Trolley Square December 2015 Mon-Thu 11-8 Fri-Sat 10-9 January 2016 Sun 12-5 HIS ISSUE ALSO IN T e Events -Stor f ite Books o -Our Favor 2015 -DADA wellerbookworks.com facebook.com/WellerBookWorks [email protected] Rare Book Holiday Gifts 1st edition (1952) of Charlotte’s Web by E. Pretty 1873 anthology, Half Hours with B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams. the Poets: A Collection of Choice Poems, In an unclipped jacket with chipped from Chaucer to Tennyson. Gilt lettering, edges that have short tears and creases. decors and edges. Nicely printed in black The book is quite clean. $375 and red. Appears almost new with lightly rubbed edges. $100 Great 1st edition (1953) of the scarce Easton Press leather and beloved children’s story, The Very copies of Scott Adams’ Little Girl by Phyllis Karasilovsky Dilbert: A Treasury of with pictures by Ninon [McKnight]. A Sunday Strips and Flashbacks: 25 Years of nice jacketed copy with a Doonesbury, autographed by Gary contemporary gift inscription. $250 Trudeau. Gilt edges and inlaid color comic strips on front covers. $125 & $100 Very nice 1965 printing of M. Sasek’s small folio, This is Paris. So80s: A Photographic Diary of a The jacket on this scarce Decade, by Patrick McMullan with title is lightly rubbed, has a contributions by some 50 others. few abrasions and a small Thick hardcover quarto published in hole. Nonetheless, it is 2003. Great black & white photos. $80 bright, as are the lovely color illustrations. $125 Excellent 1st edition of Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games. A fine copy in a fine Signed Easton Press 1990 collector’s dust jacket with old pricing mark on flap. edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Published in 1969. $200 Titan in aqua leather with gilt edges, lettering and vignette. Small stain on Scarce Alcoholics Anonymous, 1st signature page. $275 edition 14th printing, in bright jacket that is chipped at edges. With fine copy of the 1922 copy of Down-Adown-Derry: A Book pamphlet, A Guide to the Twelve Steps of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare with of Alcoholics Anonymous. $750 enchanting mostly black & white illustrations and a few color plates by Dorothy Lathrop. Very rare four-page tract by B. H. Roberts Blue cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of a printed circa 1888. Analysis of the Book of fairy on a salamander. Edges are rubbed. $40 Mormon: Suggestions to the Reader. $175 1 In-Store Events AUTHORS FREE PLAY READING: READING AND SIGNING: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1,8 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2 PM Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, and directed by Experience the hope that each of us Mark Fossen. A series of vignettes centered around a wants to feel at this time of the year meeting of cab drivers about a strike. with Joan Boren’s Silent Stars, a Christmas ghost story. A contemporary OUR REGULAR EVENTS: holiday tale in the Dickens tradition that is certain to be a family favorite for THE BREAKFAST CLUB years to come. Have a cup of coffee and a danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 5 PM morning book news and giveaways. In Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Every Tuesday, 9 to 10 am Life Lessons from the Slopes, Coffee Connection in Trolley Square Kathryn Kemp Guylay, uses stories from the her personal life as an engaging, and often hilarious, backdrop KIDS STORY TIME for studying wellness and life lessons. It Bring your wee tots and youngins to doesn’t matter whether you’re a pro Story Time with Lila Ann! Held in the skier or have never set foot on the children’s section. Different stories slopes. You’ll learn simple tools and every week. Every Saturday, 11 am even games that make wellness fun. LIT-KNIT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2 PM On December 9 & 23, and January 13 & 27, Sara Fitzgerald with Saving Savanna. join Catherine and her Crafting Circle for Devan can't help but blame God for his casual bookish conversation. wife's death, so the last thing he wants to Every 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 6 to 8 pm do this holiday season is celebrate. But when his daughter, Savanna, makes a special Christmas wish, their little family SALT CITY SLAM will never be the same. Filled with faith On December 28 and January 25, it’s open mic, followed and tenderness, this heartwarming story by a featured poet, then the Poetry Slam! Only $5 cover. is sure to remind you of the real power Every last Monday, 8 pm behind the magic of Christmas. COLLECTORS’ BOOK