BRIDGE BOOKS FOR SALE
updated January 19, 2007

I am selling a variety of New and Used bridge books. These are duplicate volumes from my personal library. All orders are subject to availability and will be processed in the order received.

If you are looking for a specific title that you haven't been able to find elsewhere, I may be able to locate a copy for you. If I am, I'll contact you with the price and you can decide whether to purchase it. Please use the Book Order Form to submit a request: write a note including the author's name, title, and year published (if you are looking for a specific edition) in the "books to purchase" area.

Condition:

• New = Brand new, unread.
• Like New = Minor shelf wear.
• Very Good = Clean and intact, does not show much sign of use. Some cover wear, might have owner's name inside the front cover.
• Good = Book shows use, but is in good shape overall. Will often be an earlier edition. There may be minor highlighting/notes.
• Acceptable = Intact but well used. Adequate as a reading copy.

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	Grant, Audrey	Play of the Hand (ACBL Bridge Series)	5.00	New
	Spiral bound. Brand new in mint condition. Reprinted in 2002. Formerly called "The Diamond Series". Eight lessons: Planning, developing tricks, eliminating losers, entries, and managing the trump suit.
	Brock, Sally	The Complete Book of BOLS Tips	6.75	VG
	Greenwood, David	The Pairs Game	5.00	VG
	Minor wear to cover, otherwise tight and clean copy. 1982 edition. This book focuses on matchpoint techniques and contains four parts: constructive bidding at pairs, declarer play at pairs, defense, and the contested auction.
	Hawthorn, Amanda	Improve Your Bridge	3.50	VG
	Revised edition, published in 1993. Five pages are creased, otherwise the book is in new and unread condition. This is an ACOL based book targeted at people playing bridge socially or at a local level. The focus is on natural bidding; conventions such as transfer bids and two-suited overcalled are mentioned but not discussed. Despite the absence of conventions -- or perhaps because of it! -- this book provides valuable information about important areas of natural bidding such as preemptive opening bids and responses, when and how to look for slams, and bids to help your side find the right suit/notrump contract to play in. Some highlights from the contents (not an all-inclusive list): Part I: Bidding. 1NT opening bids - weak or strong? * Opener's rebids * Responder's bids and rebids * Preemptive bidding * Fourth suit forcing * Directional asking bids * Trial bidding * When to look for a slam * Slam bidding conventions * Quantitative bidding * Takeout doubles * Doubling for penalties Part II: Declarer play. Playing in trump contracts * Playing in notrump * Safety plays Part III: Defence. Opening leads * Signaling * Defence
	Kantar, Eddie	Introduction to Declarer's Play	3.00	VG
	Older printing by Wilshire Book Company. Coverwear, otherwise in excellent condition.
	Lampert, Harry	The Fun Way to Advanced Bridge	4.00	Good
	1985 printing. Interior of the book is clean and unmarked. Crease on front cover. Five main chapters: Defensive Play | Declarer Play | Bidding | Sharpen Your Game with Duplicate Bridge | Important Conventions. Some specific topics include: Active Defense or Passive Defense The Uppercut Declarer Deceptive Play Safety Plays The Strip and End Play Restricted Choice Slam Bidding
	MacKinnon, Robert	Samurai Bridge	6.00	New
	Miles, Marshall	All Fifty-Two Cards	2.50	Fair
	Creased and worn cover, pages yellowed from age. Clean interior with sound binding.
	North, Freddie	Basic Defence	5.00	VG
	Minor coverwear. From the cover: Here at last is a basic handbook specifically aimed at players who are taking, or have just completed, a beginners' course. Individual sections cover key activities such as signalling and communication and basic techniques such as unblocking, avoiding the ruff and discard, and the rule of eleven.
	Pottage, Julian	The Golden Rules for Rubber Bridge Players	7.00	VG
	Geared towards newer or social players who are starting to pursue bridge more seriously. Areas covered include: overcalls, doubles, competitive decisions, opening leads, declarer play techniques, defensive carding, defensive strategy, and others.
	Reese, Terence	Master Play in Contract Bridge	3.00	Gd/VG
	Light creasing to front cover. Interior clean and unmarked. Unabridged republication of the first (1960) edition, first published under the title "Master Play: the expert game". From the cover: Beginning with some basic rules that will help any player clarify his bridge reasoning, Reese goes on to discuss and analye 130 deals, many of them from championship play. He points out the correct play in such situations as finesses, loser-on-loser variaitons, holds, eliminations, deceptions... a special section is devoted to playing trump suits. Every deal is indexed according to play type, so that this book can be used as a dictionary as play.
	Roth, Danny	Challenge Your Declarer Play	3.50	VG
	In this quiz book, the well-known author, Danny Roth, has compiled a set of challenges that will test readers' ability as a declarer, and at the same time, introduce some stratagems that may be unfamiliar. The hands are tougher than those in Focus on Declarer Play, and they are not presented in the same teaching mode, rather, they are in a random order as one might encounter them at the bridge table.
	Seagram, Barbara	25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding	7.00	VG+
	Unread with mint interior: clean pages and unbent spine. Cover is scuffed. 2 copies available. Suit Overcalls: Simple suit overcalls * Raising partner's suit * Responding to overcalls without support * Overcalls that show two suits * Jump overcalls Takeout Doubles: Takeout doubles at the one level * Responding to a takeout double * Later bidding after a takeout double * Other takeout double situations Notrump Overcalls: Notrump overcalls * RHO bids over a 1NT overcall Bidding Over Op's 1NT Opening: Competing over 1NT * Doubling 1NT * Conventional defenses to 1NT Bidding Over Preempts: Takeout doubles of weak two-bids * Overcalling weak two-bids * Bidding over 3-level openings * Bidding notrump over a preempt * Bidding over other preempts Competitive Issues: Balancing - general principles * Other balancing auctions * Forcing passes * Locating stoppers for notrump * The law of total tricks * Hand evaluation
	Shenkin, Barnet	Playing with the Bridge Legends	6.50	VG
	"Since winning the world's most prestigious pairs event as a teenager, Barnet Shenkin has continued to build an impressive bridge career. Over the last 25 years, he has had the opportunity to play with and against some of the best in the world, and in this book he recounts his favorite hands and stories. The book comes to a climax with the US team's record-breaking world title win in January 2000, an event which Barnet covered as a journalist."
	Silverman, Shirley	Five Card Major Student Texts - 3 booklets	2.00
	Intermediate Bridge: Good-. 64 pages. Advanced Bridge: VG. Light soiling to cover, pages clean and unmarked. 64 pages. Play of the Hand as Declarer and Defender: Acceptable. Some soiling to cover, owner's name. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Sound. 64 pages.
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