| Bird, H. E. | Chess History & Reminiscences | London 1893 | |
| 138pp | Has sections on chess history, blindfold chess and a few game scores. Original brown cloth with bright gilt titles. LN 236 VG+ | £85.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Practice being a condensed and simplified record of the actual openings in the finest games played up to the present time, including the whole of the beautiful specimens contained in Chess Masterpieces, comprising those of Anderson, Bird, Blackburne, Boden, Buckle, Cochrane, Kolisch, Labourdonnais, Lowenthal, Macdonnell, Morphy, Staunton, Steinitz Zuckertort, and 35 others. | London 1st ed. 1882 | |
| 96pp | Original dark cloth. LN 1822 Front binding a little tender o/w VG | £75.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | The Chess Openings considered Critically & Practically. | London 1st ed. 1877 | |
| 248pp | Includes interesting long lists of subscribers in UK & US, including Sam Loyd who composed a special letter B problem for the book.Original blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. LN 1819 Binding a little tender o/w G+ | £60.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Novelties and their latest novelties with comparisons of the progress of chess openings of the past centuries and the present not dealt with in other works. | F. Warne1st ed. 1895 | |
| 304pp | Original blue cloth boards bearing attractive gilt design and lettering. LN 1855 Spine dulled o/w VG | £55.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Novelties – another copy. | ||
| 304pp | Original maroon cloth boards. VG+ | £55.00 | |
| Bird, H. E. | Chess Masterpieces comprising a collection of 150 games of the past quarter century, with Notes, including the finest games in the Exhibition of 1851 and the Vienna Tournament of 1873. | London 1st ed. 1875 | |
| 140pp | Maroon cloth boards. Insc. One of Bird’s scarcer titles. LN 3166 VG | £75.00 | |
| Cook, W. | The Chess Primer – A stepping stone for beginners, teaching the preliminary details, supplemented by a series of illustrative games with reasons for every move appended. | London 1880 | |
| 55pp | Original olive cloth boards bearing attractive design in black. LN 992 VG | £25.00 | |
| Cook, W. | Cook’s Chess Synopsis – a synopsis of the chess openings. | London4th ed. 1888 | |
| 142pp | Original maroon cloth boards with some staining to front cover though internally clean. LN 1818 G+ | £20.00 | |
| Cook, W. | The Complete Players’ Compendium – a practical guide to the openings. With new supplement by Alfred Emery. | London5th ed. 1910 | |
| 332pp | Original green cloth bearing attractive chess piece design & gilt titles. LN 1883 VG | £20.00 | |
| Cook, W. | The Compete Player’s Compendium – another copy | ||
| Re-bound in plain green cloth with original title page pasted in. VG | £12.00 | ||
| Crawley, Capt. R. | Chess & Draughts – Chess: its Theory & Practice to which is added a chapter on draughts. | London 1858 | |
| 180pp | Original maroon cloth bearing gilt title and diagram. VG | £25.00 | |
| Ellis, J. A. | Chess Sparks or Short & Bright Games of Chess | London 1895 | |
| 160pp | Re-backed retaining original fawn cloth. Includes 7 page list of all tourneys & matches 1824 – 1894. LN 3182 Neat pencil ticks by games played through o/w G+ | £65.00 | |
| Freeborough & Ranken , C | Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. | London 18963rd ed. | |
| 282pp | Original brown cloth boards with chessboard motif. Not in LN. Endpapers splitting & pages browning at edges. o/w G | £25.00 | |
| Freeborough & Ranken , C | Chess Openings Ancient & Modern – another copy. | London 19104th ed. | |
| 284pp | LN 1843 Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif & feint stain o/w G | £25.00 | |
| Gottschall, Dr. H. von | Adolf Anderssen der Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst | Leipzig1st ed. 1912 | |
| 553pp | 750 analysed games & 80 problems. V. Good group photo of Leipzig 1877 including Zukertort and the Paulsens, plus individual portraits. LN 3034.Original grey cloth boards with a few marks in bottom corner. VG- | £80.00 | |
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