Bayeaux, France: Heimdal / Serpenoise, 1985. First Edition. Quarto; 517pp. Black and white maps and photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; photographic endpapers. Text in French and English. Light rubbing and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to boards and a few stray..... More
![Item #32405 [Broadside] Arrendersi o Perire Tedeschi e Fascisti Scegliete la Resa o la Morte....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32405.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742323673)
[Rome?]: Il Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, [ca. 1943]. Printed broadside [26.25x42cm]. Light edgewear, creasing, and smudging; surface tears to rear with very faint adhesive remnant suggesting contemporary use; Very Good. Il Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale was an anti-fascist political and military organization formed in Italy in 1943 to support..... More
![Item #30709 Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]. Artemis...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30709.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726510518)
Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv,[1],255pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket and board margins, textblock fore-edge lightly finger-soiled, else Very Good or better. Signed by both Joukowsky and Burns on title page with brief inscription by the former..... More
![Item #14653 Situation Normal... [Signed]. Arthur Miller](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14653.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670247897)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page without inscription. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and smudging and tape mending to..... More
Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Committee on Civilian Defense, 1941. Folio (57x42cm); single sheet, single-sided. Toning throughout. Creased horizontally at center due to previous folding. Several small tears throughout but no obstruction to text. Brittle. Very Good. Official notice by the Mayor of Baltimore and the city’s recently-convened Committee on..... More
![Item #27260 Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson [Limited Edition, Signed]. Booth Tarkington](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27260.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693234860)
New York: House of Books, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 189. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in unadorned dust jacket; [44]pp. Jacket extremities and spine panel quite toned, cloth of spine crown rubbed, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Charming..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Very minor spine lean, a hint of shelf wear, else a fresh, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author for a private collector laid in. The continued sexual escapes..... More
![Item #14247 Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]. Charles Dwoskin](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14247.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664897220)
New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 285pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears to the former, briefly affecting text at spine ends without loss of meaning, spine cocked and..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; xix + 620pp. Graphic dustjacket. over brown cloth with two-color stamping on spine. Price-clipped dustjacket has two 1" chips missing, one at bottom of spine, the other on front face, along with a couple larger tears at top back and couple smaller..... More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
[Waterbury, CT?], 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image;..... More
![Item #48470 Eggburt and Other Navy Cartoons [Signed and Inscribed]. Earle D. Chesney, F. Lowell...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48470.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782309130)
Washington, D.C.: Anderson House, 1945. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Slim quarto (28 cm); unpaginated; illustrated throughout. Staple-bound in yellow card wrappers and cloth spine. Exterior generally toned with scuffing and light soiling to margins; mild creasing to corners. Interior clean, with minor closed tears to bottom gutter edge of some..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Frooman retaining original price ($4.50); xi,[3],274pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall. World War II memoir of the future Governor..... More
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, 1942. First Edition. Large, slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Wilhelma Cushman; 158pp.; illus. throughout, often in full color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrapper margins, else a Very Good and sound example. Contents include Eleanor Roosevelt's monthly column "If You Ask Me,"..... More
London: McCorquodale & Co Ltd, 1957. One of 2000 copies printed at Christmas 1957 for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane by McCorquondale & Co., unnumbered. Small octavo (19 cm); 234pp,[1]. Boards full bound in pale pink and pale lilac paper with white printing and gilt stamping to spine. Illustrated..... More
![Item #32859 Reporting World War II [Two volumes]. Ernie Pyle, Vincent Tubbs, A J. Leibling,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32859.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747330781)
New York: Library of America / Libraries of Gryphon Editions, 1995. First Edition. Two octavo volumes. 912; 970pp. + advertisements. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Bound in publisher's full black leather decorated in gilt; four raised bands; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; silk ribbons. Boards slightly cocked; bindings sound;..... More
Substantial collection of original amateur artwork and fashion plates dated 1941 to 1945 by a young woman named Gladys Warren (almost all pieces signed "G. Warren," "G.W.," or "Gladys Warren"). The collection consists of nine large format watercolors (56x38cm.); one small format watercolor (32.5x23); four large format pencil sketches (56x38cm.);..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, [1991]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's maroon cloth, black and gilt titling; xvii,[3],168pp. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Contributions in Political Science no. 278. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; red cloth boards stamped in black; dark topstain; 494pp. + index. Lacks dust jacket. Light wear to boards and fading to spine; binding sound; ownership bookplate to front pastedown, pencil notes and bookseller stamp to rear, else unmarked; a Very Good..... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; red-orange cloth boards stamped in black; 243pp. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket; sunning to spine. Boards tight in binding and interior unmarked; Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket; [8],241pp. Extensive chips and tears to jacket margins including a few small losses along top edge of upper panel and spine crown, spine panel faintly splattered and red portion faded, corners bumped and..... More
New York: Vantage Press, [1987]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in light blue unclipped dust jacket; [6],49pp.; illus. Light shelf wear, rear jacket panel a bit soiled, else Very Good or better. First-hand history of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the first Black unit in the U.S...... More
![Item #47780 Radar in World War II: Sections A-C [and] Sections D-E, Appendices, Glossary, Indexes...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47780.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776633953)
[New York]: Tomash Publishers / American Institute of Physics, 1987. First Editions. Two thick octavo volumes; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; 643; 644-1171pp. No dust jackets. Bindings sound; pages unmarked; Fine. More
![Item #45647 Diplomat Between Wars [Signed and Inscribed Frederic and Mabel Stimson]. Hugh R. Wilson](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45647.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760550792)
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. First American Edition. Signed by Wilson to Ambassador Frederic Stimson and his wife Mabel with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo; 344pp. Blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt; dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Light shelfwear; corners bumped; spine toned. Binding..... More
![Item #33785 Enigma and Its Achilles Heel [Signed]. Hugh Skillen](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33785.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753479241)
Pinner, Middlesex: Hugh Skillen, 1992. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],225pp.; illus. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and boards, corners nudged; Very Good and sound overall. Signed by the author on title page. More