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Chess Openings: Theory and Practice. I. A. Horowitz. 1964. Faber & Faber. 789pp. First published in England in 1965. Third impression 1973. English Descriptive notation. ISBN 0571061737.
A personal favourite, mainly for reasons of nostalgia. It's very long in the tooth (1964), but then any audience this book might still have today is hardly likely to be engaging in cutting-edge theoretical duels; and indeed a lot of old lines haven't really been improved that much. Each opening and major variation of same gets a brief text explanation, "idea variations" to show you what ideally happens for White and/or Black, "practical variations" to show you what theory recommended in the early 60s (!), and, for each major line, one or more complete games to illustrate how to play the resulting positions — the book contains in all 439 complete games. Most likely due to limitations of space, the games are without annotations beyond the occasional "?" or "!". It's a reference work, of course, though I suppose someone with a lot of time on their hands could work through it from cover to cover! You could do a lot worse. I'd say if you come across it, buy it.
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