The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts
by Edward Young
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Very Good-. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Reprint. Small octavo (15cm.); publisher's grey decorative gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt; 326pp.; engraved frontispiece, text printed within decorative floral border throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with coin-sized loss to upper cover exposing board beneath, textblock rather foxed throughout, else a Good to Very Good example in attractive publisher's binding.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
My Brother Jonathan
by Francis Brett Young
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 439 pages. Frank McIntosh-illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in yellow, purple, and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is heavily rubbed and chipped along edges with an additional hole to rear panel. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure and general spotting. Binding is sound. Endpapers toned and previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Pages otherwise unmarked.... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![The Tourist's Pocket Map of Pennsylvania Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads Distances &c [cover title: Mitchell's Map of Pennsylvania]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/703/990/1673990703.0.l.jpg)
The Tourist's Pocket Map of Pennsylvania Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads Distances &c [cover title: Mitchell's Map of Pennsylvania]
by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and James Hamilton Young
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839. Very Good. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell , 1839. Later issue with 1831 copyright and 1839 under publisher information. 12mo. Full hand-colored fold-out map (38x32.5cm) housed in original embossed red leather binding with gilt stamping to front. Light wear to extremities and binding is sound. Later gift inscriptions to pastedown. Mild toning to edges of map with a few brief splits to folds, else sound and colors remain bright. Includes actual and proposed canals... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Guenevere: A Play in Five Acts
by Stark Young
New York: Grafton Press, 1906. Very Good. New York: Grafton Press, 1906. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 82pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, scattered foxing to endpapers, textblock a bit toned and brittle, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Scarce five-act play published the same year as the author's first book, a collection of poems titled "The Blind Man at the Window.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
After the Banquet
by Yukio Mishima; Donald Keene [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo. 271pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth over blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and red; red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket toned along edges with light wear and a couple minor nicks to spine ends. Boards show light shelfwear with some mild dust soiling. Binding sound; off-setting to endpapers and pages else unmarked; a Very Good or better... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima; Meredith Weatherby [trans.]; Yoshinori Kinoshita [illus.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First US Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Jose de Almeida retaining original price ($3.00); [4],182pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket rather chipped and worn at margins with subsequent creasing, spine panel sunned and jacket verso foxed, boards a bit rubbed with a bit of a spine lean; an About Very Good copy.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Freedom and Community
by Yves R. Simon; Charles P. O'Donnell [ed.]
New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. Very Good. New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pp. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of boards, touch of dust soiling along top edge, and gilt dulled along spine. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Istituzione Antiquario-Lapidaria o sia Introduzione allo studio delle antiche Latine Iscrizioni in tre Libri Proposta
by [Francesco Antonio Zaccaria]
Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. Very Good. Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. First Edition. Octavo. 12mo. xl; 532pp. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards; pink paper title label to spine. Ex-library with old (ca. 1900?) stamps and markings to spine and preliminaries. Wear to edges with chips to edges, split to top of rear joint, and wormholing along... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Black Student's Guide to Positive Education (for high school, college, graduate and technical students)
by Zak Kondo; Nia Kondo [fwd.]
Washington DC: Nubia Press, 1989. Very Good. Washington DC: Nubia Press, 1989. Sixth Printing stated. Octavo (22.5cm); pictorial wraps; 79pp. Wrappers rubbed; cover has some spotting and ring staining; edgewear to crown of spine. Original price sticker on verso. Previous owner's name written in ink on inside of the front and back covers, with initials JRP written in ink on foredge. Some notes in green made on pp. 54 and 55. The subject title "Make the Education of... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![The Lucy Variations [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/273/1700273124.0.l.jpg)
The Lucy Variations [Signed]
by Sara Zarr
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],304pp. Moderate wear and light soil to dust jacket and textblock margins, old "Signed by the Author" sticker to upper panel, slight spine lean; overall Very Good. Signed by the author on title page.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
About the Living Theatre
by Laura Zelaznick
New York: The Living Theatre, 1985. Very Good +. [New York]: The Living Theatre, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher’s illustrated wraps; 7pp. Wraps rather toned; interior pages slightly less so. A Very Good or better piece of Living Theatre ephemera. Interior pages contain a brief essay by Laura Zelaznick, in response to a 1984 write-up that appeared in Performing Arts Journal. In the enflaming piece, “The Return of the Living Theatre: Paradise Lost” critic Gerald Rabkin laments... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Beijing's Economic Statecraft During the Cold War, 1949-1991
by Shu Guang Zhang
Washington, DC / Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Very Good. Washington, DC / Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial boards; xiv,[2],477pp. Corners and spine ends bumped, brief soil to textblock fore-edge, very occasional pencil marginalia, else Very Good and sound.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston; Franz Boas [intro.]; Miguel Covarrubias [illus.]
