Feast Bonner (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small pocket-sized Hb, 90pp. Good in a Good plain dj which has light foxing. Contents clean, scuff on fep. light foxing along top edge of page block. Guide to the two-move chess problem, organized into : Introduction; Key-moves; Defences; Mate; Pinning and Unpinning. Includes 144 examples by various composers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B chess: This small 90 page book w index, and dust jacket is very good w a small staine at the spine top of the dj plus hand wear. Tan spine/black title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. First Edition. 90p. A very good copy, the spine is slightly faded, the ends of the spine and the forecorners of the covers are slightly rubbed, and the former owner's name and telephone stamp is on the front free endpaper, the title-page, and on the back paste-down endpaper and his attractive bookplate is on the front paste-down endpaper, no d.j. An errata slip is tipped-in which contains 9 corrections. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xiv+218 with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Edited by George Hume. From the library of Kenneth S Howard. A C White's Christmas Series with greeting tipped in. (Betts: 35-5) First edition. 100 themes (or sub-divisions of themes) described, each accompanied by a group of 6 illustrative examples by various composers. In all, 600 problems, with solutions. Includes indexes and composers, terms and themes. Kenneth Samuel Howard (1882-1972) one of the founders of the Marshall Chess Club and chess problem composer. He wrote several books about chess composition: The enjoyment of chess problems (1943), How to solve chess problems (1945), and One hundred years of the American two-move chess problem; a collection of 212 compositions by United States problemists (1962). Condition: Some pencil marginalia, old review tipped in to front end paper. Howard's signature on front paste down, corners bumped and rubbed through, spine age toned with gilt dulled, spine ends rubbed else a good copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xiv+218 with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Edited by George Hume. Signed by F B Feast. A C White's Christmas Series. (Betts: 35-5) First edition. 100 themes (or sub-divisions of themes) described, each accompanied by a group of 6 illustrative examples by various composers. In all, 600 problems, with solutions. Includes indexes and composers, terms and themes. Condition: Some marginalia, old review tipped in to front end paper. Bonner's signature on front paste down, corners bumped, spine age darkened, spine ends rubbed else a good copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Owner name front free page, dated 1940. No other marks in very lightly read book. 90 pages.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. 90pp., which includes a short bibliography, index and a list of composers of the moves; errata tipped in, bound in blue cloth, lettered in back, spine lettering black; a fine copy in plain printed very good dust jacket with small loss at head of spine and light soiling. Illustrated to show each move. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. F. Bonner Feast and Alain C. White: Simple Two-Move Themes. Edited by George Hume. /A. C. White Christmas Series 30./ Stroud, 1924. Office of The Chess Amateur. XIV. 218 p. with chess diagrams. First edition. Publisher's red full cloth binding. Altogether 600 problems by various authors explaining 100 themes in two-movers (1 theme is illustrated by 6 problems). Index of composers, general index. - Publisher of the series was chess composer and enthusiast Alain Campbell White (1880-1951). A. C. White sent most books of the series to his friends as Christmas gifts. But they were offered for sale, too. The series consists from 44 books on problem chess and one pamphlet from 1912. Most books are hard covers, bound in red cloth with gold lettering, usually written in English, sometimes in German and French and one was partially in Czech. Most books have printed Christmas wish slip by White, usually bound in after a title page. It appears that a part of edition of some books has wish slips and a part does not. Number of copies published of separate volumes is not known.