630 | | OOAK Stunning large Chess game tile autographed by Susan Polgar Grandmaster Susan Polgar (born as Zsuzsanna Polgar) is a Hungarian-American chess player, and one of the strongest female players ever, having been Womens World Chess Champion from 1996 until 1999. She is an Olympic and World chess champion, a chess teacher, coach, writer and promoter and the head o (more...)
enlarge | Picture Art | Porcelain-Ceramics | Hungary | No | 10 |
641 | | This adorable handcrafted 7.5" x 4.5" picture shows two men struggling with their next che This adorable handcrafted 7.5" x 4.5" picture shows two men struggling with their next chess move. The cobwebs behind them show they are taking quite some time to play the game through. Sale.
enlarge | Picture Art | Wood | | Yes | 4.5 |
702 | | Rare - NY Village Chess game by Amen "Sketchbook Fragments #14"
"Village". Lithograph. Signed by the artist, 21/200. Sale.
enlarge | Picture Art | Cardboard-Paper | USA | Yes | 16 |
730 | | Vintage Copper Etching Chess Game Scene Victorian men playing in a pub. Very ornate and well decorated copper etching. Large size 25" x 32" height. Made in Belgium. Sold.
enlarge | Picture Art | Brass-Copper-Bronze | Belgium | No | 32 |
779 | | Rare Ralph Therrien Internally Sculpted Acrylic Hands Over Chess Board Gifted sculptor Ralph Therrien painstakingly carved out breathtaking detail within the solid acrylic block apparently using tiny dental drills. Even the veins, tendons and fingernails are sculptured on the backs of the Chess players hands.
Only one other similar sculpture created by Ralph Therrie (more...)
enlarge | Picture Art | Lucite-Acrylic | USA | Yes | 2 |
786 | | Chess Game Walnut and Cherry Wall Art Frame Carving Crafted from solid walnut and cherry and finished with Lacquer. Hanger included.
enlarge | Picture Art | Wood | USA | No | 0 |
816 | | Original Pierce-Bates etching of Check #10/50 This is an original etching of two men playing chess, titled "Check". Pierce and Bates were a married couple who did art wood carvings to print limited etchings. K.C. Pearce & Bob Bates are from Dillsburg, PA used actual 17th century Japanese style wood block printing techniques. This is #10 of only (more...)
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893 | | Chess Strategy Chess game by Amen A/P. Titled Chess Strategy. Lithograph. Signed by the artist. Sale.
enlarge | Picture Art | Cardboard-Paper | USA | Yes | 0 |
929 | | Beautiful middle eastern scene Chess play Group of Arabs in village life including some playing Chess. Sale
enlarge | Picture Art | Silk-Cloth | Belgium | Yes | 0 |
1 | | Make Your Own Chess Set David Carroll
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA
Published 1974
150 pages | Book | | | | 6.25 |
2 | | Sculptures in Miniatures - Chess Sets from the Maryhill Museum of Art Colleen Schafroth
Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington
Published 1990
64 pages | Book | | | | 6.75 |
3 | | Disney's Chess Guide Anatoly Karpov
BT Batsford Ltd., London, England
Pblished 1997 | Book | | | | 8 |
4 | | Birth of the Chess Queen - A History Marilyn Yalom
HarperCollins Publisher
First Perennial edition was published 2005 | Book | | | | 8.25 |
5 | | Roi des jeux, jeu des rois Les echecs Jean Michel Pechine
Decouvertes Gallimard Sports Et Jeux
Published 1997
128 pages | Book | | | | 7 |
6 | | Master Pieces - The Story of Chess: the pieces, players and passion of 1,000 years Gareth Williams
A Quintet Book
Published by Apple Press, London, England
Published 2000
160 pages | Book | | | | 8 |
7 | | Chess - East and West, Past and Present A selection from the Gustavus A Pfeifer Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Published 1968 | Book | | | | 8.25 |
8 | | Collector's Blue Books - Chess Sets F. Lanier Graham
Walker and Company, New York
Published 1968 | Book | | | | 8.25 |
9 | | Pleasures and Treasures - Chessmen A.E.J. Mackett-Beeson
G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York
Published 1968
120 pages | Book | | | | 8.5 |
10 | | The Art of Chess Colleen Schafroth
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York
Published 2002
175 pages | Book | | | | 9.25 |
11 | | SCHACHSPIELE WANDEL IM LAUFE DER KUNST-UNDKULTURGESCHICHTE Ursula Siebert, Jean-Loup Rousselot, Astrid Jaeger, Halvor Jaeger
Privatsammlung Jaeger
Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen
128 pages | Book | | | | 9.5 |
12 | | Chessmen A.E.J. Mackett - Beeson
Octopus Books
Published 1973
97 pages
123 illustrations in color and b&w | Book | | | | 9.5 |
13 | | Chessmen Frank Greygoose
Arco Publishing, Inc., New York
Published 1979
160 pages | Book | | | | 9.75 |
14 | | Chess as Metaphore in the art of Samuel Bak Introduction by Jeanlouis Cornuz
Pucker Art Publications, Boston, MA, USA
Published 1991 | Book | | | | 10 |
15 | | Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess Edited by Harry Golombek
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
Published 1997
360 pages | Book | | | | 10.25 |
16 | | Games of the World - How to make them, How to play them, How they came to be Edited by Frederic V. Grunfeld
Ballantine Books, New York
Pblished 1975
280 pages | Book | | | | 10.5 |
17 | | The Imagery of Chess, Revisited Edited by Larry List
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
