Bridge books and supplies - Novice

Bridge Books - Novice

	Winning Notrump Leads
	Taf Anthias and David Bird
	A re-evaluation of opening leads against notrump contracts with the help of computer simulations. Everyone is told "tend to lead a major against 1NT-3NT," but this book will tell you exactly when a 4-card major is a better lead than a 5-card minor, for instance.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Winning Suit Contract Leads
	Taf Anthias and David Bird
	Sequel to Bird and Anthias's book on notrump leads. Results of computer simulations, confirming some classic advice on what to lead, but busting a few myths too.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Counting at Bridge
	Dianne Aves
	A beginner's introduction to the importance of counting the high-card points and the distribution of the unseen hands in order to delcare and defend well. Much easier than the more advanced counting books like Lawrence's How To Read Your Opponents' Cards.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Almost the Only Bridge Book You'll Ever Need (volume 1)
	Randy Baron
	A collection of short 2- or 3-page tips from a dozen different experts. Review everything from the Rule of 15 for 4th-seat opening to advice on ethics and the care and feeding of partners.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Almost the Only Bridge Book You'll Ever Need (volume 2)
	Randy Baron
	A second collection of essays on all aspects of the game. These are a little bit more in-depth than the first book, 5 to 10 pages on how to choose the right bidding conventions and lead agreements for a partnership and how to play the play and defense.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Arrow Through the Heart
	David Bird
	Short stories about Robin Hood and his Merry Men playing bridge against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The reading is lighthearted and the hands are accessible to bridge players of any ability. I especially enjoyed the episodes where a young pageboy is allowed to play bridge against his mentor Robin for the first time.
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defensive Signaling
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$9.95		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.
	$9.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning the Play in Notrump
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$7.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning in Suit Contracts
	David Bird and Marc Smith
	Bridge Technique Series.
	$7.95		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.
	$7.95		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.
	$9.95		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

	15 Winning Cardplay Techniques
	David Bird and Tim Bourke
	An easy-to-read large-format guide to the basics of good declarer play. A chapter for each of the most common plans for how to make a contract.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	On the Other Hand: Bridge Cardplay Explained
	David Bird and Larry Cohen
	A total of 200 deals illustrating all the common declarer play techniques -- with a twist: the deals are arranged in pairs, often with the same North-Sound cards but a different E-W auction or opening lead, and you have to spot the reason to play the two hands differently. A great source of practice deals for lessons, bridge teachers!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Winning Duplicate Tactics
	David Bird
	Coverage of all aspects of how duplicate strategy differs from rubber bridge strategy -- everything from accepting game tries, 3NT vs. 5C, to styles of opening leads. Many examples drawn from computer simulation of which contracts are most successful.
	$19.95		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

	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.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Out of Hand, Out of Mind
	Bill Buttle
	A collection of Bill Buttle's cartoons about the foibles of bridge players.
	$12.95		By special order only

	Bridge With a Twist
	Simon Cocheme
	This series of short stories covers the history of bridge, gives some humorous advice about the game, and is fun light entertainment. Easy to read one short chapter, easy to read the whole thing in one sitting!
	$18.95		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

	Pocket Guide to SAYC
	Ned Downey and Ellen Pomer
	A spiral-bound condensed summary of all the key points from Standard Bidding with SAYC, the full-length book by the same two authors.
	$9.95		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!
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Winners, Losers, and Cover Cards
	Ken Eichenbaum
	Starts with sound advice on hand evaluation, then proceeds to apply it to many common auctions, including a thorough look at the author's favorite version of 2-way checkback, and good coverage of slam methods including the Serious 3NT bid.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	2/1 Game Force
	Audrey Grant and Eric Rodwell
	A basic intorduction to the 2/1 bidding system, in the same readable style as the Audrey Grant beginning bridge textbooks. An easy introduction to a simplified 2/1 system.
	$19.95		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		By special order only

	For Love or Money: the Life of a Bridge Journalist
	Mark Horton
	[needed]
	$16.95		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

	Secrets Your Bridge Friends Never Tell You
	Cathy Hunsberger
	[needed]
	$12.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defensive Tips for Bad Card Holders
	Eddie Kantar
	Over 500 one-line to one-paragraph morsels of advice on how to handle particular defensive situtations. Everything from how to interpret declarer's bidding to how to know what signal to give, to when to lead low from KQTxx instead of top of the sequence. Reprinted after a long wait!
	$23.95		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

	Kantar for the Defense, v.2
	Eddie Kantar
	100 more practice hands to improve your defense. Newly reprinted in a more readable format than the 1970s-era edition.
	$19.95		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!
	$25.95		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		Available now and ready to ship

