Marco, Georg and Schlechter, Carl. Internationale Schachmeisterturnier in Karlsbad 1907. Eine Sammlung der 210 Partien des Turniers mit ausführlichen Erläuterungen und 685 Diagrammen. Wien, Wiener Schachzeitung, (1908). In German. VII, 426 pages, 4 plates with photos (Tietz, Maroczy, Rubinstein, group photo). LN 5284.

The first of the famous Carlsbad tournaments and the first international tournament on Czech soil. Contains all 210 games from the tournament with annotations. The winner was Rubinstein ahead of Maroczy. The last tournament of Mikhail Chigorin, who in Carlsbad was diagnosed with severe and incurable diabetes, with only a few months to live.

Condition - Good Minus: private half-cloth binding with label on spine. Spine slightly skewed. Book block reinforced with linen strips. Internally somewhat browned, with some red pencil annotations and rather tightly trimmed at the top. A few pages with repaired defects.