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  • SHRAPNEL ACADEMY. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    SHRAPNEL ACADEMY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Viking, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A savagely satiric update on the English country house novel - they thought they were attending a benign military lecture at the academy, and then a snowstorm makes escape impossible and outright warfare ensues. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-670814822.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76101
    Keywords: satire, Women Authors
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  • THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel of a downtrodden and dumped housewife who goes after revenge is perhaps Weldon's best known - certainly one of her wittiest and most wicked. Basis for the movie of the same name. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539206.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (creases to rear flap of dj.)

    Book ID: 46467
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  • THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Pantheon, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel of a downtrodden and dumped housewife who goes after revenge is perhaps Weldon's best known - certainly one of her wittiest and most wicked. Basis for the movie of the same name. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539206.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 46468
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  • THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Penguin, (1990.). A satirical look at marriage and manners. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-14-010397X.

    Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 53144
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • SPLITTING by Weldon, Fay
    Weldon, Fay
    SPLITTING

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A wickedly incisive picture of modern divorce. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-599X.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)

    Book ID: 53416
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • THE RULES OF LIFE. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE RULES OF LIFE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Hutchinson, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 2004 - in what was the near future at the time Weldon wrote this - a lighthearted and very funny satire on contemporary life. A Hutchinson Novella, illustrated with drawings by Amanda Faulkner. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-09-1686806.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 54412
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  • THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover - Alove story - but not one without obstacles. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-670-820989.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 52559
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical look at marriage and manners. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-670-818755.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)

    Book ID: 55988
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL. by Weldon, Fay.
    Weldon, Fay.
    THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE-DEVIL.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel of a downtrodden and dumped housewife who goes after revenge is perhaps Weldon's best known - certainly one of her wittiest and most wicked. Basis for the movie of the same name. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539206.

    Condition: Good in very good+ dust jacket (spine slant, reading wear.)

    Book ID: 55989
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  • Weldon, Fay.
    THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAY.

    Edition: First American edition.

    New York: Viking, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the near future - a woman discovers the four daughters, sisters, cloned from her whom she had never known about -. ISBN: 0-670-830909.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 17095
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • Weldon, Fay.
    PRAXIS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Summit Books, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-671-400614.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (neat prev owner's name, rem mark, some edgewear to dj.)

    Book ID: 17096
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • Weldon, Fay
    SPLITTING

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First edition - A wickedly incisive picture of modern divorce.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5562
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  • Weldon, Fay.
    REMEMBER ME.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Random House, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel. ISBN: 0-394-405544.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (some soiling to the upper edge of the textblock.)

    Book ID: 13786
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • Weldon, Fay (illustrated by Carol Wright)
    PARTY PUDDLE

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Author'shard-to-find book for younger children, the story of Roger who was in such a bad mood that he tore up his party invitation, stamped in a puddle and splashed his little sister, and then crawled under his bed like a bear in his den. Colorful illustrations by Carol Wright.

    Condition: F/NF (price clipped with a sticker with dollar price added.)

    Book ID: 6879
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  • THE ANNOTATED "HERE" and Selected Poems. by Welish, Marjorie.
    Welish, Marjorie.
    THE ANNOTATED "HERE" and Selected Poems.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2000). First edition - An award-winning collection of poems by this innovative writer - an Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize finalist and Village Voice Best Book of the Year, a book which "...maps and annotates a world we can almost touch and see, yet which is clearly a space of the mind."(Rosemarie Waldrop) Slightly oversized format, 148 pp. ISBN: 1-566890985.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. (some upper corners lightly creased)

    Book ID: 86206
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • Wellard, James.
    LOST WORLDS OF AFRICA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A journey into the heart of primitive Africa, yesterday and today" based on the author's research and his first-hand observations. Wellard describes living among the Dawadans, a small isolated tribe,who still live in a state of pre-history and to whom the wheel is unknown. He also examines the art of prehistoric Africa and in particular the rock art of the Acacus Mountains. The third section deals with the Garamantes, an empire that flourished for more than a thousand years,until they were conquered by Arab invaders in the 17th century. The book also touches on Christianity in Africa and includes a brief history of African slavery. Illustrated with 24 photographs and…

