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

Peshawar, Pakistan: PAF Book Club, 2002. Very Good/Very Good. Peshawar, Pakistan: PAF Book Club, 2002. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,112pp.; color illus. throughout. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, light soil to textblock extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Pictorial history of the Pakistan Air Force, replete with paintings by Hussaini, the PAF's aviation artist.

Lahore, Pakistan: Directorate of Media Affairs / Pakistan Air Force, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. Lahore, Pakistan] Directorate of Media Affairs / Pakistan Air Force, 2007. Revised Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,120pp.; color illus. throughout. Tear to upper jacket panel affecting "PAF" without loss, light shelf wear, early leaves a bit soiled; overall Very Good and sound. Pictorial history of the Pakistan Air Force, first published in 2002.

[West Hartford, CT]: Pratt & Whitney, 1967. Fine. [West Hartford, CT]: Pratt & Whitney, n.d., ca. 1967. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers, spine edge whole-punched at time of printing; 11pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition. Internal layout and photographs reminiscent of Soviet photomontage.

London / Chicago: Elkin Mathews and John Lane / Stone and Kimball, 1894. Very Good. London / Chicago: Elkin Mathews and John Lane / Stone and Kimball, 1894. First Edition. Octavo. 165 pp.; 14 pp. publisher's catalog; [2] pp. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; slip to front endpapers stating "Of this Edition 450 Copies have been printed for England." Boards stained and mottled with light edgewear; spine faded. Binding is sound. Off-setting to rear endpapers; a few pencil scribblings to endpapers, but interior else unmarked. Very Good.

Winterthur: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2011. Very Good/Very Good. Winterthur: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2011. First Edition. Signed by both authors on titlepage. Quarto (31x24x3cm); xxvi + 278pp, including bibliography and index. Richly illustrated throughout with color photographs and historical background documentation. Illustrated dustjacket over golden ochre cloth with title blind-stamped on front panel and gilt spine lettering. Jacket is clean and crisp with very faint wear at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the much expanded catalog for the exhibit held at Winterthur from 2 April 2011 to 8 January 2012, featuring showpieces of Pennsylvanian, British ex-pat, and Pennsylvania Dutch furnishings, cradle to coffin.

Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. Near Fine. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition, wrapper issue. Quarto. 360 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Errata slip laid in. Wraps gently worn along edges. Binding sound. A touch of dust soiling along top edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Quarto (12.5"x9.5"); 192pp. 132 illustrations and 114 in color. Pictorial paper over boards. Some rubbing on the edges and corners, bottom edge is bumped. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked.

London / New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Tate Gallery / Yale University Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. London / New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Tate Gallery / Yale University Press, 1984. Revised Edition. Thick quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvipp. & 572 plates, many in full color. Moderate wear to jacket margins including chip at spine foot, corners bumped, light dust-soil to textblock margins, else Very Good and sound.

New York: Doubleday, 1990. Very Good. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); [viii], 498pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly rubbed at corners with a couple faint smudges / thumbprints to surface. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Proof copy of the first English-language edition of the first book in Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, originally published in Egypt in 1956.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 240 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket chipped along edges with two long tears to front panel along spine and flap. Light smudging and fading. Corners of boards bumped, soiling along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Bit of offsetting to endpapers and touch of foxing to edges of text block, but otherwise pages unmarked. Author's second book after At Mrs. Lippincote's.

London: Peter Davies, 1975. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Peter Davies, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pp. Original dust jacket; purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket gently worn along edges with some general rubbing. Boards show just a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First Edition with C-S code on copyright. Frontispiece by Will Foster. Octavo; 326 pp. Black cloth binding with blindstamped illustration of a woman's silhouette. Text in gilt to cover and spine. Spine toned and slightly cocked. Boards rubbed with some scuffs and smudges to surface. Binding cracked between pp. 6-7 with back hinge starting; opens easily between gatherings, but text block still secure. Indentations on front free endpaper that appear to be from notes made in pencil and then erased. A few marginal smudges, else pages clean and unmarked.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Signed by Sentaor Daniel Patrick Moynihan to fellow Senator Connie Mack III at front free endpaper. Octavo. 221 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly creased along edges. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Erased bookseller scribblings to front free endpaper and pages otherwise unmarked. Near Fine.

New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo; 372pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in beige cloth with red lettering and blue ornamentation. Blue topstain. Jacket shows a few shallow closed tears and a bit of biopredation along bottom edge, darkening to spine with fading to spine lettering, and some general toning / smudging to surface. Boards a bit toned and worn along edges, with some faint spotting to front board and darkening to lightly-cocked spine. Spots of foxing / superficial staining to fore-edge. Endpapers a bit toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Durrell's second novel, written under pseudonym after the failure of his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers.

New York: Published by John P. Jewett, 1874. Very Good -. New York: Published by John P. Jewett, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 547 pp. Publisher's decorative boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards roughly worn with fraying, short tears, and brief exposure to extremities, general chewing and scuffing. Many gatherings sprung and one attached by a single thread, front board gives a little but binding otherwise holding and pages unmarked. A Good to Very Good copy. Enormously popular and influential utopian novel at time of publication, now mostly forgotten. The author Marie Howland (1836-1921) drew upon her own experiences working as a child cotton mill worker, teaching in Five Points, Manhattan, and living in a Fourierist community in France to write this work, a withering critique of class and gender norms in mid 19th-century America. Howland's radical ideas - communitarianism, socializing domestic work, and economic independence for women - struck a chord with a public weary of the industrial… Read More

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1986. Very Good. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First Edition. Thick octavo. 526 pp. Red boards stamped in gilt. Boards show light white discoloration/scuffing to front. Binding is sound. Numerous pages dog-eared, but overall pages unmarked.

New York: Van der Meer Publishing / Abbeville Publishing Group, 2000. Very Good+. [New York? Van der Meer Publishing / Abbeville Publishing Group, 2000.] First Edition. Large, square quarto; publisher's pictorial boards; unpaginated; complete with seven pop-ups and laid in spinning umbrella, as well as crystal, two dowsing rods, and picture cards "to improve your extrasensory perception," these last three elements housed in special compartments at rear of volume. Very light wear from handling, else a Near Fine, almost certainly unused example, the cards still in their original cellophane wrapper.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 365pp. Light wear to jacket margins including small closed tear at bottom margin of upper jacket panel slightly touching text, old barcode sticker to rear panel, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Stated First Edition. Signed by Forbes on front free endpaper with inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 556 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Navy boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn along edges with some slight chipping. Boards a touch sunned along edges. Binding is sound. Staining along top edge of text block but pages unmarked.

New York: South Brunswick, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: South Brunswick, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 258 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Slightly ex-library with minimal institutional markings. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges and joints with some slight chipping; general soiling and toning. Boards dust-soiled along top edge and rear corners bumped. Binding is sound. Institutional stamps and plate to endpapers, with glue remnants to rear; ownership inscription to front free endpaper; call number to title page, and pages otherwise unmarked.