Books on whist for sale
by Bill Sachen
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| Agee, R. Welsey, Esq. | How to Play Bid Whist, 1980, Hollywood, CA, 67 p. pb., vg | $10.00 |
| An Amateur (Kenny Meadows) | Whist: Its History and Practice, first edition, 1843, London, 99 p., binding loose, contents vg | $200.00 |
| Ames, Fisher | A Practical Guide to Whist, second edition, 1891, NY, 95 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Ames, Fisher | A Practical Guide to Whist, fifth edition, 1893, NY, 81 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Aquarius | The Hands at Whist, 1889, London, 93 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Baldwin, J.L. and Clay, James | The Laws of Short Whist and a Treatise on the Game, London, 1864, 111 p., cover worn, binding slightly loose, contents vg | $30.00 |
| Baldwin, J.L. and Clay, James | The Laws of Short Whist and a Treatise on the Game, first American edition, NY, 1866, 153 p., vg | $35.00 |
| Baldwin, J.L. and Clay, James | The Laws of Short Whist and a Treatise on the Game, second edition, London, 1870, 120 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Baldwin, J.L. and Clay, James | The Laws of Short Whist and a Treatise on the Game, 1881, 134 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Barney, Walter H. | Whist and Duplicate Whist, eleventh edition, 1900, Cincinnati, 79 p. pb., vg | $20.00 |
| Barney, Walter H. | Whist and Duplicate Whist, twelfth edition, 1904, Cincinnati, 99 p. pb., cover slightly chipped, contents vg | $15.00 |
| Boardman, Emery | Winning Whist: A Harmonious System of Combined Long-Suit and Short-Suit Play of the Game of Whist, 1896, NY, 159 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Campbell-Walker, Lt.-Colonel Arthur | The Correct Card or How to Play at Whist: A Whist Catechism, 1876, London, 79 p., binding slightly loose, contents vg | $20.00 |
| Campbell-Walker, Lt.-Colonel Arthur | The Correct Card or How to Play at Whist: A Whist Catechism, 1885, NY, 79 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Campbell-Walker, Lt.-Colonel Arthur | The Correct Card or How to Play at Whist: A Whist Catechism, new edition 1877, NY, 83 p., cover worn, binding loose, contents vg | $10.00 |
| Campbell-Walker, Lt.-Colonel Arthur | The Correct Card or How to Play at Whist: A Whist Catechism, 1891, London, 79 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Cavendish" | Card Essays Clay's Decisions and Card-Table Talk, NY, 1880, 257 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 7th edition, 1864 London, 107 p., vg | $30.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 8th edition, 1868 London, 120 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 9th edition, 1868 London, 120 p., cover worn, contents vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 9th edition, 1868 London, 120 p., binding loose, contents vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 10th edition, 1875 London, 268 p., vg | $15.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 11th edition, 1876 London, 268 p., vg | $10.00 |
| Cavendish | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, from the 12th edition, n.d. NY, 255 p., vg | $15.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 13th edition, 1881 London, 268 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 14th edition, 1884 London, 276 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 15th edition, 1885, London, 272 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 16th edition, 1886, London, 288 p., binding loose, contents vg | $8.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 17th edition, 1888, London, 291 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 1888, NY, 268 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 18th edition, 1889, London, 294 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 18th edition, 1890, NY, 274 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 19th edition, 1891, London, 294 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 21st edition, 1893, London, 320 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 21st edition, n.d. circa 1892, NY, 273 p., vg | $15.