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[CHESS]. FISKE, WILLARD DANIEL. The Book of the First American Chess Congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857… New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859.
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[CHESS]. FISKE, WILLARD DANIEL. The Book of the First American Chess Congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857… New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859.
8vo. Color frontispiece decorated in gilt. Original publisher’s brick-colored cloth gilt (very slight rubbing to extremities, tiny split at foot of spine). Internally fine. Provenance: contemporary inscription on front flyleaf.
FIRST EDITION of the first American Chess Congress. The frontispiece is a dedication to Paul Morphy, the winner of the tournament. Includes 67 games in the Grand Tournament of 1857 held in New York, with Paul Morphy claiming the first prize. It also covers The Problem Tourney with 53 set-ups and their solutions in the back section of the book. A fine copy.