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100 Chess Problems by William Meredith 1835-1903
by White, Alain Campbell (1880-1951) etal[editors]
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- Condition
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About This Item
[8], 13-224 pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Edited by 100 members of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of Philadelphia. A C White's Christmas series with the Christmas greetings tipped in. (Betts: 33-58). First edition.
Also issued as number 7 in the "Publication fund" series of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club. Contains introductory notes on the man and his compositions by A C White and Otto Wurzburg respectively, 100 of Meredith's problems (2 and 3 movers) each annotated by a different problemist, and a final note on "Meredith and the White King", by George Hume. Includes portrait photographs of some of the annotators.
Condition:
Edges and spine heavily sunned, corners bumped and rubbed, spine heavily rubbed with some fraying and loss to ends else a fair copy.
Also issued as number 7 in the "Publication fund" series of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club. Contains introductory notes on the man and his compositions by A C White and Otto Wurzburg respectively, 100 of Meredith's problems (2 and 3 movers) each annotated by a different problemist, and a final note on "Meredith and the White King", by George Hume. Includes portrait photographs of some of the annotators.
Condition:
Edges and spine heavily sunned, corners bumped and rubbed, spine heavily rubbed with some fraying and loss to ends else a fair copy.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C0762a
- Title
- 100 Chess Problems by William Meredith 1835-1903
- Author
- White, Alain Campbell (1880-1951) etal[editors]
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair/Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Chess Amateur
- Place of Publication
- Stroud
- Date Published
- 1916
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size
- Small octavo
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