Mollo Victor Anton (6 results)

hard cover, name on first end paper, JD corner clipped, 270 pages, 5 x 7 1/2 inches, third edition reprinted 1960, very good book condition, very good + dust jacket condition, non-fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. pgs.270 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages and gift inscription on inside frontpiece and former owner name sticker on inside front cover green covers with gold gilt laminated. Anton (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards rubbed and marked, ink inscription on front free endpaper, prelims lightly foxed. clean throughout. Good. ANTON (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 168. Original publishers dark red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie is on any list of the all-time top ten books on the game. The stories it contains, originally published in the 1960s in Bridge Magazine and The Bridge World, found a worldwide audience in book form. Everyone can relate to the characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl, and the rest), the bridge hands are brilliant, and the stories themselves hilarious. Very good in very good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. First published in 1955, this is a fifth impression of 1963. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine sunned almost white (red jacket), orange boards, not price clipped (15/-), some soiling to page fore edges. Internally clean tight and square, overall in vg+ condition for age. Now in protective film wrapper. 384pp. A highly regarded instructional book on the play of the cards. Victor Mollo (1909-87) was a British Bridge journalist and writer. Mollo was born in St. Petersburg into a rich Russian family. When he was eight, the October Revolution occurred and his family fled Russia, traveling by a purchased train, with forged Red Cross papers, crossing into Finland, then Stockholm, Paris and finally London. He neglected his studies and devoted himself to bridge. As an editor in the European service of the BBC, he began to write books and articles on the game. After retirement in 1969, he started to write even more extensively, and up to his death in 1987 he wrote 30 books and hundreds of articles. He was also active in developing bridge cruises, mostly in the Mediterranean. He died in London. Anton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 381. Original publishers orange cloth, lettered black at the spine. Signed presentation from the authors on the front endpaper, "with sincere thanks and best wishes to our Godmaother, Victor Mollo [and] Nico Gardener." From the library of Antonia Yeoman, best known as 'Anton' (1907Ð1970), an Australian born English cartoonist and illustrator, presumably the 'Godmother'. Very good indeed in slightly used, very good minus dust jacket, with some edgewear and some tanning at spine. Front panel of jacket designed by 'Anton'. Signedes.…