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Tiddlywinks Bibliography

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The Tiddlywinks Bibliography is a compendium of all substantive and obscure citations to the game of tiddlywinks in all available resources:  newspapers, magazines, books, government records, images, audio, video, web sites, etc.  In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.

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Notable Books

[FG] Rene Alleau, editor. Dictionnaire des jeux. 1964. [GV1200.D5] Page 419 <t>
[G] Arandas Tequila book of games rules <Barry Rogoff>
[IG] Arnold Arnold. The world book of children's games. © 1972. [GV1203.A74] Pages 92, 95, 96 <t>
[K] Beeton's Christmas annual. 1863. Page 39: Note by Francis Derrick (see Notes and Queries 4th S. ix 19)
[N] Richard Bissell. You can always tell a Harvard man. 1962. Pages 116­117 (1962 tiddlywinks challenge to Harvard from Oxford) <c>
[G] Robert M. Boyle. Sport­mirror of American life. 1963. Pages 224­25
[G] Gyles Brandreth. The world's best indoor games (UK title: Everyman's indoor games). © 1981. Pages 235­36
[>H] Jan Harold Brunvand. The study of American folklore: an introduction. © 1968. Page 231.
2nd edition. © 1978. Page 288 (folk game in India played with glass bangles) <c>
[>G] John D[enison]. Champlin Jr. & Arthur E[lmore]. Bostwick. The young folks' cyclopędia of games & sports. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1890 (7 Nov 1890 in Preface). [GV11.C43] Pages 725­26 ++<c>
[IG] Anne Civardi (James Opie, contributor). The know how book of action games. © 1976. Pages 1, 29. "Jumpers"
[F] Alfons de Cock & Isidoor Teirlinck. Kinderspel & kinderlust in Zuid­Nederland. 1903. Volume 3. Peuteron.
[GI] Matthew J. Costello. The greatest games of all time. © 1991. Page 50, illustration
[EG] John A. Cuddon. The international dictionary of sports and games. Schocken Books, New York. © 1979. [GV567.C8] Pages xxvii, 798 (history including Cambridge and Oxford; rules) <c>
[GH] Leslie Daiken. Children's toys throughout the ages. 1953. Page 185 <t>
[N] James Davidson. An eccentric guide to the United States. 1977­Berkley. Acknowledgments and in Massachusetts section
[G] Diagram Group. Family Fun & Games. ©1992. Sterling Publishing, New York. Pages 348-351 (illustrations of tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks golf, tiddlywinks tennis)
[^IQG] Diagram Group. The official world encyclopedia of sports and games. © 1979. Pages 76­77 (rules; tiddlywinks tennis & golf; illus). (Abridgment of entry in The way to play.) <c>
[IQG] Diagram Group. The way to play: the illustrated encyclopedia of the games of the world. © 1975. Pages 122, 134­35, 183­85.
[U] William B. Dick ("Trumps"). Modern pocket Hoyle. 1868. Page 307.
[>INH] Paul Dickson. The mature person's guide to kites, yoyos, Frisbees, and other childlike diversions. 1977­NAL. Pages: inside front cover, 159­62, 194, back cover ++<o>
[N] Paul Dickson. The official rules. 1978. Page 194 ("Proclaim yourself 'World champ' of something-tiddlywinks [...]" <t>
[FQ] Dizionario Enciclopedico Italiano. 1958, Roma. Volume 9, page 924 ("pulce 3") <t>
[GQ] Fleetway House. Encyclopedia of sports, games, & pastimes. ~1935. Page 639 ("TIDDLEY-WINKS"; rules for standard game, croquet, golf) <c>
[G] Rev. Philip H. Francis. A study of targets in games. 1951. [GV1200.F7] Pages 208­9 (hexagonal target) <t>
[^H] Larry Freeman. Yesterdays games. 1970. Pages 153, 160 (same as in A cavalcade of toys)
[H] Ruth & Larry Freeman. A cavalcade of toys. ©1942. [TS2301.T7F74] Pages 291 (two), 298 (photo of "TIDLEY WINKS" ten pins and glass cup), 366 ("Battle Winks" in 1903) <c>
[G] Edna Geister. Geister games. © 1930. Page 150 ("Tiddledewinks" including tennis) <c>
[GQ] Walter B. Gibson. Family games America plays. © 1970. Pages 237­39 (including variants) <c>
[>] Guinness (see Ross & Norris McWhirter)
[>FG] Louis Harquevaux & L. Pelletier. 200 jeux d'enfants en plein air et ą la maison. 1893. Page 204
[HG] Darwin A. Hindman. Handbook of indoor games and stunts. © 1955. Page 197 ("TIDDLY-WINKS") <c>
(Reprinted in The complete book of games and stunts. © 1956. Page 197.)
[] Reva Ifferman. Games played in Israel.
[HG] Brian Jewell. Sports & games: history & origins. 1977. [GV571.J48] Pages 108­9 ("Tiddlywinks Tower" with bell) <t>
[G] Bobbie Kalman. Games from long ago. ©1995. Crabtree Publishing. Page 13
[FI] Robert E. Lembke. Das grosse haus-und familienbuch der spiele. © 1969. Pages 147­48
[K] James Henry Lewis. Lectures on the art of writing. 1816 (?). 7th edition. Page 52 ("that great kiddy what now wears the wig, were once a noted speechifyer in a sartain kidliewink what is called the 'House of Commons' [...]") <c>
[IAG] Brian Love. Play the game: a book you can play. © 1978. Pages: cover, 65
[>HL] Lady Emily Lutyens (Lytton). A blessed girl; memoirs of a Victorian childhood chronicled in correspondence 1887­1896. © 1953. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. [DA533.L9] Pages 97­98 (diary entry from 24 April 1892, playing "Tiddleywinks") ++<o:Tucker>
[H] Inez & Marshall McClintock. Toys in America. 1961. [GV1200.M3] Pages 265 (Elderly English ladies asking F.A.O Schwarz for "Tiddley Winks" in 1883 [sic]), 346 (Parker Brothers)
[>N] Steve McKee. The call of the game. McGraw­Hill, New York. © 1987. [GV583.M345; ISBN 0-07-045354-3] Inside front jacket cover, pages 56­68 (1980 tournaments at MIT: World Singles, Continentals; history; lexicon) ++<o>
[>ENP] Norris & Ross McWhirter. Guinness book of world records. Varying entries.

