Search Results: Titles starting with A from Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, 1950. Very Good. Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, 1949-1950. Five octavo volumes (9.25" x 7"); 130pp each. Pulp magazines. Illustrated paper wraps. Each volume with shallow chips and tears along edges, with a few larger chips to rear of Feb. issue (no loss of text), and some general light creasing and smudging to surfaces. October issue shows a long clean tear running down all but the last 3" of the front spine, and another running 3" up along spine at bottom back, a rubberstamped date and faded number in pen on front panel, and a bit more general surface wear. Spines variously creased and faded, with a few chipped away at edges. Three issues with tape reinforcement to cover interiors along edges. Pages toned (Feb. and Apr. more lightly so) but unmarked. Bindings are sound. Complete run of the short-lived pulp named to surf the popularity of the six-years-deceased Merritt. The magazine reprinted three works by Merritt -- Creep, Shadow! (novel), "Three Lines of Old… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Quarto. 253 pp. Color and b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Pale green boards; light blue endpapers. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and creased along edges; short closed tear to base of spine with amateur tape repair. Boards bow slightly; binding sound. A few pages dog-eared, but otherwise interior clean and unmarked. Very Good.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Near Fine/Very Good +. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Stated First Edition (hardcover issue). Octavo. 54 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $17.00 price present. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is gently rubbed along edges with some light toning. Trace of a 1" shallow abrasion to front panel near fore edge but barely visible and does not puncture through to verso. Barest hint of a lean to boards, binding is sound, and pages unmarked. Karr's first book of poetry.

Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Very Good. [Berkshire, England]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First U.K. Edition, Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 26. Octavo (22.8cm); 34pp. 3 plates including frontispiece. No dust jacket. Marbled paper quarter bound with blue cloth along the spine. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. Includes gilt stamped title and author on spine as well. Slight bowing on front board and scuffing along head and tail edges of spine and margins of front cover but otherwise Very Good. Damp staining to boards bleeding into bottom gutter of terminals. Pages slightly darkened along the fore edge but otherwise unmarked. All wood-engravings, including the frontispiece and the colophon rooster, are protected with full-page tissue guards. First translation from French to English of Abd-er-Rhaman's choice between the Christian and Muslim heavens after his death.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. First Edition, First State with "A Flood in the Office" still present. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, grey topstain; viii,351pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few tiny losses and closed tears, split along bottom third of rear spine edge, spine panel quite toned, small splash stain to front flap, corners nudged, else a Good to Very Good copy overall of an uncommon collection of essays. This copy with "A Flood in the Office" still present. First published in 1919, this short essay about Sir William Willcocks' pamphlet "The Nile Project" caused an uproar in 1936 as well as a libel action. Remaindered copies of Abinger Harvest returned to the publisher were quickly unburdened of the offending article and a cancel inserted in its place. KIRKPATRICK A18a.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Signed by Horowitz to Martin with inscription, "To William McC. Martin, / In friendship / and appreciation / David Horowitz / Jerusalem, November 1969." William McChesney Martin, Jr. was the longest serving Chairman of the Federal Reserve, serving under five Presidents and holding the post until January, 1970. Octavo. 178 pages. Beige dust jacket over maroon boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is lightly edgeworn with some general spotting and rubbing. Boards show a few scuffs to surface, but are sturdy and square. Binding is sound. Text block is spotted but interior unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1947. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 454 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Gray boards stamped in navy and gilt. Gray topstain. Dust jacket worn with shallow chipping and a few closed tears along edges and joints. Light edgewear to boards with some general dampstaining to front and rear, though interior unaffected. Binding is sound. Spotting to top edge of text block but pages clean and unmarked.

Lindfield, UK: Robert Hershkowitz Ltd, 2010. Very Good. Lindfield, UK: Robert Hershkowitz Ltd., 2010. First Edition. Oblong quarto. [76] pp. 68 plates. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wear to extremities with curling and creasing to corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1932. Very Good -. New York: Covici-Friede, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red; xi,[1],275pp. Cloth a bit rubbed at corners and spine ends with brief exposure, the whole rather soiled, faint ring stain to front cover and brief spot of white residue to rear, spine toned, faint foxing to textblock edges; overall Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. The fourth in the Thatcher Colt detective series, in which Josie LaTour, "Queen of the Air," falls to her death from the acrobatic rings during opening night in New York City.

