The Book of Mormon: An Essay on Its Claims and Prophecies
by Watson, Wingfield
1899. Second printing. Paperback. 18pp. Very thin duodecimo [19.5 cm] Very good. Unbound. The bottom edge of the first page is very lightly soiled. The pages are lightly browned. Flake 9636. In double columns. Enlarged version of his 1884 edition.
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah
by Watters, Leon L.
New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 199pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue pebbled cloth over boards with lettering in gilt on the spine and front cover. Publisher's blue top stain. Very good, with light rubbing at the spine ends, and a previous owner's large bookplate on the front free endpaper. The text block is cracked at the title page, however the book is still very sturdy. Studies in American Jewish History, Number 2. From the Preface-... Read More
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The Pioneer Jews of Utah
by Watters, Leon L.
New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1952. First paperback edition. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and black printed wrappers. Good. The wraps are lightly soiled, and there are two 1/4" closed tears in the paper at the head of the spine. There are a number of shallow closed tears and chips along the edges of the wraps as well. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the verso of the front cover. The text block is coming away... Read More
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The Things
by Watts, Peter; Illustrations by Todd Thyberg
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Angel Bomb, 2024. Limited Standard Edition (Signed and Numbered). Hardcover. New/As New. SIGNED. Slim quarto. Quarterbound book featuring Japanese book cloth and a foil-stamped cover. Decorative silver endpapers. In a metallic-blue dust jacket, UV-printed, and foil-stamped. Includes a standard UV flashlight. Prospectus tucked in. With hidden UV horrors. The ultraviolet ink has been specially developed for this book, and the binding has been done at Campbell Logan Bindery, Blaine, Minnesota. A short story by Peter... Read More
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Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica Part One and Part Two. Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 10 and Volume 11 (2 volumes)
by Wauchope, Robert (General Editor) Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal (Editors)
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 903pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards. May require extra postage due to weight. Areas of darkening to the endpapers. In dust jackets, with light rubbing and creasing to the edges, and periodic shallow closed edge tears. The tenth and eleventh volumes in the fourteen-volume "Handbook of Middle American Indians.
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Thirteen Such Years
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good +. 277pp. Octavo [22 cm] Lime green cloth over boards, decoratively stamped in gilt. Full page frontispiece illustration by Lynd Ward from a wood engraving reproduced by an electrotype and printed in black. With just a little dulling and bumping to the edges of the book. In the beautiful Lynd Ward-illustrated dust jacket, which is in much nicer condition than typically seen, with only minor... Read More
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Hot Countries
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1930. Early printing. Hardcover. Good +. Lynd Ward. 304pp. Octavo [22 cm] Bluish green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and linear borders on the spine, and a gilt stamped palm tree vignette on the front cover. Yellow endpapers. The spine is faded and prominently rolled, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the pages are browned. With woodcuts by Lynd Ward. A book relating the... Read More
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Most Women
by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Lynd Ward. 323pp. Octavo [22 cm] in blue cloth with copper-stamped spine title and front and rear cover devices. No jacket. Rubbing to corners and spine tips, rubbing and light scratching to cover devices, else very light wear; small ink stain to textblock foot, light scuff to top edge, else interior is unworn. Faint musty scent. Written by the brother of Evelyn Waugh, this is Alec Waugh's romantic story of... Read More
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Happy Jack Squirrel Helps Unc' Billy
by W. Burgess, Thornton
Whitman Publishing, 1927. Hardcover. Poor. Harrison Cady. 29 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Booklet is detached from spine. Water damage to upper right corner of textblock. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. "Happy Jack Squirrel has a great surprise when, arriving at his house he finds another making himself entirely at home. What does Happy Jack do? He is angry of course, at first but he ends by helping the intruder."-from front pastedown.
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Lights and Shadows: A Collection of Poems Sombre and Gay
by Weaver, John Grenville
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 144pp. Quarto [25 cm] in gilt-stamped white cloth. Smudging and light wear to boards, lower corners bumped; interior is unmarked. Rare collection of poems, printed on laid paper, with decorative initials.
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Desert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder
by Webb, Betty
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 300pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Rust colored cloth over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Spine is a touch rolled. Dust jacket mildly rubbed. "If Betty Webb had gone undercover and written 'Desert Wives' as a piece of investigative journalism, she'd probably be up for a Pulitzer. The factual details -- supported by research cited in an afterward -- are eye-popping." - The New York... Read More
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Sugar House Review #8; Volume 5/Issue 1: Spring/Summer 2013
by Webb, Charles Harper; William Neumire, Judy Halebsky, Emma Ramey, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, et al. [Contributors]
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2013. First edition. Paperback. NEW. 93 pp. Octavo [22 cm].
