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

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition. Signed by De Vries without inscription at title page. Octavo. 352 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt and black. Unclipped dust jacket slightly chipped along edges with some mild creasing and rubbing. Boards with mild shelfwear, dust soiling to edges, some scuffing to rear. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

Tuscaloosa, AL: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. Very Good. Tuscaloosa, AL: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. First Edition. Octavo. 52 pp. Wraps, removed. Light chipping and soiling to wraps; loss along spine of front and rear wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of Woods' farewell address to the University of which he was President for seven years.

Boston: Richard Draper / Thomas Leverett, 1762. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Richard Draper, in Newbury-Street, and Thomas Leverett in Cornhill, 1762. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers, yapp edges, manuscript spine titling; 118pp. (A^8 B-O^4, collated and complete with half title). Ownership rubberstamp inside upper cover, brief spotting to half title page, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy. The earliest in a series of tracts by the Congregationalist clergyman Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) arguing against the encroaching episcopacy in the colonies, fearing that a bishop sent by the Church of England would wield both political as well as religious power and stifling the colonists' freedom to appoint their own churchmen. EVANS 9089; ESTC W29647; SABIN 12331.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Reprint of the Harper & Brothers edition. Octavo (7.5" x ~5"); [x], 319pp + 7 ads. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth with blue lettering. Black topstain. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges and smudging down spine and back panel, with some orange color bleed to interior down flap folds and at tail of spine. Boards a bit edgeworn, with some darkening along top edge, a couple small spots to surface, and nudging at spine ends. Prior owner's name on front free endpaper, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound.

Los Angeles: Cult Movies Press, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. Los Angeles: Cult Movies Press, 2001. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author with brief dedication on full title and numbered 457 of 1000 copies on limitation statement at bottom of copyright. Octavo; xii, 363pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over illustrated boards. Jacket rubbed and bumped along top front edge, with faint wear to extremities. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Grove Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Grove Press, 1971. First Edition (stated First Printing). Octavo; publisher's cloth in white unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],276pp. Shallow chipping and general edge wear to jacket extremities -- the whole rather dust-soiled -- old sticker to front jacket flap, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound overall. Erotic horror novel by the queer author of City of Night (1963), set on a private Caribbean island where the guests are subjected to "the rituals of witchcraft and Satanism" by their fabulously wealthy and charismatic host.

London: Allen Lane, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second Printing. Quarto. 180 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed with some creasing along edges and a small patch of dampstaining to jacket verso at base of spine. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1941. Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 317 pp. Gray boards stamped in yellow. Lacks dust jacket. Boards toned and worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers, but pages unmarked.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1926. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 333 pages. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Wells was an American poet , mystery author, and collector of Walt Whitman poetry. The Vanity Case is part of the Fleming Stone series. Light wear to extremities with brief exposure. Gilt lettering is heavily dulled. Binding is sound. Loss to two leaves of preliminaries of a 2" x 3" section at bottom front corner. Pages otherwise toned but unmarked.

New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Signed without inscription by contributors Michael Lewis (on the full title) and Meg Wolitzer (at top of her contribution). Octavo; 424pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers bumped at corners with some light creasing at top back, else crisp and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. "Authorized Edition." Two volumes; octavos; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilts; xiv,473; x,495pp. Spines a shade darkened and ends slightly scuffed, textblocks uniformly toned, later ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good, sound set overall.

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 48 of 250 copies on limitation page at front. Octavo; [48pp]. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips along edges, a small puncture at center of spine, darkening to spine exterior and interior, and some general light toning and smudging. Boards are square with bright gilding, showing light rubbing at spine ends and some darkening along edges. Light foxing to preliminaries with a few sparse spots to interior pages, else clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. [Currey p. 122].

New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, 1972, 1975. Octavo; Vol I xii + 387pp, Vol IIa xviii + 338pp, Vol IIb continued pagination through p734, Vol IIc continued pagination through p1143, Vol IV xxiv + 379pp. Slate blue coated jackets. Prussian blue cloth with gilt spine stamping. Minor color loss with nano-chipping to crowns and feet of jacket spines. Various states of mild sunning to jackets. All bindings solid, clean, and bright, with only minor wear to spine crowns and feet. A very few pencil notations in Vols IIa and IIc. Textblocks otherwise unmarred and unmarked. These five volumes are the only ones ever published in the variorum series that was announced to comprise at least eight. The Miltonist superstar editors include Bart Giamatti, former president of Yale and Major League Baseball Commissioner (as well as father of actor Paul Giamatti). Most remarkable, however, is the vast contribution of perhaps the least famous… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Near Fine. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1129. 12mo; publisher's full brown gilt-tooled morocco in paper-covered chemise and slipcase; xi,[1],135pp.; color illuminations throughout, text printed within elaborate border printed in blue, orange and yellow. Light soil to leather boards, remnants only of chemise, loss at top edge of fragile slipcase and bottom edges splitting; overall a Near Fine copy in a Good only example of the original slipcase. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear.

Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front near spine, with front board showing a corresponding spot of fading to cloth. Boards otherwise lightly edgeworn, with nudging to spine ends and a few stray scuffs to cloth. Endpapers sparsely foxed and toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Anthology of works reprinted from Vedanta and the West magazine, with works largely by Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Swami Prabhavananda, with a few from Isherwood and a other authors scattered throughout. [Westby & Brown p. 29].

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, [1948]. First Edition with "FS" symbol on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); viii,[2],243pp. Minor chipping and shelf wear to jacket extremities, top textblock edge a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, pp. 6 & 7 heavily toned from exposure to previously-removed newsclipping, else a Very Good, sound copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To J.M. Altaraz, with very kind regards, Ludwig Lewisohn / April 4, 1949.

New York: McDowell / Obolensky, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: McDowell / Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Signed by Andrew Lytle without inscription at title page. Octavo. 373 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.95" price present. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain; tan endpapers. Dust jacket creased and rubbed with a few minor chips to extremities. Boards show light edgewear and bow slightly towards middle. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of the Tennessee writer's most critically acclaimed works.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. but no later than 1927. Early American Printing. Small, slim quarto (21cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket, pictorial endpapers; 33,[1]pp.; seven color lithographic plates, three of them double-paged. Boards gently scuffed, a few tiny closed tears to jacket extremities, margins very slightly toned, orange jacket spine titling lightly faded, else a Very Good or better copy. A superlative and early American printing of one of the most enduring children's books in the English language which just celebrated its hundredth anniversary last year. "Harper's Bazaar" first commissioned the story in 1921 from Margery Williams Bianco, at the time a stalled author of adult fiction who hadn't published a work in eight years. What Williams Bianco produced was unlike anything she had written before, the story of a boy and his Velveteen Rabbit whose fate from beloved toy to… Read More

London: Mantle, 2012. Fine/Near Fine. London: Mantle, 2012. First Edition limited to 300 signed copies of which this is no. 144. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],312pp. Just a hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities, ISBN sticker to rear panel (presumably as issued), else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon as "Benjamin Black." The fifth in the author's pseudonymously-penned Quirke Dublin series.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Signed by Crane on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Alice Woodward - The rose dissolved. Is Nearer than a star; Nathalia Crane. Brooklyn, Jan 31, 1935." Possibly inscribed to the illustrator Alice Woodward, though we have not been able to verify this. Octavo. 90 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Illustrated paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket toned and rubbed along edges. Boards cracked at corners with moderate shelfwear along bottom edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.