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3 No. 02 Charles Dickens' Christmas Books No. 58 Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn No. 88 James D. Watson's The Double Helix No. 03 Doves Press English Bible FEATURING
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 4 01ELIOT, T.S. Prufrock and Other Observations. London, 1917. 12mo, original stiff buff paper wrappers, custom chemise and slipcase. $125,000 Rare first edition of T.S. Eliot’s first book, one of only 500 copies printed, inscribed by Eliot less than one year before his death., “Inscribed for William S. Gray by T.S. Eliot 19.v.64.” One cannot overestimate the significance of this slender volume; this was the first great volume of poetry from a writer who transformed English poetry. Copies are exceedingly rare—only 500 copies in total were printed, and signed or inscribed copies are extraordinarily so. “The guiding spirit behind Eliot’s first book of poetry had been that of Ezra Pound. He first broached the idea “Let Us Go Then, You And I…”: Extremely Rare Inscribed First Edition Of Eliot’s Prufrock, His First Book And “The Birth Of Modern Poetry In English”
5 and, because of the worries and fatigue which preoccupied Eliot, organized and collected the material which is contained within the volume… It was not easy to find a publisher… Pound took the typescript to Harriet Shaw Weaver of the Egoist. He told her, in confidence, that he would raise the money for the printing of the book if she would allow him to use her imprint. She agreed (in fact, the money came largely from Dorothy Pound, although Eliot was not to know this)” (Ackroyd, 79). “His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of ‘modernism’ in English, was ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’ Nothing like the first three lines of ‘Prufrock’ had previously appeared in English poetry” (Britannica). Gallup A1. The owner of this volume, William Shelton Gray, Jr., first met Eliot at Harvard University in the late 1940s “when he came there as a guest lecturer. While he stayed at my dormitory, Eliot House, he asked me to call on him the next time I was in London.” Some years later, while working on his Ph.D. dissertation on Eliot, Gray took up on Eliot’s offer and contacted him. “I got to know Mr. Eliot rather well, mostly in his office at Faber and Faber on Russell Square in London. When I knew him it was late in his life... When I was writing my dissertation he was very helpful and read over parts of it and commented on it. Mr. Eliot never ever under any circumstances discussed his own works directly, but he would discuss openly the works of others... The last time I saw him he was in his office. I asked him whether he considered himself to be an American or English poet, to which he answered, American” (The William Shelton Gray, Jr. Library, Part II, audio recording). It was apparently at his last meeting with Eliot, in May of 1964, that Gray presented several volumes for Eliot to sign, including a first edition of Prufrock and Other Observations, which Gray had purchased earlier that day. Eliot died in early January 1965. Overall in excellent condition for such a fragile book: front hinge tender, early professional reattachment to secure the spine, a few spots of soiling to wrappers.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 6 02DICKENS, Charles. The Christmas Books. London, 1843-48. Together, five volumes. 12mo, original cloth, custom box. $45,000 “The One Great Christmas Myth Of Modern Literature”: Lovely First Issue Of A Christmas Carol, Together With Exceptional Copies Of The Other Four Christmas Books, All In Original Gilt-Decorated Cloth
7 First editions of all five of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books—chief among them a first issue of his immortal Christmas Carol, the veritable “Bible of Christmas”—illustrated with 63 engravings, four in color, by Leech, Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle and Landseer, all books in the original giltdecorated cloth. A Christmas Carol “may readily be called the Bible of Christmas… It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day… the number of reprintings have been so many that all attempts at the figures have been futile. Altogether 24 editions were issued in the original format” (Eckel, 110). “It was a work written at the height of Dickens’ great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor” (John Mortimer). “Suddenly conceived and written within a few weeks, [A Christmas Carol] was the first of Dickens’ Christmas books (a new literary genre thus created incidentally)… it was an extraordinary achievement—the one great Christmas myth of modern literature.” The publication history of A Christmas Carol is bibliographically complex. This copy is from the first issue, with uncorrected text (“Stave I” as the first chapter heading), the red-and-blue title page dated 1843, and all other first issue points (Smith II:4). Dickens followed A Christmas Carol’s tremendous success with four more Christmas books. In each book, he deftly develops the themes of the first, ideals that have consequently become inseparable from the holiday itself: love and redemption, charity and mercy. Christmas Carol extremely good with faint soiling to title page, a few spots to text, repaired tear to Plate 2, just touching image, light expert restoration to original cloth, gilt bright. Other volumes near-fine with slightly darkened spines, gilt bright. Overall, a lovely set.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 8 03(DOVES PRESS). The English Bible. Containing the Old Testament & The New. Hammersmith, 1903-05. Five volumes. Folio (9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full green morocco gilt, custom boxes. $40,000 The Magnificent Doves Press English Bible, 1903-07, In A Superb Binding Featuring Ten Full Original Paintings On The Pastedown One of the landmarks of 20th-century printing: the magnificent Doves Press Bible, one of only 500 copies, extra-illustrated with ten prints and three original drawings, in a superb binding with each pastedown featuring an original painting by J. Vila. The Doves Press, founded in 1900 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, was one of the greatest of the private presses. Books printed at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity, “dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type, the excellence of the layout, and the perfection of the presswork” (Cave, 147). “When it is said that they [Doves Press books] approach dangerously near to absolute perfection in composition, presswork, and page placement, everything has been said. Their peculiarly
