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 - 14.75" height x 18.5" width x 4.75" depth - 10.25' handle height Note: Packages containing hats..... More
Hartford, CT: S. Lincoln, 1821. Octavo. 382 pages + 2 p. index. Contemporary sheep with red leather spine label lettered in gilt. First year (January-December) of this monthly magazine, whose leading objective was "to communicate religious information and instruction, and to defend and explain the doctrines and principles..... More
New York: Edward Brandus & Co., 1893. First Edition. Octavo. 11 unnumbered pages. Wraps, string-tied with a yellow cord. Ex-library. Wraps worn along edges with some light chipping. General toning and one stain to front. Library marks to exterior and institutional stamp and bookplate to final page... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo Bliss, 1855. Small octavo (3.75" x 4.5"); 96p. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn with fraying along fore-edge and spine ends, along with a dampstain along spine and bottom back edge. Hinges cracked. Dampstain down..... More
Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1924. Octavo. 178 pages. Burgundy boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards are heavily dampstained along bottom edge with discoloration and warping. Rear hinge starting but binding is sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Bleeding along bottom edge and some pages..... More
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Allendale, MI: WIB, 1979. Newsprint (17 x 11.25 inches); [8] pp. each except for Vol. 2, No. 11., which is 4 pages. Newsprint toned with minor edgewear. Feminist student newspaper covering abortion rights, custody rights for lesbian parents, birth control, and sexual harassment. Vol. 2... More
Allendale, MI: WIB, 1979. Newsprint (17 x 11.25 inches); [8] pp. Toned with minor edgewear, but sound. Feminist student newspaper. This issue covers the Detroit City Council voting out outlaw discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals in 1979. Other articles address pornography, Planned Parenthood resources, and custody rights..... More
Hardcover. London: Henry G. Bohn, [ca. 1850]. Octavo; unpaginated. Rebacked with original cloth retained to front and back, with new endpapers. Covers edgeworn with bumping to corners, nudging to spine ends, and some general smudging and a few runs to cloth. Pages lightly to moderately foxed, but unmarked. Binding is..... More
Boston: Chez J.H.A. Frost, 1824. Second American Edition. 12mo. 379 pages + 3 pages advertisements. Contemporary sheep with spine lettered in gilt. Text in French, advertisements in English. Worn at extremities with exposure to edges and loss at spine ends, most significantly to top of spine with gatherings exposed..... More
Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Octavo (20x15cm); 86 leaves (172pp). Leather in full-grain aniline crimson. Front panel blind-embossed with the tarot image of Astrology—"AstrologiaXXXVIIII"—from the so-called Mantegna Tarocchi. Embossed rules on spine and as borders on spine and panel edges. Endpapers in comb marbling of teal, celadon, peach..... More
Softcover. Paris: French National Railways (SNCF), 1959. Quarto; 95pp. English-language. Pictorial paper wraps. Illustrated throughout, with four full page, full-color illustrations. Cover rubbed with some light spots on lower front edge and a small tear at head of spine. Spine is rolled. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked..... More
Hardcover. Volume I only. Rebound with new leather spine with raised bands, foil stamp on label. Original front and back boards and marbled endpapers. Tips of pages marbled. Very little foxing, pages clean and unmarked, tight in binding. Writing only on half title page and opposite blank page... More
Paris: Société Franco-Belge de Matériel de Chemins De Fer, [1970s]. Quarto; unpaginated. Book is bound in a black presentation binder with internal metal spiral binding. Mustard yellow and white graphic cover. Full-color illustrations and diagrams throughout, some which fold-out. Text primarily in French with some portions also translated to English..... More
Scarce copy, small format, light wear to boards, mostly at corners and edges. Marbled page tips and endpapers. Front endpapers stuck together. Illustration opposite title page. Pages clean, secure in binding. More
New York: Press of the McWilliams Printing Co., 1889. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong Octavo. 15 pages. Ex-Long Island Historical Society, bound in their mid-20th century library binding with usual markings. Washington and Benjamin Harrison portraits to back cover. Souvenir gives the itinerary for the festivities, historical data on..... More
Eugene, OR: Women’s Press Collective, 1971 - 1972. Newsprint (16.5 inches by 11.5 inches); variously paginated, most are [16-20] pp. Illustrated throughout. Broken run of newspapers published January 1971 through 1972. All mail folds, as issued. Paper toned. Some minor edgewear. A monthly, and sometimes bi-monthly..... More
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Hardcover. Washinton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1857. Octavo (9" x 6"); 279p. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt stamped lettering and paper title strip to spine. Covers bumped at corners and chipped at spine ends, with rubbing along edges and a small note in white on front. Title card toned and..... More
London: John Murray, 1804. Second Edition. Small Octavo; Vol. I xvi + 379pp + 4pp of publisher's prospectus; Vol. II 420pp; Vol. III vi + 322pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Each volume has an engraved portrait frontispiece (Moreau, Pichegru, and the Duc d'Enghien, respectively); the third also includes a...... More
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp..... More
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1859. First Edition. Octavo. 319 pages. Illustrated frontis, with black and white illustrations throughout. Blind-stamped brown boards with spine stamped in gilt. Boards worn at extremities, with cracking and bumping exposing the corners. Binding secure, though book opens easily between some gatherings with pages 115-125..... More
New York: Henry Bill, 1853 [1852]. Second Edition [i.e., retitled issue that occurred when author switched publishers]. "Sold Only by Subscription." Octavo; 224pp + publisher's tipped-in Want Ad for agents. All 48 called-for plates present. Plum publisher's cloth with blind-stamped borders and ornaments both panels, framing a stamped image of..... More
New Orleans: A.D. O'Brien, Jr., Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Comb-bound wraps. Octavo. 218 pages with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on cover verso with inscription, "To Judge Wright in memory / of our friendship and some / very pleasant times working / together / Dallam O'Brien."... More
Harrisburg, PA: Privately Printed: The Aurand Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Octavo. 108 p. + 1 p. advertisement. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Full title continues: An Impartial Examination into Everyday Beliefs and Practices of the Pennsylvania-Germans, Diligently Compared with an English Interpretation of..... More