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BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 4 A Cornerstone Of The Western Canon: The First Complete Edition In English Of Don Quixote, 1620, The First And Greatest Translation Of Cervantes’ Masterpiece— The Copy Of Lady Isabella Caroline, Lady Henry Somerset T he very rare first appearance of both parts of Don Quixote in English, this being the earliest obtainable edition in English of the entire work: comprising the second edition in English of the First Part and the first edition in English of the Second Part. From the Regiate Priory, home of Lady Isabella Caroline, Lady Henry Somerset, notable 19th-century temperance advocate. 01CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. (SHELTON, Thomas, translator). The History of Don Quichote. The first parte. WITH: The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. London, 1620. Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century full reddish-brown morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $125,000
5 “A universal classic and arguably the greatest book ever written in Spanish… 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). Cervantes is “the only possible peer of Dante and Shakespeare… Confronting the strength of Don Quixote, the reader is never lessened, only enhanced” (Harold Bloom). Although the First Part of Don Quixote was originally published in 1612, only a handful of copies survive; eminent bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach called it virtually unobtainable. This edition of 1620, comprising both parts appearing together for the first time in English, is considered the first complete edition in English and the earliest obtainable English edition. “Not only the first English translation, but the first translation in any language” (Library of Robert Hoe 670). In 1607 Thomas Shelton, “acquiring a knowledge of Spanish, at the request of ‘a very deere friend that was desirous to understand the subject,’ translated the first part of the Historie of Don-Quixote. The task only occupied him 40 days. The first part of Cervantes’ novel originally appeared at Madrid early in 1605.… In January 1611-12 [Shelton's] work was licensed for publication to Edward Blount and William Barret… The book immediately achieved the popularity that Cervantes’ work has always retained in [England].” In 1615 Cervantes published in Madrid his second part of Don Quixote and this appeared in English in 1620 for the first time, also translated by Shelton. “With the second part was published a new edition of the first, and the two were often bound up together… Though Shelton’s version bears many traces of haste… he reproduces in robust phraseology the spirit of the original, and realizes Cervantes’ manner more nearly than any successor” (DNB). Bound without the additional engraved title to the second part. Bookplates of Isabel Somerset, Reigate Priory. Lady Isabella Caroline, Lady Henry Somerset, a leading late-19th century temperance advocate, “founded Duxhurst, a farm colony, near Reigate, for inebriate women” (DNB). Contemporary owner signatures. A few instances of contemporary ink marginalia. Light marginal dampstaining to last few leaves of Volume II. Only a few leaves cropped close, affecting gathering markings, printed marginalia and catchwords; main text unaffected. Generally a splendid copy. Very nearly fine, extraordinarily scarce and important. “A universal classic and arguably the greatest book ever written in Spanish"
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 6 02MONTAIGNE. Essayes Written In French… Done Into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio. London, 1613. Folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked and recornered. $16,000 “The Unfolding Of A Mind Of Genius In Dialogue With Itself” Second edition in English of Montaigne’s seminal masterpiece, with the important Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest (circa 1611). “Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal convictions and private meditations, a form in which he can hardly be said to have been anticipated… He finds a place in the present canon, however, chiefly for his consummate representation of the enlightened skepticism of the 16th century, to which Bacon, Descartes and Newton were to provide the answers in the next” (PMM 95). Here is “the unfolding of a mind of genius in dialogue with itself and with the world” (Hollier, 250). “It is generally accepted that Shakespeare used Florio’s translation when writing the passage on the natural commonwealth in his Tempest” (Pforzheimer 378). Initially published in French in 1580, Montaigne’s Essayes were first published in English in 1603, with this translation. Title page with contemporary owner signature. Interior quite fresh with only minor expert archival repair to edges of title page and and a few leaves not affecting text, lightest scattered foxing, faint rubbing to boards. A very handsome near-fine copy.
