Titles starting with G from Glynn's Books

London: Kyle Cathie. Pb reprint, 159pp, colour illustrations. Good+ copy with clean contents and only marginal wear. Over 100 recipes and instructions on how to lose weight using the glycaemic index and how to create low-GI meals.. Soft Cover. ... more information

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Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. Hb, 380 pgs. Unread copy with very light shelf wear. Highly readable discourse by this well-known Chemistry professor, of his selection of the ten essential ideas of science, from evolution and DNA to atoms and entropy. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Everyman, 2007. Pb, 176pp. VG+, with clean contents, looks barely used. Signature of Nigel Davies on title page. Proposes an attacking, gambit-style approach for White and includes 60 complete annotated games. Contents: Sicilian Defence Wing Gambit; Danish Gambit; French Defence Wing Gambit; Caro-Kann Fantasy Variation; Alekhine's Defence with 3 Nc3; Pirc Defence - Austrian with 5 a3; Scandinavian Defence; Nimzowitsch Defence; The Pseudo-Philidor and Other Defences.. Signed by Author. Soft Cov... more information

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London: Everyman, 2007. Pb, 192pp. Signature of Nigel Davies on title page. Good. Bottom corner slightly bent/wavy. Contents clean. Proposes an aggressive repertoire for Black, with the two main choices being the Albin Counter Gambit and the Schliemann Gambit. The bulk of the book covers various lines for these. The final 25 pages suggests how Black might obtain gambiteering play against various stodgy White options. Includes 62 complete annotated games.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾... more information

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London: Batsford, 1995. Pb, 112pp. VG with clean contents. Simple guide to gambit play with exercises plus examples from illustrative games. Covers amongst other things: general themes, development, pressure, centralization, gaining squares, strategic aims, positional gambits, defending against gambits.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Coraopolis, Pennsylvania: Chess Enterprises, 1982. Pb, 91pp. Good, with light wear and clean contents other than retailer's sticker. . Broad outline of gambit openings, with concepts and lines of play for the major openings and using complete games to demonstrate the methods of playing the attack.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Hb, red cloth covers, no dustjacket, viii + 254pp. Fair+ copy with some mottling to covers and spine slightly faded. Foxing to inside covers/endpapers and along edge of page block but contents generally clean. Includes: Gambits Introduced (intentions, origins, classifications, themes, sequences, traps, conclusions); Examination/analysis of 84 gambits, followed by 84 games illustrating specific gambits (a mix of master and club games). . Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7&fra... more information

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Two books by Harry Golombek 1) The Game of Chess - Penguin, 1974. Pb, 268pp. G. with tanned page edges, light cover wear. "A lucid and logical introduction to the game...sound instruction all the way through" (Times Literary Supplement), with theory as well as examples from the great chess masters since the 19th century up to the era of Tal and Fischer. 2) "A Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings" co-authored with R.C. Griffith - Bell & Hyman, 1975. Hb, 128pp. Good in Good dj; light wea... more information

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London: Chequers Chess, 1987. Pb, 320pp, b/w photos. Good with light cover wear, clean contents other than tanning to page edges. Selected games, most with annotations, from the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai. The winners were the USSR (with Kasparov winning a clutch of gold medals despite the exertions of the World Championship), followed closely by a strong UK team (Miles, Nunn, Short, Chandler, Speelman, Flear) and then the USA.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Dallas: Chess Digest, 1994. Pb, 275pp. VG with clean contents. Includes 1206 games (581 from official competitions, 625 from exhibitions, simultaneous dispalys and matches), tournament records and crosstables. This 2nd edition includes many more diagrams than the original as well as some revisions/additions to crosstables and games. Algebraic figurine notation.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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London: Batsford, 1973. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Hb, 463 pp, b/w photos. Good copy in Fair+ dj which is scuffed along top edge. Approx. 5 pages have brief inked underlining. Includes close to 700 of Fischer's chess games from 1955-1972, plus articles by Keres, Golombek, Wade and others. "A massive work of reference to Fischer's chess science and technique" (R.Keene).. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Dallas: Pickard & Son, 1995. Pb, x + 260pp. Good, clean copy - covers have a couple of creases and light edgewear. Over 1,000 games, of which 227 are annotated by Steinitz (transcribed into algebraic notation). In addition to match and tournament games, this volume also contains informal games, games played at odds, and simultaneous and blindfold games. Index of players plus career cross table.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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NY: Hippocrene Books, 1984. Hb, red boards, no dj, G+ with slight fading to covers and spine, clean contents. Games with some annotations, and results from the seven World Correspondence Chess Championships commencing in 1950 through to 1976.. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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London: Gambit, 2005. Hb, 320pp. VG+, clean copy in VG dj. First of two volumes, this contains 74 of Kasparov's greatest games from 1973 to 1993, all deeply annotated. The author "has drawn upon a wide variety of sources, including Kasparov's own annotations and provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games together with many new analytical points".. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Gambit, 2006. Hb, 352pp. VG+, clean copy in VG dj. Second of two volumes, this book contains 55 of Kasparov's best games from 1994 to 2005, deeply annotated. The author "has drawn upon a wide variety of sources including Kasparov's own annotations, and provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points".. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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Pershore, Worcestshire: Lower Avon Navigation Trust, 1966. Pb booklet, stapled pictorial wraps, 48pp. Fair+. Contents clean but back cover has a stain on it and staples beginning to rust. Includes maps, navigation notes and rather alot of advertisements.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Evans Brothers, 1979. Hb, 128pp, colour and b/w illustrations. Clipped dj. Tanning on endpapers and some page edges. Presentation of the jeweller's art, encompassing judgement of quality, the cutting and setting processes and some historical background. With numerous attractive illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. ... more information

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N.Y.: Freeman, 2003. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, no dj, xx + 775pp + extensive Answers to Problems section, Glossary and Index. Includes CD-ROM. VG with clean contents other than faint pencil marks on title page. (Very heavy book which will require additional postage for overseas shipments).. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Stroud: Sutton, 1997. 256 pgs, b/w illustrations. VG in G. price-clipped dj. Stamped sale date on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Foreward by Tony Benn. Development of the British Labour movement as seen by grassroots observors. The book is comprised of first-hand quotes so that a sort of oral history develops of 20th century Britain and what the Labour party has represented to people from the time of Keir Hardy through to Tony Blair.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1941. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, residue from docket on front endpaper/inside front cover and catalogue number on spine. Hb, maroon library binding, no dj, xii + 390pp, b/w illustrations + maps. Fair+. Contents:Power politics in the wake of national wars; The fruition of liberalism; The rapid mechanizing of work and thought; Religion and the arts; Emergence of the masses; Resurgence of economic nationalism and national imperialism; Seed-time of totalitarian nationalism; ... more information

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