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Children's games with things : marbles, fivestones, throwing and catching, gambling, hopscotch, chucking and pitching, ball-bouncing, skipping, tops and tipcat / by Iona and Peter Opie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Games--Great Britain--History.
- Games.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Covering everything from marbles to hopscotch, this groundbreaking survey of children's games constitutes--with "Children's Games in Street and Playground" (1969) and "The Singing Game" (1985)--the final volume of the Opies' acclaimed trilogy. 60 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0192159631
- OCLC:
- 36130775
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