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2 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “The First American Martyr To The A A Freedom Of The Press, And The Freedom U C Of The Slave” (John Quincy Adams) M K A (LOVEJOY, Elijah P.) LOVEJOY, Joseph C. and Owen. Memoir of the Rev. N H Elijah P. Lovejoy; Who Was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the I Press, At Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837. With an Introduction by John R S Quincy Adams. New York, 1838. Octavo, original gray cloth. $3200. A T R View on Website O E R First edition of the publisher and editor’s memoir, issued the year after his Y murder, only two years after he denounced the lynching by fire of a free B black man, as an act of “savage barbarity,” a seminal record of key event in O & America’s abolitionist battle and the history of the First Amendment. O K Elijah Lovejoy, who was born in Maine, began publishing the abolitionist Observer after L S he moved to St. Louis. When, in 1836, a mob dragged Francis McIntosh, a free black I man accused of murder, from the St. Louis jail and set him on fire, killing him, “Lovejoy’s T Observer described the lynching by fire as an ‘awful murder and savage barbarity’… [and] • E attacked Judge Luke Lawless” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Lawless, who presided over the R grand jury investigating the lynching of McIntosh, had “declared that such actions by E A ‘the many—of the multitude… is beyond the reach of human law!’… [and] made it clear A T that he blamed abolitionist agitators… With this judicial encouragement, vandals entered R U the Observer office on three or four occasions… Prophetically, Lovejoy pointed out that L R Lawless’ reasoning would allow a mob to destroy the Observer, kill its editor, and escape Y E punishment’” (Kielbowicz, “Law and Mob Law,” in Law and History Review V.24, 587-88). After mobs destroyed his shop a third time, “Lovejoy moved the Observer to nearby 2 Alton, Illinois, only to see the violence against him and his press escalate… he died, five 0 bullets in his heart, while defending his fourth press from an armed, arsonist mob… 2 Lovejoy’s murder marked a turning point in Northern attitudes regarding the antislavery 0 movement’s print tactics; no longer perceived as a dangerous criminal act, abolitionist print agitation was for the most part tolerated—however grudgingly—as a recognized O form of free speech appropriate to a healthy democracy… that the editor’s murder, N like that of McIntosh, was followed by highly suspicious judicial pandering to the Slave L Power only reinforced abolitionist efforts to associate antislavery with both freedom of I expression and trial by jury” (DeLombard, Slavery on Trial, 57). N When verdicts were handed down in the Alton case, both the abolitionists who tried to defend Lovejoy’s press Coincidentally or not, this also marked the Court’s first application of the 14th Amendment to strike down state E and the members of the mob who attacked it were acquitted or had their cases dropped. “Within days of the restrictions that violated the First Amendment’s press clause” (Kielbowicz, 595-600). With introduction by John Alton verdicts, Abraham Lincoln, then a young attorney in Springfield, lamented the ‘mobocratic spirit… now Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president and a leading abolitionist who, in 1841, successfully defended the abroad in the land.’ In a prophetic speech, Lincoln identified the ‘growing disposition to substitute the wild and enslaved Africans before the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. The Amistad. Here Adams writes: furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of the Courts’ as the principal threat to the survival of American “That an American citizen, in a state whose Constitution repudiates all Slavery, should die a martyr in defence political institutions” and, in a reference to Lovejoy, he also spoke harshly of those who “throw printing presses [sic] of the freedom of the press, is a phenomenon in the history of this Union.” Lovejoy, he declares, was “the into rivers, [and] shoot editors.’” Scholar Michael Kent Curtis has credited “abolitionists’ free-speech efforts with first American Martyr to the freedom of the press, and the freedom of the slave.” Co-authored by Joseph C. breathing meaning into abstract notions of freedom of expression and laying the foundation for First and 14th Lovejoy and Owen Lovejoy, with extensive writings by Elijah Lovejoy and vital witness accounts. Sabin 42366. Amendment doctrines that matured in the 20th century.” There remains, nevertheless, a key aspect of the debate Blockson 3366. This copy contains lightly penciled presentation inscriptions on both front and rear blank over free speech that endorses “the view that communities should have some control over ideas disseminated leaves, reportedly by the wife of co-author Joseph C. Lovejoy, to: “Anna and E.H. Lakeman presented by Mrs. in their midst,” supported as a form of nuisance law. “Not until 1931 did the U.S. Supreme Court, in Near v. Sarah Lovejoy.” Interior very fresh with faintest occasional foxing, mere trace of dampstaining at the rear, very Minnesota, rule out the use of public nuisance as a basis for silencing a publication that agitated a community. mild edgewear, minimal soiling to original cloth. Near-fine.

3 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H I R S A T R O E R Y B O & O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E 2 “A Systematic Rebuttal Of The Most Common Objections To Abolition” 0 2 (SLAVERY) TREADWELL, Seymour Boughton. American Liberties and American Slavery. Morally and Politically Illustrated. New-York, 1838. 0 Octavo, original brown cloth. $2800. View on Website O N First edition of this abolitionist’s treatise emphasizing the slaveholders’ plenty of focus. Treadwell was a ‘one-idea man,’ and that idea was the eradication of L muzzling of the democratic process by preventing public discussions of slavery, slavery… Meanwhile, he farmed in Leoni Township… according to his daughter, he used I the farm for a more secretive purpose—aiding fugitive slaves as a station along the in the original cloth, with the bookplate of the Anti-Slavery Library. N Underground Railroad” (Jackson Citizen Patriot). “Originally a backer of Henry Clay’s colonization scheme, Treadwell evolved into an E “In 1838, Treadwell, an obscure non-lawyer abolitionist, devoted a book to slavery and advocate of abolition, the most extreme of the anti-slavery positions… Treadwell’s its relation to American liberty. The centerpiece of the book was a defense of freedom of 1837 Independence Day address to an anti-slavery group prompted suggestions that expression, a concept he distinguished from the ‘loose… idea of a licentious liberty’… he publish his abolition arguments. Selling his business, he moved to Rochester, where Treadwell suggested the right to free speech was a national right protected by the he penned the book American Liberties and American Slavery Morally and Politically Federal Constitution. Southerners were able to express pro-slavery sentiments in the Illustrated, a systematic rebuttal of the most common objections to abolition. That North and should be protected in that right, for they were ‘American citizens, still under book, published in May 1838, gave Treadwell national standing. About a year after the… American constitution’” (Michael Kent Curtis, “The Curious History of Attempts its publication, he was invited by the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society to visit Jackson. to Suppress Anti-Slavery Speech, Press, and Petition in 1835-37,” in Northwestern The group had organized in Ann Arbor in 1836. But Jackson, a few months prior to University Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 3, page 865). Contemporary bookplate of the Anti- Treadwell’s visit, had given birth to the state’s first anti-slavery newspaper, the American Slavery Library. Some dampstaining to first few and last few leaves, chiefly marginal; Freeman. The paper failed after three issues, and Treadwell was invited to revive it… light rubbing to binding. A very good copy in original cloth. Filled with lengthy letters, essays and full-page speech transcripts, the Freeman had

4 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “The Fruit Of Slavery… The Consequence Of A A Withholding From Men Their Liberty” U C M K MCCUNE SMITH, James. A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions; With a Sketch of the Character of A Toussaint L’Ouverture. Delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, (For the Benefit of the Colored Orphan N H Asylum,) February 26, 1841. New-York, 1841. Slim octavo, modern blue cloth. $4800. I View on Website R S A First edition of a landmark early history of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, delivered in 1841 by T R O McCune Smith—“the African American tradition’s first man of letters” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)—arguing, in effect, that E R the “racist mythology about Africans that was created to justify and perpetuate slavery… destroys the foundations Y of freedom,” with frontispiece map of “Hayti or St Domingo.” B To historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James McCune Smith stands “as the African American tradition’s first man of letters, its O & first intellectual and its first professional writer… he was one of the few black men or women before whom the great Frederick O Douglass would bow” (Foreword in Stauffer, ed. Works, x-xi). To David Blight, of all those who have offered their interpretation K L of Douglass’ autobiographies, “perhaps none has done so more incisively than the first, James McCune Smith, Douglass’ good S I friend, ideological soul mate, and the man he asked to introduce My Bondage and My Freedom.” Born a slave in New York City T in 1813 and freed by the Emancipation Act of the State of NY in 1827, McCune Smith was “an intellectual prodigy… denied • E admission to medical schools, he journeyed to Glasgow, Scotland, where he achieved the BA, MA and MD degrees.” On returning R and meeting Douglass, “they struck up an extraordinary friendship… and shared a mutual respect for a life of the mind for black E A men… Douglass judged him ‘without rivals’ among black leaders” (Frederick Douglass, 256-57). Yet McCune Smith remains A T overshadowed by his contemporaries, in part because “he published no book during his lifetime… [and] his essays… were R U difficult to save and pass down.” Now, however, the man who died barely six months after Lee’s surrender, and long “felt that L R his work ‘was not of today only but of Y E centuries’… is finally beginning to rear himself above the waves of obscurity” 2 (Stauffer, xvi, xxxiv; emphasis added). 0 At the 1838 meeting of the American 2 Anti-Slavery Society, where McCune 0 Smith was the only black man to deliver a keynote address, he focused “on O the Haitian Revolution…. [and] argued N that, contrary to white abolitionist L perceptions, black revolutionaries in the I French colony of Saint Domingue were N the first group to advocate an immediate end to slavery” (Stauffer, xxiii). That speech became the basis for this pivotal Lecture, E where he “anticipated the efforts of 20th-century black radical intellectuals like C.L.R. James. In the talk… he set out to present a full, objective history of the revolution… [and] divided his history into three revolutions, the formation of the French Republic, the abolition of slavery, and the independence of Haiti, over which Toussaint Louverture was the ‘presiding genius.’ His signal achievement, McCune Smith wrote, was not just the abolition of slavery but also of the racial caste that had divided the island into white, mixed race and blacks” (Sinha, Slave’s Cause, 454). McCune Smith’s purpose here is clear: “slavery is evil beyond question; yet the damage caused by slavery extends beyond fundamental deprivations of natural rights and violations of natural law. A racist mythology about Africans that was created to justify and perpetuate slavery… destroys the foundations of freedom” (O’Brien in Haitian Revolution, 204). First edition, only printing; bound without fragile wrappers. Sabin 82794. Blockson, 18. Interior fresh with lightest scattered foxing. An exceptional near-fine copy.

5 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B “A Profound Impact On The History Of Jonathan Walker was a ship captain from Massachusetts who lived the hand ‘literally reached out to a mass audience across the free L and worked in antebellum Pensacola. The celebrated Walker case, Northern states.’” He became a major figure on the abolitionist lecture A A The United States… Brought The Nation which involved his attempt to help seven legally bonded men escape circuit, where he moved through crowds to show his branded hand. U C Closer To The Day Of Reckoning” enslavement, highlighted “the perpetual nature of the war against slavery “The effect on the assembly was profound” (Clavin, 700-6). Frederick M K being waged by… enslaved residents of Pensacola [who] simply refused to Douglass later wrote, with his characteristic irony: “I well remember the A WALKER, Jonathan. Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan accept their status.” The bondsmen’s struggle for freedom and Walker’s sensation produced by the exhibition of the branded hand. It was one N H Walker, At Pensacola, Florida, For Aiding Slaves to Escape Trial and Imprisonment had “a profound impact on the history of the of the few atrocities of slavery that roused the justice and humanity I from Bondage. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch United States. By illuminating radical and unrelenting cross-sectional of the North to a death struggle with slavery” (New England Magazine, R S of his Life. Boston, 1845. Octavo, original brown cloth. and interracial resistance to slavery, [they] fueled the fire of sectional November 1898). Walker’s branded hand became a defining “emblem A discord and brought the nation closer to the day of reckoning” (Clavin, of the entire abolitionist movement and, perhaps inevitably, of the T $2800. R O “Underground Railroad” in Florida Historical Quarterly V92:4, 712, 687). Underground Railroad” (Bordewich, Bound for Canaan, 292). E View on Website R After seven bondsmen approached Walker and asked for his help, they “Walker never again set foot in Pensacola; nevertheless the tracks of the Y First edition of Walker’s electrifying account of his struggle boarded his ship in July 1844, but even as they were sailing down the Gulf Underground Railroad he helped lay across the city continued to operate.” B to help seven men escape slavery aboard his ship—the coast of Florida, rewards were posted for capture of the bondsmen and According to War of the Rebellion (1861-64), “the first fugitive slaves O & “cause célèbre of the transatlantic abolitionist movement”— Walker was vilified as “a race-traitor.” Detained off the coast by captain to seek refuge behind Union lines at the outbreak of the Civil War fled O of the Eliza Catherine, they were brought back to Pensacola. Some of across Pensacola Bay to the federal-occupied Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa documenting the slaves’ capture and imprisonment as well as K the bondsmen were returned to their slave owners, while others were Island in March 1861… when Union forces stationed at the fort regained L his own punishment of having “S.S.” for Slave Stealer branded S I imprisoned and beaten in jail. Walker, also imprisoned for months, was control over Pensacola in the second year of the war, they adopted the on his hand, featuring the engraved image of his branded T convicted after a short trial. Part of his punishment was “standing in the role of Underground Railroad employees by launching a full-scale assault • hand, “one of the most recognizable icons” of the abolitionist E pillory in front of the courthouse… and having the letters ‘S.S.’ which stood on slavery… the efforts of fugitive slaves and their northern allies… R movement, along with three full-page engravings, a handsome for Slave Stealer, branded onto the palm of his right hand. The branding contributed significantly to the Civil War’s transformation from a limited E A copy in original cloth. of a free white northerner for assisting enslaved black southerners was war to save the union into a total war over freedom and equality.” (Clavin, A T an extraordinary event… As the marshal pressed the red-hot brand into 707-712). Rare complete with three full-page engraved illustrations. R U Walker’s palm, all those within earshot heard ‘a splattering noise, like Issued with front board gilt-stamped, “Narrative of Jonathan Walker” L R a handful of salt in the fire.’” When one of the bondsmen was returned (this copy), or gilt-stamped, “The Branded Hand”: no priority established. Y to jail on suspicion of stealing, he committed suicide. Walker, then in Preface by Marie Weston Chapman dated in print: “Boston, August, 1845.” E a nearby cell, wrote that the floor where he died “was stained with the One of New England’s most prominent white abolitionists, Chapman was 2 blood of… one of the seven slaves whom I had vainly endeavored to save a pivotal figure in William Lloyd Garrison’s Massachusetts Anti-Slavery 0 from bondage’” (Clavin, 695-700). Society and edited his newspaper, The Liberator. She was, as well, a 2 leading voice for women’s rights. Blockson 10154. Interior quite fresh Walker’s case became the “cause célèbre of the transatlantic 0 abolitionist movement… at a meeting of the British and Foreign Anti- with mere trace of soiling, faintest edge-wear to bright gilt-stamped cloth. Slavery Society in London, the organization’s legendary leader Thomas A splendid about-fine copy. O Clarkson… led a public rally in support of him… Beyond N stoking the flames of anti-abolitionism, his L greatest contribution to the sectional crisis I came after abolitionists secured his release from the Pensacola jail and published several N autobiographical accounts. The first and E most popular was Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola… Walker’s rare first-hand account of slave life on the Gulf Coast” electrified the anti-slavery cause, and the image of his branded hand offered the abolitionist movement “one of its most recognizable icons. In August 1845, just weeks after his release from jail,” a daguerreotype was made of his branded hand that “printers committed immediately to an engraving… in the words of literary scholar Marcus Wood,

6 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H I R S A T R O E R Y B O & O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E “A Remarkable Spiritual Adventure, Involving Violent Resistance To 2 Slavery, Divine Visitations, And An Unforgettable Sea Voyage” 0 THOMPSON, John. Life of John Thompson, A Fugitive Slave; Containing his History of 25 Years in Bondage, and his Providential Escape. 2 0 Written by Himself. Worcester, 1856. Small octavo (5 by 7-1/4 inches), original gilt- and blind-stamped brown cloth. $4500. View on Website O First edition and only printing of Thompson’s self-published wrote and printed himself without the benefit of any editor or adviser— Thompson too acknowledges his subordinate status on a whaling N autobiography, a dramatic account of his life under slavery and became a remarkable spiritual adventure, involving violent resistance ship, which becomes a symbol of America… And he makes whaling an L his years aboard a whaling ship, not published again for over a to slavery, divine visitations, and an unforgettable sea voyage” (Yuval allegory of the state of the soul, much as Ishmael does” (McCarthy & I Taylor, I Was Born a Slave, 414). “More than most authors, Thompson Doughton, 39-40. xvi-xvii). As Thompson’s book progresses, “it moves, hundred years, very elusive in original gilt-stamped cloth. N celebrates the slave who resists, who challenges the master’s claim of in a pilgrim’s progress, from the worldly to the divine. The narrative was E Born enslaved in Maryland in 1812, Thompson finally escaped and absolute authority” and focuses on “his “growth of faith” (McCarthy & well received when published… but it only went through one edition and found his way to New Bedford. There, although he had never been Doughton, 38-39). was not reprinted for over a century” (Yuval Taylor, 414). “Self-published to sea, he shipped out on whaling vessel to evade capture by slave “Thompson gained literacy early…to describe his two-year whaling in Worcester in 1856, the book had a very limited circulation… Thompson traders. After his years at sea, Thompson returned home and voyage, he seems to have drawn on such sea tales as Frederick Douglass’ had his narrative printed at one of the local newspaper offices… [by] “sometime before 1855 he and his family relocated to Worcester, novel, Heroic Slave [1853], or Melville’s Benito Cereno [1855]. Scholars Charles Hamilton, printer of the Worcester Palladium. Thompson must the move perhaps associated with preparation and publication of his also note, “based on compelling evidence internal to his story, he probably have come across one of the advertisements that Hamilton placed in narrative” (McCarthy & Doughton, From Bondage to Belonging, 40). In read Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and responds to it in his narrative. The the Palladium in early 1856 and paid for the printing himself” (Roy, in his preface, Thompson “explains that he read other slave narratives only other known African American who read and responded to Melville’s Against a Sharp White Background, 264-65). Four years after publication, before writing his own, and he clearly modeled his first few chapters brilliant exploration of race and freedom on a multiracial whaling ship Thompson died in Worcester in October 1860. Blockson 9660. Interior upon them. However, he was one of a small but significant number was the black intellectual and physician James McCune Smith… Like fresh with only lightest foxing, trace of edge-wear, faint soiling to bright of slaves who professed to have had direct experience of God, and Ishmael, who asks, ‘Who ain’t a slave?’ after going to sea seeking freedom, gilt cloth, About-fine. that experience evidently reshaped his narrative… His story—which he

7 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “There Was In John Brown A Complete Identification With The Oppressed” A A (BROWN, John) (EMERSON, Ralph Waldo) (DREW, Thomas). The John Brown Invasion. An Authentic History U C of the Harper’s Ferry Tragedy with Full Details of the Capture, Trial, and Execution of the Invaders, M K and All of the Incidents Connected Therewith. Boston, 1860. Octavo, contemporary half black morocco A N and marbled boards; original wrappers bound in. $2600. H I View on Website R S First edition, issued within months of John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid, trial and execution, with early reportage, A T trial testimony and his November 2 address to the court that put “slavery itself on trial,” featuring the first printing R O of Emerson’s November 18 Speech at Boston’s Tremont Temple delivered two weeks before Brown’s execution, E R containing engraved frontispiece portrait of Brown, in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards with original Y B papers wrappers bound in. O & To African American historian Lerone Bennett, Jr., John Brown “was an elemental O force like wind, rain and fire… there was in John Brown a complete identification K L with the oppressed.” Frederick Douglass, Brown’s trusted friend, once observed: S I “If John Brown did not end the war on slavery, he did, at least, begin the war T that ended slavery” (Reynolds, John Brown, 504, ix). This first edition of John • E Brown Invasion, compiled by Thomas Drew, assembles in one volume a detailed contemporary chronicle of Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid that began on the night of R E October 16, and ended two days later when he was captured by soldiers under A A the command of Robert E. Lee. The book features early reportage, interviews T R with Brown, correspondence with family members and abolitionists such as U L Lydia Maria Child, speeches by Wendell Phillips and other leading abolitionists, R Y and extensive coverage of Brown’s trial, along with the trials and executions of E Shields Green, John Copeland (aka Copland), Edwin Coppic and John Cook. 2 Historians have noted an especially key point in Brown’s trial, one that fundamentally 0 impacted the history of slavery and his legacy: “Brown had been compelled to endure 2 his trial in near silence. Virginia adhered to the so-called ‘interested party’ rule—as 0 did every state in 1859—which prohibited a criminal defendant from testifying in his own behalf… That would change when he came before the court for sentencing. Judge Parker ordered Brown to stand before the bench on Wednesday morning, O November 2, while the clerk read the obligatory question. Did the defendant have N ‘anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him?’ Eloquently and L defiantly, Brown seized the moment.” In a brief address to the court, printed here, I Brown fundamentally took “control of the courtroom by… placing slavery itself on N trial. In less than half an hour, Brown had transformed himself from a murderer to a E martyr” (Lubet, Execution in Virginia, 6-7). This work is also highly notable in containing the first printing of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s November 18 Speech at Boston’s Tremont Temple, in which Emerson cites Brown’s November 2nd address, and praises him as a man who “believes in the Union of America, and he conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is slavery… Is this the kind of man the gallows is built for?” Historian David Reynolds has speculated: “What would have happened if Brown had not violently disrupted the racist juggernaut that was America?… It took nine decades of struggle for America to approach John Brown’s goal of civil rights for all ethnic minorities. Even today the goal is not fully realized. W.E.B. Du Bois’ startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, ‘John Brown was right’” (John Brown, 505-6). With engraved frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Whipple; with facsimile inscription below image. Preface by journalist and editor Thomas Drew signed and dated in print: “Boston, Dec. 21, 1839.” Bound-in original wrappers with “Price Twenty-Five Cents” on front wrapper; publisher’s advertisement on rear wrapper. Sabin 8518. BAL 5232. Interior very fresh with lightest scattered foxing, light edge-wear to boards and spine.

8 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L Scarce 1863 Pro-Abolition A A Political Handbill: Democratic U C Catechism Of Negro M K A Equality, July 4th, 1863 N H (CIVIL WAR) (SLAVERY). Handbill [“Democratic I R Catechism of Negro Equality. July 4, 1863”]. S A T No place, no date. Single sheet of off-white R O paper, measuring 5-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches, E R printed on recto only. $950. Y View on Website B Presumed first edition of this scarce Republican O & O handbill charging the Democratic party with K supporting African American equality legislatively L S I while claiming to abhor the very idea. T “On July 4, 1863 the Democratic Catechism of Negro • E Equality was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. R The document criticizes the Democratic Party of the E A United States for placing the responsibility of African A T American emancipation on the Republicans’ shoulders R U instead of participating in the struggle themselves. By L R beginning the text with an index of the Democratic Y E Party’s accomplishments, the catechism’s authors show how the Party’s ideology already supports abolition, 2 thus revealing the hypocrisy of Democrats’ inaction” 0 (Changing America, Brown University). In the lead-up 2 to the 1864 presidential election pitting Lincoln against 0 McClellan, many argued that Lincoln favored African Americans over white Americans. Rather than addressing O the absurdity of this claim directly, Republicans struck N back with this handbill. In it, they attempted to brand L Democrats as two-faced, arguing that Democrats I provided African Americans with legislative support while N claiming to fight against African American equality and E suffrage. The specific printing history of this particular handbill is unknown. While some contemporary copies have a publisher’s imprint at the bottom (Johnson’s in Philadelphia) and correct spacing in the date added to the title, some copies—like this one—lack any imprint and also have tight spacing of the date. Regardless, copies with July 4th, 1863 in the title are generally regarded as the first edition. The second edition of 1864 removed the date. Sabin 19499. Marginal chipping to bottom corner, faint foxing, slight creasing to edges, and mild toning along bottom edge. Extremely good condition.

9 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “Under A Hollow Pretense A A Of Executing The Law… To U C M K Murder Them In Cold Blood” A WELLS, James M. The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture N H of “Home Rule” in Mississippi. Chicago, 1877. I R Octavo, original orange cloth. $900. S A T View on Website R O First edition of Wells’ contemporary account of a massacre E R in “Bloody Kemper,” Mississippi, triggered by the KKK the Y same year President Hayes in effect ended Reconstruction, B documenting the mob murder of Judge Chisolm and his O & O children, along with reportage on the Klan-led kidnapping K and alleged torture of African American Walter Riley (later L S I hanged), with frontispiece and eight full-page illustrations, T including an early attempted lynching of Riley. • E In 1877 America’s newly-elected President Hayes removed R all federal troops from the former Confederacy, marking the E A return of “home rule” for most whites and Southern democrats. A T In Mississippi’s Kemper County, there was already explosive R U tension between a white Republican judge, William Chisolm, L R and Ku Klux Klan leader John Gully. When Gully was killed by Y E an unknown shooter, warrants were issued for Chisolm’s arrest. With the Klan “at the height of its power,… all night preceding 2 the expected arrest armed horsemen rode into the [county 0 seat] De Kalb. On the morning of Sunday, April 30, 1877, the 2 sheriff served the warrants and Chisolm’s family… insisted on 0 accompanying him to jail. In the meantime Gilmer, one of the other arrested Republicans, had been killed by the mob while on O the way to the same jail… [and] a staunch friend of Chisolm’s, N Angus McLellan,… was in turn shot down as he left the prison.” L When the Klan-fueled mob outside the prison attacked Chisolm, I his son was shot and he shot his son’s killer before the family N retreated into the prison. As the mob yelled, “Burn them out,” E Chisolm and his family tried to flee, leading to the murders of the judge and another child. “Leaders of the mob were indicted… none were ever punished… [and] local newspapers repeatedly refused to name anyone else. As he was “led to the gallows through (alt. Chisholm) Massacre” (Mississippi Encyclopedia, 681). With justified the mob” (Wilkerson, Slow Travels-Mississippi). an immense throng of ‘good citizens’ who had turned out to… see frontispiece and eight plates, including an early attempted lynching of In Wells’ contemporary account he cites rumors that a black man named him dangle,” a stay came down from the governor. Wells notes that Walter Riley. With introduction by Judge Chisolm’s widow. In orange Walter Riley killed Gully, not Chisolm. Soon Riley was “kidnapped from as “these pages go to press” in late November, Riley’s fate remained (this copy), red, and green cloth, no priority established. As issued Tennessee… and brought back to Kemper County, without process of uncertain. But a December 12 issue of the Weekly Clarion separately without dust jacket. Blockson 2587. Text quite fresh with lightest a lawful requisition, or any other legal authority.” With Riley in prison, reports that Riley was hanged, and “took the secret with him to the foxing mainly to preliminaries; cloth with mild rubbing, toning to Gully’s relatives and Klansmen “had free access to the prisoner’s cell” grave.” Kemper County was well “known as Bloody Kemper because spine. An extremely good copy. and were determined to “wring from Riley a confession” of his and of the high homicide rate during the Reconstruction era. The most Chisolm’s part in Gully’s murder. Riley confessed to Gully’s death but notorious example of county’s postbellum hostilities was the Chisolm

10 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H I R S A T R O E R Y B O & O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E 2 0 “Attests To The Rich Contribution Of African Americans To A Storied Cuisine” 2 0 FOX, Minnie C., compiler, and COBURN, Alvin Langdon, photographer. The Blue Grass Cook Book. New York, 1904. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth. $1750. O View on Website N L First edition of Fox’s classic tribute to African American influence in America’s Southern kitchens, illustrated with a I full-page image of corn dodgers and biscuits, and 11 full-page photographic images of African American cooks by N acclaimed photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. E This landmark Kentucky cookbook from the turn of the 20th century represents the first time African American cooks were explicitly credited with their contributions to Southern cuisine. “Many of these [recipes] must be veritable heirlooms, precious souvenirs of the past, the originals of which were in faded ink, just as they were inscribed by loving hands of mothers and grandmothers” (contemporary review, New York Times). “This century-old treasure of Southern cooking attests to the rich contribution of African Americans to a storied cuisine. Its author, Minnie Fox, and her author brother, who wrote the introduction, were probably the first Southern whites ever to acknowledge the role of black culinary genius” (Sidney W. Mintz). Poised at a crucial turning point in the history of photography, representing the “transition from pictorialism to modernism, from 19th- to 20th-century photography,” the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn illuminates “the concern of the more advanced pictorialist with ‘modern’ subjects… a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger I:74). Cagle & Stafford 270. This copy notably contains a contemporary gift inscription dated “Dec 23, 1904,” along with three wonderful handwritten recipes at the rear for “Rolled Oats Bread,” Grandma’s Baked Flour Pudding” and a “Custard Souffle.” Interior very fresh, faintest rubbing to bright cloth. A lovely about-fine copy.

11 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “The Best Known African A A American Unit Of WWI” U C M K (WORLD WAR I) LITTLE, Arthur W. From Harlem to the A Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. N H New York, 1936. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. I $1250. R S View on Website A T R O First edition of Colonel Little’s photo-illustrated history of the E R pioneering WWI African American combat unit, famed as the Y “Harlem Hellfighters,” signed by the author, a white officer of B the regiment, also with the inscription in an unidentified hand: O & “This book is presented to Edward Goodell, at the suggestion O of ‘Trainee’ Arthur W. Little, Jr., 5th Co. Plattsburg 1940— K L with the compliments of the author—September 12th 1940,” S I in scarce dust jacket. T • E Begun as a National Guard Infantry Regiment, “manned by black R enlisted soldiers with both black and white officers, the 369th E A Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the ‘Harlem Hellfighters,’ was A T the best known African American unit of WWI… Spending over six R U months in combat, perhaps the longest of any American unit in the L R war, the 369th suffered approximately 1500 casualties” (BlackPast). Y E In his slave narrative, “Frederick Douglass had likened his master to a snake; now a rattlesnake adorned the black veterans’ uniforms— 2 their insignia.” On coming home, they were welcomed with a parade 0 up Fifth Avenue. It was “the first opportunity the City of New York 2 had to greet a full regiment of returning doughboys, black or white” 0 (Gates, Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?). Here Col. Little, the white chief of Staff to Col. Hayward, the white commander, offers O the first complete story of Harlem Hellfighters, including training in South Carolina where they faced violent racist attacks. In his account N of the NY parade, he writes that the people “did not give us their L welcome because ours was a regiment of colored soldiers. They I did not give us their welcome in spite of ours being a regiment N of colored soldiers. They greeted us that day from hearts filled E with gratitude and with pride.” Photographic endpapers of the NY parade from The Sun; containing frontispiece of Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, the “first American Privates in the Army of France to receive the Croix de Guerre,” with 30 full-page black-and-white photographic illustrations; regiment’s insignia of a rattlesnake on the front board. Faintest toning to spine of about-fine book; light edge-wear, mild creasing, small bit of tape reinforcement to verso of very good dust jacket.

12 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H “Attaway’s Artistic Genius Rivals That I Of Richard Wright’s Native Son” R S A T ATTAWAY, William. Blood on the Forge. A Novel. Garden City, 1941. R O Octavo, original russet cloth, dust jacket. $1650. E R First edition of Attaway’s second and final novel focusing on labor history Y during the Great Migration, a handsome copy in the highly elusive dust jacket. B With Blood on the Forge and his first novel, Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939), Attaway O & is “heralded as one of the finest chroniclers of the Great Migration in the early 20th O century during which multitudes of African American families fled the poverty and K L racism of the South” (Bader, African American Writers, 7-8). Published in 1941, the S I novel is closely aligned with the work of his close friend Richard Wright, as well as T that of Chester Himes, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, early stories by Ralph Ellison • E and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. In crisp and vivid prose, Attaway chronicles the R lives of three half-brothers who flee the threat of lynching and dire poverty to seek E A a new life in the North. “At once factual and dramatic, Blood on the Forge, set in a A T western Pennsylvania mill town in 1919,” also offers a distinct perspective on the R U Great Steel Strike of 1919. L R Attaway opened “a new chapter in texts of black labor’s response to racism” and Y E boldly “rewrote the early labor history of the Great Migration. In the factory story no writer of the Harlem Renaissance era told, he explodes the chimera of opportunity 2 and… adds a needed finale to the work of Claude McKay and his contemporaries” 0 (Hapke, Labor’s Text, 213-14). Despite the overwhelming critical success of Blood on 2 the Forge, Attaway never published another novel, focusing instead on short fiction, 0 music and screenwriting to become “one of the earliest African Americans to write for television and film” (Bader, 7). When novelist Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust O (2009) and The Son (2013), was asked to name “his favorite book no one else had N heard of,” he answered: “Blood on the Forge, by William Attaway” (New York Times). L Too long overshadowed, scholars increasingly assert that “Attaway’s artistic genius I rivals that of Richard Wright’s Native Son. In Blood on the Forge he has contributed to N American literature nothing less than a classic” (Griffin). Book fine; light edge-wear E to bright and colorful about-fine dust jacket.

13 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “One Of The Most Prominent A A And Militant Voices For Racial U C M K Equality In The Early Years A Of The Harlem Renaissance”: N H First Edition Of Claude Mckay’s I R S Major Second Novel, Banjo, A T In Original Dust Jacket R O E R McKAY, Claude. Banjo. A Story without a Y Plot. New York and London, 1929. Octavo, B original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1600. O & View on Website O K First edition of McKay’s landmark second novel, L S I his controversial Harlem Renaissance work T that marks “an important milestone” in African • E American literature, a handsome copy in bright R original dust jacket designed by African American E A artist Aaron Douglas. A T The Jamaican-born McKay “was one of the most R U prominent and militant voices for racial equality in the L R early years of the Harlem Renaissance… his fierce artistic Y E and political independence earned him the respect of young writers, among them Langston Hughes” (Bader, 2 African-American Writers, 274-5). McKay’s “importance 0 as a pioneering African American writer lay not only in 2 his specific artistic achievements, but also and more 0 broadly in his ability… to claim for African Americans a voice and a role in the unfolding drama of world history O and literature” (Smith, African American Writers, 242). N Written while McKay lived in Europe and North Africa for L over a decade, “it is possible to read Banjo as a roman a I clef portraying friends and acquaintances from his time N living in Marseilles, particularly in the summer of 1926 E and the spring of 1928” (Hayes, Practice of Diaspora, 189). Prized as well for capturing “a pan-African world community that included the Senegalese dockers and Algerian longshoremen” (New Yorker), Banjo “marks an important milestone… McKay’s literary oeuvre is a unique contribution to the global discourse of black writing. It inaugurated two significant black cultural movements, the Harlem Renaissance in the United States and Negritude in Europe” (Ramesh & Rani, Claude McKay, 1, 112). Book fine; light edge-wear, mild toning to spine of colorful unrestored dust jacket, near fine.

14 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A “A Deep Sense Of History, Identity And Place” U C M K HUGHES, Langston. The First Book of Negroes. New York, 1952. Square quarto, A original green cloth, dust jacket. $3200. N H First edition of Hughes’ inaugural book in his major five-volume series on black history I from the 16th century to Jim Crow America, the rare first printing issued at the height of R S A McCarthyism with Josephine Baker’s image and biography that was quickly omitted from T R O subsequent printings, a very scarce presentation/association copy inscribed in the year of E R publication: “For my Cousin Pet—Sincerely—Langston, New York, Oct. 10, 1952.” Y Here, in the first book of Hughes’ five-volume series for children, he “kept clearly in mind the idea B that his readers would, more than likely, be the ones to confront their nation’s greatest failure of its O & democracy, the racial divide, head on. So he wrote in First Book of Negroes (1952) of the noble history O of Africans and of the diverse and significant achievements of one African American after another” K L (Clark, Civics of Getting Along, 8). Written in the form of stories told to a fictional African American S I boy named Terry, the book was issued two years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education T decision. Terry and the other children in this pioneering work “are both shaped by and come to terms • E with race politics at once… It can be easy to dismiss the political importance of these messages over R 60 years later… To do so, however, is to misread the importance of First Book of Negroes as well as its E A continually adaptive writer, who sought to bring central, long-developing principles of political rights A T and aesthetic representation to some of the nation’s youngest and most impressionable citizens… In R U his early work Hughes had often conceived of Africa, as did other Harlem Renaissance writers, as a L R symbolic motherland… In First Book of Negroes, by contrast, he is more interested in African resistance Y E to European colonialism… and the flourishing of African civilization before European colonization.” The book’s further assessment of Jim Crow, and Hughes’ focus on a black child in Harlem 2 underlines his conviction that African American “achievement was compatible with a deep 0 sense of history, identity and place. Owning and telling this history, in literature and in lore, 2 was key to the process” (Erickson & Morrell, Educating Harlem). 0 This exceedingly scarce presentation/association copy is notably inscribed by Hughes only five months before he was compelled to defend himself in the Joseph McCarthy hearings. It is, O as well, a rare first printing—one that contains the image and a short biography of Josephine N Baker. These were excised when “a New York columnist threatened to attack the book unless L all references to her were removed—on the grounds that Baker was a communist—she I disappeared from the text in the next printing’” (Rampersad in Bloom, ed., Langston Hughes, N 215). In addition, the book was published with no references to either W.E.B. Du Bois or E Paul Robeson. In 1965 Hughes spoke of the politics behind that omission: “It was at the height of the McCarthy Red-baiting era, and publishers had to go out of their way to keep books, particularly children’s books, from being attacked, as well as schools and libraries that might purchase books… it was impossible at that time to get anything into children’s books about either Dr. Du Bois or Paul Robeson” (Rampersad II: 230-31). With “First Printing” stated opposite title page; containing image and biography of Josephine Baker (45). With color and black-and-white illustrations by Ursula Koering, many full- and double-page. The identity of Hughes’ “Cousin Pet” is undetermined. Book fine; with bit of edge-wear, chipping to spine ends minimally affecting lettering of colorful, very good dust jacket.

15 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “I Have A Dream” A A U C (KING Jr., Martin Luther) (BENNETT Jr., Lerone) SAUNDERS, Doris, M K ed. The Day They Marched. Chicago, 1963. Tall octavo, original A photographic wrappers. $1350. N H View on Website I R S First edition, first printing, issued within weeks of the March on Washington, A T featuring one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s epic speech, I R O Have a Dream, along with a lead essay by renowned African American historian E R Lerone Bennett, Jr., and more than 100 photographic illustrations including Y images of Dr. King, Mahalia Jackson, Congressman John Lewis and many more. B The Day They Marched, published soon after the March on Washington, contains O & one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech, and O also features an eloquent essay by African American historian Lerone Bennett Jr., K L who long argued that the “history of black people in the U.S. had been ignored or S I told only through a white filter.” A major editor for Jet and Ebony magazines, he is T perhaps best known for his book, Before the Mayflower (1962), which established • E him “as a leading scholarly voice during the racial ferment of the 1960s” (New York R Times). Here Bennett especially honors Dr. King’s iconic speech—recalling how his E A “words… rhythms and the intonation… called back all the struggle and all the pain A T and all the agony, and held for the possibility of triumph; they called back Emmett R U Till and Medgar Evers and all the others; called back ropes and chains and bombs and L R screams in the night… When King finished, grown men and women Y E wept unashamedly.” The volume’s many photographic illustrations include full-page images 2 of Dr. King, Asa Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin; portraits of James 0 Farmer and Congressman John Lewis, then Chairman of the Student 2 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; images of Mahalia Jackson, 0 Marian Anderson, Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks and many more civil rights activists, along with moving images of the men and women who O traveled across America to make the March on Washington “the biggest N demonstration for civil rights in history.” Edited by noted African L American publisher Doris E. Saunders. In creating this record of the I momentous day, Johnson Publishing, which also issued Jet and Ebony N magazines, assembled a photographic team that included Moneta E Sleet Jr., G. Marshall Wilson, Norman Hunter, Isaac Sutton, Maurice Sorrell, LeRoy Jeffries, Bertram Miles, and Charles Sanders, along with photographers Enrico Sarsini, Lawrence Henry and Ernest Goodman. The Day They Marched contains a color image on the wrappers, and over 100 black-and-white images within from their photographs. Also featured are printings of President Kennedy’s Statement on the March, a Marchers’ Pledge, the Marchers’ Goals and lyrics to the spiritual, We Shall Overcome. Text and images very fresh, only light edge-wear, faint rubbing to colorful wrappers. A handsome about-fine copy.

16 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H I R S A T R O E R Y B O & O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E 2 First Edition Of Time On The Cross, Signed And 0 Dated By Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel 2 0 FOGEL, Robert William and ENGERMAN, Stanley L. Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery. WITH: Time on the Cross. Evidence and Methods. Boston and Toronto, 1974. Two volumes. O Octavo, original brown cloth, dust jackets. $1100. N View on Website L I First edition of one of the most controversial works of scholarship of the past 50 years, signed in each volume by N Nobel Prize-winning economist Fogel along with his date of “3/14/13” barely three months before his death. E In Time on the Cross Fogel and Engerman used sophisticated economic models to argue that in 19th-century America, Southern slave labor was more economically productive than Northern free labor. On publication economist Peter Passell praised their work, noting: “If a more important book about American history has been published in the last decade, I don’t know about it. Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem—black slavery… They force us to confront contemporary social failings instead of pushing them into the past” (New York Times). After years of controversy— some argued the work endorsed slavery— Fogel published Without Consent or Contract in 1993, where he argued that slavery died out because it was morally backward. That same year he received the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with Douglass Hall) for developing “‘new economic history,’ or cliometrics, i.e. research that combines economic theory, quantitative methods, hypothesis testing, counterfactual alternatives and traditional techniques of economic history, to explain economic growth and decline” (Nobel Committee). Illustrated with numerous charts, graphs and figures. Blockson 10134. “Evidence and Methods” dust jacket price-clipped. In fine condition.

17 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L A A U C M K A N H I R S A T R O E R Y B O & O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E 2 0 2 0 Autobiography “In Struggle”: First Edition Of Angela Davis’ , Inscribed By Her O DAVIS, Angela. Angela Davis. An Autobiography. New York, 1974. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. N $850. L I View on Website N First edition of Davis’ powerful autobiography, edited by Toni Morrison as senior editor at Random House, boldly E inscribed: “To M. B. J. In Struggle, Angela Y. Davis.” Davis’ Autobiography was published shortly after she was acquitted of all FBI charges after her imprisonment and trial for charges associated with Jonathan Jackson’s failed siege of a Marin County courtroom—a time when she had been placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list and was described by President Nixon as a “dangerous terrorist.” This work, unlike most autobiographies, “does not start at birth, but underground, on the run, in a way that directly recalls Richard Wright’s fiction” (Mostern, Autobiography and Black Identity Politics, 176). “The events leading up to her capture make the early pages of the autobiography resemble a suspense thriller.” Edited by Toni Morrison, then a senior editor at Random House, it “allows us to see, if only briefly, the woman behind the public activist persona: We see a visionary, a dreamer” (Nelson, African American Autobiographies, 76-7). Identifying this as “a political autobiography,” Davis dedicates her story especially to “those who are going to struggle until racism and class injustice are forever banished.” To Margo Perkins, Davis’ “precarious status vis-a-vis mainstream society and the law” make this important work especially distinctive (Autobiography as Activism, 23). A fine copy.

