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Chess Lyrics

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Mackenzie, A. F.: Chess Lyrics: A Collection of Chess Problems by A. F. Mackenzie 1887-1905. Edited by A. C. White. New York, J. H. Graham, 1905. XCIV + 476 + (4) p. A Supplement to Chess Lyrics (Prescott, J. H. Graham, 1906, 18 pages numbered as…

A century of two-movers.

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limited edition of 350 copies

A Sketchbook of American Chess Problematists. 1942.

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limited edition of 250 copies, 2 volumes

More White Rooks

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Title 11 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". A sequel to Nr 10, with 400 more Rook problems, 100 of them in big diagrams. Index of composers. Original purple cloth edition with gold-embossed print on cover and spine. 220 + (4 blank) pages,…

PROBLEMS BY MY FRIEND

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A selection of 185 problems of various types dedicated to Alain C. White on his 50th birthday in 1930. Besides 7 portraits of composers there is one more photo of A. C. White in frontispiece (so ACW has 2 photos in the book). Index of composers. 251…

A GENIUS OF THE TWO-MOVER. C.MANSFIELD

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114 two-movers by C. Mansfield (1896-1984). 118 + (1) + (1 blank) pages. Red cloth. 19 cm. (Description by Karel Mokry from chessbookshop.com, last visited 18.12.2017). Former owners André Cheron and Lothar Schmid.

F. Gamage - An Artist in Chess Problems

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limited edition of 250 copies

VALVES AND BI-VALVES

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Title 38 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". 124 problems by various authors, all in full-page diagrams. About 20 more problems are within solutions, foreword and one as a frontispiece. There is also an appendix of problems from a tournament…

ALPINE CHESS

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TITLE 27 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". More than 200 problems (100 of them in full-page diagrams) and also a few endgames by 37 Swiss composers. Some biographical notes. Index of composers. Original red cloth edition with gold-embossed…