<t>

10th edition 1971­2 Page 549

<o>

11th edition © 1972 Page 589

<t>

 12th edition 1974 Page 620

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 16th edition 1978 Page 574
17th edition 1979 Page 579
18th edition 1980 Page 578

US editions:

Guinness sports records book

    1972 Pages: cover, 133
  (2nd edition) 1974­75 Pages: cover, 156­57
  5th edition    
  6th edition 1978­79 (© 1978) Page 86
  7th edition 1979­80 (© 1979) Page 85

Guinness book of sports records/winners & champions

    © 1980 Page 139
    1982­83 (© 1982)  

Guinness book of records (UK editions)

  13th edition 1966 Page 329
  other editions   including photo of Alan Dean or Silver Wink trophy

<c>

 26th edition 1980 Page 297

<o: Kahn>

   1992 (©1991)  

Winners (see WW35)

(Other Guinness publications, exhibits, artifacts)

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[IG] Ray J. Marran. Table games: how to make & how to play them. 1939. Pages 108­119
[I] John Mebane. What's new that's old. © 1969. Page 78
[E] Spike Milligan. More Goon show scripts. 1973 (© 1974). Page 15 (Possibly in earlier book as well.)
[GQ] Merilyn Simonds Mohr, The Games Treasury. © 1993. Chapters Publishing Ltd., Shelburne VT. Pages 142-143. Illustrated. (Tiddlywinks, Castle Tiddlywinks, Tiddlywinks Golf, Tiddlywinks Tennis; reference to surrealists playing in Mexico in the 1930s.) <o>
[H] Virginia Musselman. Home play in wartime. ©1942. National Recreation Association Inc. [GV1201.M9] Page 7 ("centuries old"-Chinese played with ivory or jade) <t>
[E] Robert Nicholson, ed. Shell weekend guide to London and the south east. 1979. (See Winking World 33)
[HG] Parker Brothers Inc. 75 years of fun. 1958. Page 28 ("Tiddledy Winks", "Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks", "Tiddledy Winks Tennis") <c>
90 years of fun. 1973. Page 17 <t>
100 years of fund. 1983.
[] Parliamentary papers. 1833. Volume XV
[>] Jean Piaget. La prise de conscience. © 1974. Pages 101­118: chapter "Le jeu dit des 'puces'"; and another. ++
Susan Wedgwood, translator. The grasp of consciousness-action and concept in the young child. © 1976. [BF723.C5P52613]. Pages 123­146: chapter "Tiddlywinks"; page 204. <o>
[G] John B. Pick. 180 games for one player. 1954. Pages 55­61 ("TIDDLEY-WINK GAMES": "Counter Battle", "Tiddley-winks", "Tiddley-wink Cricket", "Tiddley-wink Football") <c>
[GE] John B. Pick. Phoenix dictionary of games. Several editions.
1952­UK. Page 254. <x>
1952­US. Title: Dictionary of games.
1964.
[GQ] Reader's Digest book of facts. © 1987. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville NY. {AG105.R32}. Page 352. "SQUOPPING THE WINK". <o>
[G] Richard Sharp & John Piggott (former Cambridge winker). The book of games. 1977. Page 165
[I] James J. Shea & Charles Mercer. It's all in the game. 1960. Page: cover only. (History of Milton Bradley.)
[I] Ralph Slovenko & James A. Knight, editors. Motivations in play, games and sports. 1967. Page xxix
[M] Pauline Soudamore. Spike Milligan: a biography. © 1985­Granada, London.
[] Brian Sutton­Smith. The folk games of children. © 1972. Pages 263­64. (Popularity)
[] Lewis M. Terman. Genetic studies of genius. 1925. Volume 1. Pages 388, 392, 402, 406, 408, 409, 418, 419. (Popularity) <t>
[GP] Ron van der Meer. The world's first ever pop­up games book. 198x­Delacorte. Page: cover, perhaps others
[K] Sidney & Beatrice Webb. English local government: the history of liquor licensing. 1903. Page 124
[>IHE] Gwen White. Antique toys & their background. ©1971. [NK9509.W5]. Pages 126 (Emily Lytton; The Goons in 1957), 229 ("TIDDLEDY-WINKS" by Joseph Assheton Fincher, 1889) <c>
[^H] Gwen White. Toys and dolls-marks and labels. ©1975. [T257.V4D684]. Page 87 ("TIDDLEDY-WINKS" by Joseph Assheton Fincher) <t>
[E] Roger Wilmut & Jimmy Grafton. The Goon show companion: a history and Goonography. © 1976. Hardcover pages 66 (radio show entitled "Tiddleywinks"; Cambridge University challenging the Duke of Edinburgh), 100, 113, 128. Paperback pages 71, 110, 126, 148. <ct>
[] (Unknown).  Little Mermaid.   ~1998.  (Cocoanut shell used to play tiddlywinks) <John Kwosny>

 

 

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