18 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “Early In The Spring A A U C Of 1750, In The M K Village Of Juffure, A A Manchild Was Born…” N H I HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City, R S 1976. Thick octavo, original half A T black cloth, dust jacket. $950. R O View on Website E R Y First trade edition of Haley’s B acclaimed historical novel, O & inscribed in the year of publication: O “10/19/76 W— K— Very best K L wishes! Alex Haley.” S I “Haley’s most celebrated novel, Roots, T • has been compared to both Moby Dick E and War and Peace. The Washington Post R called it the most highly acclaimed book E A of our time… The author immediately A T became a household name, as he won R U over 270 awards. A phenomenon of the L R decade, Roots mesmerized Americans Y E and readers of literature throughout the world. No novel since the publications 2 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gone With the 0 Wind captured the public interest on the 2 subject of slavery and its ramifications… 0 In Roots Haley successfully traced his ancestors with a birth in 1750 in Gambia, O through oral history with painstaking N research and thereby put into L perspective the historical background I of millions of other African Americans… N Haley’s 12 years of work on Roots won E him a special Pulitzer prize on April 18, 1977” (Blockson 3939). Preceded by the same year’s signed limited edition. In 1977 the revolutionary television miniseries adaptation of Roots became one of the most-watched American television programs of its time. Books of the Century, 500. Book fine; light edge- wear to bright near-fine dust jacket. A splendid inscribed copy.

19 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L “I Am Not Going To Sit Here And A A Be An Idle Spectator In The… U C M K Destruction Of The Constitution” A JORDAN, Barbara and HEARON, Shelby. Barbara N H Jordan. A Self-Portrait. Garden City, 1979. I R Octavo, original half tan cloth, dust jacket. S A T $750. R O View on Website E R First edition of the 1979 memoir of Barbara Jordan, Y “one of American politics’ pioneer black women,” B boldly signed by Jordan and co-author Hearon. O & O Jordan “was one of American politics’ pioneer black K L women. In 1966 she was elected as the first black state S Senator in Texas, and went on to be the first woman and I first black elected to Congress from Texas. In 1976, she T • was the first black woman to deliver a keynote address E at the Democratic National Convention, riveting her R E audience on national television” (New York Times). With A A Nixon facing impeachment, Jordan, in her first term in T Congress, was faced with a decision. “On the night of July R U 25, 1974, the second night of the Judiciary Committee’s L R proceedings, her turn came. She leaned forward and called Y E for impeachment. In that speech she said: ‘We, the people. It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document 2 was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was 0 not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for 2 many years that George Washington and Alexander 0 Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, O I have finally been included in We, the people.’ She went N on to say, ‘My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is L complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and I be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, N the destruction of the Constitution’” (Washington Post). E Jordan’s Self-Portrait covers her early life in the Jim Crow South and concludes at Harvard in 1977, where she became the first “black woman to give the Harvard commencement address.” Jordan died in 1996 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis. Co-authored with Shelby Hearon. With eight pages of photographic illustrations. With laid-in invitation to a reception for Jordan and Hearon sponsored by a Texas bookseller and “Friends of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library,” postmarked year of publication; trace of its removal to front pastedown. Book fine; tiny chip to spine end of bright about-fine dust jacket.

20 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L Inscribed By A A Muhammad Ali U C M (ALI, Muhammad) MUHAMMAD, K A Imam Warithuddin. Prayer and N H Al-Islam. Chicago, 1982. Octavo, I original gold paper boards. R S $1100. A T View on Website R O E First edition of Prayer and Al-Islam, R Y inscribed: “To B— from Muhammad B Ali 8-29-86.” O & Prayer and Al-Islam was published by O the Muhammad Islamic Foundation, K L started by Muhammad Ali and originally S I run from his Chicago residence. The T author, son of Elijah Muhammad, was • E responsible for leading the majority of R his father’s faithful into mainstream E A Islam in the 1970s; Muhammad Ali A T was closely involved with his work, R U and Ali’s manager was for decades L R Warithuddin Muhammad’s brother Y E Jabir. Institutional inkstamp above Ali’s inscription. A fine copy. 2 0 2 0

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21 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) B B L Signed By Toni Morrison A A U C MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York, 1987. Octavo, original white M K cloth, dust jacket. $800. A View on Website N H First edition of Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story of escaped slave Sethe I and her relationship with a “disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls R S A herself Beloved,” signed by Morrison. T R O “Morrison’s versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds” E R (Margaret Atwood). “She recreates the interior life of black slaves with a moving Y intensity no novelist even approached before” (Walter Clemons). Basis for the 1998 B Jonathan Demme film starring Oprah Winfrey. Small faint remainder mark to upper O & fore-edge. A fine signed copy. O K L S I T • E R E A A T R U L R Y E 2 0 2 0

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O N L I Signed By Rosa Parks N E PARKS, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. With Jim Haskins. New York, 1992. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $1600. View on Website First edition, second printing (same year as the first), of Parks’ autobiography, signed and dated in the year of publication. “Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer’” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). “The mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Book fine; light edge-wear, mild toning to bright near-fine dust jacket.

24 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O A M “It Is Chiefly Through U E Books That We Enjoy M N A Intercourse With N Superior Minds” R GENLIS, Countess de. Memoirs A of the Countess de Genlis, R Illustrative of the History of E the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London, 1825. Eight B volumes. Octavo, early 20th- O O century full red morocco gilt. K $6800. S View on Website First edition in English of these • compelling memoirs, extensively extra-illustrated with approximately E 150 relevant portraits and views of A R France (nearly a third hand-colored), L beautifully bound in full morocco- Y gilt by Bayntun. Madame de Genlis was “a woman of 2 encyclopedic information… Napoleon 0 paid her to furnish him with letters 2 on literature, politics, etc… She was 0 an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment O and sensation, morals and history” N (Oxford Companion to French Literature, L 304). Her Memoirs, which comprise a I perceptive social history of the 18th N and early 19th centuries, were initially E considered somewhat scandalous because of their detailed personal accounts of famous figures known to frequent her salon. She was later well-known both for her advocacy of Rousseau’s theories of child-rearing and her close association with her relative Madame de Montesson, the lover (and later wife) of Louis Philippe d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans. Morocco bookplates of Doris Louise Benz, whose exceptional and varied collection, mainly comprising first editions like this one, was sold at auction to benefit Dartmouth College Library—a charitable gesture that Dartmouth happily accepted but continues to find mysterious given that Benz was an alumna of Radcliffe with no ties to Dartmouth. Only a few spots of foxing to generally clean interiors, bindings lovely and fine. A beautiful set.

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E A R L Y Boaden’s Memoirs Of Mrs. Siddons, Extra-Illustrated And Finely Bound 2 0 (SIDDONS, Sarah) BOADEN, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons. London, 2 1827. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full purple morocco, 0 morocco-gilt doublures. $1650. View on Website O First edition of Boaden’s biography of one of the late 18th-century N L English stage’s premiere tragic actresses, with frontispiece portrait and I extra-illustrated with 56 additional engraved portraits of her and her N contemporaries, many hand-colored, handsomely bound in full morocco E with fine morocco-gilt doublures by Taffin. From the famed Kemble family, Sarah Siddons was sister to John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth proved so powerful that for decades she was considered to essentially own the role: “Leigh Hunt calls her sleep-walking scene… [one] of the sublimest pieces of acting on the English stage” (DNB). A playwright himself as well as a journalist, Boaden’s account of her life and career makes for “very pleasant reading; the style is easy and genial, and the author is careful to state his facts with accuracy” (DNB). Bookseller’s label. One page with expert paper repair, otherwise interiors clean and fine. Spines gently toned, minor restoration to joints, bindings sound and attractive. A lovely extra-illustrated copy.

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2 0 2 0 “Liberation Shall Exist Only For Man When It Shall Reign In The Mind” O WRIGHT, Frances. Address to the People of Philadelphia, Delivered in the Walnut Street Theatre, on the Morning of the Fourth of July, N Common Era 1829. New York, 1829. Octavo, stitched as issued, original beige paper wrappers; pp. 15. $1200. L View on Website I N First edition of abolitionist Fanny Wright’s influential speech on universal education, in fragile E original wrappers. Fanny Wright, an immigrant to Scotland, is often regarded as the first women in America to publicly and actively opposed slavery. An unapologetic firebrand, Wright was highly controversial in her own time and “Fanny Wright was a rebel who attracted as much opposition as support. While best known for her abolition work, Wright was also an avid reformer in other areas. This speech—regarded as one of her tamest and most thoughtful—concerns the need pursued equality for all.” for universal education. Wright calls for her listeners to give relief to widows and orphans in the broader sense, but argues that universal education—and thus equal opportunity—is a feasible first step on the journey toward full equality. Sabin 105584. Dampstaining and foxing to interior, wear and minor chipping to edges, soiling to —National Women’s Hall of Fame wrappers, stitching partially undone. A very good copy of a scarce and fragile work.

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The Law Of Growth, That Speaks In Us” 2 FULLER OSSOLI, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating 0 to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Boston, 1855. Octavo, original blind-stamped 2 brown cloth. $1700. 0 View on Website O First expanded edition, the first posthumous edition, of this “foundational work of feminist theory” (New N Yorker), edited by Horace Greeley, featuring numerous essays and papers by Margaret Fuller in book form L for the first time. I “When Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century first appeared in the winter of 1845, few readers were N prepared to accept her uncompromising proposition that ‘inward and outward freedom for woman as for man shall E be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession.’ Elaborating arguments she had first encountered in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Fuller insisted that… woman would have to ‘lay aside all thought, such as she habitually cherished, of being taught and led by men’” (Kolodny, “Inventing a Feminist Discourse”). The book proved to be a sensation, albeit a controversial one, attracting the positive notice of the literati including George Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, and Lydia Maria Child. Fuller soon came to be regarded as a leading philosopher, developing friendships with both Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fuller’s focus on female emancipation drew heavily from the abolitionist arguments of her day and helped to craft enduring talking points that would be used later by the suffragettes and women’s rights activists. Based on an 1843 article entitled “The Great Lawsuit,” the work was subsequently published (heavily revised) as the first edition in 1845. This posthumously published edition—Fuller died in a shipwreck in 1850—incorporates an assortment of extra material including essays by Fuller and extracts from her journals and letters. Light scattered foxing mainly to preliminaries, wear and toning to cloth. An extremely good copy.

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JAMESON, (Anna Brownell). Sacred and Legendary Art. WITH: Legends of the Monastic Orders. WITH: 2 Legends of the Madonna. WITH: History of Our Lord. London, 1865-1870. Six volumes uniformly bound. 0 Octavo, contemporary full crushed brown morocco gilt. $3200. 2 0 View on Website 1865-70 mixed edition set of the profusely illustrated six-volume history of sacred art by Anna Brownell Jameson, O splendidly bound by Riviere in ornately gilt full morocco. N Jameson’s major six-volume Sacred and Legendary Art series is “a storehouse of delightful knowledge, as admirable for accurate L research as for poetic and artistic feeling” (DNB). Her initial two-volume work in the series, Sacred and Legendary Art (1848), is I “the first systematic study of Christian iconography in the English language… Jameson discusses Christian symbolism without N arguing its supremacy through personal religious faith. Her dispassionate prose shows the detachment of the historian rather E than the polemicist or critic.” She followed this with Legends of Monastic Orders (1850) and Legends of the Madonna (1852). Toward the end of her life she began work on History of Our Lord but died before its completion. Her close friend Lady Eastlake completed and issued History posthumously in 1864. “Bernard Berenson ranked Jameson among the other 19th-century pioneers of art history including Luigi Lanzi, Karl Schnaase and Ruskin… Jameson represents the best 19th-century art writing without consultation of primary documents. Drawing upon Vasari’s Lives and Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei by Kugler, she fearlessly, if politely, debunked many myths of art and argued for a more direct public appreciation of art” (Sorenson, Dictionary of Art Historians). All volumes richly illustrated with full-page and in-text woodcuts and etchings, including frontispieces, many from original works of art by Raphael, Giotto, da Vinci and other great masters. Sixth edition of Sacred and Legendary Art; fourth edition each of Legends of Monastic Orders, Legends of the Madonna; second edition of History of Our Lord. Vols I & II of Sacred and Legendary Art partially serialized in Athenaeum (1845-46). Volume I with expert repairs to joints. A handsome about-fine set bound by Riviere in full morocco.

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E A R L “Women… Began To Ask Themselves Y Men Why Thousands Of Ignorant 2 Should Be Made Voters, And They, Or 0 Their Sex, Still Kept In Bondage” 2 0 ROBINSON, Harriet H. Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History O from 1774, to 1881. Boston, 1883. Octavo, original black- and gilt- N stamped gold cloth. $1100. L I View on Website N Second edition of this well-regarded history of women’s suffrage in Massachusetts, in original cloth. Though an efficient and passionate organizer and planner, Harriet left her mark on history with her pen. E She wrote an influential history of the woman suffrage movement in Massachusetts, and called upon her “In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National early experiences in the mills of Lowell to show the determination of women to get what they are owed. Woman Suffrage Association, becoming the recording secretary with her daughter Hattie as President (to For Robinson and her compatriots, the right to vote and equal citizenship were long overdue” (Lowell, Harriet’s dismay; she had hoped to fill the position). It was during this time that Robinson would write her National Park Service). The first edition was published in 1881; this second edition contains 13 pages not acclaimed book Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement (1881), a largely personal account of the present in the first edition. With three items of ephemera laid in originally belonging to suffrage activist struggle for woman suffrage which largely ignored any of Lucy Stone’s contributions. [Stone had failed to Harriet A. Plimpton of Boston: 1) a Massachusetts Suffrage Association membership ticket for 1898, signed mention Robinson’s name in her review of an 1878 suffrage event, even though Robinson had paid Stone’s by Plimpton; 2) a membership card for the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, also $200 travel expenses—approximately $5000 today.] Still holding a grudge, Harriet would leave the NWSA signed by Plimpton with an autograph marginal notation (“It would be impossible for me to do any action of Massachusetts when in 1890 it merged with the local AWSA branch to create the Massachusetts Woman work”); and 3) a four-page pamphlet entitled “The Boston Political Class, Thirteenth Season 1897-98.” Suffrage Association. Robinson entered the suffrage movement at a contentious time and was ultimately Interior generally quite nice, light soiling to original cloth, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. caught up in the politics of the time, vacillating between the two major organizations fighting for the vote.

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E A R L “No Aspect Of Our Time Is More Significant Of Progress Y Than The Ever-Growing Discussion Of The Place And Duties Of Women In The Social State” 2 0 STOWE, Harriet Beecher, HOWE, Julia Ward, STANTON, Elizabeth Cady, et al. Our Famous 2 Women. An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women 0 of Our Times. Hartford, Connecticut, 1884. Thick octavo, original three-quarter dark purple morocco gilt. $2200. O N View on Website L Early edition of this collection of 30 profiles of famous women written by 20 famous female writers, I wonderfully illustrated with dozens of illustrations and portraits, in original three-quarter morocco-gilt. N “Our Famous Women is the title which the publishers, with rather questionable taste, have given to an otherwise E attractive and meritorious volume. It comprises 30 brief and well-executed biographical sketches as of many well-known American writers, artists, educators, philanthropists, etc., of the gentler sex, prepared by 20 of their country-women who belong to the sisterhood of literature, and it is illustrated with a number of excellent full- page portraits, engraved from photographs taken expressly for the work. The biographical sketches are earnest, discriminating and heartily sympathetic, and display, as women only can when woman is her subject, a subtle insight of those delicate but strong traits of female character which are woman’s chiefest ornament” (contemporary review, Harper’s). Women profiled include Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Fuller, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. First published the same year with a different subtitle: “Comprising the lives and deeds of American women who have distinguished themselves in literature, science, art.” Interior generally quite clean, inner hinges expertly reinforced, light wear mainly to extremities of binding. A near-fine copy.

31 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “A Masterpiece Of Journalism A M And An Unrelenting Indictment U E M N That Brought Down One Of A History’s Greatest Tycoons” N

(ROCKEFELLER, John D.) TARBELL, Ida M. The History R of the Standard Oil Company. New York, 1904. Two A volumes. Octavo, original gilt-stamped red cloth. R $3000. E View on Website B First edition of investigative journalist Tarbell’s definitive O two-volume work on Standard Oil, featuring 32 pages of O illustrations including frontispiece portraits of Rockefeller, K a splendid copy. S Famed as the pioneer of investigative journalism, Tarbell was “one of the most influential muckrakers of the Gilded Age, • helping to usher in that age of political, economic and industrial reform known as the Progressive Era. ‘They had never played fair,’ E Tarbell wrote of Standard Oil, ‘and that ruined their greatness for A me’… Tarbell would redefine investigative journalism with a 19- R part series in McClure’s magazine, a masterpiece of journalism L and an unrelenting indictment that brought down one of Y history’s greatest tycoons and effectively broke up Standard Oil’s monopoly. By dint of what she termed ‘steady, painstaking work,’ 2 Tarbell unearthed damaging internal documents, supported by 0 interviews with employees, lawyers and—with the help of Mark 2 Twain—candid conversations with Standard Oil’s most powerful 0 senior executive at the time, Henry H. Rogers, which sealed the company’s fate” (Smithsonian). The New York Times rated O Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company number five in a N list of the top 100 works in 20th-century American journalism. L First edition, with “Published, November, 1904, N” on copyright I page. Containing 30 full-page illustrations, frontispiece in N each volume; without rare dust jackets. Serialized in McClure’s E Magazine. Each volume with embossed owner inkstamp. Only faint trace of rubbing to bright gilt-stamped cloth. A fine copy.

“One of the great investigative pieces of the 20th century” —The Poynter Institute

32 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O A M U E M N “Women Must Come Into Intelligent A Association With Those Who N Supply Their Demands” R RICHARDSON, Bertha June. The Woman A Who Spends. A Study of Her Economic R Function. Boston, 1904. Octavo, original E gilt-stamped red cloth. $1250. B View on Website O First edition of this work of social economics O focusing on the spending habits of woman and K their ethical implications. S “This book is needed to bring back vision to those women • who have been dulled to the possibilities within their reach by the monotonous daily routine and the hard necessity of making ends meet, and to correct false standards of values E and of things worth spending for” (Survey). “Richardson’s A book is at least a tiny ray of light shining in the wilderness R which has to be traveled by the woman who spends” L (Independent). Only minor soiling to endpapers, slight Y rubbing and toning to spine, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. 2 0 2 0

O “As social economics is N L coming more and more to I N be a woman’s problem, this E little book… ought to be of general interest.” —A.L.A. Booklist

33 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O A M U E “One Of America’s Finest Writers Of Fiction” M N CATHER, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. New York, 1905. Octavo, A original gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth. $2300. N View on Website R First edition, first issue, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s stellar first book A of prose, a collection of seven stories with four appearing in print for the first R time, featuring “Death in the Desert,” “The Sculptor’s Funeral” and “Paul’s Case.” E Troll Garden, Cather’s first book of fiction, is preceded only by a collection of poetry published in 1903. The book’s seven stories are thematically united in their focus on B art and artists. The volume also stands out for its “overall design and meaning… and a O careful arrangement of stories to support the themes woven into the fabric of the text” O (Woodress, Willa Cather, 172). Published in April 1905, “the collection, which contains K some of her best-known work, led to Cather’s appointment as managing editor of S McClure’s Magazine.” Four of the seven stories appear here in print for the first time: “Flavia and her Artists,” “Garden Lodge,” “Marriage of Phaedra” and “Paul’s Case”—“the • book’s climactic story, now considered an American classic” (Britannica). “Death in the Desert” is “the centerpiece of the book” (Woodress, 175). It offers “a remarkable E example of the intensive care Cather gave to her fiction” (Meltzer, Willa Cather, 65). A “The Sculptor’s Funeral” is “one of Cather’s best-known stories” and “Wagner Matinee” R is one of the few tales in the collection that is focused on western characters. Awarded L the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, Cather “is regarded as one of America’s finest writers of Y fiction.” Wallace Stevens wrote of Cather in 1940: “We have nothing better than she is” (Columbia Companion, 198). First issue, with McClure/Phillips/& Co. at foot of 2 spine (instead of Doubleday, Page & Co.), with cancel for “Marriage of Phaedra” at 155- 0 156. Without rare dust jacket. Three works earlier serialized, including “The Sculptor’s 2 Funeral” in McClure’s Magazine. Both “Death in the Desert” (Scribner’s Magazine) 0 and “Wagner Matinee” (Everybody’s Magazine) “extensively reworked by Cather for inclusion in Troll Garden” (Crane, 16). Crane A4.a. Tiny owner notation to rear blank. O Only most minor wear to spine ends. An about-fine copy. N L I N E “Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” —Rebecca West

34 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W “Outshines Almost Every B O A M Other English Children’s U E Book Of The Period” M N A LAMB, Charles [and LAMB, Mary]. Tales N from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons. London, 1807. R Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century three- A quarter dark green morocco gilt, custom R E half morocco clamshell box. $4500. View on Website B First edition, first issue, of the first version O of Shakespeare prepared especially for O children, illustrated with 20 copperplate K engravings by William Blake after drawings S by Irish genre painter William Mulready. • The Lambs’ Tales from Shakespear “belong to a type of literature requiring gifts which are E seldom found in perfect proportion… It is not A too much to say that the collection forms one of R the most conspicuous landmarks in the history L of the romantic movement. It is the first book Y which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation, made Shakespeare a familiar 2 and popular author and, in doing so, asserted 0 the claims of the older literature which, to 2 English people at large, was little more than a name” (Rosenbach 37:385). In 1805, essayist 0 Charles Lamb met influential philosopher and children’s book publisher William Godwin (the O father of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein), N who convinced Lamb to adapt the plots of L Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies for young I readers (particularly girls, “because”—as the N Lambs’ preface explains—“boys are generally E permitted the use of their fathers’ libraries at a much earlier age than girls are…”). Charles drafted adaptations of the tragedies while his sister Mary wrote those of the comedies. The result, immediately popular upon publication, was “one of the most useful and agreeable companions to the understanding of Shakespeare which have ever been produced. The youthful reader who is about to taste the charms of our great bard is strongly recommended to prepare himself by first reading these elegant tales… Even those who are familiar with every line of the original will be delighted with the pleasing and compendious way in which the story of each play is here presented to them” (Allibone, 1049). “They are written in a clear, vigorous style… The literary quality of the Tales makes them outshine almost every other English children’s book of this period” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 515). First issue, with imprint on Vol. I, page 246 and Hanway Street address in Volume II advertisements. Rosenbach 37:385. Evidence of removal of dealer description from endpaper. Occasional light foxing, frontispiece plate tipped in, and a few leaves with minor marginal paper repair in Volume I, skillful repair to joints. A handsome copy, scarce and desirable.

35 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “A Supreme Novelist A M U E In The Age Of M N Great Novelists” A N ELIOT, George. Works. New York, 1910. Twenty volumes. R Small octavo, contemporary A three-quarter navy morocco gilt. R $3250. E View on Website B Limited edition of Eliot’s novels, one O of only 1000 sets, with numerous O illustrations, including hand-colored K frontispieces in each volume, very S handsomely bound. • Eliot, who pioneered the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for E the qualities that make her “a supreme A novelist in an age of great novelists: R her penetrating sympathy, her deep L knowledge of humanity, her dramatic Y and descriptive power, her lambent humor, and the reflection of her 2 extraordinary mind” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 0 212). Expert repairs to a few joints and 2 spine ends. A handsome set. 0

O N “Have you read L I anything beautiful N lately? Do make E sure somehow to get hold of and read the books by Eliot.” —Vincent Van Gogh

36 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W The Women’s B O First Edition Of A M Suffrage Cookery Book, 1910 U E M DOWSON, Aubrey, compiler. The Women’s N A Suffrage Cookery Book. London, 1910. Quarto, N half red cloth, pictorial cream paper boards. $1650. R View on Website A First edition of this fundraising cookbook issued by R E the suffragists of Birmingham, England, in original pictorial boards. B “Compiled by Mrs Aubrey Dowson, a member of the O Birmingham branch of the National Union of Women’s O Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), The Women’s Suffrage Cookery K Book was published in 1912 to raise funds for the cause. S The NUWSS was established in 1897 by Millicent Fawcett to exert pressure on the government through legal means. • Consisting of 77 pages, the book contains recipes donated by suffragists from all across the country. With contributors as E far afield as Southport and Penrith, the book is evidence of the A campaign’s national reach… Divided into 11 chapters such as R “Dinner and Supper Dishes”, “Salads and Sauces”, “Still-Room” L and “Vegetarian Cookery”, the book includes recipes donated Y by some well-known campaigners. Mrs Helena Swanwick, one-time editor of Common Cause, the first independent 2 newspaper for the NUWSS, suggests a recipe for Stuffed Fillet 0 of Plaice, while Fawcett offered up Chestnuts as a Vegetable 2 (cook in stock and serve with lemon zest)… That a cookery 0 book was deemed a suitable vehicle for the feminist cause might seem strange; the kitchen has long been associated with women’s oppression. For suffragists, however, a cookery O book was a practical way to deploy their ‘womanly’ skills and N knowledge. At the time, women did not have control over L their own money, children, education or destiny. Arguing I for a place in the public sphere was in itself radical. The N suffragists were not looking to overturn women’s relation to E the home but to increase their agency within it” (Financial Times). “The cookbook, apparently marketed for both the middle-class British housewife and the militant suffragette, featured traditional English recipes… as well as simpler fare for dedicated, busy campaign workers… Given the suffragette’s campaign to free women from the tyrannies of were thus neatly resolved in the WSPU’s [Women’s Social and Political campaign’s signature colors” (Heller & Moran, 87-88). Contemporary domestic routine, the cookbook’s language of service and housewifery Union] clever and successful marketing strategies: the suffragette owner inscription. Manuscript sheets with contemporary recipes for seems deliciously ironic. Yet the effort to market the women’s torn between the calls of domestic and political duty could serve a chocolate caramels, cream toffee, orangeade, currant cheese cakes, suffrage movement was largely dependent on transforming ordinary women’s suffrage meal on her set of suffrage plates, which bore the Christmas cake, and ginger wine laid in. Scattered soiling to interior, household items… into advertisements for the cause… The competing slogan ‘ Votes for Women’ and were handsomely decorated in the light wear and expert repairs to binding. An extremely good copy. claims of consumerism, political activism, and domestic responsibility

37 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “It Was That Night A M U E That I Found The Clue M N To Ethan Frome” A N WHARTON, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York, 1911. Small octavo, original red cloth, top R edge gilt, custom clamshell box. $2600. A View on Website R First edition, first issue, of Wharton’s greatest E tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance B ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror O in the frigid setting of a New England winter O landscape” (New York Times). A lovely copy. K “There are only three or four American novelists S who can be thought of as major,” noted Gore Vidal, “and Edith Wharton is one.” Her Ethan Frome “shows • a marked departure from the ironic contemplation of aristocratic mores… the central problem is that E of the barriers imposed by local conventions upon A an individual whose happiness depends on rising R above them” (Hart 813). First issue, with the gilded L top edge found only in the first 2500 copies, and Y “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135. With four pages of publisher’s advertisements 2 at rear; without very scarce original dust jacket. 0 Garrison A19.I.a. Interior quite fresh with only 2 small corner loss to rear ad leaf. A fine copy. 0

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38 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “Women Being The Homekeepers, And The Natural A M Guardians Of The Children, It Is Important That U E They Be Made Familiar With The Culinary Art” M N A KLEBER, Mrs. L.O., compiler. The Suffrage Cook Book. Pittsburgh, N 1915. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth. $2500. View on Website R A First edition of this important fundraising cookbook meant to support R women’s suffrage, featuring dozens of recipes such as suffrage pie and E suffrage angel cake, with 36 halftone portraits of contributors including Jane Addams, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and many other prominent B suffragettes and allies, in original pictorial cloth. O “First published in 1915 by The Equal Franchise Federation Of Western Pennsylvania, O with a cover showing Uncle Sam weighing men and women on his scales, The Suffrage K Cook Book was assembled by a Mrs. L.O. Kleber… Kleber, a little-known member of S the Pittsburgh suffrage society, contacted dozens of the leading women and men who supported the suffrage movement in the UK and US, asking for contributions • in order to raise money to support the women’s vote campaign. Along with Gilman, who wrote the classic novella The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Call of the Wild author E [Jack] London, contributors also include the suffragette Lady Constance Lytton; A Jane Addams, the second woman to win a Nobel peace prize; and Julia Lathrop, the R first woman to head a federal department, the US Children’s Bureau” (Guardian). L “Published in Pittsburgh, this cookbook presents a chorus of local suffragettes who Y proudly deployed their prowess in the kitchen to the suffrage movement. Of the 57 total contributing authoresses, 30 hailed from Western Pennsylvania. Beyond a 2 wealth of recipes, The Suffrage Cook Book was also compiled to serve as an organ for 0 the suffragettes’ belief in equal rights for women. Strategically interspersed between 2 recipes were political vignettes written in support of the suffrage movement” (Detre 0 Library & Archives). “During the American woman suffrage movement, opponents described suffragists as abnormal, unsexed, non-mothers who desired to leave the O home and family en masse, levying ‘war against the very foundation of society.’ N This charge ultimately compelled suffragists around the nation to respond… [they] L capitalized on movements for home economics, municipal housekeeping, and pure I food to argue for the compatibility of politics and womanhood” (Derleth, Kneading N Politics). Owner stamp of the Suffrage Service Hut, Pittsburgh. The Suffrage Service E Hut was a USO-type enterprise for soldiers toward the end of World War I providing entertainment and other services for soldiers. Interior generally quite nice, faintest rubbing and soiling to cloth. A near-fine copy.

Avoid Motherhood, Even If I Wanted To” R EYLES, Margaret Leonora. Margaret Protests. London, 1919. A Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2800. R E View on Website First edition of this early feminist novel, in rare original dust jacket. B This powerful and bestselling feminist novel reveals the drudgery of domestic life O and the economic and emotional peril that women and their children face as a result O of forced reproduction. “Mrs. Eyles in her astonishing book has thrown back the K embroidered tapestry which drapes the human figure, and we are confronted by a S nakedness which is not beautiful… This book on sex misery aims a sharp arrow in the direction of those who hide the beginnings of life in dark ignorance, and who • are content that the word ‘travail’ should be comprehensive of the holy function of motherhood. When the hands of lovers meet a cradle is made for the future of the E race; but modern industrial life, built on the bodies of men and women, has broken A them into evil shapes, and the children are begotten in misery and reared in semi- R starvation… Against this Margaret protests with a great woman’s courage and a L gifted pen. Her book ranks with Brieux’ ‘Damaged Goods’ in religious sincerity and Y noble aspiration. The motive of Mrs. Eyles’ work is transparently obvious; she has written of these things because she cares and feels a mother’s ineffable pity of the 2 holy helplessness of little children” (London Herald). Book near-fine, with scattered 0 foxing mainly to endpapers and edges of text block, only light rubbing to cloth. 2 Rare dust jacket extremely good, with a bit of wear and chipping to extremities 0 and toning to spine and front panel. A most desirable copy. O N L “An impassioned plea for improved I N conditions for women as mothers, E wives, daughters, and workers.” —Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900-1950

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2 0 2 “The First Important English Handbook On Birth Control” 0 STOPES, Marie Carmichael. Contraception. London, 1923. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. O $3200. N View on Website L First edition of the first British textbook on the theory, history, and provision of birth control by birth control advocate I and sexologist Marie Stopes, the author of Married Love, in very scarce dust jacket. N E “As a scientist, [Marie] Stopes is still a figure of some interest. Her major claim to fame, however, rests on her work as birth control advocate and sex educator. She played a unique and essential role in publicizing contraception and making it a topic for discussion. She created a new genre of marriage manual with Married Love, a book which literally changed lives” (DNB). Though less famous than Married Love today, Contraception was similarly influential among the professional class of its time. Stopes offered medical and legal professionals the tools (and perhaps permission) to deal with contraception, popularizing the idea that contraception should no longer be taboo and that healthy, happy, desired babies were the proper outcome for British women. Her work on actual birth control devices, relied on heavily here, also changed the manner in which birth control was provided in Britain, placing control and indeed responsibility firmly in the hands of women. “The first important English handbook on birth control” (Garrison-Morton 1641.2). “One of the first factual and unemotional discussions of the subject” (Heirs of Hippocrates 2316). With an Introduction by Professor Sir William Bayliss and Introductory Notes by Sir James Barr, Dr. C. Rolleston, and Dr. Jane Hawthorne. Book with only light rubbing to extremities, dust jacket with faintest staining and light rubbing and toning to extremities. A near-fine copy.

41 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “France’s Outstanding A M U E Epistolarian” M N SEVIGNE, Madame de. The A Letters of Madame de Sevigne. N Philadelphia, 1927. Seven R volumes. Octavo, contemporary A three-quarter red morocco gilt. R $2000. E View on Website “Carnavalet Edition” of Sevigne’s B O highly celebrated epistles, one of O 1550 sets, illustrated with 23 black- K and-white plates and two folding S letter facsimiles, beautifully bound. In her delightful letters, primarily • written to her daughter, Mme. de Sevigne describes domestic and courtly E affairs in 17th-century France with A wit, imagination and intelligence. R Her correspondence endures for its L freedom of expression and familiar Y style in an era of constraint and formality. “Literary critics quickly began 2 to praise her ‘singularity… and to 0 propose her as France’s outstanding 2 epistolarian’” (Hollier, 420). Thornton 0 Wilder looked to Mme. de Sevigne for inspiration when creating the character O of the Marquesa de Montemayor in his N classic novel, The Bridge of San Luis L Rey (1927). This “Carnavalet Edition” I includes an introduction by renowned N book collector A. Edward Newton and E has been “newly re-edited, revised and corrected, including over 300 letters not previously translated into English.” With color printed title pages, 23 black-and- white plates (including a frontispiece portrait in each volume) and folding letter facsimiles in Volumes I and III. Light expert restoration to handsome morocco bindings. A lovely set.

42 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O Signed By Anne A M U E Morrow Lindbergh M N And Inscribed In The A Year Of Publication By N Charles Lindbergh R A LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. R North to the Orient. New York, E 1935. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2900. B View on Website O First edition of Anne Morrow O K Lindbergh’s account of her journey S to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China and Japan, signed • by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and inscribed by Charles Lindbergh in E the year of publication: “Charles A. A Lindbergh. North Haven—1935.” R In July of 1931, Anne Morrow Lindbergh L took off with her husband Charles in their Y aircraft Sirius on a journey that would extend for over two months and take 2 her to places “where no white woman 0 had been before.” Their voyage took 2 them from College Point, Long Island, 0 to Alaska, then by way of St. Lawrence Island to Siberia, Kamchatka, and Japan. O From Osaka, where they discovered N a stowaway in the plane, they crossed L the Yellow Sea to China and went up I the Yangtze River to Nanking, where N they brought aid to flood refugees. With E photographic frontispiece and numerous in-text cartographic illustrations from maps by Charles Lindbergh. Book fine; light edge-wear, trace of creasing to front flap of bright near-fine dust jacket.

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WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London, 1937. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $5500. View on Website First edition of the most ambitious and successful of Woolf’s later novels. Woolf struggled for four years with this novel, hoping to incorporate into a fictional form deep and meaningful commentary on the politics of the English middle class. Her efforts to revise, rewrite, and edit what would become her longest work led her to compare The Years to “a long childbirth.” When The Years was finally published audiences responded eagerly, making Woolf truly wealthy for the first time in her life. As is usual with Woolf’s books, the jacket design is by her sister, Vanessa Bell. Kirkpatrick A22. Interior fine, light rubbing to extremities of publisher’s cloth. Sunning to spine and light edge wear to extremities of extremely good dust jacket. An extremely good copy.

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E First Edition Of Sister Of The Road: The Autobiography Of Box- A Car Bertha R , Inscribed By The Author, Dr. Ben L. Reitman L REITMAN, Ben, L. Sister of the Road. The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha. New York, 1937. Octavo, Y original red cloth, dust jacket. $2400. 2 View on Website 0 First edition of this fictionalized autobiography of “Box-car Bertha,” an icon of the Great Depression who brought to 2 light the struggle of homeless women in America, the basis for the 1972 Martin Scorsese film, inscribed in the year 0 of publication: “July 16-1937. To Don Curtis Keefer with best wishes. The Author. Ben L. Reitman.” O Sister of the Road is a fictionalized autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, drawn from a composite of three homeless women Dr. Ben Reitman met during his lengthy career as a doctor helping women in trouble in Chicago at the Capone houses of prostitution, the N Chicago House of Correction, the Cook County Jail, and as Director of the Chicago Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease. L While Reitman was regarded as something of saint for his commitment to society’s least fortunate, he is perhaps most notable I for his unwillingness to elevate himself above his patients. Here, he tells Box-Car Bertha’s story with empathy, detailing her life of N train-hopping, hitch-hiking, shoplifting, prostitution, and unwed motherhood. “The disorganization evident in current American life is E frequently shown in ways of living that are hidden from public notice and that are not likely to gain scholarly attention. In such areas one is likely to find unusual social types, unsuspected codes of conduct, and bizarre form of living, all reflecting efforts at adjustment in the midst of an unregulated world. Any revealing study of such an area is to be welcomed both for an increased understanding of our contemporary life and for the light thrown on the nature and play of social disorganization. From both points of view Sisters of the Road is a helpful addition to our literature, since it portrays in an intimate and telling way such an unknown sphere of modern life” (contemporary review, American Journal of Sociology). The basis for the 1972 Martin Scorsese film adaptation, starring David Carradine and Barbara Hershey. This copy is inscribed to Don Curtis Keefer, who ran Keefer Laboratories in Chicago during the middle of the 20th century. Keefer was sued by the federal government in 1949 for selling an abortifacient under the name Interferin across state lines. The author, Reitman, and Keefer likely met professionally. Reitman would have had sympathy for Keefer’s motivations and use for his product. Book about-fine, with smoothed crease and small closed tear to page 111-12. Rare dust jacket bright and extremely good, with light soiling, a bit of wear mainly to extremities, and vertical crease to spine. A handsome inscribed copy.

R A “Perhaps The Greatest Romantic R E Suspense Novel Ever Written” B DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. London, 1938. Octavo, original black O cloth, dust jacket. $5500. O View on Website K First edition of du Maurier’s best and most famous novel, a Haycraft-Queen S Cornerstone mystery, and the basis for the Oscar-winning 1940 Hitchcock film starring Laurence Olivier. • “‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ The opening line of perhaps the E greatest romantic suspense novel ever written has become as familiar to readers as A ‘Call me Ishmael’ from Moby-Dick” (Penzler, Crown, 26). Rebecca has been singled R out by Haycraft Queen as a Cornerstone mystery, and chosen by Mystery Writers of L America as number nine in the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. The novel proved Y to critics that “Du Maurier is in a class by herself” (New York Times); her “masterful treatment” of the Gothic tale “made Rebecca a classic book… by far the best known of du Maurier’s work” (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 136). For the Oscar-winning adaptation 2 by Hitchcock in 1940, in which “the film like the novel is wonderfully tense,” Hays 0 Office censors “demanded removal of the novel’s heart—the fact that Maxim 2 (Laurence Olivier) has murdered Rebecca—so that he would not go unpunished for 0 a crime” (Tibbetts & Welsh, 347). Without scarce Book Society belly band. Book with inner paper hinge split, light wear to cloth, mild toning to spine; scarce dust jacket O bright and exceptional with only slightest soiling, minor toning. A desirable copy. N L I N E

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O N “A Writer’s Writer… One Of The Finest Modern L I Writers Of Fiction” (John Ashbery) N BOWLES, Jane. Two Serious Ladies. New York, 1943. Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jacket. $2600. E View on Website First edition of Bowles’ first and only completed novel, a work of “extraordinary wit… the extreme rarity of the book… has augmented its legend” (New York Times), in original dust jacket. To John Ashbery, “Jane Bowles is a writer’s writer… one of the finest modern writers of fiction, in any language.” Alan Sillitoe declared Bowles to be “a landmark in contemporary literature” and Tennessee Williams praised Two Serious Ladies, her first and only completed novel, as “my favorite book.” Written while in her early twenties, Two Serious Ladies revels in and reveals, “with extraordinary wit, the decline into debauchery of two very different but equally staid women… Bowles’ oeuvre is all the more unique because of its Grand Guignol hilarity, its constant surprises… It is this playfulness that gives Bowles’ work its fey power and its luminous originality…. The extreme rarity of the book, once it went out of print, has augmented its legend” (New York Times). Book fine; very lightest edge-wear to bright near-fine dust jacket.

47 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O Signed Limited Edition Of The Circle Game, A M U E One Of Only 100 Copies Signed By Margaret M N Atwood, Additionally Inscribed By Atwood A N ATWOOD, Margaret. The Circle Game. Toronto, Canada, 1967. Slim octavo, R original black cloth; pp. 80, cloth slipcase. A $3000. R View on Website E Signed limited edition of Atwood’s Governor B General’s Award-winning first regularly O published collection of poetry, one of only O 100 copies signed and numbered by Margaret K Atwood, additionally inscribed: “For Al McGuire S with best wishes, Margaret Atwood 1974.” “Contact Press, which published The Circle Game • in 1966, and its sister Contact Magazine were ‘expression[s] of literary revolt…[and] a means by E which new and experimental poets could find their A voice’ (Tracey 161). For a modern poet like Atwood, R Contact Press provided the opportunity to publish L their literature–one that was fresh and relevant” Y (History of Publishing, Simon Fraser University). While Contact Press founder Louis Dudek wanted 2 to reject Atwood’s manuscript due to its failure 0 to reflect trends in modernism, he was overruled 2 by others at the press who saw both its skill and 0 its salability. The success of The Circle Game was unprecedented. It became the first small-press O book to win the prestigious Governor General’s N Award for Poetry. The recognition allowed Atwood L to embark on new writing projects and resulted in I a contract for her first novel, The Edible Woman, N the book that would catapult Atwood to celebrity E status. This is the first edition, second printing, of The Circle Game, preceded by the Contact Press first edition of only 250 first edition copies and 50 hardcover “Library Edition” copies. The work sold out so quickly that, by the time it won the Governor General’s Award, it was already out of print, necessitating additional printings like this signed limited House of Anansi edition. Within Atwood’s oeuvre, The Circle Game was preceded only a chapbook called Double Persephone in 1961 and by a limited illustrated edition of The Circle Game’s titular poem in 1964, making this her first regularly published work. Fine condition.

