Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games: Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations

by Walter B. Gibson

Overview

"According to Hoyle" is the card-table synonym for Correct —a definitive guide to the correct playing of all known card games, with full descriptions and explanations of rules and techniques for each game and its variations.

B & W photographs throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385076807
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/19/1974
Series:	Dolphin Handbook Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	58,086
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.09(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Generally acknowledged as one of the greatest authorities on magic in the 20th century, Walter B. Gibson (1897–1985) was interested in the subject for most of his life. He wrote 18 books and numerous articles on magic, edited four magic magazines, and collaborated with some of the greatest magicians of the past 50 years. In the course of his long and active career in magic and related areas, Gibson also wrote the famous Shadow novels, under the pen name Maxwell Grant.