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The Club Convention System of Bidding at Contract Bridge by Harold S. Vanderbilt - 1964

by Harold S. Vanderbilt

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The Club Convention System of Bidding at Contract Bridge

by Harold S. Vanderbilt

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E-33: Scribner. Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1964. 186 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Harold Vanderbilt to George Plimpton (he calls Plimpton his prize pupil). DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. E-33; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
  • Bookseller Last Exit Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Scribner
  • Place of Publication E-33
  • Date Published 1964

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The Club Convention System of Bidding at Contract Bridge

by Harold S. Vanderbilt

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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First Edition; First Printing
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Hardcover
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E-033: Scribner. Very Good. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1964. 186 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Harold Vanderbilt to George Plimpton (he calls Plimpton his prize pupil) First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vanderbilt Club was one of the earliest bidding systems in the game of contract bridge. It was devised by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who had in 1925 devised the game itself. It was published by him in 1929. It was the first strong club system. An updated version was published in 1964. As of 2017, it has long been obsolete. Vanderbilt was a very early bridge theorist, because in his 1929 book he explained in detail the reasoning upon which his system… Read More
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