David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1940, hardback, viii+279 pp+ 8 full page photos -in glossy paper- of the 8 masters, 410 grams. Condition: good, without notes.

This is a translation, by Lodewijk Prins and Baruch H. Wood, of Zoo Schaken Zij! published in Amsterdam in 1938. The aim of the original work was to introduce to the Dutch chess-playing public the seven grandmasters who competed with Euwe in the A.V.R.O. Tournament held in Amsterdam in 1938. Keres and Fine were the joint winners (although Keres had the higher Neustadtl score), followed by Botvinnik, Alekhine, Euwe, Reshevsky, Capablanca and Flohr. The book has brief biographies of the eight players, a good portrait of each and a few representative games.