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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Meet Trudi Treble and Barry Bass: they’re here to take kids on a musical journey! With their help, children aged 5 to 9 will begin to learn the language of music and understand clefs, staves, notes, and rhythm. In addition to great games, such as making an edible stave and notes with candy, budding musicians will start to play some of the most popular instruments, including the piano, guitar, and recorder. Appealing, comics-style illustrations make the experience thoroughly enjoyable.

Chess is great for developing a child's analytical skills, fostering the competitive instinct—and having fun. Nothing beats this cute, character-based guide for teaching youngsters how to play. Jess and Jamie—two rough-and-tumble, chess-obsessed kids—explain it all: what the pieces are and how they move; the opening, middlegame, and endgame; checkmate; and sneaky tricks that win. The book's friendly, entertaining, and essential to any child's bookshelf.

A guide to contemporary openings giving the strategic ideas and historical background. Gary Kasparov is a Grandmaster and World Champion and Raymond Keene is an International Grandmaster and author of "The Pirc Defence", "The Modern Defence" and "The Nimzowitsch/Larsen Attack".

The great Denis Jenkinson cranks out another book, this time describing 138 pre-1978 race cars. All the usual suspects are present and accounted for, but I bet you've never heard of Amon-Dalton, the Appleton Special, BHW, the Brooke Special, the Cromard Special, Derby-Miller, Derrington Francis, Dommartin, Fuzzi, Kojima, Maki, Maserati-Plate, OBM, RRA, Terrapin, or Zoller. Buy this, and pull up a chair!

An encyclopedic A-Z of British local history, archaeology, architecture and topography, covering every aspect of our heritage. This book should prove of interest to amateur historians, ramblers, browsers and professional historians. Stephen Friar is a writer and former head teacher who specializes in the topics of heraldry and local history. He is also the author of "A New Dictionary of Heraldry".

The definitive single-volume guide to chess endings, this is the ideal companion to Batsford Chess Openings 2.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

BCO 2 is the definitive single- volume openings encyclopedia. it has been designed both for maximum ease of use and for maximum relevance to the needs of competitive players. it is the essencial book, whatever your standard of play.

Discusses the use of lighting in interior decoration, shows how to make a variety of fabric covered lampshades, and describes tools, equipment, and techniques

The standard reference work on chess openings for more than half a century, earning the epithet 'the chess player's bible'. 'Batsford's Modern Chess Openings' is the most comprehensive single-volume work on the openings. Covering every standard line of play, it provides the distilled essence of contemporary opening theory. This edition is an indispensable reference work for club and tournament players.International Grandmaster Nick de Firmian is a three-times US Champion and an expert on opening theory. He helped develop computer Deeper Blue's opening repertoire in its match victory over arch-theoretician Gary Kasparov.

The Spanish is one of the oldest chess openings, featuring in the repertoire of most Grandmasters. This is a guide to all the possible variations, and is designed as a reference work for club, tournament and correspondence players. The author is a Soviet Grandmaster.

"...undoubtedly the best single volume openings encyclopedia currently available." --Chess Magazine Includes 140 diagrams.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. The trumpet, hardcover, Good, Contents are clean, tight, unmarked. Not ex/library. Light tanning on pages. price clipped DJ. Darkening and yellowing on DJ, 3cmx3cm square light non-defacing sticker stain on front cover

The Dutch Defence has a well-deserved reputation for being an uncompromising and aggressive opening. Playing the Dutch shows that you are not going to be content with just a draw. You want to win. The Leningrad system is one of the most popular and dynamic variations of the Dutch and is a particular favorite of the younger generation of Russian and former Soviet Grandmasters.

Book by Yuri Averbakh, Vitaly Chekhover

The Benoni is a dynamic, counter-attacking opening that often leads to highly tactical positions. This book is the latest in a new series of chess opening books. The aim of the series is to provide the essential knowledge to play the opening, while at the same time revealing the current thinking of the world's elite players.

Book by Nesis, Gennady, Blekhtsin, Igor

Book by Ribli, Zoltan, Kallai, Gabor

Embroidery legend Constance Howard brings her formidable knowledge of needlework to this creative, innovative, and comprehensive guide to stitching. Using her techniques, and the dozens of close-up photographs and diagrams, it's remarkably easy to create spectacular textures, patterns, and effects in just a few simple steps. See what happens when a stitch is worked in different threads, and learn how to change the scale of a stitch, combine stitches to make new ones, and alter the angle of the stitch. And it's amazing how much is covered: seeding, Japanese darning, a variety of stem stitches, buttonholes and variations, the twisted fly, herringbone, cable chain, zigzag coral, Portuguese border, detached loop, and many, many more. It will enhance any embroiderer's stitching repertoire.