Author: Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935) inscribed
Year: 1925-1927
Publisher: Schachverlag Bernard Kagan
Place: Berlin
Description:
Published in five parts 368 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Inscribed by the author on title page. From the library of David DeLuca (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 1436) First edition.
My System (German: Mein System) is a book on chess theory written by Aron Nimzowitsch. Originally over a series of five brochures from 1925 to 1927, the book—one of the early works on hypermodernism—introduced many new concepts to followers of the modern school of thought. It is generally considered to be one of the most important books in the history of chess.
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".
This edition has been valued and sought after as a chess classic since it appeared
Condition: Nimzowitsch's inscription on fly leaf. David DeLucia's book plate to front paste down. Pages age toned, binding loose. Covers soiled. Corners and spine ends rubbed through else a good copy.
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