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	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. This is my personal favorite of the expert biographies on the market.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	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

	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 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
	Bridge technique series.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Squeezes Made Simple
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Lives up to its title. A very easy and readable introduction to the squeeze - not a complicated play at all, despite the mystique surrounding it. Bridge technique series. Out of print -- I have only one copy in stock!
	$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

	Bridge Endplays for Everyone
	David Bird
	Sequel to his popular book on squeezes, this book walks you step by step how endplays work and how to identify situations where they are useful. Loser-on-loser plays and strip squeezes are also covered.
	$19.95		By special order only

	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		Available now and ready to ship

	Somehow We Landed in 6NT
	David Bird
	A collection of hands where real experts and not-so-experts bid 6NT and then had to find a line of play that gave them a chance of salvaging the board.
	$19.95		By special order only

	Bridge 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. "Yes, even you!"
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Suit Contracts
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Part of the new and enlarged "Test your bridge technique" series. A more advanced sequel to the original "bridge technique series" volumes.
	$9.95		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. 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

	Great Hands I Wish I Had 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.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$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!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Standard Bidding with SAYC
	Ned Downey and Ellen Pomer
	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!
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Partnership Agreements
	Clarke Fairbrother
	On the one hand, a summary of commonly and not-so-commonly used standard and 2/1 methods. On the other hand, a systematic tour of every checkbox on the ACBL convention card, discussing which agreements can be written in that space. Perhaps the highlight is a 20-page "Partnership Agreements Checklist," to aid you and your partner in thoroughly discussing your system and filling out your card.
	$19.00		Available now and ready to ship

	How the Experts Win at Bridge
	Burt Hall and Lynn Rose-Hall
	Each chapter highlights the key tools experts use to get the most out of their game: from judging what contract to reach and using the Law of Total Tricks in competitive auctions, to studying the bidding and the dummy to decide on a plan of attack for the defence at trick one. Perhaps most valuable of all, each chapter includes highlights from other bridge books and has a list of recommended books for further study. This one book is like a Reader's Digest version of a complete bridge library!
	$16.95		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

	Bridge Master vs. Bridge Amateur
	Mark Horton
	A collection of tips to improve all aspects of your game -- presented by showing a series of deals, and discussing where the beginner's and the expert's thought processes differ when faced with the same decision. An ideal book for the student looking to move beyond simple textbook advice.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Misplay These Hands With Me
	Mark Horton
	A book in the Reese "over-the-shoulder" style... featuring entirely hands which were played wrong by good players, followed by an explanation of how the correct play could have been spotted in time with more careful thought.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	Continues on from where Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense leaves off. Approachable and entertaining explanation of the fine points of the game. (Do you know what the difference is between playing K-then-Q and K-then-J, when you are leading from KQJxx?)
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Eddie Kantar Teaches Modern Bridge Defense
	Eddie Kantar
	An updated and reorganized rewrite of Kantar's classic 1974 "Bible of defense." Perhaps the most readable and enjoyable intermediate defense book on the market today!
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Take All Your Chances at Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A collection of declarer-play problems, emphasizing the theme of identifying several possible ways of making your contract and finding the plan that maximizes your odds.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Take Your Tricks: 550 Declarer-Play Tips You Can Take to the Bank
	Eddie Kantar
	The title says it all! Back in print after a very long wait. One of Kantar's most popular books in the 1990s, and the advice on declarer play is as relevant today as ever.
	$17.00		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

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! 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.
	$29.99		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		By special order only

	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. Not just stories - each story has a moral, a lesson about mistakes mere mortals frequently make at the table. 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		Available now and ready to ship

	100 Winning Bridge Tips
	Ron Klinger
	A treasury of one-liners with advice for your bidding, declarer play, and defense, with a page of explanation and examples for the logic behind each one. The Rule of Seven, the Rule of Eleven, the Even Suit-Break Test, an explanation of why 1C-1S-1NT-2S promises not five but six spades, and much more.
	$17.99		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, touches briefly on Italian and Sweep cuebids. 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

