![Item #7358 Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion [William McSherry's Copy]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601133589)
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, printed paper spine label; viii,[13]-328pp. Some shelf wear, especially at spine ends, spine cloth toned and label's text mostly effaced, light foxing throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. Pencil and ink ownership inscription of..... More
Softcover. Pocket notebook (16 x 8cm); 40 leaves. Handwritten notes in ink on each recto. Staple-bound at top edge with black tape covering. Perforated leaves. Cardboard backing with no front cover, possibly as issued (one stub remains on top from a torn-out sheet; unsure if this was a cover page..... More
[Washington, DC]: [n.p.], 1804. Wraps. Duodecimo. 14 pages. Binding is worn but holding. Front cover split at bottom. A trifle soiled along edges. Report of a committee on a survey of buildings of DC. Pages 7-14 are the text of a letter from Benjamin Henry Latrobe giving his..... More
Boston: Automobile Club of America by Walker Lith. & Pub. Co. Lithographers, 1909. First Edition. Fold-out map. Stiff printed front wrap with map panels mounted in linen. Color. Publisher's printed card laid in with directions from New York to Delaware Water Gap. Rubbing and toning with some edgewear. Moderately mothballed..... More
![Item #11128 The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story [Signed]. Benjamin Franklin...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11128.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633029707)
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, no jacket as issued; xv,[1],322pp.; illus., chiefly photographs. Just About Fine. Signed and dated in year of publication by the author on title page. History of the Battle of Fort Stevens in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C. More
![Item #9750 The Story of Washington: The National Capital [Great Cities of the Republic]. Charles...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9750.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622225874)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Octavo xviii, 416pp +4 ads. Frontis with tissue guard, plates, vignettes, and fold-out maps throughout, all present. Half green cloth and decorated red cloth. Boards bumped at corners and rubbed along edges, with some tugging and fraying to spine ends, darkening to..... More
Washington, DC: Byron S. Adams, [1890s-1910s]. Side-stapled/red-string bound wraps. 24mo. 27 pages. Text in black and red. A price list of food, drink, and services offered by Mr. Rauscher, "late with Louis Sherry, New York." Rauscher moved from Paris to New York in 1878, where he worked with..... More
Washington, DC: The Farmers National Publishing Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Frontis portrait. Grey cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Barrett's attempt to convince farmers of the importance of pursuing aggressive lobbying efforts to get..... More
![Item #14058 The Supreme Court in United States History [Three volumes]. Charles Warren](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14058.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1662070473)
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923. Mixed printings, with first and second volumes Later Printings (1923) and the third volume a First. Three octavo volumes. 540 pp.; 551 pp.; 532 pp. Black and white photographs and portraits to each volume, complete. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine. Dark topstains..... More
Laury's Station: Garrigues House Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 215 color photographs plus additional document reproductions. Five-color system map on front endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket. Army green boards stamps in gold front panel and spine. Dust jacket lacking large triangular chip (2" x 1.5") and additional thin strip (3.5") at bottom..... More
Chappaqua, NY: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington / Rossel Books, 1985. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in cream dust jacket lettered and ruled in maroon; xiii,[3],300pp.; illus. Light dust-soil and minute rubbing to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of primary sources on Jewish..... More
Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1890. First Edition. Octavo; 59pp. Ex- Library of Congress copy in their red cloth with gilt lettering and Library of Congress emblem to spine. Original front paper cover was retained and bound in, but has cleanly separated along gutter and is now laid in. Boards rubbed..... More
Danville: The Interstate Printers & Publishers, 1984. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf ["...and Hard of Hearing" added in 1999] Executive Director Dr. Sara Conlon with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; xvii, 420pp. Rebound in..... More
New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. Octavo. 80 pages. Removed. Biopredation along edges of front and rear. Some scuffing and toning. Holding in binding. A serviceable copy. More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 445 pp. Black and white frontis portrait with tissue guard. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Boards gently rubbed at extremities and gilt lettering heavily rubbed. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A collection..... More
![Item #11784 This Was Potomac River [Signed]. Frederick Tilp](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11784.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1640032803)
Alexandria, VA: Frederick Tilp, 1978. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],358pp. & [5]ll. photographic illus., additional illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket, jacket extremities a bit toned, especially spine panel, contemporary ownership label to front free endpaper verso, else Very Good and..... More
Washington, DC: Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 375 D Street, 1859. First Edition. 12mo. 12 pp. Printed wraps, removed. Rubbing to edges; glue remnants along spine; stray pen annotations to front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. Resolution from the Grand Lodge of DC advocating for the construction of..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955-1956. First Editions, stated. Volume I signed at half title by Harry Truman at half title with inscription, "To Mr. and Mrs. Simon Pearl. Kind regards from Harry Truman 10/18/58." Two octavo volumes. 596 pp.; 594 pp. Printed dust jackets. Black cloth boards..... 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
New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered in black (possibly remainder binding per BAL); xii,[2],272pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, some spotting to sizing, faint horizontal line of bubbling across front cover, spine faded; overall a Good to Very Good, straight and internally sound copy..... More
West Orange, N.J.: 1911. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, upper cover lettered in black, gilt-lettered spine; x,11-162pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout text including facsimiles. Boards la bit bowed, with upper cover rather discolored and soiled, corners bumped, spine faded, textblock toned. Overall a Good or better copy, internally sound though..... More
![Item #7708 Snake Country [Inscribed and Signed]. James McEuen](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7708.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604089598)
Washington, DC: Word Works, [1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in black and green; 60pp. Wrapper extremities rather unevenly toned, else Very Good, internally fine. Addendum laid in. Inscribed and signed by the D.C. poet on title page: "To Cherie..... More
Washington, DC: R. Farnham, 1854. Second Edition. Octavo. 121 pages + index. Printed wraps. Ex-library with "New York State Library" stamped to front wrap. Lacking map. Varnum was a Whig member of the New York State Assembly, and also, clearly had an interest in the plans and monuments..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; 4pp Washington Bicentennial Celebration "Calendar of Major Events", [xii], 238pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; bound in gingham cloth boards with paper spine label. Map endpapers, with vignettes at chapter heads. Red topstain. Jacket toned and smudged --..... More
Washington, D.C.: Office of History and Historic Architecture / Eastern Service Center, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; [2],vii,[1],147pp. & 42ll. of plates including one folding plan. Some wear to extremities from handling, spine a bit toned, old piece of tape to upper cover as well..... More