Schachprobleme Weiß: Dame Und Ein LäUfer Dr. Emil Palkoska - Alain C. White Chess World

Dr. Emil Palkoska - Alain C. White: Schachprobleme Weiß: Dame und ein Läufer - Ein Ausgaben-Sammlung von - - unter Mitwirkung von H. Staerker. /A. C. White Christmas Series 14./ Leipzig, 1911. Veit & Comp. XVI. 176 p. with chess diagrams. First edition. Later half cloth binding. Amateur label on front endpaper. - -- - Palkoskas introduction to the theme and 600 problems by various authors, sorted by motifs. White material is limited to King, Queen and Bishop, usually with Pawns, too. - -- - Emil Palkoska was a Czechoslovakian composer and the author of more than 1200 problems in 3 or more moves in the Bohemian style and in the neo-Czech style. He wrote with Alan C. White's Christmas Series Schachprobleme Weiss: Dame und ein Läufer (1911), Idea a ekonomie v achové úloze in 1928 and Idea a ekonomie v achové úloze II in 1947. He was the editor of the problem column of the newspaper Narodni Politika for 38 years. - -- - 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.