Search Results: Authors starting with B from Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Wooster, OH: Wooster Republican, 1881. Good+. Wooster, OH: Wooster Republican, 1881. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 23pp. Preliminary gathering separated but present, light dust-soil to extremities, else a Good, still quite fresh copy. Partisan address in favor of James A. Garfield for president, decrying the perfidy of the Democrats in regards to proposed restitutions given former rebels. One copy in OCLC as of August, 2020, at the Western Reserve Historical Society.

London: Printed by order of the Trustees Sold at the Museum & by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd and Humphrey Milford, 1926. Very Good. London: Printed by order of the Trustees Sold at the Museum & by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd and Humphrey Milford, 1926. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Quarto. 416 pp. + 44 plates bound at rear, complete. Black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Light wear to edges of boards and institutional call number to spine in gilt. Rear hinge starting but binding holding soundly. Institutional markings to endpapers and stamps to margins of many pages and plates, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.

Erie, PA, 1950. Near Fine. Erie, PA?, 1950? Octavo (23cm.); publisher's red textured cloth lettered in black; 113pp. Light foxing along textblock edges, else Near Fine. Cover title: "Dental Society History / Ninth District Dental Society / 'Old Lake Erie' / State of Pennsylvania / 1864-1950." History of the Society by one of its former presidents, the Erie-based dentist and a charter member of the "American Society for Cleft Palate Rehabilitation.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. Very Good. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. Reprint of the 1889 edition. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.25"); [viii], 568pp. Green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Boards lightly rubbed at corners with a bit of nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Dial Press, 1976. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Dial Press, [1976]. First Edition, First Printing. Small, square quarto; publisher's brown library cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket, front flap clipped but retaining original library price ($4.58); [32]pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins, chiefly along flap folds, spine panel very slightly faded, very faint toning from previously removed wrap-around sticker, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Sweetly minimalist children's picture book which garnered the prolific Minnesota author a Caldecott Honor.

[London]: The National Society of Operative Printers & Assistants, 1929. Good. [London]: The National Society of Operative Printers & Assistants, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pages. Black and white plates. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards are worn at extremities with exposure. Front boards show significant paper remnants from previously removed label (?). Remnants heavy on front board and minor at rear. Binding sound. Previous owner's inscription and blind stamp to front free endpaper. Pages otherwise unmarked. Still a serviceable reading copy with the board flaws.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. Very Good +/Fair. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. First UK Edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Printed dust jacket, though lacking spine portion. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Only front and rear panels of dust jacket present with some light chipping and general rubbing to remaining portions. Tear along bottom half of front flap. Jacket now in removable mylar, retained in photo. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Albert Parsons Sachs to front pastedown. Pages mostly unopened. Interior clean and unmarked. A series of essays penned between 1902-1912, first published in the U.S. in 1912 with some alterations to the U.K. publication.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 532 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. A touch of shelfwear to boards. Binding is sound. Slight binding flaw with front pastedown extending to fore edge of front board. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.

Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1818. Very Good. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1818. First American Edition, from the Third London Edition. Octavo. 196 pages. Original paper covered boards. Some loss to spine with exposure to gatherings. Binding otherwise sound. Contemporary ownership inscription to preliminaries and title page. Some staining to pages.

New York: Random House, 1943. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 263 pp. Beige cloth boards stamped in purple; purple topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Moderate soiling to spine; lean to boards. Binding is sound. Off-setting to endpapers, but pages otherwise unmarked.

Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1907. Very Good. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1907. First Edition. Small octavo; 86pp. Publisher's green cloth with white, green, and gilt lettering and ornamentation. Boards very lightly shelfworn with a bit of fading to spine, but clean and bright overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of four parables, "The Water-Star," "Landscape of the Soul," "The Haunts of the Hind," and "Do We See Nature?," by an editor of The Unitarian Advance.

New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. Good+. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in purple; [8],272pp. Possibly ex-library with paper flaws to both pastedowns from previously removed elements as well as faint tape residue to boards; cloth a bit unevenly toned, spine especially so, corners bumped; a Good or better, still quite solid copy, albeit lacking dust jacket.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime Club Selection. An Inspector Schmitt mystery featuring a dissipated heir to a football conglomerate, the jacket art irresistibly adorned with a skeleton kicking off.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Galdone; 188pp. Light wear, more so to board extremities, text block uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.25); 219pp. Chipping and rubbing along jacket extremities, including small losses at spine ends not approaching text, spine panel significantly toned, very faint soil to cloth boards, else Very Good overall. An Inspector Schmitt crime novel, set on Park Avenue.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Very Good. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Brown endpapers. Boards worn at extremities with exposure, including to top inch of front joint. Front hinge starting but binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. [BAL 278, Wright II 39].

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. Very Good. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition, First State with "scattered" on page 14 and "abroad" on page 197. Octavo. 261 p. + 23 p. publisher's advertisements with "The Uncle Sam Series" to first page. Frontispiece with tissue guard + additional black and white illustrations including one additional black and white plate. Rebound in modern cloth with original blue cloth boards pasted over, original gilt decoration to spine, new endpapers with original front brown endpaper present but lacking at rear. Boards lightly worn along edges with chipping to edges of original spine. Binding is sound. Newspaper clippings rather shoddily mounted to front preliminaries with some associated staining. Toning and spotting to pages but otherwise legible and unmarked.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Good. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Later Printing. 16mo (6.25" x 4"); 278pp. Engraved frontis. Lavender cloth-covered boards with "Carter's Fireside Library" blindstamped to front and back panels and gilt lettering to spine. Boards heavily rubbed along edges and corners, with fading along edges, scuffing and some exposure along joints, and a dime-sized coffee-stain at bottom back corner; spine ends nudged and frayed, with gilt of spine lettering mostly rubbed away. Front free endpaper cleanly torn out. Pages moderately foxed and toned. Textblock opens easily between gatherings with a bit of separation starting at center, but binding is still holding. Small reference notation in pen on back pastedown, else pages unmarked. Memoir of the Royal Navy officer and surveyor, who died during the Battle of Canton in 1857, first published both in the U.S. and U.K. in 1859.

Beijing: China Cultural Relics Coordination Centre, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Beijing: China Cultural Relics Coordination Centre, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto; publisher's leatherette in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in gilt; 382pp.; color photographs throughout, publisher's cancel mounted to colophon. Extremities a bit rubbed and wrinkled from handling, corners gently bumped, a few faint surface scratches, old price sticker to rear jacket panel, else Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual text in Chinese and English. An invaluable reference.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; 319pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket is worn and toned along edges, with a few small, closed tears (repaired internally with tape), bumping to spine ends, and some smudging to back. Vertical creases to front and back flaps. Boards are square with some fading along top edge. Gilt lettering to spine mostly faded to black. Book opens easily between gatherings, but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked. Basis for the 1966 Irvin Kershner film starring a Bond-era Sean Connery as the hapless poet protagonist.