SALON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 6 PM The first salon of 2016 will occur on Book launch party for C. R. Langille and Friday, January 29th. It will be Consequence. Angels, demons, ancient exciting to resume our Salons after cosmic beings, and even a dimensional- our holiday hiatus. Some of you may traveler clad in a trench coat made of remember that sharing events have duct tape come together in this fast- been our themes at the cusps of the paced novel of magic, darkness, and new years. I have especially enjoyed consequences. these gatherings in which our guests take turns showing and describing SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2 PM most cherished books. Brooke Arnold’s middle-grade novel This year, I am asking you, our bibliophile guests, to Elements of Evil is about a young girl’s select and bring a “beautiful” book to share with other science-filled quest to become a guests. Apply your own definition of beauty, and supervillain. Follow along as Bernice, communicate it to the rest of us. Bring a friend who assisted by her hedgehog Bunsen, finds a likes books! When you open a reader’s mind, there’s no nemesis and sciences her way to infamy. telling what you’ll find. Join us on January 29th in our Event complete with a science rare book room; the Salon begins at 6:30 pm. The experiment by the author! sharing, at 7:15. No salon in December 2015. 2 In Which Zach Is the Computer Whisperer Zach is the youngest (he’ll be turning 18 There's an interesting thing that this month!) and by far the most tech- happens when you take care of the savvy of our staff. He’s leaving the store same pieces of software for a couple soon to focus on college. We’ll miss his of years; you start to think of it as skills, passion and general awesomeness. having a personality. SWIT, our A lot. –ed. recently-multicolored data-entry gnome, has more of a I'm usually greeted by a flurry of curmudgeonly flavor to its persona notes when I walk into the door -- that's hiding an earnest heart trying littering the eCommerce desk, to do its best. [i]merchant is a big, clipped to my time card, sitting in beefy body-builder piece of software the inbox labeled "Sex Work/Zach's whose thought process is as much Inbox." (Inbox labels are often just of a black box to me as the next old section labels.) Working only bookseller; the block-headed thing three days a week means that is strong enough, though, that we sometimes there's long gaps where don't really question it. The things can break and stay broken software that transmits our data to until the next time I can add another the web, called affectionately (by layer of duct tape to an exciting me, and only affectionately when (read: often-terrifying) amalgam of the thing behaves) as 'fadapter' is a software and hardware that manages flighty; fickle sprite who everyone our inventory. wishes was a bit more grounded. Said inventory lives in a computer going through an identity crisis. The software we use to catalog used I'm sad to leave the bookstore. I'll certainly miss the books lives in a different consciousness that has taken people -- the conversations and debates, the hushed up residence in the same box as our new-book literary gossip, and the passion for our friends, the inventory (hence, the identity crisis). The server also books -- but there's also a big part of me that's going to talks to lots of websites to make sure that the most up- miss the misfit lines of code that spin into threads to-date copy of our inventory is online for your viewing connecting our store together. They're as much my pleasure (at abebooks.com, alibris.com, or biblio.com!) coworkers as the people I work with. There's a Brady-Bunch-esque family of software -- some coded in-house, some licensed from New Hampshire -- We're hiring! If you're passionate about books and that works together to make sure that our store runs. I happen to have some solid computer knowledge, call, like to think that I am Alice; an occasionally put-upon email, bring in a resume -- we look forward to hearing caretaker of this blended-code family who loves it more from you. (info on last page) than maybe another sysadmin would. -- Zach Zundel For more bookstore stories, author events, shows and deals: READER! BE A PART OF OUR NEXT Like us on facebook.com/wellerbookworks NEWSLETTER! Follow us on instagram.com/wellerbookworks As an end-of-the-year thank you, we want YOU to tell and twitter.com/wellerbookworks us what was your favorite book of 2015. Email your 200- to 300-word review at Check out our website and blog at morgane@wellerbookworks. Our favorite will be wellerbookworks.com.