Teach Yourself Go by Charles Matthews
Teach Yourself Go
By Charles Matthews, first edition published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton in 1999. First edition in the United States published November 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, 216 pages, ISBN: 0071429778. Second edition published Fall 2007.
Description of the book from the Slate and Shell website:
This introductory book is a virtual encyclopaedia of Go. It is excellent for beginners and will be useful even to single digit kyu players because of its thorough coverage of basic strategy and tactics. The book is unusually well organized and also includes interesting material about the history and culture of Go. Charles Matthews has written for the American Go Journal and frequently publishes in the British Go Journal.