	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

	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

	Improve Your Bidding Judgment
	Neil Kimelman
	A series of cogent essays, each focusing on one particular situation and helping you understand how to think about the problem at hand rather than mechanically following a bidding rule.
	$19.95		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. 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!
	$19.95		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

	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.
	$22.95		By special order only

	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		By special order only

	How Good is Your Bridge Hand?
	Ron Klinger
	A great overview of several different hand evaluation methods, and of the conventions that are used to help apply them (two-way game tries, splinters.) Written from the 4-card major and weak notrump perspective.
	$12.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Modern Losing Trick Count
	Ron Klinger
	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!
	$17.99		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.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Useful Probability for Bridge
	Julian Laderman
	A very readable exposition of how to solve at-the-table problems with the help of probability. He goes out of his way to make the math as painless as possible, and emphasizes situations where a player's experience already guides him most of the way to the answer. Suit breaks, HCP, and much more.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play Card Combinations
	Mike Lawrence
	This is not a dry list of every possible card combination and how to play it. Rather, he takes some common every card combinations, and shows the same card combination in the context of 5 or 10 different deals, explaining how the way you handle a given suit depends on your plan for the entire deal.
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	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

	Judgment at Bridge, 2nd edition
	Mike Lawrence
	Long-awaited sequel to Mike Lawrence's classic book on bidding judgment. Not just a revision, but coverage of new topics: should I preempt or not? Should I give a simple raise or limit raise? should I double or overcall with 5431 pattern? and much more.
	$23.95		By special order only

	The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles
	Mike Lawrence
	Learn to avoid common misconceptions about doubles; decide which reopening doubles are takeout and which aren't; learn how to choose your response to partner's takeout double. Newly revised 2nd edition — it doesn't have the Chinese takeout carton on the cover anymore :)
	$24.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Tips on Bidding
	Mike Lawrence
	A detailed and example-filled tour of some of the most common problems in the uncontested auction: when to raise on 3-card support, how reverses work, when to splinter, and more.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Language of Bidding: Two Over One Game Force
	Paul Marston
	Australian expert Paul Marston's textbook on the 2/1 system. Especially aimed at players coming from a standard or Acol background without prior 2/1 experience. Familiar material, but a new voice for most American readers.
	$23.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats : A Newcomer's Journey into the World of Bridge
	Edward McPherson
	A (former) non-bridge-player journals his entry into the exciting world of duplicate bridge, starting from his first beginner's lesson at the Manhattan Bridge Club on up to his attendance at the NABC. Intended for general audiences, but of interest to bridge players. A great gift for your non-bridge-playing friends and relatives this Christmas!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Card Play Technique, or the Art of Being Lucky
	Victor Mollo and Nico Gardener
	An old classic that has long been out of print. A humorous and accessible guide to all of the standard techniques, from simple to advanced. Declarer play and defense advice in alternating chapters. If someone recommended Watson's Play of the Hand to you and you found it too dry, try Mollo instead!
	$22.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defending Together
	Freddie North
	A simple and readable guide to common defensive situations, illustrating standard carding agreements with examples.
	$15.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Demystifying Defense
	Patrick O'Connor
	[needed]
	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	A First Book of Bridge Problems
	Patrick O'Connor
	A collection of relatively easy declarer play problems. An excellent stepping stone from the "textbook" world to the "quiz book" world for a newer player. The sequel, A Second Book of Bridge Problems, ratches up the level of difficulty a bit.
	$15.95		By special order only

	When to Draw Trumps
	Adam Parrish
	The author introduces his process for counting losers and choosing a line of play. That's what drives our decision whether or not to pull trumps immediately: do we need the trumps for something else (like ruffing a loser?) do we need to take a fast discard before driving out a high trump? How will our plan change if trumps break 4-1 instead of 3-2? Fred Karpin's classic book The Drawing of Trumps and Its Postponement (now out of print) was one of the most valuable books on declarer play I read when I first learned bridge. Now this book brings this material to a new generation of players.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Golden Rules for Rubber Bridge Players
	Julian Pottage
	135 tips to improve your bidding, play, and defense in social bridge games. A special section at the end covers the rarely addressed topic of how "having a leg on" affects your strategy.
	$17.99		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

	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.
	$16.95		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

	Focus on Declarer Play
	Danny Roth
	Learn to avoid common errors in the planning the play of a bridge hand.
	$14.95		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.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Bridge Conventions: Practice Makes Perfect
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A quizbook to help students of the game solidify the material in 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know.
	$15.95		By special order only

