On Mar 22, 5:40 pm, "Tyler Eaves" wrote:
samsloan wrote:
Late last night I sent "The Outline of Contract Bridge" by Louis H.
Watson to the printers for reprinting.

It should be out and available for sale in ten days to two weeks. When
it comes out it will be available on Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/092389182X

Does anybody have the dust cover for this book and for the other
Watson Book "Watson on the Play of the Hand"? I have several copies of
these books but only the hard cover book, not the dust cover. I really
need the dust cover to make my own cover.

After that comes out I will also be reprinting the next Watson book,
which will appear at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891749

I know that if I were going to start playing bridge again, I would
read Watson's "Outline of Contract Bridge" first, for the simple
reason that it is short enough to digest. The section on The Play of
the Hand is only 149 pages and I could get through that much more
easily than the 492 page longer book.

Sam Sloan

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891943

Uh, you realise "Play of the Hand" is still in-print, right?

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What is "in print" is "Watson's Classic Book on the Play of the Hand
at Bridge By Louis H. Watson New Edition Enlarged and Modernized by
Sam Fry, Jr." published in 1958 by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.

That book is entirely different from the book that I am reprinting,
which is entitled "The Outline of Contract Bridge: Part I Contract
Bidding, Part II The Play of the Hand". Not a single word is the same.

In addition, the 1958 book says © 1958 by Sterling Publishing Co.,
Inc. That is a false copyright notice. I know this because I have
encountered another "copyright" by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.,
which turned out just to be a copy of a book published in the Soviet
Union in 1923 by an author who had died in the Soviet Union in 1942.

Sam Sloan