London: Sweet & Maxwell Limited, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. 310 pp. Gray cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Ex-library but with minimal markings. Spine toned and ghost of a sticker near base. Boards show light shelfwear. Institutional stamps to bottom edge of text blocks and to preliminaries. Pages..... More
St. Louis: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges. Binding is sound. Ownership page filled in at rear. Pages otherwise unmarked. More
St. Louis: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., 1926. First Edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with chipping and exposure along spine. Binding is sound. Some smudging to pages. Delightfully illustrated children's book includes chapters on the origin of the Twinkies, the..... More
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 174 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Brown boards stamped in black. Dust jacket worn along edges with a few short closed tears and one strip of tape repair to verso. General spotting and spine lightly toned. Boards..... More
Basel and Ostfildern-Ruit: Kunstmuseum Basel and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (26.5x22.5x2c); 160pp, including biographical chronology and bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout. Green photographic pictorial jacket with exceptionally deep flaps. White boards with green lettering on spine and front panel. Both jacket and volume impeccable, As New... More
New York: Doubleday, 2005. First Edition. Signed on title page by Twelve Hawks without inscription, with additional stamp to facing page, numbered 599/777. Octavo. 456 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn. Boards show light shelfwear, with slightly heavier wear to spine..... More
New York: The Junior Literary Guild and the Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Quarto (29.5x22x1cm); unpaginated [30pp]. Fourteen full-page color illustrations, with a similar number of vignettes and decorative motifs as marginalia. Illustrated dustjacket in metallic gold and three colors. Jade green boards with dark green lettering and frieze..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First Edition. Quarto (29.5z22x1.5cm); unpaginated [96pp]. Eighty-seven full-page illustrations, two in color. Illustrated dustjacket. Warm limestone linen boards with white stamping on spine and front panel. Jacket unclipped with shallowly docked inner flaps, as published. Closed tear (6cm) with small chip loss..... 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 - 12.75" height x 14" width x 2.5" depth - 12.75' handle height Note: Packages containing hats..... 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
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2.5cm); xii + 272pp, including chronology, bibliography, and index. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs from the exhibition and ample background and documentary images. Photographic card covers over sewn textblock. Both covers and textblock impeccable..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Square octavo. 115 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Striped green, yellow, and gold boards with black lettering to spine. Mustard endpapers. Dust jacket chipped along edges with some general toning and spotting, and heavier rubbing to..... More
College Park: The Art Gallery University of Maryland, 1983. First Edition. Quarto (24.5x21.5x0.5cm); unpaginated [70pp], including biographical chronology. Fifty-eight full page B&W plates of photographs with additional background and reference images in color. Gallery opening card laid in. Photographic card covers over sewn textblock. Spine vertical edges show some..... More
Taichung City: Taiwan Museum of Art, 1989. This is the second printing from March of 1989 of the catalog first published in June of 1988. Quarto (slipcase 35.5x26.5x4.5cm; volume 34x26x4cm); 430pp. Densely illustrated in color throughout. Text almost entirely in Chinese and intended for Chinese usage; official introductory statements and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. First Edition. Large octavo. 272 pp. Color and black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with one shallow chip along top edge near spine. Slight outward bow to..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 304 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. White boards stamped in red and black. Black endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket shows some light chipping with some general spotting. Boards are gently worn at extremities and soiled along edges..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 160 pp. Color frontispiece & numerous black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Tan boards stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with some slight chipping, a few short closed tears..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1925. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 247 pp. 8 color plates, including frontis with tissue guard, complete; black and white illustrations. Gray boards stamped in green. Pictorial endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at extremities; minor smudging; slight lean to spine. Binding is..... More
New York: The McClure Company, 1908. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 356 pages. Frontis with tissue guard. Dark red cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with exposure along edges at corners, tearing and nudging to spine ends with part of publisher's imprint rubbed..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First U.S. Edition, with publisher's colophon on title and copyright. Octavo; 285pp. Publisher's green cloth with black lettering and rules. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn with crushing to cloth at spine ends, darkening to spine, and a few stray smudges to surface..... More
Berlin-Grunewald: Hermann Klemm, U.G., [ca. 1920-23]. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x2.5cm); 179pp. Thirty-two tipped-in color plates, all present. Entirely in German and printed in traditional German Fraktur typeface. The volume bears no date of imprint; we have seen 1920, 1922, and 1923 from various bibliographical authorities; the last date seems..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Signed and dated by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; [viii], 238pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $24.00 price intact; book in black boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with hints of shelfwear, but..... More
![Ghost Stories [Flaxman Low]. pseud. of Hesketh V. Prichard, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard, E., H....](/pictures/thumb/11674.jpg?v=1638219796)
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1916. Reissue of the 1899 Edition (sometimes seen described as a Second Edition or Impression), containing only the first six of that edition's twelve stories. 12mo; 117pp + publisher's imprint & 2pp ads. Publisher's blue-gray cloth with dark blue/black lettering, Boards heavily rubbed and pushed along..... More
![All Over: A Play [Signed by Albee, Jessica Tandy, and Colleen Dewhurst]. Edward Albee](/pictures/thumb/11673.jpg?v=1638219490)
New York: Atheneum, 1971. Later Printing. Signed by Albee, Jessica Tandy, and Colleen Dewhurst without inscription on full title. Octavo; [xii], 104pp. Blindstamped black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly bumped at spine ends with faint rubbing to corners. Binding is tight and pages unmarked..... More
Savannah and Athens: Telfair Books and the University of Georgia Press, 2009. First Edition. Quarto (31x23.5x2.5cm); xxii + 241pp, including bibliography and index. Richly illustrated throughout. Illustrated dustjacket. Dark claret cloth with gilt stamping on spine and front panel. Minimal polite bumps to the four outer panel corners, jacket..... More