The World-Championship Match Between Dr. Machgielis Euwe and Dr. Alexander Alekhine October-December 1937
Sutton Coldfield, England: Chess 1938. First Edition. [6], [9]-79. [ 1-blank ], [1], [3-ads] pages. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titling on front panel. Boards soiled and worn at extremities. Cloth bubbled in a few places. Clean internally, a fundamentally sound binding. Previous owners name inked on rear endpaper "Hugh A. Forrest" The spine titles are "Alekhine-Euwe 1937" and "Ed. Baruch H. Wood" (faded and worn). Good. Cloth. [11708]
Contains the 30 games with annotations by Alekhine and Euwe and other leading masters together with exclusive statements and news of the contestants and of the match, collected and edited by Wood (editor of "Chess"). The Foreword mentions that the book is a collection of articles that had, or will, appear in Chess and were worthy "of elevation to the less ephemeral status of a book."
Scarce, with less than a dozen copies in OCLC/Worldcat as of this writing (8/24/2022)
Price: $95.00