This is a deal on "99 Critical Shots"

Well, that is just an OK price. Here it is on biblio.com for under $4 including shipping.

This is a classic book that should be in every pool player's library along with Byrne, Fels, Daly and Mosconi.

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I pointed out as it was New, Free Shipping, and last seller accepts offers.

I love this book, it is a lot of bang for buck, if you read, and practice.:smile:
 
Now that you mention it ...

I did a little digging when I got my table and the one book I found not in storage was 99 shots. A lot of the shots are basic, some I didn't know. More importantly, the emphasis on focusing on the table and finding shots has had a lot of value.

At first look no shot, second look, maybe, third look, why not? I "steal" three or four balls a session keeping a run going. I really need to work through the book systematically but I have been lazy.

Ray, "Cool Cat" Martin still passes through here once in awhile the last I knew. I have been procrastinating about writing a "thank you" post to start a thread, hopefully this post will do!

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I bought the book in the 70s and while it was in contention to be my bible (and apologies to Ghost Ball) only the standard shots remain in my memory; ghost ball plants and caroms for instance. Mastering the book would've put me in debt from wrong chum if not plain selling out in tight situations.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Well, that is just an OK price. Here it is on biblio.com for under $4 including shipping.

This is a classic book that should be in every pool player's library along with Byrne, Fels, Daly and Mosconi.

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The first 18 pages of Daly's Billiard Book is just simply fascinating to read and worth the price of a copy. The nineteenth century billiard masters were beyond amazing at what they did with the equipment of their time.
 
I have a 1st Edition of Daly's Billiard Book that a friend gave me as a gift several years ago. Its one of my prized pool/billiard possessions.
 
ugotactionTX said:
I have a 1st Edition of Daly's Billiard Book that a friend gave me as a gift several years ago. Its one of my prized pool/billiard possessions.
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If you would like to dress it up a little and protect it, I can make a reproduction dust jacket. That's what I do for some of my copies. The first edition had this simpler one, with only the front and the spine printed:

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Later editions had this fancier jacket:

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Maurice Daly's book was reprinted by Dover in about 1970. Copies of that reprint are available for under $6 including shipping on biblio.com
 
Well I picked up a new copy of the 99 shots, for under a person asking, on e-bay, keep shooting offers, using at a buck a time. I felt I did will for a new copy.

I would rather have a new copy, then some dog eared book, only to find out it was marked up, highlighted, or scribble in. Or has missing pages.

99 Shot, is IMHO a great book to read, and retread, to get you brain think about shot making.

I am doing a little restoration on an old bicycle, sooner or later everything I need was found on e-bay. Amazing what people have, and decide they no longer need it.
 
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