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	The Lebensohl Convention Complete
	Ron Andersen
	Thorough coverage of all three common uses of Lebensohl: after a 1NT opening, after opponents' weak two-bids, and after partner's reverse. Many example hands shown. Have your partner read this book and never have another expensive Lebensohl misunderstanding! One of the very few books on a specific convention to ever make it onto my "Recommended" list.
	$8.95		Available now and ready to ship

	I Love This Game
	Sabine Auken
	Hear the top-ranked woman player in the world describe her favourite moments in her bridge career, and share her philosophy of the game. .
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Matchpoint Tricks
	Ib Axelsen and Villy Dam
	A set of 58 declarer play problems highlighting the matchpoint pairs decision-making process. A few of the hands would be played different at IMPs (e.g., safety play vs. best chance for maximum results) but most of the material is also relevant to all forms of play -- when your contract is secure, finding your best chance for an overtrick is worthwhile at all forms of scoring, though the reward is smaller at IMPs and total points.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bergen's Best Bridge Quizzes, v.1
	Marty Bergen
	[needed]
	$7.95		By special order only

	Bergen's Best Bridge Tips: Read Today, Win Tomorrow
	Marty Bergen
	[needed]
	$7.95		By special order only

	Better Bidding with Bergen
	Marty Bergen
	The ins and out of Bergen Raises right from the horse's mouth, plus much more, from rebids after 1NT Forcing to advanced slam-finding techniques.
	$11.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Better Bidding with Bergen, v.2: the Contested Auction
	Marty Bergen
	Get the full story on tools like Support Doubles and Good/Bad 2NT in the inventor's own words. A comprehensive look at conventions to help you handle auctions when both sides are in the bidding.
	$11.95		By special order only

	Better Rebidding with Bergen
	Marty Bergen
	Starts out with general guidance for opener's and responder's second bids, then tackles special topics like reverses. Then there are ten chapters, one for every possible combination of 1-level openings and responses, looking at the second round continuations in detail.
	$7.95		By special order only

	Hand Evaluation: Points Schmoints!: Guaranteed to Make You a Better Bidder
	Marty Bergen
	All of Bergen's hand evaluation advice gathered together in one place: why quick tricks matter; why not all queens are created equal; how to to count playing tricks when preempting, and more. Autographed.
	$7.95		By special order only

	Introduction to Negative Doubles
	Marty Bergen
	Everybody knows that a negative double is "a takeout double after your partner has opened the bidding." But have you ever thought about whether you double or bid after 1C-1D when you have only one 4-card major? What about after 1D-2C? (Hint: the answers aren't the same!) After the general principles are presented, the special quirks of each possible negative double situation from the one level upwards are covered in turn. Autographed.
	$6.95		Available now and ready to ship

	To Open or Not to Open
	Marty Bergen
	Refine your bidding judgment by seeing what borderline hands an expert would open and which ones he wouldn't, and why.
	$6.95		Available now and ready to ship

	2/1 in a Nutshell - Teacher's Manual
	Dee Berry
	Spiral-bound manual with much more detailed material than the small pocket information in "2/1 in a Nutshell." Intended as a set of lesson plans for a bridge teacher presenting a 2/1 Game Forcing course. Those desiring a more detailed presentation of the system might want this book too for their own reference.
	$20.00		By special order only