	Improve Your Opening Leads
	Ron Klinger
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Improve Your Declarer Play at Notrumps
	Ron Klinger
	[needed]
	$19.95		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

	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. Currently out of stock, but I'm trying to locate more copies of this excellent book!
	$16.99		By special order only

	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		By special order only

	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

	The Devyn Press Handbook of Partnership Understandings
	Mike Lawrence
	Not a book to sit down and read by yourself -- a blueprint for a series of discussions with your partner. A detailed series of questions to make you examine almost every aspect of your partnership bidding system and style. Almost like filling out a 64-page-long convention card! You'll save yourselves a lot of bottoms by finding what questions you and your partner don't answer the same way before that particular situation comes up at the table.
	$5.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Complete Book on Hand Evaluation at Contract Bridge
	Mike Lawrence
	[needed]
	$11.95		By special order only

	How to Read Your Opponents' Cards
	Mike Lawrence
	A systematic discussion of how to assemble clues from your opponents' bidding and early leads to enable you to place the unseen key cards like the experts do. A very readable introduction well worth reading twice!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	I Fought the Law of Total Tricks
	Mike Lawrence and Anders Wirgren
	Larry Cohen's Law of Total Tricks books were among the most influential bridge writings of the 1990s. But the law is not absolutely perfect - an extra trump isn't ALWAYS an extra winner for your side - and Lawrence and Wirgren discuss an alternative way to evaluate your playing strength, a modified point-count method.
	$17.95		By special order only

	The Complete Book of Opening Leads
	Mike Lawrence
	A somewhat different approach to opening leads: broken down by type of auction. He explains what sort of lead works best according to what sort of hand the opponents are likely to have - even describes a few situations where he'll choose what suit to lead without regard to what's in his own hand! All the familiar rules about which card to lead from a suit are covered too, of course.
	$19.95		By special order only

	The Complete Book on Overcalls in Contract Bridge
	Mike Lawrence
	New revised and expanded version of Lawrence's classic comprehensive overcalls book.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak Notrump
	Eric von der Luft
	A thorough guide to how to incorporate a weak notrump opening into Standard American bidding. Chapters on how your suit openings are effected; on the merits of each notrump range; on responses to the weak notrump, including how to escape with weak misfits. A complete overview of standard bidding along the way, too.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century
	Marshall Miles
	[needed]
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Inferences at Bridge
	Marshall Miles
	Learn how to turn the opponents' bids and plays against them, by taking advantage of that extra information to help you decide what to bid and how to plan your own play and defense.
	$18.95		By special order only

	Modern Constructive Bidding
	Marshall Miles
	An expert gives his opinion on which modern conventions are useful and which aren't. All the popular conventions and system choices are covered: 2/1 Game forcing or not? 1NT forcing or semi-forcing? Fourth suit forcing one round or to game? You may not agree with all of Miles's opinions but he will provide you with food for thought to help you make your own system decisions. One of the very few sources in print to cover some modern conventions like XYZ and Bart.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Play Unraveled: Recognition is Everything
	Freddie North
	A description and explanation of dozens of declarer play techniques, from the simple finesse up to the double squeeze, followed by a set of 58 problem hands. Rather than just asking you to plan the play, you are first asked to identify which technique is appropriate, and then how to use it. Great new approach to improving declarer play. Out of print and hard to find. A steal at $10 each while I still have copies.
	$10.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge: Common Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
	Andrew Robson
	A total of 172 of Andrew Robson's newspaper column hands, organized by topic and with a short easy-to-remember tip at the end of each one.
	$17.99		By special order only

