Nice 
I get a good number of my books from my book collection (chess and non-chess) on sale too. You can also get good deals online a lot if you research - I use ebay a lot 
Half Price Books for the win!
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Oct 12, 2021
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Was the Polgar book Chess: 5334 Problems, Combination, and Games ?
Grab it, it is a great resource for basic mates and combinations. $12 is a great deal on it.
Oct 12, 2021
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Rsava wrote:
Was the Polgar book Chess: 5334 Problems, Combination, and Games ?
Grab it, it is a great resource for basic mates and combinations. $12 is a great deal on it.
It was!! I just called and had them hold it for me. Thank you!
EDIT: Got it. It's a little intimidating, but it looks very interesting. Uff-da, to fit 5,334 problems it's got more than eleven hundred pages and the printing is tiny.
Oct 18, 2021
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Since most folks sell on the weekend, I made the rounds to my local Half Price Books today when I had some free time, and found some good 'uns. Picked up a copy of Pandolfini's Endgame Course and The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Silman (as well as pamphlet I may make a separate post about once I've done some research). One of the stores, however, was a treasure trove, but a lot of it looked very not-beginner.
Between the Polgár (which I grabbed a copy of last week!) and the Kasparov are Bobby Fischer Rediscovered by Andrew Soltis and The Basis of Combination in Chess by Julius du Mont.
Any recommendations for a studious beginner? Thx.
Behold my haul:
Seirawan and Silman's Play Winning Chess and Winning Chess Strategies, Pandolfini's Weapons of Chess, Fine's Practical Chess Openings, and two apparently unused ACE scorebooks (or at least ACE is the only place I've seen them). Since I learned to play chess using Play Winning Chess nearly thirty years ago based on my uncle's recommendation (and have since forgotten almost all of it), I checked a copy out from the library, plowed about halfway through it and decided I should own a copy, thus my trip to HPB. All the rest were surprise scores that had been recommended here on the CB&E forum or in the Beginner forum.
I skipped a few of the 1001 Endgame Brilliancies 1927-1931-style books since I have no way to apply that knowledge yet. There was a huge László Polgár tome with a forward by Pandolfini that caught my eye since it was only $12, but like the others I skipped, I'm not sure if I could make sense of it yet.