Catalog #98-2A
July 1998
Books on indoor games, mostly Bridge
Bill Sachen
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These are just a few of the more interesting (less common) books in a large bridge library we purchased recently. It will be some time before we get out a more complete list of all the books we have in stock so want lists are always welcome.

Anderson, J. W.

Redcastle Acol (pb)

$5.00

Arkell, Reginald

Bridge Without Sighs (poetry)

$15.00

Association of American Card Playing Manufacturers

Boxed set including decks of playing cards, scoring pad, the Calypso square, and laws of the game

$10.00

Bascule

Advanced Auction Bridge (Royal Spades)

$15.00

Beasley, Colonel H. M.

Beasley v. Culbertson: The Official and Authentic Record of the International Bridge Match 1933

$25.00

Belton, John & Cramblit, Joella

Dice Games (autographed by Cranblit)

$10.00

Benham, W. Gurney

Playing Cards

$25.00

Bergholt, Ernest

Bergholt's Modern Auction: Its Bidding and Principles

$15.00

Bergholt, Ernest

Royal Auction Bridge: Laws & Principles; Art and Practice

$15.00

Bergholt, Ernest & Manning-Foster, A.E.

Auction Bridge: Laws & Principles; Art and Practice

$15.00

Berveiler, David

Strategic Solitaire

$12.00

Blackwood, Easley

Play of the Hand with Blackwood

$15.00

Borel, Emile & Cheron, Andre, transl. & edited by Traub, Alec

The Mathematical Theory of Bridge (pb)

$10.00

Buller, Walter, Lieut-Col, C.B.E. (introduction by)

International Bridge Test: Complete Record of Bidding, Play & Scores "Duplicate" Contract Bridge Match between England & America, 1930, pb

$20.00

Burgay, Leandro

Bridge the Burgay Diamond

$10.00

Burns, Margery

The Nottingham System of Contract Bridge, Third Edition, 1969

$12.00

Cade, Laurence H.

Commonsense Contract

$15.00

Cioffi, Raphael

Bridge Endings

$12.00

Coffin, George S.

Fortune Poker

$15.00

Cohen, Ben & Reese, Terence

The ACOL System of Contract Bridge & Twelve Famous Par Hands from Waddington's Par Contests (third edition 1946)

$15.00

Cohen, Ben & Reese, Terence

The ACOL System of Contract Bridge (fifth edition, with a selection of hands form the 1955-6 International Events)

$15.00

Cohen, Ben & Reese, Terence

The ACOL System of Contract Bridge With a selection of hands from the 1949 International Series (fourth edition)

$15.00

Cohn, Judy A. & Fink, Jerry A

Cincinnati Power Defensive Carding: New Concepts in Defense (pb)

$12.00

Cole, E.R. & Edwards, James, editors

Grand Slam: 13 Great Short Stories about Bridge

$12.00

Courtenay, F. Dudley & Walshe, Col. G.G. J. ('Yarborough')

The Losing Trick Count

$20.00

Crowhurst, Eric

ACOL in Competition (pb)

$15.00

Crowhurst, Eric

Precision Bidding in ACOL

$15.00

Culbertson, Ely et al

Famous Hands of the Culbertson-Lenz Match

$20.00

Culin, Stewart

Chess and Playing Cards (unbound, part of a larger volume)

$50.00

Dalton, W.

Royal Auction Bridge

$12.00

Dalton, W.

Saturday Bridge (1909, including a bibliography of bridge from 1886 until 1906)

$15.00

Daniels, Mark

The "Bettabridge" Handbook

$15.00

Darvas, Robert & De V. Hart, Norman

Right through the Pack

$15.00

Darvas, Robert & Lukacs, Paul (Englished & Presented by Norman De V. Hart)

Spotlight on Card Play

$15.00

Davis, Frank Maxie

Precision Bridge-A Bid for Every Occasion from Alpha to Omega

$20.00

Desai, G.R.

Revolution in Contract Bridge

$20.00

Desai, G.R. & Mehta, Ravindra

Contract Bridge & High Card Points a New Look (1985, pb)

$15.00

Desai, G.R. et al

Simplest and Easiest Bidding System of Contract Bridge: or Deasi-Courtenay Winning Trick Count System (pb)

$10.00

Donnelly, John L.

Happiness is a Squeeze!

$15.00

Drabble, Jon R.

Simply One Two: A Completely New Contract Bridge Biding System (pb)

$10.00

Duncan, John B.

