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Books by Ricky Jay
  | | The Last Stand (Paperback or Softback) by Jay: James Ricky Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2020 by Ricky J. James ISBN-13: 978-1-73611-890-0, ISBN: 1-73611-890-0 |
 | | Celebrations of Curious Characters(1st Edition) by Ricky Jay, David Mamet Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2011 by Mcsweeney's ISBN-13: 978-1-936365-03-6, ISBN: 1-936365-03-0 "Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jayraconteur, historian, and one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artistsexposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Adapted from his popular radio series Jay’s Journal of the Air,” Celebrations of Curious Characters features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, banjo-picking birds, Anglo-Texan saxophone-playin ..." |
 | | Jay's Journal of Anomalies(1st Edition) by Ricky Jay Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2003 by Quantuck Lane Pr & The Mill Rd ISBN-13: 978-1-59372-000-1, ISBN: 1-59372-000-9 "One of the New York Times's "Notable Books" and a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of the Year": Ricky Jay's brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments. Ingesters of stones, stoats, and swords have long compelled my attention. Signor Hervio Nano, the fantastic homunculus, defied conventional taxonomy. The well-trained flea has shown sufficient rationality to drive a chariot, impersonate Napoleon, or reenact the siege of ..." |
 | | Dice(1st Edition) Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay, Rosamond Wolff Purcell Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2002 by Quantuck Lane Pr & The Mill Rd ISBN-13: 978-0-9714548-1-1, ISBN: 0-9714548-1-7 "Plato said God invented dice. This we learn from one of Ricky Jay's fascinating essays in a delightful small volume that takes us from the earliest forms (astragalithe heel bones of hoofed quadrupeds, four of whose six sides were used for gaming) to the myriad types of "loading" and other means of cheating with dice in the modern era. Along the way we discover that Augustus, Caligula, and Nero were all inveterate players, that Queen Eli ..." |
 | | Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women(1st Edition) Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers: Stone Eaters, Mind Readers, Poison Resisters, Daredevils, Singing Mice, etc. by Ricky Jay Paperback, 343 Pages, Published 1987 by Grand Central Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-446-38590-9, ISBN: 0-446-38590-5 "A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, ..." |
 | | Extraordinary Exhibitions(1st Edition) Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay by Ricky Jay Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Quantuck Lane Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59372-012-4, ISBN: 1-59372-012-2 "An informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the convention of promoting such appearances, digressions on the manner and method of printing advertisements to do so, and insights into the psychology employed to that end. All are compiled in a monograph t ..." |
 | | Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women(1st Edition) Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers by Ricky Jay Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 1998 by Noonday Press ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52570-5, ISBN: 0-374-52570-6 "A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, ..." |
 | | Jay's Journal of Anomalies(1st Edition) Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments by Ricky Jay Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2001 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17867-3, ISBN: 0-374-17867-4 "A dazzling tour through the world of singular entertainers, con men, and unusual phenomena.For the past four years, the multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, author, actor, film consultant, and scholar of the unusual) has published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already a coveted collector's item, the complete set is gathered here for the first time. A brilliant excursion into t ..." |
 | | Cards As Weapons(Reprint) by Ricky Jay Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 1988 by Grand Central Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-446-38756-9, ISBN: 0-446-38756-8 "The author of the critically acclaimed Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, a nationally known sleight-of-hand expert, movie actor and magician extraor dinaire, presents a stylish parody of self-defense books that demonstrates how ordinary playing cards can be used as a means of protection. Photos." |
 | | Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women(1st Edition) by Ricky. Jay Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1987 by London: Robert Hale. 1987 Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7090-3150-5, ISBN: 0-7090-3150-5 "A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, ..." |