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2 0 2 0 Autobiography “In Struggle”: First Edition Of Angela Davis’ , Inscribed By Her O DAVIS, Angela. Angela Davis. An Autobiography. New York, 1974. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. N $850. L I View on Website N First edition of Davis’ powerful autobiography, edited by Toni Morrison as senior editor at Random House, boldly E inscribed: “To M. B. J. In Struggle, Angela Y. Davis.” Davis’ Autobiography was published shortly after she was acquitted of all FBI charges after her imprisonment and trial for charges associated with Jonathan Jackson’s failed siege of a Marin County courtroom—a time when she had been placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list and was described by President Nixon as a “dangerous terrorist.” This work, unlike most autobiographies, “does not start at birth, but underground, on the run, in a way that directly recalls Richard Wright’s fiction” (Mostern, Autobiography and Black Identity Politics, 176). “The events leading up to her capture make the early pages of the autobiography resemble a suspense thriller.” Edited by Toni Morrison, then a senior editor at Random House, it “allows us to see, if only briefly, the woman behind the public activist persona: We see a visionary, a dreamer” (Nelson, African American Autobiographies, 76-7). Identifying this as “a political autobiography,” Davis dedicates her story especially to “those who are going to struggle until racism and class injustice are forever banished.” To Margo Perkins, Davis’ “precarious status vis-a-vis mainstream society and the law” make this important work especially distinctive (Autobiography as Activism, 23). A fine copy.

49 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O “I Am Not Going To Sit Here And A M Be An Idle Spectator In The… U E M N Destruction Of The Constitution” A JORDAN, Barbara and HEARON, Shelby. Barbara N Jordan. A Self-Portrait. Garden City, 1979. R Octavo, original half tan cloth, dust jacket. A $750. R View on Website E First edition of the 1979 memoir of Barbara Jordan, “one of American politics’ pioneer black women,” B boldly signed by Jordan and co-author Hearon. O O Jordan “was one of American politics’ pioneer black K women. In 1966 she was elected as the first black state S Senator in Texas, and went on to be the first woman and first black elected to Congress from Texas. In 1976, she • was the first black woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, riveting her E audience on national television” (New York Times). With A Nixon facing impeachment, Jordan, in her first term in Congress, was faced with a decision. “On the night of July R 25, 1974, the second night of the Judiciary Committee’s L proceedings, her turn came. She leaned forward and called Y for impeachment. In that speech she said: ‘We, the people. It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document 2 was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was 0 not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for 2 many years that George Washington and Alexander 0 Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, O I have finally been included in We, the people.’ She went N on to say, ‘My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is L complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and I be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, N the destruction of the Constitution’” (Washington Post). E Jordan’s Self-Portrait covers her early life in the Jim Crow South and concludes at Harvard in 1977, where she became the first “black woman to give the Harvard commencement address.” Jordan died in 1996 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis. Co-authored with Shelby Hearon. With eight pages of photographic illustrations. With laid-in invitation to a reception for Jordan and Hearon sponsored by a Texas bookseller and “Friends of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library,” postmarked year of publication; trace of its removal to front pastedown. Book fine; tiny chip to spine end of bright about-fine dust jacket.

50 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O A M U E M N A Inscribed By Patti Smith N SMITH, Patti. Early Work 1970- R 1979. New York / London, 1994. A Octavo, original half black cloth, R dust jacket. $1500. E View on Website First edition of a signal collection B O of Smith’s writings from the 1970s, O together in book for the first time, K many never before published, S inscribed: “To D— Patti Smith.” “In 1975 rock and roll caught a glimpse • of what lay ahead when Patti Smith… released her debut album, Horses… The E musicians proudly flaunted a garage- A rock aesthetic, while Smith sang with the R delirious release of an inspired amateur L who knew her voice conveyed more Y honest passion than any note-perfect rock professional” (Rock and Roll Hall 2 of Fame). Early Work stands out and “is 0 most revealing as an account of Smith’s 2 transition from poetry into the world of 0 rock, showing her movement from verse to prose” (Publishers Weekly). Featured O are a number of previously unpublished N works, all from the 1970s, many “chosen L from transcriptions of performance I pieces, notebook entries” and her personal N papers. With numerous black-and-white E photographic illustrations. Issued same year as a limited first edition (150 copies), no priority established. A fine copy.

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O N L I N Signed By Rosa Parks E PARKS, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. With Jim Haskins. New York, 1992. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $1600. View on Website First edition, second printing (same year as the first), of Parks’ autobiography, signed and dated in the year of publication. “Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer’” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). “The mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Book fine; light edge-wear, mild toning to bright near-fine dust jacket.

52 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) W B O A M U E Signed By Julia Child M N And Jacques Pépin A N CHILD, Julia and PEPIN, Julia and Jacques. Cooking at Home. R New York, 1999. Large quarto, A original photographic paper R E boards, dust jacket. $1500. View on Website B First edition of this delightful and O wonderfully illustrated cookbook co- O authored by two legendary chefs— K Julia Child and Jacques Pépin—and S signed by both. • Once, when asked in an interview about her favorite thing, Julia Child “paused E a beat, and with eyes suddenly bright, A answered: ‘Cooking with other chefs!’ R That deceptively simple phrase was L quintessential Julia: clear, modest, Y committed, eager to participate, and happiest when she was sharing delicious 2 food with others.” To Jacques Pépin, co- author of this wonderful cookbook that 0 captures her delight in cooking with 2 fellow chef, “‘Julia Child demystified 0 French cuisine in a way that had not been done before, in an appeal0 0 ing, O straightforward way.’ A self-confessed N ham, she became a darling of audiences L and comedians almost from the moment I she made her debut on WGBH in Boston N in 1963 at the age of 50. ‘I fell in love E with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way,’ Child once said” (New York Times). Co-authored with David Nussbaum. Illustrated from photographs by Christopher Hirsheimer. A fine copy.

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2 0 2 0 Beautiful Illustrated Set Of Knight’s “Pictorial Shakespeare” O SHAKESPEARE. The Pictorial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. London, circa 1855. Eight volumes. N Octavo, early three-quarter red morocco gilt. $3000. L View on Website I Charles Knight’s celebrated Pictorial Shakespeare, handsomely bound and profusely illustrated with hundreds of N full-page and in-text wood-engraved illustrations depicting views, characters in costume and stage settings. E “From 1837 [Knight] had been occupied with what he himself probably regarded as his magnum opus. From the time of his boyish experience he had wished to edit Shakespeare… [the Pictorial Shakespeare was] ‘the first in the country conceived in the right spirit,’ and no future editor can afford to neglect it” (DNB XI: 246). Though first published by Charles Knight and Co. in 1843, the Pictorial Edition was variously reprinted throughout the rest of the century, with several different editions appearing in the 1850s alone. Volume VIII contains a biography of Shakespeare. Jaggard, 528. Just a few inner hinges expertly reinforced. A handsome set in fine condition.

55 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I Beautifully Bound In Full A T Vellum-Gilt And Illustrated U E Works Of Shakespeare, M R A A One Of Only 175 Sets N T SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of U R Shakespeare. Edited by Israel Gollancz. R A E London, 1899. Twelve volumes. Octavo, R publisher’s full vellum gilt. $7500. E View on Website Fine set of the “Larger Temple Shakespeare,” one B of only 175 sets printed on handmade paper, O O beautifully illustrated with 40 full-page plates (30 K hand-tinted), and copious in-text line cuts. S This splendid edition of Shakespeare’s Works “aims at the elucidation of the text by means of illustrative drawings • from old books, broadsides, antiquarian objects, [and] maps, belonging for the E most part, to the poet’s own times.” A With a biography of Shakespeare, “newly R discovered” frontispiece portrait published L for the first time, a folding view of London Y during Shakespeare’s day, facsimile title and preliminary pages from the First Folio, 2 and glossaries of Shakespearian English. 0 Chapter headings printed in red. Text 2 fine, foxing to margins of some plates; 0 original vellum exceptionally beautiful and fine, gilt very bright. A stunning set. O N L I N E

56 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “And Leaves The A T World To Darkness U E And To Me” M R A A GRAY, Thomas. Poems by Mr. N T Gray. London, 1768. Octavo, U contemporary full red morocco R R gilt, custom clamshell box. A E R $2200. E View on Website First collected edition of Gray’s B poetry, including his masterpiece O “Elegy Written in a Country Church- O Yard” (first published in 1751), one K of the most famous poems in the S English language, handsomely bound • in contemporary morocco-gilt. Thomas Gray was “a gentleman of his E age, who numbered among his private A accomplishments the occasional R composition of poetry, who wished to L share with others only those poems Y which met his own standards of excellence, and who, except for the two 2 Pindaric odes, was reluctant to see any 0 of them appear in print. Among these 2 was one, perhaps the richest in self- 0 revelation… a poem which through many changes of taste has retained its O popularity and defined the literary rank N of its author. Gray’s Elegy is one of the L great poems of the English language; to I many readers, learned and otherwise, it N has stood almost for the idea of poetry E itself” (ODNB). Complete with half title and final blank. Rothschild 1071. ESTC T136298. Engraved armorial bookplate and two others, including that of H. Buxton Forman, the noted book collector and literary scholar whose extensive library was auctioned at Anderson Galleries in 1920. Text clean, front inner hinge expertly reinforced, spine a bit toned. Near-fine condition. A beautiful volume.

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O “Instead Of The Cross, The Albatross / About My Neck Was Hung” N COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Sibylline Leaves: a Collection of Poems. London, 1817. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked. $2500. L I View on Website N First edition of this collection of poems, including the first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” under Coleridge’s name, with an additional E stanza and extensive prose gloss provided by Coleridge that did not appear with the poem in its first uncredited appearance in Lyrical Ballads (1798). This collection contains the first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to appear under Coleridge’s name and with an additional stanza on page 15. One of his most famous poems, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was first published in Lyrical Ballads (1798) under the title “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts,” but was not credited to Coleridge until publication in this collection. “The elaborate prose gloss accompanying the poem in most modern editions was added by Coleridge when he included it in his collection Sibylline Leaves (1817)” (Cambridge Guide to Literature in English). Among Coleridge’s major works here collected, in addition to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” are “The Nightingale,” “Dejection: An Ode,” and “France: An Ode.” Most of the poems had appeared in print previously, some “in various obscure or perishable journals, &c. some with, some without the writer’s consent; many imperfect, all incorrect” (Preface). This volume was originally projected to be the second part of an intended two-volume project consisting of Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves, printed by John Evans & Co. of Bristol in 1814-15 (hence the appearance of the register ‘Vol. II’ at intervals in the text). This project was abandoned and the sheets were acquired by Rest Fenner, who printed the preliminaries and issued the work, as here, in 1817. Wise, Coleridge, 45. Boards with gilt-tooled centerpiece arms of The Society of Writers to the Signet, Scotland’s independent lawyers’ association and one of the world’s oldest professional organizations. Old shelf label on front pastedown. Only occasional spotting, chiefly marginal. An extremely good copy.

58 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L Posthumous B I First Issue Of Shelley’s A T Poems, One Of Fewer Than 300 Copies U E Sold Before Sales Were Prohibited, M R A A With Mary Shelley’s Preface N T SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. London, U R 1824. Octavo, early 20th-century full dark blue R A E morocco gilt. $4200. R View on Website E First edition, first issue, edited and with a preface by Mary Shelley, containing the first publication of much of Shelley’s B work, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Root & O O Sons. One of fewer than 500 copies printed and fewer K than 300 actually sold before Mary Shelley acquiesced to S Shelley’s father’s demands to publish nothing more about his son during his own lifetime. • The publication of Shelley’s Posthumous Poems was the beginning of his wife Mary’s “campaign to make the world appreciate Shelley’s E genius and personal virtues” after his untimely death. Edited by A Mary, the book “included 65 unpublished poems, 13 out of print, R and five translations. [Mary’s] preface went straight to the point L of Shelley’s ill repute: ‘his fearless enthusiasm in the cause which Y he considered the most sacred upon earth, the improvement of the moral and physical state of mankind, was the chief cause why 2 he, like other illustrious reformers, was pursued by hatred and 0 calumny…’ Posthumous Poems accomplished what Mary Shelley 2 intended: before it, Shelley’s immorality, destructiveness, and 0 incomprehensibility were legendary, and he was largely unread; upon its publication there was a surge of interest as he seemed at O once more accessible and admirable… The age would seize upon N Shelley” (Sunstein, 257). As few as 500 copies of the Posthumous L Poems were printed, and, as noted, after only about 300 were I sold, Shelley’s father threatened to terminate Mary’s allowance N unless she withdrew the remaining copies and promised not to E publish anything more about his son during his own lifetime, which she did. Includes the first appearance of Julian and Maddalo and The Witch of Atlas, the unfinished Triumph of Life, the Epistle to Maria Gisborne, and many other poems and translations, including the first appearance of some of Shelley’s most widely known lyrics—To Night, Lines to an Indian Air, and Music when soft voices die. First issue, without errata leaf. Without half title. Forman, 108. Wise, 70. Contemporary owner ink signature on title page, somewhat faded, dated 1825. Interior clean and fine. Beautiful binding with expert repairs to joints, corners and spine ends. An excellent copy.

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E “One Of Greatest Historical Novels A In The English Language” R L READE, Charles. The Cloister and the Hearth. London, 1861. Four Y volumes. 12mo, early-20th century full lavender morocco gilt. $2500. 2 View on Website 0 2 First edition, presentation copy, of this sweeping story of romance and 0 religion against the backdrop of the early Renaissance, perennially popular and often hailed as the finest historical novel in English, inscribed on a O tipped-in leaf: “H.O. Nethercote Esq. with the author’s kind regards.” N In crafting his phenomenally popular tale of a 15th-century cleric torn between L love for the Church and love of a woman, Reade drew on “material from Erasmus, I Froissart, Luther, the chronicles, the old jest-books and beggar-books and quantities N of miscellaneous erudition… The resultant picture of Europe at the dawn of the E Renaissance—its every level of life from palace to monastery to tavern and highroad; its every type of character from bishop and burgomaster to beggar and freebooter— is at once spacious and dignified and beautiful and wonderfully informed with life… Its interest and value have proved lasting” (Baugh et al., 1354). “It is full of learning, of pictorial truthfulness, of shrewd reflection and of happy touches” (Allibone, 1753). “It may safely be called one of the greatest historical novels in the English language— some say the greatest” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 516). Mixed issue, with periods after “Etc” on Volume I title page (later issue), and without periods after “Volumes” on Volume II title page and after “Hearth” on Volume III title page (both first issue); and with all other textual points. Parrish 206. Sadleir 1999. Interiors fine, mild toning to spines, small chip to spine head of Volume II. An excellent presentation copy.

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O N “Torture In Love, And Despair, And Madness” L DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London, 1865. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo, contemporary I three-quarter green morocco gilt. $2000. N View on Website E First edition in book form, with 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone, in 19th-century three-quarter morocco-gilt. With Our Mutual Friend, “Dickens has for the first time given serious consideration to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always an equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected.” But in Our Mutual Friend “there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death… so that it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens’ temperament exploring extremity in art if not necessarily his life” (Ackroyd, 955). The illustrations to this volume are particularly notable as these are the first Dickens illustrations that are wood engravings; all previous illustrations were on steel. Originally issued in parts from May 1864 to November 1865. Bound without half titles, publisher’s advertisements and slip explaining title (as often). Smith I:15. Gimbel A150. Early pencil owner inscription. Light scattered foxing to plates and text, a few spots of soiling and some wear to binding. An extremely good copy.

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“One Of The Best Unfinished Mystery Stories In Literature” 2 DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London, 1870. Six parts (all published). Octavo, original 0 2 green paper wrappers, custom chemise and case. $2650. 0 View on Website First edition in original parts of Dickens’ last book, a tantalizingly incomplete murder mystery, illustrated with 14 O engraved plates after designs by Luke Fildes and with the wrapper of Part VI in the earliest state. N “There are few of [Dickens’] stories which are superior in the matter of composition… [It is] one of the best unfinished mystery L stories in literature” (Eckel, 96-97). At the time of his death (June 9, 1870), Dickens had written only six parts, three of which had I been published. The remaining three were published posthumously. Dickens kept the outlines of the plot a secret, even from his N close friends, and to this day the identity of Edwin Drood’s murderer remains fertile ground for speculation (including a 1985 E Broadway musical, Drood, in which each audience’s vote determines that performance’s conclusion). Dickens’ novels had always been much concerned with secrets, with dual identities and masks; but here these matters “are enlarged and strengthened in the pursuit of a larger vision, a vision which depicts the ‘lanes of light’ between the dark pillars of a crypt and which reflects upon ‘that mysterious fire which lurks in everything’” (Ackroyd, 1056). “The design for the front [wrapper] was by C.A. Collins (brother of Wilkie Collins), and therein are depicted eight incidents of the story, which it is frequently suggested have a bearing on the eventual solution” (Hatton & Cleaver, 373). With the rare “cork” advertisement in Part Two in pristine condition. With all advertisements called for except the 8-page Chapman & Hall insert at the rear of Parts I and V; Part IV without the first leaf of the advertiser, and with the third leaf (pp. 5-6) partially cut away. With wrapper of Part VI in the earliest state, with “Eighteenpence” slip pasted over the printed text, “Price One Shilling.” Hatton & Cleaver, 373-384. Some expert restoration to most spines except for Part VI, which shows some splitting to paper spine, stitching sound; light wear along outer edges of front wrapper of Part I and rear wrapper of Part VI. A very presentable set in exceptionally good condition.

62 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I Fascinating 1874 Signed Autograph Letter A T Written By Mark Twain To American U E Publishing Company President Elisha Bliss M R A A TWAIN, Mark. Autograph letter signed. Hartford, Connecticut, N T October 21, 1874. Single sheet of unlined paper, measuring 4-1/2 U by 7 inches; pp. 2. Floated, matted and framed with a portrait and R R facsimile of recto for display, entire piece measures 23 by 14 inches. A E $7500. R E View on Website Original 1874 signed autograph letter written entirely in Mark Twain’s B hand to American Publishing Company president Elisha Bliss suggesting O Louise Chandler Moulton’s Some Women’s Hearts for publication despite O reservations about the content; wishing Bliss success with the publication K of Howell’s and Harte’s upcoming books; and expressing hope that his play S (“The Gilded Age”) would run for 200 nights in New York. • The letter, with a notation reading “Oct. 21 [18]74” in an unknown hand, otherwise written entirely in Mark Twain’s hand, reads: “Oct. 21. Friend Bill: Mrs. Moulton is a E pleasant body & one you might write directly to, or go & see her, if you prefer. If there’s A nothing in it, there’s no harm done. I would like to see them all quit the “trade”—still, R if they prefer to stick to the “trade” nobody is much damaged by themselves. I hope L you will see a pile of Howells’s book when it comes out.—& Harte’s. The effect will be Y good. Mrs. Moulton is still stringing out her summer at Pomfret, Conn. We are going to try to make the play run 200 night in New York. Yrs Mark.” 2 This letter has substantial context. Roughly a week before Twain sent the letter in 0 question, on October 12, 1874, Louise Chandler Moulton, a friend and occasional visitor to the Twain home, approached Twain, 2 asking him for help getting a book of stories like The Gilded Age published. She sent him her book, Some Women’s Stories and 0 asked him to “flatter [her] by sometime idling away a half hour over it.” She then described the sort of collection she thought she could write and asked if Twain could intercede with Elisha Bliss. Her goal, evidently, was to abandon the traditional model O of publication due to low returns and make more money via subscription. Twain proved quite receptive and read Some Women’s N Stories immediately. On October 13, 1874, he wrote back, in part: “Your dainty volume came last night & Mrs. Clemens read L ‘Brains’ to me while I smoked—& I was glad she read instead of I, because I was so touched my voice would have done me I treachery, & I find it necessary to be manly & ferocious in order to maintain a proper discipline in this family.” N Thus, this letter to American Publishing Company President Elisha Bliss is the culmination of a plan formed between Moulton and E Twain one week prior. Twain, having already cautioned Moulton that they should not seem over-anxious, instead tries to maintain some leverage over Bliss. The “trade” in Twain’s letter to Bliss evidently refers to conventional publishing, thus implying that Bliss would simply be offering Moulton the proper path by transitioning her over to subscription. Twain quickly remarks on two other successful authors—Bret Harte [The Poetical Works, 1874] and William Dean Howells [A Foregone Conclusion, 1874]—perhaps to subtly link Moulton to them. Twain ends the letter by mentioning Moulton again and also by mentioning his own play, adapted from The Gilded Age, and his hopes that it would run for 200 nights. In the end, the play ran nearly four months, but was quickly reborn as a national tour. “[T]he play must have exceeded Twain’s expectations—it toured consistently for 12 years and brought him royalties in excess of $100,000 during its time on the road. ‘The daily reports of the profits arrived in Hartford around dinnertime, and Howells recalled that Clemens would spring to his feet, fling his napkin on his chair, and in “wild triumph” read aloud the “gay figures”‘ (Kaplan, 180)” (The Mark Twain House & Museum). A bit of toning, foldlines and a few expert repairs to splits along folds, signature quite legible. Extremely good condition.

63 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “A Supreme Novelist A T In The Age Of U E M R Great Novelists” A A N ELIOT, George. Works. New T U York, 1910. Twenty volumes. R R Small octavo, contemporary A E three-quarter navy morocco gilt. R $3250. E View on Website B Limited edition of Eliot’s novels, one O of only 1000 sets, with numerous O illustrations, including hand-colored K frontispieces in each volume, very S handsomely bound. Eliot, who pioneered the method of • psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for E the qualities that make her “a supreme A novelist in an age of great novelists: R her penetrating sympathy, her deep L knowledge of humanity, her dramatic Y and descriptive power, her lambent humor, and the reflection of her 2 extraordinary mind” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 0 212). Expert repairs to a few joints and 2 spine ends. A handsome set. 0

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E A R L “One Of Morris’ Finest Designed Titles” Y CAXTON, William. The History of Reynard the Foxe. Hammersmith, 1892. Tall quarto, original full limp vellum, yapp edges, original silk 2 0 ties, custom clamshell box. $8200. 2 View on Website 0 Splendid limited Kelmscott Press edition of Reynard, set from Caxton’s 1481 English translation of the ancient Dutch tale, one of only 310 copies, in the O original vellum. N L Reynard the Foxe, translated from the Dutch, was “perhaps the most popular of Caxton’s I translations down the ages” (Deacon, 149). In his preface he disclaims, “If anything be written herein that may grieve or displease man, blame me not, but the fox, for they N be his words and not mine.” The Kelmscott Press was founded in 1891 by William E Morris, Pre-Raphaelite painter, designer, architect, and printer. “Morris sought to revive what he saw as the purity of the first century of printing, and to produce what he described as books which ‘would have a definite claim to beauty… and be easy to read” (Feather, 152). His “passionate craftsmanship was the spark which ignited a 50-year renaissance of bookmaking in England, on the Continent, and in the United States” (Art of the Printed Book, 36). The Kelmscott printing of Reynard contains “one of Morris’ finest designed titles” (Forman, 164). Text printed in black and red Troy type, with full woodcut ornamental border around the title-page opening, numerous partial borders and elaborate eight-line initial letters. This is one of 300 copies printed on paper from a total edition of only 310. Ransom 10. A few instances of mild embrowning to text; original vellum unusually lovely. A nearly fine copy of this impressive production.

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2 0 2 First Collected Edition Of Thoreau’s Works, In 0 Handsome Onlaid Contemporary Bindings O N THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. WITH: Familiar Letters. Boston, 1894-95. Together, 11 volumes. Small octavo, L contemporary three-quarter onlaid brown morocco gilt. $4000. I View on Website N “Riverside Edition” of Thoreau’s works, trade issue, one of only 500 sets, beautifully bound in three-quarter onlaid morocco-gilt. E “Although Thoreau achieved little fame in his lifetime, and was thought of primarily as a naturalist or nature writer, he is now looked upon as one of America’s major literary figures as well as a pioneer conservationist, an ecologist and an important political influence… In Walden Thoreau wrote, ‘How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.’ Walden and ‘Civil Disobedience’ have been just such works. The once obscure Concord disciple of Emerson has become a world figure in his own right” (ANB). The “Riverside Edition” includes all of Thoreau’s previously published books as well as his journals (from which almost all of his works were derived), essays, lectures, poems, letters and a biographical sketch of the author by his fellow Transcendentalist, Emerson. The portraits include reproductions of the Rowse crayon portrait, the Worcester daguerreotype and the New Bedford ambrotype. “This was the first regularly collected complete edition of Thoreau’s writings… The Familiar Letters, upon its appearance in 1894, was added to the Riverside Edition as an eleventh volume, being brought out in uniform style, though it lacked the half title with the volume number” (Allen, 51). Small bump to edge of “Early Spring” text block, interiors generally quite nice, bend mark to front board of “Familiar Letters,” only minor wear to bindings. A near-fine copy.

66 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T “One Of America’s Finest Writers Of Fiction” U E CATHER, Willa Sibert. The Troll Garden. New York, 1905. Octavo, M R A original gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth. $2300. A N View on Website T U First edition, first issue, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s stellar first book R R of prose, a collection of seven stories with four appearing in print for the first A E time, featuring “Death in the Desert,” “The Sculptor’s Funeral” and “Paul’s Case.” R E Troll Garden, Cather’s first book of fiction, is preceded only by a collection of poetry published in 1903. The book’s seven stories are thematically united in their focus on art and artists. The volume also stands out for its “overall design and meaning… and a B careful arrangement of stories to support the themes woven into the fabric of the text” O (Woodress, Willa Cather, 172). Published in April 1905, “the collection, which contains O some of her best-known work, led to Cather’s appointment as managing editor of K McClure’s Magazine.” Four of the seven stories appear here in print for the first time: S “Flavia and her Artists,” “Garden Lodge,” “Marriage of Phaedra” and “Paul’s Case”—“the book’s climactic story, now considered an American classic” (Britannica). “Death in • the Desert” is “the centerpiece of the book” (Woodress, 175). It offers “a remarkable example of the intensive care Cather gave to her fiction” (Meltzer, Willa Cather, 65). E “The Sculptor’s Funeral” is “one of Cather’s best-known stories” and “Wagner Matinee” A is one of the few tales in the collection that is focused on western characters. Awarded R the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, Cather “is regarded as one of America’s finest writers of L fiction.” Wallace Stevens wrote of Cather in 1940: “We have nothing better than she is” Y (Columbia Companion, 198). First issue, with McClure/Phillips/& Co. at foot of spine (instead of Doubleday, Page & Co.), with cancel for “Marriage of Phaedra” at 155-156. 2 Without rare dust jacket. Three works earlier serialized, including “The Sculptor’s 0 Funeral” in McClure’s Magazine. Both “Death in the Desert” (Scribner’s Magazine) 2 and “Wagner Matinee” (Everybody’s Magazine) “extensively reworked by Cather for 0 inclusion in Troll Garden” (Crane, 16). Crane A4.a. Tiny owner notation to rear blank. Only most minor wear to spine ends. An about-fine copy. O N L I N E “Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.” —Rebecca West

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First Collected Edition Of Wilde’s Works, Handsomely Bound O N WILDE, Oscar. Works. London, 1908. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, modern full brown morocco. $7800. L View on Website I N First collected edition of Wilde’s works, one of 1000 sets on handmade paper, handsomely bound. E “Oscar Wilde: we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us” (Ellmann, xv.) “The first collected edition of Wilde’s works was issued in 1908 with 14 volumes, 13 with the imprint of Methuen & Co., and one, The Picture of Dorian Gray, with the imprint of Charles Carrington, Paris. The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional material which had not previously been reprinted, while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time… Some of the volumes contain matter which is not included in any other edition” (Mason, 459). Edited by Robert Ross, Wilde’s long-time intimate friend and literary executor. After Ross’ death in 1918, his remains were cremated and eventually placed in Wilde’s tomb in 1950. This set collects such classics as Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Happy Prince, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as numerous essays and poems. For Love of the King added to this set in 1922 is not present, as often. Bookplate, one partially removed. A few minor pencil and pen markings and underlines, including owner inscription in Salomé. Light soiling to preliminaries of Lady Windermere’s Fan, page 205 of Poems expertly repaired. Fine condition.

68 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A “It Was That Night T U E That I Found The Clue M R To Ethan Frome” A A N T WHARTON, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York, U 1911. Small octavo, original red cloth, top R R edge gilt, custom clamshell box. $2600. A E View on Website R E First edition, first issue, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance B ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror O in the frigid setting of a New England winter O landscape” (New York Times). A lovely copy. K “There are only three or four American novelists S who can be thought of as major,” noted Gore Vidal, “and Edith Wharton is one.” Her Ethan Frome “shows • a marked departure from the ironic contemplation of aristocratic mores… the central problem is that E of the barriers imposed by local conventions upon A an individual whose happiness depends on rising R above them” (Hart 813). First issue, with the gilded L top edge found only in the first 2500 copies, and Y “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135. With four pages of publisher’s advertisements 2 at rear; without very scarce original dust jacket. 0 Garrison A19.I.a. Interior quite fresh with only 2 small corner loss to rear ad leaf. A fine copy. 0

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2 0 2 0 Willy Pogány’s Illustrated Rubaiyat, With 16 Beautiful Color Plates, Exquisitely Bound In O Full Art Nouveau Pictorial Onlaid Morocco Gilt Depicting Eve In The Garden Of Eden N (POGÁNY, Willy) KHAYYÁM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, circa 1917. Octavo, contemporary full onlaid burgundy morocco L I gilt, custom cloth slipcase. $5700. N View on Website E Ballantyne Press edition of Pogány’s illustrated Rubaiyat, with 16 splendid mounted color plates, sumptuously bound in elaborately bordered full Art Nouveau-style inlaid morocco gilt depicting Eve in the Garden of Eden on one side and a snake winding around a chalice on the other. Omar Khayyám’s “brief verses vary in theme… from sophisticated satires on the unreasonableness of human passion to the passionate lyrics on the joys and sorrows of love and wine and on the wisdom of grasping pleasure while we can” (Hornstein, Percy & Brown 377). Hungarian-born Willy Pogány “specialized in gift book embellishment both before and after the First World War” (Harthan, 242). He first illustrated this 12th-century Persian poem in 1909. Fitzgerald’s translations (the first published in 1859, the fourth in 1879) “adapted the quatrains into a connected theme, skeptical of divine providence, mocking the transience of human grandeur, and concentrating on the pleasures of the fleeting moment,” producing in the process some of “the most frequently quoted lines in English poetry” (Drabble, 716). The Ballantyne Press was founded in 1799 by Sir Walter Scott’s schoolmate and long-time friend James Ballantyne. Ballantyne developed such a wide reputation for fine printing as to be commissioned by both the Vale Press and Ergany Press to print their books. Printed with calligraphic initial letters, tailpieces and decorative borders in green ink. Greer 21e. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

70 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I With Hand-Painted A T Miniature Of Kipling U E M R Inset Into Front Cover A A N KIPLING, Rudyard. Collected Verse. T London, 1912. Large octavo, U R R contemporary full teal morocco gilt, A E front cover inset with a Cosway- R style miniature portrait of Kipling, E custom slipcase. $4800. View on Website B O First English trade edition of Kipling’s O collected verse, in an exquisite full K morocco-gilt Cosway-style binding S with a hand-painted portrait of Kipling inset into the front cover behind glass, • handsomely executed by Bayntun. Celebrated author of classic poems such E as “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” “Recessional” A and “The White Man’s Burden,” Kipling R won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. L “The family and the Empire were the poles Y about which his genius turned” (DNB). Cosway bindings (named for renowned 2 19th-century English miniaturist Richard 0 Cosway) were first commissioned in 2 the early 1900s by London booksellers 0 Sotheran from the famous Rivière bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully O imitate Cosway’s detailed watercolor style N of portraiture. These delicate miniature L paintings, often on ivory, were set into I the covers or doublures of richly-tooled N bindings and protected by a thin pane E of glass. Cosway bindings executed by other than the original collaborators—still splendid productions—are designated as “Cosway-style” bindings. First published in New York in 1907; this English trade edition issued the same year as a limited large- paper edition of 500 copies on handmade paper and another limited large-paper edition of 100 copies on Japan vellum. A splendid volume in fine condition.

71 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R A A N T Unique Pre-Publication Publisher’s File Copy U Danger! R R Of Conan Doyle’s Story Collection, A E CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Danger! And Other Stories. London, R 1918. Octavo, original gray paper wrappers. $2200. E View on Website B A unique pre-publication publisher’s file copy of the Conan Doyle story collection O Danger!, with “Danger! and other Stories. Reader’s File,” hand-written in a O neat cursive on the plain gray front wrapper above the ink-stamped date, “5 K NOV 1918,”—one month before the official publication date. S This “Reader’s File” copy of this collection predates by one month the official publication date of December 4, 1918. The title story first appeared, with the full • title: “Danger! A Story of England’s Peril,” in Strand Magazine in July of 1914, just one month before Britain officially declared war on Germany. It “was written to show the E potential weakness of Great Britain in the event of a submarine A blockade. The author later stated in his autobiography (p. 318): R ‘It was singularly prophetic, for not only did it outline the actual L situation as it finally developed, but it contained many details… Y exactly as they occurred’” (Gibson A41a Notes). Reprinting the story less than one month after the end of the war, with a new 2 subtitle, “Being the Log of Captain John Sirius,” Conan Doyle 0 writes of a more general danger in his Preface to this collection; 2 “In some unfortunate way subjects of national welfare are in 0 this country continually subordinated to party politics… It is against this tendency that we have to guard in the future.” O The collection includes the first printing of the short story “A N Point of View.” The other nine stories in the collection had L been published previously in Strand Magazine or other British I periodicals. Some wear as expected to fragile paper wrappers, N some foxing to final text page, corners of a few pages at front E and rear creased. A unique copy in very good condition.

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War Full And Exactly” 2 SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London, 1919. 0 Small octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3200. 2 View on Website 0 First edition of a powerful collection of WWI war poems by Sassoon, who “opened O the dug-out door to the poet of modern war,” most written while in the hospital N recovering from his war injuries, including 12 poems never before publicly issued, L in scarce original cloth and dust jacket. I Sassoon and Owen are “the two great English poets of WWI… Sassoon had, in Hemingway’s N phrase, ‘been there’… As Edmund Blunden asserts: ‘It was his triumph to be the first man E who ever described war full and exactly’… But Sassoon did more than document conditions in the trenches. He also composed a number of deeply moving elegiac pieces—for example… Repression of War Experience is a ‘tour de force’… Sassoon opened the dug-out door to the poet of modern war” (Campbell, 84). Sassoon wrote most of the poems in this scarce work while in the hospital, recovering from his war injuries, and “on 30 October, Heinemann published The War Poems, 64 poems of which 12—including Concert Party, Night on the Convoy, Aftermath and Everyone Sang had not been in The Old Huntsman (1917) or Counter-Attack (1918), although nine of them were in the privately printed Picture Show (1919)… 2,000 copies were printed” (Egremont, 240). Book nearly fine with mild toning to spine and spine leaning slightly, rare dust jacket extremely good with small chip to head of spine just affecting spine title, single tape repair to verso, and wear and toning to extremities. A most desirable copy.

73 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I One Of Only 250 Copies A T Signed By Yeats U E M R YEATS, William Butler. Early Poems A A and Stories. New York, 1925. N T Octavo, original half blue cloth. U $4500. R R View on Website A E R Signed limited first American edition E of this collection of acclaimed poems and stories, one of only 250 copies B signed by Yeats. O Contains the poems and stories from O his early books, including The Celtic K Twilight, The Secret Rose, Stories of S Red Hanrahan and others. Preceded by the British first edition of the same • year. Wade 148. Interior fine, crease to front board, toning to labels. A near-fine E copy, nicer than usually found. A R L Y

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74 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “More Whiskey And A T Broken Crockery U E And Maybe Broken M R A A Necks… (And Please N T Be Kind Enough To U R R Burn This Page)” A E CRANE, Hart. Autograph letter R signed. Santa Monica, California, E December 19, 1927. Five original B leaves of letterhead (each 7 by 11 O inches) in manuscript on recto O (1-4), and on recto and verso (5). K $8200. S View on Website Rare lengthy December 19, 1927 six- • page autograph signed letter written E by Hart Crane to his good friend and A fellow writer, William Slater Brown, R recounting Crane’s adventures in L California as companion and literary Y guide to eccentric millionaire Herbert Wise, containing exceptional insights 2 into his literary influences. Within 0 six months of this letter Crane was 2 0 headed back to New York and in 1930 published his magnum opus, O The Bridge. N This rare six-page autograph letter signed L by Hart Crane—hailed by Robert Lowell as I “the great poet of that generation”—was N written in late December 1927 to close E friend and fellow writer, William Slater Brown, and is dated less than three years before publication of his masterpiece, The Bridge. Crane’s wonderfully intimate letter, rich with drama and breezily poetic descriptions, offers an exceptional glimpse into his short stay in California. In mid- 1927 Crane, then struggling in New York, was introduced to “Herbert Wise, a wealthy 34-year-old neurotic who on medical advice

75 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L was planning a six-month stay in California following a nervous breakdown hear the gulls cry overhead and watch the solemn pelicans eye you awhile Literary Criticism’ is a great book [underlining in original]. One of the few— B I and was in need of sensitive and well-read companionship for the duration and then haul up their legs and sprawl into the air. Viennese cooking with perhaps the only one in English excepting stray remarks by Coleridge— A T of his sabbatical… By 3 November it had been decided: Crane was to travel caviar and port every night for dinner is playing hell with my waistline and that gets to be a rock. Westons [sic] book, ‘From Ritual to Romance’ was U E to southern California” as Wise’s companion and literary guide. They arrived I sleep as never before, excepting the cradle. One can’t seem to wake up quite (over) fascinating—but Winters claims that scholars regard half her M R there on November 21st and settled in a villa near Pasadena. Wise, whose out here without the spur of scotch or gin. There has been plenty of that— data and deductions as imaginative bunk. Did I roar to you about Elizabeth A A father Nathan Wise had left him millions, had made another fortune on in fact last Saturday night I danced the ‘Gotzottsky’[possible variant of: Madox Roberts [sic] new book—‘My Heart and Flesh’ [i.e. My Heart and My N T Wall Street and had literary ambitions of his own. His nephew, Bennet Cerf, ‘Kazatsky’] right on Main St. Los Angeles, while Chuck Short, an aviator Flesh]—before? Anyway, I hope you’ll read it. I think it a great performance. U founder of Random House, once described Wise as “absolutely brilliant. I from Riverside and a Kentuckian—danced the Highland Fling—or as Poor Addie I got a most doleful letter from her not long ago—but she seems R R felt he knew everything.” During his time in Los Angeles, however, “Wise good an imitation of it as he could manage. This after having invaded the to see some [underlining in original] light in the improbable possibility of A E was not content with gentle distraction: he wanted to meet film stars and Biltmore ballroom and dancing with fair ladies of the haute mondaine. joining you in Bernardsville. I hope their plan will materialize. And how is R to give parties and soon Crane concluded that he had ‘a furious love of Albeit—and having got our waiter drunk and having left in high dudgeon—I Sue? Wish she would write when there isn’t anything else better to do. I’m E excitement” (Fisher, Hart Crane, 357-67). don’t think we dare attend their supper club again. After a good deal of glad you liked the Bruegel book. Its humor really belonged to you, if you As this letter reveals Crane, even while indulging Wise’s passion for fair sailing since arriving here—I am now convinced that ‘flying’ is even get what I mean, and you therefor were more capable of ‘owning’ it than B Hollywood glitter, “did manage to get some interesting reading in. It better. Right now however—and until next week-end—I am ‘all fives’ on anyone I ever knew. If you were dead and gone I think it would have been a O was one of the few aspects of the job that had actually been spelled out the ground and life can run as high as it wants to over in our villa without better commemoration than flowers—so take good care of it—and hand it O for him: reading the best that was available and then reporting back to my batting an eye. And it is [underlining in original] running high, I can tell on to your grandchildren—for you never can tell—you may have them, you K Wise, who read many of the same books and articles, after which they you; that’s why I’m here just now. I never could stand much falsetto, you know! Love always, [signed] Hart.” S would discuss what each had found. In this fashion Crane perused I.A. know. God! you never know who you’re meeting out here. First there was “By the beginning of February [1928] Wise had begun to indicate that he Richards’ Principles of Literary Criticism (‘damned good,’ he thought) a snappy collegiate hanging around the studio, who turned out to know wanted Crane to accompany him on his next trip to Europe: the opportunity • and… Weston’s From Ritual to Romance. The book had shown him just Allen—and then today on the beach a mile below here, at Venice, I found was almost too wonderful to contemplate, even if he was beginning to tire myself talking literature, Spengler, Kant, Descartes and Aquinas—to say how many ‘time-honored symbols’ he had already employed in building of… his employer’s ‘interminable psycho-analysis of every book, person, E nothing of Charles Maurras and Henri Massis—to a Boston [unclear word] The Bridge. He even began a correspondence with a Spanish critic, Antonio sausage and blossom.” The planned trip never came about. “Whether or A of French descent who knows Stewart Mitchell, and especially his Aunt, Marichalar, who wrote the Madrid letter for Eliot’s Criterion and who had not Wise and Crane had a row it is now impossible to say, but they parted R very well! He turned out to be one of the best scholars I’ve ever met—a the year before published a favorable review of White Buildings [1926].” ways at the end of March.” After several unfruitful attempts to work in the L great reactionary toward the same kind [sic] classicism that Eliot and Lewis Richards, Weston and Marichalar are each favorably discussed in Crane’s film industry and a difficult stay with his family, Crane left his mother’s Y letter, which also hints at an undercurrent of Crane’s restlessness and are fostering in England. I had him spotted as a Romanist in less than North Highland Avenue home on May 15, “never to see his mother or loneliness away from his friends and his life in New York. “In the weeks five minutes—but he wouldn’t admit it until we parted. The dialectic we grandmother again. In so far as he had a home it was New York, cruel as it 2 since meeting Wise, Crane had written exactly nothing. Something had to had was more rousing than the aforesaid tonic combustions of alcohol, was, he told [his godmother] Zell, ‘but far better for me than either of my 0 give in such an ‘egg-stepping’ bower of bliss. So it should have come as I admit. Winters and wife will be here visiting relations during Christmas parents” (Fisher, 367-68, 76). 2 no surprise to him that, by the end of a month in California, Crane found week—and I look forward to that as a real event. Really, it’s terribly dulling Crane’s close friend, William Slater Brown, was “a hard-drinking, hard- 0 himself at odds with the boss’s weekend guests. These were a ragtag having so many servants around, so much food, so much tiptoeing, and smoking, womanizing writer whose circle of close friends was formed assortment of men and women who made their living in any way they ceremony. But it takes some of these Hollywood fays to revolutionize all by people who went on to become some of the most prominent figures O could on the fringes of Hollywood” (Mariani, Broken Tower, 288). By then that. Whoops! and whoops again, dearie, and then more warbling, more of 20th-century American letters: E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane, Malcolm N Crane had already “told several friends it would be safer to describe many whiskey and broken crockery and maybe broken necks, for all I know, Cowley, Edmund Wilson, Djuna Barnes, Eugene O’Neill, Kenneth Burke, L of his California antics in person rather than commit the details to letters when I get back and view the ruins! (and please be kind enough to burn Matthew Josephson, John Dos Passos and Edna St. Vincent Millay… Brown I but he did give Slater Brown” a wonderfully engaging and intimate account this page) The present ‘star’ was once ‘Ariel’ in the ‘Tempest’—and though was in part the model for the world-weary newspaperman Jimmy Herf in in this lengthy letter—even as he begs his friend, at one point, to “please be she still makes the welkin ring I fear her voice would never do again. She Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer and he appears as ‘B.’ in The Enormous N kind enough to burn this page.” Dated December 19, 1927, the letter was has adopted the pronoun ‘we’ to signalize her slightest thought, whim or Room, Cummings’ account of their detention by the French while they were E written while Crane, still in Wise’s employ and enjoying his support, was act, and her conceit was so wounded on spying my ‘chaplinesque’ during serving during WW I… He was the great-grandson of Samuel Slater, the temporarily and “happily on his own at the Breaker Club in Santa Monica” the course of her drunken and exclamatory rampage through ‘Edificios British-born founder of the American cotton textile industry whom Andrew (Fisher, Hart Crane, 361-63). Blancos’—that she nearly passed out and insisted on the spot that I make Jackson called the father of American manufacturers… At his death in The text of Crane’s six-page letter entirely in his manuscript hand reads: instant amends by composing a sonnet to her superb P.A. (Hollywood 1997, Slater Brown was “one of the last survivors of the Lost Generation of “Monday, Dec. 19 [1927] Dear Bill: Yes, one can hear the sea seven flights shorthand for ‘physical attraction’) as displayed in her erstwhile success writers whose restless, rebellious lives were shaped by World War I and the below—and I’m here working on the beach most of the day. The boss, in ‘Peter Pan.’ Hence here I am by the sea and mightily pleased—until the postwar bohemian society of Greenwich Village” (New York Times). This finding that I didn’t get along any too well with some of his Hollywood storm subsides. Any Spanish quotation from Slater Brown reminds me letter is from the estate of Professor Fraser Drew of the University of Buffalo week-end guests, advised my taking a vacation and with means happily that I now have Joyces [sic] ‘Artiste Adolescente’ [i.e. Portrait of the Artist in New York. Drew’s love of literature also led him to a correspondence and provided, here I am until tomorrow night. Wall Street seems to carry a as a Young Man]—a translation sent me by Marichalar who wrote a very a meeting with Hemingway in Havana. Trace of paper clip to corner of first slight oppression and madness with it wherever it ‘extends’. It has been interesting introduction. He was greatly interested in ‘The Caravan’ and leaf, not affecting text. A fine signed letter. good to come over here where places are rather deserted of crowds and is going to review it in the Revista de Occidente. Richards’ ‘Principles of View on Website

76 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L Presentation Copy Of S.S. Van Dine’s First Philo B I A T Vance Novel, Inscribed By Him To Close Friend U E Norbert Lederer, Who First Urged Van Dine To M R A A “Devote His Life To Writing Crime Novels” N T (WRIGHT, Willard Huntington) VAN DINE, S.S. The Benson Murder U Case. New York, 1928. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green R R A morocco gilt. $2800. E R View on Website E Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine, a Haycraft-Queen B Cornerstone mystery, a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to O his close friend: “To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the O K Uberbrettl movement—the place and the subject which resulted in our S friendship. S.S. Van Dine, New York.” Lederer, the recipient of this distinctive copy, was a close friend of Wright, who • published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork, Lederer stepped in and told his friend E to instead “devote his life to writing crime novels” (Sanchez, Jose Raul Capablanca, A 276). Lederer offered Wright access to his “vast collection of detective fiction.… R Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction, old and new… and decided he L could do better” (Backer, Mystery Movie Series, 5-6). As Wright began working on Y Benson Murder Case, the first Philo Vance novel, he asked Lederer, a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club, to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine, 2 who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting 0 to gain background for Philo Vance’s talent for solving chess-related murders. In 2 1933, New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer “gave S.S. Van Dine the chess and 0 mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.” When Wright began “crafting his influential theory of detective fiction, he drafted O several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s, promptly N receiving a contract.” Benson Murder Case launched “what Haycraft has called the L “Golden Age… Van Dine’s place in the history of the American detective story is secure I and important” (Reilly, 1415). “Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter N Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives” (Hardy, BFI Companion to Crime, E 137). At his death Wright was “the best known American writer of the detective story since Poe… His name will endure among the immortals of the literature” (Haycraft, 168). Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher’s advertisement at rear. Reilly, 1414. Hubin, 414. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The “überbrettl movement” of Wright’s inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; “hopatcong” likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess, and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s, including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The ‘Canary’ Murder Case, the second Philo Vance novel, complains of getting ticketed for speeding while “driving down to Hopatcong.” Text fine, lightest edge-wear, faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy.

