SCAMS & PRANKS
These books expose and compile pranks, scams and attempts at revenge.
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Yellow Kid Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
$18.00Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters. Welcome to the world of confidence men. Learn More -
The Rector And The Rogue
$18.00It began quietly enough one morning in February 1880, with a mutton-chopped Acme Safe Company salesman knocking on the door of Reverend Morgan Dix, the starchiest clergyman in Manhattan's most respectable church. Learn More -
The Glorious Deception
$16.95In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the 'Marvelous Chinese Conjurer' - a magician whose daring made his contemporary Houdini seem like the boy next door. Learn More -
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: The Curious World of the DeMoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machines - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to Electric Carpets and Smoking Camels
$15.95At the beginning of the twentieth century, 40 percent of American men belonged to a lodge, and they were hazing their newbies with cigar- smoking camels, spankers, and even fake guillotines. Nearly all their prank devices came from the same place: catalogs published by the DeMoulin Brothers Company from 1896 to 1930. Learn More -
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
$16.00CON MEN DON'T STEAL—they literally have wads of cash thrust into their hands by trusting victims. Learn More -
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
$39.95NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL: November 1. Pre-order now. Release dates and prices are tentative. Learn More -
Snake Oil: Life's Calculations, Misdirections, and Manipulations
$12.95The gyp, hoodwink, shuck, sandbag: An artform that has been passed down through generations of hustlers, con men, and freaks. Learn More -
Schadenfreude: The Little Book of Black Delights
$14.95The shady details of our darkest schadenfreude pleasures, including "turparphilia"—to delight in the less than aesthetically beautiful nature of a friend's offspring. Learn More -
Scam: The First Four Issues
$16.00Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on how to get things for free and punk memoir. Learn More -
Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
$24.95A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: “. . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been.” Learn More
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