The Chain: A Novel
by WELLMAN, Paul I.
London: Werner Laurie, 1950. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and red on spine; dustjacket; 466pp. Some pages of text unopened. Soil to edges of textblock, with occasional interior marginal chips and faint residue to pastedowns; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 10s. 6d. net), with tiny chips and... Read More
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A Mechanistic or a Human Society
by WELLOCK, Wilfred; Ralph Templin, intro
[New York: Fellowship Publications, n.d., ca. 1943. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Light toning to extremities, contemporary ink note on last leaf of text, else Very Good to Near Fine. The British pacifist politician on the dangers of mechanization.
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Introducing Africa
by WELLS, Carveth
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1944]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],243pp.; map endpapers printed in red. Shallow chips along jacket extremities, spine a bit tone. A Fine, partially unopened copy in Very Good dust jacket.
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The Secret Places of the Heart
by WELLS, H.G.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1925. Copyright Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's white printed wrappers; 264,32pp. Wrappers slightly worn, spine toned with tiny chips at ends, publisher's ads toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good and sound. Tauchnitz edition of Wells's minor medical novel first published in 1922 and focusing on the effects of nervous exhaustion on the protagonist's career.... Read More
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New Worlds for Old
by WELLS, H. G.
London: Archibald Constable, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; [viii],355,[5pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear. Tight and firm, but rubbed, spine faded, staining to upper corners of both boards, endleaves foxed: Good or better. Essays on socialism, often reprinted. AHEARN APG 036a. [63900].
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The Passionate Friends: A Novel
by WELLS, H.G.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); vertically-ribbed sage green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt, and decorative elements blind-embossed on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [viii],356 + 12pp publisher's ads. Light wear to spine ends, gentle sunning to spine, with a few faint rubbed spots to cloth and upper edge of... Read More
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Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady
by WELLS, H. G.
London: Ernest Been Limited, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in copper on spine; [8],9-287,[1]pp; illus. Shelf-soil to covers, light rubbing to spine ends and board edges, and foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, spine-tanned, with shelf-wear and soil, chips to spine ends and extremities, 1.5" tear to upper front flap, and... Read More
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Meanwhile: (The Picture of a Lady)
by WELLS, H. G.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); blue cloth-covered boards, titling stamped in gilt on spine, and blind ruling and Wells' facsimile signature blind stamped to front cover; orange topstain; fore- and lower- edges untrimmed; dustjacket; [12],13-320pp. Finger-soil to rear cover, light wear to spine ends, corners tapped (though still sharp); Near... Read More
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Mr. Britling Sees It Through
by WELLS, H.G.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); vertically-ribbed red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial dustjacket; color frontispiece by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock; [vi],443,[1],[8]pp ads. Spine ends nudged, corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with rough erasure to gift inscription on front endpaper; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped... Read More
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The Way The World Is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead. 26 Articles & A Lecture
by WELLS, H.G.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,301,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, with just a hint of foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced 7s 6d net at base of spine; lightly edgeworn, gently spine-sunned and a little dust-soiled, with a few small... Read More
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Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1886)
by WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]
New York: Macmillan, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm). Tan cloth, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 718pp. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and slightly edgeworn with small loss at crown of spine, just into printed title, just VG.
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Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct)
by WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]
New York: The Merriam Company, 1895. First American Edition. First printing. Demi-octavo. Pale green, gilt-pictorial cloth; top edge gile, fore and bottom edges uncut; 195pp + 3 unnumbered pages of ads. Old repair to front hinge; spine slightly spotted and sunned, with some dulling to gilt; a Very Good copy overall. Laid-in to this copy is a 4-pp advertising... Read More
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The New Machiavelli
by WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George Wells]
New York: Duffield and Company, 1910. First American Edition. First Printing. Second issue, with quotations by G.H. Lewes and Henry James on the copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth covered boards titled in gilt on cover and spine; 490pp. Rear hinge cracked; spine ends pushed; light rubbing to the extremities; tiny bookseller's ticket from Brentano's inside rear cover. Very... Read More
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The Dream
by WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; top edge gilt; 318pp. Tight, clean and Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), somewhat aged with shallow chips along top edge, just Very Good. ... Read More
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The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted
by WELLS, H.G. (novel); MICHAEL, A.C. (illustrations)
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); Currey's A binding in blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and publisher's imprint reading "George Bell & Sons" at base of spine; viii,390 + [2]pp ads; with frontispiece and 14 plates of illustrations by A.C. Michael. Gentle sunning to... Read More
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The Colonel and His Friends: A Suppressed Play
by WELLS, Hulet M.
