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London, New English Library, 1988. First UK Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. 211 pp. Fine / Near Fine. First UK edition showing price of £11.95. Association copy. Signed by author on front free endpaper, with inscription to science fiction and mystery writer Joe L. Hensley, "To Joe – best wishes From Rambo's Father – David Morrell, May 26, 1990, Iowa City/Omaha". Black cloth on board, stamped metallic gold lettering to spine. Very slight bump to top leading tip of front board, else Fine. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp. Pages slightly age-toned. Dust jacket lightly shelf-rubbed with edge wear along top, bumping and creasing evident, else Near Fine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

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: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Tempo Books Edition, T10. First Printing. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 254 pp. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market paperback in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Jo Polseno. Edges dyed red. Text block square and tight. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wrappers. Slight browning to pages. School library stamp to top and bottom edges and versos of front and back wrappers, else free of markings. Extremely scarce early softcover issue.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing (no additional printings indicated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 238 pp, including index. Very Good+ / Very Good. Teal buckram on board, spine lettered in silver. Bump to tail of spine. Very slight shelf wear. Former owner's name and date inked on front free endpaper. Occasional tidy penciled marginalia by former owner, an acknowledged scholar of Byzantine and Post Byzantine art, else pages clean. Text block tight, but ever so slightly canted forward. Dust jacket worn with tiny closed tears at head and tail of spine, worn through finish on fold of rear flap. Now in archival protective cover.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Gold Medal book s1218. Mass market paperback. Duodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 144 pp. Good+ in illustrated wraps. Light shelfwear, moderately canted. Minor chips to head and tail of spine, also to upper leading corner of front wrap. Light remnant of marker along top edge. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. Overall good copy of this scarce, collectible classic.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Wide quarto. 11-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches. 198 pp. Fine / Fine. Publisher's bronze buckram over boards. Debossed title in gilt on front board. Particulars gilt-stamped on spine. Goldenrod endpapers. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket shows $40.00 on front flap. Now in removeable archival sleeve.