Search Results: Authors starting with U from Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Very Good. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903-1910. First Edition. Octavo. Various paginations. Black and white illustrations. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Marbled edges. Thirteen issues bound into one. Titles included are: Economical Use of Meat in the Home by C.F. Langworthy; Meats: Composition and Cooking by Chas. D. Woods; Bread and Bread Making by Helen Atwater; Care of Food in the Home by Mary Hinman Abel; Preparation of Vegetables for the Table by Maria Parloa; Canning Vegetables in the Home by J.F. Breazeale; Eggs and Their Uses as Food by C.F. Langworthy; The Use of Milk as Food by R.D. Milner; Potatoes and other Root Crops as Food by C.F. Langworthy; Use of Fruit as Food by Langworthy; Poultry as Food by Atwater; Principle of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food by W.O. Atwater; and Household Tests for the Detection of Oleomargarine and Renovated Butter by G.E. Patrick. A delicious yet economically prudent sammelband.… Read More

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1948. Very Good. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [ca. 1948]. Reprint; late 1940s or early '50s with stitching locations altered, per Bienvenue & Schmidt. Large octavo. 306 pp. Black and white illustrations. Blue cloth stamped in black with illustrated pastedown to front. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and corners slightly bumped; small patch of staining and one nick to spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions in pen to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good. [Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 118].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($15.95), black topstain; [8],307pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else a Very Good, completely unfaded copy. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Fine/Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 210. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain, housed in original pictorial paper-covered slipcase; [16],298pp. A Fine copy. Signed by the author on limitation page.

New York: Random House, 1991. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1991. First U.S. Edition (numberline to 2 in keeping with RH's methods at the time). Signed by John Updike without inscription at front free endpaper. Quarto. 231 pp. Photographs throughout, some color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with general rubbing and faint surface scratching. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition, stated. Signed by Updike at title page with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 467pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $13.95 price intact. Bronze boards stamped in silver and gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket lightly worn and toned along edges, with some slight chipping to spine ends and corners and a vertical crease to rear flap. Spine a bit cocked, with a few vertical creases to cloth and wear at head and tail. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to edges of text block and some light spotting and toning to endpapers. Pages unmarked and text legible throughout.

New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, [1995]. First Everyman Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xxxi,[1],1519pp. Very light foxing and dust-soil to textblock margins and rear jacket panel, corners nudged, else a Very Good or better copy. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Very Good +. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Limited Edition of 300 copies signed by Updike at limitation page, this being #105. An additional printing of 75 deluxe copies in a different binding was printed by the publisher. Octavo. 63 pp. Decorative paper-covered boards with maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Gray endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

[Ontario]: Aliquando Press, 1993. Fine. [Ontario]: Aliquando Press, 1993. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy. Broadsheet (33.5x23cm.); hand printed letterpress in purple, blue, and green on stiff dark mauve stock. Fine condition. Offered with bookplate signed by the author. Uncommon fine press broadside featuring a quote by Updike on his first impression of art as a child. Two copies only in OCLC as of November, 2020, at UCSD and the University of South Carolina.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Fine/Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition, Limited to 450 signed copies of which this is no. 132. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain, housed in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; [8],228pp. Slipcase margins very lightly faded, else a Fine example. Signed by the author on limitation page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Thus; Revised Edition. Signed by Updike without inscription at title page. Octavo. 84 pp. Printed dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a short closed tear to top edge; ghost of a sticker to front. Boards sunned along top edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A re-issue of Updike's first collection of poems, originally published in 1958.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Albert Raman, John Updike." Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); [x], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; book in blindstamped navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some toning long top edges of flaps and a couple faint scratches to rear panel, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Pittsburgh, PA: International Poetry Forum, 1975. Very Good +. [Pittsburgh, PA]: [International Poetry Forum], [1975]. First Edition. Broadside reproducing author's holograph poem and signature, one of approximately 500 copies printed for an October 1975 reading at Pittsburgh's International Poetry Forum. Light rubbing and toning with mild curling to edges. Not in De Bellis; scarce. [OCLC 20783377].

[Philadelphia]: Edgewood Publishing Co, 1882. Good/No Jacket. [Philadelphia]: Edgewood Publishing Co., 1882. Edgewood reprint of the Hubbard Brothers edition. Octavo; xi, 484pp. 16 illustrations including frontis over 13 plates, all present (this edition printed without illustrations list, but checked against the Hubbard Brothers edition). Missing Chapter XVI (pages 485-6) from the Hubbard Edition (unsure if in error or purposefully). Rebound in red cloth with original publisher's cloth retained on front, back, and spine, along with original floral endpapers. Boards heavily worn at edges and corners, with a good bit of soiling, a large faded dampstain to back, and with title lettering largely rubbed away at front. Hinges reinforced with paper repair to endpapers and title page. Text block solidly bound. Pages toned but unmarked. Reminiscences of the war by a Pennsylvania Reserve infantryman who was taken prisoner three times. Uncommon binding from a subscription book house associated with Hubbard… Read More

1973. Very Good. Text on poster: Jazz jamboree '73 // XVI Miȩdzynarodowy Festiwal Jazzowy // Warszawa // 25-28 października 1973 // 16th International Jazz Festival // Warsaw // October 25-28, 1973. Date: 1973. Height x width: 97cm x 67cm. Printing information:. lower left corner: WAG logo; lower right corner: RSW „Prasa-Książka-Ruch" PZGraf. w Łodź, Z. 1166/73, R-61 3691, 5550 egz. Condition: 7 brown smudges in lower right quadrant; 6 small tears (0.5cm) and adjacent curls on left vertical edge; Small closed tears and two longer (2-3 cm) closed tears at top edge; Upper right corner incompletely torn off, but no paper missing, now flattened into place; Very small tears and curled segment at top of right vertical edge. Maciej Jerzy Zdzieblan-Urbaniec was a graphic designer and professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied in the 1950s. His work appeared largely in posters and book design. What is now seen as the height of Poland's poster creativity was a paradoxical… Read More