Overbrook Press Chess Problem Books

A century of two-movers.
F. Gamage - An Artist in Chess Problems
A Chess Silhouette. One hundred chess problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs.
A Sketchbook of American Chess Problematists. 1942.
The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union 1923-1943
Variation Play. A Study in the Mechanisms and Relationships of Black Moves in the Two-Move Chess Problems.
C. Mansfield : Adventures in Composition. The art of the two-move chess problem. By Comins Mansfield. Edited by Alain White.
To Alain White. A Tribute from his friends on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday March the third, 1945
  1. A.C. White, C. Mansfield, F. Gamage & V. Eaton: A Century of Two-Movers. Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1941. 8°, 213 pages; ed. of 350 copies. L/N 2843; Betts 36 - 6 / Condition : a very small faded stripe (about 0,5 cm) on top of the cover. Gilt edges on top. Overall Assessment = Very Good! 
  2. A.C. White. F. Gamage. An Artist in Chess Problems. Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1941. 8°, 227 pages; ed. of 250 copies. L/N 2849; Betts 33 - 31 / Ex-libris Mr. David DeLucia. Condition : Gilt edges on top. Overall Assessment = Excellent! 
  3. R. Cheney, V. Eaton, O. Wurzburg & A.C. White (eds.): A Chess Silhouette. One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs. Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1942. ed. of 150 copies. L/N 2851 Condition : Overall Assessment = Very Good! 
  4. A.C. White, E.W. Allen, B.M. Marshall: A Sketchbook of American Chess Problematists. 2 Volumes. Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1942. 8°, vol. 1 – 138 pages; vol. 2 – 163 pages; ed. of 250 copies. L/N 2857; Betts 32 - 32, in a slipcase with original very thin brown paper wraps encasing the hardback bindings, Ex-libris Mr. David DeLucia. Condition = slipcase with very slight wear. Overall Assessment = Excellent!
  5. A. Buschke, R. Cheney & A.C. White: The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union 1923-1943. Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1943. 8°, 62 pages; ed. of 300 copies. L/N 2859; Betts 36 - 7, Condition = a tiny tear and hole on the original very thin brown paper wrap encasing the hardback binding. Overall Assessment = Very Good to Excellent!
  6. W. Jacobs & A.C. White: Variation Play. A Study in the Mechanisms and Relationships of Black Moves in the Two-Move Chess Problems.  Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1943. 122 pages and 131 diagrams; ed. of 225 copies. L/N 2866; Betts 35 - 7. With a handwritten dedication from R. Cheney to Reuben Fine. Condition = slight wear to top and lower part of the spine, corners slightly bumped. cover edges with some slight shelf wear. Overall Assessment = Very Good!
  7. C. Mansfield: Adventures in Composition. The Art of The Two-Move Chess Problem. Ed. by A.C. White, Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1944. 8°, 212 pages; ed. of 400 copies. 150 on W&A rag paper. This copy is printed on W&A rag paper. This edition is much scarcer than the Flemish Book laid paper green binding edition. L/N 2878; Betts 34 - 12.  Ex-libris Mr. David DeLucia. Original very thin white paper wrap encasing the hardback binding. Condition = Overall Assessment = Excellent!
  8. E.W. Allen & E.M. Hassberg (eds.): To Alain White. A Tribute from his friends on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday March the third, 1945. Loosely inserted: A Note of Thanks from Alain White. Stamford, The Overbook Press, 1945. 8°. With 1 plate, 77 pages; ed. of 300 copies. L/N 2889; Betts 33 - 86. Ex-libris Mr. David DeLucia. Condition = slight discoloration to back board, slight shelf wear, corners bumped, light foxing on the last two endpapers. Overall Assessment = Good to still Very Good!

 

Overbrook Press Chess Problem Books