Search Results: Authors starting with R from Glynn's Books

Saint Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1971. Pb, 290 pages. Fair to Good copy. Contents clean and intact but covers a little grubby from age. Contents include chapters on: Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid; Replication of DNA in Vivo; Synthesis of DNA in Vivo; Structures of RNA; Gene Transcription in Vivo; Synthesis of RNAs in Vitro. Each chapter followed by Questions/Answers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Newton Highlands: Mongoose Press, 2012. Pb, 523pp. Good+, clean contents, slight dent to bottom edge. Revised edition of the 1938 work, translated from the Russian by Jim Marfia and edited by Jorge Amador. Includes over 400 instructive endings and 300 exercises for self-study.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: BCA, 1984. Hb, 256pp, colour illustrations. Good copy with clean contents in Good dj which has light wear. Light tanning to edges. Includes : descriptions on over 80 fruits from all over the world; info. on nutrition, buying and preserving; how to grow different fruits and nuts; around 600 fruit and nut recipes e.g. Blackberry Wine, Cherry stalk tea, Chocolate Date cake, Braised Duck & Olives, Peanut Skillet Scone, Kiwi Chutney, Pork & Pitstachio Pate, Minted Grapefruit Sorbet, Chilled Plum Soup.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1978. In Romanian. Pb, 232pp, b/w photos. Good, scuffed spine, light cover wear, clean contents. Examines the endgames of Spassky, Fischer and Karpov, with Fischer given the most coverage. Includes extensive annotations.. Soft Cover. Good.

Bucharest: Editura Stadion, 1972. In Romanian. Pb, 206pp. Fair+, pages heavily tanned but clean, corner dent. Examines the endgames of nine chess champions from Steinitz until Petrosian.. Soft Cover.

BCA, 2000. Hb, xvii + 524pp, b/w plates. Good in a Good dj which has marginal wear. Contents clean, a few light speckles along edge of page block. Translated from the Russian by Judson Rosengrant.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Everyman, 2002. Pb, 160pp. VG, clean contents. Repertoire for Black vs 1 e4 based around the Sicilian Four Knights. Includes over 70 complete annotated games. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Everyman, 2005. Pb, 191pp. VG, clean contents. Provides typical plans for both White and Black and includes 74 annotated games.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Everyman, 2006. Pb, 160pp. VG(-), clean contents. Explores the style and games of Boris Spassky using 150 chess puzzles/positions. Most of the solutions then show the full games. Includes a short biography.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Moscow: Fizkultura I Sport, 1952. In Russian. Hb, cream boards, 244pp. Fair, corners heavily chipped or with small tears, front cover marks, back cover has inked notation (appears to be a list of game scores), price stamped on inside back cover. Pg 103-104 has been removed but apparently this is the case for most copies since it was a directive of the publishers/authorities, probably to delete reference to a player who became persona non grata. (A photocopy of the two missing pages which contain tournament tables, are supplied for reference). Includes approx. 100 annotated games, commentary and tournament tables for the period covered; theory/analysis; studies and problems. With contributions from Romanovsky and Averbakh amongst others.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore/London: John Hopkins University Press, 1988. Pb, xvi + 331pp. Good, light wear, previous owner's inscription on fep. Examines the effect of Khomeini and the Iranian fundamentalist revolution on its neighbours; the reasons for its origins; and a critical analysis on US foreign policy in the Middle East with a new epilogue on the Iranian-American arms deal.. Soft Cover. Good.

Hamburg-Billstedt: Schach-Archiv, F.L.Rattmann, 1958. In German. Pb, 86pp. Good(-), stamp of British Chess Problem Society Library on title page and number on front cover. Light dampstain on last few pages. 64 essays, each featuring a chess problem by a different composer.. Soft Cover. Good.

Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980. In Estonian. Pb, 168pp, b/w photos. Fair+, spine has a couple of small tears, contents clean. Includes round-by-round commentary, player bios, 136 games, many with annotations, and a brief openings survey. Petrosian was the winner, ahead of Tal, Vaganian and Bronstein in a field of 17.. Soft Cover.

Sofia: Meditsina I Fizkultura, 1986. In Bulgarian. Pb booklet, staple-bound, 54pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. 68 chess problems of various kinds but mainly direct mates, with commentary, by the Bulgarian composer.. Soft Cover.

Olomouc: Moravian Chess Four volumes in the same series. Each is Hb, laminated covers, 288pp + Index, in VG to Fine condition; Vol. I has a small dent to spine. Facsimile reprints of the editions originally published in London/Glasgow from 1877-1880, as a monthly. They follow a similar format to the earlier series of The Chess Player's Chronicle : many games with notes, a " Chess Intelligence" section of chess news/events ( more detailed than before and which later changes to " Monthly record") , a problems section, endgames. This new series also has articles on openings, chess prose and poetry ( including a translation of a Latin chess poem !) and general articles.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Potsdam: A.Stein, 1913. In German. Hb, green cloth with title/year glued onto spine, 498pp, b/w plates. Good, spine slightly sunned, contents clean, faint tanning to page edges. Contains Nos. 1-52 (without covers) for 1913 plus title page and extensive index. The four plates are of Zukertort (in No.1), Dr A. Kundig (No. 14), Valentin Marin (No. 27) and an illustration titled "Das gross schachspiel im jahre 1813" (No. 42). With numerous annotated games plus problems, news, results, tournament tables, essays. Regular contributors included Teichmann, Ernst, Kohtz and Alapin amongst others.. Hard Cover. Good.

Tadworth: World's Work/Windmill Press, 1979. Hb, 231pp, colour and b/w illustrations. Good copy in a Good, price-clipped dj which has light wear. Light smudges along page block, otherwise contents clean. Includes survey of the history of canals, features of canals (waterway, boats, barges, Bolinder semi-diesel engine, surroundings). Extensively illustrated. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 2016. Hb, xxvi + 430pp, b/w photos. VG(-) with clean contents in VG dj, tiny smudge on one edge of page block. " A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd." ( Simon Sebag Montefiore). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London/New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Hb, xii + 327pp. Good+ with clean contents in a Good+ dj which has marginal wear. " An unusual survey of the first - and formative - third of Duke Ellington's career as a composer. There are many analyses of the music and copious illustrations in notation" ( Stanley Dance). Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Oxford University Press, 1951. Blue cloth covers, no dj, 192 pgs, b/w illustrations and maps. Previous owner's name front endpaper, cover corners scuffed, some underlining within text (approx. 20 pgs). Fair. From Moses to Herod the Great.. Hard Cover.