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

Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. Limited edition of 330 signed copies, this being number 223. Tall octavo. 63 pages. Purple boards stamped in gilt. No slipcase. Three essays on Dickinson from lectures Cunningham gave between 1973 and 1976. Boards a bit faded along edges and gilt rubbed in spots. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Jean Valentine with inscription, "to Ron, with best wishes, Jean Valentine April, 1983." Octavo. 67 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan and green boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly toned along edges; crease to rear flap; mild off-setting to verso along spine. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Fourth Printing. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's beige cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); 31pp.; illustrations throughout. Light shelf wear, dust jacket a bit sunned along margins, front board very slightly bowed. Production flaw to interior of front board (small mound trapped under front pastedown and faint impression opposite). Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed and signed by the author/illustrator on half title accompanied by an original illustration of a rabbit smoking a cigar. Caldecott Honor Book by the author of Jumanji, jauntily enhanced with an original illustration.

Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co, 1958. Very Good-. Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered simulated cloth; 156pp.; four folding plates, illus. throughout text. Boards a bit rubbed, most notably at spine ends, gilt rather dulled, bookplates to front pastedown and free endpaper, as well as bookseller rubberstamp to title page, very occasional pencil underlining and faint yellow highlighting, one plate tape repaired along gutter edge; overall a Good to Very Good copy. Study of parapsychology by the leading midcentury ufologist George Van Tassel (1910-1978).

Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co, 1958. Very Good-/Very Good-. Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); 156pp.; four folding plates, illus. throughout text. Jacket rubbed with a few small chips and closed tears to extremities, none approaching text, rear panel a bit toned, dust-soil to cloth boards, corners bumped, front free endpaper torn away, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to title page, else a Good to Very Good copy in the uncommon jacket. Study of parapsychology by the leading midcentury ufologist and founder of the Ministry of University Wisdom George Van Tassel (1910-1978).

Antwerp: Ronny Van de Velde / Pandora, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. [Antwerp]: Ronny Van de Velde / Pandora, [1999]. First English-Language Edition. Large quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 419pp.; photographic illus. throughout including fold-out panoramas. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, fore-edge margin of front panel sunned, corners bumped, finger soil to early leaves, else Very Good, internally sound. Monumental catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same title held at the Ronny Van de Velde Gallery in Antwerp from November, 1999, to February, 2000.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. Limited Edition, signed by the author and numbered 112 of 200 copies on colophon at back. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering, housed in green paper-covered slipcase. Maroon topstain. Faintly smoked. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is sturdy and solid with light edgewear but no splits.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1959 but 1961]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],202pp.; illus. General edge wear, jacket spine panel lightly toned, unobtrusive tape repair to verso of rear panel, very slight spine lean, else a Very Good copy overall. The second Judge Dee Chinese mystery.

London: Heinemann, 1965. Very Good/Very Good+. London: Heinemann, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Castell; vii,[1],143pp.; illus., pictorial endpapers. Light edge wear, minor spine lean, text block edges a bit foxed, toning to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Two detective novellas featuring Judge Dee.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. Good. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue printed card wrappers; 209pp.; tables and charts throughout. Wrappers rather brittle and chipped at extremities with some old, partially-perished tape repair at spine ends, contemporary ownership signature to front cover, front hinge cracked, loss to bottom fore-edge corner of rear wrapper and final leaf of text, not affecting text; Good only overall. Spanish-American War-era report by Surgeon-General William K. Van Reypen covering the yellow fever outbreak in Florida as well as surgical and sanitary notes from the various ships and hospitals in use.

San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Limited First Edition of 450 unnumbered copies. Signed by Vance without inscription on full title. Tall octavo; 194pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $20.00 price intact; book in navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge and spine ends. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Columbia: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Very Good. Columbia: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Limited Edition (600 copies, unnumbered). Tall octavo (9.25" x 6"); [viii], 37pp. Illustrated blue paper wraps with black illustration and red. Covers are clean and crisp; spine a touch faded with a slight bump at head. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 1965. Very Good. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1965. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in brown and black; 498pp. Moderate wear from handling, spine a bit toned, textblock very slightly starting to separate from wrappers along front gutter, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good. The late Catholic Canadian author's first book, based on his PhD thesis written at the Institute Catholique de Paris, translated a year later as Happiness as Principle and End of Aristotelian Ethics.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1916. Very Good. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1916. Reprint. Octavo. 187 pp. Black and white illustration and photographs including frontispiece, complete. Green cloth stamped in dark green. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards and corners slightly bumped. Hinges starting but binding is sound. A few lines highlighted and pages otherwise unmarked. Appears to be an abridged edition of the 1912 printing, which was published with 298 pages. Very Good.

New York: Russell & Russell, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Russell & Russell, 1966. Reissue. Octavo; xv, 264pp. Beige printed dust jacket with $7.50 price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a few faint smudges but no chips or tears. Light bump to bottom corners of boards, nudging to spine ends, and a faint ringstain to cloth on front panel. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Very Good+. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vii,[1],212pp. Corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Issued as Phaenomenologica Vol. 67.

Marchand: Paris, 1850. Very Good-. Paris: Marchand, n.d., ca. 1850s. Oblong 16mo (10.5x13.5cm.); full recent violet morocco, covers lettered in blind and gilt, original wrapper bound in, housed in custom paper-covered slipcase; 24ll.; each leaf adorned with hand-colored lithograph printed on verso only. Leather spine toned to tan, original front wrapper rather creased and worn at margins and discreetly rebacked though evidence remains of small losses affecting decorative border, final leaf ("Z") also a bit chipped at margins with faint fold line along gutter edge, several leaves affixed to binding with archival tape. A Good to Very Good example of this unrecorded ABC. Forms part of a series of French-English ABCs issued by Marchand in the 1850s. This series provides twenty-four professions, the letters X&Y having been combined, the letter W skipped altogether. The metiers chosen are for the most part familiarly artisan and working class (no lawyers, doctors or politicians here!), from the Armorer… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Third Printing. Octavo. 400 + 2 pp. advertisements. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying; light chipping to spine ends. Binding gives a little and hinges starting but overall holding. Top edge of front free endpapers clipped and interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy of Veblen's famous work, best known for coining the "conspicuous consumption.

[Bloomington]: Xlibris, 2012. Very Good/Very Good. [Bloomington]: Xlibris, 2012. Octavo; 213 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with very light edgewear. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938. Stated Second Impression. Octavo; 95 pp. followed by one page of advertisements. Bright orange wrappers with text in black. Covers show some general smudging and a bit of rubbing at spine ends. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is holding soundly. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, a nice copy of a scarce work later adapted as a movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart.