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

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. Very Good. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 330 pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in blue and gilt. Green topstain. No dust jacket. Minor shelfwear and a few faint scuffs to boards. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good plus copy.

Westwood, MA: Published by the Connecticut State Committee & Printed at the Ariel Press, 1906. Very Good. Westwood, MA: Published by the Connecticut State Committee & Printed at the Ariel Press, 1906. First Edition. 12mo. 28 pp. Lacks frontis portrait. Red wraps stamped in black and gilt. Wraps rubbed along edges with some minor scuffing; dark staining to front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy. Rare published account of London's "The Coming Crisis" lecture, a clarion call to socialism in which London predicts a worker's revolt and the downfall of capitalism in the near future. Includes the editor's notes on the lead-up and planning of the lecture, various news reports, and extended excerpts from London's talk. No copies in retail at time of this writing and only one appearance at auction in the last 70 years. Not in BAL or Woodbridge.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1914. Very Good. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1914]. Presumed First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Poems with black and white illustrations and color illustrations to facing pages. White cloth stamped in brown with front pictorial pastedown. No dust jacket. Light smudging and spotting to boards. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers but pages otherwise unmarked.

New York: Jason McCoy Inc, 1988. Very Good. New York: Jason McCoy Inc., 1988. First Edition. Quarto (25.5x25.5x0.5); unpaginated [38pp], with bibliographical references given painting-by-painting in appended checklist notations. Twelve full-page color reproductions. Illustrated card wrappers in metallicized silvery gray. Heavy cream stock. Covers lightly shelfworn with a couple faint smudges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog for the Pollock show at Jason McCoy in New York City in November and December of 1988. It focused, quite deliberately, on Pollock's return to figuration and tentative decipherability, distant from the drip paintings that gave him his global renown.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 303 pages + advertisements. Orange cloth with paper spine label. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are worn at extremities with brief exposure and general rubbing and smudging. Spine label worn and almost illegible. Hinges starting but binding holding. Previous owner's sticker to rear pastedown and chipping along fore edge of advertisements pages but interior otherwise clean and unmarked. A very good copy of Woolf's third novel, which marks an important modernist shift in her writing style.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],248pp.; color frontispiece. Light wear and dust-soil to jacket, top textblock edge rather heavily foxed, contemporary ownership rubberstamps to front and rear free endpapers, else Very Good in a superlative copy of the uncommon jacket.

New York: HarperTempest, 2003. Fine/Near Fine. [New York]: HarperTempest, [2003]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [6],265pp. Tiny split at top upper jacket flap fold, else Fine. Psychological young adult novel by the Minnesota author.

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. Very Good. La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, grey topstain; [6],221pp. Corners bumped, spine a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Phaenomenologica Vol. 20.

Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. Very Good +. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2015. First Edition. Signed by Simon Nathan with brief inscription to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 264 pp. Photographs and illustrations throughout, many color. Photo-illustrated card covers with French flaps. Covers lightly rubbed along edges with faint bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription to half title and the business card of a colleague mounted to rear of front cover, mostly obscured by flap, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: Michael Werner Gallery, 1993. Very Good. New York: Michael Werner Gallery, 1993. First Edition. Small Octavo (19x12.5x1cm); unpaginated [56pp]. Fifteen works of Byars in color. In standard-i.e., compact-Michael Werner format: black cloth spine with white lettering; laid ivory paper boards with paste-on reproduction on front panel. Untouched and very tight. Our peek in for the photograph seems to have been the first time it was opened to any point of visibility. This is the single-volume dual catalog for two Byars shows at the MIchael Werner Gallery in New York City: "Works from the Sixties" running 4-27 November 1993, and "Recent Works" running 2 December 1993-7 January 1994.

Köln: Michael Werner Gallery, 1994. Very Good. Köln: Galerie Michael Werner, 1994. First Edition. Small Octavo (19x12.5x1cm); unpaginated [56pp]. Fifteen works of Byars in color. Text entirely in German. In standard-i.e., compact-Michael Werner format: black cloth spine with white lettering; laid ivory paper boards with paste-on reproduction on front panel. Untouched and very tight. Our peek in for the photograph seems to have been the first time it was opened to any point of visibility. This is the single-volume catalog for the combined dual Byars shows "Arbeiten aus den Sechziger Jahren" and "Neue Arbeiten," presented in Köln under the title "James Lee Byars" from 16 April to 20 May 1994.

