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	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

	Commonsense Bidding
	Bill Root
	The single best book on the market today about good old-fashioned Standard American bidding. Literally every common bidding situation (and a lot of uncommon ones!) that doesn't involve any conventions fancier than Stayman and Blackwood is in here. This book is my first recommendation to new bridge players after they finish their first course of lessons. A solid grounding in natural bidding principles is essential to know what conventions are worth learning and when to use them. Also ideal for the serious rubber bridge player who needs to be able to bid effectively with unfamiliar partners without time for a long discussion about partnership methods.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Modern Bridge Conventions
	Bill Root and Richard Pavlicek
	More than "just" a description of how the 50 or so most popular bidding conventions work. It also goes into great detail about how the second and third rounds of bidding unfold after each convention is used; how different conventions interact with each other; and how to cope with the loss of the natural bid you had to give up to adopt the convention. Every convention in the book is rated as a "one-, two-," or "three-star convention" according to how complex it is, making it easier for new players to decide which conventions are worth their effort to learn. An appendix shows how to mark each convention on the ACBL convention card. There are several newer conventions books on the market today, but this one had stood the test of time. Exceptionally well-written and thorough, it is still my top pick in this category.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Pocket Guide to Bridge
	Barbara Seagram and Ray Lee
	Spiral-bound summary of basic bridge: bidding, opening leads, planning the play.
	$7.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge in 3 Weeks
	Alan Truscott
	Twenty-one chapters taking you from what a trick is, past point count and Blackwood, all the way to squeeze plays. Features a quiz at the end of every chapter, and a review of what you have learned at the end of each "week" of chapters.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Watson's Classic Book on the Play of the Hand at Bridge
	Louis Watson and Sam Fry
	First written in the 1930s and revised in 1962, this is still the classic book on declarer play. Part I covers all of the basic principles (how to establish a suit, the finesse, the hold-up play, the crossruff) while Part II expands on these with topics like how to choose which of two suits to establish and an introduction to elimination plays.
	$16.00		Available now and ready to ship

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