![La Louiseide, ou, Le héros chrétien; poeme épique [Two Volumes in One]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/347/1682347050.0.m.jpg)
La Louiseide, ou, Le héros chrétien; poeme épique [Two Volumes in One]
by [Louis IX] Le Jeune [attr.]
Paris: Merlin, 1773. Very Good. Paris: Chez Merlin, Libraire, rue de la Harpe, à Saint-Joseph, 1773. First Edition. Two volumes in one; octavo (20.5cm); contemporary calf over paper-covered boards, tan gilt spine label; [4],xxiv,318; [4],247,[1]pp. (collated complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. Moderate wear to margins, front joint starting to crack but holding, brief leather flaking to spine,... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Memoirs of the Foreign Legion
by M.M. [Maurice Magnus]; D.H. Lawrence [intro.]
London: Martin Secker, 1924. Very Good. London: Martin Secker, 1924. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black gilt-lettered cloth, red topstain; 319pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and topstain faded, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously published memoirs of Maurice Magnus, whom Lawrence had first met through Norman Douglas in 1919. By the time of his... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![At the Still Point: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection [Four Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/535/1534535887.0.m.jpg)
At the Still Point: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection [Four Volume Set]
by [Manfred Heiting] Eugenia Parry Janis; Wilfred Wiegand; et al.
Los Angeles: Cinubia, 1995. Very Good +/Very Good +. [Los Angeles]: Cinubia, [1995-2009]. First Editions, limited to 750 to 1000 copies each. Three volumes in four; large square quartos; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jackets; chiefly photographic illus. throughout, many in color. Light shelf wear, some dust-soil to textblock extremities, else a Very Good or better set. Contents... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox [Signed by Henry and Dennis]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/833/480/1699480833.0.m.jpg)
Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox [Signed by Henry and Dennis]
by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis [illus.]
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1956. Later Edition. Small quarto (24.5cm); publisher's boards, color illustrated endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 154pp.; halftone illustrations throughout. Light wear to jacket and board margins, spine panel lettering a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Cross Creek [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/811/106/1572106811.0.m.jpg)
Cross Creek [Signed]
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Edward Shenton [illus.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition with "A" to copyright page. Signed by Rawlings with brief inscription to previous owner at front fly leaf. Octavo. 368 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Green boards stamped in silver; dark topstain; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![The Veil of Snows [Signed by Helprin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/114/1696114444.0.m.jpg)
The Veil of Snows [Signed by Helprin]
by Mark Helprin; Chris Van Allsburg [illus.]
New York: Viking / Ariel, 1997. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Viking / Ariel, 1997. First Edition with full number line. Small quarto (26cm); publisher's boards in unclipped lavender pictorial dust jacket; [6],120pp.; full color illus. throughout. Moderate wear and soil to dust jacket margins including small closed tear at bottom margin of upper panel, shallow strip... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Life on the Mississippi [Limited Edition, Signed by Thomas Hart Benton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/116/060/1631060116.0.m.jpg)
Life on the Mississippi [Limited Edition, Signed by Thomas Hart Benton]
by Mark Twain; Thomas Hart Benton [illus.]; Edward Wagenknecht [intro.]; Willis Wager [ed.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited Edition of 1200 copies signed by Thomas Hart Benton at rear colophon, this being #670. Large octavo. 418 pp. Illustrations throughout by Benton, some color. Glassine wrapper. Gray-green morocco spine over illustrated boards featuring a lithographed scene by Benton. Housed... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons. Volume I: The Soul and God and Volume II: The Soul and the Body [Two volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/509/396/1691396509.0.m.jpg)
Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons. Volume I: The Soul and God and Volume II: The Soul and the Body [Two volume set]
by Martin Gueroult; Roger Ariew [trans.]
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Near Fine. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1984-1985. First Thus. Two octavo volumes. 327; 311pp. Brown and maroon cloth boards stamped in silver; gray endpapers; no dust jackets. Mild bumping to edges of boards; binding sound; previous owner's inscriptions to preliminaries, else unmarked. A Near Fine set.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Lullabies and Night Songs [Signed by Maurice Sendak]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/538/889/1637889538.0.m.jpg)
Lullabies and Night Songs [Signed by Maurice Sendak]
by Maurce Sendak [illus.]; Alec Wilder [music]; William Engvick [ed.]
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970s. Later printing. Signed by Maurice Sendak without inscription at front free endpaper. Quarto. 78 pp. Color illustrations and music throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Glossy boards. Mild rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. Light edgewear and soiling to boards. Binding sound... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge
by Max Scheler; Manfred S. Frings [trans.]
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Very Good +. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First Thus. Octavo. 239 pp. + advertisements. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of boards and binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good plus.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Arts of the Sung and Yuan
by Maxwell K. Heard; Judith G. Smith [eds.]
New York: Department of Asian Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. Very Good +. New York: Department of Asian Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Tall octavo. 367 pages + glossary. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges of wraps with some faint general rubbing. Binding is... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Washington Republican - Friday, July 9, 1847 ["Honor to the Brave." Free Barbecue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/557/028/1715028557.0.m.jpg)
Washington Republican - Friday, July 9, 1847 ["Honor to the Brave." Free Barbecue]
by [Mexican War; Indiana; Barbecue] Calvin Frary [ed.]
