Matthias Buchinger: ?The Greatest German Living?: By Ricky Jay Whose Peregrinations in Search of the ?Little Man of Nuremberg? are Herein Revealed
Language: English
Published by Siglio, 2016
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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AS NEW. Appears to be FIRST edition, first printing. Handbill advertisement laid in. No dust jacket as issued. Cover color bright and clean all around, corners crisp. Interior bright and clean, appears unread. Unmarked on inspection.
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- Title
- Matthias Buchinger: ?The Greatest German Living?: By Ricky Jay Whose Peregrinations in Search of the ?Little Man of Nuremberg? are Herein Revealed
- Author
- Ricky Jay
- Publisher
- Siglio
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1938221125
- ISBN 13
- 9781938221125
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 25 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x0x9
- Seller catalogs
- Art
Ricky Jay is considered one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. His career is further distinguished by his accomplishments as author, actor and historian of "unusual entertainments." He has appeared in films directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Gus Van Sant and David Mamet. His Jay's Journal of Anomalies and Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women were New York Times "Notable Books." The subject of the documentary Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practices, Jay is the only conjurer to be profiled in the PBS series American Masters.
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Review
In the way it exhumes a pre-Enlightenment eccentric, Jay's The Greatest Living German provides a much-needed introduction to a valuable, lost wunderkammer. But Jay's work is also a polymathic replica of the zeitgeist of languages and wonders in which Buchinger lived and worked.--Erik Morse "The Paris Review Daily "
[An] impeccably designed book... Truly awe-inspiring.--Jim Ruland "Los Angeles Times "
An appealing short book on Buchinger, with excellent illustrations.--Christopher Benfey "The New York Review of Books "
It's a delicious read, spiced by anecdotal encounters with the author's fellow-obsessives in a field as deep as it is narrow. I had never heard of Buchinger before the book arrived in the mail. The improbable matter and elegant manner of the writing put me in mind of Borges.--Peter Schjeldahl "The New Yorker "
Matthias Buchinger must have been some kind of genius.--Ken Johnson "The New York Times "
The magician Ricky Jay, considered by many the greatest sleight-of-hand artist alive, is also a scholar, a historian, a collector of curiosities. Master of a prose style that qualifies him as perhaps the last of the great 19th-century authors... his most enduring interest is a fellow polymath, an 18th-century German named Matthias Buchinger.--Charles McGrath "The New York Times "
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