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

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 311pp. Printed dust jacket with $7.95 price present. Magenta boards stamped in orange and blue; purple topstain; dark green endpapers. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and toned with minor wrinkling and rubbing. Boards show minor shelfwear; faint stain to base of spine; binding is sound. Stain to top edge of text block near spine; interior else unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of Berger's Booker Prize-winning novel.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pp. Printed dust jacket. Marbled boards stamped in black and red. Unclipped dust jacket edgeworn with staining and spotting to verso; spine faded; slight musty smell. Boards bumped at extremities and binding is sound. Touch of spotting and dust soiling to edges of text block; interior else unmarked. Still a Very Good copy of Berger's Booker Prize-winning novel.

The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Very Good/Very Good-. The Hague: Mouton, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 283pp. General wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears, corners tapped, slightly later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 228 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Missing printer's notice on final page. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, and light spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Foxing to preliminaries but overall pages clean and unmarked. A series of letters dating from 1878 to 1883 describing life ranching and farming in Texas. [Basic Texas Books 98; Herd 1091; Raines p. 121].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 425 pp. + appendices. Illustrated dust jacket with "$5.95" price present. Olive boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a few minor nicks and general mild spotting. Boards sunned along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. First American Edition (stated First Edition, with publisher's B-X code). Octavo. 272 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan and gray patterned cloth stamped in black and brown. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and creased light rubbing and smudging to surface. Spine ends slightly nudged and binding is sound; interior unmarked. A Very Good copy, scarce in retail.

Markham, Ontario, Canada: Viking, 1987. Very Good+. [Markham, Ontario, Canada]: Viking, [1987]. "Special Advance Reader's Edition." Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],225pp. Light shelf wear, brief soil spot to textblock fore-edge not bleeding into text, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. The author's first book and the first detective novel to feature Inspector Banks, a kindly policeman recently transplanted from London to the Yorkshire Dales where Peeping Toms and glue-sniffing youths abound.

London: F.V. White & Co, 1899. Good. London: F.V. White & Co., 1899. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 232pp +16pp publisher's catalog at back. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and blind publisher's logo to back. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with a couple waterspots and general smudging to surface and some rubbing along edges. Rear hinge cracked with some exposure along gutter. Front hinge creaky, but both holding. Endpapers heavily toned, with some denting to front pastedown. Opens flatly between gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked. [BLEILER EARLY YEARS 935; CURREY p. 209].

New York: Baen Books, 1985. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Baen Books, 1985. Book Club Edition. Signed by Anderson on title page without inscription. Octavo. 182 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Yellow boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with one very small closed tears along top of rear panel. Corners bumped and light wear to spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

London: Corgi Books, 1986. Very Good +. London: Corgi Books, 1986. First UK Edition. Octavo. 128 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to wraps. Binding is sound. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. A Two-in-One adventure book from Tunnels and Trolls, the second modern role-playing game published, after Dungeons & Dragons.

Dublin: J. Jones, 1790. Very Good. Dublin: J. Jones, 1790. Second Edition. 12mo; recent full brown morocco retaining original tree calf boards, red gilt spine label, renewed endpapers; vi,[3],429pp.; [A]6 B-T12. Ex-Maryland Historical Society with their occasional rubberstamps throughout, dampstaining to textblock, rather crude but serviceable new binding, else a Very Good, sturdy copy. First published in London the previous year, this edition unfortunately not issued with the plates by Bewick. ESTC T120607.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Fourth Printing. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's beige cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); 31pp.; illustrations throughout. Light shelf wear, dust jacket a bit sunned along margins, front board very slightly bowed. Production flaw to interior of front board (small mound trapped under front pastedown and faint impression opposite). Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed and signed by the author/illustrator on half title accompanied by an original illustration of a rabbit smoking a cigar. Caldecott Honor Book by the author of Jumanji, jauntily enhanced with an original illustration.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1905. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Edition with publisher's advertisements dated "10,000/9/04 - A.U.P." at bottom of p. 40. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; xii,404,40pp.; frontispiece and twenty-four (24) leaves of photographs. Spine rather toned as is top third of upper cover, small chips at spine crown, unobtrusive evidence of previously removed ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Written in the same spirit as Haggard's 1899 work "A Farmer's Year," in this case stemming from notebooks kept during the year 1903 when the author planned and planted a garden on his substantial estate. [Scott 43; Whatmore NF6].

Washington, D.C.: Paycock Press, 1997. Very Good. Washington, D.C.: Paycock Press, 1997. First Edition. Signed by contributors Diane Williams and Ben Marcus on their respective pages. Octavo; 363pp +4pp ads. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers very lightly shelfworn, but clean and crisp overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Gargoyle was founded in 1976 in Washington, D.C. and ran continuously until going on hiatus in 1990. This anniversary issue was the first of the revived magazine, which has published continuously since. This issue features excerpts from memoirs by Nick Cave and Joan Haverty Kerouac, poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Russell Edson, Heather McHugh, Peggy Pfeiffer, and Maggie Smith, fiction by Jodi Bloom, Ben Marcus, and Diane Williams, among many others.

Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1981. Limited Revised Edition of 1000 copies -- 250 were signed and slipcased, with this being one of 750 unsigned trade editions. Octavo; [ii], 192pp. Illustrated dust jacket with Trade and Special Edition prices intact; book in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is bright and crisp with very faint rubbing along top edge, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy, with a bit of dulling to spine lettering and a very faint outward bow at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Revised and first US hardback edition of the second book of Farmer's World of Tiers series, first published as an Ace paperback in 1966.

Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1981. Fine/Near Fine. Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1981. First Thus, Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 136. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket, in original slipcase; [2],192pp. A hint of wear to jacket extremities, some brief white soil spots to slipcase, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon.

Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2007. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 211pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket over gray cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist sticker attached to jacket. Covers lightly shelfworn but clean and crisp overall with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First Edition, First Printing, with full numberline. Signed by Enright without inscription on title page. Octavo. 261 pp. Unclipped dust jacket; black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with one shallow indentation to front panel. Boards with very light shelfwear along bottom edge and spine ends. Binding is sound. Patch of toning to top edge of text block, but overall pages clean and unmarked. Enright's fourth novel and winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize.

Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2006. Near Fine/Near Fine. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2006. First Edition. Quarto. 223 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Blind-stamped black boards. Color photographs throughout. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show very mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

Leipzig: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, 1919. Very Good. Leipzig: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, 1919. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; vi,381pp. Light scuffing to extremities, textblock rather brittle and toned due to inferior paper quality, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.