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
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
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
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
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
Available in $25 increments [i.e. for a $50 gift certificate, order two]. All gift certificates can be used at the store, toward our Grab Bags, or with online orders both here and on our bookshop.org page. REQUIRED INFO: When ordering, please use the Additional Comments section before clicking..... 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
Nashville, TN: James A. Crutchfield, 1970. Reprint of the original 1907 edition. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Printed wrappers. Light edgewear and fading to wraps. Binding is sound. Faint spotting to pages, but overall unmarked and legible throughout. More
London: Printed for R. Edwards, 1792. Apparent second edition, preceded by an undated edition assigned the publication date [1785?] by ESTC. Octavo. [2], vii, [1], 178 pp. Lacking half title and final blank leaf. Recent blue paper wrappers. Wraps chipped and toned. Light toning and spotting to pages, but overall..... 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
[Fairmont, West Virginia?]: [n.p.], [ca. 1938]. Souvenir folder (6.5" x 4.25"); nine black and white photographs. Leporello binding with folding olive mailer wraps. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities with a few tiny tears and some fading along edges. Photos clean and unmarked. This copy never addressed or mailed. Mailable..... 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
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 on both panels, framing a stamped image..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1942. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 250 pp. Light beige/green cloth binding with letter in red on cover and spine. Deckled edges. Cloth binding toned with brown spot on front cover over text and some smaller spots on the back. Previous owner's signature on..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1947. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 226 pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Red cloth binding with illustration and text stamped in dark blue/black on cover and spine. Deckled edges. Price-clipped dust jacket is bright but rubbed along edges and spine ends, with a...... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1943. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 252 pp. Book bound in light gray cloth with title stamped in red on cover and spine. Deckled edges. Library stamp ("Property of Frears Loan Library") on top and bottom edges and back attached endpaper. Some offsetting from..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1951. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 222 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price. Book bound in brown cloth with "Guilt Edge Mystery" logo in blue on cover and title in blue on spine. Decked edges. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some..... 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
St. Petersbourg: Imprimerie de Jul Stauff (J. Fichon), 1882 [but 1881]. First Thus. 24mo (8.25cm.); later full red morocco, bound in original peach wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; xii,72pp. Minor bumping to corners, wrappers show some light soiling and wear with general rubbing slightly effacing text without loss of..... More
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; [4],356pp. Some scuffing to boards with brief exposure at corners, spine leather a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed due to inferior paper stock, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of early..... More
New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; xii, [xiii-xiv], 15-301pp. Illustrated dust jacket; book in black cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Housed in custom bluish-purple cloth-covered slipcase. Price-clipped dust jacket amateurly restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and occasionally clumsy color fills and touch-ups..... More
New York: The Sun Dial Press, [1936]. Reprint of the 1934 Crime Club / Doubleday edition. Octavo; [x], 301pp. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Green topstain. Jacket shows a number of short tears and shallow chips at edges of folds, with rubbing..... More
New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [x], 301pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in dark navy / nearly-black cloth with green lettering and illustration to spine. over green cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Green topstain..... More
Providence: The Grandon Company, [1950]. First Thus. Octavo; 295pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a dime-ish sized chip at top front edge just touching title lettering, with another small, closed adjacent tear, a thin stain at top edge of..... More
New York: Liveright Inc Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 295 pp. Black boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn and spine heavily dulled with some faint staining. Boards give a little but overall holding soundly. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. More