Publisher:
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (2005). First U. S. Edition, stated.
Seller ID: 9587gcs
Octavo, blue & white boards (hardcover), white letters, xxiii, 264 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: If there is one image that conjures up the idea of the Mystical East, it is the Indian rope trick: A rope snakes into the air. A boy climbs the rope and when he gets to the top -- he vanishes. At once homespun, philosophical, and free of apparent gadgetry, the trick has enthralled generations of magic-lovers in the West. Photographs and eyewitnesses have attested to its ability to amaze. There is one problem. It never existed. The rope trick is one of the most successf... View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), x, 318 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In coliseums and auditoriums across the world, thousands of times each year, self-styled faith-healers carry out a shameless deception. Pretending that they can invoke divine help to cure sickness, instead they prey upon the sick, taking their dignity and money in exchange for false hope. James Randi, internationally known as a magician and investigator of claims of alleged paranormal abilities, reveals the astonishingly clever tricks used by these charlatans, based on strong evidence gathered... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1990). First Edition, with errata sheet at rear.
Seller ID: 9601gcs
Octavo, black cloth & blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiii, 256 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Here is a classic encounter -- today's most celebrated investigator of the supernatural versus the most famous of all prophets, the legendary 16th century astrologer and physician, Nostradamus. In The Mask of Nostradamus, James Randi, a MacArthur Foundation ÒgeniusÓ grant winner, writes the first in-depth interpretive biography of the man who some claim predicted such events as the Great Fire of London, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, even Wat... View More...
