There Was
by Weil, James L.
New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. First edition, limited. Perfect bound. As new. Unpaginated. Quadragesimo-octavo. [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.... Read More
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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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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... Read More
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Club House at Arthur, Utah. For Utah Copper Co. July 12, 1924. Revised Aug. 25, 1924. Numbers 6 and 11
by [Architectural Designs] [Carl Scott and George Welch]
Scott & Welch Architects. Ephemera. Very good. Two original ink drawings on vellum. Approx. 16 x 30 1/2". Some hand coloration. The sketches are lightly creased, and have a few small spots. Sketch #6 depicts the North Elevation. Sketch #11 shows One-Half Elevation North Entrance; Section- West Stair Hall & Entrance; Plan- N. & W. Entrance & Stair... Read More
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Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
by Welch, James; Paul Stekler
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 320pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/2 red cloth with black paper covered boards, and a silver title on the spine. Very good. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the spine is very slightly rolled back. The bottom edge of the front cover has two tiny spots.... Read More
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The Death of Jim Loney
by Welch, James
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 179pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with blue paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are very slightly dulled and rubbed. The spine is barely perceptibly rolled back. The boards have very minor warping.... Read More
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The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon
by Welch, John W.;
Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. 496 pp. Octavo [23.6 cm]. Blue cloth over boards. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. From the publisher: "The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon begins with a discussion of important background information, including legal practices in the ancient Near East, the ideal of righteous judgment, and the legal cases... Read More
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Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797 (2 volume)
by Weld, Isaac
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1800. Third edition. Leather bound. Good. Two volume set. 427, 375pp. Octavo [22 cm] Nicely rebound in tan 3/4 quarter calf over the original marbled leather boards. Backstrip has red and black gilt stamped leather labels with gilt rules. Floral gilt stamped pattern to the rest of the backstrip. The front board of... Read More
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Book of Mormon Deeps, Volumes I and II (2 volumes from the series)
by Weldon, Roy E.; F. Edward Butterworth
1978. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 356; 341pp. Octavo [20 cm] Two slightly different shades of blue cloth over boards with gilt stamping to the backstrips and front boards. The front free endpapers have a previous owner's name at the head. Pp. 190-191 have marginalia and underling in pencil. The text block of volume II is cracked at... Read More
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Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
by Welker, Holly
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. First edition. Paperback. New. 275 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; Glossy photographic wraps. NEW. From back of book: "In Baring Witness, Holly Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the journeys, both thorny and magical, to humor, grace, and contentment. They... Read More
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Collectors' Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographs
by Welling, William
New York and London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. and Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 204pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/4 textured black paper with olive green cloth over boards, and gilt stamping on the backstrip. Very good condition, with a previous owner's brief notation on the front free endpaper, and very sporadic pen markings and underlining on the... Read More
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Shy Charles
by Wells, Rosemary
New York: Viking, 2001. First edition published by Viking. Hardcover. SIGNED. Quarto [27.5 cm] Shiny pictorial paper over boards. Fine condition. With a matching dust jacket, in very good condition, with very marginal surface wear on the rear panel. Signed by Rosemary Wells on the title page.
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The New America: The New World
by Wells, H. G.
London: The Cresset Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 96pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The front free endpaper has a previous owner's name and a brief gift inscription. In a dust jacket with a small open tear to the top edge of the front panel and head of spine. There is also a... Read More
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The Contributor. A Monthly Magazine Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-Day Saints, Volume II
by Wells, Junius F. (ed.)
Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment, 1880. First edition. Paperback. 12 issues in paper wraps. Octavo [24.5 cm]. Nos. 1 through 12. Light pencil names to covers of four issues, light darkening and some very light shelfwear. Unusual to see these unbound. Wells was the founding editor and publisher of The Contributor, an independent... Read More
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The Contributor, A Monthly Magazine Representing the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-Day Saints, Volume Eleven
by Wells, Junius F. (ed.)
Salt Lake City: Junius F. Wells, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 480pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth over boards with stamping in gilt and blind on the backstrip and front board. The backstrip and rear board are moisture damaged. There is a previous owner's label on the front pastedown. There is a 7" split in the rear endsheet... Read More
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How to Build an Underground House
by Wells, Malcolm
Topeka, KS: Ogden Publications, Inc, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. Near fine. 96pp. Very slender quarto [28 cm] Pictorial wrappers. "Bearded, affable, self-deprecating and appalled by the destructive footprint that buildings, roads and parking lots can leave on the earth, Mr. Wells was dedicated to what he called gentle architecture, something that would, as he put it, 'leave the land... Read More
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The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
by Welsh, Irvine
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As NEW. Bright yellow boards quarterbound in black paper spine. "Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. He discovers that a television chef's book "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs," may hold the... Read More
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The Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth 1931-1972
by Wengenroth, Stow; Ronald and Joan Stuckey
Boston Public Library in co-operation with Barre Publishers, 1974. Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. SIGNED. 295pp. Quarto [31 cm] 1/4 black leather with decorative paper over boards. Endpapers decorated from lithographs by the artist. In the slipcase, with light soiling (more so to the rear side panel), gentle bumping to the extremities, and the number "65" in... Read More
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Color Lithographed Plates from Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii
by Wenkam, Robert; Kenneth Brower
The Sierra Club, 1967. Promotional Material. Print. Thin folio [34 cm] Ten color lithographed plates housed in folded printed wraps and a tan paper portfolio. The portfolio is in very good condition, with soiling and creasing. The plates are in near fine condition. The top right corners of the plates are very gently bumped. "The prints in this folio... Read More
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The Clock Strikes Twelve (A Main Line Mystery) (A Miss Silver Mystery) (World War II Fiction)
by Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym for Dora Amy Elles)
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good +. 256 pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards. Publisher's black topstain. Four tape residue stains to the boards; bottom edges of boards dampstained. Front hinge week. In the dust jacket, with 6 tape stains to the reverse, a number of light creases, and... Read More
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Black River Dreams
by Werner, Maximilian
Bolton, MA: Barclay Creek Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. NEW. 158pp. Octavo [23.5cm] Hardcover in dustjacket. From the publisher: "Black River Dreams is a celebration of the fly fishing life. It is also a record of human awakening. Alternately lyrical and meditative, mystical and sensuous, each of these sixteen essays represents an exploration of the intersection between past... Read More
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Report of the Governor of the Territory of Utah to the Secretary of the Interior. 1895
by West, Caleb W.; [Utah (Territory) Governor]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. First edition. Paperback. 47pp. Very slim octavo [23 cm] Stapled yellow and black printed wraps. Near fine, with minor soiling and creasing to the wraps. There is a small numerical stamp in the top fore edge corner of the front wrap. Flake 9345. A report offering statistics regarding irrigation, farm products, hay, Lucerne,... Read More
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The Backlash Against the Novel
by West, Paul
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2003. First edition. Paperback. As NEW. 24 pp. Stitched Wraps. Elik Press Single. First Edition/Special Edition.
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Report of the Governor of the Territory of Utah to the Secretary of the Interior. 1896
by West, Caleb W.; [Utah (Territory) Governor]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1896. First edition. Paperback. 5pp. Very slim octavo [23 cm] Stapled green and black printed wraps. Very good, with minor age-toning along the edges of the wraps. There is a small numerical stamp in the top fore edge corner of the front wrap. Flake 9345. The final report of the Governor of the Territory... Read More
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