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				Charles Dickens. The Christmas Books. 1845-48. First editions of all five Dickens Christmas Books, handsomely bound by Bayntun Riviere with original cloth covers and spines bound in at rear. $15,000		Want to learn more about the exciting field of rare book collecting? Purchase Rare Finds: A Guide to Book Collecting* by David and Natalie Bauman*



				MarkTwain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Lovely first edition of Twain's classic, in the original cloth-gilt binding. $18,000.		Sign up to receive the Bauman Rare Books Newsletter.


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				John Adams. A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States. 1788. Boston edition of Adams' important study of American government, one of three American printings issued at the same time - shortly after the London first edition. $6000.


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				Cooper Willyams. A Voyage up the Mediterranean. 1802. First edition, one of only 100 large-paper copies, with maps and beautiful hand-colored plates depicting landscapes throughout the Mediterranean region. $18,500.



				Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs. 1885-86. A classic Civil War autobiography: first edition, two volumes in publisher's deluxe full morocco, with a card signed by Grant laid in. $4800.



				George Custer. My Life on the Plains. 1874. First edition of Custer's illustrated autobiographical account of his years as a cavalryman in the west. $4500.



				John Maynard Keynes. A Treatise on Money. 1930. First edition of Keynes' important work on monetary theory, two volumes in the original dust jackets. $8000.



				Homer, George Chapman. The Iliad. 1612. Rare first complete edition of Chapman's celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad, the first translation into English. Folio. $20,000.



				Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1866. Very rare first American edition, virtually the earliest obtainable edition of this children's classic. A beautiful copy in original cloth. $22,500.



				Joe DiMaggio. The DiMaggio Albums. 1989. First edition, one of 700 sets signed by DiMaggio. Two quarto volumes in original morocco bindings and slipcase. $2200.



				J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings. 1954-55. First editions, first printings, in original dust jackets, of Tolkien's landmark trilogy. $42,500.



				Charles Lindbergh. The Wartime Journals. 1970. First edition, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographic plates, inscribed and signed by Lindbergh. $3500.



				Edmund Hillary. Ice Axe Signed. Authentic vintage ice axe, boldly signed by Hillary on the wooden shaft. $1500.



				John Esquemeling. Bucaniers of America. 1684. First edition of Esquemeling's early account of buccaneers in the Americas, with plates and maps. Quarto volume in 17th-century calf. $13,000.



				Dr. Seuss. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1957. First edition, in the original dust jacket, wonderfully illustrated. $4000.

A.A. Milne. The Four Pooh Books 1924-28. First editions of Milne's delightful Pooh books, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, four volumes in original dust jackets. $28,000.