9 individual quality is entire absence of decoration. Not a single floret appears; besides the characters of a simple roman alphabet there is only a paragraph mark... Of approximately fifty publications issued between 1901 and 1916, the outstanding item is the complete Bible, published in five large quarto volumes… The Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer stand side by side upon the highest peak of typographical accomplishment, utterly dissimilar yet with the same element of greatness incontestible. Though popular belief holds the Gutenberg Bible to be the most beautiful book ever printed, these two monumental volumes prove once more that popular belief may be inaccurate” (Ransom, 56). Bound without a few preliminary or concluding blank leaves. The extraordinary binding on this Bible, with stunning cross emblems on each board done in elaborate gilt and morocco onlays, features ten original paintings on the pastedowns, seven of which are signed “J. Vila.” Interior with occasional light foxing, generally to initial and concluding leaves only; very mild toning to spines, joints a bit rubbed. A landmark Bible, magnificently bound.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 10 04JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1755. Two volumes. Tall thick folio, period-style full red morocco gilt. $30,000 “The Most Amazing, Enduring And Endearing One-Man Feat”: 1755 First Edition Of Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary First edition of the first great dictionary of the English language, Johnson’s “audacious attempt to tame his unruly native tongue… combining huge erudition with a steely wit and remarkable clarity of thought” (Hitchings, 3)—“Johnson’s writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics,” beautifully bound in period-style calf gilt. “Johnson’s Dictionary made him a superstar. To be sure, there had been dictionaries before his. The difference is that, while these were compiled, Johnson’s was written… The glory of the book is that it is also a compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the masters, often Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson sought to ‘intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology” (Smithsonian Book of Books). “Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography… The preface ranks among Johnson’s finest writings… It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster’s statement that Johnson’s writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics” (PMM 201). Carlyle paid this tribute: “Had Johnson left nothing but his Dictionary, one might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man” (Baugh, et al., 992). Courtney & Smith, 54. Marginal repair to leaf 9N2 in Volume I, interiors otherwise crisp and fine. A beautiful copy.
11 05DONNE, John. Poems, By J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. BOUND WITH: Juvenilia, or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. London, 1633. Small thick quarto, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked, custom clamshell box. $52,000 First edition of the collected poems of the greatest of the metaphysical poets, with the first edition of his “perfectly impudent” Juvenilia, bound together in contemporary calf boards. From the famed Beeleigh Abbey library of W.A. Foyle, with his bookplate. Donne deliberately kept most of his poetry out of print, fearing to tarnish his reputation in the religious establishment. Thus almost none of his poetry appeared in print during his lifetime. “The poetry of Donne represents a sharp break with that written by his predecessors and most of his contemporaries. Whether he writes of love or devotion, Donne’s particular blend of wit and seriousness, of intense feeling, darting thought, and vast erudition, creates a fascination quite beyond the reach of easier styles and less strenuous minds” (Adams). This edition contains “the first collected edition of Donne’s poems, derived according to current scholarly thinking from manuscript sources in direct descent from the author’s papers. It has been the basis of all scholarly editions since then” (Pirie 81), and “has more authority than any other in print” (Keynes 78). Donne’s Poems is bound here with the first edition of his Juvenilia; the Juvenilia consist of “bits of logical horseplay, loaded with legal aphorisms perversely applied, and perfectly impudent in their cheerful, brassy assurance”’ (Adams). Keynes 78, 43. Pforzheimer 296. Front pastedown with small leather Beeleigh Abbey label of famed bookseller and collector William A. Foyle. Light embrowning overall; title page with small repair to outer margin, a few leaves with faint waterstaining to lower portions. A desirable copy in contemporary calf of this literary landmark. “Love, All Alike, No Season Knows, Nor Clyme”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 12 06DICKENS, Charles. The Works. New York and London, 1881-85. Sixty volumes. Large octavo, 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $30,000 An extra-illustrated copy of the Chapman and Hall Large Paper Edition of Dicken’s Works, with over 800 additional illustrations (hundreds of which are hand colored), including scores of original signed watercolors by illustrators such as Kyd and H.C. Green, sumptuously bound in full morocco-gilt with leather onlays and full leather doublures. “Charles Dickens was the last of the great 18th-century novelists and the first of the great symbolic novelists, and in the crushing equilibrium between these two forces dwells the real strength of his art” (Ackroyd, 1081). Dickens “in his own realm has always been unrivaled… His sleepless imagination exaggerated the comic side of everything, Splendid 60-Volume Set Of Dickens’ Works, Sumptuously Bound And Abundantly Extra-Illustrated, With Original Signed Watercolors By Kyd And H.C. Green
