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

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition in second state canary yellow binding. Small octavo. 208 pp + 1 page author's works. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.00" price present. Yellow cloth boards stamped in dark blue. Dark topstain. Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges, rear panel a bit smudged, and rubbing to joints and folds. Boards show moderate shelfwear with some minor fraying to crown. Binding is sound. Tear to front free endpaper, and pages are clean and unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. 197 pp. Printed dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. Red and blue boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn and creased along edges with toning and a few tears at edges and spine ends. Boards shelfworn and binding is sound. Spot to top edge, possibly a remainder mark, and pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1871. Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, brown glazed endpapers; 191pp.; frontispiece and added pictorial title page with the title "Adventures of an Ass" and the London imprint Ward Lock and Tyler, text illus. throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities with exposure at corners, occasional finger-soil throughout textblock, else Very Good and sound. Quite scarce, we locate just four physical copies in OCLC as of April, 2024, at Columbia, Union College, Harvard, and U. Penn.

London and New York: The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, 1908. Very Good. London and New York: The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, 1908. Limited Edition of 1000 "Edition De Luxe" sets, this being #683. Ten octavo volumes. Color frontispiece to each volumes; black and white plates, each with lettered tissue guards, collated and complete. Tan cloth boards with paper spine labels; top edges gilt. Boards lightly worn along edges with some very minor fraying to crown of a couple volumes; general scuffy and mild patchy discoloration. Bindings sound and interiors unmarked. A Very Good set of a scarce and handsome edition.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Very Good. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Octavo. 119 pp. Black and white illustrations including frontispiece, complete. Patterned green cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns. Boards lightly worn at extremities, spine ends mildly nudged and corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. Crease to front free endpaper; some very light smudging to and pages unmarked. Very Good.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First Edition, first issue with October 1858 ads at back, "treacherous wine" on p.124, and Waverly Novels advert tipped in at front. Small octavo (19cm); 215pp+[12]ads. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards rubbed at corners, with some scuffs and spotting to cloth; spine slightly cocked and chipped at ends. Front hinge starting; opens easily to after first few gatherings, but binding is holding. Chip at top of p.119 with flattened dog-ears to a few corners. Ownership inscriptions of W.A. Scott on full title and "Robt. N. Scott U.S.A." on flyleaf, likely the Reverend William Anderson Scott (1813-1885) and his son Union Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Nicholson Scott (1838-1887), along with a few scattered pencil brackets in margins and a brief pencil note on recto of final blank, else interior unmarked. First book appearance of the eponymous poem, which recounts the story of Mayflower… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1941. Very Good +/Very Good +. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1941. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 285 pp. Printed dust jacket with "$2.50" price present. Red-orange boards stamped in gray and green; charcoal topstain. Dust jacket with a few minor nicks and a couple closed tears; toning to spine and verso. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Housed in custom clamshellf case. A Very Good or better copy of the author's first book.