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

New York: Dot Books, 1973. Very Good +. New York: Dot Books, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to wraps with a few minor scuffs. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Early poetry collaboration between Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, published just before the CBGB scene took shape and garnered a cult following with Verlaine and Hell at the center. Though free of ownership markings, this copy from the collection of Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

New York: Dot Books, 1973. Very Good +. New York: Dot Books, 1973. First Edition. One of fifty copies of the first edition signed and numbered by the author, this being number 11 and signed "Theresa Stern." 12mo. 32 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine. Early poetry collaboration between Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, published just before the CBGB scene took shape and garnered a cult following with Verlaine and Hell at the center. Though free of ownership markings, this copy from the collection of Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, [1977]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],182pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with subsequent wrinkling, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Memoirs of Addison Gayle, Jr., one of the most eminent Black literary critics of the 1960s and 1970s, author of "The Black Aesthetic," "Black Expression," and a study of Claude McKay, among many others. Uncommon signed.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1952. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by J. Hyde Barnum retaining original price ($2.50); 224pp. Very minor wear to jacket extremities including a few small chips and closed tears, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Fabulously-titled mystery novel by the prolific sci-fi and fantasy short story writer.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Vanguard Press, 1928. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket, decorative endpapers printed in yellow; [8],165pp. Light wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, contemporary gift inscription to half title, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

London: Henry and Co, 1893. Very Good. London: Henry and Co., 1893. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's dark olive gilt-lettered cloth; xix,[5],126,[2]pp. Very minor shelf-wear, spine a bit cocked and gilt lettering very slightly flaked, endpapers browned, else a Very Good, still quite brilliant and fresh copy. "Being Number One of the Independent Theatre Series" (upper cover). The author's first play to be staged, at the Royalty Theatre in 1892. The piece, collected in Shaw's aptly-titled 1898 collection "Plays Unpleasant," opens with an unapologetic Author's Preface in which Shaw informs the reader "It is not my fault...that my art is the expression of my sense of moral and intellectual perversity rather than of my sense of beauty," closing with the line "I am no novice in the current critical theories of dramatic art; and what I have done I have done on purpose" (pp. xviii-xix).

New York: Random House, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition, stated, with numberline to 2 in keeping with RH's methods at the time. Octavo (24cm); xiv,183pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $16.95 price intact; boards in gray paper and purple cloth spine with gilt lettering. Jacket rubbed along edges with vertical creases to flaps and some light dust-soiling to surface. Boards are sturdy and square with some nudging at spine ends.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1873. Very Good -. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's terracotta cloth stamped in black, gilt spine titling, brown glazed endpapers; 162,[6](ads)pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Cloth rather scuffed at margins, spine significantly darkened with small loss at spine crown, title page rather finger-soiled, scattered foxing throughout, else a Good to Very Good copy overall. Unaccountably scarce storybook for children, this copy enhanced by a contemporary owner's hand-coloring of the title page and two text illustrations with pastels. The frontispiece is especially reminiscent of a Degas drawing.

London: Phaidon, 2019. Near Fine. London: Phaidon, 2019. Presumed First Edition. Three volumes (quarto in green cloth, octavo in green wraps, 24mo in green leatherette); 648pp total, 330 illustrations. Sealed in publisher's original open-faced box and shrinkwrap. Box caving inward a bit from tightened shrinkwrap; books inside as new. From the publisher: "A companion piece to Noma, A Work in Progress is a personal account of life at the now famous restaurant. Written by René Redzepi as a series of journal entries the text will be accompanied by approximately 75 brand new recipes worked on during the year. Illustrated with a combination of candid photography shot by René and his team (125 images), plus final dish shots (90), A Work in Progress promises to be a unique insight into the inner workings of the restaurant and its highly creative team of chefs

London: Bickers and Son, 1872. Very Good. London: Bickers and Son, 1872. New Edition. Eight volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in full contemporary gilt-tooled tree calf, elaborate gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Spines a bit dried, light wear to margins and joints, contemporary ownership ex libris of Robert W. Downing to front pastedowns, 20th-century ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaves, else a Very Good, still quite brilliant set.

Boston and New York: The Shakespeare Head / Basil Blackwell / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Near Fine. Boston and New York: The Shakespeare Head / Basil Blackwell / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1000 copies of which 500 were reserved for the American large paper issue, this being #56. Large octavo. 385 pp. + 9 pp. biographical note. Frontis with tissue guard. Bound by the Riverside Press in half green morocco ruled in gilt with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt; plain blue endpapers. Faint stains to front and rear board, spine lightly sunned. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper, but otherwise pages unmarked.