CLASSICS/BEST SELLERS
 | 365 Winning Bridge Tips by Danny Kleinman List Price: 272 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Can you learn from the errors of others? Here is a collection of problems, mostly very simple ones, that gave a variety of players, mostly "intermediate" but including occasional beginners and experts, some trouble. You won't find bidding problems worthy of the Master Solvers' Club (a monthly Bridge World feature), declarer-play problems fit for "Test Your Play" (another Bridge World feature) or . . . read more. |
 | Back Through The Pack by Julian Pottage List Price: 266 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. One of today's most popular and successful bridge authors offers a sequel to one of the most popular and successful bridge books of all time. All fifty-two members of the pack have stories to tell and deuces and treys are attended to with the same respect accorded aces and kings. The cards are a bit more worldly than they were, but just as sentimental. Suspend your disbelief and travel to a timel . . . read more. |
 | Bridge In 3 Weeks by Alan Truscott List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. A comprehensive, 3-week, day-by-day bridge course for the beginner by the bridge editor of The New York Times. . . . read more. |
 | Bridge Problems for a New Millennium by Julian Pottage List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. In this quiz book, British author Julian Pottage has compiled a set of challenges that will test the reader's ability both as declarer and on defense. The hands are organized by theme, so readers are able to concentrate on a particular aspect of card-play if they wish. . . . read more. |
 | Challenge Your Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. 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 ta . . . read more. |
 | Eliminations & Throw-ins (BT) Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Marc Smith List Price: 64 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Expert Bridge Simplified Arithmetic Shortcuts For Declarer by Jeff Rubens List Price: 416 pages. Paperback. This book takes a lighthearted approach to tackling challenging problems, and demystifies bridge mathematics for the practical player. After mastering the basic techniques for declarer, bridge players improve by applying those procedures more effectively. The most common question among those who study declarer's craft is: "How do I calculate the odds?" Even highly experienced players sometimes st . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Bidding by Danny Roth List Price: 160 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is not a book about systems, nor is it a book about conventions (although I confess I shall attempt to persuade you to adopt one or two in the course of it). This is a book about bidding and the places in the auction that we (and I use the word advisedly) go wrong. I don't care whether you prefer to play a weak or a strong notrump, or eight-card majors, or the Purple Spotted Forcing Club. Bu . . . read more. |
 | Focus on Declarer Play by Danny Roth List Price: 128 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. For most intermediate bridge players, declarer play is both fascinating and challenging, but too often they are left after a hand is over with the sinking feeling that they could have done better. In this book, acclaimed British author Danny Roth takes his readers through the most common causes of errors on play: mishandling communications, making errors involving trumps, failing to take advantag . . . read more. |
 | Following the Law by Larry Cohen List Price: 192 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Following the LAW, the sequel to To Bid or Not to Bid, was published in 1994, and took the basic concepts explained in the first book to a higher level of sophistication, while giving many practical examples from expert play of how to use the Law of Total Tricks correctly. Both books are must-reads for every improving bridge player. . . . read more. |
 | Matchpoints Second Edition by Kit Woolsey List Price: 370 pages. Paperback. Matchpoints, originally published in 1982, is one of the absolute classic bridge books. World Champion Kit Woolsey discusses every aspect of bridge -- constructive bidding, competitive bidding, declarer play, defense -- from the perspective of matchpoint expectation: how many matchpoints will I win if I am right, and how many matchpoints will I lose if I am wrong? Even veteran matchpoint players . . . read more. |
 | Misplay These Hands With Me by Mark Horton List Price: 208 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The late Terence Reese, perhaps the greatest bridge writer of all time, introduce the 'over-the-shoulder' style of bridge writing in his classic Play These Hands with Me. In this wry homage to the master, Horton leads the reader through a plausibly logical line of play on each instructive deal, but one that ends in failure. In each post-mortem, the 'expert' realizes how he could have improved on . . . read more. |
 | Playing with the Bridge Legends by Barnet Shenkin List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Since winning the world's most prestigious pairs event in his early twenties, with the equally precocious Michael Rosenberg, Barnet Shenkin has continued to build a 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. While much of his early career was ba . . . read more. |
 | Reading the Cards (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. . . . read more. |
 | Roman Keycard Blackwood: The Final Word Fifth Edition by Eddie Kantar List Price: 244 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. This is the fifth (and according to the author, the very last - but don't hold your breath!) edition of what is acknowledged to be the definitive book on a convention that every serious player uses. Completely revised and updated from the previous version, this newest version contains even more leading-edge ideas, and is full of examples, quizzes and practice hands. A must for the tournament play . . . read more. |
 | Safety Plays (TYBT) Test Your Bridge Technique Series by David Bird • Tim Bourke List Price: 104 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Short and full of practical examples, each book takes the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Where appropriate, play is examined from the point of view both of declarer and defenders. Full of quizzes and chapter reviews, these award-winning books will also reinforce the bridge concepts you learn. At this price, what bridge player could stand not to have al . . . read more. |
 | The Lone Wolff Autobiography of a Bridge Maverick by Bobby Wolff List Price: 287 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. The world champion and former ACBL and WBF President discusses his own career with honesty and emotion, and tackles the big issues that others are afraid to talk about: players cheating at the top levels, destructive bidding systems, sponsorship, and professional players. . . . read more. |
 | The Secrets of Winning Bridge Second Edition by Jeff Rubens List Price: 224 pages. Paperback. The classic, easy-to-understand shortcut to winning bridge. Jeff Rubens' classic book is as relevant today as when it was first published to critical acclaim. The secrets herein are not system-dependent; they pertain to general bridge skills and to bridge thinking. The book consistently makes successful bridge players' top-10 list of most influential books. Now back in print in a modernized Secon . . . read more. |
 | To Bid or Not To Bid The Law of Total Tricks by Larry Cohen List Price: 240 pages. Paperback. Also available as an E-book. Since its publication in 1992, To Bid or Not to Bid has sold over 50,000 copies in English alone and has been published in several other languages. Undoubtedly the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s, its lucid exposition of the empirical Law of Total Tricks (a simple guide to making the right decisions in competitive bridge auctions) has made it a book that literally every serious bridge playe . . . read more. |