New Dimension Bidding in Contract Bridge

$15.00

Dunn, Archibald

Bridge and How-To-Play-It

$12.00

Emmet, Lewis E.

Royal Auction Bridge

$15.00

Erdnase, S. W.

The Expert at the Card Table: Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table (pb)

$10.00

Flint, Jeremy

Tiger Bridge

$12.00

Foster, R. F. (edited & arranged)

Vanity Fair's Bridge Problems

$20.00

Fox, C.G.H.

Modern bidding systems in bridge

$15.00

Frost, Frederick et al

Bridge Odds Complete: Probabilities in Contract Bridge, 2nd edition slightly revised 1971 (pb)

$8.00

Fry, Sam

Gin Rummy: How to Play and Win (pb)

$5.00

Garozzo, Benito & Yallouze, Leon (adapted by Terence Reese)

The Blue Club

$20.00

Goren, Charles

Winning Bridge in 15 Minutes (pb)

$2.00

Goren, Charles

Winning Bridge in 15 Minutes (pb), many notations in pencil

$1.00

Gruenther, Alfred M.

Duplicate Contract Complete

$20.00

Guest, Freddie

Fifteen: The Advanced Game of Contract Bridge

$15.00

Havas, George

The Australian Book of Bridge (pb)

$8.00

Heaton, Rose Henniker & (assisted by) Bosworth, Phyllis

Contract With James

$15.00

Hervey, George F.

The Bridge Player's Bedside Book

$15.00

Hodson, Selwyn & Kendrick, Jack

Auction Bridge Without Tears

$15.00

Hoffman, E. & Rennenkampff, A. von

The Laws and Principles of "VINT" (fore-runner of bridge, 1900)

$20.00

Hoffman, Martin

Hoffman on Pairs Play

$15.00

Horn, A.C.

Contract Bridge: Limited Opening Bids: Simple, Accurate, Efficient (pb)

$10.00

International Bridge Press Association (publisher)

Bridge Writers' Choice 1964

$10.00

Irwin, Florence

Auction High-Lights with a Full Exposition of the Mollo Count

$15.00

Irwin, Florence

The Fine Points of Auction Bridge together with An Exposition of The New Count

$12.00

Jelks, Edward B. & Schmitt, Rayond L.

Trick Taking Power (pb)

$8.00

Jessel, Frederic

Bibliography of the game of Auction Bridge (Reprinted from "Auction Bridge made clear", 1921, by A.E. Manning-Foster, pb)

$2.00

Kaplan, Edgar

The Italian Systems (stapled, approx 8 1/2 X 14)

$10.00

Kaplan, Edgar

The Roman Club (in folder)

$10.00

Karpin, Fred L.

The Point-Count System of Bidding in Contract Bridge (pb)

$8.00

Kelsey, Hugh

Strip-Squeezes

$15.00

Kelsey, Hugh

Triple Squeezes

$15.00

Kempson, Ewart

Contract Bridge Hands

$10.00

Klinger, Ron

Cue Bidding to Slams (pb)

$5.00

Lea, Robert H.

Bridge Is Easy with the Lea System

$15.00

Lenz, Sidney S.

1 - 2 - 3 on the official system of contract bidding

$6.00

Lenz, Sidney S.

Lenz on Bridge, volume two

$12.00

Lewis, Jerry D.

Dealer's Choice: The World's Greatest Poker Stories

$10.00

Lynch, Edgar

Bridge: The Diamond System

$15.00

Lynch, Warren J.

Culbertson for Morons: A Bridge Primer

$15.00

MacMillan, W.S.

Simply Blue (pb)

$20.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

Bridge -- Plafond: The Original Game of Contract Bridge

$15.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

Auction Bridge Do's & Dont's

$10.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

Auction Bridge Made Clear

$12.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

Auction Bridge Play and Problems

$10.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

Auction Bridge Variations

$15.00

Manning-Foster, A. E.

English Contract Bridge

$15.00

Markus, Rixi with Mountfield, David

A Vulnerable Game: The Memoirs of Rixi Markus

$20.00

Mayer, Edward

Money Bridge

$12.00

McCullough, W.D.H. & Fougasse

Aces Made Easy

$15.00

Mitchell, John T.

Duplicate Whist (spiral-bound photocopy), both volumes 1891 & 1897

$20.00

Mollo, Victor

ACOL: Victor Mollo's Pocket Guide to the Winning System of Point Count Bidding (folded card)

$5.00

Mollo, Victor & Jannersten, Eric

The Best of Bridge: An Introduction to the Wohlin Collection

$15.00

Mullick, S.G. Bose

The Relay Club (pb)

$15.00

Nielsen, Aksel J.

