New York: [s.i.], 1943. Four-page ALS on USO letterhead from Charles R. Winthrop to his wife Mary. At the time Winthrop was serving with the 372nd Infantry, a segregated African American regiment then serving in World War II. With original envelope with "Idle Gossip Sinks Ships" stamped to front. Rubbed..... More
N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More
![Item #21543 Simon Son of Maria: A Novel [Illustrator's Copy]. Albert Pulcipher, Jonathan A....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677333138)
First Edition. N.p.: 1934. Quarto (28cm.); original black cloth, printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [5],350ll. printed mimeographed from original typescript, pagination added in blue ink manuscript; original pencil and ink drawing signed "J. Taylor" bound in place of half title. Cloth a bit soiled and worn at extremities..... 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
Portland, OR / Chicago: n.d., ca. 1940s. Quarto (29cm.); black cloth three-ring binder containing 250pp. of manuscript ink notes and diagrams on lined paper. Binder a bit worn at extremities, some splitting along upper cover spine edge, brief white splattering to rear cover, else Very Good, contents still quite clean..... More
![Item #21386 [Original Patent Application No. 370,011 Accomplished in Manuscript] "To all to whom...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21386.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673999255)
Washington: H. Peters, 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
![Item #25820 To Col. Ashby [Manuscript title]. Civil War Manuscript Poem, Miss O'Ferrall](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25820.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678137606)
[N.p.]: [s.i.], [ca. 1862]. Civil War two-page manuscript poem folded with manuscript title "To Col. Ashby." Presumably penned by a Miss O'Ferrall. Later pencil inscription reading "Mrs. Sue Lupton"; tears along folds with some general spotting, but overall intact. The poem is laudatory of Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby..... More
Waterbury, CT? 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image;..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Signed by author Yergin on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "With admiration and / respect - and appreciation / for the good sense of / originality you bring / to our national life, / best wishes, / Daniel Yergin."..... More
Daleville, IN: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 80pp. Light shelf wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good, internally fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the Indiana poet to Robert S. Sargent, the late Defense Department..... More
[N.p.]: [s.i.], 1954. Clipped signature of General Douglas MacArthur, mounted to sheet detailing it's provenance. Signature and backing sheets with tape remnants, else Very Good. The owner was possibly a Captain Robert Green, as this was laid in to a volume dedicated to him. The owner mailed a...... More
First Edition. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with an eight-page manuscript rough draft of..... More
![Item #27344 Memories of Wallington [Charles Trevelyan's Copy with ALS tipped in]. Edward Keith,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27344.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694985687)
[Paulton, Somerset]: Privately Printed, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 109pp. Cloth rather scuffed and lightly soiled, corners bumped, else Good to Very Good. Ownership ex libris to front pastedown of Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet (1870-1958), who provided the foreword to this volume (ex libris obscures..... More
![Item #21241 [Original Manuscript Translation] Marie [Mary] Stuart: A Drama. Translated from the...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21241.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673454746)
[Boston? Oct. 17, 1854.] Small square quarto (19cm.); contemporary calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, the translator's manuscript title along upper cover spine edge and spine, all edges marbled; [2],39pp. of manuscript text, the remaining approx. 150pp. blank; pale blue lined stock. Leather dried and quite rubbed with brief loss at spine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, green, and white and signed in image "MA" by the designer Margaret Armstrong, top edge gilt; [6],162pp.; eight leaves of color plates, color pictorial title page. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned and..... More
Denver? Ca. 1930. Small oblong quarto; gilt-tooled padded die-cut calf with celluloid lozenge inserted into middle of upper cover carved with birds and flowers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; extremities quite rubbed and leather starting to peel from boards, several surface scratches, else Good, internally sound and quite legible. A...... More
Boston / Albany: Printed for the Editor / J. Munsell, 1864. First Thus. Quarto (22.5cm.); publisher's pebbled green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, brown glazed endpapers; 309,[1]pp. Spine ends a bit chipped and cloth rather darkened, textblock toned and a bit brittle due to inferior paper stock, 20th century..... More
York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift..... More
First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill, / Thanks for the / encouragement. / Enjoy! / Josh." Additional signed typed letter laid in. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $23.00..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; xx,[2],582pp. Cloth a bit discolored at extremities and spine, corners very gently tapped, later (1990) ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good and sound..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. Inscribed on front free endpaper in blue pencil by the author, former executive director of the Associated Press, to journalist William Safire: "Greetings to Bill Safire - KC alias (?) Kent Cooper." Octavo; 324 pp.Tan cloth binding with title in orange..... More
![Item #7502 A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920 [Signed, with Autograph Note, Signed, Laid in]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7502.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602861665)
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1922]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; vi,220pp. Spine a hint cocked and cloth quite toned, else Very Good, internally fine. The author's first book, signed on title page. Additionally, laid in autograph card signed "M" on..... More
![Item #7211 Viet-Nam [Vietnam]: The Problem and a Solution [Typed Letter Signed in Facsimile Laid...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1599586385)
[Paris]: Viet-Nam Democratic Party, 1962. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's printed green textured paper-covered boards; 145pp.; four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Extremities and spine faded to tan, light shelf wear, some foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Lengthy 2pp. typed letter signed by the author..... More
![Item #11254 Paul Wallach: Reason and Rhyme [Signed Autograph Letter Laid In]. Paul Wallach, Franz...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11254.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644269128)
The Hague: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2002. First Edition, limited to 1500 copies. Signed autograph letter laid in. Quarto (25.5x20x0.5cm); unpaginated [48pp], including biographical and exhibit chronology, and brief bibliography. Illustrated throughout. Photographic dustjacket is trimmed by the publisher to allow 1 cm of brown wrapper margin to peek out..... More
![Item #10614 Paul Wallach [Autograph Letter Signed by Wallach Laid In]. Paul Wallach, Doris von...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10614.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629400584)
Besanceuil, Bonnay, France: Galerie Bruno Mory, 2001. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's grey printed card wrappers; [48]pp.; color photographs throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Bilingual text in French and German. Exhibition catalog featuring eighteen works by the American sculptor Paul Wallach (b. 1960)..... More