Minden, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More
New Orleans: Pickwick Press, 1992. Reprint of the 1964 limited edition. Tall octavo; xv, 264pp. Maroon buckram with gilt lettering in matching slipcase. Boards sturdy and square with very faint shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase shows a few scratches, but is sturdy and solid with no splits..... More
Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. Signed by the author with "Easter Greeting" but no dedication on front free endpaper, dated in publication year. Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); 222p. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Boards lightly edgeworn with a small scuff and a sticker shadow to front, along..... More
City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 5,[1]pp. Light foxing, spine nearly split, else Good to Very Good, despite slightly musty odor. Exceedingly uncommon pamphlet reproducing three pieces of correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and American engineer Isaac Briggs. Briggs had volunteered his..... More
![Item #33207 The Tin Roof Blowdown [Signed Limited Edition]. James Lee Burke](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33207.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750797170)
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007. Signed Limited Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 373pp. Boards in brown leather with gilt stamping and decoration. Edges gilt, moire silk endsheets, and camel ribbon. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Publisher's prospectus and certificate of authenticity loosely laid in at front. A Near..... More
![Item #33472 Woodcuts by L.F. Geiser [Collection of Fourteen Typeface and Box Designs]. Laura F....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33472.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751390442)
New Orleans: [ca. 1925]. Collection of fourteen (14) manuscript typeface and box designs (most ca. 31x21cm or the inverse). Occasional toning and a few small soil spots, else a Very Good or better collection. New Orleans student Laura Geiser's portfolio of ten typographic designs and four decorative box designs. Geiser..... More
New Orleans: Printed by D. Felt & Co., 1839. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 20pp. Front and rear wraps detached but present; light edgewear and minor staining; brief pencil notes at lead of text; Good to Very Good. Uncommon New Orleans imprint on the subject of foreign naturalization. Sabin 42185. More
New Orleans?: ca. 1960-1965. Large oblong quarto (27x41cm.); brown gilt-tooled leatherette bound with leather strap; [47]ll. to which are mounted 311 photographic snapshots (nearly all black and white and measuring 8.5x8.5cm). Album a bit scuffed at extremities, joints significantly cracked from use and poor quality of leatherette, leaves a bit..... More
Chicago: R. Blanchard, 1903. First Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); 68p. Illustrated, with full-color fold-out map at back. Pebbled black/gray cloth with blindstamped border, beveled edges, and gilt lettering. Covers dusty and faded along edges, with fading to spine and some general scuffing and smudging. Front hinge cracked to about..... More
New Orleans, [LA]: Printed by Isaac T. Hinton, 1864. First Edition. Signed by Handling at front free endpaper with inscription, "To my friend Mr. E.K. Washington, The Author." Octavo. 107, [1]pp. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt. Split along length of front joint; worn, rippled, and spotted with a bit..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition, First Printing (3047 copies printed). Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, blue decorative endpapers; [2],349pp. Ex-Deep River (CT) Public Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp and shelf number to title page and evidence of removed bookplate to pastedowns, otherwise free of institutional markings, boards..... More