i found a book

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i found a book

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has anyone heard of an old book by ellsworth
i found it scanned and posted on a search engine
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William Timothy Call, wrote “Literature of Checkers” and “Vocabulary of Checkers” He believed that he owned the last surviving copy of some of the oldest and rarest checker / draught books of his time. He wrote about them in the above books.

W. T. Call’s – Ellsworth’s Checker Book – 1899 – PB
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Re: i found a book

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link?
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Re: i found a book

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its posted on google ...if u have gmail
u can find it under the features
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