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
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
London: William Kelly, 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's red printed card wrappers; 87pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, spine panel a bit toned, hinges starting, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Modern Military History Series. OCLC locates just two copies as of June..... 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: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in tan decorative dust jacket; viii,[2],233pp. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket margins, none quite touching text, spine panel toned, endpapers foxed, else Very Good and sound. Collection of "essayettes" first published in Punch ranging..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial Art Deco dust jacket; vii,[1],392,8pp. General shelf wear and some shallow chipping to jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, jacket spine toned and lettering faded, spine cocked, light dust-soil, corners bumped, else a Very Good, still..... More
London: J. Drury, 1821. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's plum blind-embossed textured cloth, gilt-tooled spine label; [4],224pp. (lacking errata leaf); lithographed frontispiece, thirteen plates (collated complete). Cloth expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, margins a bit scuffed with exposure at corners, brief discoloration to rear cover, remnants only of 19th-century..... 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
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
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
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and gilt decorative dust jacket, blue topstain; [4],316pp. Some shelf wear and shallow chipping to jacket extremities, corners gently bumped and endpapers toned, else a Very Good, internally sound copy. Psychological portrait of..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1871. First Edition with a stated limitation of 156 copies. Two octavo volumes. 596 & 625 pp., with running pagination along bottom edge and individual volumes with their own pagination along top. Bound in modern black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and new endpapers..... More
London: Printed by C. Bensley; for F.J. Du Roveray, 1798. First Bensley Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, spine elaborately tooled in calf, blue papier-peint endpapers; xxix,[1],79pp.; engrave frontispiece (tissue-guard) and five leaves of plates. Boards scuffed at extremities, front board rather crudely reattached, else a Very Good, internally clean..... More
London: Spanner, 1973. First Edition. Folio (42cm); 23pp. Newsprint; wraps printed with blue ink; interior text and image in black ink. Illustrations and graphics throughout. Wraps lightly toned along edges; interior pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of this work of experimental writing. More
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. + 34 pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth boards decorated in green, gilt, and white, designed by Talwin Morris. Gray endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Boards slightly bowed, but binding..... More
London: Printed for W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt et al., 1754. Twelfth Edition Corrected and Improved. Octavo; bound in modern quarter calf with five raised bands and gitl stamping to spine; new endpapers; [16]; xxx; 375; [26] appendices, collated and complete. 14 plates, 8 of which are..... More
New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2010. Revised Edition. Quarto. 498pp. Color and black and white illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Red cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; avocado endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges; very short tear..... More
London: Poet & Printer, 1966. First Edition. Small octavo. 35 pages. Printed wraps. Published the same year as Carter's first novel. Rubbing and light wear to edges of wraps. Rusting to staples but text unaffected. Binding sound and pages unmarked. More
Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 2007-2011. First Editions. Three large octavo volumes. Photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges of wraps with a couple minor smudges to front of volume 3. Bindings are sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine set. More
London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. First Edition. Small quarto; removed pamphlet with perished stitching and gatherings subsequently loose; 40pp. (A-E4). Extremities rather toned and dust-soiled; Good overall. Scathing religious tract questionably attributed to the early Whig politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). The tract excoriates what..... More
London: J. Owen, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [4],88pp. ([A]2 B-M4). Leather remnants along spine, title page a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Political tract first published in an unspecified "Morning Paper" delineating a path for peace between France and England in the midst of the French..... More
London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed [from covers]; [4],90pp. ([A]2 B-M4 N1), half title present. Some minor toning to textblock with a few cover remnants along spine, else Very Good and sound. Oft-reprinted contemporary account of the ongoing conflict between Great Britain and France during the French..... More
Londra [or Livorno]: Si vende in Livorno presso Tommaso Masi e compagni, 1786. First Edition. 12mo. [4], xxiii, [3], 96, [2], 122, [2],3-42, [2], 3-99, [1], collated and complete; Bentivoglio signatures misbound [A3, A5, A4, A7, A6, A8, 9, 10] though also complete. Frontis; engraved title page. Text in Italian..... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. New and Revised Edition. Two octavo volumes. 264 p.; 259 p. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photographic blue and red dust jackets. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets are creased and rubbed along edges, more heavily at spine ends. Staining..... More
![Item #45356 Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur [The Warlord Chronicles: III] [Signed]. Bernard Cornwell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758989523)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First American Edition. Signed by Bernard Cornwell without inscription at title page. Octavo; 436pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green and yellow boards stamped in red. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; a few smudges to edges of text..... More