New York: Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., n.d. [but 1865]. Small broadside lithographed song sheet (20.5x12.5cm), top third adorned with an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln mourned by a Union soldier. A fresh and Fine example. A popular song sheet disseminated in the wake of Lincoln's assassination by..... More
![Item #29109 A Year's Letters [Limited Edition]. Algernon Charles Swinburne](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29109.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709910513)
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. Limited Edition, one of 450 copies on Van Gelder paper. Octavo; 219pp. Beige dust jacket with blue lettering to spine; bound in blue paper-covered boards with white spine and blue lettering. Housed in gray-beige slipcase. Pages unopened throughout. Jacket is a bit toned down..... More
![Item #29397 Woman Without Love [Signed]. Andre Maurois, Joan Charles, trans](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29397.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713809837)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); [viii],230pp. Publisher's brown cloth with purple and gilt titling to front and spine. No dust jacket. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, with soiling and scuffing to cloth and darkening / dulling down spine. Prior..... More
New York: Hill and Wang, [1966]. First American Edition stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, brown topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); xiii,[1],238pp. Light wear and dust soil to jacket else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Collection of ten short stories by the mysterious..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Charles Meeker Kozlay, 1909. First Edition, Trade Issue. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, in tan printed dust jacket; ix,[7],53pp.; halftone portrait frontispiece. Dust jacket neatly split along rear spine edge, chips at spine ends and along top edge of rear panel, contemporary owner's ex libris to..... More
Paris: L. Maison, Rue Christine, [ca. 1840]. Sixieme edition. 12mo.; full navy pebbled morocco; four raised bands; gilt stamping; all edges gilt; green silk ribbon; ivory moire endpapers; 192pp. Hand-colored floral plates with tissue guards. Wear to edges with brief exposure; general rubbing; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good..... More
Stivagii: Joannis Martini Heller, Typographi & Bibliopolae, 1725. First Edition. Folio; contemporary calf over paper-covered boards with leather title label to spine; edges sprayed red; 566, [8]pp. index, collated and complete. Contemporary library label to spine; boards lightly worn with general scuffing; cracked along top of front hinge but boards..... More
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1959. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; blue-green cloth, illustrated dust jacket; 472pp.; black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Dust jacket chipped along edges with slight sunning to spine. Boards show light edgewear; a Very Good and sound copy. Woodson and Wesley's..... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; xiv,[2],252pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Corners a bit bumped, old price sticker to rear cover, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. 321 pp. "Copiously illustrated with halftones from photographs and diagrammatic drawings by the author," collated and complete. Brown cloth boards stamped in dark brown and white; top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Wear to extremities with minor fraying to crown; corners..... More
Paris: Chez la Vefve [Veuve] de Sebastien Hure, et Sebastien Hure, rue S. Jacques, au Coeur bon, 1655. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments; [10],468pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Leather quite worn at margins with early and pleasingly crude stitching along bottom..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[1],328pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light rubbing to jacket margins, brief glue residue to front pastedown from removed ex libris, else a Near Fine example. Inscribed and signed by the author dated 8/IV/78 on half..... More
New York: Shilo Publishing House, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, blue topstain, in blue dust jacket; vi,[2],424pp. Light shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More
New York: Shilo Publishing House, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket; vi,[2],424pp. Moderate wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, a few short closed tears, front flap creased, corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1934]. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's red cloth, pictorial paste-on to upper cover; 124pp.; chiefly illus. throughout. Cloth a bit worn and frayed at corners and spine ends with brief exposure, spine darkened, brief soil to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Comic book-style..... More
Chicago, IL: American School of Correspondence, 1918. Later Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's printed paper-covered boards; [2],67pp.; illus. throughout. Boards a bit worn at corners and chipped at spine ends, later ex libris to front pastedown, else About Very Good, internally clean and sound. Correspondence course textbook on all..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [10],246pp. Light wear and soil to jacket, spine panel significantly faded, brief foxing to textblock fore-edge, a couple leaves dog-eared, else a Very Good copy, much nicer than..... More
![Item #11326 [Free Thought] A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11326.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635266344)
New York: Charles P. Somerby, 1875. Second U.S. Edition. Octavo. Mixed pagination; advertisements at rear. Blue moire cloth stamped in black and gilt. A series of essays from the English political activist, atheist, and founder of the National Secular Society. Includes "A Plea for Atheism," "Poverty," and several..... More
![Item #38251 At Terror Street and Agony Way [Limited Edition]. Charles Bukowski](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38251.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758215475)
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition, Second State with Krome Stock paper cancel affixed to upper cover, limited to 800 copies. Octavo (22cm); publisher's red card wrappers, yapp edges, printed paper label to upper cover; [6],89pp. Light wear to wrapper margins, especially along yapp fore-edges, else Very..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First Edition, Limited to 125 signed copies of which this is no. 51. Square quarto; printed stitched wraps; [8]pp. Light wear along bottom edges with adjacent spotting and discoloration, bleeding ever so slightly to bottom edge of text. Binding sound and pages else unmarked; Very Good..... More
![Item #42162 Scarlet [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski]. Charles Bukowski](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42162.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758840547)
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited Issue of 140 copies signed by Charles Bukowski of which this is no. 78. Slim quarto; decorative cloth-backed boards with paper spine label; red endpapers, in clear acetate dust jacket. Extra spine label laid in. Light rubbing to acetate and board..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Laugh Literary, 1969. First Editions. Slim octavo side-stapled pamphlets in printed card wrappers, illus. throughout (21.5 cm). Issue #1 in yellow wrappers, 32pp; Issue #2 in orange and Issue #3 in light yellow, both unpaginated. All copies lightly sunned at margins, bumped and rubbed at extremities, and..... More
![Item #43781 Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski]...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43781.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758833460)
Storrs, CT: Wormwood Review Press, 1963. Limited Edition of 29 copies signed by editor Marvin Malone of which this is no. 10. Pictorial broadsheet (21.5x28cm). Fine condition. Scarce promotion for the Wormwood Review, here sold as "non-academic, non-sewing-circle, non-beat, and non-profit," and including pages 3 and 4 from Wormwood..... More
![Item #37278 Charles Bukowski: The Cruelty of Loveless Love [Limited Edition]. Charles Bukowski,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37278.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762184078)
New York: Kunst Editions, 2001. First Edition, Limited to 35 copies of which this is no. 28. Large quarto (36.5cm); sheets loose as issued and housed in dark crimson silk clamshell box and black card slipcase, upper clamshell panel lettered in red and black with photographic portrait of Bukowski in..... More
Boston: Powars & Willis, 1784. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary calf over wood scaleboards recently rebacked, original endpapers retained; x,[11]-293pp. ([A]^4 B-2N^4, collated and complete). Brief loss of leather to extremities exposing scaleboard underneath, more so to rear cover, endpaper extremities quite darkened, contemporary ownership signature of an N. Chauncey..... More