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

New York: Crown, 2020. Near Fine. New York: Crown, 2020. First Edition, Deluxe Issue signed by President Obama at front fly leaf. Octavo. 751 pp. Color photographs. Dark gray boards stamped in silver. Publisher's slipcase with photograph mounted to side panel. Scuff to spine and rear top corner bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bump to top corner of slipcase, else sturdy and strong. Near Fine.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First UK Edition. Bookplate signed by Tim O'Brien loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 338 pp. Illustrated dust jacket, second issue price-clipped with new stickered price at bottom; green boards stamped in gilt. Touch of rubbing to edges of jacket and boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. O'Brien's second published novel and winner of the 1978 National Book Award.

New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Very Good +. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Reprint. Octavo. 322 pp. Black cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Mild general rubbing to boards and corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and pages otherwise unmarked.

New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2007. Fine. [New York]: Mysterious Bookshop, [2007]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Small, slim 12mo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; [2],34pp. Fine condition. Mysterious Profile #11. Chapbook devoted to the character of Kathleen Mallory, the fictional NYPD detective featured in the author's popular mystery series.

London: Souvenir Press, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. London: Souvenir Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 267pp. Light shelf wear to jacket along with some scratches to back panel, boards lightly shelfworn with nudging to spine ends. The final appearance in book-form of Modesty Blaise, the multi-talented, gun-toting ring-leader of the international organization known simply as the "Network." First introduced as a character in the long-running comic strip, Modesty Blaise also starred in eleven novels and two story collections, including the present volume.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1976. Fine/Near Fine. New York: Mysterious Press, 1976. First Edition (stated First American Edition), Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is no. 2. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket, housed in black cloth slipcase; [2],256pp. White portions of jacket a bit toned, ink with which the author signed the colophon has bled slightly, light spotting to slipcase, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. The seventh novel to feature former crime lord, current secret agent Modesty Blaise.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. Near Fine. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. First Thus; Limited Edition of 250 copies signed by O'Donnell, this being #31. Octavo. 183 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in silver. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly nudged at bottom of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Touch of rubbing and soiling along edges of slipcase, else sound and stable.

London: Souvenir Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. London: Souvenir Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 318 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed with some light toning and creasing to edges. Boards show light edgewear with some mild general spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Near Fine. New York: Mysterious Press, [1984]. First American Edition Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 86. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in metallic red, housed in matching cloth slipcase; 219pp. A hint of dust-soil to slipcase, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. Very Good. Octavo (23.5cm.); contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; 740pp.; folding color map plates throughout. Leather a bit scuffed and dry, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Spine title: "Naval Operations of the War with Spain.

New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1951. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],370pp. Small chips and short closed tears along jacket extremities, shallow loss at spine crown touching text without loss of meaning, brief soil to rear jacket panel, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound, uncommon in dust jacket. Study of the short story by one of Ireland's leading critics. The latter half of the volume devoted to eight short stories by various authors including Anton Chekhov, Elizabeth Bowen, and Ernest Hemingway.

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 78 of 285 copies. Octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket with 10/6 price and limitation statement; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Jacket lightly edgeworn with toning down spine and nudging to head and tail. Boards bowed outward a bit at fore-edge. Sparse foxing throughout, else pages unmarked.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; [vi], 218pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; red cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few closed tears and some creasing along edges with one spot of tape repair to interior, chipping to head of spine (no loss to text), and a shallow spot of dampstaining with red color bleed at bottom back near spine. Boards are square with light bumping to corners and spine ends, a very faint cock to spine, and a corresponding patch of fading at bottom back. Pages a touch toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's second novel.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Very Good -/Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Light red boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped along edges with dampstaining along bottom third resulting in rippling and rubbing. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, sunning and some black discoloration. Binding holding soundly. Tape remnants to endpapers. Pages otherwise toned but unmarked. Third mystery from the author of Repeat Performance. A very good minus copy in a good only dust jacket.

