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

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2010. Very Good +. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2010. First Edition. Octavo. 280 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly edgeworn. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Leipzig: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1928. Very Good. Leipzig: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1928. Third Edition. Octavo. 403 pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. Black cloth over green decorated paper-covered boards; blind-marbled edges. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure; fading along top edge. Binding is sound. Contemporary and recent ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, and pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. Very Good -/Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Light red boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped along edges with dampstaining along bottom third resulting in rippling and rubbing. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, sunning and some black discoloration. Binding holding soundly. Tape remnants to endpapers. Pages otherwise toned but unmarked. Third mystery from the author of Repeat Performance. A very good minus copy in a good only dust jacket.

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Ninth printing. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." Large octavo. 735 pp. Bound in "Greek flag blue" wraps. Housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt; inner cloth chemise. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; a few creases to spine. Slight lean to spine, but binding holding soundly. Overall Very Good. The bound in leaf, inserted by an unknown previous party, was signed while Joyce was living in Paris and Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." [SLOCUM 17].

Seattle, WA: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation / University of Washington Press, 2014. Very Good. Seattle, WA: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation / University of Washington Press, [2014]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],622pp.; illus. throughout. Corners bumped, boards a bit dust-soiled, price sticker to rear cover, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. First Edition. 12mo. 197 pages. Red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Originally produced under the title Caroline in 1916. Surprisingly scarce in retail. Light edgewear to boards. Spine a touch toned. Brief exposure to rear hinge but binding is sound and pages unmarked. [Stott A31].

Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1741. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle over-against the South East Corner of the Town-House, 1741. First Edition. Small octavo; modern stitched card wrappers, manuscript titling to upper cover; 30pp. ([A]-C4 D3, lacking half title and final leaf (blank?)). A Very Good, still quite fresh copy. Sermon delivered by the American Congregational clergyman Charles Chauncy (1705-1787), a strong opponent of Jonathan Edwards' and the First Great Awakening. EVANS 4689.

New York: Viking, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York: Viking, 2013. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on title page. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is tight and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library or remaindered copy.

Chicago: W.E. Dibble and Co, 1890. Very Good-. Chicago: W.E. Dibble & Co., 1890. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's brown pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; viii,[9]-473,[1](ad)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations throughout, many full-paged (collated complete, though view of Uncle Dick's home in the mountains misbound facing p. 281). Extremities rather scuffed with shallow loss at corners and spine ends, brief soil and spotting to upper cover cloth sizing, textblock shaken in binding with hinges cracked but holding, textblock uniformly toned. A Good to Very Good copy overall. FLAKE (Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930) 2470; HOWES C659; STREETER 3088.

New York: Leavitt & Allen Bros, 1870. Good. New York: Leavitt & Allen Bros., 1870. Second Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 224,[14](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Cloth quite scuffed and rubbed at extremities with exposure at corners and spine ends, front joint starting, spine rather toned and gilt entirely effaced, faint contemporary manuscript library inscription to front pastedown and very faint ghost of a spine label, several signatures sprung, textblock rather finger-soiled throughout. Overall a Good only copy of a rare and early contribution to baseball literature. Possibly unrecorded second edition of Oldfellow's children's book, first published in 1865, making it one of the earliest references in fiction to baseball. Chapter five opens with a "Famous Game of Ball," the children playing in a large field that was "a first-rate place for their game, the ground being level and hard, and had evidently been used a good deal." For reference, Anton… Read More

Washington, DC: Farmers National Publishing Company, 1923. Very Good. Washington, DC: The Farmers National Publishing Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Frontis portrait. Grey cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Barrett's attempt to convince farmers of the importance of pursuing aggressive lobbying efforts to get results. Includes detailed synopses of successes and failures from the previous decade.

Portland, ME: Printed for Thomas B. Mosher and Published by Him, 1903. Very Good. Portland, ME: Printed for Thomas B. Mosher and Published by Him, 1903. Limited Edition of 450 copies. Octavo. 161 pp. Paper covered boards with title label to spine. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Light soiling and toning to boards with some rubbing to spine. Binding sound. Ownership stamp and pencil inscription to preliminaries, but pages otherwise unmarked.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Ross on half title with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney / with good wishes. Ishbel Ross June, 1975." Octavo. 349 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt and silver. Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges, a bit toned at spine, and some light rubbing to rear panel. Boards are gently worn and top of spine nudged. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Mahoney was the husband of American feminist author Caroline Bird, who, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, used the term "sexism" for the first time in print in her speech "On Being Born Female," delivered in October and printed in November 1968. Ross was a Scottish-born American journalist and author who wrote several biographies of prominent women including Ladies of the Press, a history of women in journalism, which the New York Times called, "a masterly, captivating, illuminating and… Read More

New York: Playbill, 1957. Very Good. [New York: Playbill, 1957]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's printed staplebound gilt wrappers; 56pp.; illus. throughout, including ads. Light wear from handling, tiny soil spot to rear wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Program to the premiere U.S. performance of Dylan Thomas's radio drama-turned-play "Under Milk Wood," staged at the Henry Miller Theatre, October 15, 1957, starring Donald Houston.

Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1909. Very Good. Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1909. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial onlay to upper cover; 142pp.; frontispiece, maps and photographic plates throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, spine gilt a bit dulled, contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Uncommon English translation of the Spanish Captain Don Saturnino Martin Cerezo's first-hand account of the 1898 Siege of Baler during the Philippine Revolution.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Very Good/Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; 375pp. Three-color contour map dust jacket, with First Printing signaled by "Advance critical acclaim" header and four blurbs (Kain, Warren, Aiken, Spender) on back. Light gray cloth with crimson lettering on front panel and spine. Unclipped dust jacket chipped at spine foot and crown (about 1/2" at crown) and at corners and folds. Front flap separating along fold but still just holding at top. Color scraped on lower right corner of front; jacket now stabilized in backed mylar. Binding browned by sun where jacket chips were missing, otherwise clean. Textblock opens easily; several gatherings show a few serrated paper fore-edges where the trimming knife was a couple millimeters wide of the mark. Textblock unmarked; tightness of second half suggests the initial owner never finished reading it. Unpaginated valedictory postscript present, as published: ¿Le gusta este jardin… Read More

Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2013. Very Good +. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2013. First Edition. Small quarto; publisher's limp pictorial orange cloth; 343pp.; illus. throughout. Slight spine lean, else Very Good or better. Rather free-form critical biography of the American artist Elaine Sturtevant, published a year before her death.

New York: Scribner, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Scribner, 1997. First Edition. Signed by Don DeLillo without inscription at title page. Thick octavo. 827 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Light green and black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed and creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear and binding is sound. Touch of dust soiling to top edge of text block but otherwise pages unmarked.

Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Octavo; [viii], 182pp.Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; book in brown cloth with red lettering to spine. Dampstaining to jacket interior along bottom half of spine, not visible from exterior and with no bleed to boards. Jacket otherwise shows a touch of edgewear with fading along top front and down spine, a couple small, faint external waterspots (dime-sized or smaller), rubbing at spine ends, and some smudging to back. Boards nudged at spine ends, with some light fading along edges Glue toning to endpapers along gutters, with previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

London: Duckworth, 1932. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London: Duckworth, 1932. Second Impression. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Missing dustjacket. 2.5" slit along back joint at bottom with some nearby fraying. Boards are square with light edgewear and a fair bit of smudging to front and back and fading to spine. Previous owner's address on front pastedown. Initial and terminal pages foxed, clearing up for majority of text. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.