On Mar 20, 6:10 pm, wrote:
On Feb 28, 6:58 am, Hank Youngerman wrote:

Regarding republishing of books, I don't know what the market is in
chess for them. Bridge has only been around for about 80 years, so
there are no "classic" books that predate that. Bidding has changed
tremendously, so older books on bidding are of almost no use.

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While this is true, in the sense that older books on bidding have no
direct connection with modern bidding, there is a sense in which some
older books are still worth reading (or re-reading) because of their
historical value. I would include, amongst these:

1. Churchill's natural bidding system (oh, how I wish I had a copy of
this one!)
2. Stern's original book on Vienna (the first little club - big NT
system)
3. Squire's The Theory of Bidding
4. Roth-Stone's Bridge is a Partnership Game
5. Kaplan-Sheinwold System of Winning Bridge
6. Belladona-Avarelli, The Roman Club
7. Garozzo-Forquet, The Blue Team Club
8. Morehead's, On Bidding (1964 version)
9. Goldman's Aces Scientific
10. Karpin's Psychological Strategy in Contract Bridge

All of these are mid-1970s or older and I haven't included more recent
books on, e.g., 2/1 or Ultimate Club or Symmetric Relay because they
don't meet the criterion of being older.

I would imagine that any experienced tournament player could read any
of these books and find something of value in each of them, even if no
one system is adopted in toto.

Henrysun909

What would you think about a reprinting of two 1934 books:

The Outline of Contract Bridge by Louis Watson

and

Watson on the Play of the Hand at Contract Bridge

Sam Sloan