13 and developed the suggestions of reality into humorous idealisms far transcending the proportions of ordinary life” (Baker). “His imaginative freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness and pity, his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit, his superabundance of creative energy, have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 184). This copy has been sumptuously bound and extraillustrated by Edinboro Publishing Company with over 800 additional plates. Eight volumes with minor repairs to joints and spine ends. Fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 14 07MILTON, John. Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions. London, 1673. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches), 19th-century full dark purple crushed morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $8500 First expanded edition of Milton’s Poems, initially printed in 1645, with over 40 poems “printed here for the first time,” including the first printing of Sonnet XVI, the first sonnet to refer to Milton’s blindness; the Chevalier copy, handsomely bound by Roger de Coverly & Sons. “After Shakespeare and Chaucer, John Milton is the most eminent poet in the English language… No other great poet, not even Dante, began with so clear and systematic an intention to devote himself entirely to poetry” (Bloom, John Milton, 1). This edition, “doubtless authorized by Milton,” is the first expanded edition of the earlier collection titled Poems of Mr. John Milton (1645). Containing all the works therein, this scarce volume also includes “a number of poems here printed for the first time” (Wither to Prior 573). Notably, this edition features the first printing of Sonnet XVI, the first published sonnet to refer to Milton’s blindness and especially memorable for its final line—“They also serve who only stand and waite.” With Pforzheimer’s second state title page containing “Blew Anchor” in its imprint. “The title is otherwise from the same setting as the [first state] and the alteration was evidently made while the first sheet was still in the press” (Pforzheimer). Wing 2161A. Bookplates of notable collectors Templeton Crocker and Paul Edward Chevalier; small modern “SCM” label. Contents overall clean, faint waterstaining to a few upper outer corners. A stunning, finely bound copy. “After Shakespeare And Chaucer, John Milton Is The Most Eminent Poet In The English Language”
15 “The Standard For Future Editors And Publishers”: 1785 Edition Of Johnson And Steevens’ Plays Of Shakespeare, Lovely Set In Contemporary Boards 08SHAKESPEARE. The Plays of William Shakespeare. London, 1785. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, four volumes rebacked with original spines and labels laid down. $9800 Third edition of Johnson and Steevens’ Shakespeare, in handsome contemporary tree calf boards. Samuel Johnson and George Steevens’ edition of Shakespeare “was considered the best edition that had appeared up to that time, and was long regarded as the standard” (Grolier, Shakespeare’s Plays, 19). “This edition, in which were united the native powers of Dr. Johnson with the activity, sagacity, and antiquarian learning of George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers” (Lowndes, 2261). The plays are copiously annotated throughout, with numerous introductory pieces including Johnson’s famous preface. Minor spotting and offsetting, mostly to first and last few leaves. A handsome set. “Those Are Giants; And If Thou Art Afraid, Away With Thee… While I Engage Them In Fierce And Unequal Combat” 09CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. New York, 1901. Four volumes bound in eight. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt. $4500 Limited edition, one of only 100 sets, of this English translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece, finely printed and bound, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 51 plates after drawings by Cruikshank and Lalauze. “It is interesting to realize that the first modern novel was composed by a sick, aged and impoverished man, who believed that a satirical tale might produce more revenue than the poems and plays that he regarded as his more serious mission. Under the guise of a parody on romances of chivalry, Cervantes created a study of reality and illusion, madness and sanity, that links him with such acute 16th-century students of psychology as Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare” (Folger’s Choice 30). This translation by John Ormsby was first published in 1885. Fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 16 1833 First Illustrated Edition Of Mansfield Park, Austen’s Third Novel 10AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London, 1833. Small octavo, period-style three-quarter tan calf gilt. $6500 First one-volume edition and first illustrated edition, third overall edition of Austen’s beloved third novel, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, handsomely bound. “The subject of Mansfield Park is education, or the discipline and training of the feelings… [It is] an intensely moving and intelligent comedy about modern England” (Honan, 338-48). Austen’s novels “were published anonymously, though the authorship was an open secret to her friends. It was first made public in a short biographical notice prefixed to the two posthumous novels in 1818. Miss Austen’s genius received little recognition during her life” (DNB). First published in 1814, with a second edition in 1816; an American edition appeared in 1832. Engraved title page and frontispiece expertly cleaned, otherwise only occasional mild foxing to text; two leaves creased, with small unobtrusive repairs. An excellent, beautifully bound copy. “Money Can Only Give Happiness Where There Is Nothing Else To Give It” 11AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. London, 1833. Small octavo, period-style threequarter tan calf gilt. $13,500 First illustrated and first single-volume edition, the first to identify Austen as the author, third overall edition of Jane Austen’s extraordinarily rare first novel, handsomely bound. Sense and Sensibility was Austen’s first published novel—Austen had sold Susan (the first version of Northanger Abbey) first, but the publisher failed to publish it. Sense and Sensibility “does brightly respond to an interesting religious and ethical debate over the philosophy of sentiment… [The popular view held that morality] depends on the ‘heart’ and not on the ‘head… Rational moralists opposed the tendency, and a debate was in full swing by the 1790s when novel after novel took up the twin themes of prudence and benevolence, reason and passion, head and heart, or sense and sensibility” (Honan, Jane Austen, 275-77). The second edition appeared in1813, two years after the first. Engraved title page and frontispiece expertly cleaned, otherwise only occasional mild foxing to text. An excellent, beautifully bound copy.
