![Item #13775 Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff]. Aesop, Boris Artzybasheff, ed](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13775.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659387491)
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front..... More
Somerset, NJ: Vanguard Productions, 2005. Deluxe Hardcover Edition, part of an unnumbered print run of 800 copies. Quarto. 152 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon leatherette lettered in gilt with maroon slipcase. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Sturdy and square in..... More
La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, 2000. Stated First Printing. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in silver. Blue ribbon. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. More
[N.p.]: [n.p.], 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 10 plates laid in a printed portfolio with illustration to front cover. Includes Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Jounson in Waiting for Godot, Carol Channing as Lady Macbeth and Zero Mostel as Peter Pan, among others. Portfolio worn along edges with a few tears..... 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
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. First Edition with publisher's colophon to copyright page. Octavo. 323 pp. 7 full-page woodcuts by Ward, including frontispiece; decorative chapter headings. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price present. Blue boards stamped in copper. Dust jacket shows general rubbing and scuffing with..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Second Edition, Limited to 3000 copies. Folio; publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jacket retaining original price ($6.00); xviii,[4],130pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket verso backed and extremities heavily restored, rear panel a bit dust-soiled and spine a shade toned, pinpoint wear to cloth extremities..... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Thus. Octavo. 47 pp. "Embroidered" with nine drawings by Beardsley, including frontispiece, complete. Beveled green boards decorated in gilt. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards slightly warped and rubbed at extremities, edges and corners bumped, and spine ends nudged. Gilt at front rubbed with some..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. First Thus, with no additional printings listed Quarto. [48pp]. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. Housed in custom black slipcase. Dust jacket restored by prior..... More
New York: Macaulay Company Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom paper-covered slipcase; xi,[12]-268pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, six leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout, color pictorial endpapers. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, else..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Quarto. 268 pp. 7 tipped-in color plates including frontis, all present, + black and white in-text illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; bound in blue cloth with black and gilt stamping; illustrated endpapers with gilt top edges. Housed in custom cloth-covered slipcase... More
Venezia: Presso Antonio Zattae Figli, 1791. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); later period-style parchment, two olive gilt-lettered morocco spine onlays, speckled endpapers; [8],196 [but 296]pp. ([*]4 A-S8 T4); steel engraved medallion to title page, fifteen engraved scenes printed in text throughout. Light wear to extremities, chiefly at corners, else a...... More
Paris: Jean Bosc & Co., 1907. First Edition Limited to 200 copies on "papier velin des manufactures d'Arches," of which this is no. 25. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers printed in brown and black; [6]pp. & 54 + xxxv ll. of plates printed on rectos only. Wrapper extremities a...... More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1914]. Presumed First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Poems with black and white illustrations and color illustrations to facing pages. White cloth stamped in brown with front pictorial pastedown. No dust jacket. Light smudging and spotting to boards. Binding..... More
Joliet, IL: The P.F. Volland Company, 1922. Eleventh Printing. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Illustrated boards. Publisher's illustrated box. Publisher's bookmark laid in. Boards show light wear to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Box worn at extremities with some general smudging and spottong, but structurally sound. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit..... More
La Jolla, CA: The Green Tiger Press, 1977. First Edition. Oversized folio. 12 leaves, each with a mounted color plate by Rackham. String-bound pictorial wrappers. Wraps curl and crease at edges with a few short closed tears and some light spotting. Cover wrap torn at top edge and..... More
Paris: Eugène Ducrocq, [n.d. but 1864]. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's crimson morocco-backed paneled cloth, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; [4],204pp.; eau-forte frontispiece, thirteen leaves of plates, including five additional eaux-fortes etchings, text illus. throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed, chiefly at corners and spine crown..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in four colors, [8],164pp.; two-toned (black and peach) frontispiece, eight leaves of plates, text illus. and vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, chiefly at spine ends, spine cloth a shade darkened and slightly spotted, corners gently..... More
Verona, IT: Oficina Bodoni / The Limited Editions Club, 1937. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel, this being #725. Quarto. 302 pp. Illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Patterned cloth boards with blue leather title label to spine. Lacks publisher's slipcase, but housed in custom-made one... More
![Item #27220 Tales of Toad and Other Stories. No. 1 [Signed]. Bill Griffith](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27220.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692206715)
[San Francisco]: The Print Mint, 1970. First Edition. Signed by Bill Griffith in pen without inscription at bottom of first page. Single-issue comic (9.75" x 6.75"); [32]pp. Illustrated saddle-stapled paper wraps. Covers are crisp with some light scuffing and crimping along spine, rubbing at fore-edge, hints of creasing..... More
![Item #27221 Four Sketchbooks and a Table of Useful Information [Signed by Griffith]. Bill...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27221.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692207823)
San Francisco: Apex Novelties, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Bill Griffith without inscription on first page below printed name. Digest-sized chapbook; [24]pp. Illustrated card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers are clean and crisp with very faint rubbing at corners. Small sticker shadow inside front cover, with a small patch of..... More
San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1974. First Printing, stated. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); 127pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, with a faint bump at top back near spine and a bit of toning to spine and rear panel. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound..... More
New York: Time, 1934. First Edition. 12mo; 44pp. Illustrations throughout. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Boards lightly shelfworn and a touch faded along edges. Spine a bit darkened and dulled. Prior owner's small bookplate at top corner of front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
New York: Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Folded folio sheet (14 1/2" x 13") with four color illustrations laid in. 4 color plates representing Venezuela, Trinidad, Martinique, and Jamaica. Folio sheet creased at corners with several short closed tears, general rubbing, and some soiling/discoloration. Plates themselves..... More