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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1922. First Edition (stated), Third Printing. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. 6.75 x 4 inches. 124 pp. Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Black imitation leather over board. Title and publisher gilt-stamped on spine. Slightly cocked. Early owner's name and address inked on front free endpaper, else pages clean and unmarked. "A Selection of Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Fifth Roots and Powers, Circumferences and Areas of Circles, Logarithms of Numbers, Logarithms of the Trigonometric Functions, and the Natural Trigonometric Functions."

Chicago: Goodspeed, Bros. & Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. 837 pp. Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Three-quarter bound leather, all edges marbled. Gilt-tooled title and decorative gilt tooling on spine. Heavy rubbing to spine, spots of rubbing at corners, tips of all corner-pieces rubbed through to board. Previous owner's name written in pen on ffep. Contemporary newspaper clipping taped to ffep. Front and back hinges cracked, lower half of paste-down endpaper torn at back hinge. Pages browned. Fading and foxing evident throughout. Half-title page has been cut out. Foldout triptych at page 534 detached at fold between first and second panel. Creasing and small tears between second and third panels. "From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc."

New York: Readymade Press, 2012 First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. ix, 530 pp. Hardcover in pictorial dustjacket. Fine / Fine. Forest green cloth over board with gold stamping of title to front board and particulars to spine. Endpapers in solid blend of yellow ochre and titanium buff (Come on, it's Duchamp!). Dustjacket design, executed by Dana Martin-Strebel, incorporates a photo by Man Ray and elements of two Duchamp works. Interior clean, bright, and crisp. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white and color. Book condition Fine, apparently unread. No bumping. Tips sharp and firm. Dustjacket shows strip of sunning, green to blue, on back panel along spine edge. Else Fine. No rubbing, chips, tears, or edgewear. From the dustjacket, "Reading about Marcel Duchamp can be hard work, unless the writer has Francis Naumann's ability to leaven imaginative scholarship with clarity, candor, insight, and high spirits. The most influential artist of the last century caught… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Octavo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. 442 pp. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Later printing. Original ribbed green cloth. Decorative blind stamping and title stamped in white on front board and spine. Large halftone photograph of San Francisco before the earthquake mounted on front board. Endpaper cracked at front hinge, but hinge holding. Short tears at head of spine. Spine ends and tips mildly softened. Text block tight. Pages lightly toned. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpaper.