unknown place: unknown publisher, 1940. First Edition. Unbound brochure, 4pp. Dimensions: 6x3.5 inches. Printed, black, white and red illustrations and text. Schedule of Swartchild & Company radio broadcasts in 1940. Swartchild & Company were one of the largest watchmaker's and jeweler's warehouse supply companies int he US in..... More
New York: Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran Company, [1915]. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Frontispiece + 15 additional black and white illustrations on yellow background. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Boards rubbed at corners, edges and spine ends, with darkening to spine, some soiling..... More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, 1993, 1994. First Editions. Three octavo volumes. Photo-illustrated dust jackets over publisher’s cardinal red cloth. 480pp, 574pp, 517pp; facsimiles and illustrations throughout. Vol 1 jacket bumped with dampstaining and color bleed to interior at head (not visible to exterior) and a vertical crease to..... More
![Item #27358 A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th & 17th Centuries [with]...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695391267)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935, 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher’s cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp, frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece, sixty-six (66) leaves of plates &..... More
![Item #27356 The Long Goodbye [Book Club Edition]. Raymond Chandler, Walter H. Lorraine, jacket](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695390852)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 316 pp. Illustrated dust jacket over orange-brown boards with green-blue lettering. Goldenrod top stain. Rear jacket panel cleanly separated along fold; jacket otherwise lightly chipped at corners with some faint creasing and rubbing along edges and spine ends. Boards..... More
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1932. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's royal blue cloth, black spine titling; 263pp. Soiling on spine, slightly affecting front and back boards. Light finger soil to textblock, else Very Good condition. In a hotel room in Sancerre, France, the body of one Emile..... More
![Item #27354 East and West [alt. title: Diamonds See in the Dark]. Talbot Mundy, pseud. William...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27354.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694739395)
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's goldenrod pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, in illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 310pp. Creasing, wear, and chipping to the top and bottom edges and corners of jacket, shallow losses to spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled..... More
![Item #27352 Murdered One by One [alt. title: No Fury]. Francis Beeding, pseud. John Leslie Palmer](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27352.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694739163)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth with red spine titling, black lettering on a field of red to front cover; 314pp. Some fading and soiling to covers, corners tapped, light scuffing to spine ends. Light internal soil. Very Good and sound... More
![Item #27348 No Fury [alt. title: Murdered One by One]. Francis Beeding, pseud. John Leslie Palmer](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694738916)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black; 328pp.; five leaves of illus. Slightly sun faded spine, cover with some fading and soiling, tapped corners. Clean interior with sound binding and no signs of foxing. By Francis Beeding (pseud. John Leslie Palmer)..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's red cloth in an illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); 280pp. Light scuffing along cover edges, light soiling to cloth spine and cover. Interior text is clean and binding is in good condition. Very Good copy in..... More
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, black and gilt spine titling; 249pp. Sun faded spine with some scuffing. Some fading, soiling and scuffing (corners) on the front and back boards. Clean and sound interior and text. Good condition copy. S.J. Perelman (1904-1979)..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead &Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth cover in red with the Red Badge Detective series logo in white, in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 209pp. Foxing along the textblock fore-edge, light glue stain running from the head to the tail of the free..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavio; publisher's black cloth boards, red-lettered spine and cover (with logo) in pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Light wear to cover but in Very Good condition, tear in the top right corner of upper flyleaf. Light spotting on title page. Internally clean..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; Publishers Beige cloth. Title and author name in beige surrounded by a square field of deep blue on cover, and spine with the publishers name stamped in deep blue; 3,[1], 274pp. with a four page excerpt from LeMay's..... More
![Item #27261 On the Slain Collegians [Limited Edition, Signed by Frasconi]. Herman Melville,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27261.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693245522)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1971]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 493. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [48]pp.; illus. throughout. Brief faint soil to upper jacket panel, margins and cloth a bit yellowed, light shelf..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1957]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, fuchsia and canary yellow spine; 246pp. Wear to jacket extremities, old tape repair to verso, yellowing of pages, clean text block. Internally clean and sound. Very Good in Good dust jacket. From the author of..... More