Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

Jay, Ricky

ISBN 10: 0709031505 / ISBN 13: 9780709031505

Published by Robert Hale, London, UK, 1987

About this Item

x, 344pp, black and white in-text illustrations and photographs throughout. Blue cloth-covered boards; silver titles on spine; blue endpapers. 4to. Sun-faded bottom edges, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges just starting to tan. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected with Brodart-style sleeve, has light shelf wear and chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. Magician Ricky Jay relates bizarre histories of eccentric entertainers, from mind readers and daredevils to animal handlers and stone eaters.

Seller Inventory # 032233

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
• Publisher: Robert Hale, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709031505
• ISBN 13: 9780709031505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movies, Cinema and Entertainment

About this title

Synopsis

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, most recently, Boogie Nights. Jay's unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, and, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the world made this unique book possible. An investigation into the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, and singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual--and irresistible--sort.

About the Author

Ricky Jay is the author of Cards as Weapons and has appeared both on television and in movies. He has worked with Joseph Papp, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Mamet. He is currently writing a book about great wagers through history.