Search Results: Authors starting with L from Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 216pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.95 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges and over spine ends, with a couple shallow tears along top edge and some general light smudging to back. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends. Small ownership ticket attached to front free endpaper with a date in pen underneath, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. Dystopian take on a 21st century totalitarian America controlled by Comus (COMmunications U.S.), a government agency regulating communications channels, media, entertainment, and pretty much everything. Author's final novel before a brief stint writing for television after the death of her first husband and oft-collaborator Henry Kuttner.

Paris: D'Auguste Delalain, 1822. Very Good. Paris: D'Auguste Delalain, 1822. First Edition. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"); [iv], 354pp. Contemporary stained calf with gilt decoration and lettering and black leather title card to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. 1820s school bookplate on front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed, with some scuffs down joints. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Instructional anthology of prose works from French writers. This copy from the personal library of journalist William Safire, but with no ownership marks or plates.

New York: Random House, 1985. Very Good. New York: Random House, [1985]. First Edition, Limited to 300 specially bound copies of which this is no. 226. Octavo; publisher's gilt-lettered navy blue cloth in paper-covered slipcase; [10],288pp. Cloth spine a shade sunned and gilt slightly flaked, minor scuffing to slipcase extremities, brief soil to bottom panel, else a Very Good copy overall. Signed by the author on limitation page.

London: Michael Joseph, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. London: Michael Joseph, 1945. First Edition. Small octavo; 224pp. Black dust jacket with yellow lettering and 9/6 net price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Produced in conformity with war economy standards, per note on copyright. Jacket chipped at spine ends with loss to author's first initial at head, also with some rubbing and a few shallow tears along edges, and some toning and smudging to back and down spine. Boards a bit worn at corners and spine ends, with some fading along top edge, especially over spine and back panel. Spine slightly cocked. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. Mid-career novel by Green, and basis for the 1947 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, and Kathleen Ryan (as well as Doctor Who's First Doctor, William Hartnell, as Fencie the Barman). The film won a BAFTA for Best British Film, and was nominated by the Academy for Best Editing.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1949. First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 314pp. Map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in brick cloth boards with black lettering. Jacket faded along spine and edges, with shallow waterstain at tail of spine only visible from interior, a small chip at top back near spine some tears along folds and edges repaired on the interior with tape. Boards are square with light shelfwear and nudging to spine ends. Previous owner's gift inscription on half title, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1933. Very Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pp. Black boards stamped in red. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show light wear to extremities with a mild lean to spine. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers and foxing to fore-edge of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked.

New York: Barse & Co. Publishers, 1930. Very Good. New York: Barse & Co. Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 278 pp. Black boards stamped in red. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and some general scuffing, with a couple patches of white discoloration to rear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 315 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Oatmeal boards stamped in red and blue. Gray topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with some general rubbing and smudging. Corners of boards slightly bumped and a touch of toning to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 317 pages. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black boards stamped in gilt. Orange topstain. Decorative endpapers. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket chipped along edges with heavy toning to spine. Boards show light shelfwear, with gilt along spine partially rubbed away. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. Very Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 249 pp. Red boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show moderate edgewear with some rubbing to spine and top of spine slightly nudged. Binding is sound. Remnant of flap from dust jacket affixed to front pastedown; signs of overzealous erasure to front free endpaper; stamp of "Ann's Circulating Library" to rear pastedown. Pages otherwise unmarked.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Near Fine/Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's buckram in grey printed dust jacket; portrait frontispiece, seventeen (17) leaves of illus. Front jacket panel nearly split along spine margin, extremities a bit toned, else a Near Fine copy in a Good jacket overall. Subtitle continues: "while Stationed on the Western Frontier, in the Early Seventies and Eighties; while at West Point, as Assistant Instructor of Tactics, 1874-79; when Military Attaché to the U.S. Legation at Vienna, Austria, 1889-94; when Commandant of Cadets, at the U.S. Military, at West Point, 1897-1901, and Afterwards in the Philippine Islands, etc.

La Haye / The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. Very Good. La Haye / The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 267 pp. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Text in French. No dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear with some minor fading and dust soiling along edges. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper and mild off-setting to endpapers, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good,

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Dark red boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and some chewing along edges of rear panel. Three stain rings from a glass to front panel. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp to front pastedown but otherwise pages unmarked. Stories of the Chicago underworld from the newspaperman. Includes "Charlie the Wolf," "Omaha Slim," and "Lars, the Useless, Was a Nuisance, so He Got a Public Office and Threw His Love to the Birds.

London: Edward Moxon, 1836. Very Good-. London: Edward Moxon, 1836. Reprint. Three volumes; octavos; publisher's brown cloth, printed spine labels. Extremities rather scuffed with shallow chips at spine ends, corners softened, spine labels browned and chipped, 19th-century bookseller description crudely taped to Vol. I front free endpaper, contemporary ownership signature of a George G. Washington to Vol. II front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good set, internally clean and sound set.

New York: Hyperion, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Hyperion, 1997. First U.S. Edition. Large square quarto. 235 pp. Bright high-quality color illustrations throughout, many with a glossy varnish. Illustrated dust jacket with $150.00 price present. Blindstamped black boards with silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with some creasing, predominantly to rear. Boards show light shelfwear, and front board bows every so slightly. Binding is sound. One small stain to front free endpaper, but otherwise pages unmarked. An impressive publication.

London: Trefoil Publications, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. London: Trefoil Publications, 1987. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 216pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Light shelf wear, some soil to textblock margins, old price sticker to rear jacket panel, else Very Good and sound.

New York and Munich: The Museum for African Art and Prestel Verlag, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. New York and Munich: The Museum for African Art and Prestel Verlag, 1996. First Edition. Tall Quarto (31x24x2.5cm); 267pp, including glossary and bibliography. A pristine invitation card for the Baltimore opening of the Baga show, in its envelope, is laid in. Photographic dustjacket. Volume in off-white cloth with green stamping on spine and front panel. Faint rubbing to jacket along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Much more than a survey of remarkable West African objects, the volume traces Baga art through the lens of ancient and recent migrations, ricocheting 19th- and 20th-century regime changes, and the Baga will to self- and cultural-preservation affecting every aspect of their art, culture, and society. This is the richly augmented catalog accompanying the Baga exhibition at the Museum for African Art in NYC from 4 October 1996 to 5 January 1997, and traveling afterward to Baltimore.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Very Good/Very Good +. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket; ix,[1],229pp. A hint of soil to jacket, boards very slightly bowed and spine sunned, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.

Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1963. Very Good. [Gütersloh]: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 208pp. Spine a bit sunned and gilt rather dulled, textblock a shade toned at extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.

Savannah, GA: Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. Savannah, GA: Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, 2001. First Edition. Large, slim square quarto; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [90]pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine.