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Dallas, Texas: Chest Digest, Inc., 1987. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. Small 8vo. Andrew Soltis is International Grandmaster of Chess. The book examines "an essentially simple set of variations, linked organically together, which leads to at least a small advantage for White (chess pieces are black or white)." Book is in near fine condition with no markings… Read more about this item

Chicago, Ill.: M. A. Donohue & Company Book. Good. Cloth Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reprint. Noted author of young boy's adventures, no date listed, early 1900s, 314 pages. Book, hinges tight, no markings pages are age-tanned, title page is loose but attached. binding is blue cloth hard cover with red and black illustration of a… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Small 8vo. Chapters in this book includes: How Skill Develops; Typical Mistakes By Young Players; and Developing a Repertoire. The 199 pages are age-tanned on the edges. Book is in very good condition with no markings and tight hinges. 0020290802 - spine blue with white title… Read more about this item

New York: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Book. Illus. by N/A. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 0375404619, 343 pp. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Book is as new with no markings or blemishes..

Wickliffe, Ohio: Process Controls and Optimization Publishing Company, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by M.A. Keyes and L.S Rice on the title page. Photos and illustrations throughout. The book has near fine hardbound cover with blue and gilt title, and the dust jacket has shelf wear but otherwise very good to near find condition. There is a picture of… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Cosmos Press, 1933. Book. Illus. by N/A. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Photograph of Gifford facing the title page. Text block has no markings, but has faint moisture stain on top corner of pages 53-91 but no signs of mildew. Hard back cover hinges are tight and front has large moisture stain.… Read more about this item

Dallas, Texas: Chest Digest, Inc., 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chess strategies for playing black against white in competition. Book is in Very good plus condition with no markings or blemishes. 186 pages of instructions and analyses of various ways to attack the opponent. Illustration on front cover of three chess pieces.… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Chess Review, 1946. Book. Very Good. Cloth Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The author presents 300 opening traps, "...how to set them and how to avoid falling into them --- a vital element of chess tactics." Diagrams with moves. Book is overall very good with no markings or blemishes on the inside… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1946. Book. Good to very good. Cloth Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the final book of Ernie Pyle's war reporting. Pyle was in Africa, Italy, D-Day on the European continent, The Mariana islands, on an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa, seeing Okinawa secured. Then he… Read more about this item

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1941. Book. Good. Cloth Hard Cover. 4th Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The author presents, with diagrams and discussion, to help the student "who wishes to perfect his knowledge of any branch of the endgame" of chess. Small 12mo - over 6-3/4" to 7-3/4" tall. Hard cover blue cloth worn… Read more about this item

Delmont, PA: Penn Woods Products, Inc., 1983. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Coming across a wild-eye with wings at full spread may give you pause as you hike on the trails. Most people would not know what to do in that case. Author Wayne Bailey, a professional wildlife biologist spent his working days studying… Read more about this item

Longmans Green and Co., Ltd., 1962. Book. Illus. by N/A. Very Good. Center Stapled. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [From the inside cover, in part: "The very high poetic reputation of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1819) has been entirely posthumous. Educated at Highgate and at Balliol College, Oxford, he was a pupil of Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater...Hopkins entered… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1927. Book. Illus. by N/A. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contains plates of fossils and a composite paleographic map of Rio Grande drainage basin and Gulf Coast region, Mexico adhered to the back cover. An ex-library book from the Standard Oil Company library with pocket and stamps.… Read more about this item

Berne, Indiana: The Berne Witness Company, 1948. Book. Illus. by N/A. Very Good. Cloth Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Berne Witness Company, Cloth covered boards, 348 pp, 8vo. Book appears to have been only gently opened. Age tan on endpapers and faint wear to spine ends prevent it from being termed Near Fine, thus I… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. Book. Illus. by Schick, Eleanor. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall By 10 1/2" Wide. A young girl discovers she can communicate her feelings through dance. Black and white drawings by the author. Fiction, dancing, First edition, first printing. Near fine book in a near… Read more about this item

Peoria, Illinois: The Spoon River Press, 1999. Book. Illus. by N/A. Very Good. Cloth Hard Cover. Lg 4to - 12'' to 15" tall. 0930358171, 797 pages of 30,000 Books and the prices that are offered for sale by dealers in 1998 or prices books sold for by auction houses in 1998. Large 4to - 12" - 15" tall. This… Read more about this item

Hants, England/Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press Gower House/Ashgate Publishing Company, 1993. Book. Very Good. Cloth Hard Cover. Ex-library. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 80 plates of pen and pencil drawings and watercolors. According to the information on the front flap of the dust jacket, "In addition to his oil paintings and wtercolours he made over 140 wood engravings and… Read more about this item

St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1999. Book. Illus. by N/A. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good soft cover book. flat indention at bottom of front cover, and a few small places on the back cover where something might have pressed on it, otherwise no markings or blemishes anywhere. 0570053218 - spine black… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1997. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. As new book with no signs of wear or marks or blemishes of any kind. First Touchstone Edition.Cover front shows a landscape in muted earth tones with a picture of a Native American woman with her papoose on her back. 0684827077 - spine… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001. Book. Illus. by N/A. Near Fine. Soft cover. Small 8vo. New York Times Bestseller. Soft cover, small 8vo., Near fine book with faintly tanned page edges. No markings, creases or signs of wear. Illustrated cover. 0609809997. - spine red and black plaid with beige rectangle and black lettering..