Chess, India.- The Picnic Magazine, a journal of literature, science, chess and the drama, numbers, 8, 9 and 11, Lothar Schmid's copies, Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co., 1848-1849 (3)

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Chess, India.- The Picnic Magazine, a journal of literature, science, chess and the drama, numbers, 8, 9 and 11, Lothar Schmid's copies, wood-engraved plates, illustrations, and diagrams, occasional spotting or light staining, original printed wrappers, number 9 upper wrapper torn with some loss, all vol. backstrips worn, soiled, 8vo, Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co., October, 1848- February, 1849 (3) sold as periodicals and not subject to return. *** Provenance: Lothar Schmid (1928-2013), German chess Grandmaster and chess book collector. He is best remembered as chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches, most notably the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavík (chess bookplate to inside front wrapper).

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