77 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “Loud, Heap Miseries Upon Us Yet Entwine A T Our Arts With Laughter’s Low” U E M R JOYCE, James. The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. A Fragment A A from Work in Progress. The Hague and New York, 1934. Octavo, N T original printed cream paper wrappers, glassine, cardboard slipcase. U $2200. R R View on Website A E R First edition of this amusing and affecting portion of Finnegans Wake, one of E only 1000 copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper, uncut and unopened. “Slapstick raised to the status of art” (G.W. Stonier). A fragment of the work that B would become Finnegans Wake, The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies was “revised O [from] the version originally published in transition [in 1933, which] has only recently O been completed by the author.” “Joyce alternately described the episode as dealing K with ‘twilight games’ and ‘the children’s games.’ For most readers, however, this is S not adequate to describe the chapter’s depiction of the continuing human effort to exchange doubt for certainty” (Fargnoli & Gillespie, 149). With an initial letter and • tail-piece in seven colors and a cover in three colors, all specially designed by Lucia Joyce, the author’s daughter. The thousand copies of the trade edition were issued E under four imprints with various slipcases. There were also 29 copies of this edition A signed by Lucia and James Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon 43. Slipcase joints repaired, R slight soiling and chipping to glassine, book very nearly fine with only slight toning L to extremities. A handsome copy. Y

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78 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “We Must Be Prepared To Defend Our Shores A T Against All The Alien Gangs Of International U E Racketeers That Call Themselves ‘Governments’” M R A A LEWIS, Sinclair. It Can’t Happen Here. Garden City, New York, 1935. N T Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $3500. U View on Website R R A First edition of Lewis’ fascinating cautionary tale about the risks of American E R populism, inscribed: “Sincerely Sinclair Lewis.” E “It Can’t Happen Here, which came out in 1935, was a frightening book written for frightening times. Sinclair Lewis published the novel as Adolf Hitler was making B Germany great again, violating the Treaty of Versailles by establishing the Wehrmacht. O Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. Things at home weren’t much better: a race riot in O Harlem, dust storms in the Midwest…. The people wanted ‘safety and conservatism K again.’ Some perverted version of that impulse is fulfilled in It Can’t Happen Here, S which imagines the improbable election of an authoritarian named Buzz Windrip over Roosevelt to the Presidency of the United States. Once in the White House, Windrip • institutes a backcountry version of the fascism then creeping over Europe” (New Yorker). “It Can’t Happen Here is a work of dystopian fantasy, one man’s effort in E the 1930s to imagine what it might look like if fascism came to America… It Can’t A Happen Here offers an alluring (if terrifying) certainty: It can happen here, and what R comes next will be even ghastlier than you expect” (Washington Post). Bruccoli & L Clark, 218. Book near-fine with trace of mild foxing with slight soiling to rear board; Y very good dust jacket with wear to spine head minimally affecting title, small chips to upper edge, tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso. 2 0 2 0

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79 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R A A “Attaway’s Artistic Genius Rivals That N T U Of Richard Wright’s Native Son” R R A ATTAWAY, William. Blood on the Forge. A Novel. Garden City, 1941. E R Octavo, original russet cloth, dust jacket. $1650. E First edition of Attaway’s second and final novel focusing on labor history during the Great Migration, a handsome copy in the highly elusive dust jacket. B With Blood on the Forge and his first novel, Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939), Attaway O is “heralded as one of the finest chroniclers of the Great Migration in the early 20th O century during which multitudes of African American families fled the poverty and K racism of the South” (Bader, African American Writers, 7-8). Published in 1941, the S novel is closely aligned with the work of his close friend Richard Wright, as well as that of Chester Himes, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, early stories by Ralph Ellison • and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. In crisp and vivid prose, Attaway chronicles the lives of three half-brothers who flee the threat of lynching and dire poverty to seek E a new life in the North. “At once factual and dramatic, Blood on the Forge, set in a A western Pennsylvania mill town in 1919,” also offers a distinct perspective on the R Great Steel Strike of 1919. L Attaway opened “a new chapter in texts of black labor’s response to racism” and Y boldly “rewrote the early labor history of the Great Migration. In the factory story no writer of the Harlem Renaissance era told, he explodes the chimera of opportunity 2 and… adds a needed finale to the work of Claude McKay and his contemporaries” 0 (Hapke, Labor’s Text, 213-14). Despite the overwhelming critical success of Blood 2 on the Forge, Attaway never published another novel, focusing instead on short 0 fiction, music and screenwriting to become “one of the earliest African Americans to write for television and film” (Bader, 7). When novelist Philipp Meyer, author of O American Rust (2009) and The Son (2013), was asked to name “his favorite book no N one else had heard of,” he answered: “Blood on the Forge, by William Attaway” (New L York Times). Too long overshadowed, scholars increasingly assert that “Attaway’s I artistic genius rivals that of Richard Wright’s Native Son. In Blood on the Forge he has N contributed to American literature nothing less than a classic” (Griffin). Book fine; E light edge-wear to bright and colorful about-fine dust jacket.

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81 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R A A N T U R R “Perhaps The Greatest Romantic A E Suspense Novel Ever Written” R E DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. London, 1938. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500. B View on Website O O First edition of du Maurier’s best and most famous novel, a Haycraft-Queen K Cornerstone mystery, and the basis for the Oscar-winning 1940 Hitchcock S film starring Laurence Olivier. “‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ The opening line of perhaps the • greatest romantic suspense novel ever written has become as familiar to readers as ‘Call me Ishmael’ from Moby-Dick” (Penzler, Crown, 26). Rebecca has been singled E out by Haycraft Queen as a Cornerstone mystery, and chosen by Mystery Writers of A America as number nine in the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. The novel proved R to critics that “Du Maurier is in a class by herself” (New York Times); her “masterful L treatment” of the Gothic tale “made Rebecca a classic book… by far the best known of Y du Maurier’s work” (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 136). For the Oscar-winning adaptation by Hitchcock in 1940, in which “the film like the novel is wonderfully tense,” Hays 2 Office censors “demanded removal of the novel’s heart—the fact that Maxim 0 (Laurence Olivier) has murdered Rebecca—so that he would not go unpunished for 2 a crime” (Tibbetts & Welsh, 347). Without scarce Book Society belly band. Book with 0 inner paper hinge split, light wear to cloth, mild toning to spine; scarce dust jacket bright and exceptional with only slightest soiling, minor toning. A desirable copy. O N L I N E

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“Crackling Drama On The High Seas” O WOUK, Herman. The Caine Mutiny. Garden City, New York, 1951. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. N L $3200. I View on Website N First edition, second printing, issued the month after the first, of Wouk’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, inscribed: E “Inscribed for C— H— by the author Herman Wouk. Apr 94.” Awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Wouk’s novel “stands somewhere between Norman Mailer’s Naked and the Dead and James Jones’ From Here to Eternity… No writer has worked harder at the amassing of the historical facts about WWII… Caine Mutiny remains Wouk’s best book” (Burgess, 99 Novels, 56). “A crackling drama on the high seas leading up to a riveting courtroom scene, it introduced readers to the unforgettable Capt. Philip F. Queeg, a seething blend of paranoia and incompetence, constantly fiddling anxiously with two steel ball bearings in his left hand. When he steers the ship toward certain disaster in a typhoon, his junior officers remove him from command, an act for which they later face court-martial” (New York Times). “Taut and focused, the book is a riveting exploration of power, personal freedom and responsibility” (Los Angeles Times). The decade before his death, the Library of Congress awarded Wouk its first lifetime achievement award for fiction. Basis for the classic 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart. Second printing, without “First Edition” on the title page; dust jacket with “City Boy” on back panel. Book fine; light edge- wear, mild soiling to bright near-fine price-clipped dust jacket.

83 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R A A N T U R R A “Timshel!” E R STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. E New York, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, acetate, slipcase. B O $5800. O View on Website K Signed limited first edition of S Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel, • one of 1500 copies signed by the E author, in original acetate and A cardboard slipcase. R Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his L masterful modern reworking of the tale Y of Cain and Abel, that it “has everything in it I have been able to learn about my 2 art or craft or profession in all these 0 years… I think everything else I have 2 written has been, in a sense, practice 0 for this” (Salinas Public Library, 45). As a contemporary reviewer put it, O “Steinbeck is never dull and, even if you N miss his message, you’ll not be bored. L There is only one Steinbeck and no one I writes about ‘his people’ as well” (W. N Max Gordon). Neat pen annotations E and underlining on pages 303 and 602. Book near-fine, with rear inner paper hinge expertly reinforced. Scarce acetate with wear and a bit of loss. Expert repairs to slipcase.

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HEINLEIN, Robert A. Time for the Stars. New York, 1956. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $2100. View on Website First edition, first printing, of Heinlein’s tenth juvenile novel, in original dust jacket. “Time for the Stars is a space exploration story, the Long Range Foundation is financing exploration by torchships capable of traveling at a good percentage of the speed of light, thus bringing relativistic time effects into play. The twist is that each ship carries one of a pair of telepathically linked individuals, the other telepath stays behind on Earth… Time for the Stars, like the rest of Heinlein’s juveniles, has remained in print all these years since their first publication in the 50s. That… is evidence that these stories continue to engage readers young and old” (Greg L. Johnson). “An engrossing yarn… The plot twists will take you by surprise and the characterizations delight you” (Galaxy). Fine condition.

85 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T “To Begin With He Was U E M Ashamed Of Himself—A R A A Rare State Of Mind” N T FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. U R R London, 1961. Octavo, original A E brown paper boards, dust jacket. R $3200. E View on Website First edition of Fleming’s ninth Bond B O novel, featuring the first appearance O of the superspy’s memorable K nemesis, the villainous mastermind S behind SPECTRE, Ernst Blofeld, who steals two nuclear warheads and • threatens the world. “Thunderball represented a new E departure [for the Bond series], with A the introduction of SPECTRE and of R Ernst Blofeld, a commanding villain L who was to reappear. This gave a Y measure of continuity to the later Bond novels… Thunderball worked well as 2 an adventure story… the theme of the 0 theft of atom bombs seemed pertinent 2 and modern” (Black, 49, 55). As he had 0 in From Russia, With Love (1957) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), Fleming O considered permanently doing away with N his super-spy character: “I shall definitely L kill off Bond with my next book—better a I poor bang than a rich whimper!” (Lycett, N 364). Bond, of course, survives this E adventure which, due to credit and rights controversy, was adapted twice to the screen: under the present title in 1965 and as Never Say Never Again in 1983— both times starring Sean Connery; in the 1965 film Claudine Auger played Domino, while Kim Basinger played that role in 1983. Gilbert A9a (1.1). Small notation in an unidentified hand to initial blank. A fine copy.

86 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “I Would Remember A T Him Forever As My U E Image Of A Man” M R A A FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved N T Me. London, 1962. Octavo, original U silver-stamped brown paper boards, R R dust jacket, custom clamshell box. A E R $3000. E View on Website First edition of Fleming’s tenth B Bond thriller—the author’s unusual O examination of his super-spy “from the O other end of the gun barrel.” K S “A significant departure from usual,” The Spy Who Loved Me, in which 007 appears only • toward the end of the book, proved to be “the easiest thing [Fleming] had ever done” (Lycett, E 381). As he had while composing From Russia, A With Love (1957) and Thunderball (1961), the author again toyed with the idea of killing R off his phenomenally popular super spy. L Although the title page lists the book as being Y written by Ian Fleming with Vivienne Michel, the “coauthorship credit is a hoax: Vivienne 2 Michel was the name of the wife of one of 0 Fleming’s golfing companions in Jamaica” 2 (Biondi & Pickard, 47). Fleming “had become 0 alarmed that his earlier thrillers, designed for an adult audience, were increasingly read in O schools… where young people made a hero N out of James Bond… He did not regard Bond L as a heroic figure ‘but only as an efficient I professional in his job.’ Therefore he had N sought to write a ‘cautionary tale’ to put the E record straight, particularly for his younger readers. Unable to do this in his usual narrative style, he had invented a heroine ‘through whom I could examine Bond from the other end of the gun barrel, so to speak’” (Lycett, 401-02). Without quad mark between “E” and “M” of “Fleming” on title page (no priority established). Made into the 1977 film of the same title, starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach. Gilbert A10a (1.1). Book fine, dust jacket bright and about-fine.

87 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “Brilliantly Conceived And Beautifully A T Written… A MacDonald Masterwork” U E M R (MILLAR, Kenneth) MACDONALD, Ross. The Chill. New York, 1964. A A Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $2400. N T View on Website U First edition of the eleventh Lew Archer novel by Ross Macdonald, signed by R R him, an exceptionally fine copy in the original dust jacket. A E R Ross Macdonald, the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, was the detective genre’s “first E great poet of empathy and compassion” (Connolly, Books to Die For, 213). In The Chill, a nominee for Best Crime Novel of 1964 by Mystery Writers of America, “Macdonald B wrote at the height of his mature style and near the peak of his vision… Brilliantly O conceived and beautifully written, The Chill was a Macdonald masterwork. ‘It is with O The Chill that he found his own voice.’ wrote Otto Penzler, ‘the voice that would K prove to influence an entire generation of crime writers.’ Critic David Lehman put S The Chill on his 1985 Newsweek list of ten favorite crime novels of the 20th century” (Nolan, Ross Macdonald, 234). • Macdonald’s Lew Archer and his world of “Southern California of the 50s and 60s is comparable to what Nathaniel West and Horace McCoy achieved in the 30s… The Chill E is most likely his masterpiece” (Jeffrey Deaver, ed. Century of Great Suspense Stories). A Writer John Connolly agrees: “The Chill is Macdonald’s crowning glory, a novel that represents the quintessence of his thematic concerns while also functioning as a R sleek, near-perfect thriller with one of the genre’s greatest endings… Macdonald L died of Alzheimer’s disease in 1983. One of the most moving moments in Nolan’s Y excellent biography of the writer sees Macdonald, his mind failing… able to type only the word ‘broken’ over and over again. Read The Chill, then read the rest of 2 Macdonald’s books. We will not see the likes of him again” (Books to Die For, 215-17). 0 Bruccoli, Checklist, 42. A highly desirable signed copy in fine condition. 2 0

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88 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I Signed Limited Edition Of The Circle Game, A T U E One Of Only 100 Copies Signed By Margaret M R Atwood, Additionally Inscribed By Atwood A A N T ATWOOD, Margaret. The Circle Game. U Toronto, Canada, 1967. Slim octavo, R R original black cloth; pp. 80, cloth slipcase. A E $3000. R View on Website E Signed limited edition of Atwood’s Governor B General’s Award-winning first regularly O published collection of poetry, one of only 100 O copies signed and numbered by Margaret K Atwood, additionally inscribed: “For Al McGuire S with best wishes, Margaret Atwood 1974.” “Contact Press, which published The Circle Game • in 1966, and its sister Contact Magazine were ‘expression[s] of literary revolt…[and] a means by E which new and experimental poets could find their A voice’ (Tracey 161). For a modern poet like Atwood, R Contact Press provided the opportunity to publish L their literature–one that was fresh and relevant” Y (History of Publishing, Simon Fraser University). While Contact Press founder Louis Dudek wanted 2 to reject Atwood’s manuscript due to its failure 0 to reflect trends in modernism, he was overruled 2 by others at the press who saw both its skill and 0 its salability. The success of The Circle Game was unprecedented. It became the first small-press O book to win the prestigious Governor General’s N Award for Poetry. The recognition allowed Atwood L to embark on new writing projects and resulted in I a contract for her first novel, The Edible Woman, N the book that would catapult Atwood to celebrity E status. This is the first edition, second printing, of The Circle Game, preceded by the Contact Press first edition of only 250 first edition copies and 50 hardcover “Library Edition” copies. The work sold out so quickly that, by the time it won the Governor General’s Award, it was already out of print, necessitating additional printings like this signed limited House of Anansi edition. Within Atwood’s oeuvre, The Circle Game was preceded only a chapbook called Double Persephone in 1961 and by a limited illustrated edition of The Circle Game’s titular poem in 1964, making this her first regularly published work. Fine condition.

89 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L Pieces B I Presentation/Association Copy Of , Warmly A T Inscribed By Robert Creeley To Allen Ginsburg, U E With Allen Ginsberg’s Owner Signature M R A A (GINSBERG, Allen) CREELEY, Robert. Pieces. New York, 1969. Octavo, N T original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $4200. U View on Website R R A E Second edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Robert Creeley to R Allen Ginsberg: “for Allen—with all love. Bob,” and with Allen Ginsberg’s E dated owner signature. Among the Beat poets, Robert Creeley was known for his in-depth understanding of B poetic meter and his taste for innovation. “His third book of poetry, Pieces (1969), O took another radical turn by exploring the language of everydayness in a more playful O manner” (ANB). Stephanie Burt in the London Review of Books noted that Pieces was K the first of Creeley’s works to “recall drug culture, more important to the arts in those S years than to poetry in English before or since,” but also praised Creeley’s ability to capture the conventional in unconventional ways, memorably and minimalistically. • “At the time of his death in 2005, Robert Creeley was widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century” (Poetry E Foundation). Published the year prior by Black Sparrow Press in an edition of only 426 A copies, with most of the edition signed and numbered (approximately 276 copies). R This copy is inscribed by Creeley to Allen Ginsberg and bears Ginsberg’s dated owner L signature. Robert Creeley was already an accomplished poet and author when he Y met Allen Ginsberg. During the early 1950s, he had even been a professor at Black Mountain College. However, the closure of the college led him to set out for San 2 Francisco “where he felt an instant affinity with the Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack 0 Kerouac” (ANB). When Creeley left to teach in Buffalo, he maintained his relationship 2 with Ginsberg, even forging a lengthy correspondence with him that began with 0 letters and continued through the fax and email eras. In an interview, Ginsberg mentioned his friend, remarking, “Creeley. Each syllable O is a thought. That’s a good way of [describing it], N actually. That’s an aphorism for Creeley—‘One thought L per syllable’ (in the sense that each syllable seems to be I like a new thought)—opposite from my kind of writing… N [A] painter works with pigment, his particular pigment, E [Creeley’s] particular pigment is a syllable, whereas mine would be phrasing or cadence.” When asked about each other, the men had only good things to say. According to Ginsberg, “Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and Olson and provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness.” Creeley was just as complimentary to Ginsberg, stating, “The heroism of Allen Ginsberg in the ‘fifties cannot be overemphasized.” About-fine condition.

90 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R Being There, Signed A A By Jerzy Kosinski N T U KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Being There. R R New York, 1970. Octavo, original A E half mustard cloth, dust jacket. R $1200. E View on Website B First edition of Kosinski’s wry satire, O boldly signed: “Jerzy Kosinski, May 1971.” O “One of those rare books which echoes K in the mind long after you have finished S it” (New York Post), Kosinski’s satiric parable of a childlike gardener’s rise • to political power remains the single novel by the controversial, award- E winning novelist to be adapted to film. A Kosinski co-authored the screenplay R for director Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning L 1979 film adaptation; the movie starred Y Peter Sellers in one of his most critically acclaimed performances. Book fine, 2 dust jacket with faintest soiling and 0 slight rubbing and toning to extremities. 2 A near-fine signed copy. 0

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91 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E Advance Review Copy M R A A Of O’Brien’s First N T Novel, Signed By Him U R R O’BRIEN, Tim. Northern Lights. A E New York, 1975. Octavo, original R half black cloth, dust jacket. E $2200. View on Website B O First edition of the author’s second O book and first novel—a “work of K serious intent with themes at least S as old as the Old Testament” (New York Times)—signed by him. • “Gripping and convincing… Northern Lights is an impressive first novel” E (Times Literary Supplement). “Although A it is not explicitly a war novel, the book R examines some themes that have been L important in O’Brien’s considerations Y of warfare, especially the idea of courage” (Shuman, 2 1122). An unusual perfect- 0 bound hardcover book, 2 Northern Lights is difficult 0 to find in nice condition and rivals his first book, If O I Die in a Combat Zone, for N scarcity. A bit of toning to L board edges, faint foxing to I fore-edge, book near-fine; N dust jacket bright and fine. E

92 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I “Early In The Spring A T U E Of 1750, In The M R Village Of Juffure, A A A Manchild Was Born…” N T U HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City, R R 1976. Thick octavo, original half A E black cloth, dust jacket. $950. R E View on Website First trade edition of Haley’s acclaimed B historical novel, inscribed in the year O of publication: “10/19/76 W— K— O Very best wishes! Alex Haley.” K S “Haley’s most celebrated novel, Roots, has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace. The Washington Post • called it the most highly acclaimed book of our time… The author immediately E became a household name, as he won A over 270 awards. A phenomenon of the R decade, Roots mesmerized Americans L and readers of literature throughout the Y world. No novel since the publications of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gone With the 2 Wind captured the public interest on the 0 subject of slavery and its ramifications… 2 In Roots Haley successfully traced his 0 ancestors with a birth in 1750 in Gambia, through oral history with painstaking O research and thereby put into N perspective the historical background L of millions of other African Americans… I Haley’s 12 years of work on Roots won N him a special Pulitzer prize on April 18, E 1977” (Blockson 3939). Preceded by the same year’s signed limited edition. In 1977 the revolutionary television miniseries adaptation of Roots became one of the most-watched American television programs of its time. Books of the Century, 500. Book fine; light edge- wear to bright near-fine dust jacket. A splendid inscribed copy.

93 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I A T U E M R A A N T U R R A E “Bard Of The Barroom And The Brothel” R BUKOWSKI, Charles. Women. Santa Barbara, 1978. Octavo, original E half blue cloth. $2500. B View on Website O Signed limited first edition, one of 300 copies (375 total), continuing his O fictional saga of the semi-autobiographical Henry Chinaski, also featured in K Factotum (1975) and Bukowski’s screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly starring S Mickey Rourke. • “Charles Bukowski was a bard of the barroom and the brothel, a direct descendant of the Romantic visionaries who worshiped at the altar of personal excess, violence and madness… Bukowski’s skeletal, self-referential poems and stories, barren of E metaphor but crackling with hard truth told in American barroom vernacular, brought A him adulation… [that] came late… Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail, his first poetry R collection, was published in 1959, and L over the years at least 40 more books Y followed, all of them rooted in the experiences of a loner and outcast with 2 a keen eye for the absurd” (New York 0 Times). Bukowski’s 1978 novel, Women, 2 continues his fictional saga of Henry 0 Chinaski, the semi-autobiographical protagonist found in works such as O Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975) and N Bukowski’s screenplay for Barfly, the L 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder I and starring Mickey Rourke as Chinaski. N Signed limited edition of 300 copies, E issued along with a signed limited edition of 75 copies with a painting by Bukowski. Krumhansl 63d. A fine signed copy.

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WOLFE, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House. New York, 1981. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $1800. View on Website First trade edition, boldly signed by Tom Wolfe with his characteristic flamboyant flourish. A searing indictment of modern architecture from one of the founders of the New Journalism, critics met the publication of From Bauhaus to Our House by noting: “Wolfe’s agility continues to dazzle… this book is the hottest topic in Manhattan’s architectural salons” (New York Times). Issued the same year as a signed limited edition (350 copies), no priority established. Featuring over 30 in-text and full-page photogravure illustrations; with duplicate half title, one bound after title page. A splendid copy in fine condition.

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O N L I N Cujo, Boldly Inscribed By Stephen King E

KING, Stephen. Cujo. New York, 1981. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2100. View on Website First trade edition of “perhaps the cruelest [and] most disturbing” Stephen King novel, boldly inscribed in the year of publication: “For Betty—With good wishes, Stephen King 8/16/81.” On the publication of Cujo, The New York Times praised it as “perhaps the cruelest, most disturbing tale of horror King’s written yet… He certainly hits the jugular with Cujo.” In this return to a Maine setting after King’s Colorado novels, “Cujo represents the fullest and most complete elaboration of King’s ‘myth of Maine’ to date… In this novel King has… come fully into his own” (Underwood & Miller, 56-61). Basis for the 1983 film directed by Lewis Teague. First-issue dust jacket, with $13.95 price and “0981” code on front flap. Published the same year as a signed limited edition of 750 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. Brooks A13. A fine copy.

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“From Your #1 Fan”: First Edition Of O Misery N , Inscribed By Stephen King L KING, Stephen. Misery. New York, 1987. Octavo, original half black I cloth, dust jacket. $1500. N View on Website E First trade edition of King’s psychological thriller, inscribed with his bold flourish: “For P— Best wishes from your #1 fan—Stephen King 7/13/94.” “Misery is a novel that would probably demand considerable interest even were it not from the writing phenomenon that is Stephen King… This book is built on a single cliff and hangs there throughout its length. But the novel functions as well on a more sophisticated level. King evokes the image of Scheherazade. He muses on the literature of possession and the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive” (New York Times). Misery won the Bram Stoker Award for best novel in 1988; Kathy Bates won an Academy Award for her career-making turn as Annie in the 1990 film version. Fantasy and Horror 6-200. A fine copy.

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KING, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. New York, 2004. Oblong octavo, original half black cloth. $1100. View on Website First trade edition of this pop-up book signed by Stephen King in gold ink on the cover. A beautifully designed pop-up book, illustrated by Alan Dingman and designed by Kees Moerbeek. King’s book of the same name, about a young girl lost in the woods, was first published in 1999, then adapted for this format. Also issued in a signed limited edition of 140 copies. Fine condition.

98 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) L B I Signed By Toni Morrison A T U E MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York, 1987. Octavo, original white M R cloth, dust jacket. $800. A A View on Website N T First edition of Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story of escaped slave Sethe U R and her relationship with a “disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls R A E herself Beloved,” signed by Morrison. R “Morrison’s versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds” E (Margaret Atwood). “She recreates the interior life of black slaves with a moving intensity no novelist even approached before” (Walter Clemons). Basis for the 1998 B Jonathan Demme film starring Oprah Winfrey. Small faint remainder mark to upper O fore-edge. A fine signed copy. O K S

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“Most Really Pretty Girls 2 Have Pretty Ugly Feet” 0 2 WALLACE, David Foster. The Broom of the System. New 0 York, 1987. Octavo, pictorial white paper wrappers. $2000. O View on Website N L First edition, softcover issue, of Wallace’s acclaimed debut I novel, signed by David Foster Wallace. N In the tradition of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Wallace’s first E novel, written while he was a 24-year-old MFA student, “attempts to give us a portrait, through a combination of Joycean word games, literary parody and zany picaresque adventure, of a contemporary America run amok… Wallace possesses a wealth of talents—a finely-tuned ear for contemporary idioms; an old-fashioned story-telling gift (as evidenced, in particular, by the stories within stories contained in this novel); a seemingly endless capacity for invention and an energetic refusal to compromise” (New York Times). The hardcover (Viking) and softcover (Penguin) issues were published simultaneously. Usual mild toning to interior. A fine signed copy.

101 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) C B H “Outshines Almost Every A I Other English Children’s U L Book Of The Period” M D A R LAMB, Charles [and LAMB, Mary]. Tales N E from Shakespear. Designed for the N Use of Young Persons. London, 1807. R ’ Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century three- A S R quarter dark green morocco gilt, custom E L half morocco clamshell box. $4500. I View on Website B T First edition, first issue, of the first version O E of Shakespeare prepared especially for O R children, illustrated with 20 copperplate K A S engravings by William Blake after drawings T U by Irish genre painter William Mulready. • R The Lambs’ Tales from Shakespear “belong E to a type of literature requiring gifts which are E seldom found in perfect proportion… It is not A too much to say that the collection forms one of R the most conspicuous landmarks in the history L of the romantic movement. It is the first book Y which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising generation, made Shakespeare a familiar 2 and popular author and, in doing so, asserted 0 the claims of the older literature which, to 2 English people at large, was little more than a 0 name” (Rosenbach 37:385). In 1805, essayist Charles Lamb met influential philosopher and O children’s book publisher William Godwin (the N father of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein), L who convinced Lamb to adapt the plots of I Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies for young readers (particularly girls, “because”—as the N Lambs’ preface explains—“boys are generally E permitted the use of their fathers’ libraries at a much earlier age than girls are…”). Charles drafted adaptations of the tragedies while his sister Mary wrote those of the comedies. The result, immediately popular upon publication, was “one of the most useful and agreeable companions to the understanding of Shakespeare which have ever been produced. The youthful reader who is about to taste the charms of our great bard is strongly recommended to prepare himself by first reading these elegant tales… Even those who are familiar with every line of the original will be delighted with the pleasing and compendious way in which the story of each play is here presented to them” (Allibone, 1049). “They are written in a clear, vigorous style… The literary quality of the Tales makes them outshine almost every other English children’s book of this period” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 515). First issue, with imprint on Vol. I, page 246 and Hanway Street address in Volume II advertisements. Rosenbach 37:385. Evidence of removal of dealer description from endpaper. Occasional light foxing, frontispiece plate tipped in, and a few leaves with minor marginal paper repair in Volume I, skillful repair to joints. A handsome copy, scarce and desirable.

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(RACKHAM, Arthur) LAMB, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. London / New York, 1909. Quarto, contemporary tan buckram. $3000. View on Website Deluxe limited large-paper edition, one of 750 copies signed and illustrated by Rackham. With 13 mounted full-page color illustrations and numerous other illustrations by Rackham, beautifully bound. Arthur Rackham’s timeless illustrations rediscover Shakespeare’s magic, accompanying the 20 tales adapted by Charles and Mary Lamb so skillfully that the “essentials of the stories are preserved,” entrancing both young and old (Baugh, 1182). Originally published in 1899 with black-and-white illustrations only: “there is an extra colored plate in this edition not included in the trade edition” (Latimore and Haskell, 33). Riall, 90, 32. Text and plates fine, beautifully bound.

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O N Deluxe Signed Limited Edition Of Rackham’s Fairy L Tales Of The Brothers Grimm, 1909 I N RACKHAM, Arthur. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. London, 1909. Quarto, original pictorial E gilt-stamped vellum, custom slipcase. $6500. View on Website Deluxe signed limited edition, one of 750 signed copies , of one of Rackham’s most famous works, with 40 mounted color plates and numerous black-and-white drawings by him. When first published in 1900, Rackham’s illustrated edition of the Grimm Brothers’ timeless fairy tales proved “immediately successful, and… marked the beginning of Rackham’s lasting fame. Two new editions were called for within 10 years,” in 1907 and the present, “best-known” edition in 1909 (Hudson, 46). The edition features additional, redrawn and re-colored illustrations, as well as enlarged pages. Rackham would later write, “In many ways I have more affection for the Grimm drawings than for other sets” (Hudson, 46). Interior clean, age-toning and soiling to vellum, as often, silk ties renewed. A very nice copy of this beautifully illustrated work.

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O N L I “Peopling The Universe With Elves And Leprechauns” N E RACKHAM, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London, 1933. Octavo, original full vellum gilt, slipcase. $4000. View on Website Signed limited first edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Rackham, with eight full-page color illustration and 60 in-text line cuts and silhouettes, a handsome uncut copy. One of the last books Rackham illustrated before his death, this lovely volume includes 23 favorite tales such as “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Cinderella” and “Ali Baba.” Walter Starkie, Rackham’s nephew, recalled his first impression of the great illustrator: “When armed with palette and paint brushes, he became for me a wizard, who with one brush of his magic wand could people my universe with elves and leprechauns” (Carpenter, 440). Slipcase with expert repairs. Book near-fine, with only a few spots of soiling to interior and usual mild toning to spine.

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“What Wonderful Dolls They Were, And What Wonderful Things They Did”

MITCHEL, George. Kernel Cob and Little Miss Sweetclover. Illustrated by Tony Sarg. Part of Volland’s “Happy Children Books” series-to which Johnny Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann and Andy books New York, Chicago and Toronto, 1918. Octavo, original stiff paper pictorial boards, also belonged-Mitchel’s toy fantasy chronicles the adventures of a doll made from flowers and a soldier cardboard box. $1800. fashioned from an ear of corn. Guatemalan-born Sarg is remembered for not only illustrating children’s books but also reviving marionette theater in America. He also developed helium-filled character balloons View on Website for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades. Cotsen 7362. Book exceptionally fine, scarce original box in First edition, a lovely copy in the original pictorial box. extraordinary condition, with one closed tear. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

106 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) C My Bookhouse B H : An Illustrated Treasury Of Children’s Classics, In A I Original Painted Wooden “Book House,” All In Exceptional Condition U L M D MILLER, Olive Beaupré. My Bookhouse. WITH: My Travelship. Chicago, 1925-27. Altogether nine volumes. A R My Bookhouse: Octavo, original green cloth, mounted cover illustrations; My Travelship: Quarto, original N E colored cloths, mounted cover illustrations, together in painted wooden “book house.” $3900. N View on Website R ’ A Early printing of the beloved My Bookhouse series, “the first collection of children’s literature that was graded S R to meet the developing needs and abilities of children at different ages,” and illustrated by some of the foremost E L illustrators of the period. This is a complete set of six original volumes, together with the complete three volumes of I My Travelship, together under one roof in the original publisher’s wooden “book house.” B T In 1919, Olive Beaupré Miller got the idea for My Bookhouse, launching her venture by selling subscriptions to a six volume O E set— peddled door-to-door by her force of “Bookhouse Ladies.” Three years later, the sixth volume was published and the full O R set was offered in a cardboard “house.” The additional series of My Travelship appeared in 1926 and a painted wooden book K A house (offered here) was included as an incentive to complete the set. “The utilization of women in all phases of its business S T activity was one of the unique aspects of the Book House for Children. Not only was there an all-woman sales force, but the U majority of the employees were women” (Taylor, 30). This delightful treasury of classic children’s tales gathers works by authors • R ranging from John Milton to Carl Sandburg, as well as many folktales, all embellished by some of the premier illustrators of the E time, including Dorothy Hope Smith, Katherine Dodge, Maud and Miska Petersham, Edward Kemble, Willy Pogány, Johnny Gruelle E and, predominantly, Donn P. Crane, one of America’s first “fantasy” artists. My Bookhouse “was the first collection of children’s A literature that was graded to meet the developing needs and abilities of children at different ages” (Smith College). Taylor, 89- R 113. The books and the bookhouse are both in exceptionally nice condition, far better than usually seen. A beautiful collection. L Y

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108 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) C B H First Edition Of Disney’s “Pop-Up” Silly Symphonies A I DISNEY STUDIOS. The “Pop-up” Silly Symphonies, Containing Babes In the Woods and King Neptune. U L M New York, 1933. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. $1650. D A R View on Website N E First edition of this early pop-up book, illustrated with in-text line drawings and plates and four double-page full-color N pop-ups, in scarce original dust jacket. R ’ “As the Depression years deepened, American book publishers sought ways to rekindle book buying… Blue Ribbon Publishing A S of New York found a combination that proved successful. They animated Walt Disney characters and fairy tales with pop ups,” R becoming “the first publisher to use the term… to describe movable illustrations” (Montanaro, xix). This book is based on two of E L Disney’s animated musical shorts from 1932: “While the character-based ‘Mickey Mouse’ films used music as an accompaniment I to the action, the ‘Silly Symphonies’ created stories through the use of music” (ANB). “These pop-up books had the dual appeal B T of a book and a toy and became quite popular. Because of their unusual pop-up feature, they have become favorites among O E collectors” (Munsey, 164). Book with pop-ups intact and fine, only a few smudges to interior. Scarce dust jacket with minor soiling O R and light wear and toning to extremities. A nearly fine copy. K A S T U • R E E A R L Y

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2 0 2 0 Beautifully Illustrated By Acclaimed American Illustrator Dorothy Lathrop, 1939 O N (LATHROP, Dorothy P.) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Little Mermaid. New York, 1939. Quarto, original L blue cloth, dust jacket. $2200. I View on Website N E Scarce first edition of Andersen’s beloved tale to feature Caldecott-winning American illustrator Dorothy Lathrop’s lovely illustrations, many in color, in original pictorial dust jacket. Acclaimed children’s book illustrator Dorothy P. Lathrop originally became a teacher before undertaking studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York City. “Lathrop was awarded the first Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1938 as the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book published in the United States” (New York Times). This work reflects her complete mastery of several media. “Her output was prodigious, even staggering. What makes this all the more impressive is the variety of media in which she worked: pen and ink, oil, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, graphite, woodcut, wood engraving, lithographic pencil, and lithographic crayon. Each medium has its own exacting demand, and she mastered them all” (Anne Roberts, Flora, Fauna & Fantasy: The Art of Dorothy Lathrop). The Little Mermaid was first published as part of a collection of stories in 1837; this is the first edition to be illustrated by Lathrop. Book about-fine, with a bit of foxing to endpapers, gilt bright. Bright dust jacket extremely good, with a bit of soiling mainly to rear panel and shallow chipping to spine ends. Scarce.

