Name/Title
How to Play Modern BackgammonEntry/Object ID
BG-2024.0366Secondary Title
Containing the Official Rules as adopted and played by the leading New York Clubs.Description
This 16-page booklet has no named author but was copyrighted by J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, New York. It is a peculiar amalgam of material cribbed from 19th-century Hoyle texts as well as more contemporary sources.
Another oddity of this pamphlet is that it includes “The Official Rules as adopted by the leading New York Clubs” two weeks before they would be published under fresh copyright by John Longacre and Grosvenor Nicholas in Backgammon of Today.
The rights to the Ogilvie book were subsequently bought by Three Sirens Press, an odd holding for a small press with only about a dozen entries registered in the Library of Congress Copyright records at the time, mostly popular literary titles. Three Sirens appears to have managed printing of the booklet for inclusion in popular backgammon sets of the day marketed by AP Games, John Samuels Adult Games, William Rott, etc.Publication Details
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BookletDate Published
1930Other Names and Numbers
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1930_09_20Relationships
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