Praha [Prague]: Pressfoto, 1984. Very Good. Praha [Prague]: Pressfoto, 1984. First Edition. A complete set of 12 unbound black and white photographs; accompanying staple-bound booklet with essay and brief bio of Lauschmann in five languages. Housed in publisher's photo-illustratted portfolio. Photographs rubbed along edges. Booklet toned and rubbed with crease to top front corner. Portfolio shows moderate to heavy wear to edges with scuffing and surface scratching. Overall a Very Good set of a scarce item.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. Very Good. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. Later printing. Signed by Crane to a Gladys Jacobson on front free endpaper. Octavo. 76 pages. Red-orange boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, spine toned, general rubbing and scuffing. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked. Written when Crane was 10 and published when she was 12, The Janitor's Boy brought her instant fame, and attracted the support of Louis Untermeyer and other poets in his orbit.

Miami, FL: Vital Books Inc. / Asian Cult Cinema Publications, 1998. Very Good-. Miami, FL: Vital Books Inc. / Asian Cult Cinema Publications, [1998]. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 637pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Wrappers rather rubbed, spine creased, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Comprehensive guide to the Japanese sex film genre with a bilingual introduction by S&M film star Naomi Tani, promising that this is "an indispensable guide. It will help you understand--while deepening your love for--Japanese pinku eiga, the world created from my country's passion" (p. 12).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Very Good. Cambridge: University Press, 1959. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xlix,[1],281pp.; three leaves of maps, including one folding. Light shelf wear, spine lightly soiled and toned, partly-redacted ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as the publisher's "Oriental Publications" No. 3.

Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2002. Very Good/Very Good. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2002. First English Language Edition. Octavo; xiv, 240pp. Illustrated dust jacket over illustrated boards. Jacket lightly bumped at top corners, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Matching light bumps to boards. Small spot to page edges at fore-edge, not encroaching into margins. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Praha: Vydal Portretni ustav J. Ptacek, 1912. Very Good. Praha: Vydal Portretni ustav J. Ptacek, 1912. First Edition. Folio, unpaged; 6 black and white photographs mounted to thick maroon paper, loose as issued in tan printed wrappers (a few minor ink spots); edge wear, else very good. Memorial portfolio produced upon the death of one of Czechoslovakia's greatest lyrical poets and the translator of Goethe, Dante, Shelley, Baudelaire, Poe, and Whitman. Photographs include two late portraits, the funeral procession, and the memorial. A short printed eulogy is also provided. Not in OCLC as of January, 2021.

New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2008. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (30x24x2cm); unpaginated [100pp]. Forty-five full-page color plates, with 11 additional color figures for background reference. Pictorial dustjacket over black cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front panel. Jacket lightly rubbed along top back edge and bumped at bottom corner, with light corresponding bump to front board. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog for the Johns show at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, held from 2 February to 12 April 2008.

New York: Leo Castelli Gallery and Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1993. Very Good. New York: Leo Castelli Gallery and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993. First Edition. Quarto (31x26x2cm); unpaginated [138pp]. Densely illustrated throughout with documentary and art reproductions, including three gatefold double-spreads. Spiral bound volume with heavy laid and flecked pasteboard covers, and heavy textured endpapers and chronological chapter dividers. Cover stamped in red, yellow, and blue. Covers clean and crisp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This catalog for the 1993 Jasper Johns retrospective at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City (9 January to 6 February 1993) is formatted as a scrapbook of clippings and media coverage-and is, thus, a tribute not only to Johns's career, but also to Castelli's power in building that career for him. So let's call it a tribute by the New York art scene to itself.

New York: William Morrow, 2000. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow, 2000. First Edition, with full numberline. Signed by Hasse with brief inscription on full title. Quarto; (11" x 9"); [x], 246pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $40.00 price intact; book in blindstamped blue cloth with dark blue lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.