2 “And They Tucked Him In Bed All Soft And Warm” 0 BROWN, Margaret Wise. Little Fur Family. New York, 1946. 12mo, original rabbit fur, cardboard box. 2 0 $2000. View on Website O First edition of this classic tale by Brown—“one of the most revered authors in children’s literature”—with full color N illustrations by Garth Williams, bound in rabbit fur, a splendid copy in the original pictorial box. L Known as “‘the laureate of the nursery… Brown remains among the most beloved—and best-selling—children’s authors of all I time” (Washington Post). Little Fur Family, her most whimsically designed book, follows the adventures of a “little fur animal” as N he explores his world. “Brown wrote in the first real ‘golden age’ of American children’s books, as a contemporary of Dr. Seuss E and the young newcomer, Maurice Sendak. In truth, she virtually re-invented the picture book” (Chicago Tribune). “Brown’s pioneering efforts have allowed her to become one of the most revered authors in children’s literature… Joseph Stanton has asserted that ‘the simplicity of Brown’s picture-book-length poems and the rightness of the pictures that visualize them have made these unpretentious little books into important artistic events in the lives of innumerable children and their parents” (Hurd, “Remembering Margaret Wise Brown”). Especially famed “for the lyrical poetry of her texts… Brown has left an enduring legacy for us and the generations to come” (New York Times). Beautifully illustrated in full color by Garth Williams, of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little fame, this first edition is bound in real rabbit fur. “The diminutive 1946 rabbit-fur-bound edition had proven difficult to store (moths got into Harper’s warehouse, destroying a large quantity of the first printing)” (Marcus, 33). Consequently later editions had imitation fur or no fur at all. In original publisher’s illustrated box with circular cut-out, through which real fur shows. Later editions were also larger than this edition, as its small size made it difficult for libraries to carry on their shelves. Lightest rubbing to original box. A fine copy.

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O First Edition Of If I Ran The Circus, Inscribed By Seuss N In The Year Of Publication To Family Friends L I SEUSS, Dr. If I Ran the Circus. New York, 1956. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket. N $6000. E View on Website First edition of this rhyming narrative about comically large aspirations for starting a circus, inscribed in the year of publication to longtime friends: “For All the Kays of Wonderview Drive. Merry Xmas 1956.—Dr. Seuss.” A revision of a 1955 magazine piece, Seuss’ romp under the Big Top introduces such compelling attractions as Rolf, the walrus who stands on one whisker; the punctuation mark-juggling Jott; and Great Daredevil Sneelock, who dives into a fishbowl from 4,692 feet up—“He’ll manage just fine. Don’t ask how he’ll manage. That’s his job. Not mine.” Younger & Hirsch 43. Book very nearly fine with tiny spot of toning at spine end, bright dust jacket extremely good with only most minor soiling and light wear and toning to extremities. A lovely inscribed copy.

112 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) C B H A I U L “My Roller Skates M D Need Oiling… But A R N E Your Birthday Greeting N Inspires Me To Try R ’ A S The Hills Again” R SEUSS, Dr. Autograph letter E L signed. San Diego, 1984. I B Single sheet of Cat in the Hat T O stationery, measuring 5-1/2 E O R by 8-1/2 inches, with hand- K A addressed envelope. $1800. S T View on Website U Striking signed autograph letter on • R Cat in the Hat stationery from Dr. E E Seuss to his childhood friend Judy A Kay Capps regarding a birthday R greeting, accompanied by the L original mailing envelope hand- Y addressed by Seuss. The letter, accompanied by a hand- 2 addressed envelope postmarked “10 0 Mar 1984,” reads in full: “Dear Judy… 2 My roller skates need oiling… but your 0 birthday greeting inspires me to try the hills again. Thanks! All Best Wishes! O Ted Geisel [a.k.a. Doctor Seuss].” The N letter was written on color Cat in the L Hat stationery to Judy Kay Capps of I Malibu, who was a childhood friend N of Dr. Seuss. In a collection of books E inscribed to Capp, Seuss referred to her as an “old playmate” and mentioned their joint roller skating history. Mailing crease. Fine condition.

113 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) C B H You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown!, A I U L Warmly Inscribed By Schulz M D SCHULZ, Charles M. You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown! New York, A R N 1985. Quarto, original pictorial paper wrappers. $1350. E N View on Website R ’ First edition, paperback issue, of this collection of autobiographical A S reminiscences, many of which inspired certain of the Peanuts comic strips, R warmly inscribed: “For Dorothea with best wishes—Charles M. Schulz.” E L Issued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Peanuts, this commemorative work I B features numerous comic strips, accompanied by Schultz’ recollections, most of T O which served as inspiration for one or another episode. Published simultaneously E O with the hardbound issue. A fine inscribed copy. R K A S T U • R E E A R L Y

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(PENN, William, et al). The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted, in the 2 Tryal of William Penn, and William Mead. London, 1670. Slim octavo, later half 0 brown sheep; pp. 62. $2000. 2 0 View on Website First edition of this transcript of and commentary on the Penn-Meade trial—which was also a O landmark development in the rights of juries. N William Penn “influenced religious and political thought in an age of experimentation. Although he L did not invent the concept of religious toleration, he brought it to its highest point in the governing I principles of his colony. Such toleration became the touchstone of religious and ethnic plurality from N which the American ethos grew” (DNB). He “was arrested with fellow Quaker William Meade for speaking E at the Grace church Street meeting in London. Instead of fining them for unlawful preaching, the mayor raised the charge to promoting a riot, for which the accused had the right to trial by jury. The result was a landmark case, known as the Penn-Meade trial [and also “Bushell’s Case”], in which the jury established its authority to reach a verdict contrary to the judge’s instructions. Penn and Meade proved their innocence of the charge of inciting a riot, but were imprisoned for keeping their hats on in court” (ANB). Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties without final leaf [H4] (Errata on recto, verso blank). Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties corresponds most closely to the third state (Bronner & Fraser 10C; Wing P1334B), although Bushel listed on page 5 as “Ed. Bushel” as in the fourth (Bronner & Fraser 10D). Bound without errata (either removed or not present in this variant state). Evidence of bookplate removal to pastedowns. Faint dampstain to inner corner of title page, expert marginal paper repair to page 7, occasional foxing and faint staining to interior, a bit of wear and toning to binding. Extremely good condition.

116 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “Entirely New And A E Quite Wonderful” U R M I (LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION) A C [PHILLIPS, George]. Travels in N A North America. Dublin, 1822. N 12mo, contemporary full straight- R A grain green morocco gilt. $2600. A View on Website R E First edition of this apocryphal account of Irishman George B Phillips’ travels with the Lewis and O Clark expedition, with five woodcut O illustrations. An excellent copy in K contemporary morocco-gilt. S Several apocryphal accounts of the Lewis • and Clark expedition were published during the early 19th century, but this E particular narrative “was in a class of its A own for the license it took in fabricating a travel tale around a core of factual R data… Entirely new and quite wonderful” L (Beckham, Literature of the Lewis and Y Clark Expedition, 2003). “Phillips claims to have been engaged for the journey by 2 Capt. Lewis. He gives a circumstantial 0 narrative of the expedition’s outward 2 trek and of the return journey to as far as 0 Fort Mandan, where he left the party an proceeded eastward via Chippeway and O Lake Ontario to Montreal” (Eberstadt). N “Imaginary experiences of an imaginary L Irishman with the Lewis and Clark I expedition” (Howes). Phillips’ Travels N is among the least common Lewis and E Clark-related editions. The charming woodcut illustrations depict a mining operation, a native hut interior, Niagara Falls, icebergs, and an Esquimaux encounter—all but the frontispiece with duplicates bound in. Sabin 62456. “Education Society” lettered in gilt on front cover; “102” lettered in gilt on spine. Text clean, expert repair to joints. An excellent, attractive copy of this scarce and intriguing work.

117 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “May Well Be The First Popular A E American Historian On Any Large Scale” U R M I (BARBER, John Warner). Historical Scenes in the A C United States. New-Haven, 1827. Small octavo (4- N A 1/4 by 6-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards N R rebacked in brown calf gilt; pp. 120. $1500. A A View on Website R First edition of noted 19th-century engraver Barber’s first E book, inspired by his travels through America in the 1820s, with folding map of the United States and 48 woodcut- B engravings on 16 plates, including scenes of Pocahontas O saving Captain John Smith, the Boston Tea Party and major O K battles of the American Revolution, along with Franklin’s S kite experiment, the burning of Washington in the War of 1812, and much more. Very scarce in contemporary three- • quarter morocco and marbled boards. Barber “may well be the first popular American historian on any E large scale” (Foreword, Barber’s Views, x). On setting up shop in A New Haven in the 1820s, he became one of the most important R and prolific engravers of the early 19th-century. This work was L inspired by his travels through America “interviewing witnesses to Y local historical events and collecting data from books, newspapers, gravestones and other sources that he thought would yield useful 2 information on the nation’s past. He published his findings in 0 Historical Scenes in the United States and illustrated his text with 2 his own engravings of scenes of America’s early settlement… 0 Barber was largely self-educated and never claimed to be engaged in rigorous historical scholarship. His work, however, has been O valuable to historians, folklorists, and those engaged in American N studies. The sheer volume of engravings that he produced makes L him a unique figure in the mid-19th century, and the mass of I anecdotes that he collected on local levels has been fruitfully mined N by later scholars” (ANB). Barber was apprenticed to engraver Abner E Reed at 15, where he won praise as “‘especially skilled at historical and wood engraving’… He was one of the first artists to carry out a comprehensive visual survey of an entire state… Benson Lossing who came along a decade and a half later credits Barber with providing him with the inspiration to write illustrated histories and historical guidebooks” (Views, xii-xix). Early marginalia to versos of folding map and a few plate leaves not affecting map or engravings. Map, plates and text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, early archival repair to map verso, several expert paper repairs, one with light marginal loss to text leaf (13). An extremely good copy, very scarce in contemporary boards.

118 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A “There Was In John Brown A Complete Identification With The Oppressed” B M A E (BROWN, John) (EMERSON, Ralph Waldo) (DREW, Thomas). The John Brown Invasion. An Authentic U R History of the Harper’s Ferry Tragedy with Full Details of the Capture, Trial, and Execution of the M I Invaders, and All of the Incidents Connected Therewith. Boston, 1860. Octavo, contemporary half A C black morocco and marbled boards; original wrappers bound in. $2600. N A View on Website N R A First edition, issued within months of John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid, trial and execution, with early reportage, A trial testimony and his November 2 address to the court that put “slavery itself on trial,” featuring the first printing R of Emerson’s November 18 Speech at Boston’s Tremont Temple delivered two weeks before Brown’s execution, E containing engraved frontispiece portrait of Brown, in contemporary half morocco and marbled boards with original papers wrappers bound in. B O To African American historian Lerone Bennett, Jr., John Brown “was an elemental O force like wind, rain and fire… there was in John Brown a complete identification K with the oppressed.” Frederick Douglass, Brown’s trusted friend, once observed: S “If John Brown did not end the war on slavery, he did, at least, begin the war that ended slavery” (Reynolds, John Brown, 504, ix). This first edition of John • Brown Invasion, compiled by Thomas Drew, assembles in one volume a detailed contemporary chronicle of Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid that began on the night of October 16, and ended two days later when he was captured by soldiers under E the command of Robert E. Lee. The book features early reportage, interviews A with Brown, correspondence with family members and abolitionists such as R Lydia Maria Child, speeches by Wendell Phillips and other leading abolitionists, L and extensive coverage of Brown’s trial, along with the trials and executions of Y Shields Green, John Copeland (aka Copland), Edwin Coppic and John Cook. Historians have noted an especially key point in Brown’s trial, one that fundamentally 2 impacted the history of slavery and his legacy: “Brown had been compelled to endure 0 his trial in near silence. Virginia adhered to the so-called ‘interested party’ rule—as 2 did every state in 1859—which prohibited a criminal defendant from testifying in 0 his own behalf… That would change when he came before the court for sentencing. Judge Parker ordered Brown to stand before the bench on Wednesday morning, O November 2, while the clerk read the obligatory question. Did the defendant have N ‘anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him?’ Eloquently and L defiantly, Brown seized the moment.” In a brief address to the court, printed here, I Brown fundamentally took “control of the courtroom by… placing slavery itself on N trial. In less than half an hour, Brown had transformed himself from a murderer to a E martyr” (Lubet, Execution in Virginia, 6-7). This work is also highly notable in containing the first printing of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s November 18 Speech at Boston’s Tremont Temple, in which Emerson cites Brown’s November 2nd address, and praises him as a man who “believes in the Union of America, and he conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is slavery… Is this the kind of man the gallows is built for?” Historian David Reynolds has speculated: “What would have happened if Brown had not violently disrupted the racist juggernaut that was America?… It took nine decades of struggle for America to approach John Brown’s goal of civil rights for all ethnic minorities. Even today the goal is not fully realized. W.E.B. Du Bois’ startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, ‘John Brown was right’” (John Brown, 505-6). With engraved frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Whipple; with facsimile inscription below image. Preface by journalist and editor Thomas Drew signed and dated in print: “Boston, Dec. 21, 1839.” Bound-in original wrappers with “Price Twenty-Five Cents” on front wrapper; publisher’s advertisement on rear wrapper. Sabin 8518. BAL 5232. Interior very fresh with lightest scattered foxing, light edge-wear to boards and spine.

119 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Lovely, Large, Vibrantly Hand-Colored Lithograph Of A E The Third Day Of The Battle Of Gettysburg U R M I MAGNUS, Charles, engraver. Hand-colored lithograph: Battle of Gettysburg Pa., July 3rd 1863. New York, 1863. A C Broadside lithograph; image measures 19 by 12 inches, entire piece measures 17-1/2 by 23 inches. $2500. N A View on Website N R Original 1863 finely hand-colored lithograph depicting the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, 1863)—a splendid A A view of the battlefield in vibrant color. R After two days of fierce fighting in the largest land battle ever fought in North America, and what would prove to be the costliest battle of E the Civil War, the Union army formed a fishhook defensive line along Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill sought of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Having earlier attacked both ends of the Union line, Confederate General Robert E. Lee determined to attack the center of B the Union line where he thought it weak, along Cemetery Ridge. At 3:00 pm on July 3, more than 12,000 Confederate soldiers advanced O three-quarters of a mile across open ground toward the Union center. Nearly half of the attackers did not return to their own lines. Pickett’s O Charge became the “high-water mark of the Confederacy,” as the Confederate army never came as close again to achieving military victory. K The view in this lithographed print is from behind the Union lines, with advancing Confederates in the distance. In the center, a Union S officer, perhaps General George G. Meade, dispatches a messenger with orders, while a Union gun crew fires on the distant Confederates. Union reinforcements arrive from the right, bearing a tattered American flag. A few marginal closed tears, neatly mended. An excellent copy • of this vibrantly colored lithograph. E A R L Y

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120 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Handsome Large Calligraphic Portrait A E Lithograph Of Washington Created From U R M The Declaration Of Independence, With I A C Illustrated Vignettes Representing The Great N A Seals Of The 36 Post-Civil War States N R A WASHINGTON, George. Declaration of Independence. Iowa, A circa 1865. Large lithographic broadside, measuring 21 by 27- R 1/2 inches. $4800. E View on Website Original large calligraphic portrait lithograph of George Washington B O created from the text of the Declaration of Independence, with portions O of the text highlighted to create a portrait of Washington clearly visible K within the text, surrounded by the Great Seals of the 36 post-Civil War S states, designed by W.H. Pratt. “In this inventive version of the Declaration of Independence, a bust portrait • of George Washington appears within Thomas Jefferson’s immortal words. The Great Seal of the United States—featuring a bald eagle—sits above the E text, while 36 state seals—one for each state in 1865—appear to sprout from A an encircling vine. The designer of this lithograph, William Henry Pratt, also R created calligraphy portraits of George Washington within the Constitution L and Abraham Lincoln within the Emancipation Proclamation” (Mount Vernon Y Collections). Pratt was considered one of the leading practitioners of this art form and Pratt calligraphic portraits are highly collectible even today. This 2 lithograph can be dated to 1865-67, the brief period following the Civil War 0 in which the United States had 36 states (after Nevada’s 1864 admission to 2 the United States and prior to the addition of Nebraska). Faintest soiling, light 0 creasing, and some paper repairs. Extremely good. O N L I N E

121 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “Freemen Of The United A E States! Read, Mark, Weigh, U R M Resolve, And Vote!” I A C LINCOLN, Abraham. The Platforms. N A No place, after August 29, 1864. N Broadside printed in double R A A columns, measuring 8 by 10-1/4 R inches; p. 1. $3500. E View on Website First broadside side-by-side publication B of the Democratic and Republican O platforms for 1864 election year (Lincoln O K v. McClellan), clearly referencing slavery S as the cause of the Civil War. Shortly following the Democratic • Convention in Chicago, the Union Party (i.e. the Republic Party, temporarily renamed) E circulated this clearly pro-Republican A analysis of differences between the two R platforms—the main difference being that L “the Union Platform regards Slavery as the Y inciting, guilty cause of the Rebellion—the Democratic is silent in terms as to Slavery.” 2 Headed “Baltimore” and “Chicago,” the site 0 of the Republican and Democratic National 2 Conventions, the broadside sets the party 0 platforms against each other in double- column format. The Democrats had been O generally conciliatory toward the South and adopted a state’s rights platform. Indeed, N the party included many Copperheads, L who wanted to settle a peace treaty with I Confederates. By contrast, the Republican N Party was committed to the Emancipation E Proclamation, the preservation of the Union, and honoring Civil War veterans. “We are in favor,” the Republican Platform reads, “of an amendment to the Constitution, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of Slavery within the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States.” Faint browning along folds, Tiny chip to top corner, two small tape repairs to verso. Near-fine condition.

122 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B Complete M Lincoln’s A E Works, Edited By U R M Nicolay And Hay, I A C Handsomely Bound N A LINCOLN, Abraham. The N R A Complete Works. Harrogate, A Tennessee, 1926. Twelve R volumes. Octavo, original full E brown morocco gilt. $3800. View on Website B O Limited later “Sponsors’ Edition” of O the definitive edition of Lincoln’s K works, one of an unstated limitation, S illustrated with photogravures and facsimiles, including a frontispiece • portrait in each volume. Nicolay, Lincoln’s private E secretary, “enjoyed the full A intimate friendship of the R President… few men were as L close to Lincoln as Nicolay or Y so fully enjoyed his confidence” (DAB VII: 511). After serving 2 as Lincoln’s assistant and 0 confidant, Hay achieved literary 2 fame as the co-author of the 0 definitive biography of Lincoln, and for his skill in helping edit O Lincoln’s Complete Works (first N published beginning in 1894). L Lincoln Memorial University, I founded in 1897, produced N this edition in 1926 not only to E fund its endowment but also “to open a fountain of Lincolniana to which all true Americans will repair to refresh their faith in, and love and zeal for, American ideals and institutions.” The text is issued from the plates of the “New and Enlarged Edition,” which was first published in 1905. Fine condition.

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O N Pocket-Map Of The Comstock Lode, 1875 L LASALLE, E.B. Map of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, State of Nevada… compiled dollars!” (Don Bush). “The discovery of silver,” wrote contemporary journalist Dan De Quille, “undoubtedly I and drawn by Edw. B. Lasalle, Topog. Engineer. San Francisco, 1875. Original folding deserves to rank in merit above the discovery of the gold mines of California, as it gives value to a much N map measures 17-1/2 by 29-1/2 inches, framed with original green cloth binding. greater area of territory and furnishes employment to a much larger number of people.” The Comstock Lode E was yielding enough gold and high quality silver to draw the attention of President Lincoln, who needed cash $4800. to keep the Union solvent during the Civil War. On October 31, 1864 Lincoln made Nevada a state. After 1874, View on Website the mines are said to have declined. Yet the most profitable venture occurred at this time— the “Big Bonanza,” Pocket-sized folding map of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada, identifying existing claims by an enormous gold and silver ore body discovered beneath Virginia City. From the mid 1870s to 1882, two name and location, published around the time of the “Big Bonanza” discoveries. of the Bonanza Group’s adjacent mines produced $105 million worth of ore, over a third of the total $306 million taken out of the Comstock from 1859 to 1882. This wonderful lithographic map of the Comstock Lode The discovery of gold and silver in the western Utah Territory (now Nevada) in the 1850s proved to be one identifies each claim by the holder’s name. The front pastedown is a “List of Washoe Stocks Called in the San of the most significant sources of precious metals in American history. In 1850, gold was discovered by a Francisco and California Stock and Exchange Boards,” listing the number of shares and number of feet of each company of Mormon emigrants, in what is known as Gold Canyon. In 1857, more gold was found in Six-Mile claim. The map has handwritten notes across the section closest to Virginia City, noting the numbers from Canyon, which is about five miles north of Gold Canyon. Both of these canyons are on what is now known as the list near the respective claims. Contemporary owner signature to front pastedown. Light expert cleaning the Comstock Lode. “The biggest problem in this grubstake paradise was the sticky blue-gray mud that clung and restoration to map, the lightest soiling to fold lines still present. Beautifully framed. to picks and shovels. When the mud was assayed, it proved to be silver ore worth over $2,000 a ton— in 1859

124 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Standard Oil Trust A E Stock Certificate U R Belonging To John M I A C Huntington, The N A Famous Cleveland N R A Oil Magnate Whose A Business Was Sold To R John D. Rockefeller To E Help Form Standard B Oil, Signed By Standard O O Oil Co-Founders K John D. Rockefeller, S Henry M. Flagler, And • Jabez A. Bostwick

(ROCKEFELLER, John D.) E A STANDARD OIL TRUST. Stock R Certificate of Standard Oil L Trust signed. No. A57. New Y York, April 5, 1882. Single oblong folio leaf, measuring 2 15-1/2 by 8 inches, printed 0 and completed in manuscript. 2 $3900. 0 View on Website O Original stock certificate for 100 shares in Standard Oil Trust, issued in 1882 to oil tycoon John verso by the representative of Huntington’s’ estate. The original owner of this certificate, John Huntington, N Huntington, whose Cleveland oil refinery was purchased by Rockefeller to help in the formation was an oil magnate operating out of the Cleveland area. “With his business aptitude and inquisitive mind, L I of Standard Oil, signed by the president of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller, and his Standard John became interested in newly discovered oil reserves in Pennsylvania in 1859. He began searching for ways to refine crude oil, making furnaces and patent machines to manufacture oil barrels. John and his N Oil co-founders Henry Flagler and Jabez A. Bostwick. oil refining partners became the leading oil refining producer in the Cleveland area with 3,300 barrels a E Rockefeller and Flagler organized the Standard Oil Co. in 1870 and—as one of the first and largest day… His success in oil refinery and related inventions soon drew the attention of John D. Rockefeller. multinational corporations—gained a monopoly in the oil business. They organized the Standard Oil Trust Eventually, Rockefeller consolidated with Huntington and his partners Clark and Payne along with other in 1882; it was dissolved by court decree in 1892 following the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act. This oil firms to form Standard Oil Company. Eventually, Huntington sold his interest and received 500 shares stock certificate is a scarce, recently discovered variety printed in brown, black and white instead of green, in Standard Oil in 1870. His business capital eventually led John to purchase a fleet of Great Lakes vessels black and white. There is an engraved vignette of the U.S. Capitol building as on the green certificates, and also become the vice president of Cleveland Stone Company. In the years of John Huntington’s oil but the 100-share amount is elaborately engraved several times, rather than the share amount being refinery ventures, he was elected to Cleveland City Council twice to serve two terms from 1862 to 1874” entered in manuscript. The stub is still attached. This certificate was endorsed by John D. Rockefeller, (Cleveland Metroparks). Huntington used his wealth to become a prominent philanthropist; one of his H.M. Flagler, and Jabez A. Bostwick on April 5, 1882, the same day it was issued to John Huntington. It greatest contributions was 7/10 of the capital to build the Cleveland Museum of Art. About-fine condition. bears a cancellation stamp, an “X” through the Capitol engraving, and a transfer certificate on the verso evidently issued to the trustees of Huntington’s estate or J.D. Rockefeller in 1899 and is signed on the

125 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Early Edition Of A E Scoville’s The U R Old Merchants Of M I A C New York City, N A Handsomely Bound N R A [SCOVILLE, Joseph A.] BARRETT, A Walter. The Old Merchants R of New York City. New York, E 1885. Five volumes. Octavo, B 20th-century three-quarter navy O calf gilt. $2600. O View on Website K Early edition of this history of New S York commerce, handsomely bound by Blackwell. • Of Scoville’s “literary work, The Old E Merchants of New York City, giving in A a rambling, gossipy form the history of R the city’s commercial life, is perhaps L the most important” (DAB). A “brilliant Y and eccentric journalist,” Scoville, often writing under the names “Manhattan” or “Walter Barrett,” helped to lead the 2 New York Picayune and later the Pick, 0 both subtly humorous newspapers, 2 to greatness during his time as editor 0 for each (Mott, 179). He also wrote a number of works about New York O City life and institutions. However, N Scoville remains perhaps best known L for his Civil War era stint as a reporter I for both the London Herald and the N London Standard, when, drawing on E his friendship with John C. Calhoun, he wrote a series of scathing anti-Lincoln columns, for which he was ultimately censured by the administration. First published between 1863 and 1869. Interiors clean and bright, vertical crease to spine of Volume III, moderate wear and color restoration to bindings. A lovely set.

126 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “The Capstone Of Carnegie’s Life And Work” A E U R CARNEGIE, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy, Or Fifty Years’ March M I of the Republic. New York, 1891. Quarto, original gilt- and black- A C stamped red cloth, custom clamshell box. $3200. N A View on Website N R A Early edition of Carnegie’s defining work about American and British A relations and his vision of American democracy; “whoever would try to R understand Carnegie… must begin with Triumphant Democracy,” an E especially distinctive presentation/association copy boldly inscribed on the dedication page by him to the president of the College of Wooster, long held B in high esteem by Carnegie: “Professor Holden, With regards & best wishes O O of Andrew Carnegie, New York Mch 31 1892.” K “In 1886 America, steel was king, and Carnegie was steel. When Carnegie spoke, S people listened.” While he wrote essays on political issues, “he wrote only one book, Triumphant Democracy, in which he posed the American republic as a model for • remaking British political institutions… His theme was patent enough. In half a century, the United States had become the most productive and affluent nation in E the world… The theme was sounded clearly and blatantly on its cover, a resplendent A binding in red cloth, with figures stamped in brilliant gold… Triumphant Democracy R was the capstone of Carnegie’s life and work… Whoever would try to understand L Carnegie, in his many achievements and ideas, must begin with Triumphant Y Democracy” (Eisemstadt, Carnegie’s Model Republic, xi-2). Carnegie “would always consider Triumphant Democracy his magnum opus” (ANB). 2 This distinctive presentation/association copy of his seminal work has a fascinating 0 history. It is inscribed by Carnegie to Louis E. Holden, president of Ohio’s College 2 of Wooster. In December 1901, after the school’s Old Main was destroyed by 0 fire, Holden “sent out telegrams to several benefactors, including steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, pleading for money in support of the University’s effort to O stay alive.” In response, Holden “received a curious, but extremely generous proposal: if the College and town could raise $40,000 in 65 days, an unknown N benefactor would give $100,000 towards rebuilding efforts… By working L together, the College and town managed to meet the required deadline to acquire I the $100,000. This anonymous benefactor was not truly anonymous, because N Andrew Carnegie made the proposition to President Holden in person. However, E Holden was only allowed to reveal Carnegie’s role if Carnegie’s stipulations were achieved. Carnegie originally refused to give to a Christian college, because he was not a member of any church. Yet, even in his first meeting with Holden, Carnegie declared that if he ever gave money to a Christian college, it would go to Wooster, which eventually did come true in 1902” (College of Wooster). First published in 1886. With later owner inscription; small owner inkstamp to lower fore-edge. Inscription bold and clear, text fresh and bright, only faintest soiling to bright cloth. A handsome about-fine presentation copy.

127 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Vintage Photographic Portrait A E Inscribed By Theodore Roosevelt U R M I ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Photograph inscribed. No place, circa 1898. A C Oval photographic print (measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches); beautifully N A framed, entire piece measures 12 by 15 inches. $7500. N View on Website R A A Striking and large photographic portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt, R circa 1904, inscribed: “with regards of Theodore Roosevelt Feb 17th 1904.” E Beautifully framed. This dignified head-and-shoulders portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt was B taken at by the Pach Brothers in New York shortly after Roosevelt and his Rough O Riders returned to New York from their victories in Cuba during the Spanish- O American war; Roosevelt quickly became a candidate for governor of New York, to K which he was elected in November. In February 1904, Roosevelt was nearing the S end of his first term as President. On the reverse of this piece is a typed note on the letterhead of the Theodore Roosevelt Association dated 1979 explaining that on the • date of this inscription, “President Roosevelt was in Washington, where he attended the funeral services for Mark Hanna. He also had an appointment that day with E Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and another with General Joe Wheeler.” Hanna A was an extraordinarily influential Senator from Ohio and served as both an ally and R sometimes rival with Roosevelt in the Republican party; Hanna’s death on February L 15 assured that Roosevelt would have no serious challengers at the Republican Y convention in Chicago in June. Fine condition, wonderfully framed. 2 0 2 0

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128 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “A Masterpiece Of Journalism A E And An Unrelenting Indictment U R That Brought Down One Of M I A C History’s Greatest Tycoons” N A (ROCKEFELLER, John D.) TARBELL, Ida M. The History N R of the Standard Oil Company. New York, 1904. Two A A volumes. Octavo, original gilt-stamped red cloth. R $3000. E View on Website First edition of investigative journalist Tarbell’s definitive B O two-volume work on Standard Oil, featuring 32 pages of O illustrations including frontispiece portraits of Rockefeller, K a splendid copy. S Famed as the pioneer of investigative journalism, Tarbell was “one of the most influential muckrakers of the Gilded Age, • helping to usher in that age of political, economic and industrial reform known as the Progressive Era. ‘They had never played fair,’ E Tarbell wrote of Standard Oil, ‘and that ruined their greatness for A me’… Tarbell would redefine investigative journalism with a 19- R part series in McClure’s magazine, a masterpiece of journalism L and an unrelenting indictment that brought down one of Y history’s greatest tycoons and effectively broke up Standard Oil’s monopoly. By dint of what she termed ‘steady, painstaking work,’ 2 Tarbell unearthed damaging internal documents, supported by 0 interviews with employees, lawyers and—with the help of Mark 2 Twain—candid conversations with Standard Oil’s most powerful 0 senior executive at the time, Henry H. Rogers, which sealed the company’s fate” (Smithsonian). The New York Times rated O Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company number five in a N list of the top 100 works in 20th-century American journalism. L First edition, with “Published, November, 1904, N” on copyright I page. Containing 30 full-page illustrations, frontispiece in each volume; without rare dust jackets. Serialized in McClure’s N Magazine. Each volume with embossed owner inkstamp. Only E faint trace of rubbing to bright gilt-stamped cloth. A fine copy.

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129 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Inscribed By Felix Frankfurter A E (FRANKFURTER, Felix) HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Sketch U R M of the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Offprinted from: I A C Dictionary of American Biography, Volume XXI. New York, N A circa 1944. Quarto, staple-bound as issued, original cream N self-wrappers; pp. 12. $3500. R A View on Website A First offprint edition, presentation copy, of Felix Frankfurter’s R E biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., originally published in the Dictionary of American Biography, inscribed: “For my friend ——— B ———— with the esteem of Felix Frankfurter,” with laid-in typed O presentation slip reading “Compliments of Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” O Renowned Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter wrote this thoughtful K biography of his mentor and friend, fellow Supreme Court justice Oliver S Wendell Holmes, Jr.—offprinted here for the first time—for a supplement to the Dictionary of American Biography. Holmes was 71 when he was • first introduced to Frankfurter, then a bright, young lawyer assigned to the Bureau of Insular Affairs under Taft. The two were unlikely friends. Holmes E had grown up in privileged in Boston, surrounded by the New England literati A and the Transcendentalists, while Frankfurter was a Jewish immigrant who R had left Austria just as he entered his teenage years. Moreover, Holmes was L known for his cold, aristocratic personality, while Frankfurter was known for Y being off-putting and acerbic. Yet the two swiftly identified common ground in the law. Holmes was a proponent of a living Constitution and believed that 2 law was ever-evolving, but practiced a passive judicial philosophy marked 0 by restraint. Frankfurter was a pro-rights justice who nevertheless exhibited 2 a reluctance to overturn decisions—particularly involving the legislative and 0 executive branches—so long as they did not “shock the conscience.” He frequently cited Holmes in those opinions dealing with judicial restraint. O “Holmes has always been a difficult subject for biographers. He was a very N private man, and toward the end of his life he burned a good number of L his letters and implored friends to do the same. Eventually he agreed to let I Felix Frankfurter write a posthumous biography, which was then stymied N by Frankfurter’s appointment to the Supreme Court. (Holmes retired from E the court in 1932, at age 90, and died in 1935, just two days before his 94th birthday.) Frankfurter assigned the task to Mark DeWolfe Howe, one of Holmes’s former law clerks, whose father wrote a biography of Holmes’s father. But Howe never completed it; by the time of his own death in 1967, he had published only the first two volumes in a projected series, taking Holmes as far as 1882 and his appointment to the Massachusetts high court” (Nation). As a results, this is the only biography Felix Frankfurter ever wrote of his beloved mentor. It is a critical first-person source for any study of Frankfurter and Holmes. With laid-in typed presentation slip from Frankfurter. Light toning, tiny dampstain to bottom edge, a couple small tears to spine ends. A near-fine inscribed copy.

130 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M First Edition Of A E Taxation: The People’s U R M Business, 1924, I A C Inscribed By Financier N A And Powerful Secretary N R A Of The Treasury A Andrew Mellon R E MELLON, Andrew W. Taxation: The People’s Business. New B York, 1924. Octavo, original O maroon cloth. $2500. O View on Website K S First edition of the first and only book by Mellon, Secretary of the • Treasury to three presidents, famed in his time as “resident ‘financier E of the universe,’” inscribed by him A with his flourish: “To Hage B. Nilson R with compliments of A.W. Mellon.” L Y Appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1921, Mellon “was the most powerful 2 figure in three successive presidential cabinets” (ANB). Under Harding, 0 Coolidge and Hoover, he was “the 2 resident ‘financier of the universe’… 0 and in 1924 when he wrote Taxation, he had full presidential support. The O press dubbed his proposal the ‘Mellon N Plan’” (Folsom, Myth of the Robber L Barons, 111). Taxation, his only book, I was published in April 1924. It features N a number of his writings, “drawn E together by David Finley… its proposals were essentially those the secretary had sent to Congress the previous autumn. Mellon insisted the Treasury should be run ‘on business principles,’ and that federal taxation should be ‘the least burden to the people’ while yielding ‘the most revenue to the government’” (Cannadine, Mellon, xii). Without rarely found dust jacket. A fine inscribed copy.

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O “About 7:40 A.M. The Motor Was Started And At N 7:52 I Took Off On The Flight For Paris” L I LINDBERGH, Charles A. We. The Flier’s Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic Flight, together N with His Views on the Future of Aviation. New York and London, 1927. Large octavo, original three- E quarter vellum gilt. $4600. View on Website “Author’s Autograph Edition,” one of 1000 copies signed by Lindbergh along with “G.P. Putnam’s Sons” on the same page, featuring numerous photographs and illustrations. Lindbergh’s first autobiographical work recounts his education as an aviator, his early career, and the 1927 flight that made him famous. Issued along with 100 copies signed by Lindbergh and the publisher for presentation, no priority established. Without original publisher’s box and fragile glassine. Laid into this copy are the publisher’s original shipping label, a publisher’s pamphlet of press reports, and a publisher’s note that states that “though issued some weeks later than the popular edition, the Autograph edition consists of first impressions on Old Stratford Linen paper, from type not previously used,—the popular edition being printed from electrotypes taken from that type. The illustrations are from plates used for the first time.” Fine condition.

132 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M A E The First Post-Civil U R War U.S. Flag: 1865 36- M I A C Star American Parade N A Flag Commemorating N R A Nevada Statehood A (NEVADA). Thirty-six star printed U.S. R flag. No place, circa 1865. Printed E cotton flag measuring approximately B 27-1/2 by 19 inches, with five-point O stars arrayed in a six-star, six-row O phalanx pattern; top and bottom K stripes red, blue canton extends to S the seventh stripe and rests on the eighth [white] stripe. Handsomely • framed, entire piece measures 35-1/2 by 27 inches. $12,000. E A View on Website R 36-star printed American parade flag L commemorating Nevada statehood, the Y first flag to appear after the Civil War. “Although Nevada became a state while the 2 Civil War was in progress, its membership in the 0 Union was not officially recognized by Congress 2 until July 4, 1865, several months after the war 0 was over” (Druckman & Kohn, 56). Although not considered a Civil War flag, this flag O nevertheless contains elements of Civil War-era N flags: “The preference of Civil War flagmakers L was clearly for horizontal and vertical alignment I of stars; that is, complete parallelism of N rows…. The collective visual effect of Civil War E flags is, therefore, one of hypnotic rhythm— the embattled stars, drawn up in military order in defense of the threatened Union, stride was added for Nebraska; Andrew Johnson was the only president who the stars, which are never entirely regimented, as they are on modern on relentlessly. Star patterns of this sort, denser now and necessarily served under this flag. “The United States expanded rapidly during the flags. And truly no modern replica can either do justice to the artistic smaller, may be described as ‘phalanx’ or ‘battalion’ arrangements” second half of the 19th century as new states joined the union…. Until character, or render the ‘patina,’ of one of these antique flags” (Mastai (Mastai & Mastai, 123). “The thirty-six star flag… typically contained five 1912, no regulation governed the arrangement or uniformity of the & Mastai, 124). Parade flags generally were designed for one day’s use rows of stars. The first, third, and fifth rows held eight stars each; the stars” (Pierce Collection, 9). “While Civil War flags escaped much of the at a parade, political assembly, or rally; this flag was obviously flown for second and fourth rows had six each” (Leepson, 94). The flag offered mortal rigidity of mechanical mass production, their artistic merit was an extended period of time, causing the soiling seen at the fly end. Five here has the phalanx pattern in an unusual configuration of six rows of more particularly due to the delicate design relationship of the elements small holes to fly end where flag was mount to a pole. Nominal fraying six five-pointed stars each. This flag was official until 1867, when a star and to numerous subtle details—such as the directions of the arms of to edges. A beautifully framed Civil-War era flag.

133 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M A “The Best Known African E U R American Unit Of WWI” M I A (WORLD WAR I) LITTLE, Arthur W. From Harlem to the C N A Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. N New York, 1936. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. R A $1250. A View on Website R First edition of Colonel Little’s photo-illustrated history of the E pioneering WWI African American combat unit, famed as the B “Harlem Hellfighters,” signed by the author, a white officer of O the regiment, also with the inscription in an unidentified hand: O “This book is presented to Edward Goodell, at the suggestion K of ‘Trainee’ Arthur W. Little, Jr., 5th Co. Plattsburg 1940— S with the compliments of the author—September 12th 1940,” in scarce dust jacket. • Begun as a National Guard Infantry Regiment, “manned by black enlisted soldiers with both black and white officers, the 369th E Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the ‘Harlem Hellfighters,’ was A the best known African American unit of WWI… Spending over six R months in combat, perhaps the longest of any American unit in the L war, the 369th suffered approximately 1500 casualties” (BlackPast). Y In his slave narrative, “Frederick Douglass had likened his master to a snake; now a rattlesnake adorned the black veterans’ uniforms— 2 their insignia.” On coming home, they were welcomed with a parade 0 up Fifth Avenue. It was “the first opportunity the City of New York 2 had to greet a full regiment of returning doughboys, black or white” 0 (Gates, Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?). Here Col. Little, the white chief of Staff to Col. Hayward, the white commander, offers O the first complete story of Harlem Hellfighters, including training N in South Carolina where they faced violent racist attacks. In his L account of the NY parade, he writes that the people “did not give I us their welcome because ours was a regiment of colored soldiers. N They did not give us their welcome in spite of ours being a regiment E of colored soldiers. They greeted us that day from hearts filled with gratitude and with pride.” First edition, first printing: with no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page. Photographic endpapers of the NY parade from The Sun; containing frontispiece of Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, the “first American Privates in the Army of France to receive the Croix de Guerre,” with 30 full-page black-and-white photographic illustrations; regiment’s insignia of a rattlesnake on the front board. Faintest toning to spine of about-fine book; light edge-wear, mild creasing, small bit of tape reinforcement to verso of very good dust jacket.

134 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M Large Photographic A E Print Of The Signing U R Of The Documents Of M I A C Japanese Surrender N A Aboard The U.S.S. N Missouri R A , Inscribed And A Twice Signed By Admiral R Chester W. Nimitz E

NIMITZ, Chester W. Photograph B inscribed. Tokyo, September O 2, 1945. Black-and-white O photographic print, measuring K S 13-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches. $4800. View on Website • Large photographic print of Chester Nimitz signing the documents of E surrender on board the U.S.S. A Missouri at the end of World War II, R L inscribed: “To Colonel and Mrs. C.E. Y Childs—AFR with best wishes—C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, US Navy,” 2 additionally signed: “C.W. Nimitz, 0 U.S. Representative.” 2 This iconic black-and-white photographic 0 print on card stock shows Nimitz, who would later become Chief of Naval O Operations, signing on behalf of the United N States to accept the surrender of Japan on L September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay aboard the I U.S.S. Missouri. Sitting at the desk in profile, N Nimitz is shown surrounded by a large E group of high-ranking naval personnel, including General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman, and Vice Admiral John S. McCain Sr., grandfather to Senator John McCain III (the photograph was taken four days before the senior McCain’s death). In image at lower right corner: “The Japanese Surrender, U.S.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945.” A few very faint creases. About-fine condition.

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TRUMAN, Harry. Mr. Citizen. New York, 1960. Octavo, original gilt-stamped russet cloth, acetate, slipcase. $2000. View on Website Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by President Truman, with 32 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations, in publisher’s slipcase, a beautiful copy. Mr. Citizen contains President Truman’s essays and often revealing thoughts on the presidency and life after leaving office. Precedes the trade edition issued the same year. A fine copy.

