![Winning [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/647/919/1585919647.0.m.jpg)
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... Read More
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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.m.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... Read More
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![Life Force [First Draft Typescript]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/747/1455747813.0.m.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... Read More
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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... 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... Read More
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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... 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;... Read More
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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.... Read More
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![The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [Limited Edition, Signed by Welty]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/746/503/1573503746.0.m.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... Read More
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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... Read More
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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... Read More
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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... 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... Read More
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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... 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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![Race Matters [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/529/809/1721809529.0.m.jpg)
Race Matters [Signed]
by Cornel West
Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Fourth printing. Signed by Cornel West without personalized inscription at title page. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth-backed boards; 105pp. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; ownership inscription in pencil to rear pastedown; pages else unmarked; Near Fine.
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![El Arte de Tamayo [Artes de Mexico, Vol. IV, no. 12, mayo - junio, 1956]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/596/501/1467501596.0.m.jpg)
El Arte de Tamayo [Artes de Mexico, Vol. IV, no. 12, mayo - junio, 1956]
by [Rufino Tamayo] Paul Westheim
Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1956. Very Good -. Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1956. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 20pp. & [36] leaves of plates, some printed in color. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities, including tiny loss at top fore-edge corner of front cover not approaching text, the whole rather dust-soiled, contemporary ownership signature to... Read More
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The Future of the Race
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Cornel West
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); black and white dust jacket with $21.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering;[xviii],196pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some faint scratching and dust soiling to surface. Boards rubbed along bottom rear edge, with some nudging to... Read More
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Hellcats and Honeygirls: The Collected Collaborative Novels
by Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. Fine/Fine. [Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 395pp. Just About Fine. Includes the novels "A Girl Called Honey," "So Willing," and "Sin Hellcat.
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![Why Me [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/972/1714972760.0.m.jpg)
Why Me [Inscribed and Signed]
by Donald E. Westlake
New York: Viking Press, 1983. Fine/Fine. New York: Viking Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Bob Shein; [10],191pp. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page "For Phil Goodman [?] -- musically but not governmentally -- Donald E. Westlake.
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![Up Your Banners [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/333/609/1371609333.0.m.jpg)
Up Your Banners [Signed]
by Donald E. Westlake
New York: Macmillan Company, 1969. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; 320pp. Light shelf wear, very minor spine lean, a few small splash marks to topstain, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page.... Read More
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![The Road to Ruin [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/937/1695937745.0.m.jpg)
The Road to Ruin [Signed]
by Donald E. Westlake
New York: Mysterious Press, 2004. Fine/Fine. New York: Mysterious Press, 2004. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [6],342pp. A Fine copy. Signed by the author on title page.
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Plunder Squad
by Richard Stark [pseud. of Donald Westlake]
New York: Random House, 1972. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21 cm); 182pp. Boards quarter bound in black and light orange cloth with blind and silver stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($4.95). Jacket scuffed and lightly scratched with minor bumping and creasing to extremities. Lightly soiled with foxing... Read More
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