Boston: Charles Spear, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. 289-336 pp. Pictorial wraps with portraits of English prison reformers Elizabeth Fry and John Howard to front. General wear, creasing, and smudging; ownership inscription to bottom of rear wrap. Binding sound and pages show marginal spotting else unmarked; Very Good. The Prisoners'..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 285pp. Publisher's illustrated red and white price-clipped dust jacket. Boards full bound in grey-blue cloth with dark blue stamping. Dust jacket generally soiled, scuffed and lightly scratched with foxing to margins. Spine sunned with minor loss to spine ends..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [4],412pp. Light shelf wear, spine panel a shade sunned, corners tapped, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, still quite presentable copy. The first full-length account of the..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1957. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); 256pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards in red cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed and scuffed along edges with a small but mostly obscured tear to front panel and some general smudging, scuffing, and toning to..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First Edition. Gift inscription at front free endpaper dated 1972, "To Bob & Decca, For their prison library from our donate welfare fund, Leah & Jerry." Octavo. 382 pp. Black and white illustrations. Maroon boards with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket..... More
![Item #26290 Blind Faith [Signed]. Joe McGinniss](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26290.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681769130)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Signed by McGinniss at title page without personalized inscription. Octavo. 381 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and gray boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some slight toning to verso edges. Boards show light shelfwear, binding..... More
Boston: John A. French, Boston Herald Steam Press, 1850. Octavo (24cm); contemporary drab stitched wrappers; 92,[2]pp.; woodcut illustrations throughout. Wrappers quite chipped and worn along margins, spine partially perished, wrinkling of wrappers and textblock from exposure to damp with dark shallow damp staining along top margin of the majority of..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1910. First Edition. Original illustrated broadsheet (30x20cm). Printed on newsprint; text and illustrations within a plain border. Illustration of the "Tiger of Santa Julia" seated with soldiers behind him, and a smaller vignette of his execution. Staining and soiling to edges; several short closed..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [1914]. Original illustrated broadsheet (26.5x17.5cm). Printed on green newsprint; text and illustrations within a decorative border. Illustration of Mancera with a guitar is attributed to Posada though the OCLC records date publication to a year after his death. Trimmed, chipped, and toned along edges;..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroy[o], 1912. First Edition. Illustrated broadside (30x20cm). Printed on newsprint; text and illustrations both printed within plain border. Letter "V" in imprint inverted as found in the Yale holding. Mild edgewear with a few minor nicks; overall Very Good. Broadside of Jimenez's farewell..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1904. First Edition. Original illustrated broadsheet with four pages of text on single sheet (30x19.5cm). Printed on blue woodpulp newsprint; text and illustrations within a decorative border. Illustration of military leader Macario Romero on horseback, sword drawn, surrounded by Native Americans; rear image of..... More
Queens, NY: 1974. Thirty original press photographs (measuring ca. 23.5x18cm. to 28x18cm. or the inverse), some with snipe in image or mounted to verso; occasional color pencil annotations to versos, one piece of snipe separated, else a Very Good collection, images all quite sharp. Substantial archive of press photographs..... More
[Haverhill, MA: s.i., ca. 1869]. Printed broadside (30.25 x 15cm). Peacock murder ballad in two parts with 37 stanzas, printed in two columns with an ornamental border. Edgewear, creasing, and soiling; a few pricks along folds; tear to lower third at center, still Very Good and text remains legible... More
![Item #31340 Outlaws Forever [Inscribed and Signed]. Rock Conte](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733156763)
New York: Vantage Press, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); 214pp. Shallow chipping along jacket margins, the whole a bit dust-soiled and toned, boards lightly scuffed, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed..... More
London: Collins, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 254 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows moderate to heavy patchy dark staining to recto and verso; worn along edges with some chipping and toning. Boards shelfworn; very faint staining along fore-edge and front board slightly bowed. Binding..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First American Edition. Octavo. 245 pp. Printed dust jacket. Slate and yellow boards stamped in red; topstain; gray endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a few longer tears along spine and folds. Moderate lean to boards; worn along edges; smudging..... More
Cambremer, France: Editions des Saints Peres, 2023. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Folio. 390 pp., appendix. Manuscript reproduces in facsimile throughout. Dark gray cloth stamped in silver; black silk ribbon; red endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Touch of rubbing to edges of boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase strong..... More