Caissa editions (118 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New. B chess: This hardcover is fine, red cloth, gilt spine title.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Slight lean, faint rubbing and toning. Photo on request. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 20 facsimile pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. )Lusis: 2256) reprint of the 1917 Leipzig edition. This was a non-title match played in Berlin, Germany from November 25 - December 10. Emanuel Lasker 5/6; Siegbert Tarrasch 0.5/6. Condition: Some light edge wear corners gently bumped else a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 481 pages, 8vo. Minor shelfwear. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hard cover. Condición: Good. No jacket. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped with the spine being shaken, but binding is secure. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. THE WILLIAMS GAMBIT, by WIlliam L. WILLIAMS, a Mid-Level Chess Champion. SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED by WILLIAMS on the page facing the copyright page: "Bernie & Charyle / With my appreciation for your loyal friendship over the past 45+ years! / W. Williams / 3.97". Published by Caissa Editions, a division of Brandreth Books, Yorklyn, Delaware, 1997. Booklet, printed paper covers, 6x9 inches, 64 pages. NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear. SIGNED and INSCRIBED copies of this Chess Gambit are Hard to Find. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 359 pages, index, b&w photos and illus.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Published Without Dust Jacket. 209 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt type face on the front board and spine. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Published Without Dust Jacket. 118 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt type face on the front board and spine. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 112+[4] pages Octavo (8" x 6") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and decorative vignette on cover. Introduction by Dale A Brandreth, postscript and errata by Egbert Meissenburg. (Lusis: 1) Caissa limited editions, volume 3. Number 295 of 700 copies. Facsimile reprint of the 1881 Berlin edition. Introductory matter in English, French and German. Contains 3362 numbered items, arranged alphabetically by author and title, covering the period from 850 (the earliest Arabic writings) to 1880. Includes very brief bibliographic descriptions. Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa" was an important German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). His name is usually abbreviated as "von der Lasa", as this is how he signed his letters. However both contemporary and more recent writers have used other abbreviations, such as "von Heydebrandt" (which is a miss-spelling) and "Der Lasa". The Prussian King (later Emperor) William I made a joke out of the confusion by saying, "Good morning, dear Heydebrand. How is von der Lasa doing?" Von der Lasa was born 17 October 1818 in Berlin. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin. From 1845 he was a diplomat in the service of Prussia. His career took him to Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Rio de Janeiro, among other places. He retired from the diplomatic service in 1864, and thereafter devoted himself to the world of chess. He played several matches and defeated the strongest masters in the period 1843-1853. He won against Henry Thomas Buckle 2-1 (1843), Adolf Anderssen 4-2 (1845), Johann Lowenthal 6-1 (1846), John Schulten 4-1 (1850), Anderssen 10-5 (1851), and Howard Staunton 7-6 (1853). To the modern chess world he is known above all as the main author of the Handbuch des Schachspiels (first published in 1843). His friend Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, responsible for the original plan, had died in 1840, with the work still in the early stages. Von der Lasa took over, and, in a noble gesture of friendship, put his friend's name as author. In later editions of the Handbuch, in German commonly called der Bilguer, von der Lasa was named as co-author. In 1850 von der Lasa published in the Deutsche Schachzeitung (German Chess Magazine) a call for an international chess tournament, the first ever, to be held in Trier. Instead the first such tournament was held in 1851 in London. Von der Lasa did not play in tournaments, being usually busy as an organizer, but played well in off-hand games against such leading masters as Howard Staunton and Adolf Anderssen. He was also a renowned chess investigator and theoretician, publishing numerous articles in the German Chess Magazine and, in 1897, his great work Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, Forschungen (Researches in the History and Literature of Chess). In the course of his researches he traveled extensively (including a trip around the world in 1887-88) and accumulated a comprehensive chess library, to which he published a catalog in 1896. In 1898 the German Chess Federation saluted his tireless efforts and accomplishments by conferring on him its first honorary membership. One of von der Lasa's last services was to encourage HJR Murray to pursue further researches into the early history of chess. Von der Lasa died on 27 July 1899 in Storchnest bei Lissa, now in western Poland. His library is still intact at Kornik Castle near Poznan. Condition: Corners gently bumped. A very good to fine copy.…

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Yorklyn, DE: Caissa Editions, 1991. iv, 287 pp. 23.5 x 16 cm. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Faint rubbing and sunning to spine. Moderate bumping to bottom corners of boards. Moderate foxing to edges of text block. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound. . Hard Cover. Very Good.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 118 pages with diagrams, tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition. Ninety-four years after the event what could be the reason to publish a new tournament book for the St. Petersburg Match Tournament? There was a tournament book published in English in 1896 with an edition of 500 copies. Although this would be extremely hard to find today, it was reprinted in 1983 with a new foreword by Ken Whyld. The original book was in fact a reprint of the games and notes as they appeared in the British Chess Magazine. The commentators were James Mason and W.H.K. Pollock. The contributions of the latter are more valuable than those of the former, although neither critic, I think, looks at the games as a critic would today. There was also a Russian tournament book, the first work of its kind in Russian, which is also extremely rare today, at least outside of Russia. In 1975 James R. Schroeder published a side-stitched paper compilation of all 36 games with very slight notes. In addition Deutsches Wochenschach published 35 of the games with notes; Deutsche Schachzeitung published many of the games, most of them from the early part of the tournament; all of the games with brief notes were published in the fifth small volume of Ludwig Bachmann's Yearbook for 1895. The best known games have of course been included in games collections of the players involved and in miscellaneous collections up to the present day. For example few games in chess history have been examined as many times as Lasker's famous win over Pillsbury in Round 10. Condition: Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 283pp. Index for opponents. Bound into red cloth, no jacket as issued. Games of Austro-Hungarian chess master Carl Schlechter. Mostly tournament results, move lists and annotations for games played 1893-1918.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Published Without Dust Jacket. 445 pp. Tightly bound. Lower corner back board lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt type face on the front board and spine. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Red cloth with gold titling on the spine and front cover. Fine, with no notable flaws. Unmarked. 118 pages.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. (iv), 112, (4) pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1881 edition, limited to 700 numbered copies, of which 500 are for sale in the U.S. New Introduction by Dale Brandreth and a postscript and errata list by Egbert Meissenburg. Linde's original preamble in German is translated into English in this edition. Chess (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. x+403+[1 ad] pages with photographs, diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Translated by John Owen. first American edition. The tournament at Nürnberg 1896 included Thirty-nine players who wanted to participate in the master competition, nineteen were allowed in Nuremberg. When Amos Burn withdrew, the little-known Rudolf Charousek took his place at the recommendation of Géza Maróczy. The international tournament was played in the premises of the Museum Society in Nuremberg from 20 July until 9 August. The time limit was thirty moves in two hours. The main prizes went to Emanuel Lasker (3000 marks), Géza Maróczy (2000 marks), Siegbert Tarrasch and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (each 1250 marks), Dawid Janowski (600 marks), Wilhelm Steinitz (300 marks), Carl August Walbrodt and Carl Schlechter (each 100 marks) Condition: Very good to fine.…

Paperback. First Edition. 6 x 9in. vi. 171pp. Publisher's printed wraps. FINE/AS NEW. Flawless. As pictured.

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: As New. Unsed book, as new.

8Vo Hardcover. Condición: Good. 171pp. Text and illustration is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, spine is unbroken, textblock is square with lightly bumped corners. Moderate overall book shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, sunning; foxing on endpapers and textblock edges.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Small 8voin blue cloth, titles in gilt. No. 215 of 700 copies. A Near Fine copy.