Aggies, Immies, Shooters, and Swirls: The Magical World of Marbles

by Marilyn Barrett

This illustrated book captures marbles in all their beauty and variety, and provides a detailed description of each type. There is also information for collectors, as well as a marble glossary and instructions for the most popular marble games.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821220012
• ISBN13: 9780821220016
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

It's the real deal

There are some very minor inaccuracies, nothing major but overall this is beautiful, true, coffee table book. The reason that I know about it is that my neighbor is one of the featured artists in the book (Jeffrey Grey). It's quite an amazing book and if you find the last pic in the book that is attributed to Jeffrey, what you're seeing there are hand made marbles made of fiberglass and wood that he made himself. I couldn't believe it when I first looked at them but he gave me one of the marbles shown in the picture and I have to say it's an absolutely amazing bit of craftsmanship. For an offbeat conversation starter, this is really a fun, whimsical book.

Great close-ups of the marbles!

There are several things that make this book a stand-out. The first is the basic information about the types of marbles (antique, machine-made, modern) and the makers of the marbles. If you're looking for extensive historical information, this may not be the book for you. But if you collect marbles and are interested in good, basic information as well as tons of photos (most enlarged so you can see every detail) of a wide variety of marbles, this book fills the bill. While I'm no marble expert, I learned a grat deal from reading this one!