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Foster's Duplicate Whist: A Complete System of Instruction in Whist Strategy by R.F. Foster - 1894

by R.F. Foster

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Foster's Duplicate Whist: A Complete System of Instruction in Whist Strategy

by R.F. Foster

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New York, Chicago, Washington: Brentano's, 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Whist being a card game that later evolved into Contract Bridge. Green cloth binding with titles on spine in gilt, and titles and playing card design on front cover in gilt, all edge gilt, 245 pages plus 3 pages of ads. Former owner's name on front endpaper.

  • Bookseller The Book Shelf US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Brentano's
  • Place of Publication New York, Chicago, Washington
  • Date Published 1894
  • Keywords CARD GAME CONTRACT BRIDGE WHIST

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Foster's Duplicate Whist: A Complete System of Instructioin in Whist Strategy [Forerunner of the game of Bridge]

by Foster, R. F

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
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Used - Very Good
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First Edition
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Hardcover
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New York, Chicago, Washington: Brentano's, 1894. [1894] FIRST EDITION hardcover, gilt lettering/gilt playing card design on top cover, gilt lettering on spine. All edges in gilt. 245 numbered pages plus one advertisement at end. Not a facsimile or a more recent reprint, this is the 1894 edition. Condition of binding: Cloth darken with age, scattered discoloration/stains/soiling spots that have darken with age (larger, more significant areas on back cover). Spine age darken. Minor shelf wear. Fraying/light wear to top/foot of spine and corners. First hinge has crack (about 2¼ inches); old bookplate of Capital Bicycle Club Library on first pastedown endpaper [champion U.S. team in 1892/1893], small Brentano's sticker at bottom of rear pastedown endpaper. Endpapers are lightly toned/foxed with faint offset to first free endpaper (from bookplate). Scattered dust/wear to gilt edges. Preliminaries and text block lightly age toned with periodic light foxing. Overall, Very Good. Text is clear… Read More
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