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

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. First Edition. Signed by Gore Vidal without inscription at title page. Octavo. 278 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black and orange boards. Unclipped dust jacket dampstained along top quarter of jacket; lightly chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light to moderate edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition, stated. Turquoise and navy decorative dust jacket by noted Czech book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Binding also by him, in aegean-blue cloth with silver and turquoise spine stamping, including ivy motifs; author's initials, with ivy motif, stamped in turquoise on front panel. Standard Knopf blind-debossed borzoi device on rear panel. Textblock top edge stained brick red; deckle-cut fore-edge. Price-clipped dust jacket unfaded, with light rubbing along edges and spine ends, a tiny tear at back near tail, toning along forlds, and a small puncture over front joint. Very light bump to bottom front corner, with some nudging to spine ends. Binding is tight and pages unmarked. Front of jacket displays a statement from Alfred A. Knopf boasting of how he wooed Davies to compile the essays, articles, and mini-homilies for the volume. Back of jacket shows a photo of Davies posing with his Count Cagliostro look.