Author: Clive Everton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852250133
Category : Billiards
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Clive Everton
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977936
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Crowood Sports Guides are the perfect tool for anyone wanting to improve their performance, from beginners learning the basic skills to more experienced participants working on advanced techniques. In this second edition of Snooker & Billiards - Skills, Tactics Techniques, the history of the game is covered along with the rules of the game; choosing the right equipment and top tips from many of the game's great players. All the skills and techniques are explained clearly with full-colour sequence photography and detailed table diagrams help explain more advanced tactics such as breakbuilding and safety play. Aimed at beginners taking up the game for the first time, false beginners wanting to revise their technique and also more experienced players looking to further develop their tactics. Superbly illustrated with 65 colour images in sequence photography and 108 table diagrams.

Author: Victor Stein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615170923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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This award winning publication has established itself as the most authoritative and historical book ever written on the game of billiards. This new third edition has been completely revised with over 350 new pages and 500 new images. Many from the Encyclopedia's own archive. Expanded to 640 pages and featuring new sections on billiard memorabilia, current cue makers, world class cue collections, and the "Beauty of The Cue" - a stunning pictorial containing over 500 cues over made over the last 40 years. The new third edition goes further in illuminating the journey that started 20 years ago by Stein and Rubino, documenting the fascinating story of Billiards.

Author: Michael Phelan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billiards
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: David Horrix
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785003585
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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The Complete Book of Snooker Shots will increase your knowledge of the shots that you can play from various positions on the table and so will - with practice - improve your game. This book will help not only players wishing to increase their knowledge, but also parents and professional coaches wishing to add structure to training sessions. Enjoy increasing your understanding of the game of snooker, and enjoy improving your knowledge. Packed with hundreds of individual shots to practice, this practical guide will be of great interest to all players wishing to increase their knowledge as well as parents and professional coaches, and is fully illustrated with 350 colour images.

Author: Gary Clarke
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1899820469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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A Billiards & Snooker Compendium A Billiards & Snooker Compendium is the most extensive work on the literature of billiards and snooker ever published and took over two years to compile. It contains bibliographical information on over 650 books, a detailed description of each book's content, tips on identifying different editions, notes on scarce dustjackets, plus the estimated values of 1st editions. These values have been calculated using a variety of well respected sources. This essential reference book is easy to use, is clearly laid out, and includes both an author and title index. Each book has its own unique reference number and entries are fully cross referenced. It will appeal to all collectors of billiards and snooker memorabilia, book dealers and collectors, fans of both sports, and those simply wishing to add a few books to their sports collection. About the author Gary Clarke has been playing and watching snooker for over 25 years and has a great knowledge and deep affection for the game. He is also an avid reader and book lover and this work combines two of his most passionate interests. The author currently lives in his home town of Ipswich and this is his first work of non-fiction.

Author: Robert Byrne
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Thirty-one stories on pool and billiards written over the past 150 years. The authors range from Pushkin to Vachss, the stories from Wallace Stegner's The Blue-Winged Teal, on competition between a father and a son, to Bill Pronzini's science fiction story, The Hungarian Cinch.

Author: Robert Byrne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156005548
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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The definitive work on pool and billiards (National Billiard News) by champion player Robert Byrne Now updated throughout and expanded with new material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards is the classic guide to cue games complete with detailed diagrams and photographs to help improve play at every level."

Author: Michael Ian Shamos
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781558212190
Category : Billiards
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Contains information on billiards, pool, snooker and all associated games with anecdotes.

Author: Mark Stellinga
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764317002
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Over 700 color photographs display pool and billiard collectibles from the 18th - 20th centuries. Included balls and boxes, cues, racks, triangles, scorekeepers, chairs and lights, chalks, medals, historic photos, matchbox holders, matchsafes, pocket mirrors, advertisements, catalog pages, and 90 pool and billiard tables. Values are with the captions.