Old...but not forgotten: "Simple chess" by GM Michael Stean

Originally published in 1978, this is a magnificent basic middle game treatise! Almost everyhing a player rated between 1400 - 1700 needs to know about strategic chess: Outposts, weak pawns, open files, half open file & the minority attack, Black squares & white squares. All these subjects packed in 176 pages! But beware, this new algebraic edition has a weak point: a few typos. Here's a list of them as highlighted by a Amazon's reviewer. See all Amazon's reviews here
Highly instructive and therefore recommended to the improving player.

Old but..not forgotten "My best games of chess" by S. G. Tartakower

 About 450 pages!!
 Wikipedia's Link: Savielly Tartakower
See Amazon's Readers Reviews
While reading this book, I was with Tartakower in the early 20th century smoky tournament halls. I also admired his great variety of openings: from 1.b4 to 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Be2!? & 1.e4 c5 2.b4  and many others.
I love this excellent book. Period.

Old...but not forgotten: "The Stonewall Attack" by GM Andrew Soltis

A lot of chess players are looking for a repertoire to play as White. This opening system should be easy to learn and with a low level of maintenance. If this is the case, you should consider the possibily to purchase Soltis' book "The Stonewall Attack".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Attack

The system consists of playing 1.d4 2.e3 with f4 to follow but different move orders are possible.    

This is what Soltis writes on pages 8 and 9 of his book.            

In order to show you that from the Stonewall Attack can arise exciting games, here you can see a nice game played by Gerard Welling before the publication of Soltis' book:

Old but not forgotten: "Capablanca's best chess Endings: 60 complete games" by I. Chernev

Jeremy Silman's comments on this book:
"The title speaks for himself. You can't go wrong by immersing yourself in the technical know-how of the Cuban legend. The notes, of course are not computer checked. This means that quite a few errors are present, that allows you to challenge everything Chernev says and see who's right." taken from the book "Silman's Endgame Course" page 526 
Amazon's Reviews and Preview

This book has a very reasonable price and it is a very good work.

Old...but not forgotten: "Rate Your Endgame" by Mednis & Crouch

 From Mednis' "Foreword":

"It was not long after its US publication in 1978 that Practical Endgame Lessons had already become recognised as the most helpful book on the endgame for the practical player. Listen to what IM Mark Dvoretsky, the most famous chess trainer in the Soviet Union, said about PEL in an interview in a 1990 issue of New In Chess magazine: "There is a very good American book by Mednis, Practical  Endgame Lessons. A very clever book I think.The good thing about Mednis' book is that he explains a lot in words...it is not about endgame theory, but about endgame technique. Paul Keres' Practical 

Endgames I do not like. I first saw it some years ago when I was at a tournament in the West. I had heard about this book. and wanted to buy it. But next to it was Mednis' book with the same title. I flicked through both books. and bought the book by Mednis. Keres contentrates on theoretical endgames and those books I already had. (...)"  This new "book consists of the best  of the original PEL, additional endgame material by me written in the style of PEL, and some particularly instructive  endgames selected and annotated by D. Crouch. It has been my pleasure to work with Colin to make an excellent Practical Endgame Lessons into an even better Rate Your Endgame".

In an interview to IM Welling contained in UON 21,  http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chess-Unorthodox-UON/    I asked him:  "As a chess player which books have been most helpful to increase your understanding of the game?"

He answered what follows: "There is one book in particular that sticks in my mind, and that is Edmar Mednis' Practical Endgame Lessons. Many players do not give attention to the endgame. And I can assure you, you can not "escape" the endgame. Trying to sidestep that stage of the game harms the general level and the playing strength. Besides, when I understood that I
discovered a whole new world of chess beauty (...)".

This is a superb endgame book still available in used book bookstores at a moderate price. See for instance http://www.usedbooksearch.co.uk/

At Amazon's the book is not available, but there are 4 good reviews of it and a nice preview http://www.amazon.com/Rate-Your-Endgame-Edmar-Mednis/dp/1857441745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300554185&sr=8-1

Old...but not forgotten

"Old... but not forgotten" is devoted to books that have been published more than 10 years ago, but they contain meaningful material for various reasons. At first a wikipedia link to introduce the author  Edward Lasker and his great chess autobiography. It is a thick book: 428 pages (!!) and you can find a used copy of it online for less that $10,00 see for instance http://www.usedbooksearch.co.uk/
The only thing I do not like is that the descriptive notation is used to annotate the games. A jump in the early 20th century chess and a way not to forget the masters of the past.

We read what follows from the back cover: "In this autobiographical chess manual, Edward Lasker traces his successful chess career from his early interest in the game as a boy in Germany through more that 50 years of tournament play. No chess enthusiast can fail to be entertained as this chess master and winner of five world capital championships describes the giants of the chess world whom he met and played against in tournament after tournament in the major cities of the Americas and Europe. Included are amusing anecdotes and first-hand impressions of many of the great players who have now become legendary figures, plus records of the hints given him by his intimate friends Dr. Emanuel Lasker, Jose Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.

Writing in the lively, genial manner which has made him a favorite chess author, Lasker brings to life most of the important masters of the last two generations--Emanuel Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Rubinstein, Nimzovich, Bernstein, Yates, Janowski, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Reti, Bogolyubov, Reshevksy, Marshall, Fine, Horowitz, and many lesser-known figures. His narrative is interspersed with stimulating analyses of some 77 games, including those played between Frank Marshall and the author in their match for the U.S. championship in 1923, Lasker has chosen interesting, exciting games, and explains not only what actually happened abut what might have happened had the players used different tactics.
Chess fans will be delighted with Lasker's insightful comments, from which many valuable lessons can be learned. In addition to games not previously published in English, and his own analyses of the strategy and tactics employed in them Lasker has included many examples from older chess literature that both beginners and seasoned players will enjoy."...  more »