Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. , 1876. First Edition. Octavo. 363 pp. Eight plates including frontis with tissue guard. Brown boards with gilt decorating to spine and brown topstain; recased with original cloth spine laid down and new endpapers. Boards scuffed and rubbed with brief exposure; loss of original spine..... More
New York: The New Press, 2006. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title with inscription dated 5/10/06: "James, Hope you enjoy. All the best. Sasha Abramsky." Octavo; [xiv], 288pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $25.95 price intact; bound in gray and black boards with silver..... More
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],254pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
![Item #12609 There Was Once a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass [Signed]. Shirley...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12609.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646407048)
New York: Julian Messner, 1948. Third Printing. Signed by the author with date and dedication (in different ink and seemingly different hand) on front free endpaper. Octavo; [x], 310pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue-green cloth with lighter green lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears..... More
First Edition. Frederick: Professional Surveyors Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 184pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light bumping to corners and spin ends, but no chips, tears, or..... More
![Item #28148 A Second Visit to the United States of North America [Two volume set]. Sir Charles Lyell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700505698)
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. First U.S. Edition. Two octavo volumes. 273 & 287 pp. + publisher's 12 pp. catalog dated July 1849. Fourteen in-text black and white illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards edgeworn with chipping to crown of vol. I; general fading..... More
Twenty-two volumes; quartos (30.5cm.); uniformly stitched self-wrappers. Collection comprises the following issues: Nos. 1714 (May 5, 1898), 1716-19, 1721, 1724, 1730-2, 1734, 1736-7, 1746-7, 1751-2, 1754, 1762-3, 1766, & 1770 (June 1, 1899). Condition ranges from Near Fine to Good only, with a few of issues starting to split at..... More
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 216 pp. Frontispiece; black and white photographs. Gray boards stamped in green and gilt. No dust jacket as issued. Boards lightly worn along edges with scuffing and staining to front. Binding is sound. Touch of staining to fore-edge but interior otherwise..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First Edition. Octavo; xix, 374pp. Publisher's black boards red and gilt titling to front and spine. No dust jacket. Boards are sturdy and square with light edgewear. A couple small specks to fore-edge of textblock. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899 [Vol. II erroneously dated 1898]. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick octavos; publisher's green pictorial cloth embossed in gilt, top edges gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xxiv,513,[1]; xi,[3],[514]-1110pp.; photographic portrait frontispieces, forty-six (46) leaves of illus., chiefly portraits, facsimiles in text throughout. Light shelf wear..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 180 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. with "$3.00" price present. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket chipped along edges, rubbed and scuffed, and damp-staining along bottom edge. Boards worn with..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1870. First Edition. Octavo. 421 pages. Frontis portrait and black and white portraits throughout. Rebound in modern functional maroon binding with gilt to spine. Endpapers from Mutual Library Bindery, Inc. Boards are moderately worn and scuffed. Binding is sound. Some toning and staining..... More
Minneapolis: Lessard Printing Co., [1899]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth; 170,[27]pp. Some shelf wear to cloth, chiefly at spine ends, light soil, else Very Good, internally sound. More
Nashville, TN: Sentinel Co. Publishers, 1886. First Edition. Quarto. [209]-224, [4] pp. advertisements. Illustrated red wraps. Chipping to edges of wraps and binding holding. Wraps and pages brittle and delicate. Interior shows intermittent chipping though text unaffected; mild toning and unmarked. Nearly Very Good. Scarce southern newspaper full..... More
London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, 1781. First Thus; unauthorized translation. Octavo. 181 pp., [2] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in 20th century black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; floral endpapers. Light rubbing and scuffing to boards and binding is sound. Ownership inscription (1907) facing title; patch of dampstaining..... More
Milwood: KTO Press, 1977. First Edition. Tall octavo; [vi],414pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.00 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners with sunning down spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, [1931]. First Edition, Mixed State with "filched" uncorrected on p. 49, all other points in the later, post-publication state (adhering to every other copy currently on the market, for what it's worth). Thick octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00);..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket printed in black and orange; [8],360pp. Jacket extremities quite worn with a number of smallish losses, chiefly to rear panel, often touching text without loss of meaning, coin-sized chip at spine foot (missing piece..... More
Small, slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, upper cover printed within double rule; 50pp. Light wear to extremities including brief exposure at margins, boards lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Printed compliment card from the author bound in at head of volume. Two short articles..... More
San Francisco: The California Promotion Committee, 1903. First Edition. Octavo; [xii, 153pp. 20 plates including frontis with tissue guard, all present. Medium gray boards with grayish cloth spine and paper title label with red and green lettering. Boards rubbed at corners and spine ends, with some soiling to cloth and..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 128pp. Photo-illustrations, all present. Illustrated yellow dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; bound in beige cloth and brick buckram spine with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with dark toning down spine and folds and..... More
Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately foxed and..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; ix, 3-220pp. Map frontis. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a bit edgeworn and dulled, with some soiling down spine and rubbing at extremities. Gilt lettering to spine rubbed away and dulled, but text just still legible. Endpapers toned. Some..... More
Boston in New-England: Printed for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhil, 1727. First Edition. Octavo. [2], v [i.e. iv], 39 pp., lacking half title and with p. iv mislabeled v. Printed wraps, disbound. Light chipping to edges of title leaf, else Very Good. Begins with a...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 228 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Missing printer's notice on final page. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, and light spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Foxing to preliminaries but overall pages clean and unmarked... More