![The Martian [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/955/116/1767116955.0.l.jpg)
The Martian [Signed]
by Andy Weir
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2016. Near Fine. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2016. Collector's Edition, Signed by Andy Weir at publisher's tipped-in page. Octavo; bound in publisher's full brown leather decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers; silk ribbon; 369pp. Publisher's card laid in. A few minor smudges to boards; tight in binding; an attractive, Near Fine copy.
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Reality
by Paul Weiss
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1938. Very Good. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [10],314pp. Spine cloth a shade sunned, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper and brief contemporary pencil marginalia to a few leaves, slight musty odor to textblock. Overall Very Good and sound.
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A Visit to North America and the English Settlements in Illinois, With a Winter Residence at Philadelphia; Solely to Ascertain the Actual Prospects of the Emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and Commercial Speculator
by Adlard Welby
London: J. Drury, 1821. Very Good. London: J. Drury, 1821. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's plum blind-embossed textured cloth, gilt-tooled spine label; [4],224pp. (lacking errata leaf); lithographed frontispiece, thirteen plates (collated complete). Cloth expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, margins a bit scuffed with exposure at corners, brief discoloration to rear cover, remnants only of 19th-century ownership ex libris to front pastedown, scattered foxing to textblock, notably to plate tissue guards, else a Very Good, clean and sound... Read More
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Winning [Signed]
by Jack Welch & Suzy Welch
New York: Collins / Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Collins / Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Later printing. Signed by Jack Welch at tipped-in leaf preceding half title. Octavo. 372 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Mild bumping to edges of boards. Binding is sound and pages toned but unmarked. Very Good or better.
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Courses: No Credit No Blame No Balm
by Lew Welch
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1968. Very Good +. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1968. First Edition. Oblong 12mo; unpaginated. Stamped limp suede wrappers. Mild rubbing; sits a little askew in binding; interior unmarked. A Very Good or better copy; uncommon.
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![At Times we're almost able to see it was once all / Light... [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/568/1699568178.0.l.jpg)
At Times we're almost able to see it was once all / Light... [Limited Edition]
by Lew Welch
N.p.: Andrew Hoyem, 1965. Fine. N.p.: Printed for Donald Carpenter by Andrew Hoyem, 1965. First Edition, Limited to 125 copies. Bifolium printed in black and red on cream stock, text printed on upper panel only. A Fine example of this early poetry chapbook, printed by Hoyem in December of 1965. Fewer than ten examples in OCLC as of October, 2025.
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![Life Force [First Draft Typescript]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/747/1455747813.0.l.jpg)
Life Force [First Draft Typescript]
by Fay Weldon
N.p.: N.i., 1991. Very Good +. N.p.: n.i., April, 1991. Quarto; [3],280[ll.] of xeroxed typescript leaves bound in black three-ring binder, scotch-taped manuscript spine title. Spine tape a bit yellowed, else Very Good to Near Fine. Occasional pencil markings throughout text. First draft of Weldon's 1991 novel Life Force, detailing the lives of four liberal upper-middle-class English women and their romantic intrigues.
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Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason
by [Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] David E. Wellbery
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green printed dust jacket; ix,[1],275pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a shade sunned, corners bumped, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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Between Joy's Legs
by Baron Wells
New York: Cameo Editions, 1971. Very God. New York: Cameo Editions, 1971. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 200,[8](ads)pp. Moderate wear to wrapper extremities, spine gently creased, textblock a bit toned at margins, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon erotic pulp novel about bored housewife Joy Chase who lives with her professor husband in a rural Vermont town adjacent to an all-men's college. A disclaimer on upper cover states "Cameo Editions sale prohibited to minors." Missed... Read More
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In the Onyx Lobby
by Carolyn Wells
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pages. Brown boards stamped in dark brown. Lacks dust jacket. Wells was an American poet, mystery author, and collector of Walt Whitman poetry. In The Onyx Lobby is part of the Pennington Wise series. Boards show light shelf wear. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. Pages otherwise unmarked.
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The Wonderful Visit
by H.G. Wells
London: J.M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, 1895. Good. London: J.M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, 1895. First Edition, with "eader" misprint on line 13 of page 98, in second state binding with gilt angel decoration. Octavo (19.7cm); beveled red cloth boards with gilt lettering and angel; top edge gilt; viii,251pp. Boards edgeworn with bumping and brief exposure at extremities; split at head of spine and top of rear joint, with an additional long split to cloth running... Read More
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The Life of Jeff. Davis in Five Expressive Tableaux
by [Movable Books] [Jefferson Davis] John Gaylord Wells
New York: Sold by J.G. Wells, cor. Park Row & Beekman, 1865. Good. New York: Sold by J.G. Wells, cor. Park Row & Beekman, 1865. Pictorial broadsheet folded into six-paneled moveable booklet in which the outer leaves are to be cut horizontally down the center to form flaps, turning the illustrations into five different "tableaux". Edges trimmed and chipped; old dampstaining and tape "mending" to horizontal flaps; Good to Very Good. The "five expressive tableaux" illustrate the consequences... Read More
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How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Hand-Book of Phrenology and Physiognomy, for students and examiners; with a descriptive chart
by [Samuel R. Wells]
New York: Fowler & Wells, 1883. Very Good+. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1883. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); publisher's maroon gilt-embossed cloth, yellow endpapers; viii,[9]-191,[1],8(ads)pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, tiny chip at spine crown, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy.
