Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1951.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Chess champion Edward Lasker describes how the hints given to him by his intimate friends, world chess champions Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca, and Alexander Alekhine, helped him to achieve chess mastery and attain the title of chess master himself, including the winning of chess championships in five world capitals. Lasker provides details of games played with great masters and accompanies them with character sketches; these sketches are illustrated with drawings by Kenneth Stubbs. Also included here are the games played between Frank Marshall and the author in their close match for the United States championship in 1923 - a first occurrence in book form.
Item #9015375-1/2 x 8-1/2", turquoise cloth, xvi, 428pp, frontis. portrait of the author, 32 drawings of great masters by Kenneth Stubbs in text.
Square, free of owner's marks, faint spotting to cloth, very good in spine-faded intact dust wrapper with two half-inch edge-tears, in protective mylar.
Price: $45.00