Benjamin Culbertson (4 results)

Audio Book (DVD). Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DVD, videodisc : sound, color; 4 3/4 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Numerous charts, maps, and editorial cartoons (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light edgewear and light rubbing. Uncommon.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original gold foil and black decorated paper over boards, vertical black title and author lettering to the front cover. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 63 printed pages of text. Rubs to the spine ends, fore edges and corners, shelf rubs to the gold foil, pencilled comments referring to the game of Bridge to the front paste down, ink message dated 1936 to the front free end paper and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

4to, 62 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with several drawings. Association copy, inscribed by Culbertson to Benjamin Gitlow. First and only edition of this rare geopolitical work written by the game theorist and contract bridge innovator. Culbertson had been a revolutionary agent before becoming an expert at contract bridge, among other gambling systems. The threat of war in the 1930's brought a return to politics. This work was published in the year he founded the Citizens Committee for United Nations Reform, and is oddly elusive in the marketplace, and is a fascinating if little known work connecting geopolitics with game theory. This copy is also fascinating association - Gitlow was one of the founders of the CPUSA, but by the time this work was published had turned to conservatism and become an anti-communist activist whose works were influential in the McCarthy era. Near fine, with a bump to crown. Pencilled notation from a legendary bookscout within.