John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer. Regarded as one of the finest players, he was also one of the most influential and acerbic of bridge writers, with a large output, including several books which remain in print as classics of bridge play. He was also the long-time bridge correspondent of The Lady, The Observer, the London Evening News and the Evening Standard.
Co-author(s)
Title
Editions and Printings
Notes
Phillips, Hubert
The Elements of Contract
1937: British Bridge World (London), 271p.
1948: Eyre & Spottiswoode (London)
Hubert Phillips acknowledges that although the book is published jointly under their names, "Terence is the real author of the book", receiving only assistance in planning contents and in revising text from Phillips.[1]
Cohen, Ben
The Acol Two Club. Second and subsequent editions titled The Acol System of Contract Bridge
1938: Sheffield, 1938, 55p.
1939: Joiner & Steele (London), 64p.
1946: Joiner & Steele (London), 84p.
1949: Joiner & Steele (London), 127p.
1956: Joiner & Steele (London), 148p
First and second editions carry the introduction by S.J. Simon - Attitude of Mind
Third edition completely revised, with a new introduction by S.J. Simon and 12 selected hands from Waddington's Par Contests composed by Terence Reese and S. J. Simon: Contract Bridge Equipment Ltd. (Leeds, England) in association with Joiner & Steele
Fourth edition with S.J. Simon's introduction to the third edition. Completely revised (with three new chapters and an appendix illustrating the system at work in the International Series of 1949)
Fifth edition with Introduction by Guy Ramsey and a selection of hands from the 1955–56 international events
Phillips, Hubert
How to Play Bridge
1945: Penguin, 128p.
1958: Revised edition, Max Parrish (London), 152p.
Reese on Play: An Introduction to Good Bridge
1947: Longmans, Green & Co. (New York), 232p.
1947: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. (London), 232p. Numerous reprints.
1976, 1978: W.H. Allen (London), 195p., ISBN978-0-491-01655-1, ISBN978-0-491-02477-8
Ranked number 10 by Experts responding to the 2007 American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) survey on their top ten favourite bridge books.[2]
Phillips, Hubert
Bridge at Ruff's Club
1951: The Batchworth Press, 248p. Edited by Terence Reese.
The book consists of articles previously written by Phillips and published in The Lady and The Sunday News of India. As editor, Reese made "expert" revisions to the collection of articles.
In the first paragraph of the book's Foreword, Phillips acknowledges Reese "... with whom I have had the pleasure of collaborating for something like the last eighteen years." The Foreword is dated March 1951.
Modern Bidding and the Acol System
1952, 1960: Nicholson & Watson (London), 128p.
Phillips, Hubert
Bridge with Mr. Playbetter
1952: The Batchworth Press, 221p
A 32-page pamphlet containing reprints of the hands in the text was inserted in a pocket on the inside back cover of the book to "enable the reader to follow the play of each hand without having to keep turning over the page."
Franklin, Harold
World Bridge Championship
1955: De La Rue (London), 106p.
One hundred selected hands from the match of 224 hands, Great Britain (representing Europe) vs. United States (the holders), played at the Beekman Hotel, New York, January 9 to 14, 1955
The Expert Game
1958, 1959, 1962: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. (London), 190p.
1960: Published in the USA as Master Play. George Coffin (Waltham MA), 144p. and in 1966 by Simon & Schuster, Cornerstone Library (New York), 139p.
1973, 1974: Hale (London), 190p., ISBN978-0-7091-3941-6.
1974: Published in the USA as Master Play in Contract Bridge . Dover Publications (New York), ISBN978-0-486-20336-2, 143p.
1984, 1991: Second edition, Hale (London), 190p., ISBN978-0-7090-1440-9.
1997: Revised and enlarged third edition with Barry Rigal, Hale (London), 208p., ISBN978-0-7090-5939-4.
Ranked number 1 by Experts responding to the 2007 American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) survey on their top ten favourite bridge books.[3]
In the preface to the 1984 Hale printing, Reese indicated that he took exception to the changes in spelling, idiom and vocabulary introduced in the Coffin printings.[4]
Dormer, Albert
Bridge Player's Dictionary
1959: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 252p.
1959: Oak Tree (London), 252p. with 8p. Addendum inserted
1959: Barnes & Noble (New York), 252p
1959, 1960: Mayflower
1960: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 252p.
1963: Revised edition: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 252p.
The 1959 Barnes & Noble publication was under the title Bridge Player's Dictionary and Quick-reference Guide
Play Bridge with Reese
1960: Oak Tree (London), 252p.
1960: Mayflower (London), 252p.
1960: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 252p.
1960, 1962: Nobles & Barnes (New York), 252p.
