59 | | Metal and Penny chess set Precision made, aluminum chess set. Each piece contains two pennies at mid-section, raised on one side, flat on the other. One side black the other silver aluminum. The pieces are stored in a red-lined box with individual compartments for each piece. The game is played on the reverse side of the sto (more...) | Set | Metal | USA | No | 3.125 |
58 | | Balinese hand carved deer horn "erotica" set Erotic "fertility" set. Each piece is explicitly detailed. One side dark brown, the other natural light. Arrival2018. Sale. | Set | Horn-Antler | Bali | Yes | 3.5 |
57 | | Ceramic set by Venezuelan artist Faustina Mendoza Naive chess set hand made of ceramics. Matching chess board included, made of 16 sections of 2x2 squares each. By Venezuelan artist Faustina Mendoza, who is featured in the book "Cultures, Chess and Art", volume 2 - The Americas. Author Ned Munger. | Set | Porcelain-Ceramics | Venezuela | No | 3.75 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
24 | | CHESS - an Illustrated History Raymond Keene
Simon and Schuster, New York
Published 1990
128 pages | Book | | | | 11.25 |
23 | | A Picture History of CHESS Edited by Fred Wilson
Dover Publications, Inc., New York
Published 1981
182 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 |
21 | | Wooden Chess Sets you can make Diana Thompson
Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., East Petersburg, PA, USA
Published 2003
66 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 |
19 | | Artisan "dead men walking" Chess set OOAK. Charming, Artisan Chess set. Beautifully hand made in lovely colors and style. The pieces depict typical figures similar to what was seen in the 2005 Zombies movie Dead Men Walking.
Set is made of Polymer clay, aka flexible pasta, using special additives to help this type of craft and make (more...)
enlarge | Set | Composite | Mexico | Yes | 4 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
15 | | Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess Edited by Harry Golombek
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
Published 1997
360 pages | Book | | | | 10.25 |
14 | | Chess as Metaphore in the art of Samuel Bak Introduction by Jeanlouis Cornuz
Pucker Art Publications, Boston, MA, USA
Published 1991 | Book | | | | 10 |
13 | | Chessmen Frank Greygoose
Arco Publishing, Inc., New York
Published 1979
160 pages | Book | | | | 9.75 |
12 | | Chessmen A.E.J. Mackett - Beeson
Octopus Books
Published 1973
97 pages
123 illustrations in color and b&w | Book | | | | 9.5 |
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 |
10 | | The Art of Chess Colleen Schafroth
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York
Published 2002
175 pages | Book | | | | 9.25 |
9 | | Pleasures and Treasures - Chessmen A.E.J. Mackett-Beeson
G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York
Published 1968
120 pages | Book | | | | 8.5 |
8 | | Collector's Blue Books - Chess Sets F. Lanier Graham
Walker and Company, New York
Published 1968 | Book | | | | 8.25 |
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 |
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 |
5 | | Roi des jeux, jeu des rois Les echecs Jean Michel Pechine
Decouvertes Gallimard Sports Et Jeux
Published 1997
128 pages | Book | | | | 7 |
4 | | Birth of the Chess Queen - A History Marilyn Yalom
HarperCollins Publisher
First Perennial edition was published 2005 | Book | | | | 8.25 |
3 | | Disney's Chess Guide Anatoly Karpov
BT Batsford Ltd., London, England
Pblished 1997 | Book | | | | 8 |
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 |
1 | | Make Your Own Chess Set David Carroll
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA
Published 1974
150 pages | Book | | | | 6.25 |