Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards mildly rubbed along edges and binding is sound. Two private library stamps -- one to front free endpaper and one to title page -- though these are the only..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. Octavo; xlix, 196pp. Blue-gray boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their bookplate to front pastedown and usual markings. Boards are sturdy and square with some light smudging to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Surface abrasion from removed card pocket on rear..... More
Berlin: VeneKlasen/Werner, 2013. First Edition. Small Quarto (18x14cm); 49pp. Full-page reproductions on every page. Saddle-stapled self-cover booklet. Very slight twist to the staple-binding edge, a result of storage pressures. All pages otherwise pristine. This is the catalog of the Alsoudani show at the (then) VeneKlasen/Werner gallery in..... More
![Item #27724 Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme [Limited Edition signed by Sillitoe and Steadman]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27724.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697838199)
London: Published by Ralph Steadman at the Steam Press, 1981. Limited Edition of 98 copies signed by Sillitoe and Steadman at colophon, this being #31. Two volumes in one, quarto, and both volumes bound in black cloth case with spine lettered in gilt; Steadman's 18 b&w illustrations to one side..... More
London: K. Rustem & Brother, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; xvii + 329pp, including bibliography and index. Appended section of 16 documentary and photographic illustrations. Teal dustjacket over black boards; gilt spine lettering. Jacket slightly faded along top edge and spine, but with no chips or tears. Boards and..... More
![Item #30579 The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon [Signed]. Colin Thubron](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30579.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725282756)
London: Heinemann, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (25 cm); [xii] with double page map, 179pp. Publisher's pictorial dust jacket with author photo at back flap and price-clipped. Boards full bound in pear green cloth with gilt stamping. Chartreuse green endsheets. Green top stain. All 27 illustrations present. Jacket generally scuffed and..... 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
First Edition. 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..... More
[Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes. 336 pp. 326 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's advertisements. Two hand-colored frontispieces, plate of Tauk Kisra, eight in-text woodcuts, and folding map of the author's route from Bussorah to Kizliar on the Borders of the Desert of Astrakhan with route in..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1929]. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow dust jackets lettered in red; xiii,[1],282; viii,402pp. Jackets rather dust-soiled and chipped, large loss along top margin of Vol. II upper jacket panel, spines toned as are endpapers, else a Good to Very Good..... More
Peshawar, Pakistan: PAF Book Club, 2002. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,112pp.; color illus. throughout. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, light soil to textblock extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Pictorial history of the Pakistan Air Force, replete with paintings..... More
Lahore, Pakistan] Directorate of Media Affairs / Pakistan Air Force, 2007. Revised Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,120pp.; color illus. throughout. Tear to upper jacket panel affecting "PAF" without loss, light shelf wear, early leaves a bit soiled; overall Very Good and sound. Pictorial..... More
First English Language Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xv,[3],233pp.; two folding plates, text illus. throughout, including photographs. Wrapper extremities extremely toned and rather foxed, small chip at top spine edge of upper cover, previous owner has written the title at bottom edge of textblock as well as..... More
![Item #31215 [Tractato o uero libro chiamato Pungi lingua] [Drop title: In Nomine patrie & filii &...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31215.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731774044)
Firenze [Florence]: [Bartolommeo di Libri], 1494. Small quarto (21cm.); contemporary paneled calf crudely rebacked in gilt-tooled calf sometime in the 17th century; [222]pp. (of 224), collated and lacking pictorial title page, otherwise complete. Leather worn along margins with some shallow exposure, panelling partly effaced, textblock a bit finger-soiled and shaken..... 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 #28188 Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David [Signed]. Lawrence...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701268381)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Signed by Lawrence Wright without inscription at title page. Octavo. 345 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black and blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with mild surface scratching. Boards with light..... More
![Item #7389 Caucasus, War and Peace: The New World Disorder and Caucasia [Inscribed and Signed]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7389.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601577989)
[Haarlem, Netherlands: SOTA, 1998.] Octavo; publisher's yellow printed card wrappers; 221pp. Minor bumping at corners, ownership signature to title page, faint, brief pencil marginalia to a few leaves, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed in year of publication on title page: "With regards / Hoping..... 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
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,431pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Moderate shelf wear and dust-soil to textblock edges, else a Very Good copy. More
Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1966. Quarto. 268 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Text in German, Arabic, and Hebrew. Spine lightly toned and a few minor scuffs to boards. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. First American Edition. Octavo. 155 pp Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Green boards stamped in black. Jacket chipped and creased along edges with a few tears and scrapes. Boards lightly shelfworn with some white spotting. Binding sound. Creasing to..... More
![Item #30489 My Friday Drives: Discovering the Letbelah Car Museum [Signed]. Omar Hussain...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30489.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724246087)
New York: Rizzoli, 2020. First Edition. Signed by Omar Hussain Alfardan with inscription to previous owner at half title. Quarto. 392 pp. Color photographs throughout. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Light wear to edges with a few chips. Binding sound and interior unmarked; a Very Good copy, scarcely..... More
London: T.N. Foulis, 1919. First Thus. Quarto; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in brown; [114]pp.; fifteen leaves of color plates tipped to stiff grey stock (tissue guards), text printed within grey decorative border throughout. Cloth a bit soiled, corners gently bumped, hinges reinforced and brief paper repair to front free..... More