Author: Cyril Henry Stanley "CS" Kipping (1891-1964)
Year: 1916
Publisher: The Chess Amateur
Place: Stroud
Description:
365 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x5 1/4") bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (A C White's Christmas Series. (Betts: 33-44) First edition.
The work actually includes 316 of Kipping's compositions, comprising 153 three-movers, and 10 longer problems. Solutions and single-line descriptive commentaries are given at the end of each group. Also includes general comments on two and three move problems. The post of editor of The Problemist was taken on by C. S. Kipping in 1931 who held the position until his death in 1963.
Condition:
Lacks the Christmas greeting. Previous owner's stamp to front end paper. Issued with out jacket. A good to very good copy.
Year: 1916
Publisher: The Chess Amateur
Place: Stroud
Description:
365 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x5 1/4") bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (A C White's Christmas Series. (Betts: 33-44) First edition.
The work actually includes 316 of Kipping's compositions, comprising 153 three-movers, and 10 longer problems. Solutions and single-line descriptive commentaries are given at the end of each group. Also includes general comments on two and three move problems. The post of editor of The Problemist was taken on by C. S. Kipping in 1931 who held the position until his death in 1963.
Condition:
Lacks the Christmas greeting. Previous owner's stamp to front end paper. Issued with out jacket. A good to very good copy.