Meadley Bob (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pb, v + 189pp. Print run of 500 copies. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Includes life, career, friends, letters, writings and 190 chess problems of Australian composer Bill Wyatt. Most of the problems are direct mates and include 18 with Alexander Goldstein.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4th Edition. ix+242 pages with frontispiece, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in stiff pictorial boards. Foreword by Ralph Binnewirtz and Michael Negele. Updated with additions by Bob Meadley and Paul Dunn. Fourth edition, limited to 250 copies. The fourth edition brings the bibliography up to June 2009. The authors searched through most of the newspaper chess columns in Australia and New Zealand to try and bring forward as much detail on chess as possible. Numbers around brackets at the end of each item are the item number the three booklets published between 1978 and 1989 by van Manen. Numbers in the square brackets are the item number in the third edition. With the advent of digital publications and the World Wide Web, there is now a blurring of the definition of literature. In this book, the authors treated videos, DVDs, Cd-Roms and digital publications in the same way as traditional printed literature. The index includes publication titles, and authors, but newspaper titles are not included as they appear in alphabetical order in Part 3. Condition: A fine copy.…

1st edition card covers Nice copy octavo 189pp., b/w plates, text ills., Problems by the great Australian Chess Problem setter. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation copy signed by Bob Meadley. Loosely inserted a tls from Bob Meadley. Stain on front cover o/w a nice copy. Very scarce.