Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. A history of Unique, Eccentric & Amazing Entertainers. Ricky Jay, 1987, soft bound, 343 pages with index by one of the great historians of our time. Several full color plates along with many illustrations and photographs for this most interesting read of Allied Entertainment Arts. You will find the world's greatest daredevils, stone eaters, armless violinists, virtuoso petomanes and incombustible ladies tippling boiling oil, singing mice, hypnotized parrots and other incredible pets. Wonderfully illustrated in full color with posters, playbills and portraits.
Contents: Harry Kahne: The Multiple Mental Marvel, Porcine Prophets and Pig-Faced Ladies, Attenuation As Art: Willard, The Man Who Grows, More Than The Sum Of Their Parts: Matthew Buchinger, Sarah Biffin, And Other Anomalies Of Nature, Blind Tom, Max Malini: The Last Of The Mountebanks, Datas: The Man Who Knew Too Much, Equine Amusements, Genius Or Charlatan? Walford Bodie, M.D., Born To A Drier Death Than Diving: Samuel Gilbert Scott And Other Daredevils, A Few Words About Death And Show Biz: Washington Irving Bishop, J. Randall Brown, And the Origins Of Modern Mind Reading, Laroche: The Sisyphus Of The Circus World, Arthur Lloyd: The Humorous Human Card Index, Enterology: Getting Into Boxes, Bottles, And Trouble With Seamus Burke And Others, Incombustible Men And Fireproof Women, Stones, Swords, Snakes, And Other Entrees, Le Petomane: The End.
Condition very fine.
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