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: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1943. Stated First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth lettered in red; 252pp. Library stamp ("Property of Frears Loan Library") on top and bottom edges and rear pastedown. Some offsetting from tape on endpapers, but no other library markings. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked..... 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
![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=1695391265)
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
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 252pp. Butter yellow cloth backed boards wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($2.95). Jacket gently scuffed and rubbed at margins and joints with shallow chips to margins and slight rippling to spine. Board corners and spine ends gently..... More
Gering, NE: Courier Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Rubbing to gilt at spine and front and boards lightly worn at extremities. Binding sound. Ownership inscription of Robert L. Antsey dated 1940 to front free endpaper, and pages..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 99 pages. Printed dust jacket. Apricot boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges with a couple short closed tears radiating from edges. Boards show some light dust soiling along edges. Brief exposure to paper..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo. 626 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Price-clipped dust jacket creased and chipped along edges and folds with a minor scuffing and touch of sunning to spine. Boards worn along edges and spine ends nudged. Binding sound..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 701 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with chipping at spine ends; soiling and toning to edges and spine; mild general smudging. Boards lightly worn along edges with nudging at spine ends. Binding sound..... More
![Item #9305 The Blue Book [Signed]. A L. Kennedy](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9305.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1618861435)
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Kennedy on full title page. Octavo. 373 pp. Purple boards stamped in blue and gilt. All edges purple. No dust jacket as issued. Boards a trifle rubbed at corners and a few very light smudges. Binding is..... More
Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk, 1969. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author to Johns Hopkins University political science professor and author Gottfried Dietze on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); [x], 127p. Original dustjacket over black cloth with white lettering to spine. Jacket shows light edgewear and a...... More
Providence, RI: Matrix, 1981. Stated First Edition. Oblong octavo (20cm); 80pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket; stiff white wrappers; red endsheets. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped, scuffed, smudged, and toned. Boards a bit bumped and toned. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets clean; interior pages lightly toned at edges. Previous owner’s..... More
Boulder: The Magic Hedonists, 1983. No edition statement. Quarto (11.25" x 8.75"); 110pp. Photos & illus. throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over blue boards with silver lettering. Jacket rubbed at corners and spine ends with a small chip at top front corner, with some general toning along edges and a few..... More
[New York.]: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 482 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price present. Illustrated boards. Dust jacket worn along edges with some toning and some slight chipping. Boards show light wear to edges. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper..... More
![Item #33284 Poems [Signed and Inscribed]. Adrian Mithcell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33284.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750102074)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); illustrated dust jacket with 12s 6d net price intact; boards in patterned gray cloth and black cloth spine with gilt lettering; 61pp. Jacket rubbed along edges with a small bump and crease at bottom rear, darkening to spine, and scattered foxing, with..... More
![Item #46972 Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 [Signed]. Adrienne Rich](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46972.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771083990)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. First Edition. Signed by Adrienne Rich without inscription at title page. Octavo; printed dust jacket; gray cloth boards stamped in silver; 435pp. Publisher's promotional photograph laid in as well as a hand-written note which reads "Adrienne Rich Lammas Books Oct. 15 7-8:30," certainly..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1978. First Edition, stated. Octavo; printed dust jacket; tan cloth boards; magenta topstain; 77pp. Price-clipped dust jacket edgeworn with minor soiling and brief tape-mending along top edge. Boards lightly bumped; binding sound; ownership and gift inscriptions to preliminaries, else unmarked; a Very Good..... More
London: Collins, 1966. First UK Edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in silver foil on spine; decorative dust jacket with price intact; 224pp. Spine ends very lightly bumped, spine slightly cocked, textblock edges lightly dust soiled with some foxing to top edge and small surface scratches to fore and bottom..... More
London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1956. First UK Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 256pp. Lacking jacket. Boards in red cloth with black stamping to spine. Generally bumped, rubbed, scuffed, and dust soiled with small pockmark to front cover. Endsheets offset and pages lightly toned. A Good or better copy of..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. First US Edition. Octavo (22cm); 211pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; boards bound in green wax cloth with white lettering. Dust jacket shows superficial scratches, scuffing, and faint staining throughout; spine chipped at head and onto rear panel with partial..... More
London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; red cloth boards stamped in black; 192pp. Plan of Stonygates preceding text. Price-clipped chipped with several tears to edges; toning and rubbing. Boards lightly edgeworn bumping to extremities; binding sound; pages unmarked. Overall a Very..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (18.1 cm), [vi], [335]pp. Cream publisher’s dust jacket with navy printing and price intact. Boards bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the spine and a blind-tooled emblem on the front cover. Dust jacket discolored on spine and back cover, with..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (22cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; boards in white cloth with red lettering; dark gray topstain; [x],46 pp. Jacket edgeworn, with a small chip at head of spine and some scattered smudging and toning to surface. Opens..... More
![Item #46124 Killing Floor [Signed and Inscribed]. Ai](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46124.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763749941)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (22cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; olive boards with beige cloth spine and gilt lettering; 49pp. Jacket toned along top and fore-edge with scattered spotting and a small closed tear to bottom rear. Boards faded at fore-edge..... 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