Search Results: Titles starting with F from Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000. Near Fine. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000. First Edition. Small quarto. 144 pp. Black and white photographs. Gray cloth boards with photo illustration mounted to front and stamped in white. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [8],376pp. General shallow shelf wear to jacket extremities including small chip at top margin of rear panel not approaching text, the whole rather toned and lightly dust-soiled, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper with very occasional marginalia in the same hand, else Very Good and sound overall. "'F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön' is not so much an introduction to Fitzgerald as a book for those who thought they already knew him" (Norman Holmes Pearson).

New York: Random House, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1954. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 437 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$4.75" price present. Burgundy boards stamped in black, silver, and peach; gray endpapers. Dust jacket shows a few minor nicks and scuffs along edges; spine lightly toned. Boards mildly bowed through center. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.

Santa Cruz, CA: Scream / Press, 1983. Near Fine/Very Good. Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1983. Stated First Edition (First Thus.) Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],xxxv,[1],213pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear with very faint rippling to jacket, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Signed by Campbell and Bloch on half title page, and again by Campbell on title page. From the front jacket flap: "Too strong for the New York publishing establishment, Scream/Press proudly presents this horrifying novel of murderous paranoia." This edition restores previously edited-out material and includes a previously-unpublished short story.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. Very Good. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First Edition. Octavo; [ii], 343pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in publisher's yellow cloth with black lettering and ornamentation. Red topstain. Jacket restored by prior owner with complete backing in archival tissue and some color fills and touch-ups, with evidence of a few prior shallow tears and chips along edges -- one at top back corner just clipping a bit of hand-restored text -- and some current general smudges to surface and scuffing along folds. Boards are square with some smudging to cloth and darkening to spine, moderate nudging at head and tail, and some spotting to back. A couple waterspots to topstain, without significant bleed into pages. Opens easily between a few gatherings but binding is holding. Pages unmarked. [Bleiler Early Years 1483; Bleiler Supernatural 1158; Currey p. 364].

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1905. Very Good. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1905. First Edition. Quarto. 156 pp. 4 color plates, complete; black and white illustrations. Brick cloth stamped in white, black, green, and gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn with light general chewing. Binding is sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Light spotting to preliminaries and edges of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked. Early work from the influential illustrator, best known for his work on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan series.

London: Arthur Baker Ltd, 1952. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Arthur Baker Ltd., 1952. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 191pp. Some shallow chipping and closed tears along jacket extremities briefly touching text without loss of meaning, small paper flaw to upper panel, corners gently bumped, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Psychological thriller set in the fictitious and appositely named village of Creep, Wrexshire, where a lone woman unlucky in love comes to recover, only to undergo another kind of "terrible ordeal.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to fellow writer and columnist William Safire on half title with inscription: "For Bill Safire -- With admiration, respect, and linguistic deference. Erik Tarloff." Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $23.00 price; book in red and blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket nudged at spine ends, else clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Signed by author on half title to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Helene and Bill / with love always / from the author / Shirley Lord / May '89." Octavo; 312 pages. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $18.95 price intact; book in red paper-covered boards with white cloth spine and blue lettering. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners, but crisp with no chips or tears. Boards are sturdy with a slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Lord was beauty editor for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and at time of this writing is a contributing editor to Huffington Post. She was married to A.M. Rosenthal, long-time journalist and Executive Editor at the New York Times.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First American Edition. Octavo; 263pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; blue cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing along edges and some surface toning and soiling, mostly to back panel along flap fold and to jacket verso. Faint bow to front board, with some spots of fading and dust-soiling to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Endpapers a bit toned along gutters. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Chiloquin, OR: Paul Pursell Outdoor Books, 1989. Near Fine. Chiloquin, OR: Paul Pursell Outdoor Books, 1989. Limited Edition of 200 copies signed by Knight, this being #119. Additional inscription from Knight to previous owner, "To a Sabatini zealot who thinks as I do that Sabatini is the 20th century Dumas - with a flourish of his own! Jesse F. Knight." Octavo. 103 pp. Photographic frontis portrait. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Green ribbon. No dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition. Signed by Lee Smith without inscription at title page. Octavo. 319 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Cream and beige boards stamped in copper. Dust jacket and boards lightly rubbed along edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Very Good -. New York: Oxford University Press, [1926?]. First Edition. Quarto; modern cloth-backed boards with original paper covers laid down, retaining original pictorial endpapers, gilt-lettered calf spine label, bespoke cloth slipcase; viii,[4],160pp.; tipped in color frontispiece and fourteen (14) leaves of plates, fifteen (15) half-tone illus. throughout text, each hand-colored and initialed by the author, as are pictorial endpapers. Binding rather crudely updated, front board a bit warped and rear cover soiled with dampstain along spine, textblock rather brittle and very slightly toned, long closed tear along gutter edge of pp. 57/8 not approaching text; overall a Good or better copy, annotated on front free endpaper in contemporary green ink: "Isidora Newman / Hand colored by the Author." It should be noted that hand-colored illustrations by Newman are not unique to this copy.

