. The top corner of the first 25 or so leaves is somewhat stained (does not affect the text). All pages are browned, as usual for Kagan's publications of this period. Pages are with no writings. (2x real photo). LN 5362. Code #535039.
Kč 900,-

(1934, Botvinnik - Flohr) Botvinnik, Mikhail: Match Flohr - Botvinnik.
Moskva, OGIZ - Fizkultura i turizm, 1934, 1st edition, 112p + 4 leaves with 7 photos. 130 grams. Softcover. 16mo (15-17.5 cm). 10,200 copies. Complete inclusive Krylenko's preface, which often lacks. Still Good: lacks a small piece of front cover, about 0.5 x 1 cm, at the bottom near spine. A small piece, about half compared to the previous one, is missing at the top of spine. The cover is torn several times around the edges, the front cover has a trace after folding at the bottom, the rear cover is a little soiled. An old Russian seller's price note on rear inner cover. Internally OK, the pages are clean and with no writings throughout, what seldom appears in pre-wws Soviet books. (3x real photo). LN 5097. Sa 493. SA 988. Code #8760.
Kč 2000,-

(1935, Warszawa) Gillam, Anthony: Warsaw Olympiad 1935.
Nottingham, The Chess Player, 2020, 1st edition, photos in text, 344 pages + 1 loosely inserted sheet. 470 grams. Paperback. Series Rare and Unpublished Tournaments + Matches. Very good. (More than 500 today-known games. The winner was the US team ahead of Sweden, Poland, etc. The Women's World Championship was played as round robin, with Vera Menchik winning by 9 of 9. The book also contains a lot of information from the history and background of the Olympiad. Series Rare and Unpublished Tournaments and Matches 134. All copies are missing page 324 due to a printing error (page 322 is here twice), so this page is printed on a loose sheet. Stock photo). Code #10204.
Kč 600,-

(1943, Praha) Prucha, Karel: XVII. sjezd UJCS Praha 1943 (variation on white paper, thickness of the book ca 3.5 mm).
Praha, self-edition, (1944), 1st edition, mimeographed, 62, (2 blank) pages. 90 grams. Softcover. 14 x 20 cm. Good minus: covers a little soiled and a little damaged. In text neat underlinings throughout - mostly player's names or the result - usually 2-3 short underlinings per one page. (17th Czechoslovak championship. The book appears in three variations: 1) cheap brown paper, the book is ca 7 mm thick; 2) white paper, thickness ca 7 mm; 3) white paper, thickness only ca 3.5 mm; This is the third variation. 3x stock photo). LN 5643. So 92. Mo 154c. Code #532243.
Kč 900,-

(1943, Praha) Prucha, Karel: XVII. sjezd UJCS Praha 1943 (variation on white paper, thickness of the book ca 3.5 mm).
Praha, self-edition, (1944), 1st edition, mimeographed, 62, (2 blank) pages. 90 grams. Softcover. 14 x 20 cm. Good to very good: Spine with minor tear in the middle. Title page and two pages in text slightly stained in bottom corner. Internally OK with no writings. (17th Czechoslovak championship. The book appears in three variations: 1) cheap brown paper, the book is ca 7 mm thick; 2) white paper, thickness ca 7 mm; 3) white paper, thickness only ca 3.5 mm; This is the third variation. 3x stock photo). LN 5643. So 92. Mo 154c. Code #9880.
Kč 1250,-