	25 Bridge Myths Exposed
	David Bird
	"Eight ever, nine never" really means "Eight usually, nine sometimes," but how can you tell when it's the right time to deviate from the rules of thumb? Get the answer to this riddle and 24 others!
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Deceptive Card Play
	David Bird
	Each book in the Bridge Technique Series highlights one aspect of declarer play or defense. The first chapters introduce simple practice hands and the underlying theory; later chapters show more complex variations and examples of how the experts have used the technique in tournament play. Great books for polishing particular aspects of your game, very readable.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defensive Signaling
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eliminations and Throw-ins
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Entry Management
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Defense
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning the Play in Notrump
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Suit Contracts
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Reading the Cards
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Safety Plays
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	[needed]
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Squeezes Made Simple
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Tricks With Finesses
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Tricks With Trumps
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Off-Road Declarer Play: Unusual Ways to Play a Bridge Hand
	David Bird
	Fourteen chapters of advice on how to handle unpleasant problems in the play of the hand when the easy "textbook" solutions don't apply: ways to reach an apparently entryless dummy, to unblock blocked suits, to cope with bad trump breaks, to rectify the count for a squeeze when the obvious way of giving up a trick is dangerous, and more.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Squeezes for Everyone
	David Bird
	Explanations in layman's terms of how to prepare for and execute the most common varieties of squeezes, illustrated with example hands.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Complete Book of Opening Leads
	Easley Blackwood
	One of the classic books on defense: complete coverage of how to decide which suit and which card to lead at trick one, from one of the most recognized names in the history of the game. A special section discusses new innovations in leads, compares them with traditional methods, and explains the rationale behind principles like leading your fourth-highest card from a long suit.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Three Notrump in Depth
	Augie Boehm
	The Professor and Sally Fourth tackle "everyone's favorite contract," 3NT. The first half of the book is about bidding judgment -- whether to bid 3NT or four of a major, how to ask for stoppers and half-stoppers, when you can bid 3NT with a long running suit and less than 26HCP. The second half tackles planning the play.
	$13.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Demon Defense and Demon Doubling
	Augie Boehm
	Watch over the shoulder as the Professor's timid student Sally Fourth learns to become an agressive defender who can't be pushed around by her opponents. In the same conversational style as Augie's monthly columns in the Bridge Bulletin.
	$13.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Focus on Hocus Pocus: Intriguing Chess and Bridge Problems
	Erwin Brecher and Danny Roth
	Volume 3 of Brecher's unique blend of challenging play problems and trivia questions, this time with chess puzzles added to the mix.
	$17.95		By special order only

	Great Hands I Almost Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.)
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Leading Questions in Bridge
	Sally Brock
	An opening-leads book with a twist. It has a chapter for each of the common nuggets of opening-lead advice: fourth from your longest and strongest against notrump, singleton against a trump contract, and so on - and then examines each of these in detail, showing several examples where the "nursery rhyme" is right and where it is wrong, explaining how to tell the difference.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	100 Bridge Problems: Using Poker Tactics in Contract Bridge
	Mike Cappelletti
	Cappelletti's key message is that disciplined agression is the key to achieving maximum results in both poker and bridge. He has put together an array of hands covering everything from how high to preempt to choosing an attacking opening lead to preparing yourself for the possibility of psychic bids. Lots of food for thought!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Following the Law
	Larry Cohen
	The sequel to "To Bid or Not to Bid." In this volume, we see more examples of the Law in action, more discussion of how to refine your bidding judgment with adjustments to the basic Law, and coverage of several space-age conventions that make it easier for you to make use of the Law in your competitive auctions.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	To Bid or Not to Bid: the Law of Total Tricks
	Larry Cohen
	Perhaps the single most influential bridge book of the 1990s! The "Law of Total Tricks" is based on the simple fact that an extra small card in a long suit is worth an extra trick if your suit is trump and nothing if it is not. The more trumps you have the higher you can afford to bid, even on hands without much high-card strength. In this book, Cohen covers the most common situations in competitive auctions and gives good rules of thumb for whether to bid on or defend. Your bidding judgment will improve overnight when you start following the Law!
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Right Through the Pack
	Robert Darvas and Norman de Vere Hart
	A collection of fifty-two deals, one in which each card in the deck is the key to the whole hand. People have written lots of stories about cards -- but this is a story told by the cards looking up at the people holding them. A delightful fairy-tale-like atmosphere, achieved by looking at the familiar from an unfamiliar angle without having to resort to a completely made-up "Mollo's Menagerie" type world.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Standard Bidding with SAYC
	Ned Downey and Ellen Pomer
	Limited time offer, regular price $17.95! Every checkbox and convention on the Standard American Yellow Card explained by two of the Internet's leading bridge teachers. The most comprehensive guide to standard bidding since Bill Root's Commonsense Bidding. Do you really know what you are agreeing to when you sit down with a stranger and ask "SAYC, pd?" After you read this book you will!
	$15.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Swiss Team Tactics
	Harold Feldheim
	A detailed look at how Swiss Teams strategy differs from longer knockout teams matches and from pairs play. Special sections on how to cope with exceptionally weak or strong opponents. This is a very underrated book, very readable, and the bidding and delcaring advice is excellent in general even if you don't play Swisses particularly often. A very popular item. Out of stock as of 28 May 05 and a difficult book to find. If I can find a supplier I will get as many of them in as I can!
	$10.95		By special order only

