CHESS - William WINTER (1897-1955) & R. G. WADE (1921-2008). The World Chess Championship: 1951, London, 1951, 8vo, original cloth. With 13 other books on chess, two of which signed by notable chess players. Please see the full description below. (14)

CHESS - William WINTER (1897-1955) & R. G. WADE (1921-2008).  The World Chess Championship: 1951. Botvinnik v. Bronstein. London: Turnstile Press, 1951. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title, 4 full-page half tone illustrations, diagrams (some light spotting and staining). Original orange cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket spotted, lacking all but upper wrapper and rear turn-in). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED on the front free endpaper by J. H. Donner, D. Mackay, S. Milan, [?]D. Hawley, T. K. Hemingway, B. H. Wood and 6 others, presumably notable chess players (see illustration). With 13 other books on chess, namely E. A. Michell's The Year-Book of Chess, 1909 (London, 1909, 8vo, original cloth), H. E. Bird's Chess Novelties and their Latest Developments (London, 1895, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt), I. Gunsberg's The Chess Openings (London, 1896, 8vo, original cloth), Horace F. Cheshire's The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 containing the Authorised Account of the 230 Games Played Aug.-Sept. 1895 (London, 1896, 8vo, portraits, original cloth gilt), E. H. Bermingham's Staunton's Chess-Players Handbook (London, 1915, 8vo, original cloth), P. W. Sergeant & W. H. Watt's Pillsbury's Chess Career (London, 1922, 8vo, original cloth, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "R. J. Tillett, Prizewinner in The Observer's Correspondence Game 1922-23"), Fred Reinfeld's A Chess Manual. Challenge to Chessplayers (Philadelphia, 1947, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with loss), H. Golombek's The World Chess Championship 1948 (London, 1949, 8vo, original cloth), Alexander Alekhine's My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937 (London, 1949, 8vo, original cloth), the same author's My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 (London, 1950, 8vo, original cloth), C. H. O' D Alexander's Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938-1945 (London, 1952, 8vo, original cloth, SIGNED by the author on the title page and 7 other chess players on the front free endpaper including R. Wade and W. Winter), Baruch H. Wood's The World Championship Candidates' Tournament. Switzerland August - November, 1953 (Sutton Coldfield, 1954, 8vo, original cloth) and Hans Kmoch's Pawn Power in Chess (New York, 1959, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with loss), all FIRST EDITIONS. (14)