Baird edith mrs (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. General shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards. Light staining to front board. Edges of textblock gilt. Light age toning throughout interior, as expected. Shelved in Case 12. 1417415. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. BAIRD, Mrs W. J. [Edith Elina Helen Winter-Wood] (1859-1924). Seven Hundred Chess Problems Selected From The Compositions of Mrs W. J. Baird. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1902. 1st Edition. 4to (285x203mm), 418pp [pages unnumbered], 630 direct mates (286 two-movers, 315 three-movers, 24 four movers, 5 five-movers) and 70 self-mates, with solutions at the end. Very Good. Original blue cloth binding with gold gilt chess decorations on the front board and the same embossed on the rear. Gold gilt lettering on the spine and gold page edges. Gold and white decorative endpages. Portrait opposite the title page protected by tissue paper guard. Printed in blue ink with blue and red printed chessboards. Small number of marks/blemishes on the front and rear boards, some scratches on the rear board and rubbing of the cloth at the head and base of the spine. The front and rear endpages have very small areas of damage where the top layer of the paper appears to have been removed by some tape (approx 0.5cm area). There is also a small tear along the left hand edge of the tissue guard. Light foxing on the title page, but this is not present throughout the rest of the book. Pages are bright and clean. The textblock is square and the binding stable and in excellent condition. This is a legendary chess book, the first of "The Queen of Chess" Edith Baird, published in 1902. Mrs Baird was a British 'Chess Composer', setting chess puzzles for The Times and in two books. Her puzzles, to this day, are considered challenging and novel. This was the first collection of her puzzles published and this is a stunning book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. unpaginated (418 pages) with frontispiece portrait and column diagrams. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt cover, page ends in gilt, decorative flower gilt end papers, beveled edges. The text is printed in blue, the diagrams in blue and red. (Betts: 33-5) First edition. 630 direct mates (286 two-movers, 315 three-movers, 24 four movers, 5 five-movers) and 70 self-mates, with solutions at the end. 2 large diagrams are given to each page. In the mid 1880s, Baird started composing chess problems and within a few years had gained a reputation in the field. In 1888, she took third prize in a Sheffield chess-composition tournament, the first of over two dozen subsequent prizes. Her most celebrated success came in 1893 when she won an international chess-composition tournament against a number of the most notable chess composers of the day. She became the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world, with over 2000 problems to her credit. These were published in newspapers such as the Times of London. Some of these are still considered sound, many are considered elegant, and some are novelties such as letter problems, in which chess pieces have to form the shapes of letters. Baird published two books of her problems: Seven Hundred Chess Problems (1902) and The Twentieth Century Retractor (1907). The first book took her 14 years to complete. Condition: Points and spine ends rubbed through else about a very good copy of a scarce chess item issued without jacket.…