	The Flannery 2D Opening
	Bill Flannery
	The inventor of the Flannery convention talks about what purpose the convention serves, what hands it is best suited for, and covers the possible responses and rebids in detail.
	$7.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge With the Blue Team
	Pietro Forquet
	Reprint (and translation into English) of Forquet's classic book, a collection of the Italian Blue Team's greatest hands from their many years dominating the world championships. Also includes a summary of the 3 bidding systems used by the team.
	$29.99		By special order only

	Conventions at a Glance
	Matthew Granovetter
	Brief summaries of dozens of the most popular conventions, in a pocket-size format. Handy as a quick reference to take with you to a tournament without weighing down your luggage. A supplement to, not a replacement for, a thorough convention reference for serious study. Revised and expanded edition,30 new conventions added.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Jennie Mae the Bridge Pro
	Matthew Granovetter
	A delightful novel about the trials and tribulations of a young lady trying to make a living as a bridge pro in New York City. Read about her best and worst hands, her best and worst clients, and her best and worst nights out on the town after the game.
	$8.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Introduction to Bridge: Play of the Hand
	Audrey Grant
	a.k.a. "the Diamond Series." The basics of planning the play of the hand: counting winners and losers, pulling trump, the finesse, the hold-up play, and more. Often used as a textbook in beginning bridge classes. Teachers, inquire about bulk discounts.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Introduction to Bridge: Defense
	Audrey Grant
	a.k.a. "the Heart Series." Introduction to planning the defense: selecting an opening lead, Second Hand Low and Third Hand High, and more. Commonly used as a textbook in beginning bridge classes. Teachers, inquire about bulk discounts.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Commonly Used Conventions
	Audrey Grant
	a.k.a. "the Spade Series." A textbook for introducing social bridge players to duplicate and teaching them the most common and popular bidding conventions such as Jacoby Transfers and Weak Twos.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	More Commonly Used Conventions
	Audrey Grant
	Textbook for new duplicate players wishing to learn more of the common conventions used in tournament play. Teachers, inquire about bulk discounts. Earlier edition published as "the Notrump series."
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Advanced Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
	Max Hardy
	All the bells and whistles of modern 2/1 as played and taught by Max right up to the time of his death in 2002. This was his last book. Additional bidding tools to complement the material in "Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century."
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century
	Max Hardy
	Max Hardy believed that modern 2/1 was "the new Standard American" and was what all bridge players in the 21st century should learn. He may have overestimated the popularity of 2/1 a little bit -- but he wrote a terrific introduction to the principles of 2/1 that anyone planning to play tournament bridge today shouldn't be without. This book concentrates on the bread-and-butter sequences of 2/1: establishing a game force, setting trumps at a low level to save room for slam exploration, making full use of tools like the splinter bid to evaluate how well your hands fit together.
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Hands of Time: the Most Exciting Bridge Deals Ever Played
	Mark Horton
	[needed]
	$16.95		By special order only

