![Item #40838 The Apple That Astonished Paris [Signed]. Billy Collins](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/40838.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758658870)
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First Edition, wrapper issue. Signed by Billy Collins with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo; 61pp. Illustrated wraps. Mild rubbing to edges; slight curling towards fore-edge; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy of Collins' third book..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 105pp. Jacket spine panel a bit sunned, else Fine. Selected for the National Poetry Series. More
[London]: Jarrolds, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's boards in pink pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (21s net); 191pp.; frontispiece, eight leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, full-page map. Dust jacket and boards rubbed along margins, moderate dust-soil, textblock margins rather heavily foxed bleeding into textblock, else..... More
![Item #32974 The Poets Laureate Anthology [Inscribed and Signed by Dove]. Elizabeth Hun Schmidt,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32974.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748301204)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price; liii,[1],762pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Light wear to margins, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by Rita Dove on p. 195 where her contributions begins. More
![Item #35373 Ballads [Signed by Adam and Jess]. Helen Adam, Robert Duncan, Jess, pref., pseud. of...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35373.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762889147)
New York: Acadia Press, 1964. Limited Author's Edition of 50 copies, this being number 27. Side-stapled chapbook (20cm); illustrated card wraps; [52]pp; illus throughout. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Toning from glueline of tipped-in colophon affecting final few pages, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Signed..... More
Philadelphia: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1996. First Edition. Square quarto (30cm); 70pp. Publisher’s stiff yellow wrappers. Black-and-white photographs throughout; a few in color. Wrappers a bit bumped and smudged. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better copy of this exhibition catalog. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 237 + 7 pp. publisher's advertisements. Charts and graphs; a couple black and white illustrations. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Boards scuffed and rubbed; corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. Dust soiling to top edge of text..... More
[New Haven, CT]: Square Editions, [2004]. First Edition. Folio (31cm); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 255pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Light rubbing to jacket and board margins, else Very Good and sound overall. Signed by Woerner on front free endpaper, "To James / Art is Life! / Peter."..... More
[Irvine, CA]: Suntup Editions, 2025. Limited Numbered Edition of 250 copies, of which this is no. 184 Octavo (23.5cm); quarter leather with Dubletta cloth over boards and ostrich leg leather spine; 300pp; color illustrations by William Basso throughout; housed in cloth-covered clamshell with velour lining and foil blocked leather spine..... More
![Item #44661 A Book of Resemblances Poems: 1950 - 1953 [Signed by Duncan and Jess] [Prospectus...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44661.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757168237)
New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966. First Edition, Limited Issue of 200 copies signed by Duncan and Jess at rear, this being #120. Quarto; 91pp. Illustrations in black and red throughout. Original glassine wrapper; black cloth boards stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. Prospectus laid in. Chipping and several tears along edges..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1908. Later printing. Octavo. 110 pp. Black and white and color illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Publisher's binding decorated in maroon, white, and green. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling. Boards lightly edgeworn and corners bumped. Binding is sound, off-setting to endpaper, and pages..... More
Mamaroneck, NY: Midatlantic Review, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 72pp. Crease to top fore-edge corner of front cover and first few leaves, else Very Good or better. Scarce inaugural issue of this poetry journal co-edited by future Poet Laureate Billy Collins, preceding his first published collection..... More
Columbus, OH: The National Association of Negro Musicians, 1922. First Edition. Bifolium [22.5cm]; black ink on beige paper stock. Vertical spine fold slightly off-center, otherwise fine. An unrecorded program from the fourth annual convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) held in Columbus, Ohio July 25-27, 1922..... More
At Sea: USS Triton - CG, 11 April, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm); top-edge stapled self-wrappers; [15]ll. printed mimeograph from typescript on rectos only; pictorial title page. Stock uniformly brittle and toned with a few closed tears to upper cover, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover (Mr. Pitkat), else Very..... More
![Item #33335 Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate [Signed by Seven Senators]. United States...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33335.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750951140)
New York: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in red and gilt; xvi,[2],238pp. Light rubbing to dust jacket margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed by seven of the profiled Senators, lacking only..... More
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1886. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's terracotta decorative cloth embossed in black; 363,[5]pp. Boards a bit dust-soiled and scuffed with brief exposure at corners, small hole mid-spine, textblock rather toned and finger-soiled, else a Good to Very Good, sound copy. BEETZ 107. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 223pp.; illus. throughout, text printed in double columns. Moderate wear to cloth extremities, most notably at spine ends, spine a shade sunned, light foxing to textblock, ownership pencil scribble to p. [7], else Very..... More