Jay's journal of anomalies : conjurers, cheats, hustlers, hoaxsters, pranksters, jokesters, impostors, pretenders, sideshow showmen, armless calligraphers, mechanical marvels, popular entertainments
Texte imprimé
- Auteurs : Jay Ricky ;
- Editeurs : New York Quantuck Lane ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2003
- ISBN : 1-593-72000-9, 978-1-593-72000-1
- Sujets : Curiosités et merveilles, Artistes interprètes, Malformations, Imposteurs et impostures
- Comprend : Journal of anomalies
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (202 p.), : Ill., portr., couv. ill. en coul., 28 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Tirages du quarterly journal publié entre 1994 et 2000 par R. Jay and W & V Dailey. Première publication reliée en 2001 ; Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé
'The multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, actor, author, and scholar of the unusual) wrote and published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already coveted collector's items, the sixteen issues are now gathered here in a complete set, with significant new material and illustrations. A brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments, the journal was described in The New York Times as 'beautiful and elegant ... a combination of rigorous scholarship and personal rumination.''--BOOK JACKET