First and Second Piatigorsky Cup

Author: Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985)Year: 1965-1968Publisher: Ward Richie PressPlace: Los AngelesDescription:2 volumes: xix+240 pages with frontispiece illustrations (including portraits) table, diagrams and index; xxxiii+288 pages with illustrations, table, diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") volume one bound in original red with silver lettering to spine and black and silver decorative cover in original pictorial jacket; volume two bound in original publisher's sea green with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 25-340; 25-388) First editions.Volume one annotated by Samuel Reshevsky and other participants. All 56 games, annotated, with an index of openings. Each competitor annotated the game he considered his best and Reshevsky the remainder. Volume two annotated by Jan H Donner, Tigran Petrosian, Robert Fischer, Lajos Portisch, Boris Ivkov, Samuel Reshevesky, Bent Larsen Minguel Najdorf, Wolfgang Unzicker. Introduction by Gregor Piatigorsky. Al