Salem, Indiana: Washington Republican / Calvin Frary, 1847. Very Good -. Salem, IN: Washington Republican, 1847. Folio (55cm); removed; 4pp. Stain to upper corner; general wear, staining and smudging; Good to Very Good. Uncommon Indiana newspaper here celebrating the return of veterans of the Mexican War including the Washington Rifles, Posey Guards, Hoosier Boys, Lawrence Greys, Lanesville Legion, Spencer... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The New Aristocrats
by Michel de Saint-Pierre; Anthony Burgess [trans.]; Llewela Burgess [trans.]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 218pp. Boards in red cloth with gilt stamping inside publisher's bright yellow, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed with minor dust soiling and toning as well as sunning to spine. Boards bumped and rubbed at spine... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, March 1948
by [NAACP] Roy Wilkins [ed.]
New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, 1948. Very Good. New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, 1948. First Edition. Quarto. 67-94pp. Photo-illustrated wraps with actress Ruby Dee featured. Wraps toned and a bit brittle with a few minor nicks and tears to edges; vertical crease through center. Splits along spine but covers holding; Very Good.... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Heckling Catalogue / FluxAttitudes
by Nancy Dwyer; Cornelia Lauf & Susan Hapgood [eds.]
Gent: Imschoot Uitgevers, 1991. Very Good +. Gent: Imschoot Uitgevers, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); stiff yellow-green card covers with French flaps; 60pp. Covers clean and crisp with light rubbing at corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Collection of essays on Fluxus accompanying an exhibition at the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo (Feb 23 -... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
A Sermon, at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Robbins, appointed a missionary to the county of Trumbull, in the state of Ohio; delivered at Norfolk, June 19th, 1803
by Nathan Strong et al.
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1803. Very Good. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1803. First Edition. Octavo; modern blue wrappers; 27,[1]pp. ([A]-C4 D2, collated complete). Faint dampstaining to textblock, else Very Good and sound overall. Texts includes the Charge, delivered by Ammi R. Robbins and the Right Hand of Fellowship, delivered by Nathaniel Perkins. SABIN 92962; SHAW... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Petals of Blood [Signed by Ngugi]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/369/598/1700598369.0.m.jpg)
Petals of Blood [Signed by Ngugi]
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Moses Isegawa [intro.]
New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Very Good +. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. First Penguin Classics Edition with full number line. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xix,[1],409pp. Very light wear, textblock starting to tone, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author without inscription on title page.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Chansons et Poesies Lyriques [Slip Signed by the Author Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/648/043/1511043648.0.m.jpg)
Chansons et Poesies Lyriques [Slip Signed by the Author Laid in]
by Nicolas Defrecheux; Auguste Donnay and Armand Rassenfosse [illus.]
Liege: Aug. Benard, 1895. Very Good. Liège: Aug. Bénard, 1895. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's pictorial red and tan pictorial wrappers; 243pp.; black and white portrait frontispiece, 32 vignettes printed in tan and orange. Expert restoration to top upper cover edge and lower corner, endpapers a bit toned, else Very Good. Blue slip signed by the author laid... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963
by Odd Arne Westad [ed.]
Washington, DC / Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Stanford University Press, 1998. Near Fine/Very Good. Washington, DC / Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Stanford University Press, [1998]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xxii,404pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, light finger soil to final leaves, else a Near... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The One Hoss Shay With Its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & The Broomstick Train
by Oliver Wendell Holmes; Howard Pyle [illus.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892. Very Good/Very Good-. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's blind-tooled reverse calf, top edge gilt, dark green glazed endpapers, in brown printed dust jacket; 78ll. printed on rectos only; illus. throughout. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket margins, small loss at spine crown affecting text, extensive... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Elihu Vedder [binding and illus.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Very Good +. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Early reprint of the Vedder Edition. Quarto. [121] pp. Black and white illustrations throughout with Vedder's rendering printed on one side of leaf only. Bound in brown cloth; beveled edges; cover and spine with elaborate designs in gilt and dark brown; top edge... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia
by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Very Good. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Twenty-Second US Edition. 12mo (17 cm); 77,[1]pp. Boards full bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping and brown decoration. All edges red and endsheets dark blue. Board extremities rubbed and bumped with spotted soiling and scuffing to surface. Spine darkened with publisher name at... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Rugs and Textiles of Hereke: A Documentary Account of the History of Hereke, Court Workshop to Model Factory
by Onder Kucukerman; Maggie Quigley-Pinar [trans.]
Ankara, Turkey: Sumerbank Genel Mudurlugu, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. Ankara, Turkey: Sumerbank Genel Mudurlugu, [1987]. First English Language Translation. Quarto (28cm); publisher's boards in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; 246pp.; illus. throughout, many in full color. Light shelf wear to board and dust jacket margins, else Very Good and sound.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Last Spanish War: Revelations in "Diplomacy
by Orestes Ferrara; William E. Shea [trans.]
New York: Paisley Press, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Paisley Press, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale grey price-clipped dust jacket lettered in red; [2],151pp. Light shelf wear, rather extensive paper flaw along bottom quarter of upper jacket panel somewhat affecting imprint, brief ink stains to bottom textblock edge, contemporary gift inscription to... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5 Aug.-Sept. 1936
by [Pablo Picasso] Roger Roughton [ed.]
London: Farleigh Press, 1936. Very Good+. [London: Farleigh Press], 1936. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white staple bound card wrappers printed in red and blue; [73]-103pp. Light dust-soil, wrapper margins toned, else Very Good or better. Special issue featuring six poems by Pablo Picasso, as well as the opening essay "Surrealism and Communism." Contributors also include Salvador... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books