From: Benjamin Good <bg18+ <at> ANDREW <dot> CMU <dot> EDU>
Date: 16 feb 1999
Subject: more on shogi books

Excerpts from mail: 15-Feb-99 Re: advanced book exchange by Michael
Vanier <at> BBB <dot> CALTE
>
> And on this thread, the book "The Art of Shogi" by Tony Hoskings is
> available through Amazon.com UK (www.amazon.co.uk); it's still in print and
> is I think the best shogi book written by a non-Japanese author in English.
> The Fairbairn book is excellent too and can be obtained from George Hodges:
>
> G. F. Hodges, P.O. Box 77, Bromley, Kent, UK BR1 2WT
>
> The price is $25.00 US.  I actually saw the Leggett book for sale not long
> ago in Border's (a bookstore chain in the US); it's not that great a book,
> though.  I encourage dan-level shogi players to write their own books; I
> for one would be happy to buy them.

not that anybody asked, but i agree, the fairbairn book is quite
superior to the leggett book.

i am now on amazon.com myself (not the UK one), and it looks like
fairbairn's book has been reissued by somebody else, kiseido publishing
company, cause the date on it is listed as july 1998, and it says
usually shipped within 24 hours.  and it's only $12 US, sorry george.
the leggett book is also available for $16.95 US, ships 2-3 days.  the
hoskings book does not show up, so we'll have to use the amazon UK.

ben