Author: David DeLucia
Year: 2003
Publisher: Self published
Place: Darien, CT
Description:
236 pages with reproductions, some in color and index. Quarto (11" x 8 k1/2") bound in original publisher's red c;ptj with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition limited to 150 copies.
David DeLucia's chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, manuscripts), and about 1,000 items of "ephemera". DeLucia's library contains such items as "a 15th-century Lucena manuscript, score-sheets ranging from Fischer's Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by Morphy, over a hundred Lasker manuscripts, Capablanca's gold pocket watch, [and] the contract of the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match". Ten Geutzendam opines that DeLucia's collection "is arguably the finest chess collection in the world".
Condition:
A fine copy issued without jacket.