The Marble Book ( Includes Marbles Classic Games)

About this book

Photographs by Martha Cooper. Packaged with the only other equipment a child would need--the marbles--here is a book steeped in the know-how culture lore and trivia of this simple easy-to-learn play-anywhere game. The Marble Book is fun and complete with its 30 marbles and 2 shooters packed in a drawstring pouch its extensive marble lingo over 50 games and a chapter on collecting. It tells the proper way to shoot including how to use backspin how to set up a game and the best places to play (the dirt of course although asphalt and linoleum are pretty good). Then come the games from Ringer the official game played at the National Marbles Tournament to Poison Dobblers and Old Bowler the game favored by Abraham Lincoln. Its everything kids need to knuckle down and play for keepsies. 50 000 copies in print. The Classic Game series have over 317 000 copies in print.