Minden, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More
Fairbanks, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs (16.5x22cm.) from 1909 and 1910 midnight summer scenes in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock (22.5x27.5cm.), the earlier photograph is captioned "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909,” the later photograph captioned "Midnight Ball Game..... More
New York: Leavitt & Allen Bros., 1870. Second Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 224,[14](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Cloth quite scuffed and rubbed at extremities with exposure at corners and spine ends, front joint starting, spine rather toned and gilt entirely effaced, faint contemporary manuscript library inscription to front..... More
New York: James Miller, 1866. Fifth Edition, Revised. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's lilac blind-embossed cloth, pictorial gilt spine; 354,[8]pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with brief exposure at bumped corners and spine ends, both boards rather soiled, faint ink scribble to upper cover, rear cover unevenly discolored, title page starting to..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1926. First Edition. 12mo. 112 pp. Black and white illustrations. Printed wraps. Light general smudging, edgewear, corners slightly curled, and closed tear at base of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce item. More
![Item #27182 Who's Who in the Major Leagues 1935 Edition [with] Who's Who in the American League...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691443455)
Chicago: B.E. Callahan, 1935. First Edition, clothbound issue. Tall octavo. 128; 112 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $1.00 price present. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and scuffing and bleeding along spine and rear joint. Boards edgeworn..... More
Boston: Wright & Ditson, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges with some minor staining and spotting. Binding sound. Slight marginal stain but otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Scarce trade catalog from the early sporting goods..... More
Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More
![Item #26473 Bob Feller: 20 years with the Cleveland Indians [Wrapper title] [Signed]. Bob Feller,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26473.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683579609)
Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Indians Baseball Company, 1956. First Edition. Signed by Bob Feller without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Printed wraps. Rubbing to edges of wraps with some minor smudging. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: The Century Co., 1912. First Edition. Octavo. 377 pp. Black and white photographs including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Beige cloth stamped in blue, green, and tan. No dust jacket. Very slightly ex-library with ghost of shelf label to spine and old number stamp to preliminaries..... More
[New York]: Forest and Stream Publishing Company / American News Company, 1876. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vi,348,[12]pp.; folding map plate, pictorial ads in rear. Scuffing to extremities with exposure at corners, shallow loss at spine crown, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],192pp.; map endpapers. Light shelf wear, a hint of cockling to dust jacket, brief water spot to rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
![Item #27239 Across the Board including Flying Finish, Blood Sport, and Enquiry [Signed]. Dick...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27239.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692725543)
New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. First Thus. Signed by Dick Francis at half title without inscription. Thick octavo. 715 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red-orange boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket worn and creased along edges with some nicks and a few short tears along edges;..... More
Chevy Chase, MD: Doubled Dummy Card Holder Co., 1905. First Edition. Complete game set including original green cloth clamshell box (25x14x3cm.) printed in white, string-bound "You & I Score Pad" printed in red and black (23.5x6.5cm.) with small blue pencil attached at end of string, and matching green cloth dummy..... More
Madrid: Revista Geografica Española, 1958. Octavo; unpaginated [220pp in this copy, see full description]. Tipped-in sepia frontispiece; 38 full-color tipped-in plates; 56 full-page B&W photogravure reproductions of paintings; 24 full-page B&W reproductions of drawings; 67 smaller B&W drawing reproductions (1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 page) embedded within text. Entirely in Spanish..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; 175pp + 8pp photos. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; bound in green cloth with black lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow, closed tears along edges and chipping at head of spine. Spine and spine-edge of front panel darkened..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pp. 16 black and white photographic plates; mileage tables to rear. Brown cloth lettered in black with illustrated pastedown to front. No dust jacket. Light edgewear, corners bumped, general rubbing with intermittent chewing to spine. Binding is sound. A few..... More
![Item #25583 [Drop title] Eli A. Smith: Noted U.S. Mail Carrier and Musher [With Original...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25583.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676407134)
Washington? s.i., 1907. Presumed First Edition. Photo-illustrated broadsheet flyer (23x15.5cm) printed entirely in brown, text on verso in double columns; accompanied by original photograph (10x18cm) of Smith and his team. Old mail folds to flyer with bottom third entirely split, three small losses to right-hand margin from biopredation not affecting..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with "A" and publisher's seal to copyright page, in Grissom's "Jacket C." Large octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Light green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with some..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with "A" and publisher's seal to copyright page, in Grissom's "Jacket B" with green panel over 9 lines of text. Large octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Light green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain. Dust..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Edition De Luxe, one of 75 copies signed by Halford at title page of volume I, with an additional 50 copies published in the U.S. Two quarto volumes. Volume I with frontis portrait; 9 color plates of flies; 18 color samples; 16 photogravures. Vol..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo; xi, 276pp. Photo plates. Photo-illustrated jacket with $2.75 price intact; bound in blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Jacket is edgeworn, smudged, and a bit faded, with rubbing at corners, creasing to flaps, and a...... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime..... More
Louisville, KY: Distributed with the compliments of Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Incorporated, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Unpaginated. Illustrated wraps. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Light dust soiling to wraps with some general rubbing and chip to rear. Binding sound. Photograph paired with Al Simmons cut out and..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1916. Reprint. Octavo. 187 pp. Black and white illustration and photographs including frontispiece, complete. Green cloth stamped in dark green. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards and corners slightly bumped. Hinges starting but binding is sound. A few lines highlighted and pages..... More