Author: Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)
Year: 1911
Publisher: The Chess Amateur
Place: Stroud
Description:
220+[2] pages. with frontispiece and numerous black and white diagrams. Christmas series volume 11. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Betts: 31-6) First edition.
A C White, a US problemist and benefactor, financed and produced annual problem books as Christmas presents for his friends, from 1905 to 1936. His Christmas presentation for 1910 White Rooks was so popular the following year he presented this volume.
Condition:
Lacks Christmas greeting. Corners gently bumped, previous owner's name to front end paper, spine ends rubbed, some pencil notations else a very good copy.