Listing Format: | Auction |
Current price : | €75,00 |
Starting bid: | €10,00 |
# of bids: | 9 |
Closes: | Auction is closed |
Location: | Sweden |
Started: | 2023-06-01 01:00:00 |
Ended: | 2023-06-10 19:34:00 |
Seller: | LSAK (4888) |
High Bidder(s): | smaug (322) |
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MacDonnell, G.A. Chess Life - Pictures,
containing Biographical Sketches, Caïssana, and Character - Sketches. London, Kelly, 1883. With 1 portrait plate as frontispiece as well as 17 portraits in text and 8 portraits on 2 plates by Wallis MacKay. VII, 243 pages. L/N 2981. Betts 28 - 1.
Contents: biographical sketches of Staunton, Morphy, Löwenthal, Boden, Kolisch, Wormald, de Vere, Anderssen, Harrwitz, Blackburne, Duffy, Buckle; a miscellaneous collection of essays, anecdotes and articles on various aspects of the game (caissana); character - sketches (on 'Chess bores' ... 'problem composers and M. de Riviere', etc.); obituary notices of Love, Cochrane, Burden and Boden."
Condition: endpapers with notes. Browned inside and occasionally stained. Book block a bit loose. Binding dusty, corners and edges bumped. Spine with minor defects, slightly defective at top and bottom. Crack inside at gutter.
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