rare book catalog 2012 - Weller Book Works

107. Doyle, Arthur Conan. Crown Diamond. A Play in One Act. New York: Privately printed for the Baskerrette Press,
1958. One of 59 copies. Thin 8vo. Quarter black pebbled cloth with rose paper covered boards and paper label mounted
on front cover. Near fine with slight bowing to covers and a very faint damp staining to lower edges and rear endsheet.
A card awarding honorary life membership in The Baker Street Irregulars is laid in. It is moisture stained. Rare Doyle
item. RDOYCRO00ec $1000
108. Eiseley, Loren. Inner Galaxy. Illustrated with four aquatint etchings by Jennifer Sturgill. Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly
Press, 2002. #66 of 125 copies. 27 pages. Square 4to. Dark gray Italian linen. Fine condition. This fine edition of Eisley's
essay on evolution is the 29th volume in the Yolla Bolly Press limited imprint series. Housed in a handmade slipcase of
gray paper covered boards, which is also in fine condition. Includes four etchings by Jennifer Sturgill, who has signed
the colophon page. Hand set and printed by letterpress. Original prospectus included. An elegant production.
REISINN00jn $900
109. Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. Illustrated by Will Harmuth. Franklin
Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1980. 454 pages. 8vo. Full red leather with gilt
stamped titles, designs and edges, raised bands and moire satin endsheets.
Near fine with faint tiny silver smudge at top of front cover. Autographed by
Ellison on title page. RELLINV00dpe $250
110. Grey, Zane. Desert Gold: A Romance of the Border. New York: Harper
& Bros., 1913. 1st edition. 326 pages. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt titles and color
label on front cover. Very good with lightly bumped edges and slight roll.
Complimentary copy with publisher's inscription in pen on front free
endsheet. RGREDES00lr $125
111. Half Hours with the Poets: A Collection of Choice Poems, From
Chaucer to Tennyson. New York: James Miller, 1873. 371 pages. 8vo. Brown
cloth with gilt titles and elaborate black and gilt designs and gilded edges.
Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped extremities. Lovely, lavishly
illustrated copy. Includes Ben Jonson, John Donne, William Shakespeare, Sir
Walter Scott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lord Byron and others. RHAL00dpe $125
112. Harris, Frank. Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions. 2 volumes. New York: Printed and
published by the author, 1918. 2nd edition. 644 total pages. 8vo. Green cloth. Very good
condition with light rubbing to extremities and gently bumped corners. Minor spotting and
soiling to edges. Light foxing to the title page of volume one and the first few pages of volume
two. Former owner's bookplates on the front pastedowns. Solidly bound internally clean.
Signed by Frank Harris on the free front endsheet of volume
one. RHAROSC00em $375
113. Hubbard, L. Ron and Poul Anderson, Jack Vance and A.
E. van Vogt. Astounding Science Fiction, May 1950.
Containing L. Ron Hubbard's introduction to Dianetics.
New York: Street & Smith, 1950. 162 pages. 12mo. Color
printed pictorial wraps. Very good with a few small creases
and a tiny bump to fore edge. Prior to
the publication of Dianetics, L Ron
Hubbard introduced his "new science of
the mind" to readers in this publication.
The issue also contains The Helping
Hand by Anderson, The Potters of Firsk
by Vance, and part two of The Wizard of
Linn by van Vogt. RHUBAST00tw $60
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