Caissa's Fairy Tales by Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889-1951) - 1947

37 pages with diagrams. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's green wrappers with black lettering to front wrapper. C M Fox Fairy Series, number 5). (Betts: 39-20) First edition.

An inspection of his study and what he left behind helps us to realize the scale and scope of his non-professional activities – the great collection of thousands of classified fairy chess problems in twenty filing cabinets, six more of orthodox chess problems and mathematics, his own problems in fifteen loose leaf binders, a binder with a sheet for every FCR solver, recording solving scores; two further books of cross references by classification to all his chess problems and to the puzzles and problems of numerous types of which he had a large collection; five ms. quarto note books on pure geometry, in effect the solutions of over a thousand geometry problems, all beautifully set out: three large quarto ms. books, "Notes on the Theory of Numbers"; five volumes of chess problem "stories" from which Caissa's Fairy Tales appear to have been compiled

Condition:

Corners bumped, some sunning to edges else a very good copy.