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

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Stated First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on full title. Dust jacket signed on rear flap by Carol Devine Carson, the jacket designer. Octavo; 245 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $26.95 price. Maroon paper over boards with texted brown paper on spine and lettering stamped in silver. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some minor rubbing on corners, now in a protective mylar cover. Corners of boards are slightly bumped, but binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938. Very Good. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo; 182pp. Three illustrations including frontis. Orange buckram with black lettering and rules to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with dulling and soiling to spine and a few stray scuffs to cloth. Inch split between endpapers to front hinge. Small bookseller's stamp for Newbegin's of San Francisco at top of back pastedown. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. Binding is sound. [Bitting p. 353; Culinary Americana p. 12].

Cambridge, MA: The Nesfa Press, 1988. Very Good +/Very Good +. Cambridge, MA: The Nesfa Press, 1988. Limited Edition of 800 copies, of which this is #548. Signed by Bear with brief inscription on title page to previous owner. Octavo. 131 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and creasing at corners. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. 160 pages. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Linen boards stamped in black. Map endpapers. Dust jacket is creased and rubbed along edges with some very small chips along bottom edge. Some light spotting to front and rear panels and fading to spine. Boards are lightly edgeworn. Binding is sound. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2015. First Edition. Pictorial dustjacket over blue buckram with silver lettering to spine; xxxii, 321p. As new except for a slight curve to covers and a small smudge at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Near Fine/Very Good +. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],407pp.; illus. Very light wear to jacket and board extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "For Ron Wilkinson, with best wishes and thanks for great work, Al Gore / 1/30/92.

London: Downey & Co, 1896. Very Good. London: Downey & Co., 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 141 pages. Black and white illustrations. Red boards stamped in gilt. Some soiling and fading to spine, rear board, and edges and light wear to extremities. Pronounced lean to spine. Hinges cracked but binding is holding. Foxing to preliminaries, but rest of text is clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition, stated. Signed by Anne Tyler without inscription at title page. Octavo. 200 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Light green and cream boards stamped in gilt; blue topstain. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges with staining to top and verso edges. Boards lightly edgeworn and soiled. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good.

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. Reprint. Signed by Younghill Kang with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 401 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with some minor chipping; soiling and surface scratching. Boards lightly edgeworn with patchy bio-predation; soiling to spine. Binding is sound. Bit of toning to pages with a couple spots to rear endpapers, but interior otherwise unmarked. Originally published in 1937, East Goes West is the second novel published by Kang. He is considered by many to be the father of Korean-American literature.

New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1937. Very Good/Good. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's goldenrod pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, in illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 310pp. Creasing, wear, and chipping to the top and bottom edges and corners of jacket, shallow losses to spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled and margins lightly scuffed, else a Very Good copy in a Good only jacket. From prolific pulp-writer Talbot Mundy, author of "King of the Khyber Rifles" and the Jimgrim series, comes a tale of romance set in pre-Independence India: American Lynn Harding, along with her widowed aunt, are vacationing in India as guests of the Maharanee and Maharajah of Kadur. Lynn soon finds herself pursued by two men: British Captain of Engineers Carl Norwood and Prince Rundhia, the heir of the throne of Kadur. While both vie for Lynn's affections, political disputes and culture clashes loom on the horizon. Published in the UK as… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / TheCrime Club, 1969. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Higgins loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 192 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.95" price present. Blue boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket worn with some creasing along edges with amateur tape repair to jacket verso at top of spine. Boards lightly worn along edges with a forward lean and front board bows slightly. Binding is sound. Remnants of a sticker to rear free endpaper and pages otherwise clean and unmarked.

London: William Heinemann, 1922. Very Good. London: William Heinemann, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 130 pages. Red boards stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at edges with a bit of fraying at bottom of spine. Spine lightly toned. Binding is sound. Publisher's card for On A Chinese Screen laid in at front. Pages unmarked. [Stott A27].

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to writer and columnist William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Safire - / with the best wishes to / an esteemed former / colleague -- / Tom." Octavo; 322pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$25.00" price; book in gray and black boards with copper lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Oxford: Leon. Lichfield / James Good, 1672. Very Good. Oxford: Leon. Lichfield, Printer to the University, and are to be sold by James Good, 1672. "Fifth Edition, Corrected and Augmented, and three usefull Indexes added." Small quarto (20cm.); full 19th century parchment, maroon gilt-lettered spine, all edges stained red, later marbled endpapers; [8],256,[2],257-350,[38],57,[1],58,[3]pp. ([*]4 A-3B4 3C2 A-H4). Minor dust-soil to boards, corners gently bumped, textblock uniformly toned, 19th century ownership signature and 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaf, contemporary ownership signature to title page, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Compilation of three titles (see below) of historiography compiled from the papers of the late Mathias Prideaux (1622-1646?) to which is appended his father John Prideaux's work "Synopsis of Councels" (title page dated 1671). Each title issued with a separate title page, though only the final work has separate pagination. The latter two… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. Very Good+/Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 300pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, flaps and jacket verso rather foxed, light dust-soil to textblock margins, else a Very Good, sound copy. Signed by the author on title page.

Washinton, DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1958. Very Good. Washington, DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1958. Tall quarto (12" x 7"); [45 pp. +8 illustrations at back]. Red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. Boards lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, but clean and bright overall. A few pages dog-eared at bottom corner, not involving text or illustrations. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Small printed card with text "Christmas Greetings - Mickey & Lester Douglas" (not signed) laid in at front.

Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. Near Fine. Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2cm); 271pp, including map, chronology, glossary, and bibliography. Color photographs, B&W historical images, and computer recreations on nearly every page. Photographic card wrappers with generous French flaps. Entirely in English. Volume shows only the slightest surface signs of shelving. Card spine uncreased and uncracked. Textblock unmarred and unmarked. A bifold program (somewhat frumpled) from the symposium marking the opening of the exhibit in Washington, D.C., is laid in. The caves of Xiangtangshan housed important and elaborate Buddhist shrines during the Northern Qi dynasty (550-577 CE)-subjected, alas, to plunder ever since. This catalog of the exhibit shown at the Sackler Gallery 26 February to 31 July 2011 has abundant photos of the caves as they are now. They are… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: H.S. Eckles & Co, 1905. Very Good. Philadelphia, PA: H. S. Eckles & Co., ca. 1905. Interior plates dated 1903 with 1905 date stamped on exterior. Portfolio (15.25 inches x 11.5 inches) with a metal clasp, contains 8 full-color illustrations, four with various overlays of anatomical detail and four black and white illustrations. Accompanied by two elaborate, hand-drawn and colored anatomy charts (14 inches x 22 inches), folded, of the venous system and the arterial system, along with a typed two-sided corresponding list. Charts possible later with Miller Jr's ownership signature to verso (see below). Portfolio moderately worn with brief exposure and minor fraying. Soiling to interior and and light wear to illustrations and overlays, in particular near clasps. Charts well worn and cracked along folds with tape remnants to edges. Overall Very Good with evidence of frequent use. OCLC notes an accompanying book published by Eckels, rather scarce and not included here, and a similar… Read More

New York: Gagosian Gallery / Karma, 2014. Very Good +. New York: Gagosian Gallery / Karma, 2014. First Edition. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Color photographs throughout. Patterned white boards with Clorox illustration to front and blue lettering to spine and rear. No dust jacket, as issued. Corners bumped and boards bow slightly toward fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1985. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; [xii], 548pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.95 price intact; bound in black leatherette with silver stamped lettering. Jacket is crisp with faint wear at corners and light scuffing at bottom back. Boards are sturdy and square with a bit of nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.