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  • It is the most comprehensive undertaking, eclipsing the famous Jeremy Gaige's four-volume work Chess Tournament Crosstables 1851-1930 .

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • It is the most comprehensive undertaking, eclipsing the famous Jeremy Gaige's four-volume work Chess Tournament Crosstables 1851-1930 .

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • A prolific book artist, Asher planned a four-volume set with original texts and images, a portfolio of Arbus Skateboard drawings, and a single over-sized volume of photographs that documented the production of the Skateboards.

    ARTINFO: Gallerist Andrew Roth on How Aperture Wiped Out His Diane Arbus Skateboard Show ARTINFO 2010

  • It is the most comprehensive undertaking, eclipsing the famous Jeremy Gaige's four-volume work Chess Tournament Crosstables 1851-1930 .

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess History: From Bobby Fischer to Hikaru Nakamura Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • Indeed, Freeman's seven volumes (1948-57) debunked the Washington myth so well that Flexner, in writing his four-volume life (1965-72), complained that he had to contend with considerable hostility toward his subject from those who seemed to take an almost perverse delight in detecting the great man's flaws.

    The Life of the Lives Carl Rollyson 2010

  • "I've forgotten how to write short books," she says apologetically, adding that she would like both to be part of a four-volume series on the bourgeois era.

    The New Theories of Moral Sentiments Dalibor Rohac 2012

  • Hazlitt put forward radical political thinking which was proto-socialist and well ahead of his time and was a strong supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte, writing a four-volume biography of him.

    william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • None of the landscapes by Chinese artists have the tonal depth as those published in the Scottish photographer's "Foochow and the River Min," and none of the portraits are as lively and piercing as the ones in his four-volume "Illustrations of China and Its People."

    Chinese Behind the Lens Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Hazlitt put forward radical political thinking which was proto-socialist and well ahead of his time and was a strong supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte, writing a four-volume biography of him.

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Indeed, Freeman's seven volumes (1948-57) debunked the Washington myth so well that Flexner, in writing his four-volume life (1965-72), complained that he had to contend with considerable hostility toward his subject from those who seemed to take an almost perverse delight in detecting the great man's flaws.

    O Captain, Our Captain Andrew Roberts 2010

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