Changing Fashions: 150 Chess Problems

Author: George Hume (1862-1936) Year: 1925 Publisher: Chess Amateur Place: Stroud Description: 208 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Edited by Alain C White. A C White's Christmas series. (Betts: 33-43) First edition. Hume provides the introduction on his problem career, including references to those appearing in the book. The 150 problems which follow consist of 37 two-movers; 35 three-movers; 74 self-mates (mostly in two); and a few others. The solutions, with annotations by A C White, appear on pages 153-199. The work is completed by a chess problem story "Uncle Jeff's problem", written by Hume in 1901. Condition: Lacks Christmas greeting. Points rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends lightly rubbed, covers lightly soiled, pages lightly rippled, some occasional pencil marginalia. A very good copy without jacket as issued.