Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

[John Henry]

To my amazement a bike store in Toronto-Laird Dr.-has a very large collection of used books and some chess books plus 2 dozen or so British "Chess" magazines dated around late 1990's-early 2000.In fact the owner is bringing to me a gem from the 1820's next week. These magazines he received from Barbados.

[Alan Baljeu]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

An 1820 magazine about chess? No kidding!

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

An 1820 magazine about chess? No kidding!

Isn't that amazing? Where those resources of the chess literature come from? I suspect very private ones.
:)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

a very large collection of used books

Once I visited that shop looking for a kid's bicycle. It looked like a antiquarian (book) shop :D

What is a price for Chess magazines?

[Stephen Wright]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

According to The Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd ed., the first chess magazine was Le Palamède, edited by Bourdonnais, which began in 1836.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

the first chess magazine was Le Palamède, edited by Bourdonnais, which began in 1836.

books.google has Tome Premier : http://books.google.ca/books?id=gCcC...s_brr=3&pg=PP1

[John Henry]

Re: Bike shop sells Chess books!!!!!

Chess magazines are $1.00 each. It is a book from the 1820's....

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: old Chess books!!!!!

I was recently in David Mason's Fine & Rare books, 366 Adelaide Street West, www.davidmason.com
and they have over a dozen old chess books of various sizes, some from the 1800s but they all were beginner books: how to move the pieces and the names of the openings (including the variations of the King's Gambit).