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(1928, Bad Kissingen) Nimzowitsch, Aaron / Tartakower, Savielly: Mezhdunarodnyy shakhmatnyy turnir v Bad-Kissingene 1928g.
Moskva, Turtle Press, 1993, 2nd Russian edition, many photos, heavy glossy paper, 196p. 980 grams. Orig. hardcover. 4to (25-33 cm). Very good in Fair dust jacket. The dust jacket is a bit smaller than the book, but it is a way, how it was published. (This enlarged reprint of the original 1929 edition has an extended size. Each page consists of 3 columns, of which the first 2 columns contain the original text. The third column is new - it contains notes, photos and diagrams, which are a total of 1,200. 4x stock photo). SA 2225. Code #533780.
Kč 400,-

(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 Series Rare and Unpublished Tournaments + Matches.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 Series Rare and Unpublished Tournaments and Matches 134.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 640,-

(1936, Podebrady) Bazika, Vladimir ea : Sjezdove turnaje v laznich Podebradech 1936.
Praha, chess club Dobrusky, (1937), 1st edition, photos in text, XVI, (2), 169, (3) pages. 460 grams. Orig. red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt with no jacket, as issued. Ca 23 cm. Good plus / dust jacket not issued: binding is slightly soiled. Minor defect on spine, gild lettering on spine slightly faded. Text is OK with no writings. Dedication on the halftitle to the master Vaclav Brat (1926-1989), who won the book as a prize for the first place in group B of the junior championships of Bohemia and Moravia in town Chocen 1943. It is signed by Zdenek Martinek, chairman of the Tournament Committee (chess enthusiast, director of the Chocen junior tournamenst in 1943-1956) and Josef Rasovsky, the main organizer. The book contains 257 annotated games - all 153 games of the International tournament (1.Flohr 13; 2.Aljechin 12,5; 3.Foltys 11), all 91 games of the Master tournament (1.Hromadka 11,5) and 13 selected games of the Main tournament. 13 crosstables, inclusive minor tournaments, indexes of players and openings. Pictures 1 an 7 = real pictures of this copy, pictures 2-6 are stock photos. LN 5543a. Soukup 84. Mo 122. Code #9903.
Kč 3000,-

(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,-