17 “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” 12DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London, 1859. Octavo, contemporary full green pebbled morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $13,500 First edition, first issue, bound from parts, of Dickens’ second historical novel, in nicely restored contemporary full morocco-gilt. “Dickens had always admired Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution and asked him to recommend suitable books from which he could research the period; in reply Carlyle sent him a ‘cartload’ of volumes… So great was [Dickens’] enthusiasm for the story that it had indeed ‘taken in possession’ of him… The force of the novel springs from its exploration of darkness and death but its beauty derives from Dickens’ real sense of transcendence, from his ability to see the sweep of destiny” (Ackroyd, 858). With 16 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. Originally published as a serial in Dickens’ weekly journal All the Year Round, issued in eight parts from June to December 1859. Smith I:13. Interior quite clean and fine; corners rubbed, gilt bright. A nicely refurbished copy in handsome contemporary morocco-gilt. “A Clarity And Pungency That Surpasses The Rest Of His Work” 13DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London, 1852-53. Twenty parts in 19, as issued. Octavo, original blue paper wrappers, custom slipcase and chemise. $9500 Scarce first edition in original parts and wrappers, with 40 engraved illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”), including ten dramatic “dark plates.” An excellent copy in original blue paper wrappers, with all but one advertisement present. “The Dickens cosmos, his phantasmagoric London and visionary England, emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work, before and after” (Bloom, 311). Ten of the 40 plates are Browne’s striking “dark plates,” deeply etched with a mezzotint-like chiaroscuro contrast (Hatton & Cleaver, 276-77). It is common with this work for several advertisements to be absent from the individual parts: in this copy, only one advertisement, in Part XVI, is absent. Small contemporary owner signatures on front wrappers of all but two of the parts. Plates and text in excellent condition, exceptionally fresh and clean; original wrappers with minor wear to spine ends and a few corners, spine to part XIV expertly restored. A beautiful copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 18 “I Lock’d Her In My Fond Embrace; Her Heart Was Beating Rarely: My Blessings On That Happy Place, Among The Rigs O’ Barley!” 14BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh, 1787. Octavo, period-style full tan tree calf gilt. $9000 1787 first Edinburgh edition, rare first issue, of the work which established Burns as the national poet of Scotland, preceded only by the extremely scarce Kilmarnock 1786 first edition. When Burns’ Poems first appeared in 1786, “it received the praise of both the critics and the public, [and] established Robert Burns as the national poet of Scotland... His actual success was phenomenal; he rose from the status of a versifying Ayrshire ploughman to that of the unofficial laureate of Scotland… Burns not only changed his mind about emigrating, but resolved to print a second enlarged edition of his poems at Edinburgh” (Rosenbach 46:8). Published only one year after the Kilmarnock edition and with 22 additional poems not in that edition. This copy is from the first issue, with all first issue points. With textual elisions completed in a contemporary hand. Text about-fine, beautifully rebound to style. Mary Shelley’s Important 1839 Edition Of Shelley’s Poetical Works, Handsomely Bound 15SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London, 1839. Four volumes. 12mo, later full dark green calf gilt. $4000 First edition of Mary Shelley’s important edition of her husband’s poetical works, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the poet by Finden, finely bound.. After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, Mary Shelley devoted herself to writing his biography and publishing his manuscripts. She first attempted to publish Shelley’s poems in 1824, but his father, Sir Timothy Shelley, prevented further publication of Shelley’s writings for 15 years. “In 1839, the obstacles to an authentic edition having been removed… Mrs. Shelley published what was then supposed to be a definitive edition in four volumes, enriched with biographical notes and some very beautiful lyrics which had remained in manuscript” (DNB). Lowndes, 2374. A beautifully bound set in excellent condition.
