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

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Very Good +. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Limited Edition of 1500 copies, this being #1062, signed by Carl Rollins, the book designer, at rear. Large octavo. 494 pp. Black and white illustrations. Green striped cloth decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards show light shelfwear and spine a touch faded. Slipcase scuffed with some light smudging, but remains structurally sound.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Near Fine. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Octavo; publisher's full brown gilt-tooled goat, all edges gilt, moiré silk endpapers; 283pp.; color frontispiece, seven (7) leaves of plates, text illus. throughout. Corners very slightly nudged, else a Near Fine example.

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. Very Good +. Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition, one of 3000 copies printed. Signed by Thurston Moore to Television frontman Tom Verlaine with inscription, "To Tom / Atom Smasher / Rock On, Thurston 8 ' 2000." Octavo. 111 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Boards gently rubbed along the edges with some light general smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine copy with a significant association from Sonic Youth founding member to Television founding member. Moore has cited Patti Smith and the Velvet Underground as significant professional influences on his career, and Tom was no exception. In a 2021 interview Moore described a guitar-buying spree with band-member Lee Ranaldo. "I remember Lee pointing to a Jazzmaster saying 'Oh, that's the guitar Tom Verlaine uses on television [sic]. I said 'Say no more' and we got a couple of those.

London: Folio Society, 2019. Fine. London: Folio Society, 2019. First Trade Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth stamped in dark red, gilt, and black, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover, paper-covered slipcase; [12],148pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. A Fine example. First issued as a quarto-format limited edition in 2015, this the first trade edition enhanced with new watercolor illustrations by Van Sandywk.

Manchester: Carcanet, 2004. Fine/Near Fine. Manchester: Carcanet, 2004. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,[2],130pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities else Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. The Scottish poet and novelist's final collection of poetry, a selection representative of her entire career spanning from the early 1950s to 2003.

New York: Times Books / Random House, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Times Books / Random House, 1995. First Edition with numberline to 2 (in keeping with publisher's methods at the time). Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xi,[1],130pp. Light shelf wear, jacket rather dust-soiled, front flap creased, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by former President Jimmy Carter and dated Feb. 4, 1995, to front free endpaper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, pink topstain; xv,[1],978pp. General shelf wear to jacket margins, contemporary ownership ex libris to front free endpaper, early leaves unopened, else Very Good and sound. Substantial "Reader," including the complete texts of "The Immoralist" and "The Pastoral Symphony.

New-London: T. Green, 1770. Very Good+. New-London: T. Green, 1770. First Edition. Octavo; modern blue wrappers to style; 31,[1]pp.; woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Margins trimmed, slightly affecting contemporary manuscript price at top fore-edge corner of title page, else Very Good and sound. Response to William Hart's pamphlet "Brief Remarks on a Number of False Propositions," by Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803), a leading disciple of Jonathan Edwards. Quite uncommon, none in the trade as of March, 2023, and last seen in the auction record in 1962. EVANS 11686; ESTC W11629; SABIN 32955; TRUMBULL 858.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket and boards show very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.

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 as follows: Vol. I: 1840-1916 Vol. II, part 1: 1915-1968 Vol. II, part 2: 1918-1968 Vol. III: 1969-2000.