New York: Dodge Publishing Co, 1922. Very Good. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1922]. No edition statement. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears. Quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); 157pp, [158-160]. Twenty-four illustrations -- 12 full color, including frontis, and 12 black and white, with black and white vignettes throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering and gilt decoration. Gilt to top page edges; white endpapers. Boards rubbed at corners and spine ends, with some light scuffing down joints, and a few faint scuffs to surface. Spine a bit darkened, with lettering and illustration largely worn away. Prior owner's name on front free endpaper, with small seller's ticket for Miller & Rhoads Book Department of Richmond, VA on front pastedown. Sparse foxing to page edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Jackson, MS: The Mississippi Historical Society, 1975. Near Fine. Jackson, MS: The Mississippi Historical Society, 1975. First Edition, one of 1000 copies. Slim octavo. 27 pp. Light green paper-covered boards with title label to front; green endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A paper read at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson, Mississippi, March 7, 1975. Near Fine. [POLK A21:1].

New York: Century Co, 1900. Very Good +. New York: Century Co., 1900. First Thus. Large quarto; later half navy blue goat over cloth, gilt spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, new endpapers, original cloth bound in rear, housed in matching slipcase; xxiv,524pp.; illus. throughout, many full-paged. A hint of scuffing to leather along spine margins, light 2" diameter dampstain with just a bit of color bleed to final leaf of text mirrored by similar flaw to rear cloth cover bound in rear, else Very Good to Near Fine, rather superlative. Uniquely extra-illustrated with eleven mounted color plates (with printed tissue guards) by Harry Clarke from his first book, also an early 20th century edition of Andersen's fairy tales first published by Brentano's in 1916. Clarke went on to illustrate works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Perrault, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as designing more than 130 stained glass windows in the Arts and Crafts style.

St. Petersburg, RU: Palace Editions / State Russian Museum, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. St. Petersburg, RU: Palace Editions / State Russian Museum, 2001. First Edition. Large quarto. 411 pp. Color photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in red. Decorative endpapers. English language. Light edgewear to dust jacket and boards. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.

New-Haven: A. Morse, 1792. Very Good. New-Haven: A. Morse, MDCCXII [i.e. 1792]. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 33,[1]pp. ([A]-D4 [E]1, collated complete). Faint dampstaining along spine edge of title page, leaves trimmed partly affecting contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, else Very Good and sound. Ordination sermon by the Congregationalist minister and son of the more famed minister. EVANS 24291; TRUMBULL 654.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. Good +. New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in three colors, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; v,[1],286pp. Extremities rubbed with brief exposure at corners, front cover lettering faded, spine cocked, front hinge broken; overall a Good or better copy, internally clean and sound. [BAL 11878].

New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. Very Good. New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Large quarto; publisher's color photo-illustrated card wrappers; [80]pp. color photographs with [16]pp. text insert printed on pale tan stock. Wear to wrapper margins, chip at spine foot, faint surface scratches, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Photographic/anthropological/journalistic examination of the meteoric rise of graffiti affecting the New York City subway system in an era when almost no car was unaffected. Mailer's on-the-ground approach provides a sympathetic up-close portrait of the taggers: "A-I is talking to CAY 161. That is the famous Cay from 161 Street, there at the beginning with TAKI 183 and JUNIOR 161, as famous in the world of wall and subway graffiti as Giotto may have been when his name first circulated through the circuits of those workshops which led from Masaccio through Piero della… Read More