1969: Dover Publications (New York), 252p., ISBN978-0-486-22313-1
2004: Better Bridge Now (London), 240p., ISBN978-0-9530218-8-8
Dormer, Albert
The Play of the Cards
1967: Penguin Books (Baltimore), 270p.,
1977: New edition: Hale (London), 224p., ISBN978-0-7091-5873-8
1979: New edition: Sphere (London), 224p., ISBN978-0-7221-7255-1
1991: Revised edition: Hale (London), 224p., ISBN0-7090-4341-4 (ISBN978-0-7090-4341-6)
The 1991 edition is a paperback reprint of the second edition of 1977 (a hardback). According to the 1991 Forward, "The natural (reading) successors to this work are Reese on Play and The Expert Game, both published by Robert Hale."
Dormer, Albert
Bridge for Tournament Players
1968, 1969, 1971: Robert Hale & Company (London), 173p., ISBN978-0-7091-0003-4
Dormer, Albert
How to Play a Good Game of Bridge
1969: William Heinemann Ltd. (London), 181p.
Garozzo, Benito and Yallouze, Léon
The Blue Club
1969: Faber and Faber (London), 170p., ISBN978-0-571-09265-9
Written by Garozzo and Yallouze and first published under the title Bridge de Competition; adapted by Terence Reese with Introduction by Omar Sharif.
Schapiro, Boris
Bridge Card by Card
1969, 1971: Hamlyn (London, Toronto, New York), 86p., ISBN978-0-600-00357-1
C.C. Wei's Precision System
197?: printed in Taiwan, 98p. OCLC 2556706
Bidding a Bridge Hand
1972: Dover Publications (New York), 254p., ISBN978-0-486-22830-3.
Previously published as Develop Your Bidding Judgement (1962)
Precision Bidding and Precision Play
1972: W.H. Allen (London, New York), 153p., ISBN978-0-491-00544-9
1973: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 153p., ISBN978-0-8069-4924-6, ISBN978-0-8069-4925-3
1974: Star Books (London),153p., ISBN978-0-352-30013-3
1974, 1975, 1981: Cornerstone Library (New York), 153p., 154p., ISBN978-0-346-12501-8
1980, 1988?, : R. Hale (London), 150p., 153p., ISBN978-0-7091-8295-5, ?ISBN978-0-7090-3221-2
Practical Bidding and Practical Play
1973-1974: W.H. Allen (London), 292p., ISBN978-0-491-01401-4; 1974: 292p., ISBN978-0-352-30044-7
1973: Sterling Publishing Co., 292p.
1974: Star Brooks (London), 292p., ISBN978-0-352-30038-6
Advanced Bridge
1973: Sterling Publishing Co. (New York), 464p., ISBN978-0-8069-4922-2
A consolidation of Play Bridge with Reese and Develop Your Bidding Judgement into one book.
Dormer, Albert
The Complete Book of Bridge
1973: Faber and Faber (London, Boston), 485p., ISBN978-0-571-09904-7
1973: Excalibur Books (New York), 485p., ISBN978-0-525-70006-7
1974: Saturday Review Press (New York), 485p., ISBN978-0-8415-0277-2
1980: Coles (Toronto), 485p.
1985: Revised edition: Faber and Faber (London, Boston), 469p., ISBN978-0-571-13528-8
Play These Hands with Me
1976: W.H. Allen (London), 1976 and 1978, 195p., ISBN978-0-491-01655-1, ISBN978-0-491-02477-8
1982, 1984, 1989, 1991, and 1998: Victor Gollancz (London) in association with Peter Crawley, Master Bridge Series, 160p., ISBN978-0-575-03079-4, ISBN978-0-575-04505-7, ISBN978-0-575-06594-9
1983, 1985: Faber and Faber (London, Boston), 200p., ISBN978-0-571-13053-5, ISBN978-0-571-13097-9
1998: Second edition: Robert Hale (London), 198p., ISBN978-0-7090-6179-3
Bird, David
Unholy Tricks: More Miraculous Card Play
1984, 1988, 1995: Victor Gollancz (London) in association with Peter Crawley, Master Bridge Series, 160p., ISBN978-0-575-03493-8, ISBN978-0-575-04263-6, ISBN978-0-575-05944-3
^Tim, Bourke; Sugden, John (2010). Bridge Books in English from 1886-2010: an annotated bibliography. Bridge Book Buffs (Cheltenham, England), 711 pages plus supplement. ISBN978-0-9566576-0-2. Page 334.
External links[]
Terence Reese at Library of Congress Authorities, with 94 catalogue records (including 8 "from old catalog")