Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, [1991]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,331pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, moderate soil to jacket and boards, corners bumped, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Quite uncommon study of the medieval Persian scholar and polymath Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)..... More
[Paris]: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1970. First Edition. Tall, narrow octavo (24cm.); publisher's decorative white card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 270pp.; Chinese text printed in red throughout, text in English and French printed in black. Light wear and dustiness, faint spine crease, else Very Good and sound. More
Hardcover. Leominster: Salmon Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, September 1810. Octavo (17x10cm); 148 pp. Marbled paper over boards with leather binding on spine. Substantial wear to corners and edges. Front and back hinges are starting, but binding remains sound. Bookplate for previous owner (Hugo Storm) on front pastedown. Name..... More
Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. First Edition. Signed. Quarto (27x22x0.5cm); 80pp. Ninety-four B&W reproductions of documentary photographs, maps, timetables, and railway ephemera. Photographic card wrappers. Card wrappers show some touches of shelfwear at edges and a bit of sunning near the card spine, which is uncracked. Textblock unmarred and..... More
![Item #8902 Candace & Other Stories [Inscribed and Signed]. Alan Cheuse](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8902.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616601523)
Cambridge, MA: Apple-wood Press, 1980. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; 100pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, rather heavy foxing to verso not showing through externally, cloth slightly foxed as well, as is top textblock edge and gutters; overall Very Good and sound. Warmly..... More
New Bern, NC: Tryon Palace Commission, 1987. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],746pp.; illus. throughout. Minor wear to jacket extremities, jacket spine lettering sunned from brown to blue, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. More
![Item #8652 Quofum: A Novel of the Commonwealth [Signed]. Alan Dean Foster](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1612909508)
New York: Ballantine Books, 2008. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xii,286pp. Spine crown gently bumped with a very faint ripple to rear jacket panel, else a Fine copy. Signed by the author on title page. Forms part of the author's..... More
London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges with several closed tears, amateur tape repair to recto and verso, and a small slit to spine adjacent to interior tape remnant from..... More
London: Constable, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 169 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed at extremities. Bottom corners and spine end of boards very slightly nudged. Binding is sound. Slight paper flaw to rear pastedown. Pages a trifle toned but otherwise..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages + 5 page preview of Deep Water Island. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in black. Maroon topstain. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped and worn with amateur tape repair to verso. Boards worn along edges with spine..... 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
La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, 2000. Stated First Printing. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in silver. Blue ribbon. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. More
London: Jarrolds, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; [xii], 212pp. Map endpapers, with photos and diagrams internally. Photographic green dust jacket with 30s net / £1.75 price intact; book in light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few tiny nicks, some toning and smudging to..... More
![Item #27724 Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme [Limited Edition signed by Sillitoe and Steadman]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27724.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697838199)
London: Published by Ralph Steadman at the Steam Press, 1981. Limited Edition of 98 copies signed by Sillitoe and Steadman at colophon, this being #31. Two volumes in one, quarto, and both volumes bound in black cloth case with spine lettered in gilt; Steadman's 18 b&w illustrations to one side..... More
Fairbanks, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs (16.5x22cm.) from 1909 and 1910 midnight summer scenes in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock (22.5x27.5cm.), the earlier photograph is captioned "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909,” the later photograph captioned "Midnight Ball Game..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 278 pp. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine; red topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show light edgewear with some minor fraying to extremities. Binding is sound. Light spotting along top edge and previous owner's inscription to front..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Third Printing. Octavo. 154 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in brown at spine. Maroon topstain. Stylized triskele bookplate of M.C. Lang with motto "AEI MANθANΩ" ("always learning") on front pastedown. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and corners with..... More
[N.p.]: [n.p.], 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 10 plates laid in a printed portfolio with illustration to front cover. Includes Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Jounson in Waiting for Godot, Carol Channing as Lady Macbeth and Zero Mostel as Peter Pan, among others. Portfolio worn along edges with a few tears..... More
Westport: Praeger, 2000. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, 293p. Green cloth-covered boards with black cloth title card and gilt lettering. Covers dust-stained along top front edge, with a slight curve to front board. Page block following this curve as well, but binding is holding soundly..... More
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 227 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$6.95" price present. Green boards with white lettering to spine; blue endpapers. Dust jacket worn and creased along edges with general scuffing. Boards show light shelfwear, mildly nudged..... More
![Item #21543 Simon Son of Maria: A Novel [Illustrator's Copy]. Albert Pulcipher, Jonathan A....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677333138)
First Edition. N.p.: 1934. Quarto (28cm.); original black cloth, printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [5],350ll. printed mimeographed from original typescript, pagination added in blue ink manuscript; original pencil and ink drawing signed "J. Taylor" bound in place of half title. Cloth a bit soiled and worn at extremities..... More
![Item #13164 Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy [Inscribed and Signed]. Albert Race Sample](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13164.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653400856)
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's leatherette in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,320pp.; illus. Some rubbing to both boards and jacket extremities; a hint of dust-soil; light, faint dampstain to back jacket panel -- barely visible to jacket interior only but with some rippling to back..... More
Rochester, NY: Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1910. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth, grey topstain; xxiv,501pp.; photographic illus. throughout, five stereoviews printed on three leaves loosely inserted as issued in chemise mounted to rear pastedown. Some shelf wear to cloth margins, spine gilt significantly dulled, both hinges cracked..... More
[San Salvador]: Impreso en los Talleres Tipgraficos de Diario Nuevo, [1943]. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 45 pp. Original printed green wrappers. Ex-library copy with accession and de-accession stamps to front. Wraps lightly edgeworn with some fading. A manifesto from the Nicaraguan-born poet and essayist, and published here with..... More