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, American edition, 1895, NY & London, 318 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 22rd edition 1895, London, 306 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 23rd edition 1898, London, 306 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 24th edition 1901, London, 306 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, n.d., NY, 273 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist, title cover Cavendish on Whist, 1889, NY, 268 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, fifth edition 1864, 1878, 1882, 1893, NY, 96 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, cover title Cavendish on Whist seventh edition 1866, London, 107 p., end pages water damaged, binding slightly loose, contents vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, cover title Whist, twenty-first edition 1894, San Francisco, 202 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, cover title Whist, twenty-second edition 1896, San Francisco, 186 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, cover title Whist, twenty-third edition 1899, 1905, Philadelphia, 186 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, 12 English edition 1880, NY, 279 p., combined with Card Essays , Clay's Decisions and Card-table Talk, 1880, NY, 257 p., vg | $30.00 |
| "Cavendish" | another copy, 1881, cover partially faded, contents vg | $25.00 |
| "Cavendish" | Whist: Its Laws and Principles, Philadelphia, 1908, 186 p., vg | $10.00 |
| "Cavendish" | Whist Developments, first edition?, 1885, London, 172 p., vg | $30.00 |
| "Cavendish" | Whist Developments, 4th edition 1891, London, 181 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Cavendish", Baldwin, J.L., Clay, James, Pole, William | The Whist Triad comprising The Laws and Principles of Whist by Cavendish, sixteenth edition, 1886, London, 288 p.; The Laws of Short Whist, edited by J.L. Baldwin and a Treatise on the Game by James Clay, 1881 London, 134 p.; The Philosophy of Whist by William Pole, Fourth edition, 1886, London, 248 p., vg | $50.00 |
| Coffin, Charles Emmet | The Gist of Whist, 1894, NY, 100 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Coffin, Charles Emmet | The Gist of Whist, fourth edition 1895, NY, 109 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Coffin, Charles Emmet | The Gist of Whist, seventh edition revised 1902, 118 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Coffin, Charles Emmet | The Gist of Whist, tenth edition revised 1921, Indianapolis, 120 p., vg | $10.00 |
| Cohen, Ben | Solo Whist, 1960, London, 128 p., vg in slightly chipped and worn dj | $10.00 |
| Cohen, Ben | another copy, no dj | $8.00 |
| Courtney, William Prideaux | English Whist and English Whist Players, 1894, vg | $50.00 |
| Crawley, Captain | Whist: Its Theory and Practice with chapters on Loo and Cribbage, eleventh edition revised 1876, 147 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Drayson, Col. A. W. | The Art of Practical Whist, third edition, 1882, London, 226 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Drayson, Major-Gen | The Art of Practical Whist, fifth edition, 1892, London, 314 p., vg | $25.00 |
| The Art of Practical Whist, n.d. (preface to fourth edition 1885), NY, 291 p., vg | $20.00 | |
| Foster, R. F. | Common Sense in Whist, 1898, NY, 153 p., vg | $25.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Duplicate Whist, cover title Duplicate Whist and Whist Strategy, 1894, 245 p., vg | $25.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Whist Manual, 1890 (first edition?), NY, 168 p., | $20.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Whist Manual, second edition 1891, London, 168 p., +2 pg. Index + ads for various products Foster's Duplicate Whist, Foster's self-playing Whist cards, Foster's Whist Marker, etcetera, as well as a listing of Mudie's Whist Library | $15.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Whist Manual, third edition, 1902, NY, 214 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Whist Manual, fourth edition, 1899, London, 168p., vg | $15.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Foster's Whist Manual, sixth edition, 1904, London, 168p., vg | $15.00 |
| Foster, R. F. | Whist Tactics Illustrated by 112 hands played by correspondence, 1901, London, 141 p. + vii p. index +illustrated hands, vg | $20.00 |
| Green, Robert Frederick | Solo Whist, 1890, London, 64 p., vg | $25.00 |
| Green, Robert Frederick | Solo Whist, revised edition 1899, London, 69 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Hamilton, C.D.P. | Modern Scientific Whist, 1894 (first edition?), NY, 599 p., vg | $25.00 |
