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

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1978. Very Good. Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 248pp. Minor wear from handling, wrappers a bit yellowed, brief soil to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Account of the treason trial in the Soviet Union of the Jewish oppositionist Anatoly Chtcharansky.

Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée / EDIF 2000, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2003. First Edition. Folio; 214pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacketover textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Jacket very lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Boards square with light bumps to corners and spine ends. The third in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most pages, many in large format. Final section of scholarly and biographical notes on artists represented in the volume plus augmented and illustrated index of other Algerian and Algeria-inspired painters. Bibliography. A superb panorama of realist and academic Algerian paintings--chiefly landscape, urban, and domestic genre subjects--housed in museums, galleries and private collections.

Paris: Art Press, 2005. Very Good. Paris: Art Press, 2005. Special Issue May 2005. Quarto periodical (28x21x0.5cm); 114pp, including bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout; advertising restricted to inside covers and three final pages. Entirely in French. Coated periodical-weight covers over lighter coated stock. Minimal paperblock curving, a seeming result of storage conditions, which were exemplary; spine true; no folds or dog-ears. A few polite signs of perusal, but near pristine copy of this uncommon and important issue. For this hors-série Art Press addressed architecture directly for the first time since 1983, using a deliberately sociological, cultural and global lens in reaction against the Post-Modernism and Counter-Post-Modernism obsessions of 22 years before. It includes articles by Paul Ardenne, Raymond Balau, Frédéric Bonnet, Marie-Ange Brayer, Christophe Catsaros, Marie-Hélène Fabre, Christophe Le Gac, Jérôme Lefèvre, Bernard Marcelis, Catherine Millet, Thibaut de… Read More

Paris: Guy le Prat, 1947. Very Good. Paris: Guy le Prat, n.d., ca. 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's limp tan boards printed in brown; [2],110pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A bit of toning to boards and textblock, bump to top edge of rear cover, small chip to top fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in French.

Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co, 2004. Near Fine/Near Fine. [Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co., 2004.] First Edition. Quarto (30cm.); publisher's boards in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 165pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear and light dust-soil to jacket, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the photographer on half title page. Bilingual text in Japanese and English. Exhibition catalog of photographs featuring Sugimoto's renowned seascapes as well as images taken of the East Asian art and ancient objects from his personal collection.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1864. Very Good. Paris: Furne et Cie., n.d., ca. 1864. Octavo (18cm.); original blue pictorial wrappers; [4],294pp. Some light edge wear, small chip to spine crown, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, minor later (early 20th century?) repair to loose signature, else a Very Good copy, interior quite fresh. Collection of poetry and prose pieces on hunting and the degustation that follows, with odes to the hounds, the rabbit, and wild duck.

Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1758. Very Good. Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1758. First Italian Edition. Two volumes in one; 12mo (15.5cm.); full contemporary vellum retaining original endpapers; xii,216;420pp. (*6 A-I12, A-R12 S6 [Q signature missigned P]); nine folding plates of engravings, woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. Vellum rather stained with some loss along fore-edge of rear cover, brief contemporary notes and ownership signature to title page and preliminaries, a few plates slightly mis-folded, else a Very Good, complete and internally fresh copy. Quite uncommon edition, translated from the original French and issued during the author's lifetime. OCLC locates one copy in the United States as of June, 2018, at the NLM.

Paris: Hachette, 1964. Fine. [Paris]: Hachette, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative paper-covered boards; 90pp. Ownership sticker to front flyleaf, a hint of rubbing at spine foot, else a Fine copy.

Paris: P.-V. Stock & Cie, 1913. Very Good. Paris: P.-V. Stock & Cie., 1913. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],240pp. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned and very lightly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The prolific playwright's comedic portrait of the bourgeois single woman, in this case Thérèse, who loses her dowry and therefore her chances at marriage when her family's fortune disappears.

New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Near Fine. New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Facsimile reprint of the first (1887) edition. Octavo; publisher's pale green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue; [2],vi,[2],188pp. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Forms part of the series History of Ideas in Ancient Greece. Text almost entirely in French.

Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1966. Very Good/Very Good-. Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in decorative dust jacket; 317pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear and chipping to jacket extremities, brief bubbling of jacket lamination to upper panel, contemporary ownership inscription (Saigon, 1967), to front free endpaper, else a Near Very Good copy overall. Account of the World War II activities of Rudolf Roessler, a German spy for the Soviet Union.

Buenos Aires: O.R. Sanchez Teruelo, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. Buenos Aires; O.R. Sanchez Teruelo, 1989. First Editions. Two Quarto volumes (11.25" x 9"); I: [iv], 320pp, II: [iv], 321-560pp. Photos throughout. Illustrated dust jackets over textured red cloth boards with gilt and blue lettering and accents. Jackets clean and crisp, with one clean, closed 3/4" tear at top back of second volume. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Stapled copy of photos from Tomas de Elia and Juan Pablo Queiroz's Evita: An Intimate Portrait published by Rizzoli laid in at back of first volume.