7 03SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakespeare. London, 1899. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt. $6500 “Shakespeare Is The Canon. He Sets The Standard And The Limits Of Literature” Fine set of the “Larger Temple Shakespeare,” one of only 175 sets printed on handmade paper, beautifully illustrated with 40 full-page plates (30 hand-tinted), and copious in-text line cuts, very handsomely bound. “Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature” (Harold Bloom). 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 most part, to the poet’s own times.” With a biography of Shakespeare, “newly discovered” frontispiece portrait published for the first time, a folding view of London during Shakespeare’s day, facsimile title and preliminary pages from the First Folio, and glossaries of Shakespearian English. Chapter headings printed in red. Fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 8 04(COKE, Edward) SENECA. L. Annaei Senecae Operum Alter Tomus. Lugduni, 1555. Thick octavo, contemporary French calf covers inset into and spine laid down over modern calf, custom clamshell box. $25,000 A great rarity: a book from the collection of Sir Edward Coke, one of the iconic figures in English history and law, with his signature on the title page: an early edition, of Seneca’s works in Latin, in a beautiful contemporary French binding. Sir Edward Coke “was the great Queen Elizabeth’s Attorney General and was Chief Justice under James, first Stuart King of England. The volumes that Coke wrote… remained for nearly three centuries the backlog of legal studies in England and America... Coke is English law personified. Perhaps no Englishman, unless it is Winston Churchill, has embodied so many aspects of government. From Elizabeth’s Attorney General to James’s Chief Justice is a natural transition. But from state prosecutor to wholehearted Commons man, defender of free speech and parliamentary privilege, is almost a transmutation. Coke never set foot on American soil. Yet no United States citizen can read his story without a sense of immediate recognition. As judge and leader of the Commons, Coke risked his life for the very principles we take for granted: a prisoner’s right to public trial and the writ of habeas corpus, a man’s right not to be jailed without cause shown, [etc.]” (Bowen). Coke was a great collector in his day. “A catalogue made shortly before his death in 1634 lists 1237 items… The collection was wide ranging and as well as law included theology, history and many other subjects” (David Pearson). Coke’s interest in Seneca is reflected in his writings. “Coke was trained in the humanist disciplines of logic and rhetoric.... He repeatedly drew on Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, and Tacitus throughout his Institutes in seeking to achieve the ideal balance between legal scholarship and rhetoric” (Ian King). #741 in Hassell’s Catalogue of the Library of Sir Edward Coke (Yale University Press, 1950). Text clean, binding neatly retains beautiful contemporary calf-gilt covers and spine. An excellent copy, with distinguished provenance. Sir Edward Coke’s Copy Of Seneca, Signed By Him And Beautifully Bound
9 “Love Is A Smoke Made With The Fume Of Sighs…” 06SHAKESPEARE, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York, 1892. Royal octavo, contemporary full dark blue morocco gilt. $5500 Limited edition, one of 50 copies on Japan paper (out of a total edition of 350 copies), illustrated with 21 plates by Jacques Wagrez and Louis Titz, this copy extra-illustrated with 64 additional plates from other editions of Shakespeare, handsomely bound. “To more effective account did Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet (his first tragedy) turn a tragic romance of Italian origin, which was already popular in the English versions of Arthur Broke in verse (1562) and William Painter in prose (in his ‘Palace of Pleasure,’ 1567). Shakespeare made little change in the plot, but he impregnated it with poetic fervor, and relieved the tragic intensity by developing the humor of Mercutio, and by grafting on the story the new comic character of the Nurse. The fineness of insight which Shakespeare here brought to the portrayal of youthful emotion is as noticeable as the lyric beauty and exuberance of the language” (DNB). Fine condition. “Since The Time Of Plato There Had Been No Composition Which… Could Be Compared To Utopia” 05MORE, Thomas. Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia. London, 1624. Small quarto, modern threequarter mottled calf. $15,000 Scarce 1624 fourth edition in English of More’s classic of social analysis and philosophy. In this classic work, More “inveighs against the new statesmanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education… In Utopia More is concerned to show that the old, medieval institutes, if freed from abuse, are the best; not the new theoretic reforms, which he justly feared… Utopia is not, as often imagined, More’s ideal state: it exemplifies only the virtues of wisdom, fortitude, temperance and justice. It reflects the moral poverty of the states which More knew, whose Christian rulers should possess also the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity” (PMM 47). Utopia was first published in Latin in 1516; this edition uses the 1551 translation of Ralph Robinson, the only English translation until 1684. Age-darkening to title page, as usual, text quite clean. A handsome copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 10 “They Have Much Literary And Biographical Importance” 07DONNE, John. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour. London, 1651. Small quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf gilt rebacked, custom box. $13,500 First edition, first issue, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart, and woodcut initials, in contemporary calf boards. “The great majority of those of Donne’s letters that have survived have been preserved through the energy of his son… In 1651, the younger Donne issued a volume containing 129 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour; these letters were not ‘edited’ by him according to the standards of the present day, as, although printed with reasonable care, their arrangement is irregular and they are for the most part without dates. Nevertheless, they have much literary and biographical importance” (Keynes, 133). Among the recipients are Lord Herbert of Cherbury, the Countess of Bedford, and, most numerously, Sir Henry Goodere. Bound without front and rear blanks. Keynes 55. Engraved bookplate. Pages with a bit of marginal wormholing near the end not affecting text, otherwise fine, inner hinges neatly reinforced; contemporary calf boards very handsome. An excellent copy. “The Splendor And Magnificence Of Elizabeth’s Reign” 08(ELIZABETH I) NICHOLS, John. The Progresses, and Public Processions, of Queen Elizabeth. London, 1788, 1788, 1805. Three volumes. Quarto, 19th-century full brown calf sympathetically rebacked. $9500 First edition of Nichols’ splendid history of the reign of Elizabeth I, a magnificent three-volume chronicle of England’s greatest queen, featuring 53 full-page engraved illustrations (three folding), three folding genealogical charts, numerous in-text engravings and facsimile signatures, a large folding map of London circa 1558, and a large folding map of Oxford. In these three large volumes, “the splendor and magnificence of Elizabeth’s reign is nowhere more strongly painted… nor could a more acceptable present be given to the world” (Percy’s Reliques III:64). “No library… should be without these volumes, [which] afford a living picture of the manners of England, its pursuits and its amusements” (Allibone, 1425). The third volume, published separately some 17 years after the first two volumes, is often not present: “many copies of Volume III were destroyed by fire in 1808” (Lowndes). Lowndes, 1685. Infrequent faint foxing, board edges expertly restored. An excellent copy of this tribute to Queen Elizabeth.
11 “The World Is So Malicious, That If We Take Not Heede To Prepare Against His Wrinches, It Will Overthrow Us To Our Greater Losse And Hurte” 09(BOURCHIER, John) AURELIUS, Marcus. The Golden Booke of Marcus Aurelius. London, 1586. Small thick 12mo, early 20th-century full red morocco. $6000 Later edition of Bourchier’s translation of Antonio de Guevara’s Libro aureo, collecting incidents and letters from the life of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most widely read and translated books of the 16th century. Antonio de Guevara served as the royal chronicler Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. His 1528 Libro áureo, a history of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius that included letters and works by him, was one of the most popular works in the 16th century in Europe; it was almost immediately translated into many other languages, and was one of the main engines for the renewed focus on the Roman philosopher king. John Bourchier’s translation was first published in 1534; it precedes Meric Causubon’s esteemed translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations by exactly 100 years. Text trimmed close, occasionally touching headlines only; a bit of faint dampstaining, interior generally quite clean. Handsomely bound. “The First Of Its Kind”: Rare First Complete Divine Comedy In English, 1802 10DANTE. (BOYD, Henry, translator). The Divina Commedia… Consisting of the Inferno—Purgatorio—and Paradiso. London, 1802. Three volumes. Octavo, modern full maroon straightgrained morocco gilt. $11,000 First edition of the first English translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, significant for “assisting to reestablish an audience for Dante, whose reputation had suffered a decline in the previous century” (ODNB), with frontispiece portrait of Dante by Thomas Stothard. The first English translation of the whole Divina Commedia of Dante, with Boyd’s attempt to capture Dante’s terza rima, which in English is extremely difficult to sustain. In 1785, Boyd had published his translation of the Inferno alone, “the first of its kind” (DNB). This printing also contains preliminary essays and notes to each of the three books. Lowndes, 589. CBEL III:229. Scattered light foxing, a few marginal stains, expert repair to leaf Q3 in Volume III; beautifully bound.