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Rosamond Purcell (photographer) and
Ricky Jay
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd
Publication date
November 30, 2007
Pages
64
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781593720308
ISBN-10
1593720300
Dimensions
0.25 by 7 by 7.25 in.
Weight
0.44 lbs.
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Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price
$12.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful.
"Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from the extremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. There is an explanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are various tales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be rich subjects for Purcell's photography. She presents them as, in a way, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to the book. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and are bathed in light that their varying translucence seems to contain for a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itself is, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photography and, with a short text, casually organized."—Crispin Sartwell, Los Angeles Times 21 color photographs.
"Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from the extremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. There is an explanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are various tales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be rich subjects for Purcell's photography. She presents them as, in a way, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to the book. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and are bathed in light that their varying translucence seems to contain for a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itself is, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photography and, with a short text, casually organized."—Crispin Sartwell, Los Angeles Times 21 color photographs.
Editions
Hardcover
With Rosamond Purcell (other contributor) |
from Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd (October 1, 2002)
9780971454811 | details & prices | 8.00 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $19.95
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
With Rosamond Purcell (other contributor) |
from Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd (November 30, 2007)
9781593720308 | details & prices | 64 pages | 7.00 × 7.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.44 lbs | List price $12.95
About: A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful.
About: A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful.
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