samsloan wrote:
On Feb 28, 12:20 pm, Will in New Haven
wrote:
On Feb 28, 11:51 am, samsloan wrote:


I might as well tell you now that the Bridge Book I am about to
publish is by Kenneth Harkness. He was a famous chess personality and
a good writer who made his living as the bridge director on ocean
cruises. I am told that he was a strong bridge player too but I do not
know if he won any tournaments or titles.

A far as I can tell niether Kenneth Harkness nor Stanley Edgar (his real
name) ever was a member of a team or pair that placed either first nor
second in any major event. His main importance to Bridge is his
introduction of Swiss system tournaments to the US _chess_ world.

Are you going to have someone edit it so that random things like
"bridge book" don't get capitalized? More seriously, how many copies
do you need to sell to make your nut on this thing? You have a
practically unknown author and _you_ don't have the kind of
information, titles won, for instance, that would make a blurb for the
book more appetizing.

Will in New Haven

Thank you for asking.

The book is a reprint. The book was originally published in 1949. It
was a very successful and popular book at the time. That is the reason
I have been asking if it should be reprinted.

It is an absolute beginners book. It starts out by explaining the
difference between a spade, a diamond, a heart and a club.

You might mention its title, _Invitation to Bridge_. I hope you have
cleared this with the publishers (Simon & Schuster), who date it as
1950. The Library of Congress control number, 50008099, corresponds to
that date. It was neither an important nor "successful and popular" book
at the time it was published. It is even less important now. You may
find a small group of people interested in buying reprints of obscure,
unimportant monographs on bridge, but the number will be very small.