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Published by New York: Darien House, 1977, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0882010166ISBN 13: 9780882010168
Seller: Old Inlet Bookshop, Homer, AK, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 95pp, minor creasing to edges, " A Treatise on the art of throwing, scaling, juggling, boomeranging and manipulating ordinary playing cards with particular emphasis on impressing one's friends and providing a deadly yet inexpensive means of self-defence". Scarce.
Published by New York: Darien House, 1977, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0882010166ISBN 13: 9780882010168
Seller: Old Inlet Bookshop, Homer, AK, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 95pp, minor creasing to edges, " A Treatise on the art of throwing, scaling, juggling, boomeranging and manipulating ordinary playing cards with particular emphasis on impressing one's friends and providing a deadly yet inexpensive means of self-defence". Scarce.
Published by Darien House (c.1977), New York, 1977
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj art) Gary Cooley (illustrator). First Edition. [a nice clean copy, with just a touch of wear to the lower extremities; the jacket spine is a bit color-shifted (with a little bleeding of same onto the edge of the rear panel), and there's a tiny closed tear and some associated creasing/wrinkling at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs, drawings, facsimiles) A how-to book of amazing things to be done with playing cards: "A treatise on the art of throwing, scaling, juggling, boomeranging, and manipulating ordinary playing cards with particular emphasis on impressing one's friends and providing a deadly yet inexpensive means of self-defense" -- "an imperative for today's urban society." The first book by the renowned magician/actor/writer/collector/historian, connoisseur of the weird, and self-anointed "pasteboard projectilist" -- a hilarious work that manages to be both scholarly and largely tongue-in-cheek. Primarily issued as a trade paperback (and reprinted as such in 1988), with the hardcover first printing being quite uncommon.