ADVENTURES IN COMPOSITION THE ART OF THE TWO- MOVE CHESS PROBLEM
by Mansfield, Comins
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944.. Small quarto. Quarter gilt cloth and boards, gilt label. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition. Edited by Alain White. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of two hundred and fifty copies printed on laid paper. CAHOON, p.42.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT38999
- Title
- ADVENTURES IN COMPOSITION THE ART OF THE TWO- MOVE CHESS PROBLEM
- Author
- Mansfield, Comins
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed at the Overbrook Press
- Place of Publication
- Stamford
- Date Published
- 1944.
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We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Quarto
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- Gilt
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