NOTE: From 1952 - 1959 when Sterling Publishing originally printed Reinfeld's 'The Books of Chess' as a series of 8 individual books, which totaled 818 printed pages at the 5.25" x 7.75" page size; however, when Double Day later created and published the all-in-one abridged omnibus edition, also in the 5.25" x 7.75" page size - now entitled as: The Complete Chess Course - they did so with a reduced page count, now only totaling 685 printed pages - or a total difference of 133 printed pages of Reinfeld's writing left out of the all-in-one omnibus edition. I can tell you that the major victim of editing was specifically from The First Book of Chess which as an individual book, properly ran 126 printed pages; and yet, the editors at Double Day only republished 33 printed pages, appearing as the first chapter, entitled: Book One, within The Complete Chess Course - being a loss of 93 printed pages of original Reinfeld (and I.A Horowitz) material.
I have not yet discover what other Reinfeld material was editing out by Double Day from the original 8 Books of Chess which makes up the additional and unaccounted for 40 pages of missing content - taken away form the other 7 original books, upon creating the abridged omnibus.
To see what original Reinfeld material was left out of The Complete Chess Course a detailed and descriptive table of contents is presented in the Forum thread which is specific to The First Book of Chess https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/the-first-book-of-chess
I would like to open this new club with a thread on the mother of all Reinfeld works, The Complete Chess Course, and would love to learn who has completed all 8 Books of Chess - either the individually printed series, or, the monster all-in-one tome - or who is working in the course currently, etc. Please share your experience with this Reinfeld classic here.