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Catalogue Pilgrim 2008 April 2008 New Acquisitions. We are pleased to present our most recent catalogue, featuring superb new acquisitions, including the first edition of the full score of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and the deluxe first edition of Shackleton’s Heart of the Antarctic, inscribed by Shackleton and signed by every member of the expedition. With over 150 items in every subject area to choose from, you are certain to find something exceptional. If you would like to receive a copy of our most recent catalogue, please send your request with your name and address to: catalogues@baumanrarebooks.com If you would like to inquire about a specific title or author not included here, please don't hesitate to contact us at 1-800-992-2862. You can also reach us by email at brb@baumanrarebooks.com. We look forward to hearing from you. |
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Featured Item - Tender is the Night |
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BOLDLY SIGNED BY FITZGERALD: FIRST EDITION OF TENDER IS THE NIGHT, IN FIRST-ISSUE DUST JACKET FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. Octavo, original dark bluish green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First edition, in scarce original first-issue dust jacket, boldly signed by Fitzgerald. A lovely, bright copy. "For the title of his favorite among his books, the one he had wrought most painfully and carefully from his costly experience, Fitzgerald hit on a phrase from the ‘Ode to a Nightingale,’ evoking that poem’s timeless images of flight, dissolution, and the sweetness of death… it was Fitzgerald’s most ambitious work, his intended masterpiece… Everything hinged on Tender is the Night… He had Gatsby to his credit, but he wasn’t sure about Gatsby (Turnbull, 241-6). Cyril Connally called Tender is the Night “a wonderful evocation of the second phase of American expatriates ensconced in glittering villas on the Riviera in contrast to the home-spun tipplers of The Sun Also Rises. The break-down of a marriage is described with flashes of genius by an expert in self-destruction” (The Modern Movement, 79). First-issue dust jacket, with blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld on front flap. Bruccoli A15.I.a. F. Scott Fitzgerald gave this copy to his wife, Zelda, for her to give to friends. At the bottom of the rear free endpaper, the recipient has written of the provenance: November 2nd 1934, from Mrs. F. to M.S.D.” Book near-fine, with only minimal fading to spine. Lovely, very bright dust jacket with some expert restoration. A most desirable signed first edition of Fitzgerald’s favorite of his books. $75,000. |
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Berenice Abbott. Changing New York. 1939. First edition of Abbott’s landmark photo-essay on New York City, with 97 photographic images. $6500. |
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(Antiphonal.) Nineteenth-century Antiphonal: Tota pulchra es, Maria (Thou art entirely beautiful, Mary). 19th century. Handsome 19th-century manuscript Church antiphonal, Large folio, in contemporary calf binding with brass furniture. $8000. |
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Dante. Opere del Divino Poeta Danthe. 1512. Landino’s important edition, decorated with woodcuts throughout, in full brown calf, with elaborately blind-stamped spine and covers and brass clasps and catches. $13,500. |
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Ernest Graham. The Architectural Works of Graham Anderson Probst & White. 1933. Signed limited first edition, with 386 fine folio plates, in handsome publisher’s binding. Two volumes. $8500 |
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Charles A. Lindbergh. Photograph inscribed. circa 1930. Beautiful large photographic print of Charles Lindbergh and his wife in their airplane, inscribed by them. $8500. |
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NASA. The Many Faces of Mars: Original 1973 visual-relief globe of the red planet made with data gathered by Mariner 9. Measures 16 inches in diameter, includes wooden stand and accompanying booklet. $7500. |
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