19 “That Dialogue Of Mind, Heart And Voice” 16BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London, 1791. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tree calf sympathetically rebacked, custom slipcase. $8500 First edition of “the most famous biography in any language,” handsomely bound. “If there had been no Boswell, Johnson would have been one of the most famous names in English literature; but that he has become a household name… is due to the chance that brought Boswell into his company… The fascination of their dialogue, that dialogue of mind, heart and voice round which Boswell organized his great Life, is that it is not merely between two very different men but between two epochs. In its pages, Romantic Europe speaks to Renaissance Europe, and is answered” (Wain, 229). “Boswell’s Life of Johnson remains the most famous biography in any language, one of Western literature’s most germinal achievements” (DNB). Volume I is second state, with “gve” corrected to “give” on page 135, line 10 (a change made before publication). Scattered foxing to text, light expert cleaning to frontispiece and title page of Volume I only. Expert restoration to handsome tree calf boards. First Edition Of William Morris’ Odyssey, In A Sumptuous Bayntun-Riviere Binding 17MORRIS, William. The Odyssey of Homer Done Into English Verse. London, 1887. Two volumes. Small quarto, modern full navy morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $9500 First edition of Morris’ esteemed translation, in a stunning binding with front board portrait onlays by Bayntun-Riviere. Morris’ son-in-law vividly described Morris in his study working on this project: “He would be standing at an easel or sitting with a sketchbook in front of him, charcoal, brush or pencil in hand, and all the while would be grumbling Homer’s Greek under his breath… He would prowl about the room, filling and lighting his pipe, halting to add a touch or two at one or other easel, still grumbling, go to his writing-table, snatch up his pen and write furiously for a while—20, 50 and 100 or more lines… There was something well-nigh terrifying to a youthful onlooker in the deliberate ease with which he interchanged so many forms of creative work, taking up each one exactly at the point at which he had laid it aside and never halting to recapture the thread of his thought” (Thompson, 700). Fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 20 18STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh, 1894-98. Thirtyfour volumes. Octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $25,000 Limited “Edinburgh” edition, one of 1035 copies, of this comprehensive set of Stevenson’s writings, together with his letters and a biography of Stevenson, in a beautiful and elaborate morocco-gilt binding with leather onlays and morocco doublures. “Few writers have during their lifetime commanded so much admiration and regard from their fellow-craftsmen… Energy of vision goes hand in hand with magic of presentment, and both words and things acquire new meaning and a new vitality under his touch” (DNB). This handsome set of Stevenson’s works includes such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses, along with travel pieces, essays, and juvenilia. With an introduction by Andrew Lang. In addition to the 28 volumes of the Edinburgh edition, this set also includes a one-volume Stevensoniana (London, 1903), two volumes of his letters (London, 1900), Balfour’s two-volume biography of Stevenson (London, 1901) and Prideaux’s bibliography (London, 1903). Beineke 737. Foxing to preliminaries of some volumes and the two Life volumes, marginal dampstaining to the first few leaves of In the South Seas; spines toned to brown. Beautifully Bound Set Of Stevenson’s Works
21 “No Lover Of Poe… Will Account The Arnheim Edition Superfluous” 19POE, Edgar Allan. The Complete Works. New York, 1902. Ten volumes. Octavo, publisher’s half vellum gilt. $6800 Limited “Collector’s Arnheim” edition, one of 300 sets, with 100 beautiful illustrations on Japan vellum paper—including 73 after paintings by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Few authors have shaped the course of literature as did Edgar Allan Poe. “Poe was the founder of the modern detective story… [as well as] the ablest critic of his time in America. In verse he achieved incomparable melodic effects… His influence has been incalculable in both verse and prose on later writers” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 625). With 73 plates illustrating the most dramatic moments in Poe’s poems and tales, after paintings by Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn, later renowned for his landscapes. The New York Times praised this edition at its publication: “Handsomer books than these it has never been our pleasure to handle… One feels that no lover of Poe, no student of American literature, no collector will account the Arnheim edition superfluous.” Beautifully bound and in fine condition. “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways” 20BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poetical Works. London, 1890. Six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary half red morocco. $2800 Handsomely bound, illustrated six-volume set of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems, including her Sonnets from the Portuguese. Collected works of one of the most romantic figures of the 19th century, featuring her novel in verse Aurora Leigh as well as the beloved Sonnets from the Portuguese, along with her essays “Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets” and “The Book of the Poets.” Five of the volumes open with engraved frontispiece portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at different stages of her life; other engravings picture her sitting-room at Casa Guidi, Coxhoe Hall, Hope End and her tomb, and volume IV includes a facsimile of the manuscript of “May’s Love.” Minimal rubbing to extremities; pages gently age-toned. A beautiful set.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 22 21ROSTAND, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris, 1898. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt rebacked. $14,000 First edition of Rostand’s romantic masterpiece, a scarce presentation copy to French historian Emmanuel Rodocanachi, inscribed, “à Monsieur Emmanuel P. Rodocanachi Souvenir particulièrement cordial Edmund Rostrand.” With Cyrano de Bergerac, “Edmond Rostand achieved a marvelous fusion of romantic bravura, lyric love and theatrical craftsmanship, and its success was overwhelming.” Almost immediately after its triumphant debut in Paris on December 28, 1897, “Cyrano became a perennial favourite, not only in France, but in England and America” (Hartnoll, 709). Published only a few months after Paris debut. Handsomely bound by noted French bookbinder Édouard Pagnant, with original wrappers bound in. With the bookplate of recipient Emmanuel Rodocanachi. A historian, Rodocanachi wrote respected histories on ancient Rome and Italy. Faintest foxing to page edges, expert restoration to board extremities. Very Scarce Presentation Copy Of Cyrano De Bergerac, First Edition, Warmly Inscribed By Rostand To French Historian Emmanuel Rodocanachi, With Original Wrappers Bound In