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    New York: Dutton, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A journey into the heart of primitive Africa, yesterday and today" based on the author's research and his first-hand observations. Wellard describes living among the Dawadans, a small isolated tribe,who still live in a state of pre-history and to whom the wheel is unknown. He also examines the art of prehistoric Africa and in particular the rock art of the Acacus Mountains. The third section deals with the Garamantes, an empire that flourished for more than a thousand years,until they were conquered by Arab invaders in the 17th century. The book also touches on Christianity in Africa and includes a brief history of African slavery. Illustrated with 24 photographs and five maps. Bibliographical notes, index. xi, 214 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (minor wear to edges of dj.)

    Book ID: 37006
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  • BALLADS OF ELDORADO. by Weller, Earle, editor. Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller and others.
    Weller, Earle, editor. Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller and others.
    BALLADS OF ELDORADO.

    Edition: Limited first edition.

    San Francisco: Book Club of California. 1940. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of poems about early California arranged in three sections: The Period of Spain and Mexico, Days of the 'Forty-nine, and San Francisco. Among the poets included are Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Bayard Taylor, Joaquin Miller and others. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press. x, 46.

    Condition: Fine in beige boards with dark brown illustrations.

    Book ID: 82169
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  • FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. by Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe and then set out to explore the devastation inflicted on Nagasaki. Censored by General MacArthur in 1945, lost for 60 years, these never-before-published reports provide a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. Also includes other published reports on the horrors of Japan's Pow Camps. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited with an essay by Anthony Weller, the son of George Weller. Photographs. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-307-342018.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 45137
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  • SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP BARBERSHOPS & SALONS. by Weller, Simon.
    Weller, Simon.
    SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP BARBERSHOPS & SALONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Mark Batty Publisher, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of color photographs of some of the most vibrant South African businesses - barbershops & salons, and their painted signs, advertisements, interiors and decoration - in Johannesburg, the rural townships, Durban and Capetown. Striking and very visually appealing, as well as a close look at a part of South Africa often overlooked. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Slightly oversized format. Promotional card laid in. 128 pp. ISBN: 978-1935613046.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.

    Book ID: 86207
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  • TATU AND THE HONEY BIRD. by Wellman, Alice (illustrated by Dale Payson.)
    Wellman, Alice (illustrated by Dale Payson.)
    TATU AND THE HONEY BIRD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of the woodlands in Angola, West Africa, the land where the author spent her childhood. This story of Tatu, who would rather be free to cause mischief than to go to school, and of his sister Lovola, who is not allowed to go because she is 'only a girl' is illustrated with soft sepia toned drawings by Dale Payson. ISBN: 0-399-607560.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards with a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 13794
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  • Wells, Carolyn.
    PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1935.) dj. Hardcover - A title in the "Patty" series, originally published in 1906.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket. Hint of spine slant to an otherwise unusually clean copy, with bright blue covers, red top stain, red and white illustrated endpapers. Silver dustjacket with blue lettering and picture on front cover has light overall edgewear. Ads on rear flap of dj for the Judy Bolton series, enabling us to date this reprint.

    Book ID: 11867
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  • MARJORIE AT SEACOTE (#6 in series.) by Wells, Carolyn.
    Wells, Carolyn.
    MARJORIE AT SEACOTE (#6 in series.)

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1912.). Hardcover - The sixth book in the "Marjorie" series (by the author of the "Patty" series. Glossy frontispiece, purple and cream illustrated endpapers. 288 pp plus advertisements.

    Condition: Good condition in yellow cloth with purple lettering and a small illustration on the front cover (minor soiling to covers, prev owner's name.).