	Building a Bidding System
	Roy Hughes
	The theory behind why some conventions are good and others are bad: why lower bids should show a broader range of hands that higher bids - and how much broader that should be; how to construct a relay system; and other advice for the serious tinkerer with systems.
	$17.95		By special order only

	Card by Card: Adventures at the Bridge Table
	Roy Hughes
	Watch over Canadian expert Roy Hughes's shoulder as he explains his thought processes on some tricky hands, and you too can learn to think like an expert!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defence
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Classic Kantar: a Collection of Bridge Humor
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defensive Bridge Play Complete
	Eddie Kantar
	This thick 1974 classic was the Bible of defensive methods for an entire generation of bridge players. Topics include how to choose a lead vs. suit and notrump contracts, how to tell what type of signal to give at trick one, and how to adopt a defensive style based on the type of dummy you see after you make the opening lead. Ask experienced players in your club what their favorite bridge book is and I guarantee you will hear "Big Red" mentioned more than once! The formatting is old-fashioned but the material is timeless. This book has been hard to obtain for several years and will likely soon be out of print forever... don't miss out!
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kantar for the Defense, v.1
	Eddie Kantar
	A hundred practice problems to hone your defensive judgment. Great bridge advice and classic Kantar wit on every page of hints and answers.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kanter for the Defense, v.2
	Eddie Kantar
	100 more practice hands to improve your defense.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Gamesman Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A rarely seen early Kantar book, from way back in 1972. The story of a beginner named Stanley's journey to becoming a strong bridge player. Is it a bridge novel, or a lesson series taught with the classic Kantar wit sprinkled through it from beginning to end?
	$7.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Introduction to Declarer Play
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$7.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kantar on Kontract
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Roman Keycard Blackwood: Slam Bidding for the 21st Century
	Eddie Kantar
	Go beyond "5 clubs shows 0 or 3." This book covers every facet of RKC: how do you ask for the queen of trumps after a 5C or 5D response? Should you show the number of kings or specific kings? 0314 or 1430? When, if ever, does RKC not apply? What suit is trump in ambiguous auctions? Excellent resource for serious partnerships wanting to milk the most out of their ace-asking.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Test Your Bridge Play vol. 1
	Eddie Kantar
	100 declarer play problems for you to try your hand at. Each one illustrates one simple lesson about planning the play -- and most of them contain a hidden trap to sort out the intermediate player from the expert! Excellent practice, well worth working your way through the book more than once.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Test Your Bridge Play vol. 2
	Eddie Kantar
	Another 100 declarer play problems in the same vein as volume 1... some easy, some very deep, many in between... all guaranteed to reinforce a valuable point about how to be a good declarer.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Topics in Declarer Play
	Eddie Kantar
	[needed]
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Newly released edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$35.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Logical Bridge Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	A collection of hands to hone your ability to find the winning line of play as declarer, based on deductions from the bidding and previous play. Starts out with common basic situations like "West didn't open the bidding, and has shown up with 9 HCP already, so East surely has the one ace I haven't seen yet" and "West's opening lead was the three of clubs, so he must not have an honour-sequence in any of the unbid suits" and shows how the experts can get so many of their seemingly blind guesses right.
	$16.99		Available now and ready to ship

	365 Winning Bridge Tips
	Danny Kleinman
	[needed]
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Notrump Zone
	Danny Kleinman
	When should you exercise your judgment to open 1NT on a semibalanced hand? Are some point ranges better than others? It's all in here. Which conventions beyond Stayman and Jacoby Transfers should you use? He gives three separate answers to this one, depending on whether you and your partner want a simple but functional system or the "most detailed system money can buy."
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Persistent Human Bridge Errors
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	Further tales of Chthonic, the perfect bridge-playing computer, and the trouble he has making sense of his human partners, teammates, and opponents. Lots of material that didn't appear in The Bridge World!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Principle of Restricted Talent
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	The adventures of a wisecracking bridge-playing robot and his inventors. Logical solutions to dozens of very difficult cardplay and defense problems, mixed into a series of short stories. One of the best recent contributions to the "bridge novel" genre.
	$15.95		By special order only

