N.p.: s.i., n.d. [ca. 1898 or shortly after]. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers signed in image by R.R. Epperly; [32]pp. Very light toning to textblock else a Fine example. Short "confession" of a French stenographer and her various paramours--the boss's son, the boss himself, etc. The majority of..... More
Bogota, Colombia: Los Talleres de la Editorial ABC, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated stapled wraps; 17pp. Curling to wraps; toning to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. Quite uncommon script for a radio play by MacLeish and translated by Uribe White, likely from MacLeish's "American Story" radio..... More
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. Third Printing. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; illustrated boards; 222pp. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with a few nicks and short closed tears; general scuffing. Binding sound; gift inscription to preliminaries; else unmarked. Rampo, whose pen name is a rendering of Edgar Allan..... More
![Item #45002 The Kelmscott Chaucer [spine title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]. design,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45002.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756315259)
London: The Folio Society / Cambridge University Press, 2008. Facsimile Edition. Folio [42.5x31cm]; 559pp. Illustrations and decorative elements throughout, printed in red and black on Oxenford twin-wire laid paper. Full red-brown cloth decorated in gilt; top edge gilt; reading ribbon.; gray endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. A couple minor scuffs..... More
![Item #31546 [Original Artwork] "Beware Unfamiliar Spirits" by Maurice Zolotow. Illustration Art,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31546.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737147851)
N.p.: 1946. Original artwork (19x50.5cm.) on stiff card board signed at bottom margin "R. Olszewski." Light soil and toning to card, else Very Good and sound. Original illustration to accompany Maurice Zolotow's short story "Beware Unfamiliar Spirits," which first appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post" on July 20..... More
Quincy, IL: Salt Lick Press, A Lucky Heart Book, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 27pp. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges; binding sound; publisher's "Busy All The Time" stamp to interior, else unmarked; Very Good or better; uncommon. More
![Item #48506 Reluctant Flame [Pan African Pocket Poets Vol. I]. John Kasaipwalova, Georgina Beier,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Ife, [Nigeria]: PPP / [Pan African Pocket Poets], 1971. First African Edition, also published the same year in Papua New Guinea under the Papua Pocket Poet imprint, with no known priority. 12mo; illustrated stapled wraps featuring a screen-printed design from Georgina Beier; [7]pp. Rubbing to wraps; binding sound; Very Good..... More
![Item #46250 A Touch of Innocence [Signed]. Katherine Dunham, Jules Maidoff, jacket illustration](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46250.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764606256)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; 312pp. Unclipped dust jacket chipped with surface scratching and smudging. Shelfwear to boards; edges sunned; a few scuffs. Binding sound; some smudges and spots to endpapers; Good to Very Good... More
![Item #33756 A Touch of Innocence [Signed]. Katherine Dunham, Paul Oliver, jacket illustration](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33756.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753472131)
London: Cassell, 1960. First UK Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket by architecture and Blues historian Paul Oliver; 312pp. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges with a short closed tear to top edge of front panel; spine sunned. Mild shelfwear to boards; old staining to top edge; binding..... More
Ife, [Nigeria]: PPP / [Pan African Pocket Poets], 1971. First Edition. 12mo; illustrated stapled wraps featuring a screen-printed design from Georgina Beier; [22]pp. Rubbing to wraps; binding sound; Very Good or better. Alternating between tenderness and violence, this collection from the Ikwerre poet evokes the sights, sounds, and..... More
![Item #48086 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Artist Edition, Signed by Gent]. Roald Dahl,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48086.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779223079)
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2022. Publisher's Artist Edition, Limited to 1250 copies and signed by Sue Gent at colophon. Small quarto; illustrated dust jacket featuring Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight candy bar wrapper; chocolate-brown boards stamped in gilt; gold endpapers; 217pp. Quentin Blake color illustrations throughout text; publisher's bookmark laid in..... More
New York: The New Yorker, 1948. First Edition. Quarto, 29.5cm. Full-color paper wraps with cover illustration by Roger Duvoisin. Staple-bound. 68 pp. Cover rubbed with two closed tears and creasing on bottom edge; small chip to top right corner; edge wear. Upper wrapper very nearly separated. Gentle bend to the..... More