Paris: Editiones Denoel, 1994. French-language. Signed by the author with brief inscription to fellow writer and journalist William Safire and his wife Helene on half title. Octavo; 302pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly shelfworn but clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book Company, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription to writer and columnist William Safire. Octavo; 373pp. Printed photo-portrait dust jacket with original $12.50 price; book in beige cloth-covered boards with red and black lettering to..... More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Signed by Gold on half title page to William Safire with inscription, "Bill, / Here it is. Thank / you for standing up all / these years for our / Freedom. Hopefully this / will help. / Best wishes, /..... More
![Item #6600 Israel With Love [Inscribed to William Safire]. Dorothy Rice](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6600.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1597263850)
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire with love Dorothy Rice." Tall quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt... More
![Item #5528 The Atlantic Community: A Study in Unity and Disunity [Inscribed to Tom Wicker]. Drew...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5528.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1570544673)
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; book in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at head of spine and toned along edges, with a couple tiny tears and bumps. Boards are square with..... More
Paris: D'Auguste Delalain, 1822. First Edition. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"); [iv], 354pp. Contemporary stained calf with gilt decoration and lettering and black leather title card to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Contemporary school prize ex libris to front pastedown accomplished in manuscript. Corners bumped and rubbed, with some scuffs..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991. First Edition. Inscribed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To Bill - / A friend, mentor + role model - / Your down-to-earth approach to life + work is an / inspiration. / Thanks for the /..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to fellow writer and columnist William Safire on half title with inscription: "For Bill Safire -- With admiration, respect, and linguistic deference. Erik Tarloff." Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $23.00 price; book in red..... More
New York: Arbor House, 1982. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title to writer and columnist William Safire with inscription "To Bill, with all the best -- Garson." Octavo; 236pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $13.95 price; book in brown paper over boards with..... More
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1819. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Thick Octavo. 1006 pages; text in double columns. Rebacked with original calf retained. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Boards a bit warped, with some shallow chipping to original leather along seams with..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More
London: Charles Knight, 1864, 1844. First Editions. 24mo; 197pp, 272pp. Two volumes bound together in brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather spine and corner tips and gilt lettering/tooling to spine. Red staining to page edges. Boards bumped at corners with some fading and smudging to cloth and a few scuffs..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Stated Fifteenth Edition. From the library of journalist and language expert William Safire. Octavo; 159 pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine.Yellow endpapers. Cover frayed on edges and rubbed. Spine slightly rolled. Manuscript note on on front free..... More
![Item #5470 Father's Day [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]. John Calvin Batchelor](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5470.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1569608282)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Second Printing. Octavo. 528 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket is lightly worn at edges with one chip to top front corner and more heavily creased at bottom of spine. Red boards in black cloth are stamped in red at spine. A touch of..... More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. 210 pages. Signed by authors on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "March 9, 1989 / For William Safire, / Hoping this will make a / small contribution to greater / understanding. / With our love, / Janet and..... More
![Item #5220 Ghost Image [Signed to William Safire]. Joshua Gilder](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5220.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1564514614)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $23.00 price; book in blue paper-covered boards with white cloth spine and silver lettering. Signed by the author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill, / Thanks for the /..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. Stated First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial dust jacket with original $6.95 price. Maroon cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. 258 pp. Dust jacket slightly toned on spine, light rubbing and edge wear. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Inscribed in..... More
Third Edition. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Third Edition. Duodecimo. 318 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements. Full contemporary sheep with red spine label. Translated from Dutch. The translator's "Advertisement" claims that this work is an extension of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa," though the title and names have been altered because, "it..... More
Tel Aviv: The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1985. First Edition. Signed by co-author Rabinovich on half title to journalist William Safire with inscription "Sep 25, 93 - For Bill, Despatches or dispatches? A book that has a lot to do with language and politics. Cordially, Itamar..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Inscribed by author to journalist and language columnist William Safire on front free endpaper "To: William Safire with author's compliments. Michael Echeruo, 1998." Hallmark Hanukkah card inscribed by Echeruo to Safire and two of his Syracuse University business cards also laid in..... More
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Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Lemkhin to New York Times columnist William Safire at front free endpaper with brief inscription. Oblong octavo. 71 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn and a bit curved, with creasing at bottom front..... More
![Item #5940 All Round Hong Kong [Signed to William Safire]. Morgan J. Vittengl](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5940.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1578602614)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to journalist William Safire with inscription "To Bill Safire -- In the hope that this book may recall for you some of the pleasant memories that I have of your visit to Hong..... More
Paradise, [PA?]: Henry Witmer, 1823. Second Edition. Octavo. 116 pages. Printed string-tied wraps. Housed in modern pamphlet binder. Wraps worn and chipped at edges and corners folded over. Cover loose but it and rest of gatherings holding. Ownership inscription to cover. Pages toned and a bit brittle... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. Unclipped photographic dust jacket; red boards in red cloth with spine and front stamped in gilt; 260pp. Jacket shows a few small chips and one tear along edges, with toning along the spine and rubbed at joints. Boards worn and a...... More