23 “There Is An Old London Story That Has Never Lost Its Loveliness For Me” 22(COBURN, Alvin Langdon) CHESTERTON, G.K. London. London, 1914. Octavo, original linen-backed paper boards. $4500 First edition of this collaboration between two masters of their crafts, privately printed by the Chiswick Press, featuring 10 of Coburn’s photogravures in conversation with Chesterton’s London-themed essay, inscribed “To Gertrude Capen Whitney with best wishes from Edith W. Coburn and Alvin Langdon Coburn. Christmas 1914.” This sequel to Coburn’s 1909 London, his magnificent first book of photography, features a luminous view of Parliament from the river as well as images of Big Ben and St. Paul’s—perfectly complemented by legendary essayist Chesterton’s evocative essay, which pays tribute to the city and her sense of place. Without very scarce original dust jacket. Sullivan 34. Expert reinforcement to text block. Toning to endpapers, including inscription leaf, boards moderately soiled. A very good copy, desirable inscribed by Coburn. Elihu Vedder’s Illustrated Rubaiyat, Beautifully Bound At The Harcourt Bindery 23(VEDDER, Elihu, illustrator) (FITZGERALD, Edward, translator). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Boston, 1884. Folio, 20th-century full green morocco gilt. $7000 First trade edition of Vedder’s wonderfully illustrated edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with lithographic frontispiece, title page, colophon, dedication leaf, half title and 51 mounted plates, beautifully bound at the Harcourt Bindery. “A commission to illustrate the 1884 edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám established [Vedder’s] fame at home and abroad. His illustrations, intricately linked to the verses (which he rearranged to suit his vision of the book) were a popular success and exhibited widely… Vedder was one of the most popular artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries” (ANB). A limited edition of 100 copies signed by Vedder and bound in morocco was issued the same year, no precedence established. Interior fine, stunning Harcourt binding with front joint expertly repaired. A beautifully bound copy of this illustrated edition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 24 24JOHNSON, Rossiter. Authors Digest: The World’s Great Stories in Brief. No place, 1908. Twenty volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco gilt. $16,500 Autograph edition, one of only 32 numbered copies, this set prepared for Hannah M. Standish and containing an article written and signed by Andrew Carnegie. A splendid production, with hand-colored initials and headpieces in the beginning of Volume I, numerous full-page illustrations, many hand-colored, and original ink illustrations on the first pages of dozens of articles, many hand-colored. With introductory essay by Carnegie on Robert Burns. The set introduces the landmarks of European and American fiction by providing precis of significant novels, overviews of myth and folklore, a dictionary of authors, titles, and characters, and an index to the stories. Limitation page signed and sealed. Interiors fine, a dozen volumes have been expertly restored, mostly at joints. A sumptuously bound set in excellent condition. Splendid Bound And Illustrated 20-Volume Set Of The Authors Digest: One Of Only 32 Sets, Signed By Andrew Carnegie
25 25JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris and New York, 1930. Slim folio, original printed paper wraps, glassine, chemise, slipcase, custom clamshell box. $17,500 First edition, one of only 100 signed copies on “Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan” paper, out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy. One of several fragments from Work in Progress (published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake) that Joyce issued to raise money while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers, Jack Kahane, who idolized Joyce, had originally asked Sylvia Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead, she introduced Kahane to Joyce, who then agreed to let him publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. When Faber and Faber was preparing the first London editions of Anna Livia Plurabelle and Haveth Childers Everywhere (1930 and 1931), “Joyce wrote rhymes for the ‘blurb’ on the dust jacket. [The Haveth Childers verse is quoted in this description headline.] The publicity department… used them only on a mimeographed publicity release, to which they prefixed a note: ‘The Sales department, puzzled as such departments are wont to be, have sought some light on the two James Joyce contributions to Criterion Miscellany. Below the explanations offered are passed on that you may be able to derive similar enlightenment” (Ellmann, 617n). A beautiful, fine copy, in a slightly worn slipcase. “Humptydump Dublin Squeaks Through His Norse Humptydump Dublin Hath A Horrible Vorse And With All His Kinks English Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 26 “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?” 27HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s first novel since A Farewell to Arms, basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by Faulkner and featuring Bogart and Bacall together for the first time. This novel, Hemingway’s first since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier, follows the life and adventures of Harry Morgan from rumrunning to revolution. Brimming with criticism directed at American capitalism and the bureaucracy of the Roosevelt administration, the novel explores social circumstances and situations in Key West, “that paradise of the ‘haves’ and purgatory of the ‘have nots.” Page edges faintly embrowned, cloth fresh and fine; bright original dust jacket with a small stain to verso and light edgewear to top of spine; one tiny closed tear to front panel top edge. An attractive nearly fine copy. “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 26HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $8000 First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in firstissue dust jacket. “This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly” (J. Donald Adams). First issue, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket without photographer’s name. Hanneman A18a. Bookplate. Book with very slight toning to spine; lightly worn dust jacket with two short tears from upper edge and light fading to the spine. A bright, near-fine copy.
