Adventures Composition by Mansfield Comins (6 results)
Published by Daily Post Printers
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar. Secure…packaging for safe delivery.
More imagesPublished by Printed by Daily Post Printers, Liverpool, UK, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United KingdomBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
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Condition: Used - Good
£ 55.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing (previously published in a limited edition in the USA). xii, 200pp, with chess boards play illustrations. Quarter bound in green cloth over red paper-covered boards, with black title label and rook logo on upper panel, black le…ttering on spine. 8ov. Boards are worn and scuffed, gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends. A little toning on free endpapers. Previous owner's name and date neatly inked on the title page. The last four leaves of the volume a little bumped and crease along the long edge (not affecting text). In its original dust wrapper: wrapper is worn, rubbed and chipped on edges, some mild ridged creasing and visible shelf wear on verso. Dust wrapper now protected in a Mylar-style protective sleeve, not adhered to the jacket or volume. The sleeve itself is a little shelf worn. A now hard to find classic text and practical guide to the pursuit of chess problem construction.
More imagesPublished by Daily Post Printers, Liverpool, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 61.26
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. ; xiii, [1], 200 pages. Red papered boards with cloth spine. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 214mm x 135mm. ; 8vo.
Published by Daily Post Printers, Liverpool
- Hardcover
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaBurton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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1948. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 200pp. Illustrations, glossary, solutions. The dust jacket is chipped and worn around the edges with a large piece missing from the bottom of the spine, ink marks on the back panel, and the endpapers are toned. A prize inscription is taped to the front endpaper. "No g…reater artist than Comins Mansfield has existed in the treatment of the popular two-move problem, to which he confines his subject. I have often wondered how his subtle and intricate effects could be presented with the grace and economy of material that we find in the poetry, music and painting of the supreme workers in those arts. The author in his delightful book, which is illustrated by 200 diagrams, draws the veil aside, and shows us how he built up some of the most famous problems, step by step from the first simple ideas". (Games, Chess, Games, Logic).
More imagesPublished by Overbrook Press Stamford, CT, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xiii+216 pages with diagrams and glossary. Royal octavo (10" x 7") bound in original quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over lighter green boards with gilt lettering in green label to cover. Edited by Alain White. This is one of two hundred…and fifty copies From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, printed on Flemish Book laid paper and specially bound. (Betts: 34-12) First edition. This book attempts to illustrate the composer's mind at work in problem construction. In four sections (nineteen chapters): Introductory material (fundamental conventions). Composition of single problems (a. The composer's aim centered in the play; b. The composer's aim centered in the key-move). The composition of related problems. Modern trends in composition. Each section contains chapters author's work. Condition: A fine copy in original publisher onion skin jacket.
More imagesPublished by Overbrook Press, Stamford, CT, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiii+216 pages with diagrams and glossary. Royal octavo (10" x 7") bound in original quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue designed boards with gilt lettering in red label to cover. Edited by Alain White. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur an…d Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of only one hundred and fifty copies printed on rag paper and specially bound. (Betts: 34-12) First edition. This book attempts to illustrate the composer's mind at work in problem construction. In four sections (nineteen chapters): Introductory material (fundamental conventions). Composition of single problems (a. The composer's aim centered in the play; b. The composer's aim centered in the key-move). The composition of related problems. Modern trends in composition. Each section contains chapters author's work. Condition: A fine copy in original publisher onion skin jacket with a tear.
