An Astonishing Overview of DeLucia's Chess Library
by David DeLucia, 394pp. (David DeLucia, 2007)

 

A Few Old Friends (second edition) gives an astonishing overview of the finest books, manuscripts, letters, photos and ephemera that David DeLucia collected over the years. A superb book and of great interest to anyone who likes antiquarian and rare chess books!

 

Edward Winter:
"A book so stunning in terms of both production and content that we can only marvel at it".

Dale Brandreth:
"A spectacular book! (..) Among the treasured depicted in this Second Edition are the Paris Lucena Manuscript, the first edition Damiano, a flawless Carrera, the three editions of Saul (1614, 1640, 1672), the first edition Ruy Lopez, three different-color editions of the London 1883 tournament book (pristine copies), the Dubuque Chess Journal (with collation of this very hard-to-get complete run), St. Petersburg 1895 Tournament book, letters and scores of Alekhine, a commemorative envelope from Em.. Lasker to his wife Martha from Cambridge Springs 1904, the first page of the Cambridge Springs 1904 tournament bulletins (the first tournament bulletins ever), extracts from several Lasker manuscripts (some on mathematics), several Lasker letters, a letter from Einstein to Lasker, Morphy letters, scoresheets, photos, and his chess board, Capablanca scoresheets, Capa's top hat, passport, and watch...and hundreds more extraordinary items. (..) unique in the history of chess literature. I lack enough superlatives to do this second edition justice."

Rare limited edition of 225 copies. Orders will be processed in order of arrival.