[N.p.]: [s.i.], 1862. Very Good. [N.p.]: [s.i.], [ca. 1862]. Civil War two-page manuscript poem folded with manuscript title "To Col. Ashby." Presumably penned by a Miss O'Ferrall. Later pencil inscription reading "Mrs. Sue Lupton"; tears along folds with some general spotting, but overall intact. The poem is laudatory of Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby, leading "a gallant band from a Southern land." A "tyrant's band" approaches however, and "Lincoln in vain with servile chain / Would keep our freemen under / With proud disdain, will burst in twain / And scatter his bonds assunder." Ashby's cavalry was highly lauded in the early stages of the Civil War, supporting Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign. This poem continues in praise of "the patriot band from Maryland," presumably an allusion to soldiers from Maryland with Confederate sympathies, confirming "they'll by us Stand / To crush the Tyrant's madness." Ashby was killed near Harrisonburg in July 1862, and this poem appears to have been… Read More

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. Very Good +. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition with "Third Thousand" to title page, as in all copies. Octavo. 367 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt and cream; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and joints and binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and later stamp to front free endpaper; interior else unmarked. Very Good or better. Nevins notes that half of the narrative deals with O'Ferrall's service in the 12th Virginia Cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley. [Nevins p. 139].

New York: Hastings House, 1955. Very Good/Good. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1955. First Edition. Signed by all three authors without inscription on front free endpaper. Quarto (11.25" x 8.5"); 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $7.50 price intact; book in patterned boards with green cloth spine and white lettering. Jacket chipped at spine ends and front flap fold, with a number of smaller chips and tears along edges, and some significant adjacent creasing, especially to back, and some spotting to back panel and back flap. Front board lightly bowed. A few spots to front free endpaper, else pages unmarked. Opens easily to between a few gatherings, but binding is sound.

1980. Very Good. Text on poster: Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski // Marek Bliziński // Witold Szczurek // Andrej Dąbrowski // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo. Date: 1980 presumed. Height x width: 67.5cm x 91.5cm. Printing information: lower right corner corner: PAGART logo // Polska Agencja Artystyczna // Plac Zwyciȩstwa 9 // 00-078 Warszawa, Poland // Druk Zakł. Offset. W-wa, z. 9093, n. 6 000•S-58. Condition: No visual flaws Olbiński initially studied architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic School. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a faculty member of New York's School of Visual Arts. He has received many awards for his work, including the Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators and Art Directors Club of New York. In 1994 he was honored with the Prix Savignac in Paris, and in 1995 his work was chosen as the official poster in the "New York Capital of the World" competition. What is now seen as the height of Poland's poster… Read More

1979. Very Good. Text on poster: The 9th Meeting of Jazz Vocalists in Lublin // 9te Lubelskie Spotkania Wokalistów Jazzowych // Heraldic shield of Lublin // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // May 24-27 1979. Date: 1979. Height x width: 97cm x 68cm. Printing information: lower right corner: Druk: Zakł. Offset. W-wa, z. 9319, n. 2500 C-88. Condition: Irregular curling to left vertical edge, now creased flat; ~12 closed vertical tears (0.5cm-3cm) at bottom edge; crumpling (now flattened) and minor soiling; Left lower corner lacking, about 2 cm. Olbiński initially studied architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic School. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a faculty member of New York's School of Visual Arts. He has received many awards for his work, including the Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators and Art Directors Club of New York. In 1994 he was honored with the Prix Savignac in Paris, and in 1995 his work was chosen as… Read More

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1970. Very Good. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28x21.5cm); Twenty pages, 20 B&W photographs of Oldenburg's sculptures in process and on display in their debut exhibit. Photographic coated card covers over saddle-stapled gathering. Endleaves front and back are top-fold double sheets in olive green, intended to be left uncut. Volume and textblock show the beginnings of yellowing, typical of coated papers of the era. Some minor edge rubbing and polite creases at the staples. The whole unmarred and unmarked. This is the catalog of the Oldenburg show in New York City held from 7 April to 28 November 1970.