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Chess Eccentricities. An old book on Chess variants from 1885.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Paul Kelly wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:06 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

David,
       Have come into possesion of this book.
Do you know its value? 1885 Longmanx Green and Co- Chess Eccentricities-
Major Geeorge Hope Varney h/b good condition.

Paul Kelly

David Howe wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:38 PM UTC:

Hi Paul,

I would think the book is fairly valuable. I would be willing to pay on
the order of $200 for it, but you may be able to get much more than that
depending on the book's condition.

Anthony Stebbings wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 05:32 PM UTC:

A copy of this book is in the John G. White chess collection Cleveland
Public Library, USA; a ms note in the flyleaf says that only 14 copies
were printed.  (http://cpl.org/sdi-special-collections.asp)

My chess club (Charlton chess club, London) owns a copy which it wishes
to
sell.  Does anyone know if eBay is a good place to sell old and rare
chess
books?  Is a reader of Chess Variants interested in acquiring the book?  


Any reply can be posted here or emailed to charltonchess@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks.

John Lawson wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 09:57 AM UTC:

When I was in high school, the Brooklyn Public Library had a copy, but it
does not appear in their online catalogue now.  When I took it out in
1967, the card said the last time anyone had taken it out was 1959.
I would certainly want a copy, and I'm sure there are others who would
also.

John Savard wrote on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 04:40 PM UTC:

I searched for this book on the Web, and have found that two copies of it
are on sale on Abebooks for about U.S. $800.

Google Books does not have a downloadable copy, but its 'find in a
library' feature turns up 15 copies.

Also, several old books with long listings of other books for sale from
the same publisher list this book.

Thus, the note in one library's copy that only 14 copies were printed
does not seem to be accurate.

John Ayer wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 02:46 AM UTC:

A year or so ago a British chess club wanted to sell a copy of this book to raise money, and Fred Wilson of Fred Wilson--Books in New York City said that he had sold several copies over the years, and he didn't believe that only fourteen copies were printed.

JustAnotherGuy wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 01:52 PM UTC:

What is the variant on the picture on the right ?

David Howe wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 05:30 PM UTC:

That is 'Chess for Six Players', by Dr. Max Lange, Weimar, 1881. It uses 3 chess boards layed side-by-side and 3 sets of chess pieces.

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