George Braziller, Publishers, New York
Pblished 2006
209 pages | Book | | | | 11 |
18 | | Turned Chessmen - For collectors, players and woodworkers Mike Darlow
Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., East Petersburg, PA, USA
Published 2004
168 pages | Book | | | | 11 |
20 | | The Art of Chess Pieces Isaac Maxovich Linder
"H.G.S." Publishers, Moscoe
Published 1994
288 pages
Sold | Book | | | No | 11 |
21 | | Wooden Chess Sets you can make Diana Thompson
Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., East Petersburg, PA, USA
Published 2003
66 pages | Book | | | | 11 |
22 | | The World of Chess Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing
A Ridge Press Book, Random House, New York
Published 1974
247 pages | Book | | | | 11 |
23 | | A Picture History of CHESS Edited by Fred Wilson
Dover Publications, Inc., New York
Published 1981
182 pages | Book | | | | 11 |
24 | | CHESS - an Illustrated History Raymond Keene
Simon and Schuster, New York
Published 1990
128 pages | Book | | | | 11.25 |
25 | | The Illustrated Guide to World Chess Sets Victor Keats
ST. Martin s Press, New York
Published 1985
240 pages; 273 b&w photographs; 50 Colour photographs
Sold | Book | | | No | 12 |
26 | | SCHACH PARTIE DURCH ZEITEN UND WELTEN Hans und Barbara Hollander
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
EDITION BRAUS
Published 2005
368 Pages | Book | | | | 12 |
27 | | CHESS THE STORY OF CHESSPIECES FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES Hans and Siegfried Wichmann
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
Translated 1964
328 pages
Sold | Book | | | No | 12 |
28 | | Chess a Celebration of 2,000 Years Roswin Finkenzeller, Wilhelm Ziehr, Emil M. Buhrer
Arcade Publishing, New York
Little, Brown and Company
First U.S. Edition 1990
208 pages | Book | | | | 12 |
107 | | Chess - A History Harry Golombek
G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York
1976
256 pages | Book | | | | 10.5 |
152 | | CCI USA News Click to open:
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153 | | The Chess Collector Click the following link to open:
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164 | | Chess Collectors International - Thirteenth Biennial Congress Various Authors, Edited by (yours truly) Israel Raphaelli
Boca Raton, Florida, USA meeting April 29th to May 4th, 2008
CCI Publication
200 pages; over 296 photos in color.
arrival2008 | Book | | | | 11 |
263 | | A History of Chess by Jerzy Gizycki Publisher - The Abby Library, London 1972, 371 pages. First published in Polish in 1960 by "Sport i Turystyka".
One of the most comprehensive and entertaining publications of the history and art of the game, following all the intricacies from ancient to modern times.
Lively text, accompanied (more...) | Book | | England | Yes | 10.75 |
320 | | Rare Chess Jews and History by Victor Keats Autographed by Victor Keats, October 1996. Volume I: Chess, Jews and History. Volume II: Chess Its Origin, a translation with commentary of the Latin and the Hebrew in Thomas Hyde s De Ludis Orientalibus (Oxford 1694). Volume III: Chess among the Jews, translation and explanation of the work of Mori (more...)
enlarge | Book | | England | No | 0 |
322 | | Chess - antique book 1787 by Richard Twiss Rare. Chess - book by Richard Twiss (1747-1821) first edition, published 1787. Two volumes bound in one - I. 194 pages with plate, index and errata. II. 272 pages with plates, index and errata. Octavo bound in half leather with black spine label in gilt, all original no restoration. Benjamin Frankl (more...)
enlarge | Book | | England | Yes | 0 |
497 | | Viking Chess Set in Counted Cross Stitch By Meg Shinall, Ginnie Thompson Originals. Copyright 1982. Illustrated instructions and charts for creating chess board and complete chess set (32 pieces) in counted cross stitch. Sale.
enlarge | Book | | USA | Yes | 0 |
522 | | M. Czerniak - La Defenca Francesa French Defence by M. Czerniak. Argentina 1960. Sale.
enlarge | Book | | | Yes | 0 |
523 | | Zweispringerspiel in Nachzuge J. Estrin and GM T. Petrosian, Hamburg 1966. 108 pages. for sale
enlarge | Book | | Germany | | 0 |
552 | | The ABCs of Chess - Jaques and Sons, London Fifty two pages of Chess rules / primer. Preface by H.I.C - . Chess rules and problems divided into ten lessons. An appendix - Morals of Chess by Dr. Franklin and several pages of advertizing for John Jaques and Son, Inc. products, mainly Chess sets, clocks and other items, including prices and phot (more...)
enlarge | Book | | England | No | 5.375 |
553 | | Chess by A.W.Ford & Co. Ltd. Bristol , England Rules of Chess. Sixteen pages of basic rules, likely accompanying the "Chess traveling pocket set" made by A.W.Ford, Bristol, England. Staple bound. Likely pre-war 1930s. Sale.
enlarge | Book | | England | Yes | 3.75 |
554 | | The laws of the game of Chess by H.B.Farebrother Ltd Rules of Chess. Revised by W.B.Tattersall. Sixteen pages of basic rules, likely accompanying a Chess set made by H.B.Farebrother, London. Staple bound. Company was dissolved on June 24, 1947 so this booklet is from early 1900. Sale.
enlarge | Book | | England | Yes | 3.75 |
583 | | Every Great Chess Player Was Once a Beginner Great teaching book for the younger ones.
enlarge | Book | | | No | 0 |