Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More
Cover your head like the Admiral in your very own Capitol Hill Books cap! 5-panel stone washed blue canvas with gray bill, stitched yellow lettering, and snap enclosure. Note: Packages containing hats or totes cannot ship via Media Mail, so if you're ordering books as well as..... More
Cover your head like the Admiral in your very own Capitol Hill Books cap. 5-panel stone washed gray canvas with blue bill, stitched yellow lettering, and snap enclosure. Note: Packages containing hats or totes cannot ship via Media Mail, so if you're ordering books as well as..... More
Canvas tote featuring original Capitol Hill Books store drawing by artist, former CHB bookslinger, and all-around great human Nora Simon. (We miss you, Nora!) Specs: - 11oz., 100% canvas cotton - 14.75" height x 18.5" width x 4.75" depth - 10.25' handle height Note: Packages containing hats..... More
London: Printed for R. Edwards, 1792. Apparent second edition, preceded by an undated edition assigned the publication date [1785?] by ESTC. Octavo. [2], vii, [1], 178 pp. Lacking half title and final blank leaf. Recent blue paper wrappers. Wraps chipped and toned. Light toning and spotting to pages, but overall..... More
![Item #46591 [Handbill] Lew Leslie's 1940 Edition of Rhapsody in Black. 125th Street Apollo](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46591.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038054)
New York: 125th Street Apollo, 1940. Broadsheet handbill (14x22cm); halftone photographic illus. Light foxing, tiny crease to bottom right-hand edge, else Very Good. Handbill promoting the updated 1940 edition of Lew Leslie's musical review "Rhapsody in Black" at the 125th Street Apollo in Harlem, home of "America's Smartest Colored..... More
Fort Hancock, NJ: 57th Artillery, C.A.C., n.d. but 1918. First Edition. Two volumes; slim quartos (27.5cm); original pictorial staplebound wrappers, both signed in image by Private Kirby; 16; 32pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear and a few small chips to wrapper margins from handling, vertical fold across Vol. I, no. 1..... More
Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1814. 12mo (14cm.); contemporary gilt-lettered calf over marbled paper-covered boards; vi,[7]-90pp. (collated complete); woodcut frontispiece of a young woman reading. Boards scuffed with exposure along margins and corners, faint foxing and damp stain to early leaves, else Very Good and sound. Early American edition of..... More
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp..... More
![Item #28792 A Year in Spain [Two Volume Set]. "A Young American", Alexander Slidell Mackenzie](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28792.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707056789)
London: John Murray, 1831. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; 12mos; contemporary navy blue calf over marbled boards; xi,[1],413,[3]; vii,[1],377pp. Minor rubbing to leather and boards, brief occasional foxing to textblocks, else a Very Good, quite attractive set. "If, by accident, this work should find favor among his countrymen, some..... More
[New York: African Mirror, 1980.] First Edition. Quarto; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly photographic. Wrappers rather wrinkled from handling, brief chipping at extremities, textblock uniformly toned, else a Good to Very Good copy overall. Headlining article Alhaj Malik Shabazz's "On Islam and Social Justice." Also includes..... More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's cloth in green printed dust jacket; 388pp. Light shelf wear, textblock edges unevenly toned, U.S. importer's sticker on rear jacket panel; Very Good and sound. Study of "major modern trends and ideas in political economy" (front jacket..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1947. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 226 pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Red cloth binding with illustration and text stamped in dark blue/black on cover and spine. Deckled edges. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright but rubbed along edges and spine ends, with a...... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1943. Stated First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth lettered in red; 252pp. Library stamp ("Property of Frears Loan Library") on top and bottom edges and rear pastedown. Some offsetting from tape on endpapers, but no other library markings. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1951. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 222 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price. Book bound in brown cloth with "Guilt Edge Mystery" logo in blue on cover and title in blue on spine. Decked edges. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some..... More
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; viii,[9]-256,[8](ads)pp. Boards a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, gilt of both spine and top edge quite dulled, textblock tanned and a bit brittle, else a Very Good, sound copy overall..... More
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; [4],356pp. Some scuffing to boards with brief exposure at corners, spine leather a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed due to inferior paper stock, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of early..... More
San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example. Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E...... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First British Edition. Octavo (19.3 cm), 304pp. Intact yellow dust jacket with red and black printing. Red cloth bound boards with gilt stamped spine. Dust jacket slightly soiled on front and back with most discoloration on the spine. Tears on the joints of the spine..... More
London: William Kelly, 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's red printed card wrappers; 87pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, spine panel a bit toned, hinges starting, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Modern Military History Series. OCLC locates just two copies as of June..... More
New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; xii, [xiii-xiv], 15-301pp. Illustrated dust jacket; book in black cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Housed in custom bluish-purple cloth-covered slipcase. Price-clipped dust jacket amateurly restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and occasionally clumsy color fills and touch-ups..... More
Nurnberg [Nuremburg]: Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1830. Revised Edition. Octavo (23 cm); xxviii; 466pp+4 fold-out copper plates, collated complete. Boards half bound in leather and brown marbled paper with gilt decoration and titling to spine with red leather label. All edges stained red with black flecking. Boards worn, bumped, and rubbed..... More
London: Abelard-Schuman, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (25 /- net); 223pp.; portrait frontispiece, plates and illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Forms part the series The Life of Science Library. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[3],207pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates (collated complete). Moderate wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, slight lean to spine, brief glue residue to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition from the British sheets. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in printed price-clipped dust jacket; xxvii,[1],692pp.; frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Jacket quite worn with substantial loss affecting nearly the entirety of rear..... More