136 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B M “I Have A Dream” A E U R (KING Jr., Martin Luther) (BENNETT Jr., Lerone) SAUNDERS, Doris, M I ed. The Day They Marched. Chicago, 1963. Tall octavo, original A C photographic wrappers. $1350. N A View on Website N R A First edition, first printing, issued within weeks of the March on Washington, A featuring one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s epic speech, R I Have a Dream, along with a lead essay by renowned African American E historian Lerone Bennett, Jr., and more than 100 photographic illustrations including images of Dr. King, Mahalia Jackson, Congressman John Lewis B and many more. O O The Day They Marched, published soon after the March on Washington, contains one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech, and also K features an eloquent essay by African American historian Lerone Bennett Jr., who long S argued that the “history of black people in the U.S. had been ignored or told only through a white filter.” A major editor for Jet and Ebony magazines, he is perhaps • best known for his book, Before the Mayflower (1962), which established him “as a leading scholarly voice during the racial ferment of the 1960s” (New York Times). E Here Bennett especially honors Dr. King’s iconic speech—recalling how his “words… A rhythms and the intonation… called back all the struggle and all the pain and all R the agony, and held for the possibility of triumph; they called back Emmett Till and L Medgar Evers and all the others; called back ropes and chains and Y bombs and screams in the night… When King finished, grown men and women wept unashamedly.” 2 The volume’s many photographic illustrations include full-page images 0 of Dr. King, Asa Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin; portraits of James 2 Farmer and Congressman John Lewis, then Chairman of the Student 0 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; images of Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks and many more civil O rights activists, along with moving images of the men and women who N traveled across America to make the March on Washington “the biggest L demonstration for civil rights in history.” Edited by noted African I American publisher Doris E. Saunders. In creating this record of the N momentous day, Johnson Publishing, which also issued Jet and Ebony E magazines, assembled a photographic team that included Moneta Sleet Jr., G. Marshall Wilson, Norman Hunter, Isaac Sutton, Maurice Sorrell, LeRoy Jeffries, Bertram Miles, and Charles Sanders, along with photographers Enrico Sarsini, Lawrence Henry and Ernest Goodman. The Day They Marched contains a color image on the wrappers, and over 100 black-and-white images within from their photographs. Also featured are printings of President Kennedy’s Statement on the March, a Marchers’ Pledge, the Marchers’ Goals and lyrics to the spiritual, We Shall Overcome. Text and images very fresh, only light edge-wear, faint rubbing to colorful wrappers. A handsome about-fine copy.

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“To Learn How A Wise Man Looks At The Law” O N REHNQUIST, William H. The Supreme Court. How It Was, How It Is. New York, 1987. Octavo, original half L red cloth, dust jacket. $2000. I View on Website N First edition of the first book by Chief Justice Rehnquist, inscribed: “To C. W— T— with best wishes. William H. Rehnquist.” E Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1971, and named chief justice by President Reagan in 1986, “Rehnquist had an extraordinary career, with many historic milestones. In 1999, he presided over Clinton’s impeachment trial from the presiding officer’s chair seat in the Senate, something only one other chief justice had done. A year later he was one of five Republican-nominated justices who voted to stop presidential ballot recounts in Florida, effectively deciding the election for Bush over Democrat Al Gore” (New York Times). In this, his first book, Rehnquist provides “a succinct and highly readable history of the Court from the time of John Marshall to the mid-20th century… among the cases highlighted are Marbury v. Madison… the pro- slavery Dred Scott decision; and the 1952 Steel Seizure case, one of the most important confrontations between the executive and judicial branches” (Publishers Weekly). “As President George W. Bush remarked at the Chief Justice’s funeral, ‘to work beside William Rehnquist was to learn how a wise man looks at the law and how a good man looks at life’… he was a lawyer’s lawyer with a clear- eyed appreciation for the obligations that came with his, and the court’s, role” (Richard Garnett). A fine copy.

139 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R “Outshines Almost Every A T Other English Children’s U Book Of The Period” M & A LAMB, Charles [and LAMB, Mary]. Tales N A from Shakespear. Designed for the R Use of Young Persons. London, 1807. R C Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century three- A H R quarter dark green morocco gilt, later I E T red morocco spine labels, custom half E morocco clamshell box. $4500. B C View on Website O T First edition, first issue, of the first version O U of Shakespeare prepared especially for K R S children, illustrated with 20 copperplate E engravings by William Blake after drawings • by Irish genre painter William Mulready. The Lambs’ Tales from Shakespear “belong to a E type of literature requiring gifts which are seldom A found in perfect proportion… It is not too much R to say that the collection forms one of the most L conspicuous landmarks in the history of the Y romantic movement. It is the first book which, appealing to a general audience and to a rising 2 generation, made Shakespeare a familiar and 0 popular author and, in doing so, asserted the 2 claims of the older literature which, to English 0 people at large, was little more than a name” (Rosenbach 37:385). In 1805, essayist Charles O Lamb met influential philosopher and children’s N book publisher William Godwin (the father of Mary L Shelley, author of Frankenstein), who convinced I Lamb to adapt the plots of Shakespeare’s tragedies N and comedies for young readers (particularly girls, E “because”—as the Lambs’ preface explains—“boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers’ libraries at a much earlier age than girls are…”). Charles drafted adaptations of the tragedies while his sister Mary wrote those of the comedies. The result, immediately popular upon publication, was “one of the most useful and agreeable companions to the understanding of Shakespeare which have ever been produced. The youthful reader who is about to taste the charms of our great bard is strongly recommended to prepare himself by first reading these elegant tales… Even those who are familiar with every line of the original will be delighted with the pleasing and compendious way in which the story of each play is here presented to them” (Allibone, 1049). “They are written in a clear, vigorous style… The literary quality of the Tales makes them outshine almost every other English children’s book of this period” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 515). First issue, with imprint on Vol. I, page 246 and Hanway Street address in Volume II advertisements. Rosenbach 37:385. Evidence of removal of dealer description from endpaper. Occasional light foxing, frontispiece plate tipped in, and a few leaves with minor marginal paper repair in Volume I, skillful repair to joints. A handsome copy, scarce and desirable.

140 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R “The Lasting Memorial A T Of Old St Paul’s” U M & DUGDALE, William. The History of A St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London. N A London, 1818. Large, thick folio R (10-1/2 by 16 inches), 19th- R C century three-quarter calf. $2400. A H View on Website R I E T Fine 19th-century folio edition E of Dugdale’s history of St. Paul’s B C Cathedral, with engraved frontispiece O T portrait and 68 folio engravings O U (nine double-page), including all of K R Hollar’s illustrations for the original S E 1658 edition re-engraved for this • “beautifully printed” edition. “With the destruction of the cathedral in E the great fire of 1666 Dugdale’s book A became the lasting memorial of old St R Paul’s” (ODNB). L Sir William Dugdale’s “love of antiquarian Y research” and scrupulous reliance on primary materials helped preserve 2 countless historical sources and resulted 0 in his recognition as a founder of modern 2 historiography. “An acquaintance drew 0 Dugdale’s attention to a collection of records relating to St Paul’s Cathedral. O Following this trail he was led to N Scriveners’ Hall, where he was lent ‘ten L porters’ burthens’ of charters and rolls I and other manuscripts ‘in bags and N hampers’—unsorted like many legal and E state documents at that time, and in mouldering neglect. With the spectacle close at hand of the great church slowly deteriorating from years of maltreatment and sacrilegious use, Dugdale rapidly compiled The History of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which was published in 1658. Not only did this book print the surviving documentary records of the cathedral, it also preserved the appearance of the building. Its Norman and Gothic details and the alterations made by Inigo Jones in the 1630s were recorded in extensive plates, once again prepared by Hollar, several of them based on drawings made by William Sedgwick in 1641. With the destruction of the cathedral in the great fire of 1666 Dugdale’s book became the lasting memorial of old St Paul’s” (ODNB). “This edition is beautifully printed in double columns, and the plates, the greater of which are executed by W. Finden, are faithful copies from the originals. It likewise contains some additional plates, illustrative of the present cathedral” (Lowndes). First published in 1658. Occasional marginal foxing. Plates generally clean and fine. Light expert restoration to binding. An exceptionally good copy. Scarce.

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2 “Monuments Of Intellectual Worth 0 2 And Glory”: With 60 Finely Engraved 0 Picturesque Views Of Italian Scenery O BATTY, Elizabeth Frances. Italian Scenery. London, 1820. Royal N octavo, contemporary full straight-grain black morocco gilt. $2000. L View on Website I First edition of this lovely volume of picturesque views throughout Italy, N with 60 fine engraved plates, engraved vignette title page and vignette E tailpiece, beautifully bound in contemporary morocco-gilt by Hering, with his binder’s ticket. “To have seen Italy is an advantage which may be ranked amongst the highest means of mental improvement, and is by many considered the necessary complement of a classical education… Italy has been the seat of empire, and still will continue to be the nursery of genius and repository of the fine arts; second only to Greece in interest, but surpassing it, perhaps, in magnificence and variety of scenery, every spot of her surface, every mountain, every rivulet, have been illustrated by the energies of the human mind, and are become monuments of intellectual worth and glory” (pp. 1-2). A lovely, delightfully illustrated volume in fine condition.

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O N L I With 12 Lovely Folio Chromolithographs Of Views In Northern France N E BRANDLING, Henry Charles. Views in the North of France [cover title]. London, 1848. Large folio (18-1/2 by 23 inches), original printed pictorial boards neatly rebacked. $4000. View on Website First edition of this collection of 12 lovely mounted chromolithographic views of cathedrals, estates, and towns in the north of France. Brandling, from a prominent family in Northumberland, was a member of the Royal Academy. Outside of this suite of prints, little else is known of his work. Originally issued loose in a portfolio, with two pages of subscribers and 12 pages of descriptive text, not present. Issued with the plates both uncolored and colored and mounted in a portfolio. Only 183 total copies were subscribed, making this colored issue certainly quite rare. Abbey, Travel 98. Some foxing to a few card mounts only, plates clean and fine. Corners bumped, a few scuffs to boards. An excellent copy of this lovely large folio work. Scarce and desirable.

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JAMESON, (Anna Brownell). Sacred and Legendary Art. WITH: Legends of the Monastic Orders. WITH: 2 Legends of the Madonna. WITH: History of Our Lord. London, 1865-1870. Six volumes uniformly bound. 0 2 Octavo, contemporary full crushed brown morocco gilt. $3200. 0 View on Website 1865-70 mixed edition set of the profusely illustrated six-volume history of sacred art by Anna Brownell Jameson, O splendidly bound by Riviere in ornately gilt full morocco. N Jameson’s major six-volume Sacred and Legendary Art series is “a storehouse of delightful knowledge, as admirable for accurate L research as for poetic and artistic feeling” (DNB). Her initial two-volume work in the series, Sacred and Legendary Art (1848), is I “the first systematic study of Christian iconography in the English language… Jameson discusses Christian symbolism without N arguing its supremacy through personal religious faith. Her dispassionate prose shows the detachment of the historian rather E than the polemicist or critic.” She followed this with Legends of Monastic Orders (1850) and Legends of the Madonna (1852). Toward the end of her life she began work on History of Our Lord but died before its completion. Her close friend Lady Eastlake completed and issued History posthumously in 1864. “Bernard Berenson ranked Jameson among the other 19th-century pioneers of art history including Luigi Lanzi, Karl Schnaase and Ruskin… Jameson represents the best 19th-century art writing without consultation of primary documents. Drawing upon Vasari’s Lives and Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei by Kugler, she fearlessly, if politely, debunked many myths of art and argued for a more direct public appreciation of art” (Sorenson, Dictionary of Art Historians). All volumes richly illustrated with full-page and in-text woodcuts and etchings, including frontispieces, many from original works of art by Raphael, Giotto, da Vinci and other great masters. Sixth edition of Sacred and Legendary Art; fourth edition each of Legends of Monastic Orders, Legends of the Madonna; second edition of History of Our Lord. Vols I & II of Sacred and Legendary Art partially serialized in Athenaeum (1845-46). Volume I with expert repairs to joints. A handsome about-fine set bound by Riviere in full morocco.

144 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R With 39 Folio Wood-Engravings By Gustave A T Doré: Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner U M & (DORÉ, Gustave) COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient A Mariner. New York, 1878. Folio (15 by 18-1/2 inches), original gilt- N A stamped pictorial blue cloth. $3600. R View on Website R C A Early American edition of Doré’s Coleridge, a handsome folio volume with 39 H R striking full-page folio wood-engravings, title page and two large engraved I E T vignettes by Doré, in original cloth. E “One can hardly deny that Doré is not merely one of the most popular but also one B C of the greatest of all illustrators… Perhaps Taine summed up Doré’s appeal most O T eloquently: ‘every imagination appeared languid in comparison with his. For energy, O U force, superabundance, originality, sparkle, and gloomy grandeur, I know only one K R equal to his— that of Tintoretto’” (Ray, 327-29). “In December 1875, Doré did a S E set of engravings that would make Coleridge’s poem famous. Few people today realize how much the popularity of that poem owed to the many Doré editions which • finally made it come to life” (Malan, 131). “Doré’s illustrations… immediately and marvelously invoke the eerie, magical, superstitious world which Coleridge created… E Waterspouts, foundering ships, dark looming figures seem to leap from Coleridge’s A poetic imagination to Doré’s wood blocks” (Anthony Burgess). First published in R London in 1876, Doré’s Mariner went through 30 editions up to 1902; this is the L third American edition. Malan, 261. Interior fine, a few minor rubs to corners and Y spine ends, cloth clean, gilt bright. Very nearly fine. 2 0 2 0

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“The Book Is Exceptional And… Much Sought” O BERTALL, Charles-Albert d’Arnoux. La Vigne. Voyage autour des Vins N L de France. Paris, 1878. Quarto, contemporary half brown morocco gilt. I $2200. N View on Website E First edition of this “physiological, anecdotal, historical, humorous, and scientific” survey of the wines of France, with more than 400 full-page and in-text wood-engraved illustrations by Bertall. A handsome copy. “Numerous anecdotes are given on the wines, the vineyardists, the proprietors, and tasters. The book is exceptional and, according to Vicaire, much sought” (Bitting). “Bertall made humorous designs for Parisian periodicals by the thousands; he drew many illustrations for popular editions in double columns; and he was also a major contributor to Balzac’s Oeuvres Completes and Le Diable a Paris” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 299). Bitting, 38. Interior clean, corners gently rounded. An excellent copy in handsome contemporary French binding.

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TURNER, J.M.W. The Turner Gallery. New York, 1880. Two volumes. O Folio, original full brown morocco gilt. $2500. N View on Website L I Later edition of this compilation and discussion of 120 fine steel engravings N by Turner, very handsomely bound in full publisher’s morocco-gilt. E “Turner raised landscape-painting to an elevation it had never before reached… He taught artists to look at Nature from his point of view” (James Dafforne). “Here we have no longer a second-rate version of a mere cosmopolitan art, but a school truly indigenous, both in its style and its technical means… Among the landscape etchers of the early 19th century [Turner is] the most distinguished artist of all” (Hind, 222, 242). “No landscape-painter has equaled Turner in range, in imagination, or sublimity” (Monkhouse). These volumes include full-page engravings of such masterpieces as “The Fighting Téméraire,” “Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps,” “Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus,” and “Rain, Steam, and Speed,” with descriptions by art historian W. Cosmo Monkhouse. First published in 1861. Plates and text fine, beautiful binding with just a hint of rubbing.

147 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R “A Remarkable Work”: A T U First Edition Of M & Vizetelly’s Copiously A Illustrated History Of N A R Champagne, 1882 R C VIZETELLY, Henry. A History of A H R Champagne with Notes on the I E T Other Sparkling Wines of France. E London, 1882. Quarto, recent B C green cloth with original cloth O T covers and spine panel neatly and O U expertly laid down. $2600. K R View on Website S E First edition of this history of champagne, • illustrated with lithographic frontispiece, five engraved plates, folding color E lithographic map of vineyards, and A hundreds of in-text engravings. R English journalist Vizetelly, “living in Paris L when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, Y was captured and only narrowly escaped execution. Following the war he took up 2 residence outside of Paris and ‘resumed 0 my studies of the more famous wines of 2 the world’” (Gabler, 291). His extensive 0 knowledge of wine earned him a role of wine juror at the Vienna and Paris wine O exhibitions in 1873 and 1878. A History N of Champagne is “a remarkable work that L traces the history of Champagne and its I wine over 1800 years… This is Vizetelly’s N best-known work. It is a revised and E considerably expanded edition of Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines [1879]. The text is strikingly illustrated with 350 engravings, including numerous illustrations from ancient manuscripts and 200 original sketches made under the author’s supervision” (Gabler G40330). Interior clean, gilt very bright. A most desirable, nicely restored copy.

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O Original Late 19th-Century Photographic Album Of Cathedrals N In The British Isles, With 116 Albumen Prints L I (PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM). Tourist photographic album of cathedrals in England, Scotland and Ireland. N No place, circa 1887. Folio, contemporary full white parchment gilt, dust jacket; 40 leaves. $3800. E View on Website Original late 19th-century photographic album containing 116 albumen prints depicting views of notable cathedrals in England, Scotland and Ireland, mounted on thick blue card, in a beautiful parchment-gilt binding by Giulio Giannini of Florence, Italy. Presumably compiled by a tourist, this album contains prints of such sites as Canterbury, St. Paul’s, Durham, Exeter, Westminster Abbey, Tintern Abbey, and others. Most prints measure 5-1/4 by 8 inches, placed two on a sheet, though one measures 7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches; each is titled in the print along the lower edge. With Giulio Giannini’s publicity card laid in. Owner ink signature dated 1887. Cloth dust wrapper with mild soiling; parchment-gilt album beautiful and fine.

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O “Well, The Cats And Dogs For Miles Around Have Bothered Mr. N Wain Till He’s Drawn Them Every Single One For Show!” L I WAIN, Louis. Big Dogs Little Dogs Cats and Kittens. London, Paris, and New York, 1902. Folio (10 by N 13-3/4 inches), original pictorial paper boards expertly respined in burgundy cloth. $1700. E View on Website First edition of this collection of humorous dialogues and snippets built around Wain’s beautiful and popular portrayals of dogs and cats (especially cats). “A collection of humorous pen and ink sketches and drawings in color of dogs and kittens, with an amusing introduction by [Louis] Wain” (The Delineator). Wain made his reputation as an illustrator of cats, with his cat-related books occupying several columns in the British Museum Catalogue. “His original treatment of cats, which he usually depicted as human beings in comical situations, quickly took the public fancy and by the ‘nineties his name had become a household word” (DNB). Wain spent the end of his life in a mental institution, suffering from a type of schizophrenia that many believe to have been caused by toxoplasmosis—a parasitic disease passed to humans by cats. Despite his illness, he never stopped drawing and he remains one of Britain’s most beloved animal illustrators. A few marginal finger smudges and usual faint toning to interior, wear to bright pictorial boards. An extremely good copy.

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O N L I The Modern Carpenter, Eight Volumes, Profusely Illustrated, N In Fine Publisher’s Arts And Crafts Style Bindings E

SUTCLIFFE, George Lister. The Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker. A Complete Guide to Current Practice. London, 1902-04. Eight volumes. Folio (10 by 13-1/2 inches), publisher’s dark green cloth. $1600. View on Website First edition, lavishly illustrated with 108 plates (most in color) and almost 1200 in-text illustrations. Sutcliffe (1863-1915), a practicing architect, was associated with Edwin Landseer Lutyens, some of whose Hampstead Garden designs he amended and carried out. Includes a section on the character and identification of various woods, with color plates illustrating different types of wood. Plates and text fine, lovely original cloth in exceptional condition with only most minor wear.

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2 0 “Attests To The Rich Contribution Of African Americans To A Storied Cuisine” 2 0 FOX, Minnie C., compiler, and COBURN, Alvin Langdon, photographer. The Blue Grass Cook Book. New York, 1904. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth. $1750. O View on Website N L First edition of Fox’s classic tribute to African American influence in America’s Southern kitchens, illustrated with a I full-page image of corn dodgers and biscuits, and 11 full-page photographic images of African American cooks by N acclaimed photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. E This landmark Kentucky cookbook from the turn of the 20th century represents the first time African American cooks were explicitly credited with their contributions to Southern cuisine. “Many of these [recipes] must be veritable heirlooms, precious souvenirs of the past, the originals of which were in faded ink, just as they were inscribed by loving hands of mothers and grandmothers” (contemporary review, New York Times). “This century-old treasure of Southern cooking attests to the rich contribution of African Americans to a storied cuisine. Its author, Minnie Fox, and her author brother, who wrote the introduction, were probably the first Southern whites ever to acknowledge the role of black culinary genius” (Sidney W. Mintz). Poised at a crucial turning point in the history of photography, representing the “transition from pictorialism to modernism, from 19th- to 20th-century photography,” the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn illuminates “the concern of the more advanced pictorialist with ‘modern’ subjects… a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger I:74). Cagle & Stafford 270. This copy notably contains a contemporary gift inscription dated “Dec 23, 1904,” along with three wonderful handwritten recipes at the rear for “Rolled Oats Bread,” Grandma’s Baked Flour Pudding” and a “Custard Souffle.” Interior very fresh, faintest rubbing to bright cloth. A lovely about-fine copy.

152 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R With Hundreds Of Striking Black-And-White A T Photographs Of Grand English Interiors U M & LATHAM, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture & Adornments of Some of A the Most Notable Houses of England. London and New York, 1907-09. Three volumes. Folio (11 by 16 N A inches), original gilt-stamped blue cloth. $1600. R View on Website R C A Mixed first and second edition, with H R hundreds of striking black-and- I E T white photographs—many folio- E sized—of the interiors of stately B C English homes. O T This work was intended as a sort of O U continuation or updating of Nash’s K R 1839 lithographic Mansions of England S E in the Olden Time: “In the years that have passed many things have become • possible which then were not dreamt of. Not only is there riper and better E knowledge, but photography, though A much abused, has come as the handmaid R of those who understand best what are L the beauties and the splendours of old Y English domestic interiors.” Volume I is second edition, published 3 years after 2 the 1904 first edition; the two other 0 volumes are first editions. Interiors 2 fine; ornate publisher’s cloth with 0 modest wear to spines, gilt bright. An impressive production. O N L I N E

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O Fairy N Deluxe Signed Limited Edition Of Rackham’s L Tales Of The Brothers Grimm, 1909 I N RACKHAM, Arthur. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. London, 1909. Quarto, original pictorial gilt- E stamped vellum, custom slipcase. $6500. View on Website Deluxe signed limited edition, one of 750 signed copies , of one of Rackham’s most famous works, with 40 mounted color plates and numerous black-and-white drawings by him. When first published in 1900, Rackham’s illustrated edition of the Grimm Brothers’ timeless fairy tales proved “immediately successful, and… marked the beginning of Rackham’s lasting fame. Two new editions were called for within 10 years,” in 1907 and the present, “best-known” edition in 1909 (Hudson, 46). The edition features additional, redrawn and re-colored illustrations, as well as enlarged pages. Rackham would later write, “In many ways I have more affection for the Grimm drawings than for other sets” (Hudson, 46). Interior clean, age-toning and soiling to vellum, as often, silk ties renewed. A very nice copy of this beautifully illustrated work.

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156 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R With Hand-Painted A T Miniature Of Kipling U M & Inset Into Front Cover A KIPLING, Rudyard. Collected N A Verse. London, 1912. Large R R octavo, contemporary full teal C A H morocco gilt, front cover inset with R I a Cosway-style miniature portrait of E T Kipling, custom slipcase. $4800. E View on Website B C O First English trade edition of Kipling’s T O collected verse, in an exquisite full U K R morocco-gilt Cosway-style binding S E with a hand-painted portrait of Kipling inset into the front cover behind glass, • handsomely executed by Bayntun. Celebrated author of classic poems such E as “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” “Recessional” A and “The White Man’s Burden,” Kipling R won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. L “The family and the Empire were the poles Y about which his genius turned” (DNB). Cosway bindings (named for renowned 2 19th-century English miniaturist Richard 0 Cosway) were first commissioned in 2 the early 1900s by London booksellers 0 Sotheran from the famous Rivière bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully O imitate Cosway’s detailed watercolor style N of portraiture. These delicate miniature L paintings, often on ivory, were set into I the covers or doublures of richly-tooled N bindings and protected by a thin pane E of glass. Cosway bindings executed by other than the original collaborators—still splendid productions—are designated as “Cosway-style” bindings. First published in New York in 1907; this English trade edition issued the same year as a limited large- paper edition of 500 copies on handmade paper and another limited large-paper edition of 100 copies on Japan vellum. A splendid volume in fine condition.

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2 0 2 0 Willy Pogány’s Illustrated Rubaiyat, With 16 Beautiful Color Plates, Exquisitely Bound In O Full Art Nouveau Pictorial Onlaid Morocco Gilt Depicting Eve In The Garden Of Eden N (POGÁNY, Willy) KHAYYÁM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, circa 1917. Octavo, contemporary full onlaid burgundy morocco gilt, L I custom cloth slipcase. $5700. N View on Website E Ballantyne Press edition of Pogány’s illustrated Rubaiyat, with 16 splendid mounted color plates, sumptuously bound in elaborately bordered full Art Nouveau- style inlaid morocco gilt depicting Eve in the Garden of Eden on one side and a snake winding around a chalice on the other. Omar Khayyám’s “brief verses vary in theme… from sophisticated satires on the unreasonableness of human passion to the passionate lyrics on the joys and sorrows of love and wine and on the wisdom of grasping pleasure while we can” (Hornstein, Percy & Brown 377). Hungarian-born Willy Pogány “specialized in gift book embellishment both before and after the First World War” (Harthan, 242). He first illustrated this 12th-century Persian poem in 1909. Fitzgerald’s translations (the first published in 1859, the fourth in 1879) “adapted the quatrains into a connected theme, skeptical of divine providence, mocking the transience of human grandeur, and concentrating on the pleasures of the fleeting moment,” producing in the process some of “the most frequently quoted lines in English poetry” (Drabble, 716). The Ballantyne Press was founded in 1799 by Sir Walter Scott’s schoolmate and long-time friend James Ballantyne. Ballantyne developed such a wide reputation for fine printing as to be commissioned by both the Vale Press and Ergany Press to print their books. Printed with calligraphic initial letters, tailpieces and decorative borders in green ink. Greer 21e. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

158 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A “Destined To B R A T Revolutionize U Architectural Thought” M & A WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, N A Plans, and Designs. New York, R 1963. Large folio (16 by 25- R C 1/2 inches), 100 loose plates in A H original publisher’s half black cloth R I portfolio. $4500. E T View on Website E B C First edition in English of Frank Lloyd O T Wright’s first major publication, one of O U 2600 copies—a grand portfolio of one K R hundred large folio plates of Wright’s S E earliest designs, including the Frederick • C. Robie house (1909), “the finest of the Prairie houses.” E The first period of Wright’s career “was A one of bold invention and public acclaim. R It reached its climax in 1910 with the L [German] publication of his architectural Y drawings in an extraordinary pair of portfolios.” The young architect had come to Europe in 1909, invited 2 by the German publisher Wasmuth and Professor Kuno 0 Francke for the purpose of a cultural and “artistic 2 interchange” (Sweeney, xv-xx). Buildings, Plans and 0 Designs remained for many years virtually unknown in America, because a fire in 1914 had destroyed, not O only Wright’s home at Taliesin, but also that portion of N the 1910 printing intended for American distribution. L Wright authorized the publication of this edition in I 1958, just a year before his death. Included are designs for 70 buildings and projects between 1893 and 1909, N including the W.H. Winslow house (1893), the Unity E Temple at Oak Park (1906) and the Frederick C. Robie house (1909), which “has generally been regarded as the finest of the Prairie Houses” (Roth, 463). “Entire schools of architectural design and thought were in many cases founded on individual buildings or ideas presented in this folio” (Sweeney). Despite Wright’s popularity and the number of intervening years, this American edition is preceded only by the German- language editions and an extremely scarce Japanese translation. Sweeney 87. Plates and portfolio fine. A beautiful copy of this superb production.

E A One Of Only 150 Copies R With Wonderful Original L Y Color Lithograph By Fellini, Signed By Him 2 0 FELLINI, Federico. I Clowns. A cura di 2 Renzo Renzi. Foto a colori di Franco 0 Pinna. Bologna, 1970. Quarto, original beige cloth. $6800. O View on Website N L Limited first edition of this richly illustrated companion to Fellini’s film I I Clowns, one of only 150 copies issued with an original color lithograph of a N clown by Fellini, numbered and signed by him. E “Throughout his career Federico Fellini focused on his personal vision of society” to craft films of “dazzling inventiveness and skill” (New York Times). Fellini explored his childhood obsession with circus clowns in I Clowns [The Clowns], a groundbreaking “fictional documentary.” He originally made I Clowns for Italian TV station RAI, though it was released simultaneously in movie theaters. Presented as a documentary, the movie incorporates fictional elements as well. Richly illustrated throughout in black and white and in color, this collection of articles and essays on the history and craft of clowns features 64 pages of color photographs. Without original dust jacket. Text in Italian. Tiny, faint dampstain to lower corner of lithograph margin; image clean and fine, signature bold. Interior fine, mild discoloration to original cloth. A near- fine copy, scarce and desirable with the original lithograph signed by Fellini.

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2 0 2 0 Inscribed And Signed By Warhol, With His Original O Sketch Of A Campbell’s Soup Can N WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York L I and London, 1975. Octavo, original half orange cloth, dust jacket. $4500. N View on Website E First edition, first printing, inscribed and signed by Andy Warhol, with an original full-page sketch of a soup can labeled “Campbell’s Tomato Soup” by him. The father of pop-art waxes philosophic about art (“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need”), beauty (“Beautiful people are more prone to keep you waiting than plain people are…”) and success (“Think rich. Look poor”). With bookplate of the recipient. Laid-in card (4-1/4 by 6-1/4 inches) from Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, addressed in print to noted artist Rita Yokoi, postmarked “Los Angeles Sept 13’ 75”: containing printed notification: “Andy Warhol will be present to autograph copies… on Friday, September 19.” Small clipping of a portrait of Warhol affixed to rear pastedown. A fine copy.

161 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R A T “The Search For U Greatness Of Spirit” M & (Yousuf Karsh) A N A KARSH, Yousuf. Healers of R Our Age. Photography and R C Commentary. Boston, 1976. A H Folio (13-1/2 by 18 inches), R I E eight-page booklet and 12 T vintage gelatin silver prints, E B C loose as issued, clamshell box. O T $1850. O U View on Website K R Signed limited first edition of this S E folio collection of stellar portraiture • by Karsh, one of only 590 copies, inscribed: “To: Catherine G. Curran E with the best wishes of Yousef Karsh A 1980,” with 12 vintage gelatin silver R prints of portraiture by Karsh, L featuring eminent figures such as Y Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung and Helen Keller. 2 0 Renowned photographer and portraitist 2 Yousuf Karsh once wrote that his lifelong “fascination with 0 scientists may well stem from my original desire to be a physician. Therefore, it has been especially meaningful to me O to portray those men and women who are devoted to the art of healing” (Karsh, 140). This exceptional signed limited folio N first edition brings together 12 vintage gelatin silver prints of L leading physicians, scientists and healers “of the spirit”—an I assemblage of exhibition-size prints that features some of N Karsh’s finest work, including his portraits of Einstein, Helen E Keller, Albert Schweitzer, Jung, Sir Alexander Fleming and others. See Karsh 144-145. Inscribed to Catherine G. Curran, an active New York patron of the arts, including ballet and photography. Original clamshell box with minor splits at spine foot, slight soiling, light rubbing to spine and corners. Prints and text booklet fine.

E A R L Deluxe Signed Limited First Edition Of The Y Art Institute Of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces , 2 One Of Only 100 Copies Inscribed By Marc 0 Chagall And Signed By Willem De Kooning, Ivan 2 0 Albright, Joan Miró And Georgia O’Keeffe O FELDSTEIN, Janice J., editor. The Art Institute of Chicago. 100 N Masterpieces. Chicago, Illinois, 1978. Folio (10-1/2 by 14 inches), L original burgundy morocco, full morocco clamshell box. $6500. I View on Website N Deluxe signed limited first edition of this work celebrating the first 100 years E at the Art Institute and its 100 most beloved masterpieces, one of only 100 copies signed by Ivan Albright, Marc Chagall (actually inscribed: “Pour Art Inst. Chicago Marc Chagall 1979”), Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, and Georgia O’Keeffe, strikingly illustrated with 100 color folio reproductions of the Art Institute’s finest works, beautifully bound in full padded morocco and in publisher’s morocco-gilt clamshell box. This deluxe limited edition celebrates the 100th anniversary of Chicago’s Art Institute in grand style, with 100 color folio reproductions of the finest works from its collection and the signatures of five of the 20th century’s most beloved artists. Printed and bound by RR Donnelley & Sons’ Lakeside Press. Bound in very fine dark red Morocco leather with beautiful gold gilt on the page edges. In beautiful very fine condition. The book measures 10.5” x 14.” In addition to the valuable signature pages, this large book contains beautiful color reproductions of 100 of the most magnificent art treasures that the Art Institute of Chicago holds in trust, including paintings by the artists who signed the book. A fine copy of a rare work, most desirable with the signatures of five of the 20th century’s great artists.

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164 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R “The Most Important A T Landscape U M & Photographer Of The A 20th Century”: Ansel N A Adams’ Outstanding R R C Three-Volume Series: A H The Camera, The R I Negative The Print E T , And , E Each Signed By Him B C O ADAMS, Ansel, and BAKER, Robert. T O U The Camera. WITH: The Negative. K R WITH: The Print. Boston, 1982, S E 1983, 1983. Together, three volumes. Large octavo, original • black cloth, dust jackets. $2400. View on Website E A First and early printings of the New R Ansel Adams Photography Series, L each volume boldly signed by Ansel Y Adams, this three-volume series profusely illustrated with hundreds 2 of examples of his own work. 0 2 Adams, who died in in 1984, remains 0 “the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century” (John Szarkowski in Encyclopedia Britannica). His influence “on photography is immeasurable, and his long career as O photographer, teacher, conservationist and writer is legendary” (International Center of Photography). “Adams combined N a passion for natural landscape, meticulous craftsmanship as a printmaker and a missionary’s zeal for his medium… L Like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adams experienced a heightened spirituality in the wilderness that spoke to a longing I for the beauties, peace and spectacle of untrammeled nature… He was 14 when he first visited Yosemite. He quickly N took his Kodak into that stupendous valley and was so moved by the experience that it changed his life… In addition E to being acclaimed for his dramatic landscapes of the American West, he was held in esteem for his contributions to photographic technology and to the recognition of photography as an art form” (New York Times). In this exceptional series Adams explains and illustrates his philosophy and technique of “visualization”—imagining the final photograph in advance—as it relates to the entire process of crafting a black-and-white image. These three volumes were originally published as Adams’ 1948 ‘Basic Photo Series’ (The Camera was originally issued as The Camera and the Lens); these new revised editions “contain a wealth of new information, and all the volumes [have been] completely reorganized and rewritten.” New advances in photographic technology, such as the 35mm and medium- format cameras and the growing popularity of the hand-held camera, have also been incorporated into this new edition. The Camera is a first edition, third printing, originally published in 1980; The Negative is a first edition, third printing, originally published in 1981; The Print is a first edition, first printing. A fine signed set.

165 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) A B R You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown!, A T U Warmly Inscribed By Schulz M & SCHULZ, Charles M. You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown! New York, A 1985. Quarto, original pictorial paper wrappers. $1350. N A View on Website R R C First edition, paperback issue, of this collection of autobiographical A H reminiscences, many of which inspired certain of the Peanuts comic strips, R I warmly inscribed: “For Dorothea with best wishes—Charles M. Schulz.” E T Issued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Peanuts, this commemorative work E features numerous comic strips, accompanied by Schultz’ recollections, most of B C which served as inspiration for one or another episode. Published simultaneously O T with the hardbound issue. A fine inscribed copy. O U K R S E •

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O N L I “Siskind Could Be Said To Represent The Abstract Strain Of 1950s Art And Photography” (Parr & Badger) N E SISKIND, Aaron. Homage to Franz Kline. Six Photogravures. Pepperell, Massachusetts, were his friends. As a result, his work is often compared to Abstract Expressionism, and especially to the 1989. Large folio (23 by 28 inches), original gray cloth portfolio box. $6000. paintings of Franz Kline. But Siskind was not an imitator of the New York School of painting; he could View on Website be said to have influenced Kline as much as Kline influenced him. In addition, his pictures have both the traditional descriptiveness of conventional photographs and a graphic, metaphoric emotional power” (New Signed limited first edition, one of only 40 portfolios issued (total of 54 copies including four York Times). Siskind first considered an homage to Kline while traveling across Mexico in the early 60s and artist’s proofs), with six striking exhibition-size photogravures printed from the original negatives began work on the Homage after Kline’s death. Here Siskind’s bold images, each titled with the place and in tribute to Siskind’s close friend Franz Kline, each plate loose as issued and signed below the time in which they were shot, seem as if in a dialogue with Kline’s work. “In a nutshell, Siskind could be image by Siskind. said to represent the abstract strain of 1950s American art and photography” (Parr & Badger I:250). The plates (images measuring 14-3/4 by 14-3/4 inches) were printed from the original negatives by Paul Taylor When pre-eminent photographer Aaron Siskind “discovered the power of abstraction in the early ‘40s… he on Rives BFK: containing “Jalapa 23, 1974,” “Rome 67, 1973,” “Rome 69, 1973,” “Lima 55, 1975,” Lima 89, was doing what photography does: pushing the medium forward” (Roth, 152). “His allegiance to the flat 1875” and “Lima 101, 1975.” Plates fresh and clean; only lightest rubbing to portfolio. A fine copy. Scarce. plane of the picture surface was shared by the Abstract Expressionist painters of the time, many of whom

168 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) S B C A I U E M “They Appear Like Round Balls Of Fire, Or N A C Globes Of Red Hot Iron”: First And Only Separate N E Printing Of Clap’s Work On Meteors, 1781 R & CLAP, Thomas. Conjectures Upon the Nature and Motion of A Meteors, Which Are Above the Atmosphere. Norwich, 1781. Slim R M quarto, disbound, original self-wrappers. $2750. E E View on Website D B I First and only separate publication of the first American work devoted O C solely to the subject of meteors, by Yale’s Thomas Clap—“the colonies’ most O I serious student of meteors,” scarce in original wrappers. K N This pioneering early American work on meteors, the first American work singly S E devoted to the subject, was authored by Thomas Clap, who served over 26 years as both rector and president of Yale (1740-66), and is considered a “‘founding • father’ of American science” (Tucker, ISIS). As “the colonies’ most serious student of meteors, Clap’s interest appears to have been aroused by the meteor of E 1742.” In April 1759 he tracked the course of Halley’s comet, and in the 1750s A developed a theory that meteors shared several characteristics with comets such R that they could orbit the earth at a close distance without ever crashing into it. L His Conjectures upon…Meteors initially circulated privately “among his colonial Y correspondents in 1756. Later he sent it (March 1, 1763) to Dr. John Pringle, who was himself something of an authority on meteors, and Pringle presented it to the 2 Royal Society… at meetings of the Society held on June 7, 21 and July 5, 1764” 0 (Stearns, Science in the British Colonies of America, 542). This exceptional edition 2 is the first and only separate publication, published 15 years after Clap’s death. 0 With illustrated diagram on rear leaf showing Clap’s theory of a meteor’s orbit. Several leaves detached and mild dampstaining. A scarce, extremely good copy of O a valuable early contribution to American science. N L I N “A rigorously empirical work that E attempts to describe and explain the full range of physical phenomena associated with meteors.”—Dictionary of Early American Philosophers

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O N L I The First Biography Of Darwin N E DARWIN, Charles. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Edited by his Son, Francis Darwin. London, 1888. Three volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter polished dark green morocco gilt. $1500. View on Website Early printing of “the first published version of Darwin’s autobiography… the first and basic life of Darwin” (Freeman), with three wood-engraved frontispiece portraits, handsomely bound by Hatchards. Based on Darwin’s autobiography, which was written for his children, and, according to his son, never intended for publication. Francis edited this “to avoid giving offence to his widow” (Freeman). The first edition of The Life and Letters was published in 1887 and the work went through five printings in little more than a year, each version being slightly corrected. Freeman 1457. Fine condition, a lovely set.

E A R L Y “Second Only To The Interpretation Of Dreams In Its Importance To Freudian Theory” 2 0 FREUD, Sigmund. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory. New York, 1910. Octavo, modern green 2 morocco gilt. $3500. 0 View on Website O First edition in English of Freud’s essays on infantile sexuality and human psychosexual development. Leading N psychoanalytic psychiatrist and American Imago editor George Wilbur’s copy, with his contemporary owner signature. L Three Contributions is “second only to the Interpretation of Dreams in its importance to Freudian theory. The work sets forth Freud’s I theory of infantile sexuality and psychosexual development, in which he postulated the existence of infantile erogenous zones, stated N that an infant’s first sexual objects are its parents, and described the four stages of human sexual development: oral, anal, phallic E and genital. That infants and children experience sexual feelings had long been observed by parents and nursemaids, yet the analysis of this delicate subject in a scientific treatise centered Freud in a storm of criticism that has not yet fully abated” (Norman F55). The essays include “The Sexual Aberrations,” “Infantile Sexuality,” and “The Transformations of Puberty.” First published in German in 1905; this authorized translation is by A.A. Brill, one of the pioneers in introducing Freud to America. Published as the seventh item in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph series. Grinstein 79. The copy of George Wilbur, with his contemporary title page owner signature. Wilbur was a prominent Harvard-trained psychoanalytic psychiatrist and a follower of Freud. He saw Otto Rank as a patient and is frequently associated with him. He was the editor (after Hanns Sachs’ death) of American Imago, the leading scholarly journal on psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud in collaboration with Viennese analysts Otto Rank and Hanns Sachs. Accordingly, he was also regarded as a reliable source of information on the trio as well as on the reception of psychoanalysis in the Boston area and greater Massachusetts. Marginal handwritten annotations questioning and clarifying the text in at least two unidentified hands. Faint pinpoint foxing and marginal dampstaining to interior. An extremely good copy with a fascinating provenance.