	25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding
	Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bidding at Bridge: a Quizbook
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A collection of bidding problems to reinforce the principles of standard bidding and help a new bridge player develop his judgment.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Declarer Play at Bridge: a Quizbook
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A great set of practice hands for the novice to intermediate player. Not impossibly hard problems, bread and butter hands to make sure you are focusing on planning the way well.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defensive Play at Bridge: a Quizbook
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A great set of practice hands for the novice to intermediate player. Not impossibly hard problems, bread and butter hands to make sure you are focusing on planning the way well.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Jacoby 2NT
	Barbara Seagram and Linda Lee
	A concise introduction to how the widely played Jacoby 2NT convention - a forcing raise of opener's 1H or 1S opening - works. Practice Your Bidding series.
	$8.95		Available now and ready to ship

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

	Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand
	Barbara Seagram
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Planning the Play: the Next Level
	Barbara Seagram
	[needed]
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Play it Safe!
	Barbara Seagram and David Bird
	A new declarer play lesson from Barbara Seagram, covering not just "safety plays," but how to choose the best line for a given suit combination to produce a given number of tricks. She also covers MP vs. IMP considerations, and how the play of a suit fits into the whole hand.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Pocket Guide to Conventions You Should Know
	Barbara Seagram and Marc Smith
	Spiral-bound Reader's Digest summary of "25 Conventions You Should Know." For learnin the conventions I recommend the larger book. The pocket guide is a nice quick reference to take with you when you travel to a tournament to refresh your memory or make sure your partner plays it the same way you do.
	$9.95		By special order only

	Pocket Guide to Bridge
	Barbara Seagram and Ray Lee
	Spiral-bound summary of basic bridge: bidding, opening leads, planning the play.
	$9.95		By special order only

	Roman Keycard Blackwood
	Barbara Seagram and Linda Lee
	A simple, straightforward introduction to the basics of RKC. Practice Your Bidding series. For experienced partnerships wanting to explore all the nuances of the second and third rounds of bidding after 4NT, see Eddie Kantar's Roman Keycard Blackwood.
	$8.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Splinter Bids
	Barbara Seagram and Linda Lee
	An introduction to how splinter bids work, when to use them and when not to use them. Particularly insightful is the advice on how to handle hands with a singleton honour. Many examples and practice hands, as with all of the books in the Seagram and Lee "Practice Your Bidding" series.
	$6.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Stayman Auctions
	Barbara Seagram and Linda Lee
	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.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Becoming a Bridge Expert: Sure-fire Tips and Secrets to Boost Your Scores
	Frank Stewart
	Fifteen mini-lessons each, about bidding, play, defense, and the game in general, to aid intermediate players in progressing toward expert status. Some of the advice is a bit dated, especially about bidding - but play and defense advice never goes out of date!
	$25.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Keys to Winning Bridge: The Advancing Player's Playbook
	Frank Stewart
	An interwoven series of hands to help the novice player learn where to focus his attention to solve each deal. If you enjoy Frank's newspaper column, you'll enjoy reading this book, which feels like 100 of his columns strung together.
	$22.95		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!)
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Pocket Guide to 2/1
	Paul Thurston
	Compact spiral-bound summary of the 2/1 bidding system.
	$9.95		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		Available now and ready to ship

	2 over 1: A First Course
	Bill Treble
	Hot off the press in summer 2017, a new book aimed at teaching new bridge players the 2/1 bidding system as soon as they learn to play.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Defending at Bridge: A First Course
	Bill Treble
	[needed]
	$16.95		By special order only

	Getting into the Bidding: A Bridge Toolkit
	Bill Treble
	A guided tour of the most popular conventions to use in competitive auctions: Michaels, artificial doubles, several systems to choose from over 1NT, and more.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Winning at Matchpoints
	Bill Treble
	A guided tour of how to think about common matchpoint decisions, illustrated with an abundance of examples. For example, to help you decide whether to invite with 8HCP after partner opens a 15-17 1NT, he shows a dozen example hands and how many tricks each makes. (Spoiler: at MP it's usually better to pass than bid 2NT.)
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	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

	Winning Declarer Play
	Dorothy Truscott
	Dorothy Hayden Truscott's classic book on planning the play of the hand is back in print thanks to the folks at Master Point Press.
	$22.95		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.
	$16.99		Available now and ready to ship

	The Language of Bridge
	Kit Woolsey
	Kit Woolsey explains the process of converting an English description of a bridge hand ("5 spades, 4 hearts, 3 diamonds, and a club") into a bidding sequence (opening 1♠, rebidding 2♥ over partner's 2♦, then raising his diamonds at our third turn.) In later chapter, he goes on to exploring the nuances of the auction: why did partner choose this sequence and not that one?
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

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Bridge Books - Novice

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