So here in the LA area I have found a couple of Japanese books stores and Ive been buying go books here and there. Since I cant read Japanese, I try to only pick up books of problems. I can tell what the books are by the content, of course...but does anyone have more information about them? The titles of each, etc,...

The only one I recognise is the top right set, it's the Segoe Tesuji Dictionary

http://senseis.xmp.net/?SegoeTesujiDictionary

and is very good I hear (I have the Chinese version but It's above my level right now and I haven't had any time to study it yet). I think at least one volume is now out of print.

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Rough translations of your books and some relevant info

1st photo
Left: Divine Tesuji
Right: Tesuji Dictionary by Go Seigen and Segoe Kensaku

2nd photo
Left: Life and Death Vital Training 180 (note: for around shodan)
Right: 7 dan Tesuji 150 problems (Note: This series is being translated into English by Kiseido)

3rd photo (Note: Your photo seems to show a mirror image of the actual book covers for all the books here except the top left one)
Top Left: Enjoy Actual Situation Tsumego
Top Right: Top Global Tesuji and Tsumego
Bottom Left: Fuseki at a Glance
Bottom Right: Learn Elementary Go Calculations

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Thanks tchan, that is very helpful...I certainly now dont feel as discouraged when looking at the 150 book.

Has anyone had luck in buying used books from amazon.jp and getting them shipped to the US? If so it seems you can get a lot of these books really cheap (minus shipping)

If it's from amazon.jp, you need third part sellers that can do 海外　shipping. I've run into very few on the books I want that will do that. I did just order gokyo shumyo that way and hope to get it soon.

For more popular Japanese books it probably works well. I usually just get a bunch of new books at once, but that doesn't work for the out of print.

I like the "X 段合格" books. How hard is the 7dan tesuji book? I wonder if it would be too much to ask for a sample problem...

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Hi, sure... there are two types in the book, local and full board problems. I just randomly chose one of each.

Ill put the answers up later.

wow, you got Segoe Tesuji books.
Those books are hard to find. Even a second ones costs more than 200 US dolar ..

Not really. You can find them on amazon.co.jp for less than $40/volume

Yeah, if anyone thinks they're worth $200, I would sell.

Nope, I just ran a search on them and they are still out of print just like they were a year ago. The first and third you can get used for a reasonable price, but the second volume is about $100 used on amazon.co.jp.

So why fixate on an out of print Japanese edition when you can still buy the Chinese editions?

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A blog on Asian go books, go sightings, and interesting tidbits
Go is such a beautiful game.

....and the best way to get a Chineese variant without living in China is?

Going to http://www.yutopian.com and buying it there. Here is the complete link straight to it https://www.yutopian.com/yutop/cat?prod ... gory=PTGES.

Ah, so easy. Done it now. Waiting.
(I am not sure about the use though, my Chineese is not as good as I would like itto be)

They are problem books. You only need black/white, a bonus knowing what to do (i.e. the index)

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Try reading my blog entry on those books. You might enjoy other posts on my blog as well.

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A blog on Asian go books, go sightings, and interesting tidbits
Go is such a beautiful game.

I have done that now. As many have said before: Your site is wonderful and full of interesting things. Thanks for doing such a good job!

(Yutopian says that the books are out of stock right now, but one are welcome back in April.)

I have posted Chinese Go terms here: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5524&p=92054#p92054 This should be enough for short explanations in Chinese Go books

Only used books of Segoe Tesuji books are available there. and Total of them is more than 200 US dolar ><