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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 171+[4 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1973. There are diagrams from actual chess games here, followed by hints on what to play, and solutions at the back. Then at the last chapter you rate yourself whether you are an ordinary or a good club player. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased, some foxing else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Trier, Walter (illustrator). small PAPERBACK, cover price $12.99, near fine. KÄSTNER, ERICH. Emil and the detectives. Introduction by Maurice Sendak, illustrations by Walter Trier, new translation by W. Marin. 2007, 159pp., . Emil, Gustav, and a group of young detectives outwit criminals and the police when they comb the city in their quest to recover Emil's stolen money. ISBN 9781468308297 5.70.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. light shelfwear. First edition. 336 p.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, worn used copy with water stain along bottom edge impacting the bottom foredge and the bottom margin of last half of the book, no impact on text, binding remains solid, looks beaten up but quite usable copy for reading and study. KAHN, LOUIS I. Louis Kahn: essential texts : DAMAGED COPY. Edited by Robert Twombly. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003, later printing number line ending in 2 of the stated First Edition, 288pp., . "Louis Kahn (1901-1974), arguably the last great modern American architect, lectured, wrote essays, was interviewed and appeared at panel discussions, and issued countless statements to the press. Kahn published a handful of essays, but he preferred public speaking - whether formal lecture or more often, seemingly improvised remarks., All was not as causal as it may have appeared, however; as with his building, which he rethought, reworked, and reconceived, he prepared typescripts that were usually the result of multiple drafts, and when he repeated a speech to a second or third audience, he rewrote it yet again. Louis Kahn: Essential Texts is a unique anthology of twenty pieces, some never before published, representing his essential thinking as it evolved., Robert Twombly's incisive introduction and headnotes reveal the dynamism of Kahn's language, elucidate his keen aphorisms and sometimes abstruse terminology, and offer a useful distillation of basic Kahnian tenets." - CONTENTS: Introduction : Kahn's search -- Monumentality (1944) -- An approach to architectural education (1956) -- Talk at the conclusion of the Otterlo Congress (1959) -- Form and design (1960) -- The new art of urban design: are we equipped? (1960) -- Illustrations -- Discussion in Kahn's Office (1961) -- The nature of nature (1961) -- Law and rule in architecture (1961, 1962) -- Lecture at International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado (1962) -- Lecture at Yale University (1963) -- Lecture at a conference on "Medicine in the year 2000" (1964) -- Conversation with Karl Linn (1965) -- Lecture to the Boston Society of Architects (1966) -- Space and the inspirations (1967) -- Silence and light (1968. 1969) -- The room, the street, and human agreement (1971) -- Address to naturalized citizens (1971) -- Lecture at Pratt Institute (1973). 9780393731132 ISBN 0393731138.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, near fine, only slightest ding to top right corner of cover and a few pages, appears little used if at all. HALLOWELL, A. IRVING. Culture and experience. Prospect Heights, ILL.: Waveland Press, 1988, reissued, xvi, 434pp., . Includes a preface to the 1967 paperback edition. First published in 1955. 9780881333688 ISBN 0881333689 18.00.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Reprint, softcovers, owner's catalog number, in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Article, disbound from journal; edge rough where removed; o/w in good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; light foxing; o/w in good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $25.99, fresh attractive copy, fine condition, black hardcover, appears unused. ORR, DAVID. Beautiful & pointless: a guide to modern poetry. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, later printing number line ending in 3 of the stated First Edition, xviii, 200pp., . "David Orr provides a riveting tour of poetry as it actually exists today. Orr argues that readers should accept the foreignness of poetry in the way that they accept the strangeness of any place to which they haven't traveled--they should expect a little confusion, at least at first. Yet in the same way that we can, over time, learn to appreciate the idiosyncratic delights of, for instance, Belgium, we can learn to be comfortable with the odd pleasures of poetry by taking our time and pursuing what we like. Reading poetry, Orr suggests, is more a matter of building a relationship than proceeding systematically through a checklist. Beautiful & Pointless provides the foundation for such a relationship by examining the things poets and poetry readers talk about when they discuss poetry, such as why poetry seems especially personal and what it means to write "in form." Orr, by turns acerbic, incisive, hilarious, and keen, is what every reader hopes for: that perfect guide who points the way, doesn't talk too much, and helps you see what you might have missed. Stimulating, amusing, and utterly engrossing, Beautiful & Pointless allows us to see how an individual reader engages poetry, so that we may feel better equipped to appreciate it in our own way.". ISBN 9780061673450.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Damp rumpled & stained; Poor, unmarked Paperback.

