Winter Magic Auction: featuring the Collection of Max Maven
Sun, Dec 14, 2025 12:00PM EST
Live Auction
Lot 121
JAY, Ricky (1946 – 2018). Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. N...
Estimate: $150 - $250
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JAY, Ricky (1946 ? 2018). Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. New York: Villard Books, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Publisher?s cloth over boards, pictorial dust-jacket, profusion of illustrations including color plates. 4to. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Ricky Jay to Max Maven on the flyleaf: ?To the [illegible] Mr. Maven with thanks for his contributions to the magical arts and this book. RICKY. 29 November 1986.? With a postcard addressed to Maven and advertising Jay?s appearance at the 1982 Central Park Shakespeare Festival, and a lenticular advertising card for the book featuring a pig design, laid in.