[Seattle: 1913]. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Mild external wear, with a bit of sunning at bound edge; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Very Good or better overall. Scarce Socialist three-act drama based written in response to the Potlach Riot of 1913, when a mob of nativist citizens attacked the Seattle headquarters of the Socialist Party of America... Read More
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The Siege of Vicksburg from the Diary of Seth J. Wells. Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender
by WELLS, Seth J [Fay Wells Bliss and Sarah Ewell Krolik, eds]
Detroit: Wm. H. Rowe, 1915. First Edition. First printing. Small, square octavo (18.5cm). Publisher's khaki-brown cloth, titled in black on front cover; [11]-101pp; frontispiece portrait. Tight and generally clean, with mild rubbing to board edges and corners; bookplate shadow to front pastedown; Very Good. A scarce, privately-published account of the Siege, from the diary of a Private... Read More
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The Young Can Die Protesting [Inscribed]
by WELLS, Tobias (pseud. of Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],159,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Sally / with fond affection / Tobias Wells." Some offsetting to gutters at endpapers (from binder's glue), a barely discernable... Read More
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Singing Drums
by WELSHIMER, Helen
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1937. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 159pp. Near fine in original dustwrapper, rubbed and dusted, spine darkened with some shallow chips to extremities, Very Good. Light poetry, most originally published in Good Housekeeping, The Pictorial Review, The Christian Century and other mass-circulation magazines of the period.
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You'll Have Had Your Hole
by WELSH, Irvine
London: Methuen Drama, 1999. First UK Edition. First Impression. Slim octavo; illustrated wrappers; 63pp, [6]. A Fine copy of Welsh's first original stage play, where two inner city thugs take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a warped sense of justice.
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Report of a Visit to the Sioux and Ponka Indians on the Missouri River [Compliments Card Laid in]
by WELSH, William
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1872. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed within double rule; [2],36pp. Wrappers separated and worn, contemporary ownership label of a Laura L. Brown mounted to upper cover obscuring some of the text, rather substantial loss to rear cover with dampstaining slightly affecting textblock. A Good only copy, though internally sound. Report addressed... Read More
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John Willie Reed. An Epitaph
by WELTNER, Charles Longstreet
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1969. First Edition. Tall octavo (25.5cm). Staple-bound card wrappers; 40pp. Apparently unread copy, Near Fine. Portrait of a black sharecropper who was killed in an altercation in inner-city Atlanta in 1969.
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Mr. Weld Retires
by WELTON, Arthur D.
New York: Sears Publishing Co, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 293pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original illustrated dustwrapper, slightly creased and rubbed on rear panel but still unclipped and quite presentable, Very Good or better. Depression-era novel with a Chicago setting, in which a wealthy businessman,... Read More
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My Heart Is So Rebellious": The Caldwell Letters, 1861-1865
by WELTON, J. Michael, ed.; John K. Gott, John E. Divine, annotations; T. Triplett Russell, intro
Warrenton: Bell Gale Chevigny, 1991. Small Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 295pp. Trivial shelf wear to wrappers, 0.25" closed tear to top edge of wrapper rear cover. Spine mildly sunned, else a tight, clean, near-new. Near Fine.
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Women!! Make Turban in Own Home! [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WELTY, Eudora
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1979. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.152. Octavo (22.5cm); green paper-covered boards, titled in black on front cover; yellow endpapers; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [4],5-13,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, hint of foxing to upper board edges; contents clean; Near Fine in a... Read More
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