27 “That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence” 28HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $8500 First trade edition, first issue, of the novel that “placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters,” in scarce unrestored first-issue dust jacket. “Probably [Hemingway’s] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical” (Connolly, Modern Movement 60). “The novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway’s novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). Interior fine, cloth with very faint spotting, mild toning to spine, small bump to rear board; unrestored dust jacket with a bit of rubbing and edgewear, spine with almost none of the usual toning. A near-fine copy. “An’ You Get To Tend The Rabbits” 29STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York, 1937. Small octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $12,000 First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s “beautifully written [and] marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt), in scarce original dust jacket. The author began Of Mice and Men as a children’s story. “Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned—the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose… “ (Benson, 326). The result is “a sophisticated and artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish” (Literary History of the American West, 433). First issue, with all first issue points. Goldstone & Payne A7a. Book fine, lovely unrestored dust jacket with three short closed tears along top edge, a bit of wear to ends of mildly toned spine. A near-fine copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 28 “I’ll Be Ever’where—Wherever You Look. Wherever They’s A Fight So Hungry People Can Eat, I’ll Be There” 30STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $28,500 First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s most important novel, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. Grapes of Wrath “reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled” (Peter Monro Jack). “The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation… Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity… [It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade” (Clifton Fadiman). Slight discoloration to cloth along spine joints, much less than typical; jacket bright and beautiful with only faintest toning along top margin. A stunning copy, most rare in this condition. “The Foundation For Later Artistic Greatness” 31STEINBECK, John. To a God Unknown. New York, 1935. Octavo, green cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $10,500 First edition, exceptionally rare first issue of Steinbeck’s first California novel, one of only 598 first issue copies bound and sold, his third published novel, in the rarely found original dust jacket. When Steinbeck received a small shipment of the novels from his publisher on September 12, 1933, he wrote Ballou: “‘The books came this morning and I like them immensely. Thank you for doing such a fine job’… Steinbeck labored longer on To a God Unknown than on any other book… Because he may have learned more about crafting long fiction from it than from anything else he worked on during that period, this book laid the foundation for later artistic greatness” (DeMott, Introduction, To a God Unknown). Interior fine, cloth with mild toning, faint ghosting from dust jacket (as often); dust jacket with mild wear to corners and spine ends, light toning to spine and rear panel. An extremely good copy.
29 “The Time Of Cruel Miracles Was Not Past” 32LEM, Stanislaw. Solaris. New York, 1970. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $3500 First English-language and first U.S. edition of a philosophical classic of science fiction. Set on a space station orbiting a mysterious planet, Lem’s story of alien contact focuses on human identity and the limits of human understanding. The author’s position “at the crossroads of major European cultures and ethics, joined to an intense internalization of problems from cybernetics and information theory, his fusion of dilemmas from ultramodern science and the oldest cosmogonic heresies, his dazzling formal virtuosity—all mark him as one of the most significant sf writers of our century, and a distinctive voice in world literature” (Clute & Nicholls, 711). First published in Polish in 1961. Basis for several adaptations including the 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and the 2002 Steven Soderbergh film starring George Clooney. White cloth showing minor soiling; spine of price-clipped dust jacket slightly toned. A very good copy. “Arguably The Most Influential Science Fiction Novel Of The 1980s” 33GIBSON, William. Neuromancer. London, 1984. Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $12,000 First English and first hardcover edition of William Gibson’s landmark first novel, inscribed, “Wm. Gibson to Robert Ashworth, London/L.A. ‘88.” While Gibson did not invent cyberpunk, his Neuromancer—winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards—remains one of its most definitive expressions. “In a highly urbanized future dominated by cybernetics and bioengineering, anti-hero Case is rescued from wretchedness and given back the ability to send his persona into the cyberspace of the world’s computer networks… [Neuromancer is] arguably the most influential science fiction novel of the 1980s” (Anatomy of Wonder II-439). First published in paperback in July 1984; this first English edition, the first hardcover edition, followed in October. Book and dust jacket clean and bright; very slight toning to board edges, a few minor scratches to jacket. A nearfine signed copy in an eye-catching custom box.