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34 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The present proliferation of opening theory makes it increasingly difficult for the professional and amateur alike to keep abreast of the latest developments. The present booklet is intended to be a pocket book of up-to-date and dangerous information, suitable for bathtime reading and light enough to carry to tournaments.Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

365 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Small-time British film producer Charlie Kavanagh's incredible good luck in landing a TV interview with Israeli foreign minister David Bermant and four colleagues sounds too good to be true, and it is: the show is to provide the setting for Bermant's assassination. From the very beginning you can tell that Julia Cornwall--the sexy, willing, suspiciously inexperienced director who recruits Charlie--is up to no good, especially after Eric Lowe, their junior partner on the shoot, kills the actor pretending to be Charlie's backer a few minutes after their meeting, and Charlie watches a bomb in a London airport hotel just fail to vaporize deputy foreign minister Yaacov Tyler. But although Julia keeps producing one phony autobiography after another, it takes besotted Charlie nearly 200 entertaining pages to put together the pieces… Read More

xi+242 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Lusis: 1052) First edition. The art of successful chess playing consists of the ability to combine the strategic principles of chess with the combinational and tactical methods of combat. Strategy comprises the general plan of the game: determining the main thrust, arranging the pieces through development, establishing the pawn configuration, making decisions concerning transpositions to the end game and so on All of these are governed by general positional theory and the judgment of specific positions. This book makes this study easier through a methodical and orderly examination of tactical elements of chess. Condition: Corner bumped, spine end rubbed else a very good copy lacking jacket.

214+[9 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by Jeno Bochkor. First American edition. first published in 1963 by Cornvina Press, Budapest. How to snatch draws from lost positions and wins from equality or worse. Clear presentation of such tactics as walling in, self-pinning, perpetual attack, blockading, much more. 240 chess diagrams. Condition: Heal corners bumped else very good.

Departamiento de Estudios Hi 1966 Buenos Aires, 1966 Very good issued in wrappers 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo vii, 164p Previous owner's name on front wrapper, light edge wear. Pologo por D Humberto F Burzio.. Soft cover.

67+[1 ad] pages with diagrams, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Lusis: 916) First edition. The author offers a system to the reader, which he can use versus a certain opening set of moves. Versus the Najdorf Sicilian, for example, a complete treatment of 6 Bg5 might require some 600 pages. But a specific set of plans for White versus all responses to 6 Bg5 could take as few as e.g. 40 pages. Condition: Lightly soiled, points rubbed and bumped else a very good copy.

xiv+369 pages with plates, figures, drawings, maps (some folding), tables, illustrations, appendices and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology Publication Number 13. First edition. This volume (Part 1 of the report) opens with a series of chapters designed to give background for the Totonac as a whole, followed by a detailed discussion of economy, housing and technology of the Tajin Totonac. Condition: Library stamp and withdrawn stamped over library mark on front wrapper, soiled, edge wear, corners bumped else about very good.

Doubleday & Co 1978 Garden City, 1978 Very good in a about very good dust jacket First Edition Hardbound Octavo x, 178p Some inscect dameage to spine, some soiling. DW edge wear.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

117 pages with tables. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") unbound document. 37th Congress, 3rd Session. House of Representatives Document, number 166. (Howes M740aa. Cowan 317) First edition. In 1842 the commander of an American squadron in the Pacific, Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, hearing a report that war had broken out between the United States and Mexico, seized the port of Monterey and hoisted the American flag. When the report proved to be false, he withdrew and apologized. But his act revealed the temper of American naval policy in the Pacific." Merk History of the Westward Movement 356-357. Jones's apparently unauthorized action suggested the extent to which some Americans were spoiling for a fight with Mexico. A successful war would create a vast domain south and west for American expansion. Howes says this document is "said to have been suppressed." It contains all the correspondence and information concerning the matter, with express U.S. assurances that the seizure was totally unauthorized.… Read More

Original carbon quarto (11 1/2" x 8 1/4") score sheet printed on official stationery of the event in Viswanathan Anand's hand. Signed by both Jan Timman and Viswanathan Anand, played in round five, April 17, not signed by the arbiters of the match. Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Worrall Attack Castling line with win by Anand after 45 moves.The 1st International Tal Memorial Chess tournament was held in the magician's hometown of Riga, Latvia from April 12th to the 24th, 1995. It was the first tournament in a series of three organized by the PCA that year as a "Super Classic." The following two tournaments were held in Novgorod at the end of May, and Horgen after the completion of the PCA world championship match. Eleven grandmasters, including the world champion, were invited to compete in the round robin event. The participants were (in order of PCA rating): Garry Kasparov (2789), Vassily Ivanchuk (2764), Vishwanathan Anand (2758), Vladimir Kramnik (2713), Artur Yusupov (2676), Jaan Ehlvest (2669),… Read More

xxix+354 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over pictorial paper boards. Introduction by John T Flanagan. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 171. In 1830 there was published anonymously in Boston a small volume entitle "Tales of the Northwest," a thick duodecimo which chronicled with authenticity the life of the Indian, as the author had experienced it, in the Mississippi Valley. It was the first collections of short tales published in the Untied States but also as the first literary treatment of the territory lying at the headwaters of the Mississippi. This marked the earliest appearance in American literature of the plains Indians who once claimed as their heritage eternal right to roam over the land that now comprises the stares of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the two Dakotas. Condition: Spine ends and corners rubbed, corners bumped. edge wear. Pictorial front cover else a good to very good copy.

376 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and full red label to cover. First edition. Here is a first-hand description of some of the doings in the slimy, mysterious places of the largest city in England. Here the detectives of Scotland Yard know of many strange things and see the results of the workings of such evil minds as Dr. Fu Manchu. The author is one of the few men who has penetrated the secrets of the Limehouse underworld sufficiently to enable him to write about them authentically and interestingly. Here are sudden deaths in peculiar ways, mysterious disappearances and all sorts of crimes --- where human life is valued none too highly. Condition: Slightly cocked, points rubbed, soiled and scuffed, spine sunned else about very good lacking jacket.