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STONE, Solomon. THREE BOOKS ON LIGHTNING CALCULATION AND TRICK MATHEMATICS. Including: Solomon Stone’s Marvelous Mental Calculator. New York: NY Popular Publishing, ca. 1880. Hand-colored pictorial wraps. — Sol. Stone’s Short Cut Arithmetic or Figures Made Easy. Circa 1880. Yellow pictorial wraps (half of lower lacking). — and another, in orange pictorial wraps with an image of Stone at the blackboard on the front and a bust portrait on the verso. Together three ephemeral works describing a host of shortcuts and arithmetical tricks used by Stone throughout his career on Barnum’s sideshow and elsewhere. See Exemplars, page 238.