[Rarebooks] For Sale: Reference, The Game of Chess

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Offered today:

David DeLucia.

David DeLucia’s Chess Library. A Few Old Friends.

4to. 11 x 8 3/4 inches. 394 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and 
black-and-white, index; text clean, unmarked. Full vellum, gilt-stamped 
royal crown on front cover, leather spine label titled in gilt; no 
clam-shell box, binding square and tight. Mel Kavin’s copy without 
distinguishing marks. KJH1123-028. Very Good.

$500 plus $4 Media Mail, ordered through the website

SECOND EDITION, LIMITED to 225 copies, this is one of 20 copies bound in 
vellum. David DeLucia’s chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess 
books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, 
manuscripts), and about 1,000 pieces of ephemera. Among the highlights 
are a 15th century Lucena manuscript, score sheets ranging from 
Fischer’s Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of 
the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by Morphy, over a hundred 
Lasker manuscripts, Capablanca’s gold pocket watch, and the contract of 
the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match. See: Wikipedia 
article “Chess Libraries.” 3 copies OCLC.

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John Howell
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