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On page 94 of Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld's "Fireside Book of Chess" (Simon and Schuster - New York, 1949), mention is made of a book entitled "Quick Mate! 700 Short, Brilliant Games of Chess". (No author or editor's name is given.) I would very much like to locate a copy of this book, but, if Google is any indication, all record of it seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. So I was just wondering: has anyone here ever seen or heard of a copy? If so, where?

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You didn't look very hard. Google gives a link to a game taken from it, along with the information that it's a German book from the 1920s, Schnell Matt: 700 Kurze Brillante Schachpartien. The title you gave is the English translation (of the title, not the book). Abe.com has only one copy, however.