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172 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) S B C “To Alleviate Many Future Trips To Caputh And A I To My Sailboat And To Me”: Autograph Letter U E M N Signed “A.E.” By Einstein To His Mistress In 1932 A C EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed “A.E.” Berlin, Germany, May N E 24, 1932. Two leaves (3-1/4 by 6-1/2 inches; 2-1/2 by 1-3/4 inches) of R ivory paper; each penned on recto; framed, measures 16 by 14-1/2 inches. & A $5200. R M View on Website E E Autograph letter signed “A.E.” by Albert Einstein to his mistress Ethel E. D Michanowski. The letter, in German, dated “24. V 32,” reads, in translation: B I “Dear Micha! Many regards upon my return! This to alleviate many future O C trips to Caputh and to my sailboat and to me. Yours, A.E.” On a smaller O I K accompanying leaf he has penned a verse in Italian: “Il rispettuoso ‘Lei’ e N S E scelto per ochi stranieri,” or “The respectful ‘She’ is chosen for foreign eyes.” Albert Einstein was married twice, but carried on a series of affairs with other women • during both marriages, including with his second wife during his first marriage. This brief note to one of his mistresses illuminates this often overlooked aspect of the E great scientist’s life. Einstein built a summer house in 1929 in Caputh, a small village A in Brandenburg, Germany, 20 miles southwest of Berlin. He liked to sail on the nearby R lakes, including the Templiner See and the Schwielowsee. In the summer of 1929, in L honor of his 50th birthday, banker friends gave Einstein a 23-foot sailing boat named Y Tümmler (German for Porpoise). According to a letter written a few months later by his wife Elsa to his sister Maja, “Our ship is magnificent; Albert has his own landing stage at 2 the garden, he enjoys this sailing happiness very intensively.” In an interview still later 0 in 1929, Einstein observed that “the only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my 2 work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.” During his 0 summers at Caputh, Einstein carried on affairs with both Ethel Michanowski of Berlin and Margarete Lebach of Austria. His wife Elsa Einstein, who had been his mistress O during his first marriage, tolerated his behavior. When Lebach arrived at Caputh, Elsa N Einstein would leave for a shopping trip in Berlin. L As a theoretical physicist, Einstein published ground-breaking papers as early as 1905 I and developed the theory of relativity including the mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc^2. In 1922, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the N discovery of the photoelectric effect. In January 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, Einstein was visiting the United States and remained here, becoming E a citizen in 1940. A year earlier, he signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Germany could develop a nuclear bomb, and urging the U.S. to become involved in uranium research, thus beginning the “Manhattan project.” Though he focused on the need to defeat Hitler during the war, afterwards he became known for efforts to further world peace. At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., from 1933 until his death in 1955, he worked unsuccessfully to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics. Considered the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects of history, Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers and over 150 non-scientific works. The recipient, Ethel E. Michanowski/Michanowsky (b. 1896), was born in Nowosibkow, Ukraine. She was an artist, a Berlin socialite, and a friend of Einstein’s second wife Elsa Einstein and of his stepdaughter Ilse Einstein. Michanowski was involved romantically with Einstein in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when she lived in Berlin. When he lectured at Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1931, Michanowski followed him there from Berlin, much to Einstein’s embarrassment. Michanowski emigrated from Portugal to the United States in October 1940 aboard the SS Exochorda and was detained at Ellis Island for several weeks as a “Stateless Hebrew.” In October 1946, she again entered the United States from Canada at Niagara, and at that time, her son, journalist and archaeologist George Michanowsky (1920-1993), lived in New York City. Text in German and Italian. Faint fold line. Fine condition.

E A R L First Edition Of The Wolves Of North America, One Of 100 Copies Specially Y Bound In Buffalo Hide, 1944, Inscribed By Stanley P. Young To Famous 2 Government Architect And Landscape Designer Horace Peaslee 0 2 YOUNG, Stanley P. and GOLDMAN, Edward A. The Wolves of North America. Washington, 1944. Octavo, original three- 0 quarter buffalo. $1850. View on Website O Limited first edition of this comprehensive mid-century work on American wolves, delving into classification, history, and pack N L behavior, one of only 100 copies specially bound in buffalo-gilt, richly illustrated with dozens of color illustrated plates and I photographic plates of wolves in nature, inscribed by one of the authors to a famous civic architect and landscape designer: “To my N friend and fellow ‘rose-grower’ with very good wish—Horace W. Peaslee from Stanley P. Young. Washington, D.C. Feb. 6th, 1953.” E The Wolves of North America is divided into two parts: Part I, entitled “[Wolves] Their History, Life Habits, Economic Status, and Control,” was written by Stanley Young of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, while Part II, “Classification of Wolves,” was written by his co-author, Edward Goldman of the Division of Wildlife Research at the Department of the Interior. “The book is notable, not only as the outstanding contemporary treatise on an outstanding animal, but as a mirror which reflects the thought of our generation on a wide gamut of conservation problems… Viewed as a history, the work is a masterly job. It assembles an exhaustive array of interesting quotations on the age-old rivalry between men and wolves as predators on the world’s livestock and big-game herds… Viewed as literature, this book has much to commend it. Its style is simple, direct, sometimes fluent, never burdened with that curse of modern biology: ‘scientific’ English” (Leopold, 320-22). The binding of this volume is exceptional; this is one of only 100 copies bound in buffalo-gilt. A slip, tipped onto the front free endpaper, reads: “The binding of this volume is of buffalo leather from buffalo killed in southwestern Oklahoma. It is all hand-tooled, the work of one of our few remaining Pennsylvania Dutch book binders. But one hundred copies of this monograph was [sic] made up at the time of its initial printing, the remainder were bound in morroco [sic]. The latter has been sold throughout all of North America, and is also now to be found in many of the libraries in Europe, Asia, and the Far East.” This copy is inscribed to Horace W. Peaslee, an architect and landscape designer who designed Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C., the Korean and Peruvian embassies in Washington, and the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. Peaslee was also an occasional government official, serving as secretary of the Central Housing Commission from 1935 to 1943 and architect for the Public Buildings Administration from 1938 to 1942. Interior generally quite clean, only light rubbing to buffalo binding, gilt quite bright. A near-fine inscribed copy with interesting provenance.

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2 0 2 0 “One Of The Major Scientific Contributions Of The First Half Of The 20th Century” O N NEUMANN, John von and MORGENSTERN, Oskar. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton, “An important viewpoint in L 1944. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $4800. I View on Website classifying games is this: Is the N First edition of the groundbreaking treatise on game theory, highly influential in business, economics and the social sciences. E “One of the major scientific contributions of the first half of the 20th century” (Goldstine & Wigner). “Had it merely called to our sum of all payments received by attention the existence and exact nature of certain fundamental gaps in economic theory, the Theory of Games and Economic Behavior… would have been a book of outstanding importance. But it does more than that. It is essentially constructive: where existing theory is considered to be inadequate, the authors put in its place a highly novel analytical apparatus designed to cope all players… always zero; or is with the problem. It would be doing the authors an injustice to say that theirs is a contribution to economics only. The scope of the book is much broader. The techniques applied by the authors in tackling economic problems are of sufficient generality to be this not the case?” valid in political science, sociology, or even military strategy. The applicability to games proper (chess and poker) is obvious from the title. Moreover, the book is of considerable interest from a purely mathematical point of view… The appearance of a book of the caliber of the Theory of Games is indeed a rare event” (World of Mathematics II:1267-84). With scarce corrigenda slip laid in. Without scarce dust jacket. Interior fine, light rubbing to spine ends, cloth clean. A near-fine copy.

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2 0 2 0 “The Undisputed Father Of Modern Rocketry”: Rockets O Robert H. Goddard’s , 1946 N GODDARD, Robert H. Rockets: Comprising “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes” and “Liquid- L Propellant Rocket Development.” New York, 1946. Tall octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1850. I N View on Website E First edition in book form of Goddard’s two seminal papers on rocket fuel, proposing that liquid-fueled rocket propulsion could be used to attain escape velocity and thereby land a projectile on the moon. With portrait frontispiece and numerous photographic plates. “Goddard became posthumously world-famous as one of three scientific pioneers of rocketry… He worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently; and then almost alone he designed, built, tested, and flew the first liquid-fuel rocket on 16 March 1926… His earlier publication in 1919 of A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes… laid the foundation from which team workers could launch men to the moon” (DSB). This is the first combined printing of the two famous reports “on which all modern jet propulsion and rocket engineering are based,” first published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Documented with numerous photographs showing launch apparatuses and tracking equipment. Book with only stray red pen mark to endpaper, dust jacket with slight rubbing and soiling and a bit of toning to extremities. A near-fine copy.

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“The Most Important [Paper] On Relativity Since My Own Original Paper Appeared” (Einstein) O N GODEL, Kurt. “An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations of Gravitation.” IN: Reviews of Modern L Physics, Volume 21, Number 3, pp. 447-50. Lancaster, Pennsylvania and New York, New York, July, 1949. Octavo, original orange paper wrappers. I $4200. N View on Website E First printing of Godel’s groundbreaking work on relativity introducing the possibility of time travel. The copy of Clair Farrand, the inventor and creator of the cone radio loudspeaker, and of Morton Saunders, developer of the first fiber optic cable. “In [the offered paper] Gödel presented a rotating solution that was not expanding but was the same at all points of space and time. This solution was the first to be discovered that had the curious property that in it was possible to travel into the past. This leads to the paradoxes such as ‘What happens if you go back and kill your father when he was a baby?’ It is generally agreed that this cannot happen in a solution that represents our universe, but Gödel was the first to show that it was not forbidden by the Einstein equations. His solution generated a lot of discussion of the relation between general relativity and the concept of causality” (Stephen Hawking, Gödel’s Collected Works). This issue of Reviews of Modern Physics—a celebration of Einstein on his 70th birthday—also includes articles by many of the 20th century’s most distinguished scientists including Richard Feynman, Max Born, and over two dozen others. Front wrapper owner signature of Morton J. Saunders, the Atlanta Bell Labs scientist who helped to develop the first fiber optic cable. Owner stamps of Clair “C.L.” Farrand (on front wrapper and first and final pages), who invented the cone radio loudspeaker and held hundreds of additional patents. Interior generally fine, wear to original wrappers with portions of spine chipped. An extremely good copy with interesting provenance.

177 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) S B C A I Switching Theory In Space U E First Edition Of M N Technology, Inscribed By Editor Howard Aiken To A C Computer Pioneer Ruth David And Additionally N E Inscribed By Aiken’s Co-Editor, William F. Main R & AIKEN, Howard and MAIN, William F., editors. Switching Theory in Space A R Technology. Stanford, California, 1963. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. M E $2800. E D View on Website B I First edition of this fascinating collection of 25 papers on the use of logic circuits in O C space technology, inscribed by editor Howard Aiken to a famous computer pioneer: O I “To Ruth Davis with best regards from Howard Aiken,” and additionally signed by co- K N editor William F. Main. S E This series of 25 papers was originally delivered at a 1962 symposium on the applications of • switching theory to space technology. “The papers were intended to present a broad range of topics in order to briefly describe the current state of the art in a manner that would be most useful E to the theoretician and applied scientist” (IEEE). Author and physicist Howard Aiken designed IBM’s A Harvard Mark I in order to solve the differential equations used in physics. The Harvard Mark I R was installed in 1944, allowing it to be used to solve mathematical problems for the Manhattan L Project. It became the prototype for future supercomputers, including several designed by Aiken: Y the Harvard Marks II-IV. This copy is inscribed to Ruth Davis, “a pioneer in satellites and computers” (National Academy of Engineering). Davis earned a PhD in mathematics in 1955, becoming the first 2 to do so at the University of Maryland. Davis had initially hoped to secure employment at IBM, but was told that they were only hiring women as secretaries. Therefore, she began a career in the 0 Navy, where she wrote some of the earliest computer code for naval nuclear reactors, eventually 2 founding the Navy’s Command and Control Technology Organization at age 27. Seeking new opportunities, Davis continued her work 0 in government organizations, before eventually taking a position as director of the NBS Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology and then at HEW National Center for Biomedical Communication. Her experience saw her named as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for O Research and Advance Technology and later Assistant Secretary of Energy for Resource Applications. Davis’ work had a long reach and N she was involved in the US Uranium Enrichment Services, the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, the Federal Power Marketing Administrations, L and the Naval Petroleum Reserves. “Ruth Davis initiated major projects that had significant impact on the industrial, governmental, and I academic sectors of our country. They included the Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Program sponsored by industry and the N Department of Defense (DOD; 1979–1980); the DOD Directed Energy Program (high-energy lasers and particle beams) (1977–1979); the E world’s first data encryption standard (DES) for non-defense computer systems (1972–1979); the first satellite communications system for remote healthcare applications in Alaska (1967–1970); the online computer network for medical literature retrieval, MEDLINE (1967– 1970); and the first computer-based automation or robot-systems support by the federal government (1964–1967)” (National Academy of Engineering). After retiring from federal service at age 52, Davis founded a company focused on “industrial modernization strategies and technology development, with concentrations in microelectronics, computers, information, automation, and robotics” (National Academy of Engineering). She also taught at several prestigious universities. Bookplate of Ruth Davis. Books inscribed by Aiken are quite rare, making this presentation copy even more desirable. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with a bit of wear to extremities and closed tear along spine. A rare inscribed and signed copy with outstanding provenance.

178 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) S B C “The Search For A I U E Greatness Of Spirit” M N (Yousuf Karsh) A C N E KARSH, Yousuf. Healers of Our Age. Photography and R & Commentary. Boston, 1976. A Folio (13-1/2 by 18 inches), R M eight-page booklet and 12 E E vintage gelatin silver prints, D B loose as issued, clamshell box. I O $1850. C O I View on Website K N Signed limited first edition of this S E folio collection of stellar portraiture by Karsh, one of only 590 copies, • inscribed: “To: Catherine G. Curran E with the best wishes of Yousef Karsh A 1980,” with 12 vintage gelatin silver R prints of portraiture by Karsh, L featuring eminent figures such as Y Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung and Helen Keller. 2 Renowned photographer and portraitist 0 Yousuf Karsh once wrote that his lifelong 2 “fascination with scientists may well stem from my original 0 desire to be a physician. Therefore, it has been especially meaningful to me to portray those men and women who are O devoted to the art of healing” (Karsh, 140). This exceptional N signed limited folio first edition brings together 12 vintage L gelatin silver prints of leading physicians, scientists and I healers “of the spirit”—an assemblage of exhibition-size N prints that features some of Karsh’s finest work, including his E portraits of Einstein, Helen Keller, Albert Schweitzer, Jung, Sir Alexander Fleming and others. See Karsh 144-145. Inscribed to Catherine G. Curran, an active New York patron of the arts, including ballet and photography. Original clamshell box with minor splits at spine foot, slight soiling, light rubbing to spine and corners. Prints and text booklet fine.

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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London, O 1852. Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt- and blind-stamped brown cloth. $3500. N View on Website L I Second edition of this important, entertaining and influential early study of crowd behavior, subsequently used to N explore popular psychology and to chart the stock market, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in original E gilt-stamped cloth. Noted Scottish poet and journalist Charles Mackay attempted in this work to document and explain major “popular delusions,” or seemingly irrational instances of mass action and belief. “Men,” the author contends, “think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds.” In developing his theories of mass behavior, Mackay analyzes a breadth of historical examples ranging from witch hunts, alchemists and famous haunted houses to the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the Crusades. Mackay’s work has had a remarkably far-reaching impact, influencing such diverse fields as popular psychology and the charting of the stock market—as noted by The New York Times, which urged, “Any investor who has not read Charles Mackay’s ‘Tulipomania,’ from his classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions, first published in 1841, should grab this book for that exercise alone.” Each volume with engraved frontispiece, engraved and letterpress title pages, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Volume II with two rear leaves of publisher’s advertisements. See Norman 1406. Bookseller ticket (II). Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, exceptional original cloth with light edge-wear to spine ends, gilt bright. A handsome about-fine copy.

181 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C A O U N M O “Wall Street… The A M N I Paramount Financial C Centre Of The Globe” R S A MEDBERY, James K. Men and R Mysteries of Wall Street. E Boston, 1870. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial B green cloth recased. $2500. O View on Website O K First edition of this crucial work S on the workings of Wall Street by a 19th-century insider, with six • illustrations of Wall Street. “A valuable work on the machinery, E methods and language of the stock A and gold markets and on bankers R and brokers of Wall Street about L 1870. Much on individual firms and Y men, and on types and speculators. Also on panics, 1837-60… One of the 2 better works on Wall Street written by 0 an insider” (Larson 1628). Medbery 2 observes, “that power which, for lack 0 of a better name, common usage denotes Wall Street, has become of O overshadowing importance… Indeed, N if the United States holds steadfastly L to the prosperities of peace, in three I decades it will be the controlling financial force of the world… [This work is a] survey of some of the more obvious phenomena N of Wall Street, and with especial reference to its speculative transactions.” Chapters include “The New York Stock Exchange,” E “The Machinery of Speculation,” “Margins and the Loan Market,” “The Great Operators,” “The Outsiders,” “In the Gold Room,” “The Mining Board,” etc. Owner stamp of F.M. Antisell, who patented the wrestplank (or pinblock, in American terminology), which holds the tuning pins in a modern piano. A few spots of soiling to interior, expert restoration to original cloth, gilt bright.

182 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C A O “The Street Presents U N Glittering Temptations M O A M To Men In Search N I Of Sudden Gain” C R S SMITH, Matthew Hale. Twenty A Years Among the Bulls and R Bears of Wall Street. Hartford, E 1870. Octavo, original green cloth. $1600. B View on Website O O First edition of Smith’s account K of Wall Street, illustrated with 12 S plates, in original cloth-gilt. “Contains historical information as well • as a description of Wall Street at the time, including sketches of many prominent E businessmen, and… partly based on A diaries and private memoranda” (Sabin R 83594). By the author of Successful L Folks—How They Win (1878). Smith Y was also a Universalist minister known for his religious tracts. Howes S639. 2 Owner stamp. Contemporary owner gift 0 inscription, possibly by Julius A. Dresser, 2 the early New Thought proponent. 0 Interior generally fine, only slight soiling and light rubbing to original cloth. O A near-fine copy. N L I N “A Wall Street E panic comes suddenly like thunder from a clear sky…”

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O N L “Speculation On The Stock Exchange Is Gambling” I N CRUMP, Arthur. The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation. New York, 1887. Tall octavo, original purple cloth. E $2000. View on Website Early edition of this work explaining the basics of stock trading. Scarce. A contemporary review in the New York Times notes: “Mr. Crump has written a book to warn people from the Stock Exchange, and though he calls it The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation, it is rather a very plain and searching account of the practices which prevail on the Exchange, and of the facts which make it a dead certainty that in the long run the outside speculator will lose… Of the Exchange, he says: ‘Very few persons, if any, will be found to dispute the statement that speculation on the Stock Exchange is gambling.” Crump notes that the Vienna Stock Market panic of 1873 was caused by overspeculation in American cotton during the Civil War. The first edition was published in 1874. Inner paper hinges and endpapers expertly reinforced, expert restoration to cloth. An extremely good copy.

184 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C A O U N M O A M “Women Must Come Into Intelligent N I C Association With Those Who R S Supply Their Demands” A R RICHARDSON, Bertha June. The Woman E Who Spends. A Study of Her Economic Function. Boston, 1904. Octavo, original B gilt-stamped red cloth. $1250. O View on Website O K First edition of this work of social economics S focusing on the spending habits of woman and their ethical implications. • “This book is needed to bring back vision to those women who have been dulled to the possibilities within their reach E by the monotonous daily routine and the hard necessity of A making ends meet, and to correct false standards of values R and of things worth spending for” (Survey). “Richardson’s L book is at least a tiny ray of light shining in the wilderness Y which has to be traveled by the woman who spends” (Independent). Only minor soiling to endpapers, slight 2 rubbing and toning to spine, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. 0 2 0

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“In Appreciation Of A Kindred Spirit” O N GOMPERS, Samuel. Labor in Europe and America. New York and London, 1910. Octavo, original blue cloth. L $2000. I View on Website N E First edition of famed AFL co-founder and president Gompers’ controversial 1910 work contrasting labor movements in Europe and America, warmly inscribed: “In appreciation of a kindred spirit William O. Thompson By the Author. Saml. Gompers. Jan. 25. 1914. New York City,” scarce in original gilt-lettered cloth. Legendary co-founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, “Samuel Gompers was elected president of the AFL in 1886, as he would be every year after, save one, until his death… leaving behind a legacy that, in both its victories and its failures, would profoundly influence the American labor movement for decades yet to come” (ANB). Labor in Europe and America reflects Gompers’ views on global labor issues following a 1909 trip abroad, where he attended major conferences and “made studies of the labor movement and the conditions of the wage-workers.” Gompers especially contrasts labor movements and workers in Europe and the United States, concluding: “The Old World is not our world… All the people of the globe may be on the broad highway to social justice… but the nations and governments have not reached the same points on the road. In the procession, America is first.” The inscribee, William O. Thompson, was the president of Ohio State University. Inner paper hinge reinforced. A very nearly fine copy.

186 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C “A Profound Influence A O On Modern Management U N M Thought” O A M TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. N I The Principles of Scientific C Management. New York and London, R S A 1911. Octavo, contemporary three- R quarter green morocco gilt. $1800. E View on Website First trade edition of this enormously B influential and pioneering study of O industrial management and efficiency, O K handsomely bound. S Based upon years of study at the Midvale Steel factory, this was among the first, and • remains the greatest, of works designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of E the modern workplace. “The achievement for A which Taylor is most remembered was his R development of ‘scientific management,” a L principle often referred to as ‘Taylorism’ that Y was based on his careful “time and motion” studies of every step and operation in the 2 manufacturing process (DSB). “His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair 0 day’s work and the best means of ensuring a 2 standard of production” (PMM 403). “Through 0 it he hoped to end class conflict and establish social justice. Although these larger goals O were not achieved, Taylor’s system had a N profound influence on modern management L thought” (DSB). Preceded only by private first I printing. Norman 2059. Books That Changed N America 17. From the library of George E F. Steele, with his bookplate, front board with gilt-lettered “G.F. Steele.” Steele was Secretary of the Newsprint Manufacturer’s Association (1915-17) when it was targeted by the government for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Steele escaped indictment when he testified before “the Grant Jury and supplied many facts needed by the government in its investigation” (New York Times). A fine copy with an interesting association, handsomely bound.

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O N “Everything Which Concerns Wealth In Its General Sense L Comes Within The Scope Of Economics” I N FISHER, Irving. Elementary Principles of Economics. New York, 1912. Thick octavo, original red cloth. E $2600. View on Website Definitive edition—the first to be offered to the general public—of Fisher’s elementary treatise on the principles of economics. Developed with the idea of breaking down initial misconceptions about economics at the outset and then imparting fundamentals, Fisher’s Elementary Principles of Economics was innovative its design. Intended to give a broad introduction to the both major and minor topics in economics, it covers everything from the most basic definitions such as “wealth” and “money,” to the law of supply and demand, to the societal costs of wealth. Considered “the father of monetary economics” (Pressman, 91), “Irving Fisher was, in the opinion of many, the leading economic theorist in the United States during the first half of the 20th century” (ANB). Two experimental editions preceded this edition, beginning in 1910; they were released solely to students at Yale. Spine a bit toned. A fine copy, scarce.

188 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C First Edition Of A O Taxation: The People’s U N M O Business, 1924, A M Inscribed By Financier N I C And Powerful Secretary R S Of The Treasury A Andrew Mellon R E MELLON, Andrew W. Taxation: The People’s Business. New B York, 1924. Octavo, original O maroon cloth. $2500. O K View on Website S First edition of the first and only book by Mellon, Secretary of the • Treasury to three presidents, famed in his time as “resident ‘financier E of the universe,’” inscribed by him A R with his flourish: “To Hage B. Nilson L with compliments of A.W. Mellon.” Y Appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1921, Mellon “was the most powerful 2 figure in three successive presidential 0 cabinets” (ANB). Under Harding, 2 Coolidge and Hoover, he was “the 0 resident ‘financier of the universe’… and in 1924 when he wrote Taxation, he O had full presidential support. The press N dubbed his proposal the ‘Mellon Plan’” L (Folsom, Myth of the Robber Barons, I 111). Taxation, his only book, was N published in April 1924. It features a E number of his writings, “drawn together by David Finley… its proposals were essentially those the secretary had sent to Congress the previous autumn. Mellon insisted the Treasury should be run ‘on business principles,’ and that federal taxation should be ‘the least burden to the people’ while yielding ‘the most revenue to the government’” (Cannadine, Mellon, xii). Without rarely found dust jacket. A fine inscribed copy.

189 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C “The Age Preferred The Reign Of A O Intellect To The Reign Of Liberty” U N M O HAYEK, Friedrich A. The Counter-Revolution of A M Science. Parts I, II and III. London and Hereford, N I 1941. Octavo, original orange wrappers; pp (9)- C 36, (119)-150, (281)-320. $1250. R S View on Website A R First edition of the offprint of the initial three articles E in Economica that became the foundation for Nobel laureate Hayek’s 1952 book, featuring his critique of B “scientism,” in original wrappers. O In Counter-Revolution of Science, Friedrich Hayek, who was O awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with Gunnar K Myrdal, analyzes how scientism, “the slavish imitation of S the method and language of Science,” is at the root of totalitarianism. This first offprint of Parts I-III contains the • initial three articles that appeared in Economica (1941). Later articles in Economica (1942-1944) and Measure (1951) E became the basis for Hayek’s 1952 book similarly titled A Counter-Revolution of Science. The work features his “acute R and abstract study of the essential differences in method L required in the study of the physical sciences on the one Y hand and the social sciences on the other… [and] an amusing and enlightening account of the… origin of ‘scientism’ [in the 2 19th century]” (Hazlitt, 83). Counter-Revolution complements 0 Hayek’s classic defense of the free market, The Road to 2 Serfdom (1948). Text with light scattered foxing; original 0 wrappers fresh and bright. Near-fine. O N “Well worth the while of L I N anyone seriously interested E in the methodology of the social sciences and the history of economic thought.”—Foundation for Economic Education

190 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) E B C A O “This Book… U N Embodied The Efforts M O A M [Schumpeter] Had N I Been Promoting Since C His Years In Bonn” R S A W.L. CRUM and Joseph A. R SCHUMPETER. Rudimentary E Mathematics for Economists B and Statisticians. New York, O 1946. Octavo, original red-brown O cloth, dust jacket. $1200. K View on Website S First edition of this essential primer, co-authored by Joseph Schumpeter • and W.L. Crum. E W. Leonard Crum, Harvard Professor of A Economics, first wrote a Supplement R with this title for the 1938 Quarterly L Journal of Economics, and it quickly sold Y out. The decision was made to print as a separate volume a considerably revised 2 and expanded treatment of the subject. 0 “The present volume could not have… 2 reflected such marked improvement in 0 content and presentation, had the task of revision not been largely assumed by… Schumpeter,” Crum notes in the O Preface. “This book, which embodied N the efforts he had been promoting L since his years in Bonn, would take I students ‘from the creeping to the N crawling stage,’ Schumpeter told a E friend” (McKraw, 470). Interior bright, original cloth clean with slight bumping to spine extremities, original dust jacket with chips to spine and corners, toning to spine. A very good copy.

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2 0 Inscribed By Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine 2 0 QUINE, Willard Van Orman. Set Theory and Its Logic. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. O $1500. N View on Website L I First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “For John with best regards and N [best] wishes. Van.” Quine was known as “Van” to his friends. E The Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1956-78, Quine’s contributions to the field of logic are varied and noteworthy. However, it was in the area of set theory where he made many of his most notable contributions. This volume includes Quine’s definitive exposition of his theory of “virtual sets” and relations and serves also as a summary of axiomatic set theory through the mid- “Considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American 20th century. Quine “came to be regarded as a general philosopher: initially, as a philosopher of logic and language, but eventually as a metaphysician, whose radical philosophy in the last half of the 20th century”—Britannica thoughts about ontology, epistemology, and communication had repercussions within all major areas of philosophy… Quine’s writing style is lively, often playful, and always sparklingly clear… Quine is among the most often quoted philosophers of the 20th century” (ANB). A near-fine inscribed copy.

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2 First Edition Of Time On The Cross, Signed And 0 2 Dated By Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel 0 FOGEL, Robert William and ENGERMAN, Stanley L. Time on the Cross. The Economics of American Negro Slavery. WITH: Time on the Cross. Evidence and Methods. Boston and Toronto, 1974. Two O N volumes. Octavo, original brown cloth, dust jackets. $1100. L View on Website I First edition of one of the most controversial works of scholarship of the past 50 years, signed in each volume by N Nobel Prize-winning economist Fogel along with his date of “3/14/13” barely three months before his death. E In Time on the Cross Fogel and Engerman used sophisticated economic models to argue that in 19th-century America, Southern slave labor was more economically productive than Northern free labor. On publication economist Peter Passell praised their work, noting: “If a more important book about American history has been published in the last decade, I don’t know about it. Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem—black slavery… They force us to confront contemporary social failings instead of pushing them into the past” (New York Times). After years of controversy— some argued the work endorsed slavery— Fogel published Without Consent or Contract in 1993, where he argued that slavery died out because it was morally backward. That same year he received the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with Douglass Hall) for developing “‘new economic history,’ or cliometrics, i.e. research that combines economic theory, quantitative methods, hypothesis testing, counterfactual alternatives and traditional techniques of economic history, to explain economic growth and decline” (Nobel Committee). Illustrated with numerous charts, graphs and figures. Blockson 10134. “Evidence and Methods” dust jacket price-clipped. In fine condition.

& E A R R E L L Y I G 2 I “The Lives Of Princes And Tyrants 0 O So Strange And Uncouth” 2 N 0 HERODIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. His History of Twenty Roman Caesars and Emperors (of His Time). London, 1629. Octavo, contemporary O full limp vellum. $3200. N View on Website L I First edition of J. Maxwell’s translation of Herodian’s History into N English, only the second translation of this classic history into English, in E contemporary vellum. Herodian’s history of the Roman Empire, originally written in Greek, covers the period from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the commencement of the reign of Gordian III (A.D. 180-238). “He states that the events described by him occurred during the period of his own life, which serves to fix his date, but of the details of his career nothing is known. He seems to have made Thucydides his model, and his narrative is characterized by sobriety, impartiality, and in general by accuracy” (Peck, 804). Preceded in English by N. Smyth’s translation of circa 1556; this is the first edition of Maxwell’s translation, which appeared in a second edition in 1635. Neat repair to upper corner of title page, not affecting letterpress. Marginal toning to last few leaves; vellum slightly darkened. A very good copy, desirable in contemporary binding.

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O Handsome Golden Cockerel Edition Of Caesar, N One Of 70 Copies Bound By Sangorski & Sutcliffe L I CAESAR, Julius. Commentaries. A Modern Rendering by Somerset de Chair. London, 1951. Octavo, N publisher’s full maroon morocco gilt. $1400. E View on Website Limited Golden Cockerel Press edition of Caesar’s Gallic War and Civil War, one of 70 copies (out of a total edition of 320 copies) signed by translator de Chair and illustrator Clifford Webb and specially bound for Golden Cockerel by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Includes both Caesar’s Gallic War and Civil War. Caesar’s Commentaries is “the most widely studied military handbook in literature and a model of clear, straightforward composition” (Hornstein, 81). “There are few better models of pure narrative than Caesar. He concerns himself almost exclusively with action. Characters and personalities are revealed by the kinds of action his people perform. He rarely discusses his plans beforehand with the reader. The results reveal the plans. The consequences award praise or blame” (Rexroth, Classics Revisited, 97). “A lucid translation into colloquial modern English, almost entirely free from and archaism” (Chambers & Sandford 188). Includes frontispiece, 10 headpieces, and two vignette portraits of Caesar. Very nearly fine condition.

196 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B Worthies I Fuller’s , 1662 Folio A S First Edition, With An Early U T M Biography Of Shakespeare O A R FULLER, Thomas. The History of the N Y Worthies of England. Endeavoured by , Thomas Fuller, D.D. London, 1662. Folio R A (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), 18th-century P R H full paneled calf rebacked. $2200. E I View on Website L First edition of this virtual encyclopedia of B O England and English life, with engraved O S frontispiece portrait of the author, in nicely O O K rebacked calf with armorial centerpieces. P S H The Worthies of churchman and antiquarian Y Thomas Fuller appeared after his death in 1662, • the fruits of much research; as he wrote, “My pains & have been scattered all over the land, by riding, E writing, going, sending, chiding, begging, praying A and sometimes paying too, to procure manuscript R R material” (Drabble). The Worthies “is among E L other things a dictionary of national biography, L Y a series of county histories, a topographical and I historical gazetteer, a guide-book, and a dictionary G 2 of proverbs” (Bush, 233). It is also the source I of many famous anecdotes, such as that of Sir 0 O Walter Raleigh laying down his cloak in a puddle 2 N so that Queen Elizabeth could walk across. In the 0 section on Warwickshire is the fullest biography of Shakespeare that had been published at that time O (three paragraphs in length): “He was an eminent N instance of the truth of that Rule, Poeta non fit, sed L nascitur, one is not made but born a Poet. Indeed I his Learning was very little, so that as Cornish N diamonds are not polished by any Lapidary, but E are pointed and smoothed even as they are taken out of the Earth, so nature itself was all the art which was used upon him” (p. 126). Coleridge wrote that “next to Shakespeare, I am not certain whether Thomas Fuller, beyond all other writers, does not excite in me the sense and emotion of the marvelous … you will hardly find a page in which some one sentence out of every three does not deserve to be quoted for itself as a motto or as a maxim” (Allibone, I:644). Interior clean, binding in excellent condition, handsomely rebacked.

197 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H Essex’s B I “Treachery And Bloody Cruelty”: A S Innocency And Honour Vindicated, 1690, U T Documenting The Investigation Into The Brutal M O A R Death Of Arthur Capel, First Earl Of Essex, N Y With Rarely Found Engraved Frontispiece Of , R The Alleged Murder Scene In The Tower A P (CAPEL, Arthur, 1st Earl of Essex) BRADDON, Laurence. Essex’s R H Innocency and Honour Vindicated; or, Murther, Subornation, E I Perjury, and Oppression, Justly Charg’d on the Murtherers of L B That Noble Lord and True Patriot, Arthur (Late) Earl of Essex. As O O S Proved before the Right Honourable (late) Committee of Lords, or O O ready to be Deposed. In a Letter to a Friend. London, 1690. Square K P quarto, early 18th-century three-quarter calf rebacked. $2400. S H View on Website Y • First edition of attorney Braddon’s contemporary investigation into the still- unresolved death of the 1st Earl of Essex, accused of treason in a plot to & E assassinate Charles II and imprisoned in the Tower at the time of his death, A R with Braddon, himself imprisoned after Essex’s death, offering extensive R E testimonies and eyewitness accounts to charge unnamed “powerful and L L bloody men” in the death of Essex, with engraved folding frontispiece (often missing) depicting the body of Essex, the “bloody footprint” on Y I his clothing, and the image of “the razor notch’d & brook” (sic). G England’s long early history of political murders and executions is perhaps best known through accounts of Henry VIII and his successor, Queen Elisabeth. To 2 I some historians, however, one of the most fascinating records of that time is found in the life and death of Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex, who was charged and 0 O imprisoned in connection with the Rye House Plot to assassinate King Charles II. Essex, said to have acted “on his belief that subjects could restrain or overthrow 2 N princes who violated the trust vested in them,” would ultimately die in the same rooms in the Tower that held his father prior to his execution in 1649 (ODNB). 0 On July 13, 1683, Essex was found dead in the Tower with his throat cut. When the government contended he slashed his own throat with a razor, his attorney Laurence Braddon instead argued Essex was murdered. To this day the cause of his death—whether suicide or murder—remains unresolved. While O “advocates of the case for suicide point to his distress upon arriving at the Tower… a compelling case for homicide rests on two surgeons’ description of N the fatal wound, which extended from ear to ear… deep enough to nick the vertebrae at the back of the neck. The instrument that supposedly did this was a L handleless French razor between 4-1/4 and 4-1/2 inches long, which the user had to grasp in his fingers. This would leave between 2-1/4 and 2-3/4 inches I of blade exposed, but the cut was between 3 and 4 inches deep” (ODNB). It was also noted that “the inquest jurors acted in unorthodox circumstances, for N someone had moved and cleaned the body before they viewed it… Jurors had reportedly been denied when they asked to see the clothes in which Essex had E died, for example, and when they requested an adjournment to seek more evidence they were told the king himself wanted their verdict immediately… In the cumulative actions of these jurors, as policed and directed from above, we see one of the ways in which the state both grew and slowly changed shape, and one of the ways in which homicide became more fully public.” When Essex’s attorney Braddon early opened his own investigation into the death, he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly five years. It was only with “the Revolution of 1688-9 that critics were released and the case reopened.” It was then that Braddon, also released from prison, could “publish on London’s presses the results of his investigation” (Kesselring, Making Murder Public, 65-7). This first edition of Essex’s Innocency and Honour Vindicated is especially notable in containing the folding frontispiece engraving (often missing) of the alleged crime scene, and Braddon’s prefatory “Apology,” where he boldly announces “now is the time to speak” and declares that Essex was murdered by “THE TRANSCENDENT AUTHORITY and INTEREST OF SOME AND THE TREACHERY and BLOODY CRUELTY OF OTHERS” (emphasis in original). Included in the text are lengthy numerous witness accounts and testimonies, including arguments that physical evidence and the location of the body contradicted Essex’s alleged suicide. This fascinating work particularly signals how the death of Essex and “other plots and conspiracies marked the age, infusing politics with talk of murder like never before” (Kesselring, 143). Interior fresh with light scattered foxing, boards with light expert restoration. A handsome wide-margined copy.

198 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I “France’s Outstanding A S U T Epistolarian” M O SEVIGNE, Madame de. The A R Letters of Madame de Sevigne. N Y Philadelphia, 1927. Seven , R volumes. Octavo, contemporary A P three-quarter red morocco gilt. R H $2000. E I View on Website L “Carnavalet Edition” of Sevigne’s B O highly celebrated epistles, one of O S O 1550 sets, illustrated with 23 black- O K and-white plates and two folding P S H letter facsimiles, beautifully bound. Y In her delightful letters, primarily • written to her daughter, Mme. de & Sevigne describes domestic and E courtly affairs in 17th-century France A R with wit, imagination and intelligence. R E Her correspondence endures for its L L freedom of expression and familiar Y I style in an era of constraint and G formality. “Literary critics quickly 2 I began to praise her ‘singularity… and 0 O to propose her as France’s outstanding 2 N epistolarian’” (Hollier, 420). Thornton 0 Wilder looked to Mme. de Sevigne for inspiration when creating the character O of the Marquesa de Montemayor in his N classic novel, The Bridge of San Luis L Rey (1927). This “Carnavalet Edition” I includes an introduction by renowned N book collector A. Edward Newton and E has been “newly re-edited, revised and corrected, including over 300 letters not previously translated into English.” With color printed title pages, 23 black-and- white plates (including a frontispiece portrait in each volume) and folding letter facsimiles in Volumes I and III. Light expert restoration to handsome morocco bindings. A lovely set.

199 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I Very Rare First Edition Of A S Gibbon’s Vindication, 1779 U T M O GIBBON, Edward. A Vindication of A R Some Passages in the Fifteenth and N Y Sixteenth Chapters of the History of , the Decline and Fall of the Roman R Empire. London, 1779. Octavo, 19th- A P R century three-quarter brown calf. H E I $2800. L View on Website B O Rare first edition of Gibbon’s spirited O S defense of his landmark history, The O O Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. K P S H Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen of Gibbon’s Decline Y and Fall, which relate the decay of Rome to the • rise of Christianity, elicited in their day a storm of angry protest. To most of his adversaries & E Gibbon declined to reply; but “it was one of the A least worthy of them, a young man of 21 years, R R barely more than an undergraduate, who stung E L him to a formal reply” (Norton, 86). Gibbon felt, L Y and justifiably, that young Mr. Davis of Balliol I College, Oxford, had attacked both his personal G integrity and his historiographical rigor; Davis 2 I had accused him, for example, of not having 0 O read the authors he quotes from. Gibbon’s 2 N reply is lacerating: “I cannot profess myself very 0 desirous of Mr. Davis’s acquaintance; but if he will take the trouble of calling at my house any O afternoon when I am not at home, my servant N shall shew him my library, which he will find L tolerably well furnished with the useful authors… I who have directly supplied me with the materials N of my History” (91). The Vindication showed that E Gibbon could write stealthy pamphlets as well as massive volumes; Horace Walpole likened it to “the feathered arrow of Cupid, that is more formidable than the club of Hercules” (Norton, 86-87). Bound without half title, as often, and without final leaf, X4, advertisement leaf for the forthcoming third edition of the Decline and Fall. Text complete. Interior fine. Light age-wear to binding. A near-fine copy of this scarce work.

200 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I Elaborately Bound By A S Dubuisson: French U T Royal Almanac For M O A R The Year 1787 N Y FRENCH ALMANAC. Almanach , R Royal, Année M.DCC. A LXXXVII. Paris, 1787. Octavo, P R H contemporary full burgundy E I morocco gilt. $7500. L View on Website B O French Almanach Royal for the year O S 1787, a rare volume displaying O O K a gilt-tooled royal coat of arms P S H on both boards, in distinguished Y morocco with elaborate gilt tooling • by plaque of celebrated royal binder & Pierre Paul Dubuisson. E This official Almanach Royal for 1787, A R one of a yearly series founded by R E Laurent d’Houry, chronicles the births, L L marriages and deaths of French royalty, Y I along with extensive coverage of other G governmental, legislative and cultural 2 I officials. The sumptuous binding of this 0 O rare volume features one of the plaque 2 N models attributed to Dubuisson and 0 identified by Edouard Rahir: no. 184k (Livres dans de riches reliures, plate 38). O The exceptionally skilled Dubuisson N became the official bookbinder to L King Louis XV in 1758. He is credited I with the invention of gold tooling by N plaque; each designed with elaborate E borders, leaving space in the center for the owner’s armorial coat of arms. The gilt-tooled centerpiece on these boards features, among its heraldic elements, the triple fleur de lis of the House of Orléans. Title page with engraved royal coat of arms. Occasional light foxing. Light age-wear to handsome armorial morocco-gilt. A magnificently bound volume in about-fine condition; a splendid specimen of Dubuisson’s art.

