Ricky Jay; Rosamond Wolff Purcell (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press, New York, 2003.FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Small closed tear on the fold between the DJ's rear panel and the heel of spine's heel. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square 8vo bound in black cloth. Inscribed by Rick Jay at half-title verso. Near Fine in like jacket. 63 pp. Illustrated in color. [CL]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Square format little picture book. Bound in black bookcloth with gold lettering on the spine. Glossy pictorial DJ with lettering in yellow. Excellent condition (both book and DJ). First edition with complete number line. 63 pages, with color photographs by Purcell of dice from Ricky Jay's collection of magical ephemera, cards, dice, and entertainment memorabilia. Jay's essays on the history and use of dice. Signed by both on a photo on the page before the title page. Purcell signs plainly in blue ink. Jay with a more calligraphic flourish, and a thicker pen. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photo beside this listing, be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that means) and that it might not match this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Quantuck Lane Press, New York. 2002. #119 of a limited edition of 250 copies signed by the late great Ricky Jay, as well as photographer Rosamond Purcell. With an additional signed photographic print by Purcell, laid in, as called for. Slipcased in matching cloth slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed and worn. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and with color pastedown and titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Plato said God invented dice. This we learn from one of Ricky Jay's fascinating essays in a delightful small volume that takes us from the earliest forms (astragalithe heel bones of hoofed quadrupeds, four of whose six sides were used for gaming) to the myriad types of "loading" and other means of cheating with dice in the modern era. Along the way we discover that Augustus, Caligula, and Nero were all inveterate players, that Queen Elizabeth issued a search and seizure order against the manufacture of false dice in 1598, and that dice made from celluloid, invented in 1869, remained stable for decades, and thenin a flashbegan to decompose. These are the dice of Rosamond Purcell's luminous and seductive photographs, images which transform entropy to an art form. Jay and Purcell give us a dual meditation on dice that will educate us and amuse us at the same time. ; 8 X 0.5 X 8.25 inches; 64 pages.