 | | Cards as Weapons(1st Edition) by Ricky Jay Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1977 by Darien House ISBN-13: 978-0-88201-016-8, ISBN: 0-88201-016-6 "Cover page has writing, creasing and bends of cover edges, slight curling of corners." |
 | | Cards As Weapons by Ricky Jay, F-Uki Paperback, 135 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-79822-268-3, ISBN: 1-79822-268-X "BOOK DESCRIPTION: With over 100 how-to pictures - including the famed topless card throwing series - this book will show you how to throw playing cards farther, faster, and harder than you ever thought possible, diagramming such card throws as the Boomerang Card, the Long-Distance Spinner, the Flick, the Back-of-the-hand Flick, the Finger Flick, the Foot Flick, Card Juggling, the Lethal Four Card Fist, the Butterfly Swirl, the Sea Urchi ..." |
 | | Dice Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay, Rosamond Purcell Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2007 by Quantuck Lane ISBN-13: 978-1-59372-030-8, ISBN: 1-59372-030-0 "A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful."Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from the extremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. There is an explanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are various tales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for ..." |
 | | Conjunctions 46, Selected Subversions: Essays on the World at Large by John Crowley, Fanny Howe, Anne Carson, Ken Gross, Robert Harbison, Ricky Jay, Michael Martone, Honor Moore, Rosamond Purcell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, Dubravka Ugresic, Nancy Willard, Geoffrey O'brien, Bradford Morrow, Robert Polito, Rikki Ducornet, Ned Rorem, Rick Moody, Ben Marcus, Eliot Weinberger, William Gass Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2006 by Bard College ISBN-13: 978-0-941964-62-3, ISBN: 0-941964-62-0 "This anthology of commissioned writing on subjects as wide-ranging as rock and roll lyrics, movies, science, pornography, curiosity cabinets, jazz and magic offers rich insights into a vast spectrum of ideas. The classic essay form--postulation, argument, exegesis, conclusion--ain't what it used to be. Lately it's too often referred to as what" |
 | | Tribulation and Millennium by Ricky Jay James Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 2021 by Ricky J. James ISBN-13: 978-1-73611-894-8, ISBN: 1-73611-894-3 |
 | | Bt Untitled by Ricky Jay Paperback, Published by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-29741-9, ISBN: 0-345-29741-5 |
 | | Dice Deception, Fate, & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay, Rosamond Purcell, Rosamund Purcell Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2017 by Quantuck Lane Press Deluxe Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-59372-002-5, ISBN: 1-59372-002-5 "This celebration and meditation on dice through the ages includes an explanation of the etymology of "craps" and various tales of armless dicers and ingenious hustlers. It also features the tale of Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for islands." |
 | | The Greatest German Living Matthew Buchinger, 1674 - 1739 by Ricky Jay 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Quantuck Lane Press& The Mill Rd ISBN-13: 978-1-59372-059-9, ISBN: 1-59372-059-9 "The astonishing life and work of the 18th century genius born without arms or legs." |
 | | McSweeney's Furry Journal by Staff Of Mcsweeney's, Staff Of Mcsweeneyandapos, Ricky Jay, Mcsweeney's Books Staff Journal, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Mcsweeney's ISBN-13: 978-1-934781-91-3, ISBN: 1-934781-91-6 "The Furry Journal is exactly that: a blank hardcover book, bound in imitation fur. Like The Wild Things before it, this journal’s coat is soft and mink-like. Inside, the Furry Journal is yours for the scribbling 96 of the cleanest white pages we could find. And at five-by-eight inches, it’s conveniently sized for all matter of travel notes, bedside epiphanies, or journalistic pursuits.Other possible uses for this well-insulated journa ..." |
 | | The Magic of Alan Wakeling(1st Edition) The Works of a Master Magician by Jim Steinmeyer, Mike Caveney, Ricky Jay, Channing Pollock, Mark Wilson Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2006 by Carroll & Graf ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-1807-8, ISBN: 0-7867-1807-2 "Alan Wakeling’s acclaimed magic has for years been the “secret source” for leading professional magicians. His career featured stage magic, illusions, close-up and stand-up effects, including several complete acts. This book contains professional material developed by Wakeling and used by magicians. Fully illustrated, beautifully and clearly described, this book is a treasure for any aspiring magician. Just ask the magicians, designers, ..." |
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