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6 RICKY JAY = Books, LA Playbill, Cards, Magic ALL Details In Description:
$779.99
From the personal library of my father, Ray Dier’s, collection spanning over 75 years. Item 1 Celebrations of Curious Characters - by Ricky Jay
- Excellent Condition
- 1st Ed 2011 magic
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Dust Cover
Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay raconteur, 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,” Features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, banjo-picking birds, Anglo-Texan saxophone-playing siamese twins) paired with engravings, mezzotints, and broadsheets from the author’s remarkable collection. You’ll find engaging vignettes on a daunting variety of topics: musical prodigies, cannon-ball catchers, conmen, card cheats, and performing politicians. Plus, a man who made a model of Lincoln Cathedral out of 1,000,800 bottle corks; a woman continuously pregnant for six-and-a-half years; a theatrical strong man who became the world’s leading Egyptologist; and a healthy number of digressions on time, money, and the argot of thieves. Item 2: Cards as Weapons 1st Ed, 2011 - by Ricky Jay
- Very Good / Excellent Condition
- First Edition, 2011
- Glossy Pictorial Hardcover
- Dust Jay a nationally known sleight-of-hand expert, movie actor and magician extraordinaire, presents a stylish parody of self-defense books that demonstrates how ordinary playing cards can be used as a means of protection.
Item 3: Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women : Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers: Stone Eaters, Mind Readers, Poison Resisters, Daredevils, Singing Mice, etc, etc, etc, etc. - by Ricky Jay
- Very Good Condition
- Second Edition
- Trade Paperback
A fun and brilliantly researched history of the strangest entertainers in show business history by Ricky Jay, one of the great magicians working today and the self-styled scholar of the unusual. Black-and-white photographs and color illustrations. Item 4 Cards as Weapons Throw-Out Card Playing Cards - Brand New/Sealed
- Thro-Out-Cards
- Featuring Cards as Weapons Book Cover image on Box & Cards
- Collectible Magic Playing Cards
- 52 playing cards + Joker
Custom pack of cards produced to promote Jay’s cult classic book. Item 5 c.2006 Playbill for RICKY JAY & HIS 52 ASSISTANTS Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at Geffen Playhouse - Very Good /Excellent Condition
- With Insert
- Presented by Managing Director Stephen Eich
- Written & Performed by Ricky Jay
- Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at Geffen Playhouse Los Angeles
- Producing Director: Gilbert Cates
- Artistic Director: Randall Arnes
- Opening Night - November 22, 2006
Item 6 Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck - by Ricky Jay
- Very Good / Excellent Collection
- First Edition, c.2003
- Hardcover w Dust Cover
- Manufactured by Mondadori Printing, Verona
- Glossy Pictorial Dust Cover w Yellow Lettering
- Design by Laura Lindgren & Patrick Reagh Color
- Photographs by Purcell
- The Quantuck Lane Press
- Distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., New York
- W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd., London
The five collections of dice from Ricky Jay's collection of magical ephemera, cards, dice, and entertainment memorabilia. Ricky Jay asked his friend Rosamond Purcell to photograph and commemorate his crumbling collection of dice. The result is a series of remarkable photographs that inspired Mr. Jay's composition on decomposing dice. These dice made from celluloid, the first commercially manufactured plastic, remain stable for decades, and then in a flash begin to crack, crys-tallize, and implode. Jay waxes on about the history of dice and the forces that destroy them. He traces gambling with dice from the ancient use of astragali, the heel bones of hoofed quadrupeds, to their use in the casinos of Las Vegas. Along the way we discover numerous ways in which shaved, misspotted, and loaded dice were used by colorful and unscrupulous hustlers to gain advantage over their less enlightened brethren. We learn that Augustus, Caligula, and Nero were all inveterate players, and that Queen Elizabeth issued an edict against the manufacture of false dice in 1598. We meet a colorful assortment of gamesters, scammers, and even armless dicers. All the while we see Rosamond Purcell's luminous and seductive photographs, images that transform entropy into an art form, and occasionally reveal the secret of the cheater's advan-tage. What Jay and Purcell give us is a dual meditation on dice that will educate us and amuse us at the same time. Even those who have never considered craps will find their collaboration irresistible. About the author: Ricky Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He first performed magic in public at the age of 4. At the age of 7, he appeared on a TV show called Time for Pets, plopping a guinea pig into a top hat and appearing to turn it into a chicken. He left home as a teenager and worked at Lake George and at the Electric Circus. He appeared in about 40 movies and television shows including House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Redbelt, State and Main, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood. In the 1990s, he and Michael Weber founded the consulting firm Deceptive Practices. Their film-industry projects included a wheelchair that made Gary Sinise's Vietnam War-veteran character in Forrest Gump appear to be a double amputee. Jay wrote several books including Cards as Weapons, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Celebrations of Curious Characters, and Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living. He died on November 24, 2018 at the age of 70. Rest in Peace.
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