Description
Signed limited edition of My Fifty Years of Chess by Frank J. Marshall.
Octavo, vi, 242pp. Red cloth, title printed in gold over black print on spine. Some wear from handling at top edge of spine. In publishers scarce dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, archival repairs to seams, wear at hinges, some toning to spine, overall in good condition. From a limited edition of 500 signed copies, this being number 9 . Additional inscription to Louis J. Wolff, the President of the Brooklyn Chess Club and lifelong supporter of Marshall. Inscription reads: “To Louis J. Wolff, “The Fruit King.” With kind remembrances from Frank. New York, NY. June 30th, 1942.”
Comments: Frank J. Marshall (1877 – 1944) was the US Chess Champion from 1909 – 1936. He is considered to be one of best chess players of the 20th Century. In this book he declared that Russian Tsar Nicholas II declared him a Grandmaster, but there is some controversy about this designation.
