Introduction Ely Culbertson (8 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. ----------vintage paperback. Cover a little spotted and rubbed, minor other wear, a very good+ copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. "43 NL". Spine is skewed to right. Edgeworn. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Third printing. New York: The John Day Company, 1930. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. For bridge card players. Bidding tactics; valuation standards; constructive bidding; defensive bidding; etc. Includes specialized chapters by Sidney S. Lenz; Winifred Liggett, Jr.; Theodore A. Lightner; Waldemar K. von Zedtwitz; and Wilber C. Whitehead. Original blue cloth. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. xi, 250pp .…

303rd thousand, new and enlarged, 1st edition thus. Softback. 12mo.v + (3) + 71 + (1)pp. Publisher's green colour pictorial paper wrappers, 4 ace cards + red & black lettering on front, black lettering on spine. Original white eps. Covers : slight browning marks else very clean. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy with faint browning marks to covers. VG+.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Very Good. New York: The Bridge World, Inc., 1934. 8vo (5.5" x 8.25"). Hardcover. Very Good condition. Light wear to board edges. Faint thumb print to Preface margin. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. Author's gift inscription & signature to front end paper. Rhymed verse describing the techniques of Ely Culbertson, "the man who made contract bridge," 1930's contract bridge writer, publisher, organizer and player. 63 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. 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.…

1st edition. Large 8vo. xv + (1) + 328pp. Numerous bw comical illustrations in text. Publisher's orange plain cloth covers, gilt lettering on front & spine, gilt cartouche on spine. White eps. Covers : bump front bottom corner, slight shelf knocks top/bottom of spine, large pin hole bottom edge of spine. Contents : clean, tight & unfoxed. VG-.…