ACOL Without Tears : Being the Basic Principles of the ACOL System of Contract Bridge

296pp, illustrated with hand lay outs etc. Red cloth-covered boards (a little rounded at corners), and internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a few mild marks on endpapers. In its original dust jacket (a little chipped at edges and some short cracking on rear spine fold, with some visible shelf wear). Ben Cohen's first bridge book, Change to Acol, did more to 'acolise' the bidding of bridge players than any other book and went into third editions before being superseded by this volume, with its more up to date approach to ACOL bridge. This fast became the standard textbook on the subject. 8vo.