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Very Good. New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's teal cloth, black spine titling; 342pp.; illus. and sheet music throughout. Light shelf wear, brief foxing to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. Scarce facsimile reprint of the first (1935) edition.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Dust Tracks on a Road
by Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou [fwd.]; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [ed.]
New York: HarperPerrenial, 1991. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: HarperPerrenial, 1991. First Thus. Octavo (21 cm), xii, [278]pp. Illustrated publisher’s dust jacket with price intact ($22.95/$29.95 CAN). Boards full bound in dark green bonded leather with gilt stamping on the spine. Dust jacket has some very light soiling and minor bumps to the head and tail of the spine. Jacket verso slightly toned. Boards show light bumping at spine ends, minor signs of shelfwear; corners sharp. Small... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Le Ultime Ore di Napoleone a Sant'Elena: Ottave [Fantasia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/383/1681383416.0.l.jpg)
Le Ultime Ore di Napoleone a Sant'Elena: Ottave [Fantasia]
by [Napoleon Bonaparte] Giuseppe Zuccherini
Pistoia: Tipografia Cino, 1843. Very Good. Pistoia: Tipografia Cino, 1843. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's stitched mustard wrappers printed within typographically decorative border with putti at each corner; 36pp. Evidence along spine of having been removed from larger volume, including contemporary ink pagination at top corner of each leaf recto, light soil, textblock a bit foxed, else Very Good and sound. Scarce poem envisioning an exiled Napoleon's final day on the island of Saint Helena. OCLC locates... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Barely and Widely [Limited Edition, Signed to Hugh Seidman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/687/684/1700684687.0.l.jpg)
Barely and Widely [Limited Edition, Signed to Hugh Seidman]
by Louis Zukofsky
New York: Celia Zukofsky, 1958. Very Good. New York: Celia Zukofsky, 1958. Limited Edition of 300 numbered and signed copies, this being number 79. Oblong octavo (12cm x 16.3cm); blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; front cover from paperback edition retained and tipped-in; 73pp in Zukofsky's facsimile handwriting. Boards rubbed with a couple light bumps along edges and scuffed at corners and spine ends; some fading along top and bottom, with faint smudges to cloth. Small... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![A Test of Poetry [Inscribed and Signed to Hugh Seidman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/180/568/1699568180.0.l.jpg)
A Test of Poetry [Inscribed and Signed to Hugh Seidman]
by Louis Zukofsky
Brooklyn, NY: Objectivist Press, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Objectivist Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in gray printed dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); viii,165pp. Light shelf wear, faint scattered soiling to dust jacket, spine panel a bit toned and cloth unevenly faded, else a Very Good and sound copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Hugh Seidman / Always, Louis Zukofsky / 2/18/60." Together with Seidman's ownership signature and... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/212/1691212115.0.l.jpg)
Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]
by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. Very Good. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (18cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 103pp. Light wear and dust-soil to margins, rear cover lightly damp spotted, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page together with her 212 phone number. Memoirs of the "grande horizontale" nude model and Greenwich Village "den mother" Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (1928-2019), a member of James Baldwin's Parisian... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
![Wooden Synagogues [Masterpieces of Jewish Art]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/686/1744686158.0.l.jpg)
Wooden Synagogues [Masterpieces of Jewish Art]
by Z. Yargina; S. Tartakovsky [photos.]
Moscow: Image Publishing House, 1993. Very Good/Very Good +. Moscow: Image Publishing House, [1993]. No edition statement. Small octavo (20cm); illustrated dust jacket; faux brown leather with silver lettering and mounted illustration; 367pp; illus throughout; pictorial endpapers. Text in English and Russian. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge. Boards nudged at spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books