Paris: Corbet, 1822. Very Good. Paris: Corbet, 1821 [but 1822]. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, gilt spine with red gilt onlay, marbled endpapers; 396pp.; added engraved title page dated 1822, hand-colored frontispiece and three hand-colored plates. Leather rather scuffed and dried with brief peeling to upper cover and surface scratches to rear cover, spine sunned to tan, damp staining along bottom gutter edges affecting plates, else Very Good, text clean and sound. Near-unrecorded edition of the oft-reprinted pedagogical treatise by Laurent Pierre Bérenger (1749-1822), first published in 1783. We find no copies of this edition (whether under the date 1821 or 1822) in OCLC, COPAC, or KVK as of March, 2021; one copy in the trade (in France), though any copies with hand-colored plates appear to be quite rare.

Guatemala: Editorial del Ministerio de Educación Publica, 1956. Very Good. Guatemala: Editorial del Ministerio de Educación Publica, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in red and black; 109pp. Wrapper extremities and spine toned, paper stock equally darkened and a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Spanish. Account of a 1906 military campaign during the drawn-out Totoposte Wars between El Salvador and Guatemala. The campaign in question was led by coffee baron and former President of El Salvador Tomás Regalado, fatally wounded during the altercation. Guatemala eventually forced both Salvadoran and Mexican forces out, putting an end to the series of Wars that had plagued the countries for seven years. This short history published on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Guatemalan coup d'état of 1954.

Paris: Editions Lidis, Imprimerie Nationale, 1965. Very Good. Paris: Editions Lidis, Imprimerie Nationale, 1964-1965. Limited Edition of 4000 "Sur Velin Vercors" copies, this being #4724, from a total print run of 5012. Quarto. Color lithographs to each volume, some double-page. Printed wraps. Clear acetate dust jackets to four of five volumes. Light chipping to edges of acetate dust jackets. Mild wear to edges with general smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked; many leaves uncut. Publisher's prospectus laid in at front of volume I. Overall a Very Good set of a handsome production.

Paris: Denoel, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Paris: Editiones Denoel, 1994. French-language. Signed by the author with brief inscription to fellow writer and journalist William Safire and his wife Helene on half title. Octavo; 302pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly shelfworn but clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. French journalist Morgaine's book examines the crossed destinies of four Nobel Peace Prize winners: Martin Luther King, Jr., Anwar Sadat, Elie Weisel, and Willy Brandt.

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962. Very Good. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white decorative wrappers printed in pink and purple; xx,590pp. Light shelf wear, spine lettering faded, contemporary ownership signature to half title, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series Bibliothèque de la Science Politique.

Amsterdam: Chez Changuion, 1765. Very Good. Amsterdam: Chez Changuion, 1765. Octavo; viii + 268pp. Marbled calf with matching grisaille marbled textblock edges. Double-ruled gilt panel borders with ornaments at panel corners; gilt-embossed spine and title-lettering-though spine title now largely chafed away. Gilt inner dentelles, vestiges of gilt edge tooling. Both panels stamped with gilt crest. Striking endpapers of purple and teal floral design manually printed on off-white laid paper. Signs of liquid discoloration to edges of panels and paste-downs, perhaps related to the binding process, since it has not touched the textblock. Front joint starting to show cracks at crown and foot but remains solid, as do rear joint and hinges. Neat blue ink underscoring present solely on Table des Chapitres header. This is the original stand-alone essay that Voltaire published under a pseudonym, and would later incorporate into his Essaie sur les moeurs. It contains the full dedication page to Catherine the… Read More

Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1715. Very Good. Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1715. 12mo; Vol I Tome I [xiv] + 352pp + 10pp of bound-in hand-transcribed text; Vol II Tome II [ii] + 156pp; Vol II Tome III [xxviii] + 200pp. Vol I frontis. engraved by Bernard Picart; title pages of both volumes have engraved allegorical vignettes; ornamental head- and tail-pieces throughout both volumes. Contemporary calf with six raised bands on spine. Red leather spine labels with gilt lettering and ornamentation between bands; panel edges tooled in gilt. All panels with blind-tooled double ruled border near edges. French curl marbled endpapers. Text block stained red on all edges. Entirely in French with the exception of two internal duplicative title pages in Latin for the contents of Tomes II and III. Both bindings chafed with some scrapes. Hinges of both volumes flaking but holding. Vol I spine crown and foot slightly eroded. Vol II back panel shows remains of water stain on left half but… Read More

Madrid: Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica / Editorial Gredos, 1968. Very Good. Madrid: Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica / Editorial Gredos, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream wrappers lettered in red and black; 246,[8]pp. Light shelf wear, textblock slightly starting to separate from wrappers, very occasional ink underlining throughout, else a Very Good, still bright and attractive copy. Inscribed and signed by Alazraki on half title page.