Bridge with the Three Musketeers

$12.00

Noall, William

Contract Bridge: The Australian One Club System & Double-Dummy Problems

$10.00

Northrop, Eugene & Stein, Arthur

Mathematical Odds in Contract

$15.00

Ostrow, Albert A., editor

The Bridge Players's Bedside Companion

$10.00

Ottlik, Geza & Kelsey, Hugh

Adventures in Card Play

$15.00

Parris, Leslie

Contract Bridge Books: an annotated bibliography for the British Isles 1920-1969 (pb)

$10.00

Parson, Donald

Fall of the Cards

$10.00

Payne, Dick & Amsbury, Joe

Bridge: TNT & Competitive Bidding (pb)

$10.00

Phillips, Hubert

Making Bridge Pay

$15.00

Raines, Halsey

The Bridge Battle of the Century

$12.00

Reed, Dick & Horn Stormy

The System: Bidding Techniques of Reed - Horn (pb)

$5.00

Reese, Terence & Flint, Jeremy

Trick 13 (pb)

$20.00

Reese, Terence & Jourdain, Patrick

Squeeze Play Made Easy: Techniques for Advanced Bridge Players

$15.00

Reese, Terence & Kantar, Eddie

Defend with you Life

$15.00

Reese, Terence (Presenter)

Stallard's First Up (pb)

$5.00

Rheinhardt, Rudolf H.

Bibliography on Whist and Playing Cards (excerpted from Whist Scores and Card-table talk by Rudolf H. Rheinhardt, 1887, pb)

$3.00

Richards, R.R.

Championship Bridge presenting every bid and play of the 52 hands in the finals of the Team-of-Four Championship played in the American Auction League's first tournament 1928

$20.00

Roberts, Loyd O.

Roberts' Rules for Bidding & Playing Winning Bridge

$15.00

Robertson, Edmund

Royal Auction Bridge (with Nullos)

$15.00

Rosendorff (Editor)

Australian Contract Bridge Championships 1964 Perth (pb)

$10.00

Rosenfeld, Louis M.

Opening Leads in Bridge

$8.00

Rosenfeld, Louis M.

Pocket Guide to Opening Bids and Rebids at Bridge (pb)

$5.00

Ruminski, Stanislaw & Slawinski, Lukasz

Introductions to Weak Openings Systems "Regres" System (pb)

$8.00

Russell, Edward C., Instructor

Bridge at a Glance (pb)

$8.00

Schuld, Frank P.

The Simple Squeeze In Bridge (pb)

$10.00

Silodor, Sidney & Tierney, John A.

Contract Bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney

$15.00

Simmelkjaer, Harold E.

Handbook on the Theory and Play of Championship Contract Bridge (pb)

$10.00

Simon, S.J.

Cut for Partners

$20.00

Simon, S.J.

Design for Bidding

$20.00

Sims, P. Hal

Master Contract

$10.00

Smith, A.J.

The Vienna System of Bidding

$12.00

Sontag, Alan

Power Precision

$15.00

Squire, Norman

Contract Bridge Squeeze Play Simplified (pb)

$12.00

Squire, Norman

The Theory of Bidding

$20.00

Staples, Thomas L.

The Heart of Auction Bridge

$8.00

Stern, Paul, Dr.

The Stern Austrian System

$15.00

Stern, Paul, Dr. et al

The Vienna System of Contract Bridge

$12.00

The Times Bridge Correspondent

Bridge from the Times (1950)

$15.00

Trumps

The American Hoyle (17th Ed. 1904)

$25.00

Vanderbilt, Harold S.

Contract Bridge

$20.00

Victor, A.D.J.

Veejay System of Modern Bidding at Contract Bridge (pb)

$15.00

Walsh, Donald E.

Partnership Misunderstandings in Contract Bridge (pb)

$5.00

Weiss, Lawrence

Contract Bridge: The Bidding Structure

$25.00

Work, Milton C.

Auction Bridge Complete (autographed)

$5.00

Work, Milton C.

Auction Declarations

$8.00

Work, Milton C.

Auction Developments

$8.00

NOTE: We also have many bridge books in foreign languages, mainly French and Dutch and German. But it will be some time before we compile a list of these books. In the meantime, want lists are always welcome. Also, want lists are welcome on books on other indoor games: Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Poker and other card games. As well as Hoyle’s and gambling. Also solitaire (patience) and a few books on magic and card tricks.