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

Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [4],xii,135pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Issued as No. 46 of the publisher's Filmmakers series. Compilation of letters and journal entries kept by the filmmaker Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (1889-1943) during the shooting of the MGM silent adventure romance film "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928). Unlike most Hollywood productions of the time, filming actually took place in Tahiti, rather than a built set: "Dec. 11, '27 - Picked out a location today right under some very tall palms where the coconuts can drop on you from any angle" (p. 21).

Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1953. Very Good. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1953. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey printed wrappers; [8],234pp. Light wear from handling, wrappers and textblock rather toned due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ownership signature to half title page, else Very Good and sound.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket designed by Warren Chappell; [4],187pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, including short tear at top margin of upper panel just touching text, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. The American poet Harry Brown's first novel, describing a platoon's preparations for the Allied invasion of Italy. The work was quickly adapted into the 1945 film of the same title, starring Dana Andrews and Lloyd Bridges.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Near Fine/Very Good. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],339pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket slightly wrinkled at spine ends, light dust-soil; Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Forms part of the series "Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company / A Harvest Book, 1999. Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company / A Harvest Book, 1999. Later printing. Signed by John Lewis without inscription on half title page. Octavo. 526 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic wraps. Washington Informer sticker to inside of front cover and promotional palm card for "A Conversation with Civil Rights Icon The Honorable John Lewis," a 2012 event hosted by THEARC in Washington, DC, laid in at front. Wraps gently rubbed along edges and covers curl slightly at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages mildly toned but unmarked.

Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1978. Near Fine/Very Good +. Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1978. Limited Edition of 200 copies signed by De Camp, this being #67. Octavo. 223 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with slight rippling to front panel. Front board bows slightly. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase shows mild shelfwear at corners.

Los Angeles: Disney Studios, 2019. Near Fine/Near Fine. Los Angeles: Disney Studios, 2019. First Edition. Quarto. 224 pp. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Photographic boards. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with some light and sparse spotting. Boards lightly shelfworn with a bit of creasing at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. First Edition, stated First Printing. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white and color illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with 25¢ price over matching illustrated boards. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed with slight chipping to extremities. Boards shelfworn with some general scuffing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen story, Ole Lukoie.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co, 1937. Very Good/Good. Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1937. First Edition. Quarto. 123 pp. Black and white illustrations with eight color "Silly Symphonies" plates bound in. Illustrated dust jacket; illustrated boards. Dust jacket heavily chipped and creased with extensive neat tape repair along edges. Colors remain bright. Boards edgeworn with exposure and similar tape repair along bottom third of spine. Front hinge starting but overall binding holding soundly. Drawing in child's hand to rear; a few ghosts of tape marks, but overall pages toned but unmarked.

Neshannock: Hermes Press, 2017. Very Good. Neshannock: Hermes Press, 2017. First Printing Thus, published alongside a limited edition hardcover. Quarto; 239pp. Illustrated yellow paper wraps. Covers show a small spot of rubbing to front fore-edge near top corner and a bump to tail of spine, but are otherwise clean and crisp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Amen House, 1953. Very Good. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Amen House, 1953. Tall octavo; [23]-36pp. Printed gray paper wraps. Covers clean and crisp, with very faint toning along edges, light glue rippling along spine, and a small number in pencil at top back. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Vita Sackville-West's lecture on de la Mare's long poem, from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XXXIX.

New York: Dot Books, 1973. Very Good +. New York: Dot Books, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to wraps with a few minor scuffs. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Early poetry collaboration between Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, published just before the CBGB scene took shape and garnered a cult following with Verlaine and Hell at the center. Though free of ownership markings, this copy from the collection of Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

New York: Dot Books, 1973. Very Good +. New York: Dot Books, 1973. First Edition. One of fifty copies of the first edition signed and numbered by the author, this being number 11 and signed "Theresa Stern." 12mo. 32 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine. Early poetry collaboration between Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, published just before the CBGB scene took shape and garnered a cult following with Verlaine and Hell at the center. Though free of ownership markings, this copy from the collection of Television frontman Tom Verlaine.

Providence, RI: Bennett Wheeler, 1790. Very Good. Providence: By Bennett Wheeler, at His Office, on the West Side the River, [1790]. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 27,[1]pp. ([A]-C4 D2, collated complete). Very occasional spotting to textblock, stock a bit browned, else Very Good and sound. Concludes with the minister recalling a sermon delivered at the same meeting house in 1775, "how you hung on his lips, and with what ardour many of you were engaged to follow him under Michael your prince, in the war with the Dragon, even tho the horrors of intestine war then were just bursting over your heads." This memory is accompanied by the footnote, "This was but a very few days before the Lexington battle, and commencement of hostilities, at the opening of the late desolating and bloody war, between Great-Britain and America" (p. 27). EVANS 22558.

Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 2013. Very Good +/Very Good. Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,292pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly photographic. Chip at top fore-edge corner of front jacket panel, tiny dents along board margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author on title page.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1928]. Early G&D reprint, with 25 ERB titles in ads at back and 24 jacket on both back panel and verso. Octavo; 383pp +9 ads. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with black lettering. Jacket shows shallow chips at spine ends and a few tiny closed tears along edges, with general smudging and toning to surface. Boards are square and bright, with bumping and nudging at spine ends and light bumps to bottom corners. Prior owner's name on front pastedown, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. [Zeuschner 823].

Dublin: Passion Machine Ltd, 1989. Very Good +. Dublin: Passion Machine Ltd., 1989. First Edition. Signed by Doyle and dated 1991 on title page. Octavo. 89 pages. Wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a chip at bottom of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Doyle's second play and third book, issued as a paperback original first edition. Part of the Passion Machine Plays series.

New Haven: Yale University, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University, 1988. First edition. Octavo, 209pp. Original black and white pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in silver on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear and sunning on spine and top front edge. Some rubbing on corners. Small spot on foredge. Binding is sound. Inscription from previous owner (possibly the author since it's signed by "Bill") on back of half title. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Very Good+/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95), yellow topstain; [10],179pp. Cloth very lightly faded along margins, else a Near Fine copy overall. Collection of five novellas and short stories by the Cuban author and musicologist.

London: Mills & Boon, 1905. Good/Very Good -. London: Mills & Boon, [1905 but ca. 1918]. 12mo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 217pp. General shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, including a number of small chips and closed tears to the former with old tape repair to verso, uniformly dust-soiled, boards foxed along upper margins, textblock exceedingly toned and brittle due to inferior paper quality, brief ownership notes on front endpapers. Overall Good to Very Good in the rare dust jacket. Cheap reprint of one of London's political essay collections first published in 1905. Date of publication based on list of London's works printed on p. [2], which includes "The Red One," published posthumously in 1918.