	100 Winning Bridge Tips
	Ron Klinger
	[needed]
	$17.99		Available now and ready to ship

	100 Winning Duplicate Tips
	Ron Klinger
	A hundred more short tips to improve your pairs game score: 25 on constructive bidding, 35 on competitive bidding, 20 on opening leads, and 10 each on planning the play and defending. Each tip is illustrated with a full deal showing it in action.
	$19.99		Available now and ready to ship

	20 Great Conventions Flipper
	Ron Klinger
	A pocket-size quick reference covering 20 of Mr. Klinger's favorite conventions, ranging from essentials like splinter bids, Roman Keycard Blackwood, and the Unusual notrump overcall to special-purpose tools to avoid revealing anything opener's hand after 1NT in Stayman auctions.
	$8.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Cue Bidding to Slams
	Ron Klinger
	A whole book specifically about control-showing bids -- a vastly more powerful slam exploration technique than Blackwood, but one overlooked by many new bridge players. Emphasizes the traditional ("aces first") style; for the Italian style (either aces or kings first), see Ken Rexford's Cuebidding: a Modern Approach.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	The Modern Losing Trick Count
	Ron Klinger
	List price $20! If you are ready to look beyond the high-card point and refine your bidding judgment, this is the book for you. One of the great books on hand evaluation. The Losing Trick Count is a simple yet surprisingly accurate hand evaluation method, known in the 1930s but temporarily forgotten in the enthusiasm for point count bidding in the 40s and 50s. It has several advantages over HCP: it accounts naturally for the importance of having fitting rather than scattered honors; and because it forces you to think about counting tricks rather than points, it makes adjustments to the raw count simple -- instead of memorizing rules like subtracting a point for an unguarded face card, you simply count a card that the bidding tells you is unlikely to win a trick as a loser and vice versa!
	$16.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Modern Losing Trick Count Flipper
	Ron Klinger
	Pocket-size spiral bound summary of how the Losing Trick Count works and how to apply it to common bidding situations. Functions as a summary of Standard American bidding too.
	$8.99		Available now and ready to ship

	The Power of Shape
	Ron Klinger
	Understand how your distribution impacts the value of your face cards. General theory, advice on when it is right to over- or under-bid, and chapters on how to handle modern bidding tools like the splinter bid.
	$16.99		New shipment expected soon

	Understanding the Contested Auction
	Ron Klinger and Andrew Kambites
	Sixteen chapters, covering everything from the negative double to two-suited overcalls to special matchpoint pairs competitive decisions.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	When to Bid, When to Pass
	Ron Klinger
	Refine your bidding judgment by seeing how the value of a hand changes depending on which suits the high-card strength are in and how the previous auction has gone. He starts out with a few rules of thumb and then considers a dozen different common types of auctions.
	$19.99		Available now and ready to ship

	The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge
	Mike Lawrence
	IN some auctions it is safe to balance with a 4-card suit and a weak hand; in others you should have six or a fairly strong hand! This book helps you know how agressive to be in various balancing situations. Separate chapters for reopening the bidding when an opening bid is passed around, when the opponents find a sit but stop low, when they bid notrump, and when they are in a misfit auction.
	$11.95		By special order only

	Disturbing Opponents' Notrump
	Mike Lawrence
	An expert's exposition on when and how to use DONT, one of the most popular conventions for overcalling after a 1NT opening. (Yes, there really IS one convention that Larry Cohen/Marty Bergen and Mike Lawrence BOTH agree is valuable. Amazing!) In Mike's own words, "don't be a mouse, be a rat and get into their bidding. They will not appreciate you at all which is the goal of bridge players everywhere."
	$5.00		By special order only