| Hamilton, C.D.P. | Modern Scientific Whist, Second edition, 1896, NY, 633 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Hamilton, C.D.P. | Modern Scientific Whist, Fourth edition, 1901, NY, 639 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Howell, Edwin C. | Whist Opening: A Systematic Treatment of the Short-Suit Game, 1896, Boston, 206 p., vg | $30.00 |
| M. d'I. L. (Mary D'I. Levick) | A Whist Catechism, second edition revised, 1897, Philadelphia, 61 p., vg | $20.00 |
| M. d'I. L. (Mary D'I. Levick) | A Whist Catechism, third edition enlarged and revised, 1901, Philadelphia, 72 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Leigh, Lennard and Bergholt, Ernest | The Principles and Practice of Whist including and essay on probabilities by William H. Whitfeld, 1902, Philadelphia, 511 p., vg | $50.00 |
| Major A. and Mrs. B | Short Whist: Its Rise, Progress, and Laws by Major A. to which are added Precepts for Tyros by Mrs. B, London 1839, 95 p., vg | $50.00 |
| Major A. and Professor P. | Short Whist, sixteenth edition 1865 London, 147 p., vg | $50.00 |
| Melrose, C.J. | Scientific Whist: Its Whys and Wherefores, 1898, London, 297 p., binding slightly loose, contents vg | $20.00 |
| Melrose, C.J. | Solo Whist: Its Whys and Wherefores, 1899, London, 224 p., spine cover loose, contents vg | $25.00 |
| Mitchell, John T. | Duplicate Whist: Containing full explanation of the various methods of duplicate play now in vogue, individual schedules up to sixty-four and instructions for formulating team schedules up to any number. With Appendices: Modern leads and inferences, draft of program for congress, draft of by-laws for whist club, the laws of whist and duplicate whist as adopted by the American Whist League, 1897, Kalamazoo, MI, 160 p., vg | $100.00 |
| Mitchell, John T. | Duplicate Whist. Its Rules and Methods of Play Being a Full Description of the New and Scientific Game which Equalizes the Strength of Opposing Hands, Thus reducing the Element of Luck to a minimum with appendix of laws, leads and inferences of the modern game, 1891, Chicago, 110 p., appears to be rebound, vg | $50.00 |
| Oliver, Edwin | The A B C of Solo Whist, n.d., 80 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Pembridge" (John Petch Hewby) | Whist or Bumblepuppy, from the second London edition, 1883, Boston, 89 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Pembridge" (John Petch Hewby) | Whist or Bumblepuppy, revised and enlarged edition, 1895, London, 117 p., vg | $20.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | American or Standard Whist, cover title American Whist, 1880 (first edition?), Boston, 268 p., vg | $35.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | American or Standard Whist, cover title American Whist, sixth edition revised 1886, Boston, 268 p., extensive water damage | $10.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | American or Standard Whist, cover title American Whist, eighth edition revised 1886, Boston, 268 p., vg | $25.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | American Whist Illustrated combining Universal and American Whist, Boston, 1896, 367 p., vg | $15.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | another copy, 1891, part of spine cover missing and binding slightly loose | $10.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | another copy, 1891, spine cover missing, back cover detached but present, otherwise vg | $5.00 |
| G.W.P. (Pettes) | Whist Universal: An Analsis of the Game as Improved by the introduction of American Leads, 1887, Boston, 258 p., vg | $35.00 |
| Pole, William | The Evolution of Whist, 1895, NY and London, 269 p., vg | $35.00 |
| Pole, William | The Philosophy of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, fifth edition revised and augmented, 1889, 242 p., London, vg | $25.00 |
| Pole, William | Pole on Whist: an essay on the Scientific and Intellectual Aspects of the Modern Game. In two parts. Part I. -- The Philosophy of Whist Play, Part II. -- The Philosophy of Whist Probabilities, n.d., NY, some foxing and a few slightly torn pages, otherwise vg | $25.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1872, NY and London, 96 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1874, NY and London, 96 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1875, NY and London, 96 p., vg | $20.00 |
