Sleight of hand expert and actor RICKY JAYHis new book is "Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck." It's a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways of cheating at the game.

Even in death, Ricky Jay continues to amaze. The actor, author, scholar and fabled magician who died in 2018 was a popular visitor on local stages and an energetic collector of all things strange, ...

Illusionists, cardsharps, charlatans and human cannonballs enliven a trove of rare books, posters and ephemera now going to auction at Sotheby’s. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported ...

A woodblock poster featuring mentalists Samuel and Kitty Baldwin, from the Ricky Jay Collection, is displayed at Sotheby's on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, in New York. The widow of the sleight-of-hand ...

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The noted sleight-of-hand artist, who died in 2018, was also a scholar of con games and oddities. This week, Sotheby's auctioned off part of Jay's 10,000-item collection. Originally broadcast in 1998.