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 30 34DICK, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Garden City: 1968. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $25,000 First edition of one of science fiction’s most famous and influential novels (and inspiration for the landmark futuristic film noir, Blade Runner), Dick’s masterful vision of the struggles between technology and humanity, entropy and empathy, in a post-apocalyptic world. Dick looms large as science fiction’s “all-time grand master of… pop epistemology” (Disch, 52). In this novel, one of his most popular and powerful, he envisions a bleak future in which “android animals are marketed to help expiate the guilt people experience because real ones have been virtually exterminated,” and in which bounty hunter Rick Deckard “must hunt down androids illegally imported from Mars. In so doing, he learns that the society’s new messiah may also be a fake; and that [its] landscapes of decay and imposture may in fact only mirror his own condition” (Clute & Nicholls, 329). “A key novel in Dick’s canon” (Anatomy of Wonder II-326). Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott’s visually stunning film adaptation, “did not receive much critical acclaim nor did it do well at the box office” when released in 1982. A “Director’s Cut” a decade later, however, “received highly positive reviews” (Tibbetts & Welsh, 91-92), and subsequent revisions have only enhanced its status as a definitive fusion of hard-boiled detective story and philosophically profound science fiction. Currey, 125. Dust jacket with slight rubbing to edges. A nearly fine copy of a seminal science fiction classic. Scarce. “It’s The Basic Condition Of Life To Be Required To Violate Our Own Identity”
31 35ASIMOV, Isaac. I, Robot. New York, 1950. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $14,000 First edition, first issue, of Asimov’s influential collection of nine robot stories. Asimov’s robot stories were among his most successful and popular, and helped establish his reputation as a pioneer of the science fiction genre. “I, Robot is by most critical accounts one of the most influential books in the history of modern science fiction because it established new conventions for writing robot stories… Asimov did much in his stories to counter the Faustian image of science that had arisen in the public imagination. Prejudice against machines and technology is in fact the constant background, if not the subject matter, of the robot stories… Asimov’s robot stories also have predicted certain real developments. Robotics is now recognized as a field of study, and computer-controlled machines are now in industrial use. In addition, Asimov added two new words to the English language through these stories. The Oxford English Dictionary credits him with the earliest uses of robotics and positronic” (Touponce, Isaac Asimov, 32). I, Robot is “the first major break-away from the robotsas-menace cliché… Asimov broke another genre cliché in this series by introducing a high-powered scientific thinker who was not male, Susan Calvin” (Anatomy of Wonder II-49). First issue, in cloth binding. Book bright and fresh, dust jacket with mild rubbing and wear to spine and front panel, slight toning to spine. A near-fine copy. “One Of The Most Influential Books In The History Of Modern Science Fiction”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 32 Augustus, Inscribed By John Williams “One Of The Best I Ever Wrote” (Graham Greene) 37GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock. New York, 1938. Octavo, original black and rose boards, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $4000 First edition of Greene’s electrifying noir novel, preceding the English edition by one month, in scarce unrestored dust jacket. Greene’s questioning of good and evil makes this “his first Catholic novel, his first enquiry into the ways of man and God… It was to lead on to Power and the Glory [1940] and End of the Affair [1951]” (Sherry I:637-649). Text fine, very lightest rubbing to silver-stamped boards, toning to cloth spine; dust jacket with light edge-wear, toning to spine with shallow chipping to spine ends, minor tape reinforcement to verso. An extremely good copy in scarce unrestored dust jacket. V., Thomas Pynchon’s First Novel 38PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Philadelphia, 1963. Octavo, original lavender cloth, dust jacket. $4200 First edition of Pynchon’s first novel, a beautiful copy in the elusive first-issue dust jacket. “Inconclusive, gripping, confusing in outline but convincing in detail, V. is a blackly comic odyssey into the occult corners and bizarre anxieties of 20th-century Europe and America” (Parker, 403). Faint toning to book edges and spine; dust jacket spine very slightly toned, with minor rubbing to spine head. A lovely, near-fine copy. 36WILLIAMS, John. Augustus. New York, 1972. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $5500 First edition of Williams’ “spectacular historical saga,” his last book published in his lifetime, inscribed: “For Raisie Rifkin, with the best wishes of John Williams.” Williams’ exploration of the life of the Roman emperor, praised as a “spectacular historical saga,” was his only National Book Award winner, sharing the honor with John Barth’s Chimera in 1973. As in all of Williams’ extraordinary work, Augustus explores how “the lives we end up with are the often unexpected products of the friction between us and the world itself” (Daniel Mendelsohn). Book and dust jacket with light wear to extremities. A near-fine signed copy.
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