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

Omaha, NB: W.D. Poessnecker, 1914. Very Good. Omaha, NE: W.D. Poessnecker, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. 82 pp. Black and white illustrations including frontis portrait, complete. Limp leather boards stamped in gilt with metallic endpapers. Boards rather worn with chipping along edges. Binding is sound, ownership inscription to front flyleaf but pages otherwise unmarked. Scarce fictionalized story of the Civil War and includes some racist content.

Paris: Mare & Martin, 2013. Near Fine. [Paris]: Mare & Martin, [2013]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; 327pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Warmly inscribed and signed to the 19th century photography historian, "For Dr Larry Schaaf - The Talbot Maven. In friendship / Bill Becker / Maison Daguerre / Oct. 2013.

New York: Daily Worker, 1944. Good. New York: Daily Worker, 1944. Side-stapled pamphlet; 30pp. Printed paper wraps. Front and back covers both detached but present; toned and chipped along brittle edges, with no loss to text. Interior also toned along edges, but pages clean and unmarked. Textblock binding still secure. A history of militant / socially progressive newspapers from the nation's founding through Labor, Abolitionist, and Women's Rights movements, the Socialist Press, and others, establishing The Daily Worker as heir to a noble lineage. Schappes was at the time imprisoned "a victim of the Rapp-Coudert witch-hunt," an attempt to purge Communist influences from New York's educational system.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Near Fine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies bound with uncut edges. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, printed paper spine label; xi,[5],284pp.; frontispiece, six leaves of plates. Corners tapped, else a Near Fine, unopened, copy. Signed by the author on front flyleaf. Collection of biographical sketches of various "damaged souls" first published in "Harper's Magazine." Among the unlikely subjects: Benedict Arnold, Thomas Paine, Aaron Burr, John Brown, P.T. Barnum.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / Ace/Putnam, 1993. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / Ace/Putnam, 1993. First American Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. The third volume in the author's series The Tower and the Hive.

San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author with inscription "To Chris Matthews. Pray for D.C. baseball!" on full title. Octavo; [vi], 170pp. Illustrated purple dust jacket over blue and gray boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no significant signs of shelfwear, with a small gift shop UPC sticker over printed UPC on back. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

N.p.: s.i., 2014. Near Fine. N.p.: s.i., ca. 2004? Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 79pp.; color photographs throughout. A hint of wear from handling, else Fine. Sticker cancel to p. 1: "Collection to be sold June 2014, Cowan's Auction." Self-published catalog of the Civil War Navy Collection of Paul and Pat DeHaan of Kalamazoo, Michigan, preceded by a short essay by Paul DeHaan on the life and service of Navy flag officer David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870). Unrecorded in OCLC as of February, 2022.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Good+. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's orange cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, black topstain; [6],298pp. Boards a bit rubbed, rather unfortunate white paint (?) splatters to both covers, additional general dust soil, spine rather toned; a Good copy overall, internally fresh and sound, topstain bright, though externally rather unlovely.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. Very Good/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 336 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Black boards stamped in orange. Red-orange topstain. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket chipped along edges with several short tears, chiefly along spine, and general creasing and rubbing. Boards lightly edgeworn with a slight lean, general spotting, and chewing along bottom edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Later published under the title Who Killed Chloe?

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Fine/Fine. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],247pp. Fine condition. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

New York: Aperture Book, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: Aperture Book, [1991]. First Edition. Slim folio; publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 96pp.; chiefly color photographs by Steber. Light shelf wear, jacket lightly wrinkled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. "It's hard to imagine a more singular work of profoundly sympathetic documentation" - Jonathan Demme.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1927. Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1927. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 267 pp. Green boards stamped in black; no dust jacket. Boards show light edgewear and general smudging; patchy wear to cloth sizing along spine and rear. Moderate lean to boards but binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: Jonathan Cape, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green dust jacket lettered in black and gilt, front flap clipped with price cancel sticker, grey topstain; 704pp. Very light shelf wear, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better copy overall. Signed by the author on title page.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: George H. Doran Company, [n.d. but 1926]. Presumed First American Edition with GHD initials on title page verso, though dust jacket lacks price. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; 304pp. Jacket a bit chipped with a few small closed tears to extremities, bottom half of front flap fold split, small loss mid-front panel affecting image but not text; some brief exposure of boards from shelf wear, else a Very Good copy in Good or better jacket. Morality tale by the English author of more than 200 detective novels, this rather unfavorably compared to Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by one contemporary reviewer. Date of publication based on American review dates and OCLC no. 5669552.

New York: Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Stated First Edition: July 2012, with full numberline. Octavo; [viii], 290pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $24.99 price intact; book in blush cloth with copper foil lettering to spine. As new except for very faint bumps to front fore-edge corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Anthony Award nominated novel, and basis for the 2019 USA Network series, which ran for ten episodes.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Stated First American Edition. Octavo. 191 pages. Printed dust jacket with original $3.95 price present. Brown and red boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket shows general rubbing with heavier wear along edges, particularly at flaps with two small punctures to rear flap. A bit of staining and light foxing to jacket verso. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities and spine ends slightly nudged. Binding is sound. One small, faint stain to top of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall a very good copy in a very good dust jacket of the author's second book.

New York: Random House, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's decorative two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Ezra Jack Keats, green topstain; [6],308pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine panel quite toned (as usual), light soil to cloth boards, else a Very Good and sound copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Mario Puzo's first novel, set during the post-War American occupation in Germany. The Godfather did not appear for another fourteen years.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. First Edition, stated, with publisher's I-W code (September 1947). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],261pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few chips and short closed tears, textblock a shade toned due to inferior post-war paper stock, else a Very Good, still quite presentable copy of an uncommon work. Scarce mystery novel uniquely blending elements of psychobabble, family relations, and ice skating.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1950. Very Good/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1950. First Edition, stated. Signed by Vidal without inscription on full title. Octavo; 307pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in green cloth with red cloth spine and gilt lettering. Heavy tape repair and edge reinforcement to jacket -- formerly split along at least a couple folds -- with tape mostly to interior but with some external along back panel and flap and at head of spine. Large chip to jacket at top corner near spine, with scuffs along edges, remnants of repaired tears and adjacent creases, and some general scuffs and smudges to surface. Boards a bit edgeworn with a few light scuffs to cloth. Spine a bit cocked and darkened, with nudging at head and tail. Front board opens shakily and book falls open easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Toning and glue residue on endpapers. Accession plate for the Army Medical Library's Staff Library, dated 11/3/50, on front pastedown,… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Limited Edition of 350 copies signed by Sinclair, this being #99. Tall octavo. 126 pp. Parchment-backed blue boards with spine lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to spine with brief exposure to corners. Binding is sound. Previous owner's bookplate and gift inscriptions to preliminaries, but pages otherwise unmarked.