Cards as Weapons - Ricky Jay

Trade paperback, about 9 inches tall, in pictorial wraps. 130 pages illustrated by photographs. A first printing of this edition. The book deserves the introduction: "And now [more]

Trade paperback, about 9 inches tall, in pictorial wraps. 130 pages illustrated by photographs. A first printing of this edition. The book deserves the introduction: "And now for something completely different." An uncommon book, the title is really descriptive of what it teaches even if it does so tongue-in-cheek. The author is a magician, also an actor still seen on television and in movies, perhaps most notably as a villain in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies", and as a saloon card dealer in Deadwood. Note that the original edition published by Darien in 1977 was a slightly larger format and had fewer pages. Clean, bright and sound with barely a hint of wear at the tips.[less]