Contract Bridge Blue Book

[James Bond source book] CULBERTSON, Ely (1891-1955)

Verlag: New York: The Bridge World, 1930

Beschreibung

[Card game] FIRST EDITION, first printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.348. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt, pictorial dust-wrapper (slightly later, noting this title as a best-seller). Signed presentation note to flyleaf; Cordially yours / Ely Culbertson. Contents clean, news-clipping and pencil notes to pastedown, wrapper with some chips and tears, rubbed at joints. A scarce signed copy of the first edition of a hugely-popular book which went through forty printings in the first seven months. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Moonraker (1955), which features the now-famous Bridge game where Drax and Meyer play Bond and M at Blades, where Bond deploys 'The Culbertson Hand'. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Section L. Moonraker (2), p.619. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 69847

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Contract Bridge Blue Book

Verlag: New York: The Bridge World, 1930

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage