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

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1898. Very Good. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1898. Early printing, lacking year to title page and gilt to top edge. Octavo. 408 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, complete. Turquoise cloth decorated in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges with some minor fraying to crown; spine sunned; gilt along spine dulled and at front rubbed. Binding sound. Ghost of a bookplate to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of Mrs. Sidney M. Bloss to front free endpaper and title page and pages otherwise unmarked. Biography of the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, published five years after the kingdom's overthrow and the same year Hawai'i was annexed by the United States. Includes history of the monarchy, the story of Liliʻuokalani's trial and imprisonment, and stories of her interactions and negotiations with Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley. Scarce in retail at time of this writing in February 2023.

University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969. Near Fine. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969. First Edition, Limited Issue of 300 specially printed and bound copies, this being #192. Octavo. 138 pp. Brown and gray boards stamped in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards tight in binding and pages unmarked. Slipcase with mild shelfwear and lightly browned along edges, else sound and stable. Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. Very Good. Cambridge, MA: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. First Edition, one of 1450 softbound copies from a total print run of 1500. Signed by Tate without inscription at title page. Octavo. 77 pp. Photo-illustrated wraps. Light edgewear and mild curling to wraps. Binding is sound. Final two pages with heavy ink markings giving reader's definitions of words from the text; interior else unmarked. Very Good.