This is from a Private Estate in Good Condition.  This is a softcover book with some dark smudges on the pages where it was used before.  The corners show wear and tear from use. 

Copyright 1986

Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers: Stone Eaters, Mind Readers, Poison Resisters, Daredevils, Singing Mice, etc., etc., etc. 

"Between these covers is the most satisfying array of oddities, marvels and novelties that has been gathered together in a blue moon..."

"Well-written and extensively researched...handsomly emblished with hundreds of illustrations...it belongs within reach of anyone who wishes to rejoice over the strange quriks and glorious victories of our species. The folks who will fil these pages are real, and they should invoke it us a deep sense of wonder." 

- James Randi, New York Times Book Review

" Jay has given us a sparkling, hilariou mind-bending history of the forebears of Philipe Petit.  Jay, a stingingly witty writer, knows how to draw the reader in...For all its incomparable entertainment, strangely, LEARNDED PIGS & FIREPROOF WOMEN also ranks as one of the most intellectually stirring books of the years...LEARNED PIGS & FIREPROOF WOMEN is a book so magnificently entertaining that if a promotor booked it into theaters and simply distributed a copy for each patron to read, he'd have the hit of the season."

 -Carlin Romano, Philadephia Inqurier

"A book that is both astonishing and genuinely funny...a work of true scholarship written with wit and style." 

- Charles Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

"A lavishly illustrated, entertaining, impressively researched off

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Irresistible...it is unlikely that any title in 1987 will top this one for the mystification and intrigue.   

-Time