Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,183pp. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, textblock a bit musty, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Collection of four philosophical essays on the American..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, [1909]. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pp. Frontispiece. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. Part of the publisher's "American Crisis Biographies" series. Boards lightly worn along edges with brief exposure; spine very lightly toned; mild general scuffing. Binding..... More
Boston: John Draper, [1758]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); later stiff black wrappers; 24pp. (A-C4, including half title); woodcut vignette at head of p. [5]. Slightly ex-New Haven Colony Historical Society with their pressure stamps to first three leaves including upper cover, upper cover additionally creased, else a Very Good, internally..... More
Boston, New-England: Printed and Sold by Thomas and John Fleet, in Cornhill; and Green & Ruslell [sic], and Edes & Gill, in Queenstreet, 1763. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed, remnants of old sheep along spine; [4],93,[1]pp. ([A2] B4 B-M4, lacking final blank). First two gatherings separated but present, texblock a...... More
![Item #27929 American Individualism [Signed]. Herbert Hoover](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27929.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699043007)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. First Edition. Signed by Herbert Hoover at front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 72 pp. Printed dust jacket with "$1.00" price intact. Purple cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket toned along edges with mild rubbing; chip at bottom of rear fold and..... More
![Item #27806 The Challenge to Liberty [Signed]. Herbert Hoover](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27806.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697814332)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Signed by Herbert Hoover at front free endpaper, "To AB Cargill with the Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." Octavo. 212 pp. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt. Boards show a touch of shelfwear with mild dulling to spine. Binding is..... More
Small but significant archive of unpublished materials related to the early medical aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, presented to or collected by U.S. Army Lt. Col. John R. Hall, Jr. (1913-1990) — chief surgeon headquartered at nearby Kure — by Japanese doctors at the Hiroshima Communications..... More
Granville, OH: The Granville Sentinel Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Signed by the author to noted antitrust-turned-public-interest attorney and law professor Victor H. Kramer and his wife Solveig, with inscription "To: Victor Kramer who taught me to sail, then we were shipwrecked with me at the helm!..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. First Edition, First Printing with letter code B-X. Folio; publisher's cloth over boards, tan dust jacket with color pictorial element mounted to upper panel, top edge stained yellow; xiii,[5],344pp.; color frontispiece, extensively illustrated throughout. Light soil to textblock extremities, just a hint of..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. First Edition (stated, with flush-left first printing letterline). Octavo. 333 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; bound in blue cloth with silver lettering. Jacket rubbed along edges, with a couple shallow creases along top and a bit..... More
New York: Random House , 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 232 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with "$7.95" price present. Black boards stamped in gilt and silver. Dust jacket creased along edges with a few minor nicks and short tear to top edge near crown; mild staining to..... More
Chicago: Diamond Jubilee Exposition Authority, 1940. First Edition, wrapper issue. Octavo. 95 pp. Black and white frontispiece by Troy. Illustrated wraps. Wraps toned and edgeworn with curling and creasing at corners. Remnants of previous owner's stamp to front wrap. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. WPA publication produced..... More
City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 5,[1]pp. Light foxing, spine nearly split, else Good to Very Good, despite slightly musty odor. Exceedingly uncommon pamphlet reproducing three pieces of correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and American engineer Isaac Briggs. Briggs had volunteered his..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1865. Early edition. Octavo. 354 pp. Black and white portraits and illustrations, complete. Publisher's blind-stamped green boards with gilt lettering to spine; pale orange endpapers. Corners bumped and brief exposure along bottom edge. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Field comments on..... More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 30 pages. Somewhat dust-soiled and stained; spine a bit worn and loose; a good, sound copy. A pro-Union address from the long-time Marietta College president and historian. Andrews attacks the principles behind secession and..... More
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 486pp.; plates throughout, including maps. Very minor shelf wear, textblock and early leaves a bit thumb-soiled, light foxing throughout, else a Very Good, bright copy overall. More
New Haven: J.W. Barber, 1831. First Edition. 12mo (20cm.); publisher's tan cloth, black gilt-lettered leather spine label; 120pp.; hand-colored map frontispiece, six leaves of hand-colored plates (tissue guards), woodcut vignettes throughout. Corners bumped, spine a bit cocked and leather label scuffed, light foxing throughout textblock, else a Very Good, sound..... More
![Item #25022 [Sammelband] The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25022.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1672497174)
Two volumes in one; thick 12mo; contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments. Minor scuffing to extremities, long closed vertical tears across pp. 201/2 and 237/8 of the first title affecting text without loss of meaining, textblock uniformly finger-soiled, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to front..... More
London: Mills & Boon, [1905 but ca. 1918]. 12mo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 217pp. General shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, including a number of small chips and closed tears to the former with old tape repair to verso, uniformly dust-soiled, boards foxed along upper margins..... More
![Item #26819 Introduction to Field Artillery Ordnance 1861-1865 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Jack W....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26819.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687217591)
Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw Mountain Press, 1994. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being #219. Signed by Lawrence Pawl "All the best" but without personalization at front free endpaper. Quarto. 280 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Black leatherette boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued... More
Hartford: Press of The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1881. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's buff wrappers printed within double rule; 26pp. Shallow chipping at spine ends and corners, wrappers a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Eulogy delivered September 25, 1881, shortly after the death of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 471 pp. 31 black and white photographs bound at front of volume. Black cloth stamped in silver. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and minor fraying to extremities and joints; additional small nick to front board with a...... More
New York: Dial Press, 1963. Seventh (May, 1963) Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50), red topstain; 120pp. Moderate wear and rubbing to jacket extremities and spine folds, cloth very slightly toned at extremities, else a Very Good, unfaded copy overall. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages; 2 maps. Printed green dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; olive boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, with slight wrinkling, a few tiny tears, and some discoloration to edges. Boards very light bumped at top right..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1779. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); stitched self-wrappers, removed from larger volume; 46,[2]pp. ([A]4 B-F4, collated and complete with half title and errata). First and final leaf spotted, else Very Good and sound. Revolutionary War-era election sermon delivered by the New Haven clergyman James Dana..... More