Looking for DEO Encyclopedia.

[Alex_Moiseyev]

One my Russian friend Michael Shabshai, who recently resides in Israel and also played very well in Beijing, asked me how he can obtain DEO Encyclopedia. Not necessary original, copy would work for him.

Any help / advice are welcome and appreciated.

Sincerely,

AM

[liam stephens]

Have a look at:

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl ... 20checkers

if you have $1,000 or more to spare.

[jaguar72]

And here also, Alex.

No cheaper though, unfortunately... .

http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author ... n=draughts

V/R,

Gary Jenkins/jaguar72

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Thanks everyone for information. I passed it to Michael. In addition - many thanks to Ingo for his terrific offer to Michael.

Alex

[tommyc]

I have in my collection the complete ency of Oldbury Vol.1 ...The Plan,an interesting book.
ps Marked up at an amazing $15 price tag.

[liam stephens]

Wow ! Tommy, and going for $189.25 on Biblio .com

Here's another one going for a song:


1 CROMWELLBOOKS.COM
via ChooseBooks
[United States] Glasgow R. Ferguson 1832; Signed / autographed by checker author Ben Boland on the front endpaper. 2 books bound in 1. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. Hay's book published : Stirling : E. Johnstone 1838. Sinclair's is illustrated with 9 large board engravings with tissue guards, Hay's has 1 board diagram. Bound in contemporary 1/4 brown calf leather over brown cloth boards. Good to very good, moderate rubbing to leather spine, spine hinges starting to crack but still fairly solid, the frontis &... (Sinclair, James ; Hay, William The Game of Draughts; Containing One Hundred Games Illustrated By Several Diargrams ; and, The Game of Draughts : Containing Upwards of Four Hundred New Games B1667) $50,020.50

[tommyc]

Jeepers..........imagine that Liam must be a mistake?

[liam stephens]

No mistake Tommy, except for the poor mug handing over all that dosh !

I have two old periodicals, the Leeds Weekly Draught Player and the Draught Players’ Weekly Magazine bound into one hard backed book. I wonder what that might be worth ?

Of the former, W G Parker wrote:

The writing and tabular work deserves the often mis-used term “copper-plate”, and to look through the book today is to realise that penmanship is indeed one of the lost arts. It is recorded that the Book of Kells, perhaps the finest illuminated manuscript in the Irish style extant, that the intricate interlacings of the characteristic Celtic ornamentation have been drawn without error for page after page. In much the same way, few blemishes mar the good work of the lesser craftsmen of Leeds. In Trinity College, Dublin, if you are privileged to handle the Book of Kells, you are first given clean white gloves to don … and the Leeds Weekly Draught Player deserves to be treated with almost equal care.

New Draughts World, Vol 1, No 10, August 1937.

P S - I, usually, use surgical gloves when looking at the contents of my Draughts Books.

[Jay H]

"No mistake Tommy, except for the poor mug handing over all that dosh !"

Hey Liam,
I am pretty sure Cromwell will be sitting on that book for a long time....LOL!!!

Regards

Jay H

[tommyc]

Cromwell(Oliver) wasnt that the guy who raped and ravaged and plundered Ireland, was gonna be King of England and then in a complete about-turn they threw him in the dungeon ,starved him to death buried him ,and then dug him up and hanged him??

If thet be so JAY HE CAN SIT ON EM ALL HE WANTS ............but he sitting on mine.

[Jay H]

Cromwell(Oliver) wasnt that the guy who raped and ravaged and plundered Ireland, was gonna be King of England and then in a complete about-turn they threw him in the dungeon ,starved him to death buried him ,and then dug him up and hanged him??

If thet be so JAY HE CAN SIT ON EM ALL HE WANTS ............but he sitting on mine.

Hehehehe...
whoops...
Cromwell books I meant, I meant.

More on topic....
Alex,
Dennis Beadell's neice had a complete copy for sale on Ebay last year, and I don't think it sold. I e-mailed her and questioned the availability...if I hear back from her, I'll put you in contact.....

Regards

Jay H

[Jay H]

Update
As of 6/7/10,This set is no longer available.....

Regards,

Jay H

[Patrick Parker]

no clue of the website but ive seen deos books for sale on an australian website

[Danny_Alvarez]

I saw it recently at abebooks.com for 150 is that a typo? Or are they trying to mug me?

[Alex_Moiseyev]

DEO Encyclopedia has 6 volumes and today it's a big raritet. If this price $150 is for all 6 of them (I don't think so) - take it immediately, this is very good, fantastically cheap deal.

It is more likely that $150 is just a price for one volume only - not surprise me at all !

AM