Baird, W. J. The Twentieth Century Retractor, Chess Fantasies, and Letter Problems. Being a selection of three hundred problems. Enriched with Shakespearean quotations.With 1 portrait plate and many two-color diagrams. Approx. 190 unnumbered leaves. Original red cloth with gilt-decorated front cover and triangular gilt edges. London, Sotheran, 1907. Linde - N. 2577; Betts 39 - 4.

Contains 200 retractors, 100 direct mates of the 'picture' and 'letter' type. Each problem is accompanied by quotations from Shakespeare; all are by the author, who was the inventor of the retractor genre. Solutions appear at the end. The text is printed in blue, the diagrams in blue and red." Beautiful typographic print on toned paper. 

Condition: Original binding. From David DeLucia's Chess Library. 

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