Search Results: Books from Glynn's Books

Los Angeles: Players Press, 1981. Pb, 113pp. Fair+. Covers and spine scuffed and creased, contents clean. Includes a recommended list of chess books, courses of study, practice positions.. Soft Cover.

London: London Chess Centre, 1990. Pb, 120pp. Fair+. Front cover sunned/darkened on lower half, contents clean, light speckles along edge of page block. 110 annotated games from the late 1980s, organized into French Winawer, Classical, Tarrasch and Advance variations.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dallas: Chess Digest, 1992. Pb, 128pp. Fair+, corner wear, clean contents. Examines the Moeller Attack in the Giuoco Piano and the Max Lange against the Two Knights. Contents: The positional Giuoco and other alternatives; Intro: Moeller Attack; Old Main Moeller; New Moeller; Euwe's Strong Point variation; Intro: Max Lange; Max Lange Main Line; Anti-Max Lange variation; Other Giuoco defences.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: IEA (Institute of Economic Affairs), 1997. Pb, 111pp. Good+, clean contents, marginal wear. Collection of the author's articles written for IEA's journal " "Economic Affairs", in which he exposes popular economic fallacies e.g. with regard to free trade, the abilities of governments to control economies, the use of fiscal policy to control inflation and the effects of government regulation of markets.. Soft Cover.

John Murray, 1983. Pb, xxxii + 432pp. Good, a few pages have brief inked notation/ticks. This 4th ed also includes all the poems from " A Nip in the Air".. Soft Cover. Good.

N.Y.: Da Capo, 1988. Pb, 302pp, b/w photos. Good+, clean contents, slightly sunned back cover. With a new preface by Dan Morgenstern. Includes many recollections of the great jazz musician; his views on work, music-making, politics, marriage, home life, racialism, his travels, his experiences with drugs, acquaintance with the mobsters of the early 1930s, and explores the secret of his long-lasting success.. Soft Cover.

N.Y.: RHM Press, 1975. Pb, 160pp. Good(-), covers curling, sunned at edges and with light creases. Contents clean other than glue residue along inner hinge. Career and 65 annotated games (plus additional game fragments) showing the development of Bobby Fischer's dynamic style, from the 1955 U.S. Junior Chess Championship to Reykjavik 1972. Descriptive notation.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. Pb, 128pp. Good+, previous owner's name on inside front cover. Part of the Master bridge series. Collection of "fairly difficult" problems to help improve defensive play in bridge.. Soft Cover. Good+.

London: Tate Publishing, 2002. Pb, 80pp, colour illustrations. VG, clean contents. Published to accompany the exhibition on Matisse Picasso at Tate Modern, London in 2002 which later transferred to Paris and New York. It is not a catalogue but an account of the evolving relationship and creative dialogue between the two artists, as well as highlighting shared themes in their work. Includes 61 colour and 9 black and white illustrations.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Beyer Verlag, 1986. In German. Pb, 120pp. VG(-), clean contents. 140 endgame positions taken from tournament games, with multiple-choice options. Includes detailed answers and score sheet.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Dallas: Chess Digest, 1986. Pb, 80pp. Good light cover wear, clean contents. Covers the Guioco Piano/Two Knights, QGD, Catalan, English opening. Descriptive notation.. Soft Cover. Good.

Ramsbury: Crowood, 1989. Pb, 178pp. Fair. Sunned spine, foxing/marks along edge of page block and on a few pages, previous owner's name (chess player/author Andrew Greet) on inside front cover and half-title page. Revised English edition of the German publication of three years earlier. For players unhappy with the "main-line" analysis of Queen's Pawn Openings, this volume contains theory and complete annotated games exploring variations of The Vulture and Classicial Vulture, the "Hawk", the Woozle and other systems after 1 d4 c5.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Davenport: Chessco, 1976. Pb, spiral-bound, 120pp. Fair+, previous owner's name on inside front cover, a few pages have brief inked underlining, a couple of the spiral bands have broken off. Written in a column format, examines the Danish gambit, Scotch gambit and Goring gambit and their transpositions.. Soft Cover.

Longman, 1978. Pb, 196pp, b/w illustrations. Good, light cover wear, clean contents. Part of the Preface Books series of critical studies of major writers. Contents : Part 1 The Background (Spenser's life, political and historical background, philosophical and scientific background, poetic background); Part 2 Five critical analyses; Part 3 Reference section (short biographies etc.).. Soft Cover.

London: Batsford, 1979. Pb, 158pp. Fair+, covers sunned/darkened, contents clean. Analysis of the Classical French defence except for the MacCutcheon (includes Albin-Chatard attack, Frankfurt varition, Steinitz variation, Rubinstein variation etc.) along with a repertoire for Black against alternatives to 3 Nc3. Includes illustrative games.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Margraten: Jan van Reek, 1991. In Dutch. Pb booklet, staple-bound, 27pp. VG, clean contents. 12 endgame studies featuring Knights, with commentary.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Batsford, 1995. Pb, 143pp. Good, previous owner's name on inside front cover and a related article has been glued-in. Includes many examples from top-level tournament play. Coverage of the reasons for contesting the auction, the alternatives (simple overcall, jump overcall, INT overcall, take-out double), the correct response to a partner's overcall and the continuing auction.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ramsbury: Crowood, 1987. Pb, vii + 119pp. Good, clean contents, light cover wear. Contents: Basic mates; Extra material; The pieces; Pawn structure; Space advantage; Pawns vs pieces; Tactics; Material inequality; Swindles; Think!. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Brighton: B.B. Enterprises, 1996. Pb, 112pp. VG, clean contents. Coverage of the 1996 chess match between the world champion and Deep Blue, including background (half the book) with earlier games against computers, and the six games of the match, annotated. Kasparov won 4-2.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Sheffield: Waterthorpe Information Services, 1995. Pb booklet, staple-bound, 32pp. Good+, presentation sticker of British Chess Problem Society on inside front cover, stamp of the Society Library on title page. 108 two-move chess problems by the author, with commentary. They were originally assembled for a quick-solving competition held by the BCPS.. Soft Cover. Good.