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THE BOOK OF THE FIRST AMERICAN CHESS CONGRESS 1857
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Current price : (GBP) £200,00
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Location: Great Britain (UK)
Started: 2021-04-13 21:57:32
Ended: 2021-04-18 17:36:00
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1857 NEW YORK. D.W.Fiske: The Book of the First American Chess Congress...Held in New York in...1857. Rudd & Carleton, New York 1859. 1st Edition.

Original brown cloth, spine lettering faded, cloth frayed at head and foot of spine, inner hinges strengthened with tape, a good tight copy. Coloured frontispiece, 563pp., adverts.

Includes the 67 games of the tournament - 1.Morphy, 2 Paulsen, 53 problems from the Problem Tourney, a wealth of historical information, particularly on American chess, articles on Morphy, Benjamin Franklin, the chess automaton in America, a bibliography of chess literature published in the United States up to 1859. A classic work. LN 5184. With 2 bookplates of ECF / BCF, Golombek Collection.

 

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