Soft cover. Reprint; softcovers; minor shelfwear and light scattered foxing; o/w in good condition.

Soft cover. Softcovers offprint; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft cover. Reprint; softcovers; minor shelfwear; light foxing of wraps; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Article, disbound from journal; no covers; edge chipped where removed from journal; o/w in good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, softcovers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; softcovers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers; small creases to corners of wraps and pages; o/w in very good condition.

Soft cover. Reprint/offprint; softcovers; large chip missing from front wrap; minor shelfwear; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; very small glue spot near base of first page; o/w in good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Hardcover. First ition edition. Fine/Very Good (11794) Fine condition, jacket very good condition. First Edition. Ownership signature on jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked. . 338.

160 pages with diagrams and indexes. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This book offers a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking exercises in fundamental chess skills. It will help players of all standards to identify strengths and pinpoint areas of their play that need more attention. The first half of the book tests your ability in each part of the game. Opening Exercises test your ability to develop harmoniously and to find creative solutions in the first part of the game. The middlegame section assesses your proficiency at making decisions relating to attack and defence, prophylactic thinking and finding the correct plan. The endgame challenges focus on the basic essential knowledge that often decides real-life games. The second half of the book is comprised of 'How Good is Your Chess' exercises, where you are asked to follow one side through a complete game, trying to guess each move as if you were playing a real game. Points are awarded according to the accuracy of your decisions. Condition: Light edge wear with points gently rubbed else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The French is a sound and resilient defence, which also provides abundant opportunities for counterplay. As a result it has been favoured by such great fighting players as Lasker, Botvinnik and Korchnoi. Current adherents include Short, Shirov, Morozevich and Khalifman. By playing 3 Nc3, White confronts the French head-on. The upshot is often a ferocious battle as Black tries to destroy or damage White's central pawn phalanx. Some of the variations, such as the notorious Winawer Poisoned Pawn, are among the sharpest in opening theory. However, both sides have quieter, more positional, options at their disposal, so there is truly something for everyone in the Main Line French. This book, the first of two volumes by Pedersen on the French, covers all lines after 3 Nc3, including the Winawer (Nimzowitsch), Classical (including the Steinitz), MacCutcheon and Guimard Variations. There is also a full discussion of 3.dxe4, a move that has found favour among those seeking to avoid theory. Steffen Pedersen is a young international master from Denmark. He scored a grandmaster norm when he was 16, and played in several World and European junior championships. In 1998 he was joint winner of the Hampstead Grandmaster tournament, and achieved another grandmaster norm at the Aars get2net Cup in 1999. He has written several highly regarded opening books, with subjects including the Dutch Defence, Sicilian Scheveningen, Benko Gambit and the Semi-Slav. Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 191 pages with diagrams, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This book continues the coverage of the French Defence that was begun by Pedersen in The Main Line French: 3 Nc3. It is essential reading for all those who play the French, and for those who meet it with the popular and flexible Tarrasch Variation. The Tarrasch Variation provides a stern test for the French Defence, and has always been a favourite of strategically minded players, such as Michael Adams and Anatoly Karpov. By putting his knight on d2, White seeks to give his opponent little scope for counterplay, and in many of the traditional lines ends up with a slight positional advantage that can prove extremely difficult to neutralize. This has led to Black developing various sharper approaches, which complicate the play considerably at the cost of greater risk. Notable among these lines are systems with 3.Nf6 where Black sacrifices material to gain the initiative, and the modern main line 3.c5 4 exd5 Qxd5, where Black keeps his pawn-structure healthy at the cost of some tempi. To get the most out of these lines as either colour, thorough up-to-date knowledge is essential, and this book supplies it in abundance. Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 160 pages with diagrams, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 14" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Bogo-Indian is one of the most solid defences at Black's disposal. The unique GAMBIT system makes it easy to use the book to the maximum practical advantage. Quick Summaries introduce the main themes of each system, where appropriate suggesting a coherent repertoire of reliable lines. Whether you're looking for a quick introduction to an opening system for surprise use, a refresher course in a favourite opening or to research an opening deeply, the GAMBIT guide is the ideal choice. Condition: Light edge wear with gently bumped corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 224 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Meran is an opening rich in both strategy and tactics, making it ideal for players seeking to win with either colour. It occupies an important place in the repertoires of many of the world's top players, with Anand, Kramnik, Kasparov and Karpov regularly taking one side or the other. The book provides the most detailed coverage to date of the Meran, together with several related variations, and the various Anti-Meran options available to White. Condition: Corners bumped, rubbed and creased else very good.