Once Upon A Time, and A Very Good Time it was, there were no major chess book publishers. Chess publishing was a niche business, with such heroes as Fred Reinfeld, Iriving Chernev, Alfred Kalnajs, Albrect Buschke, and Al Horowitz.  Al Horowitz, international master, was a brave man. In 1933 he started Chess Review, the magazine that Beth Harmon steals in The Queen's Gambit. Who starts a chess magazine during the Great Depression? Well, he did.

A similarly brave man was in Omaha, Nebraska. His name was Jack Spence. He brought out limited editions of famous tournaments; if not for his series on the U.S. Opens, many of those games would have long since been lost. We offer you one of his works, the 55th U.S. Open held in New Orleans. There were 109 players; first place was shared by a very young Larry Evans of the U.S. and Arturo Pomar of Spain. There are 187 games, typed, in English Descriptive notation.

There were only 200 copies of this issue printed; this is number 20.

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