T[homas] R[ayner] Dawson and W[olfgang] Pauly: Asymmetry /A.C. White Christmas Series 34./ Stroud, 1927. Office of "The Chess Amateur". 154 p. with chess diagrams. First edition. Publisher's red full cloth binding. Amateur label on the front endpaper. - -- - Foreword and 100 asymmetric problems (those having symmetrical starting position and asymmetrical solution). Solution with 25 more problems in the end. - -- - Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889 1951) was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as "the father of Fairy Chess". He invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He introduced the popular fairy pieces grasshopper, nightrider, and many other fairy chess ideas. - Wolfgang Pauly (1876-1934) was a well-known German-Romanian composer in chess. In total about 5000 compositions of all fields are known by him, many of them self-matches and fairy chess problems. He was often mentioned with William Anthony Shinkman and Otto Wurzburg as one of the three best chess composers of his time. - Publisher of the series was chess composer and enthusiast Alain Campbell White (1880-1951). A. C. White sent most books of the series to his friends as Christmas gifts. But they were offered for sale, too. The series consists from 44 books on problem chess and one pamphlet from 1912. Most books are hard covers, bound in red cloth with gold lettering, usually written in English, sometimes in German and French and one was partially in Czech. Most books have printed Christmas wish slip by White, usually bound in after a title page. It appears that a part of edition of some books has wish slips and a part does not. Number of copies published of separate volumes is not known.
