Capitol Hill Books

12/06/2024

https://capitolhillbooksmerch.printful.me/

04/04/2024

Rare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.

03/07/2024

Edward Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner
Hard Light

Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1978. First edition. 12mo; publisher's photo-illustrated card wraps; unpaginated; chiefly halftone photographic illus. throughout. Publisher's promotional card included. Slight curling towards fore-edge of wrappers and promotional card, binding otherwise sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine copy of this scarce photo-novel, featuring Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller.

Offered by ABAA-member Hill Books and found in their latest catalog "E-List 24."

For more info or to view recent catalogs from ABAA members, visit: https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/latest-rare-book-catalogs

01/11/2024

Happy New Year, friends!⁣
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We're running a 30% off Website Sale through Sunday (1/7 - 1/14), so if you've had your eye on a shiny signed copy by your favorite author or can't get that unique manuscript archive out of your head, now's the time! [Sale applies to website inventory only, excluding gift certificates and merch (i.e. hats / totes). Not applicable to in-store inventory. Institutions can be billed according to their needs.]⁣
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Just head to our website and enter code WEB30 at checkout!⁣
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- Team CHB

(PS: We also regularly forget about Facebook so comments / messages here will almost surely be missed.)

11/14/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/13/jim-toole-dead-capitol-hill-books/

The retired rear admiral treated the bookstore like one of his ships. He also sought to safeguard the English language, banning overused words such as “like.”

11/13/2023

10/27/2023

02/07/2023

https://capitolhillbooks.substack.com/p/capitol-hill-books-2023-state-of

The state of the bookstore is strong, and getting stronger.

01/31/2023

In which we finally answer your most burning question: where do we get all our books?

From the brackish waters of the Chesapeake to the rich soil of the Blue Ridge

12/13/2022

https://capitolhillbooks.substack.com/p/road-trip

...to the Boston Book Fair

12/07/2022

Dammit. The struggle to get our enormous Don Quixote mosaic wall from Falls Church to our back patio hits another setback.

Dear Capitol Hill Books: As the Special Projects Director of Amazon’s Department of Community Relations, it is my duty to inform you that your request to borrow Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ helicopter for the purpose of airlifting a large, tiled mosaic wall depicting scenes from Don Quixote to the...

11/29/2022

In our latest Booga post, we take a look at Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor.

The characters in Filthy Animals — Brandon Taylor’s short story collection published in 2021— exist in ambiguous and often precarious emotional states. We meet them in vulnerable moments (after a stay in the hospital, after a break up) and watch as they navigate a world that seems to threaten ...