New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1962. First Edition. Signed by Rubinger without inscription at title page. Octavo. 75 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Rubbing to edges of dust jacket with a chip to top of spine. Boards show light shelfwear, binding is sound, and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of a relatively uncommon title.

Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1828. Very Good. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1828. Improved Stereotype Edition. 16mo (6" x 3.5"); 122pp. Blue paper-covered boards with brown leather spine. Boards rubbed with exposure along edges and corners, showing some general soiling and smudging to surface. Leather spine scuffed with splits starting along joints and spine ends and some fraying to leather. Front hinge cracked, but binding holding soundly. Moderate foxing throughout, but pages unmarked. Alger's abridgement of Murray's classic grammar.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good -. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 242 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black boards with title labels to front and spine. Dust jacket worn and chipped with amateur tape mending and crude sympathetic color paper fill-ins to verso; general rubbing and spine a touch faded. Boards show light shelfwear and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.

Johannesburg: Architectural Students' Society / University of the Witwatersrand, 1937. Very Good. Johannesburg: Architectural Student's Society /University of the Witwatersrand, 1937. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. Quarto (30cm.); original cream card wrappers printed in brown, yapp edges; [4],103pp.; one mounted color plate, illus. in text throughout, one other in color. Extremities a bit chipped and toned with brief but crude repair to upper cover fore-edge, wrappers a bit soiled, else Very Good, internally fine. Signed by all seven contributors on colophon. Additionally inscribed on front free endpaper by the mother of the Congress's chairman Kurt Jonas on the occasion of his death. Three-day symposium, each day devoted to a single topic, painting, photography, and architecture. Among the contributors were the noted Dutch-born South African psychiatrist and professor at the University Simon Biesheuvel on "Realising the Abstract: Perception," his talk accompanied by John Fassler's… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First UK Edition. Signed by Harold Brodkey without inscription at title page. Octavo. 297 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a small patch of dampstaining to base of spine at verso. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound. Faint spotting to top edge of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good or better.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. Good +. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First Thus. 12mo; publisher's red blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges speckled red; lxiii,[1],213,[1],[2](ads)pp. Extremities scuffed with small chip at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, the whole lightly dust-soiled, front hinge cracked with spine backing starting to pull away a bit along lower half, numerous ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper, contemporary bookseller ticket [S&T Gilbert of London] to the former, else Very Good, internally sound.

London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876. Very Good-. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards; xii,[2],220pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities, smallish square white stain mid-spine as well as faint old manuscript spine titling, contemporary ownership signature to front cover and bookseller ticket to front pastedown, endpapers toned, front hinge cracked, else a Good to Very Good, still quite attractive copy in charming publisher's binding. A revealing record of land-rich English subjects, from Lord Stafford with more than 10,000 acres, to Major Spitty, who barely makes the cut with a piddling 3,029.

New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. Very Good. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's limp tan cloth stamped in blue, red, and gilt, all edges stained red, decorative endpapers; 69pp.; pictorial title page, one map in text, text printed within red rule throughout. Some wear and toning to cloth extremities, a few soil spots to both covers, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good, internally clean and unmarked. Attractive and unused notebook for the trans-Atlantic traveler, complete with logbook and map and daily quotes interleaved with blank leaves for "Notes and Autographs." OCLC locates four copies in North America as of February, 2021, at the New York and Hartford Public Libraries, Trinity College, and UVA.

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. First Thus. Signed by Dick Francis at half title without inscription. Thick octavo. 715 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red-orange boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket worn and creased along edges with some nicks and a few short tears along edges; general rubbing and fading to spine. Boards show light shelfwear; mild wrinkling to spine; general smudging. Binding is sound. Dust-soiling to top edge of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Good+/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [8],289pp. Boards and jacket extremities darkened and rubbed with exposure along board margins, clear tape reinforcement to jacket verso, dark soil spots to rear jacket panel very slightly affecting rear cover, old redacted ink price to upper jacket flap; overall Good or better, internally clean and sound.

London: William Heinemann, 1899. Very Good -. London: William Heinemann, 1899. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in red and black; [4],315,[1],[30](ads)pp. Cloth quite toned and rubbed at extremities with shallow losses at spine ends, corners bumped, spine cocked, a few faint surface scratches to front cover; overall Good or better, internally sound. [BAL 4084].