London: Dean & Son, (1878). Hardcover. Octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-5/8", green cloth, with gilt chess-board decoration front board, xvi, 248pp, tri-fold frontispiece with illustrations of three chess boards dedicated to chess companion A. P. Barnes (notably representing the author's initials - H. E. B.), yellow endpapers with advertisements, includes 30.....
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, (1978). Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, turquoise cloth, xvi, 463pp, apps., biblio., index of subjects and names. Psychological Studies 4. A thorough analysis of research conducted between 1938 to 1943 in which chess experts were asked to verbally describe their thought processes in plotting a chess move.....
Zurich: Edition Olms, 1985. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, xii, 463p, illus. In addition to detailing the 67 games and 53 problems that made up the First American Chess Congress, Fiske explores the history and literature of chess in the US through 1859. Acclaimed chess phenom Paul Morphy (1837-1884) won the.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, gilt titled brown pebbled cloth with publisher's embossed emblem center of both boards, brown endpapers, xii, 563pp,diagrams, biblio., list of subscribers, accounts, solutions, indexes, 12pp ads, gilt decorated chromolithographic frontis. with tissue guard depicting Paul Morphy's winning game in 68.....
Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2001. Softcover. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 206pp, illus. Translated by Ken Neat. Chess was characterized by Lenin as "gymnastics of the mind" and Soviet chess champions became symbols of socialist excellence. Genna Sosonko brings a first person perspective to his portrait of his former Soviet colleagues.....