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Ancestral Colonial Families: Genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt Families of Maryland and Their Kin; Giving the Colonial Generations of the Howard, Hammond, Maccubbin, Griffith, Greenberry, Dorsey, Van Sweringen, Baldwin, Gaither, Warfield and Duvall Families
by Luther W. Welsh
Independence, MO: Lambert Moon Printing Co, 1928. Very Good. Independence, MO: Lambert Moon Printing Co. , 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 211 pp. + appendix. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and along spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper; mild toning to endpapers; interior else unmarked. Very Good.
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![The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [Limited Edition, Signed by Welty]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/746/503/1573503746.0.l.jpg)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [Limited Edition, Signed by Welty]
by Eudora Welty
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 copies signed by Eudora Welty, this being #220. Octavo. 622 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth decorated in gilt; maroon endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly worn along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase lightly scuffed and bumped with brief exposure, else sturdy and stable. Very Good.
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Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace
by Eudora Welty
Jackson, MS: The Mississippi Historical Society, 1975. Near Fine. Jackson, MS: The Mississippi Historical Society, 1975. First Edition, one of 1000 copies. Slim octavo. 27 pp. Light green paper-covered boards with title label to front; green endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A paper read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975. Near Fine. [POLK A21:1].
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The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 185 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Blue boards stamped in magenta and white. Dust jacket word along edges and folds with a few minor nicks and short closed tear to bottom of front panel; general soiling with patchy staining to rear. Boards show light shelfwear with very brief... Read More
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Grey Mask
by Patricia Wentworth
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. Very Good-. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth printed in green; 320pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned and rather cocked, both boards with dampstaining though contents remain clean and sound. About Very Good, lacking the exceptionally rare jacket. The author's first work to introduce the governess-turned-private detective Miss Silver.
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Lonesome Road
by Patricia Wentworth
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1939. Very Good-. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1939]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brick cloth printed in black, blue topstain; 320pp. Shelf wear at spine ends, spine a bit cocked, scattered foxing and soil to cloth boards and textblock edges, first leaf starting to separate but holding; Good to Very Good overall, albeit lacking the rare jacket. The author's third novel in the Miss Silver detective series.
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The Evolution of Photography. With a chronological record of discoveries, inventions, etc., contributions to photographic literature, and personal reminiscences extending over forty years
by John Werge
London: Piper & Carter, 1890. Very Good-. London: Piper & Carter, 1890. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; viii,312,[8](ads)pp.; photo-illustrated title page and three leaves of plates, pictorial advertisements bound in rear. Cloth rather scuffed at extremities, three-inch split to mid-rear joint, light soil, 20th century ownership ownership signatures and rubberstamps to front free endpaper and frontispiece verso, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Uncommon history of... Read More
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Letters and Conversations Between Several Young Ladies on Interesting and Improving Subjects
by Madame de Cambon [Maria Geertruida van de Werken]
Philadephia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Third Edition. Very Good. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Third Edition. Duodecimo. 318 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements. Full contemporary sheep with red spine label. Translated from Dutch. The translator's "Advertisement" claims that this work is an extension of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa," though the title and names have been altered because, "it has been objected... that it does not coincide with the Work to which the title seems to connect it." Boards are... Read More
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Turkoman Tribal Rugs
by Werner Loges; Raoul Tschebull [trans.]
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. Fine/Very Good+. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1980]. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket; 204pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Very light wear to jacket spine crown, else a Near Fine example.
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Langston University: A History
by Zella J. Black Patterson and Lynette L. Wert
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Very Good-/Very Good-. [Norman, OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, [1979]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvi,319pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears and rather extensive spotting also affecting cloth and textblock edges, lengthy contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. A Good to Very Good copy of this history of Langston University, the historically Black land-grant university in Langston,... Read More
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Creating and Maintaining an Historical Tradition
by Charles H. Wesley
N.p.: s.i., 1964. Very Good. N.p.: s.i., n.d. [but 1964]. Offprint. Large, slim octavo; original staplebound self-wrappers; [2],21pp. Stock lightly toned and margins starting to curl, else Very Good and sound. Offprint of a paper by Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987) first published in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 49, no. 1, January, 1964. In it Wesley, noted Black educator and historian, argues for the need of a Black historical tradition, citing the Irish- and Jewish-American traditions... Read More
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G.E. Lessing's Theology: A Reinterpretation. A Study of the Problematic Nature of the Enlightenment
by Leonard P. Wessel
The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Very Good/Very Good -. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 283pp. General wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears, corners tapped, slightly later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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