201 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I “One Of The Prime A S Sources Of Shakespeare’s U T M Historical Plays” O A R HALL, Edward. Hall’s Chronicle; N Y Containing the History of England, , During the Reign of Henry the R A Fourth… to the End of the Reign of P R H Henry the Eighth. London, 1809. Folio E I (10 by 12-1/2 inches), contemporary L full brown calf expertly rebacked with B O original spine laid down. $2500. O S View on Website O O K Fine early 19th-century folio edition of this P S rare and influential history—originally H Y published in 1548 as “The Union of the two • noble and illustre famelies of Lancaster & & Yorke”—one of the most important sources E for Shakespeare’s history plays, in addition A R to containing “the first definite historical R E account of an English voyage to America” L L (Rosenbach), handsomely bound. Y I G Hall’s famous chronicle begins with the accession 2 of Henry IV in 1399 and ends with the death of I 0 Henry VIII in 1547, detailing the turbulent Wars O 2 of the Roses and the rise of the house of Tudor. N 0 “An eyewitness account of the court of Henry VIII, fresh, original, and wonderfully vivid… Hall’s O chronicle was banned in 1555 under Queen Mary and as a consequence became exceedingly N rare. Nevertheless, it survived to become a L source for Shakespeare in the historical dramas I and a model for the later chronicles of Grafton, N Holinshed, and Stow” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 244). E In his 1938 catalogue, Rosenbach recognized the 1548 edition of Hall’s Union as an important and early item of Americana, calling it “the second book printed in English and written by an Englishman referring to America—the first English historical work mentioning a voyage to America” (Rosenbach 19:309). Only occasional marginal foxing, text clean, minor restoration to corners of contemporary calf. An expertly restored and quite handsome folio volume.

202 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H Eyewitness Accounts Of The B I A S Fall Of Constantinople To The U T Ottoman Empire In 1453 M O A R (CONSTANTINOPLE) LEONARD OF CHIOS. N Y LANGUS, Godefridus. De Capta a Mehemethe , II Constantinopoli [Fall of Constantinople]. R Paris, 1823. Quarto, original full embossed A P black morocco. $4200. R H E View on Website I L Very rare first edition of two important eyewitness B O accounts of the fall of Constantinople at the hands O S of Mehmed II in 1453, with engraved folding plan O O of the city—one of only 60 copies printed for K P Charles Stuart to distribute privately, handsomely S H bound in full morocco in the ‘relievo’ style. Y • Leonard of Chios (d. 1482), a Catholic prelate and & the Pope’s emissary to Emperor Constantine XI, E became a witness to Mehmed II’s successful assault A on Constantinople and the city’s fall to Muslim troops R R in 1453. He escaped the slaughter and returned to E L Chios, where he penned this account to the Pope; the L Y letter was first published in 1544. Godefridus Langus I was apparently also an eyewitness; his account first G 2 appeared in print in 1594. Manuscripts of these works I were acquired by Britain’s ambassador to Paris, collector 0 O and amateur historian Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de 2 N Rothesay (1779-1845). Stuart had the manuscripts 0 transcribed by Jean-Baptiste L’Ecuy and published 60 copies of this work to be given away privately, not sold. O The work has consequently always been very rare and N desirable. Dibdin’s “Library Companion” mentions a L “very beautiful, curious, and interesting quarto printed I by Sir Charles… the only copies of this work I have N seen in England are those in the libraries of the Duke E of Bedford, Earl Spencer, and the Reverend Stephen Watson.” The binding of embossed ‘relievo’ morocco is quite possibly by the trade binders Remnant & Edmonds, who were the leading producers of this kind of elaborately embossed binding. Their process to make leather appear to be intricately carved wood was found so ingenious and convincing that the firm was awarded a medal for binding at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Light foxing to text. Handsome ‘relievo’ binding very nearly fine. Quite scarce.

203 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I “It Is Chiefly Through A S U T Books That We Enjoy M O Intercourse With A R Superior Minds” N Y GENLIS, Countess de. Memoirs , R of the Countess de Genlis, A P Illustrative of the History of R H the Eighteenth and Nineteenth E I Centuries. London, 1825. Eight L volumes. Octavo, early 20th- B O century full red morocco gilt. O S $6800. O O View on Website K P S H First edition in English of these Y compelling memoirs, extensively • extra-illustrated with approximately & 150 relevant portraits and views E of France (nearly a third hand- A R colored), beautifully bound in full R E morocco-gilt by Bayntun. L L Y I Madame de Genlis was “a woman of G encyclopedic information… Napoleon 2 paid her to furnish him with letters I 0 on literature, politics, etc… She was O 2 an inexhaustible writer of popular N 0 romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history” O (Oxford Companion to French Literature, 304). Her Memoirs, which N comprise a perceptive social history L of the 18th and early 19th centuries, I were initially considered somewhat N scandalous because of their detailed personal accounts of famous figures known to E frequent her salon. She was later well-known both for her advocacy of Rousseau’s theories of child-rearing and her close association with her relative Madame de Montesson, the lover (and later wife) of Louis Philippe d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans. Morocco bookplates of Doris Louise Benz, whose exceptional and varied collection, mainly comprising first editions like this one, was sold at auction to benefit Dartmouth College Library—a charitable gesture that Dartmouth happily accepted but continues to find mysterious given that Benz was an alumna of Radcliffe with no ties to Dartmouth. Only a few spots of foxing to generally clean interiors, bindings lovely and fine. A beautiful set.

204 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H First Edition Of William Godwin’s Lives Of The Necromancers, 1834, With B I A S Autograph Letter From Him To American Dramatist John Howard Payne U T M GODWIN, William. Lives of the Necromancers. London, 1834. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter O A R russet morocco gilt. $2800. N Y View on Website , First edition of this global history of the supernatural, with an etching of the author and an autograph letter from R him to American playwright John Howard Payne tipped in. A P R The husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley, Godwin was “a Calvinist minister [who] soon adopted the H E principles of the Enlightenment… Godwin shared with other radicals an optimism founded upon their confidence in the power I of human reason” (Baugh et al., 1113, 1113n). Appropriately, then, he states in his preface that he wrote this, his final book, L “to exhibit a fair deliniation of the credulity of the human mind… to contemplate man in all his honours and in all the exaltation B O of wisdom and virtue… [but also] to look into his obliquities, and distinctly to remark how great and portentous have been his O S absurdities and his follies.” Godwin explores the history of necromancy, witchcraft and magic, drawing upon examples from the O O Bible, Greece, Rome, the East, Europe and America; and including specific articles about Merlin, Medea, Thomas Aquinas, Joan of K P Arc, Richard III, Faustus and Nostradamus, among others. The tipped-in autograph letter reads: “Dear sir, Ten thousand thanks S H to you for your successful negociation [sic]. But I shall consider the Y kinship as imperfect unless you will confirm it by consenting to take • a mutton chop with me tomorrow or Thursday at four. If I do not hear & from you by post by twelve tomorrow, I will expect you on the first E of these days. Yours very sincerely, Wm. Godwin. Thursday, July 7.” A R The verso indicates the recipient was John Howard Payne, American R E actor and dramatist whose tragedy Brutus (1818) “solidified Edmund L L Kean’s preeminence and remained a staple for all tragedians for half Y I a century” and whose musical play Clari (1823) introduced the song G “Home Sweet Home.” In 1825, while living in England, Payne courted 2 I “the widow Mary Shelley until she made clear her interest in [Payne’s 0 O frequent collaborator, author Washington] Irving… Payne was the 2 N best known of several early Americans who promoted and spread 0 culture by their dedication to the popular arts, serving them diligently and skillfully, and more for love than money” (ANB). Despite Payne’s O unsuccessful pursuit of Godwin’s daughter, the two men remained N friends and correspondents. A near-fine copy, attractively bound. L I N E “An especially important foray into philosophy, cosmology, and psychology.” —Cato Institute

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O N L “That Exalted Pitch Of Grandeur Which We So Much Admire” I N ROLLIN, Charles. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, E Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. London, 1855. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt. $2200. View on Website Later edition of this history of ancient empires, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 folding maps. “A complete and most interesting compendium of ancient history” (Lowndes, 2121). First published in 1730-38, French historian Rollin’s accounts of antiquity’s empires proved enduringly popular not only in Europe but also in Revolutionary and early 19th-century America, giving the new nation a classical framework in which to view itself and its heroes. “A study of the circulation and reading of Rollin’s books and of his influence on American patriotic attitudes would prove rewarding” (Lyman Butterfield). Scattered foxing to maps and text, handsome binding about fine with just a few small chips to spine labels.

206 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H “Very Scarce”: Richard Burton’s Book Of The B I A S Sword, First Edition In The Original Cloth U T M BURTON, Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London, 1884. Quarto, O A R original pictorial gray cloth. $3200. N Y View on Website , First and only edition of Burton’s important illustrated history of the sword, R in the original cloth. A P R Burton undertook this comprehensive history of the sword and its use during his H E final years, after his explorations were over. “The arme blanche, as he liked to call I it, had always had a fascination for him since his youthful days on the continent. He L collected a great deal of literature, and inspected the armouries of Europe and India. B O To his encyclopedic mind the subject began with the first weapon fashioned by the O S simian ancestors of man, started afresh with the invention of metallurgy (which O O he assigned to the Nile Valley), henceforth coincided with the history of military K P prowess until the introduction of gunpowder, finally ending with the duello when the S H sword became a defensive weapon” (DNB). “He was a fully qualified master [fencer], Y sufficiently pleased with his accomplishment to place his diploma after his name on • the title page of The Book of the Sword. This was to be his great work, covering—in & three volumes—the sword in all countries from the earliest times. The first volume… E takes the reader over some 300 pages from the sword’s origins to the early Roman A R Empire… he never got around to volumes 2 and 3” (Richard Cohen, By the Sword, R E xxii). “Very scarce” (Penzer, 107-08). Bookplate of Bernard Coleridge, the second L L Baron Coleridge, whose grandfather was the nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Y I Interior clean, minor toning to cloth. A near-fine copy, unusual in this condition. G 2 I 0 O 2 N 0

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& E A R R E L L Y I G 2 I 0 O 2 N 0 “One Of The Most Picturesque, Most Vivid And Most Actual Pieces Of Historical Narrative In The English Language” (Britannica) O N KINGLAKE, Alexander William. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and An Account of Its Progress Down to the Death L of Lord Raglan. Edinburgh and London, 1890-96. Nine volumes. 12mo, mid-20th century three-quarter red morocco gilt. I $2200. N View on Website E “Cabinet Edition” of Kinglake’s monumental and memorable account of the Crimean War, widely hailed as a classic of historical literature, handsomely bound by Worsfold. Kinglake served in the Crimean War and following the conflict, at the request of Lord Raglan, commander of Britain’s forces in the Crimea, he “made the most elaborate inquiry into every incident… [He] carefully compared all the available evidence, and spared no labor in polishing the style of the narrative… The literary ability… is remarkable; the spirit of the writing is never quenched by the masses of diplomatic and military information; the occasional portraits of remarkable men are admirably incisive; the style is invariably polished to the last degree; and the narrative as lucid as it is animated” (DNB XI:172). With numerous maps, including 34 folding, some in color. First published 1863-87, in eight volumes. A few minor scuffs to extremities. An about-fine set, handsomely bound.

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“Let Me Be Received By Osiris In The Land Of Truth-Speaking” O N BUDGE, E. A. Wallis. The Book of the Dead. Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani. in the British Museum. WITH: The Book of the Dead… L The Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation, a Running Translation, Introduction, etc. London, 1894-95. Two I volumes. Elephant folio (16 by 21 inches), later three-quarter green morocco gilt; quarto, original three-quarter black and dark green morocco. N $4500. E View on Website Second edition of the important facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani, with 37 double-page elephant folio color lithographic plates, together with a first edition of Budge’s comprehensive analysis of including “the funereal compositions upon which [Egyptians] depended for the means of attaining everlasting life.” Includes the original hieroglyphic text, with interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, and a broader running interpretation and analysis. “The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1888, is the largest, the most perfect, and the best illuminated of all the papyri containing copies of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead. Its rare vignettes, hymns and chapters, and its descriptive rubrics, render it of unique importance for the study of the Book of the Dead, and it holds a very high place among the funerary papyri that were written between B.C. 1500 and B.C. 1350.” The facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani was first published in 1890, with an Introduction by Mr. Le Page Renouf, but unaccompanied by a translation. This comprehensive translation and analysis by renowned Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge was prepared to accompany this second edition of the folio color facsimile of the Papyrus. Plates fine; scattered foxing to quarto text volume; only minor rubbing to boards of both folio and quarto volumes. An impressive production.

209 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H “The Marxian System Has A Past And B I A S A Present, But No Abiding Future” U T M BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen V. Karl Marx and the Close of His System. A O A R Criticism. London, 1898. Octavo, original tan cloth. $2000. N Y View on Website , First edition in English of the groundbreaking critique of Marxist economics R by Böhm-Bawerk—“one of the five or six greatest economists of all time”— A P published the same decade as Volume III of Marx’s Capital. R H E I Böhm-Bawerk, “the first major economist to contest Marx’s critique of capitalism” (Skousen, Big Three in Economics, 110), was named “one of the five or six L B greatest economists of all time” by Schumpeter, and Mises declared his writings O O “monumental” (Pressman, 84). With Karl Marx and the Close of His System, Böhm- S O Bawerk “demonstrated the impossibility of combining the tools of analysis found O K in the first and third volumes of Capital” (Andersen, P S Schumpeter’s Evolutionary Economics, 105). To Böhm- H Bawerk, “Marx had furnished no effective empirical or Y psychological grounds for his theory that labor constitutes • value… ‘Firstly, Marx took into account only the products & of labor… Secondly Marx entirely disregarded use-value, E which was illegitimate since, as he himself emphasized, A R use-value was a condition of exchange value. Thirdly Marx R E assumed that apart from use-value an object consists of L L nothing but crystallized labor… Moreover, he continues, Y I ‘the category of value in Marx’s sense is useless because G it cannot be measured quantitatively from price… The 2 I proposition that value governs the terms of exchange thus 0 O cannot be empirically verified and affords no explanation 2 N of true economic processes’” (Kolakowski, Main Currents 0 of Marxism II:291). To economist Murray Rothbard, Böhm- Bawerk’s “detailed, withering demolition” of Marx “posed O the grave inner contradiction of Marxian theory plainly and N starkly… he demonstrated that Marx’s proffered ‘solution’ L was a sham, and that actually what Marx did was to throw I in the towel and admit that, on the capitalist market, N profit rates were equal and therefore that prices were not E proportional to or determined by the quality of labor hours in the production of goods” (Austrian Perspective, 414). Published in German in 1896 under the title Zum Abschluss des Marxschen Systems, in a volume of essays in honor of Karl Knies, and issued in a separate German edition the same year. Precedes the same year’s American edition. Small institutional inkstamps to title page, margins of first and final text leaves; inked number to copyright page. Text very fresh and crisp, inner hinges expertly reinforced, slight toning to spine of original cloth. An extremely good copy of a core work in the history of economics.

210 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I A S “The Father Of U T Modern Linguistics” M O A R CHOMSKY, Noam. Aspects N Y of the Theory of Syntax. , Cambridge, Massachusetts, R 1965. Octavo, original blue A P R cloth, dust jacket. $4200. H E I View on Website L First edition of Chomsky’s elusive B O first book, “the first concerted O S approach to investigating the O O human mind through a systematic K P S study of how people produce H Y and understand sentences… • equated with Darwin’s theory & of evolution and Freud’s theory E of the unconscious in terms of A R its importance in the history of R E ideas”—a very nice copy in the L L original dust jacket. Y I Noam Chomsky is “the father of G 2 modern linguistics and remains the I 0 field’s most influential practitioner… O 2 Mr. Chomsky’s introduction of his N 0 theory of language in 1957 [in his monograph “Syntactic Structures,” which he developed into the present O book, his first], often called the Chomsky revolution, has been equated with Darwin’s theory of evolution and Freud’s theory N of the unconscious in terms of its importance in the history of ideas: it was the first concerted approach to investigating the L human mind through a systematic study of how people produce and understand sentences… Mr. Chomsky was by nature I a questioner—and, where he deemed necessary, an exploder—of received truths. Over the years, this trait became evident N in his political work, including his early opposition to the Vietnam War, his outspoken condemnation of United States policy E in Central America, East Timor and elsewhere, and his castigation of the mainstream news media for what he describes as complicity with governmental and business interests… Language, Mr. Chomsky came to believe, was rooted not in behavior but in biology, in an inborn set of principles that speakers unconsciously draw on whenever they produce or understand sentences. The goal of linguistics, he argued, should be to reproduce these principles. Since one couldn’t go mucking around in people’s brains, the linguist would attempt instead to mirror the workings of these inborn principles with a set of abstract, quasi-mathematical rules intended to generate the range of possible sentences in a given language—in other words, a generative grammar” (New York Times, Dec. 5, 1998). Book fine, dust jacket with a few short closed tears and tiny chip to rear upper corner, near-fine. A lovely copy of this scarce title.

211 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I Rare Intact 15th- A S Century Wax Bishop’s U T Seal, Belonging To The M O A R Bishop Of Dol In France, N Y Alain De Coëtivy , R (CATHOLIC CHURCH). Original A P medieval wax bishop’s seal. R H France, mid 15th century. E I Original vesica-shaped wax seal, L measuring 3 by 4-3/4 inches, B O with attached cord, custom oval O S full morocco box. $3200. O O K View on Website P S H Exceptional original wax seal used Y by the 15th-century Bishop of • Dol in France for authentication, & handsomely boxed. E Ecclesiastical seals emerged in the A R beginning of the Christian era. Adopted R E by clerics to mimic the seals used by L L the wealthy and notable, ecclesiastical Y I seals often authenticated important G documents. By the 9th century, seals 2 I had become a standard means of 0 O authentication and their absence was 2 N cast in a negative light. For example, 0 Pope Nicholas I complained about receiving unsealed letters. This seal was O used by the Bishop of Dol in France, Alain N de Coëtivy. Serving L as legate of Pope I Callistus III, the Bishop N of Dol was charged E with instructing Charles VIII to carry out a crusade meant to assist the Greeks against the Turks who were besieging Constantinople. Only slight chipping. Wax seals such as this one are quite fragile and rarely found intact.

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HEBREW BIBLE. Jeremiah. Geneva, 1617. 16mo (3 by 5 inches), period-style full calf gilt. $1800. View on Website Early 17th-century Geneva edition in Hebrew of the prophetic Book of Jeremiah, finely printed by Petrus de la Rouière, beautifully bound. This is one volume from the 18-part sextodecimo edition of the Hebrew Bible issued from 161720. Publisher Kafa (Cephas) Elon has been identified as Petrus de la Rouière, a Christian printer of Latin and Greek works, among them the first bilingual Josephus (1611). Petrus here uses an Aramaic version of his name, meaning Rock Oak. The Petrus Bibles are based on earlier Venice editions, particularly those of Giustiniani (mid-16th century) to which they are typographically related. The editor was Johann Caspar Oder. Issued shortly after the quarto edition. Text in Hebrew. A lovely copy.

213 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I A S U T M O A R N Y , R Rare 1680-83 First Edition Of A P The Targum On Chronicles, R H E I In Contemporary Calf-Gilt L (HEBREW BIBLE). Targum shel Divrei ha-Yamim. B O Paraphrasis Chaldaica I[-II] Libri Chronicorum. O S O Augsburg, 1680-83. Two volumes. Small quarto, O K contemporary full calf gilt. $3500. P S H View on Website Y First edition of the Targum on Chronicles, printed • from an Erfurt manuscript, edited with a Latin & translation by Matthias Friedrich Beck. With two in-text E engravings and engraved vignettes on title pages by A R R Melchior Haffner. A handsome copy in contemporary E L L calf-gilt. Scarce. Y I “No Targum to this book (Chronicles) was known to exist until G the appearance of the Polyglot Bibles. It was first published 2 I in 1680-83… This Targum is essentially a literal rendering of 0 O the Hebrew original, although midrashic amplifications are 2 N also employed… The date of the Targum may be surmised 0 from the translation of geographical names, as well as their rendering into modern forms. The final redaction of the O Erfurt manuscript has been assigned to the eighth century” N (Encyclopedia Judaica). Title page of Volume II trimmed a L little closely, just affecting imprint line only. Text quite clean. I Bindings lightly rubbed, but quite sound and very attractive. N Most desirable in contemporary calf. Scarce. E

214 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) H B I A S U T M O A R N Y , R A P “The King James Version R H E I Is The Bible Of The Heart” L (BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing B O the Old and New Testaments. O S Edinburgh, 1752. Quarto, O O K contemporary full paneled black P S H morocco gilt. $2500. Y View on Website • 1752 Edinburgh edition of the venerable & King James Bible, in handsome E contemporary morocco-gilt. A R R E First published in 1611, the King James L L Version of the Bible has exercised an Y incalculable impact on piety, language and I literature throughout the English-speaking G 2 world. Includes Apocrypha. With separate I 0 New Testament title page, also dated 1752. O 2 Ink presentation inscription on title page. N 0 Occasional light spotting and toning, joints and corners of contemporary morocco expertly repaired. A beautifully bound Bible O in exceptionally good condition. N L I N E

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O N L I “If Everything Else In Our Language Should Perish, It Would Alone Suffice” N E BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London, 1773. Thick quarto, contemporary full red calf gilt. $4800. View on Website 1773 edition of the magisterial King James Bible, “the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world” (Campbell, 1), handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. “Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart” (Campbell, 275). Macaulay praised it as “a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power” (PMM 114). With Apocrypha. With separate New Testament title page dated 1772. Family record opposite New Testament title page. Scattered light foxing. Contemporary calf gilt binding attractive with light expert restoration, expert repair to front joint, later endpapers.

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O N Very Finely Bound 1813 Quarto Edition Of The King James Bible, L Two Volumes In Elegant Contemporary Morocco-Gilt I N BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments… London, 1813. Two volumes. Quarto, E contemporary full paneled straight-grain crimson morocco gilt. $5500. View on Website Distinguished 1813 quarto edition of the magisterial King James Bible, beautifully bound as two volumes in contemporary full straight-grain morocco-gilt. First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. This impressive quarto edition reprints Eyre and Strahan’s quarto edition of seven years earlier. “The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America recommended that this should be adopted as its standard edition”—despite the fact that its text “is very far from faultless”: for instance, Ephesians 4:16 reads “holy body” as opposed to the correct reading of “whole body” (Darlow & Moule 1035). Calligraphic contemporary owner inscriptions; family record in first volume. A beautiful Bible in fine condition.

& R A E R X E P L B O O R O A K T S I O • N E “One Of The Most Iconic Figures Of The Early 20th Century” A R (GREAT BRITAIN & MIDDLE EAST) LAWRENCE, T.E., WOOLLEY, C. LEONARD. Palestine L Exploration Fund, [1914-1915]. The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report.). Y London, 1915. Tall quarto (8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches), original half navy cloth. $1650. 2 View on Website 0 2 First edition, first issue, of “the first of Lawrence’s books to appear in book form,” with large 0 folding plan, seven full-page maps, plans and illustrations, 37 photographic plates and nearly 60 in-text illustrations, a handsome copy. O “During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying N detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev L region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the I war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote N The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence’s works to appear in book form” (O’Brien, 6). Their stated E assignment was “to trace ancient caravan routes, identify Biblical sites, and generally find out what they could about the historical development of a hitherto seldom explored region” (James, Golden Warrior, 76). Lawrence, however, would write that Kitchener “insisted on the Palestine Exploration Fund’s bringing out its record of our archaeological researching, p.d.q. as a whitewash” (O’Brien, 6). Lawrence remains “one of the most iconic figures of the early 20th century… As General Allenby, chief British commander in the Middle East during WWI, noted, Lawrence was first among equals: ‘There is no other man I know,’ he asserted, ‘who could have achieved what Lawrence did’” (Smithsonian). Introduction by Lawrence. The maps were compiled by “Lawrence from the Survey materials drawn out by B.V. Darbishire. The plates are from photographs taken by both authors.” Without rare glassine. Interior very fresh, rear inner paper hinge expertly reinforced, mild toning to spine of original cloth, a bit of rubbing to boards. A desirable near-fine copy.

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O N First Edition Of T.E. Lawrence’s Crusader Castles L I (GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, & MIDDLE EAST) LAWRENCE, T.E. Crusader Castles. Volume I: The Thesis. Volume II: N The Letters. London, 1936. Two volumes. Small quarto, original three-quarter russet morocco gilt. $3600. E View on Website First edition, one of a total edition of 1035 copies (1000 numbered), with numerous illustrations and two folding maps in a laid-in pocket. “This is the first of the Golden Cockerel volumes of Lawrence’s ‘literary remains’ to be published after his death. Lawrence gathered much of the material for this work on a solitary walking trek in the Near East in the summer of 1909. Lawrence’s thesis in this work is counter to the accepted view that improvements in military architecture had been brought back from the Near East by the Crusaders: he believed rather that the improvements had been developed in Europe and taken by Crusaders to the Near East” (O’Brien, 132). Originally written as Lawrence’s final examination thesis at Oxford, where he studied history. Lawrence visited many of the important castles in England, Wales, and France, as well as in Syria and Northern Palestine. Without original glassine. A lovely copy in about-fine condition.

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O N L I With 12 Lovely Folio Chromolithographs Of Views In Northern France N E (FRANCE) BRANDLING, Henry Charles. Views in the North of France [cover title]. London, 1848. Large folio (18-1/2 by 23 inches), original printed pictorial boards neatly rebacked. $4000. View on Website First edition of this collection of 12 lovely mounted chromolithographic views of cathedrals, estates, and towns in the north of France. Brandling, from a prominent family in Northumberland, was a member of the Royal Academy. Outside of this suite of prints, little else is known of his work. Originally issued loose in a portfolio, with two pages of subscribers and 12 pages of descriptive text, not present. Issued with the plates both uncolored and colored and mounted in a portfolio. Only 183 total copies were subscribed, making this colored issue certainly quite rare. Abbey, Travel 98. Some foxing to a few card mounts only, plates clean and fine. Corners bumped, a few scuffs to boards. An excellent copy of this lovely large folio work. Scarce and desirable.

221 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) T B R “The Lasting Memorial A A Of Old St Paul’s” U V M E (GREAT BRITAIN) DUGDALE, A L William. The History of St. Paul’s N Cathedral, in London. London, & 1818. Large, thick folio (10-1/2 R by 16 inches), 19th-century three- A E R quarter calf. $2400. X E View on Website P L Fine 19th-century folio edition B O of Dugdale’s history of St. Paul’s O R Cathedral, with engraved frontispiece O A portrait and 68 folio engravings K T (nine double-page), including all of S I Hollar’s illustrations for the original O • N 1658 edition re-engraved for this “beautifully printed” edition. “With E the destruction of the cathedral in A the great fire of 1666 Dugdale’s book R became the lasting memorial of old St L Paul’s” (ODNB). Y Sir William Dugdale’s “love of antiquarian 2 research” and scrupulous reliance on primary materials helped preserve 0 countless historical sources and resulted 2 in his recognition as a founder of modern 0 historiography. “An acquaintance drew Dugdale’s attention to a collection of records O relating to St Paul’s Cathedral. Following N this trail he was led to Scriveners’ Hall, L where he was lent ‘ten porters’ burthens’ I of charters and rolls and other manuscripts N ‘in bags and hampers’—unsorted like many E legal and state documents at that time, and in mouldering neglect. With the spectacle close at hand of the great church slowly deteriorating from years of maltreatment and sacrilegious use, Dugdale rapidly compiled The History of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which was published in 1658. Not only did this book print the surviving documentary records of the cathedral, it also preserved the appearance of the building. Its Norman and Gothic details and the alterations made by Inigo Jones in the 1630s were recorded in extensive plates, once again prepared by Hollar, several of them based on drawings made by William Sedgwick in 1641. With the destruction of the cathedral in the great fire of 1666 Dugdale’s book became the lasting memorial of old St Paul’s” (ODNB). “This edition is beautifully printed in double columns, and the plates, the greater of which are executed by W. Finden, are faithful copies from the originals. It likewise contains some additional plates, illustrative of the present cathedral” (Lowndes). First published in 1658. Occasional marginal foxing. Plates generally clean and fine. Light expert restoration to binding. An exceptionally good copy. Scarce.

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Original Late 19th-Century Photographic Album Of Cathedrals O N In The British Isles, With 116 Albumen Prints L (GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND) (PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM). Tourist photographic album of cathedrals in I N England, Scotland and Ireland. No place, circa 1887. Folio, contemporary full white parchment gilt, dust E jacket; 40 leaves. $3800. View on Website Original late 19th-century photographic album containing 116 albumen prints depicting views of notable cathedrals in England, Scotland and Ireland, mounted on thick blue card, in a beautiful parchment-gilt binding by Giulio Giannini of Florence, Italy. Presumably compiled by a tourist, this album contains prints of such sites as Canterbury, St. Paul’s, Durham, Exeter, Westminster Abbey, Tintern Abbey, and others. Most prints measure 5-1/4 by 8 inches, placed two on a sheet, though one measures 7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches; each is titled in the print along the lower edge. With Giulio Giannini’s publicity card laid in. Owner ink signature dated 1887. Cloth dust wrapper with mild soiling; parchment-gilt album beautiful and fine.

223 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) T B R With Hundreds Of Striking Black-And-White A A U V Photographs Of Grand English Interiors M E (GREAT BRITAIN) LATHAM, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture & Adornments A L N of Some of the Most Notable Houses of England. London and New York, 1907-09. Three volumes. Folio (11 by 16 inches), original gilt- & R stamped blue cloth. $1600. A E View on Website R X Mixed first and second edition, with E P hundreds of striking black-and- L white photographs—many folio- B O O sized—of the interiors of stately R O A English homes. K T This work was intended as a sort of S I continuation or updating of Nash’s O 1839 lithographic Mansions of England • N in the Olden Time: “In the years that have passed many things have become E possible which then were not dreamt A of. Not only is there riper and better R knowledge, but photography, though L much abused, has come as the handmaid Y of those who understand best what are the beauties and the splendours of old 2 English domestic interiors.” Volume I is 0 second edition, published 3 years after 2 the 1904 first edition; the two other 0 volumes are first editions. Interiors fine; ornate publisher’s cloth with O modest wear to spines, gilt bright. An impressive production. N L I N E

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2 “Monuments Of Intellectual Worth 0 2 And Glory”: With 60 Finely Engraved 0 Picturesque Views Of Italian Scenery O (ITALY) BATTY, Elizabeth Frances. Italian Scenery. London, 1820. N Royal octavo, contemporary full straight-grain black morocco gilt. L $2000. I View on Website N First edition of this lovely volume of picturesque views throughout Italy, with 60 E fine engraved plates, engraved vignette title page and vignette tailpiece, beautifully bound in contemporary morocco-gilt by Hering, with his binder’s ticket. “To have seen Italy is an advantage which may be ranked amongst the highest means of mental improvement, and is by many considered the necessary complement of a classical education… Italy has been the seat of empire, and still will continue to be the nursery of genius and repository of the fine arts; second only to Greece in interest, but surpassing it, perhaps, in magnificence and variety of scenery, every spot of her surface, every mountain, every rivulet, have been illustrated by the energies of the human mind, and are become monuments of intellectual worth and glory” (pp. 1-2). A lovely, delightfully illustrated volume in fine condition.

225 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) T B R A A Signed By Anne U V Morrow Lindbergh M E A L And Inscribed In The N Year Of Publication By & Charles Lindbergh R A E LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. R X North to the Orient. New York, E P 1935. Octavo, original blue L cloth, dust jacket. $2900. B O O View on Website R O A First edition of Anne Morrow K T Lindbergh’s account of her journey S I to Alaska and along the Arctic O Circle to Russia, China and Japan, • N signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh E and inscribed by Charles Lindbergh A in the year of publication: “Charles R A. Lindbergh. North Haven—1935.” L In July of 1931, Anne Morrow Lindbergh Y took off with her husband Charles in their aircraft Sirius on a journey that 2 would extend for over two months 0 and take her to places “where no white 2 woman had been before.” Their voyage 0 took them from College Point, Long Island, to Alaska, then by way of St. O Lawrence Island to Siberia, Kamchatka, N and Japan. From Osaka, where they L discovered a stowaway in the plane, I they crossed the Yellow Sea to China N and went up the Yangtze River to E Nanking, where they brought aid to flood refugees. With photographic frontispiece and numerous in-text cartographic illustrations from maps by Charles Lindbergh. Book fine; light edge-wear, trace of creasing to front flap of bright near-fine dust jacket.

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“The Book Is Exceptional And… Much Sought” O N BERTALL, Charles-Albert d’Arnoux. La Vigne. Voyage autour des L Vins de France. Paris, 1878. Quarto, contemporary half brown I morocco gilt. $2200. N View on Website E First edition of this “physiological, anecdotal, historical, humorous, and scientific” survey of the wines of France, with more than 400 full-page and in-text wood-engraved illustrations by Bertall. A handsome copy. “Numerous anecdotes are given on the wines, the vineyardists, the proprietors, and tasters. The book is exceptional and, according to Vicaire, much sought” (Bitting). “Bertall made humorous designs for Parisian periodicals by the thousands; he drew many illustrations for popular editions in double columns; and he was also a major contributor to Balzac’s Oeuvres Completes and Le Diable a Paris” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 299). Bitting, 38. Interior clean, corners gently rounded. An excellent copy in handsome contemporary French binding.

230 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) P B A “A Remarkable Work”: A S U T First Edition Of M I Vizetelly’s Copiously A M Illustrated History Of N E S Champagne, 1882 R A VIZETELLY, Henry. A History of R Champagne with Notes on the E Other Sparkling Wines of France. London, 1882. Quarto, recent B green cloth with original cloth O covers and spine panel neatly and O expertly laid down. $2600. K View on Website S

First edition of this history of champagne, • illustrated with lithographic frontispiece, five engraved plates, folding color E lithographic map of vineyards, and A hundreds of in-text engravings. R English journalist Vizetelly, “living in Paris L when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, Y was captured and only narrowly escaped execution. Following the war he took up 2 residence outside of Paris and ‘resumed 0 my studies of the more famous wines of 2 the world’” (Gabler, 291). His extensive 0 knowledge of wine earned him a role of wine juror at the Vienna and Paris wine exhibitions O in 1873 and 1878. A History of Champagne is N “a remarkable work that traces the history of L Champagne and its wine over 1800 years… I This is Vizetelly’s best-known work. It is a N revised and considerably expanded edition E of Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines [1879]. The text is strikingly illustrated with 350 engravings, including numerous illustrations from ancient manuscripts and 200 original sketches made under the author’s supervision” (Gabler G40330). Interior clean, gilt very bright. A most desirable, nicely restored copy.

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“Get Into The Habit Of Referring To The Calendar Not Only In Emergencies, O But Daily, And Do Not Look Upon It As Too Good For Everyday” N L HILLER, Elizabeth O. Set of Culinary Calendars: Sandwiches and Beverages; Luncheons Teas and Suppers; Salads, New Dinners for All I Occasions; and Cakes, Fillings and Frostings. Joliet, Illinois and Chicago, circa 1915-20. Five volumes. Oblong octavo (5-1/2 by 11 inches), cord- N bound as issued, original pictorial paper wrappers. $1400. E View on Website Early editions of these scarce and entertaining five culinary calendars filled Company. German-born Paul Frederick Volland founded the his company with the with themed recipes (sandwiches, dinners, cakes, etc.)—one for each day of intention of publishing artful greeting cards. By 1917, he had expanded his scope to the year—compiled by one of the most famous food personalities in early 20th- include calendars and children’s books, among them the famous Raggedy Ann series. Hiller’s culinary calendars continued to be his steady best-sellers. The titles in this set century America. include: The Calendar of Sandwiches & Beverages; The Calendar of Luncheons, Teas, Elizabeth O. Hiller was a well-known “lecturer on household science” and Principal and Suppers; New Calendar of Salads; New Dinners for All Occasions; and The Calendar of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School. She gained early fame in 1905 as of Cakes, Fillings, and Frostings. Without original boxes. Recipes laid into Salads and runner-up to Fannie Farmer in a competition to become the new columnist for The tipped onto the wrapper versos of Sandwiches & Beverages. Interiors generally fine, a Women’s Home Companion. Hiller’s series of calendars, including those on salads, bit of wear and soiling to wrappers including a few small corners torn away, tape to luncheons, sandwiches, desserts and cakes were all published by the P.F. Volland verso of corner of Dinners. Extremely good condition.

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O N L I The Modern Carpenter, Eight Volumes, Profusely Illustrated, N In Fine Publisher’s Arts And Crafts Style Bindings E

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2 0 Inscribed By Heavyweight James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, 2 0 With A Laid-In Autograph Letter By Him O CORBETT, James J. The Roar of the Crowd. The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion. Garden City, New York, 1926. N Octavo, original red cloth. $1500. L View on Website I First edition of this autobiography of a world heavyweight champion, inscribed: “To my friend William Tebben with best regards. Jas J. Corbett. N Bayside, N.Y. Aug 16/28.” Accompanied by a signed autograph letter from Corbett to the inscribee happily agreeing to sign this copy. E “Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining first-person account of the pugilistic glories of heavyweight champion ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, considered by some to be the father of modern boxing. Almost [100] years later, the book remains relevant and informative, allowing a glimpse into the idiosyncrasies of professional boxing from a time when the sport, while still illegal in many jurisdictions, was truly part of the fabric of social life. Written in a colloquial and accessible style, Corbett’s account is a swift and enjoyable read; by the end one is charmed by the former champion’s affability and openness… For boxing fans, the best moments of the book deal with Corbett’s biggest fights, his showdowns with Peter Jackson, John L. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Jim Jeffries. He writes in detail regarding his training methods and dietary habits and about the psychological battles he waged with his adversaries… Corbett’s tale is recommended reading for those interested in the history of boxing, as well as for those looking for eloquence and lucidity in the tale of the rise and fall of a true champion” (The Fight City). The accompanying signed autograph letter on Corbett’s personal letterhead shows Corbett “only to[o] happy to autograph The Roar of the Crowd.” A very nearly fine inscribed copy in very bright original cloth, with an accompanying signed autograph letter.

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O N L I N “Fair Play Is The Highest Law Of Sportsmen The World Over” E (POLO) STOCK, Alphons. International Sport. London, New York, circa 1930. Tall folio (11 by 17 inches), original full pebbled burgundy morocco. $3800. View on Website Limited first edition of this gallery of the most notable equestrian sportsmen and sportswomen of the world circa 1930, one of only 250 copies, with 65 lovely photogravure portraits, many astride their horses. Includes profiles of the King of Spain Alfonso XIII and Edward, Prince of Wales, who would go on to become Edward VIII in 1936 and then the Duke of Windsor when he abdicated. Also renowned sportswoman Pansy Ireland, William DuPont, John Hertz, Edward Hurd, George H. Mead, Prince Aga Khan, Richard Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and many others. Text in English and French. Text and photogravures clean and fine. Minor discoloration to front cover, very nearly fine condition. A splendid treasure house of important personalities in equestrian sports, very scarce.

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O N L “Wait Till We Get In Brooklyn! We’ll Murder The Bums!” I N GRAHAM, Frank. The Brooklyn Dodgers. New York, 1945. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $2800. E View on Website First edition of this lively account of the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers by famed Brooklyn fan… The cast of characters which paraded in and out of Brooklyn has been sportswriter Frank Graham, an exceptional presentation copy, inscribed: “To an extraordinary one… the humorous Casey Stengel, the fiery Leo Durocher,” and many My Friend Charlie Reardon, sincerely Leo ‘D’urocher,” and signed by seven more. This especially memorable association copy contains the signatures of manager Leo Durocher and seven ballplayers from the 1945 team: Curt Davis, Howie Schultz, Dixie ballplayers from the 1945 “Brooks”: Curt Davis, Howie Schultz, Dixie Walker, Ed Walker, Ed Stanky, Hal Gregg, Babe Herman and Bill Hart. The Brooklyn Dodgers would go Stanky, Hal Gregg, Babe Herman and Bill Hart, in scarce original dust jacket. on to win “their last National League pennant on the final day of the 1956 season. In 1957 On publication critics immediately praised The Brooklyn Dodgers, writing: “Frank Graham, they finished third. In 1958 they were gone,” moving from Ebbets Field to Los Angeles a sports writing craftsman with few peers, has told the story of the Brooks in a swift- (New York Times). Book near-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of light edge-wear moving, appealing and light-hearted manner… It’s a story of success and failure, of tragic and some tape reinforcement on verso, near-fine. A desirable signed copy. moments (a few) and of daffy doings (many) but back of it all is the fierce loyalty of the

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O First Edition Of Hargrave’s Richly Illustrated History Of Playing Cards, 1930 N HARGRAVE, Catherine Perry. A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming. Boston L and New York, 1930. Folio (9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt, I custom slipcase. $1800. N E View on Website First edition of Hargrave’s exhaustive work on the playing card and its place in history, with nearly 1500 illustrations (30 in color), handsomely bound. This work offers a comprehensive history of six centuries of playing cards, explaining both the manufacturing process of cards and the imagery on the cards and its symbolism. It also addresses the various card games that have enjoyed popularity and offers information about the settings in which the games were played. Hargrave’s work also discusses world history in the context of cards, explaining how politics, geography, socioeconomics, and other issues related to the cards during various time periods. The book contains an annotated bibliography of more than 900 items on playing cards and games, and nearly 1500 black-and- white illustrations and 30 color illustrations, with cards from China, Japan, India, Europe, Russia and America depicted. “The most authoritative and complete treatment of its kind” (New York Times). Interior exceptionally nice, only slight rubbing to binding, repair to front joint. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.

238 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) P B A A S U T Signed By Julia Child M I A M And Jacques Pépin N E CHILD, Julia and PÉPIN, Julia S R and Jacques. Cooking at Home. A New York, 1999. Large quarto, R original photographic paper E boards, dust jacket. $1500. View on Website B First edition of this delightful and O wonderfully illustrated cookbook co- O K authored by two legendary chefs— S Julia Child and Jacques Pépin—and signed by both. • Once, when asked in an interview about her favorite thing, Julia Child “paused E a beat, and with eyes suddenly bright, A answered: ‘Cooking with other chefs!’ R That deceptively simple phrase was L quintessential Julia: clear, modest, Y committed, eager to participate, and happiest when she was sharing delicious 2 food with others.” To Jacques Pépin, co- 0 author of this wonderful cookbook that 2 captures her delight in cooking with 0 fellow chef, “‘Julia Child demystified French cuisine in a way that had not O been done before, in an appealing, N straightforward way.’ A self-confessed L ham, she became a darling of audiences I and comedians almost from the N moment she made her debut on WGBH E in Boston in 1963 at the age of 50. ‘I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way,’ Child once said” (New York Times). Co-authored with David Nussbaum. Illustrated from photographs by Christopher Hirsheimer. A fine copy.

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