The Folio Book of Card Games

This handbook collects rules and playing advice for indoor card games, drawn from the Hoyle tradition of descriptions of games of skill and chance. Typical entries explain the pack, the deal, ranking of cards, the object of the hand, and common errors, covering whist and bridge families, poker and other vying games, rummy and patience, and assorted regional or party games. The pieces are instructional rather than narrative. There is no story and no continuous cast. The book is a practical anthology of card-table procedure, not a history of gambling and not a novel of card sharps.

Issued with no slipcase or dust-jacket. Combined with two decks of playing cards.