A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs
by Richard Eugene Cheney (1908-1967), Otto Wurzburg, Vincent Eaton and Alain Campbell White (editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
133 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and deckle edges. Overbrook chess series number 4. (Betts: 33-23) First edition limited to 150 copies.
9 three-movers and 3 two-movers with solutions at the end.
Giblert Dobbs (1867-1941) had composed an astonishing number of 2,500 problems, great numbers of them very charming and attractive pieces. He loved the simpler combinations of pure or model mates in three-move form, and turned out literally hundreds of examples, which one could always counted upon to be well worth the solving. Dobbs went on to become a minister in Georgia. (ACB: 1941)
Condition:
Lightly soiled else a very good to fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C1253
- Title
- A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs
- Author
- Richard Eugene Cheney (1908-1967), Otto Wurzburg, Vincent Eaton and Alain Campbell White (editors)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Overbrook Press
- Place of Publication
- Samford
- Date Published
- 1942
- Pages
- 133 pages with diagrams
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
Terms of Sale
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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