| The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1876, NY and London, 128 p., vg | $20.00 | |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1877, NY and London, 128 p., slightly chewed cover, binding slightly loose, contents vg | $10.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1878, NY and London, 128 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1887, NY, 136 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1879, NY, MDCCCLXXX, London, 144 p., binding loose, contents vg | $10.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1879, NY, MDCCCLXXXIV, London, 144 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1879, NY and London, 144 p., end pages spotted, contents vg | $10.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1879, NY, MDCCCLXXXIII, London, 144 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, 1879, NY, MDCCCLXXXVI, London, 144 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, third authorized American Edition, MDCCCXC (1890), NY. 128 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, fourth authorized American Edition, NY, MDCCCXCII (1892), vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, n.d., NY, 139 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title Pole on Whist, n.d., NY, 139 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, thirteenth edition, 1882 London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | another copy, cover worn, and water damaged, binding very loose, contents vg | $5.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, 1870, London, 93 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, second edition, 1871, London, 93 p., vg | $20.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, fifth edition enlarged 1873, London, 112 p., cover slightly worn, water damage on end pages and page edges, contents vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, seventh edition 1874, London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, eigth edition 1876, London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, ninth edition 1877, London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, tenth edition 1878, London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, twelfth edition 1880, London, 112 p., vg | $15.00 |
| The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, seventeenth edition 1890, London and NY, 111 p., vg | $15.00 | |
| Pole, William | The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, cover title The Theory of Whist, nineteenth edition 1896, London, 111 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Whist, 1900, London and NY, 104 p., vg | $15.00 | |
| Pole, William | Whist, 1905, London and NY, 104 p., vg | $15.00 |
| Pole, William | Whist (Re-printed from the New Edition of Bohn's "Handbook of Games"), 1895, London, 104 p., vg | $20.00 |
| "Five of Clubs" (Richard A Proctor) | How to Play Whist. With the laws and etiquette of whist. Whist-Whittlings, and forty fully-annotated games., 1885, London, 248 p., vg | $30.00 |
| C.S.S. (Charles Stuart Street) | Whist Up To Date, revised enlarged and explained, first edition, Boston, 1895, 97 p., vg | $50.00 |
| C.S.S. (Charles Stuart Street) | Whist Up To Date, revised enlarged and explained, second edition, Boston, 1897, 138 p. + 3 p. table of contents, vg | $30.00 |
| C.S.S. (Charles Stuart Street) | Whist Up To Date, revised enlarged and explained, fourth edition, Boston, 1897, 147p. + 3 p. table of contents, stiff cardboard cover, vg | $25.00 |
| Shelby, Annie Blanche | Standard Whist, MDCCCXCIX, Chicago and NY, 232 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Shelby, Annie Blanche | another copy, NY, 1906,vg | $25.00 |
| U.S. Playing Card Co. | Simple Whist Together with a description of the game of duplicate Whist, 1901, 9 p. pb., vg | $10.00 |
| Wheelock, Kate | Whist Rules, cover title Whist, second edition, 1896, Philadelphia, 76p.+, pb., front cover detached but present, part of spine cover missing, contents vg | $20.00 |
| Wheelock, Kate | Whist Rules, cover title Whist, third edition, 1896, Philadelphia, 86p.+, pb., water damage on some page edges, otherwise vg | $20.00 |
| Wilks, A. S. | The Handbook of Solo Whist, circa 1898 (first edition?), London, 204 p., vg | $30.00 |
| Wilks, A. S. | The Handbook of Solo Whist, second edition revised and enlarged, circa 1899, London, 216 p., vg | $25.00 |
| Wilks, A. S. | Solo Whist and Auction Solo, n.d., London, 137 p., vg in slightly chipped and worn dj | $30.00 |
| Wilks, A. S. and Pardon, Charles F. | How to Play Solo Whist, 1888, London, 134 p., vg | $35.00 |
| Work, Milton C. | Whist of To-Day In Two Parts Part I -- For the Beginner, Part II -- For the Advanced Player, second edition 1895, Philadelphia, 182 p., vg | $20.00 |
Last Updated on 12/22/99
By William F. Sachen
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