Palkoska Emil and White Alain Campbell. Schachprobleme. Weiß: Dame und ein Läufer. Leipzig, Veit, 1911. XVI + 176 pages. In German. Without Christmas greeting (probably wasn't distributed in this book). A. C. White's  Christmas Series volume 14. LN 2612.

On the title page there is a dedication of one of the authors, Emil Palkoska, in Czech: “Panu Jar. Pokornýmu jako řešitelskou cenu šach. rubrika Nár. Politiky v r. 1914.” In English: “To Jar. Pokorny as a solving prize, chess column Nár. Politika in the year 1914.

Emil Palkoska (1871-1955) was a well-known Czech composer, one of the most prominent figures of the Czech Problem School. He composed more than 1500 problems, mainly three-movers. Palkoska ran the chess column in Narodni politika 1907 - 1945, in Nova Praha 1926 - 1930 and in Lidova demokracie 1946 - 1955. In addition to the White edition, he wrote a book Idea and Economy in the Chess Problem (1928 and a second expanded edition in 1947) and the pamphlet Memorial of Ing. Jiri Chocholous in 1931.

Condition - Good: private binding without lettering, some handwritten numbers on the title page, a few stamps of the Prague Chess Club “Klub šachistů Vyšehrad”.