All Vintage solitaire books about Gambling used for the research on Solitaire from a Gambler’s perspective.
The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games: The Most Comprehensive Book of Its Kind. Over 225 Games Albert Morehead (1909 – 1966) was a journalist for The New York Times and writer of several books on card games. His passion was Bridge but he also wrote, together with Geoffrey Mott-Smith, a very important book … Read more
Fun with Cards, Solitaires, Tricks and Fortunes, 1927, [New York] George Sully and Company In Dean Bryden’s book “Fun with Cards, Solitaires, Tricks, and Fortunes” you can find 30 different types of Solitaire. The Demon, (4 card tableau + reserve), explained on page 77 includes a very detailed example play of the Demon, move by … Read more
Auction for Two or Three – With a new code of laws for these games – Milton C Work – 1921 The claim that Solitaire is only a single-player game is not correct. This is made clear in the book “Auction for Two or Three – With a new code of laws for these games.” … Read more
Solitaire and Patience: Seventy Games to test the Card Player’s Skill and make a lonely hour pass quickly by George Hapgood The first edition of Solitaire and Patience by George Hapgood in 1908 doesn’t mention any of the gambling Solitaires. Neither Klondike (Vegas) nor Canfield is in the book, also not under another name. However, … Read more
Dick’s Games of Patience by William B. Dick. Published and copyright by Dick and Fitzgerald, New York, USA 1908 Conceivably, this book is the source of all confusion between Canfield and Klondike Solitaire. William B. Dick describes 72 different solitaires including: Oddly, on page 116, we discover the game we nowadays know as Klondike Solitaire. … Read more
Games of Patience. Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams (second edition) by Tarbart (Thomas de la Rue) London 1905 An updated version from the first edition of “Games of Patience Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams” by Tarbart. As in the first part, the following games, which can be seen as the ancestors of Canfield and Klondike, are included, … Read more
Games of Patience, Illustrated by numerous diagrams by “Tarbart,” Published by Thos. de la Rue & Co LTD, London 1901 Thomas De La Rue’s second book about Solitaire. This time the book is published under his pseudonym Tarbart. A significant improvement is that the second book of Patience games by Thomas de la Rue is … Read more
Dick’s Games of Patience (Second Series) by William B Dick published by Dick and Fitzgerald, New York 1898 The second series of Dick’s Games of Patience was published in 1898, In this edition, 6 new variations of Patience and Solitaire games are added to the 64 games which were already published back in 1883 in … Read more
Patience: A Series of Games with Cards compiled by Mrs. E.D. Cheney. “Let Patience have her perfect work” Boston USA In her book Patience A Series of Games with Cards (third edition, Ednah Dow Cheney is the first English writer who writes about a game called Triangle which is a 2 deck solitaire that can … Read more
Games of Patience for One or More Players (Third Series) written by Mrs. Mary Whitmore Jones London 1892 The Third Series of Mary Whitemore Jones’ books on solitaire contains another 33 new solitaire variants; The game Demon is mentioned with the rules and layout we today know as Canfield Solitaire, without the gambling scoring. Other … Read more