    Book ID: 41487
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  • MARJORIE AT SEACOTE (#6 in series.) by Wells, Carolyn.
    Wells, Carolyn.
    MARJORIE AT SEACOTE (#6 in series.)

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1912.). Hardcover - The sixth book in the "Marjorie" series (by the author of the "Patty" series. Glossy frontispiece, purple and cream illustrated endpapers. 288 pp plus 8 pp advertisements.

    Condition: Very good condition in yellow cloth with purple lettering and a small illustration on the front cover (lower corner bumped.).

    Book ID: 72481
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  • PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS. by Wells, Carolyn.
    Wells, Carolyn.
    PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1935.). A title in the "Patty" series. 294 pp. Red and white illustrated endpapers.

    Condition: Good in blue cloth (severe toning to the pages, some discoloration to the cloth on the spine.)

    Book ID: 53554
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  • DICK AND DOLLY (#1.) by Wells, Carolyn.
    Wells, Carolyn.
    DICK AND DOLLY (#1.)

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd (c 1909.) dj. Hardcover - First book in series about a sometimes mischievous brother and sister, written for younger children. Illustrated with a glossy frontispice and 3 glossy internals by Ada Budell. 289 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.

    Condition: Near fine in light blue cloth with dark blue lettering in a very good dust jacket. with only minor edgewear.

    Book ID: 53824
    Keywords: Juvenile series
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  • BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES. by Wells, Carolyn, editor. Dashiell Hammett, Ben Ames Williams and others, contributors.
    Wells, Carolyn, editor. Dashiell Hammett, Ben Ames Williams and others, contributors.
    BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1934). Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon mystery anthology, selected and with an introduction by Carolyn Wells. Includes 'The Farewell Murder' by Dashiell Hammett, "The Ax" by Ben Hecht, and contributions by Ben Ames Williams, Melville Post, Jerome Beatty, Faraday Keene, McKinley Kantor and more. xvii, 533 pp.

    Condition: Very good in green cloth (bookplate on front endpaper), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78257
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  • Wells, H. G.
    MEANWHILE, The Picture of a Lady.

    Edition: First US edition.

    New York: George H. Doran, 1927. dj. Hardcover first edition -

    Condition: Fairly minimal wear, overall very good - no dj.

    Book ID: 2985
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  • Wells, H. G.
    CRUX ANSATA: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Freethought Press Association, (1953.). Frontispiece portrait of Wells. 160 pp.

    Condition: Good condition in printed gray wrappers (underlining on 2 pp.)

    Book ID: 33117
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  • Wells, H. G. [Herbert George, 1866-1946).
    MEANWHILE: The Picture of a Lady.

    Edition: First American edition.

    New York: George H. Doran, 1927. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel - 'a story of mental and physical romance' - which begins at a house party in an Italian villa. Bound in dark blue cloth. 320 pp.

    Condition: Good in a rather poor dustjacket (binding cracked before the title page, dust jacket has several small chips, tears and creases and a large triangular piece missing at the bottom of the spine and the back cover. The reverse side of the jacket has advertisements for other titles by G. H. Doran.)

    Book ID: 37924
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  • SEASHORE LIFE. by Wells, Harrington.
    Wells, Harrington.
    SEASHORE LIFE.

    Edition: First edition.

    San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co, (1937.). Hardcover first edition - Book written for use in elementary schools. A title in the Western Nature Science Series. Contains 9 units: Sea Shells & Their Owners; Strange Mollusks; The Starfishes & Their Relatives; The Crusty Animals; Sea Flowers, Rafts & Jellyfishes; Worms, Corals, & Sponges; Shore Birds; Sea Lions, Tidepool Fishes, & Other Chordates; and, The Seaweeds. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. List of other books, Index of text and illustrations. xxiv, 271 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated green cloth (a few neat marginal notations in pencil, otherwise almost like new) Uncommon in the first ediiton.

    Book ID: 66348
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