	Things Your Bridge Teacher Won't Tell You
	Dan Romm
	A high-stakes money bridge player talks about methods and tactics that have made him a winner. The first third of the book is about mental preparation and overall approach; the second part tips applicable to particular situations; the third part covers 20 popular bidding conventions: why he loves some, why he hates others. An excellent practical resource if you play a lot of individual tournaments or a wide variety of pickup partners.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Defend a Bridge Hand
	Bill Root
	[needed]
	$17.00		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play a Bridge Hand
	Bill Root
	"Not for the beginner or the expert, but great for the 90% of you in between," as it says in the preface. Hundreds and hundreds of practice hands illustrating how to play suit combinations, how to establish and maintain trump control, deciding which of two suits to play on. By the end of the book you work your way up to throwins and squeezes, and a chapter on special cases where you play the hand different at matchpoints than at rubber bridge.
	$16.95		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.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Beat the Experts at Bridge
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 88 hands published in books and newspaper columns that were incorrectly analyzed by the original author. Get to enjoy a laugh at the expense of your favorite columnists and learn even more about the game while you do.
	$20.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Challenge Your Declarer Play
	Danny Roth
	A collection of 60 declarer play problems. Danny is careful not to give away the winning line by leading you up to the key trick and asking what card to play. The problems reinforce the importance of making a plan at trick one: count your winners and losers, carefully choose your goal and find the line of play most likely to enable you to succeed. A steal at $9.95, compared to most recently published quiz books!
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know
	Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith
	Twenty-five chapters, one on each of the most commonly used conventions in tournament bridge today.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 More Bridge Conventions You Should Know
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A chapter on each of 25 conventions used by the pros, making them accessible to serious club players eager to improve their games.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding
	Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith
	[needed]
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Be a Better Defender
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	The last book in the 25 Steps series. Tips on leads, signals, planning the defense, and more.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	[needed]
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Four-Suit Transfers
	Barbara Seagram and Andy Stark
	Practice Your Bidding series.
	$7.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Why You Lose at Bridge
	S. J. Simon
	First appearing in 1940, one of the classic books of the game! Two volumes in one. Part one is about five common types of technical errors, while part two is about the psychology of the game. Emphasis on techniques applicable to rubber bridge and pickup partnerships.
	$11.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Weak Notrump: How to Play It, How to Play Against It
	Andy Stark
	The complete guide to the 12-14 notrump opening. "How to Play It" covers transfer-style responses, two-way stayman, adjustments to the rest of your bidding system, coping with interference, and more: "How To Play Against It" discusses reasons why you should defend differently vs. strong and weak notrumps, and offers both a simple and a scientific defense to try. You may also be interested in Mark Horton's companion volume on the Multicolored 2D opening.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play Bridge with your Spouse and Survive
	Roselyn Teukolsky
	It really IS possible to have a successful partnership with your spouse -- in fact there are several good reasons why that can be an ideal situation for you! Part autobiography, part humor, part bridge textbook, and part marriage counselor. A look at how a bridge partnership evolves as the people involved date, marry, have children, and cope with midlife crises. (And yes, the book has a happy ending!)
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Steps to Learning 2/1
	Paul Thurston
	Transition from Standard American to 2/1 Game Forcing bidding one convention at a time as you work your way through this book with your partner.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Pocket Guide to 2/1
	Paul Thurston
	Compact spiral-bound summary of the 2/1 bidding system.
	$7.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Out of School
	Bill Townsend
	A novel, weaving together the lives of four marginally competent schoolteachers, a corrupt bridge federation official, and a blackmailed lawyer. Mixed in with lots of clever declarer play and defense problems, of course.
	$16.00		By special order only

	The New York Times Bridge Book
	Alan Truscott
	Subtitle: An anecdotal history of the development, personalities, and strategies of the world's most popular card game.
	$13.95		By special order only

	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

	Matchpoints
	Kit Woolsey
	A collection of essays on how matchpoint bidding, play, and defense is different from rubber bridge and team games. Topics range from how to choose between 3NT and 4 of a major when you have an 8-card fit, to some controversial suggestions on how often to play Moysian fits.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

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