Cards Weapons by Ricky Jay (49 results)

Condition: Good. Good; Softcover; Second Printing; Moderate wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.3 lbs; Orange covers with photo of man throwing cards, and title in yellow lettering; 1988, Warner Books Publishing; 130 pages; "Cards As Weapons," by Ricky Jay.

Trade paperback. Unabridged. Trade paperback (US). Fair. Wear to cover and corners. Text appears unmarked.

Condition: Very Good. First Warner Books printing. Pictorial wrappers, illustrated, 129 pages. Spine slanted, else in very good condition. Cult classic book discussing self-defense with playing cards.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This listing is for a Darien House first edition, first printing of the rare and out of print book "Cards As Weapons" by Ricky Jay. The book is in Good condition with clean white pages, a few creases and folds to first few pages and no tears. The binding is very good with some wear and there is very little chipping starting on cover (see pictures). Otherwise Good! Book Description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Darien House, 1977, New York, NY, U.S.A., Soft cover. First edition. 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 Urchin Spin, and the Dolphin Dart. Shows alternative throwing methods such as the Martin Lewis Method, the Thurston Grip, the Jay Grip, and the Herrmann Grip. This is the book that made Jon Wedd famous for his appearance on MTV's Unfiltered news show. Ricky Jay held the Guinness world record for card throwing in 1976. Obscenely funny, very rare and desirable!.

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.

Hard cover. Unabridged. Very good in very good dust jacket. 1 inch closed tear along top front edge of jacket, now in a mylar cover. Text unmarked. Binding in good shape. Pages a bit age-toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 96 pps, hardbound, 4to, VG+/F-, minor dj extremity wear, boards show light wear to edges, also superficial scrap to front board, else very clean and binding tight -- NOT EXLIB, NOT PC, mylar protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A nice copy in dust jacket that is price clipped and has a few nicks in it.

[0-88201-017-4] 1977, 1st printing. (4to) Fine in fine dust jacket. 95pp. Illustrations, photographs. The only flaw is a minor toning along the inside top and bottom edges of the dust jacket, which is not visible from the printed side of the jacket. (Magic, Card Tricks, Magic, Playing Cards).

First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book from magician, actor, and historian Ricky Jay. An often amusing look at how playing cards can be transformed into weapons with numerous illustrations and technical guides. A clean very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears to the top of the spine and some other very minor wear. Signed and warmly inscribed by Jay on the title page: "For Allen Berlinski kindred spirit and good fried Ricky Jay 18 May 1981." The recipient was an author and collector of magic related material. A very nice copy of the much less common hardcover issue.