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Alpine Chess: A collection of problems by Swiss Composers
by Moriz Henneberger (1878-1959)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
[4], 7-235 pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams, six plates and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited by George Hume and Alain White. Translations by J Schumer. A C White's Christmas series number 27 with Christmas greeting tipped in. Post card from Buschke (signed) to A M S Dickins laid-in. (Betts: 32-24). First edition.
246 assorted problems by various Swiss composers, with biographical notes, solutions, and commentary on each item. Includes portraits of seven composers and index of composers.
Anthony Stewart Mackay Dickins was a fairy chess problem composer and Albrecht Buschke a publisher and seller of rare and collectible chess books.
Condition:
Post card laid-in. Corners bumped, spine gilt dulled else a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JBC019
- Title
- Alpine Chess: A collection of problems by Swiss Composers
- Author
- Moriz Henneberger (1878-1959)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Chess Amateur
- Place of Publication
- Stroud
- Date Published
- 1921
- Pages
- [4], 7-235 pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams, six plates and index.
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Laid-in
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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