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A Drum for Ben Boyd
by Webb, Francis
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1948. Hardcover. Norman Lindsay. 37pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a brown ink stamped title and small vignette on the front cover. Very good. The boards have numerous small light spots, and the cloth on the boards is lightly rippled. The front and rear free endsheet are adhered to the opposite pages along the inside margins. There are a couple of very minor stains on the front endsheet. Browned pages. The dust... Read More
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The Freemason's Monitor: or Illustrations of Masonry. In Two Parts
by Webb, Thomas Smith
Montpelier, VT: Published by Lucius Q. C. Bowles, for sale by him and by Cushing & Appleton, Salem, Mass. (Proprietors of the Copy Right.); Walton & Goss, Printers, 1816. A new and improved Edition. Leather bound. Good. 300pp. Sextodecimo [16.5 cm] Brown leather, amateurishly rebacked. Top fore-edge corner of front board patched. Design scratched into the front board. Hinges amateurishly reinforced. Text block cracked at the rear. Pages darkened at the edges. A few minor tears to the... Read More
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Sheriff's Mounted Posse. Weber County, Utah. Official Magazine. 1956 Annual
by [Weber County, Utah]; Ernest R. McKay (Editor)
Annual Souvenir Edition. Paperback. Very good +. 146pp. Octavo [23 cm] Orange pictorial wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed and toned. With many local advertisements, and numerous photographic representations of individuals mounted on horses, including Sheriff LeRoy Hadley, Lieutenant Bud Favero, Lieutenant Glen L. Hall, Pete Boam (Historian), and Don A. Buswell, among others.
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Ingo Wegerl
by [Wegerl, Ingo]; Martin Hildebrand (Text)
Ascona, Schweiz: Galleria Sacchetti. First edition. Paperback. 61pp. Slim quarto [29 cm] Gray and white pictorial wraps. Fine condition. Photography by Markus Hildebrand. "The illusive high degree of reality in Ingo Wegerl's portraits can practically penetrate the observer 'under the skin.' Consequently people have attested to the painter a 'X-ray glance' on the desired object in turn. This burning interest not to be easily satisfied with external appearance and to search the real essence of people and things under... Read More
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Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Drawings by William Wegman
by Wegman, William
New York: Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. [64pp] Quarto [31.5 cm] Black boards. Near fine/Near fine. Introduction by Laurence Wieder. Signed by the author/photographer with an illustration on the half-title. Illustrated with 24 color full page photographs.
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My Town
by Wegman, William
New York: Hyperion, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. SIGNED. Slim square quarto [25.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. The dust jacket is slightly darkened. Signed, with a doodle, by William Wegman on the title page.
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William Wegman's Farm Days or How Chip Learnt an Important Lesson on the Farm or A Day in the Country or Hip Chip's Trip or Farmer Boy
by Wegman, William
New York: Hyperion, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. SIGNED. Slim square quarto [25.5 cm] Yellow and brown polka dot patterned paper over boards. With minor surface and edge wear to the dust jacket. Signed by William Wegman, with a doodle, on the front free endsheet on the "This Book Belongs to" section. Wegman writes, "William Wegman's friend.
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Mormonism Exposed. The Other Side. From A Legal Standpoint
by Weightman, Hugh
1884. Pamphlet. Paperback. 46-66pp. Thin octavo [22 cm] Unbound. Very good. The pages are mildly browned. Part three of a series of five pamphlets. Flake: 9674. From p. 47 "That the Mormons or Latter-day Saints violated no law in effecting plural marriages or polygamous unions prior to the Act of Congress of July 1st, 1862, even if Congress did not exceed its constitutional powers in passing such an act.
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There Was
by Weil, James L.
New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. First edition, limited. Paperback. Near Fine. Unpaginated. [10 cm]. Hand made paper wraps with paper title label pasted to front wrap. One of 500 copies. Printed in Kyoto, Japan. This chap book is the first of a series of five published by Elizabeth Press into the late 1970s. Scarce.
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Star Wars: The Making of the Movie
by Weinberg, Larry
New York: Step-Up Books / Random House, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 69pp. Thin octavo [21.5]. Glossy, illustrated paper over boards. Rubbing to boards and extremities. Hinges a touch weak. No dust jacket, as issued. A heavily illustrated, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the original Star Wars trilogy.
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Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten
by Weingarten, Robert; Julian Cox
Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. SIGNED. 120pp. Quarto [32 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. With light shelf wear to the boards. Signed by Robert Weingarten on the half title page.
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Project Hail Mary
by Weir, Andy
New York: Ballantine Books, 2022. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 476pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated Wraps. "Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long... Read More
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Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Weisman, Alan
New York: Dutton, 2025. First printing. Hardcover. New/New. 512pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. 1/5 Light blue paper over boards. From the publisher: "In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet’s existential crisis. His new book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament... Read More
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