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 12 “Bovary C’est Moi”: Scarce First Issue Of Flaubert’s Masterpiece 11FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris, 1857. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary half brown morocco, custom cloth clamshell box. $9500 Rare first edition, first issue in book form, of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, “the definitive model of the novel” (Émile Zola) and the work that “ushered the age of realism into modern European literature,” in contemporary binding. Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were brought to trial on charges of immorality and narrowly escaped conviction (the same tribunal found Charles Baudelaire guilty on the same charge six months later). Although purportedly based in part on the circumstances of Flaubert’s friend Louise Pradier, the author’s claim that “Madame Bovary is myself,” with his unrelenting objectivity and deep compassion for his characters, earned him a reputation as the great master of the Realist school of French literature. First issue, with misspelling of “Senard” as “Senart” on dedication page. With 36page publisher’s catalogue in its earliest state. Owner booklabel. Interior generally fine with only a few faint finger smudges, light wear to binding, and mild toning to spines. A handsome copy in near-fine condition. “The Ultimate Science Fiction Novel, The Ultimate Horror Story” 12WELLS, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. London, 1896. Octavo, original tan pictorial cloth. $6500 First edition of Wells’ “parable on the beast in man,” with frontispiece illustration. “Often regarded as the father of modern science fiction” (Clute & Grant, 1004), Wells wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau when only 30. Science-fiction writer Gene Wolfe noted that the novel is “the ultimate science fiction novel and the ultimate horror story.” Indeed, The Island of Dr. Moreau is viewed as “a highly significant literary experiment… [that] served to reveal the potential of science fiction to couch serious questions” (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder II1228). “This satirical work is a parable on the beast in man. Part of this work, the gist of Chapter XIV, appeared as an unsigned article in The Saturday Review of 19th of January, 1895” (H.G. Wells Society 8). See Hammond B3; Currey, 420. Horror 100 Best 20. Owner blindstamp to rear flyleaf. Interior quite clean, mild toning to cloth, wear to spine ends. An extremely good copy.
13 “The Greatest Of All English Stories For Children” 13CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London, 1866. Octavo, late 19th- or early 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $14,500 First authorized English edition of Carroll’s cherished romp through the realm of nonsense, “the greatest of all English stories for children” (Muir, 139), illustrated with 42 engravings by John Tenniel, handsomely bound by Morrell. A mesmerizing masterpiece of comic nonsense, Alice also demonstrates Carroll’s gift for recognizing “the child’s inner fears, wishes, intelligence and imagination. He unleashed thousands of children’s minds… and invited them to laugh” (Silvey, 124). “It is, in a word, a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete” (Sir Walter Besant). First published and authorized English edition, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed 1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. See PMM 354. Unobtrusively repaired tear to frontispiece, with small paper repairs to several other leaves including replacement of one lower outer corner. Beautifully bound. “Not Such A Hound As Mortal Eyes Have Ever Seen” 14CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London, 1902. Octavo, original pictorial black- and gilt-stamped red cloth, custom chemise and slipcase. $11,000 First edition, first issue, of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, widely regarded as the best of the series and “one of the most gripping stories in the English language.” Although Conan Doyle had killed off his most famous character by sending him over the Reichenbach Falls while grappling with Professor Moriarty in “The Final Problem” (December 1893), his readership demanded the sleuth’s return. The author obliged with this, the third—and still considered by many the best—Sherlock Holmes novel, carefully positioned on the title page as “another adventure” of Holmes. “But,” as Howard Haycraft notes, “the seed of doubt was planted”; and while the novel proved an immediate success, readers continued to press for more. Conan Doyle finally relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903. The Hound of the Baskervilles remains “one of the most gripping books in the language” (Crime & Mystery 100 Best 6). Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Green & Gibson A26. Text exceptionally clean, with none of the usual foxing. Just a bit of foxing to endpapers, front inner hinge expertly reinforced, cloth fresh and gilt bright. A near-fine copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 14 15COOPER, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia, 1826. Two volumes. 12mo, original brown paper-covered boards rebacked, custom clamshell box. $19,500 Scarce first edition, first issue of Cooper’s classic tale, one of the highlights of early American literature, in original boards. “This is the most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic in the lives and characters of the white men who made the American wilderness their home… The novel glorified for many generations of readers, in England, France, Russia, and at home, some aspects of American life that were unique to our cultural history” (Grolier American 100 34). “The real triumph of Cooper is the variety of his invention, the power with which, isolating his few characters in the wilderness, he contrives to fill their existences, at least for the time being, with enough actions, desires, fears, victories, defeats, sentiments, thoughts to make the barren frontier seem a splendid stage” (DAB). First issue, with page 89 misnumbered 93, Chapter XVI numbered XIV in Volume I (page 243), and page vii correctly numbered. BAL 3833. Interior foxed, as usual, light dampstaining to a few leaves near the beginning of Volume I; minor soiling to expertly rebacked original boards. A handsome copy. “How All His Pages Glow With Creative Fire!” (Balzac)
15 “Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates To That Iron String” 17EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. WITH: Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1841-44. Two volumes. Octavo, original black and dark brown cloth, custom chemise, clamshell box. $10,000 First editions of Emerson’s first and second series of timeless essays, scarce in original cloth. “Emerson’s fame… rests securely upon the fact that he had something of importance to say, and that he said it with a beautiful freshness which does not permit his best pages to grow old… Let men but stand erect and ‘go alone,’ he said, and they can possess the universe” (ANB). “Timeless, and without a trace of ‘dating,’ these essays are as readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as a hundred years ago” (Grolier, 100 American 47). The first series includes Emerson’s celebrated “Self-Reliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism, “the Over-Soul,” the intellect and art. The second series includes the essays “The Poet,” “Experience” and “Nature.” Scattered foxing, more heavily at endpapers, second series with light marginal dampstaining. first series cloth with restoration to spine ends, second series cloth with light discoloration to boards, wear to spine ends. Extremely good condition. “A Route Of Evanescence / With A Revolving Wheel; / A Resonance Of Emerald, / A Rush Of Cochineal” 16DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Second Series. Edited by two of her friends, T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston, 1891. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped olive cloth, custom clamshell box. $13,000 First edition of Emily Dickinson’s second book of poetry, one of only 960 copies of the first printing. A lovely copy in the original cloth. Emily Dickinson published only 11 poems during her lifetime, but upon her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered 1775 manuscript poems. Mabel Todd edited and published the three series of these poems until a quarrel between the Dickinson and Todd families led to a division of the manuscripts, preventing the further publication of complete and authoritative editions of Dickinson’s poetry until 70 years after her death (Wolff). This is the second of three books of Dickinson’s poetry published by Mabel Todd. Myerson A2.1a. Interior with minimal foxing to first few leaves only, front inner hinge expertly reinforced; mild rubbing to cloth spine extremities, gilt bright. A lovely copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 16 18THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. Boston and New York, 1906. Twenty volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $37,500 “I Used To Wonder At The Halo Of Light Around My Shadow, And Would Fain Fancy Myself One Of The Elect” Manuscript Edition, beautifully bound and illustrated, limited to 600 copies, with manuscript leaf from Walden (two sides) entirely in Thoreau’s hand. Each set in this important limited edition includes a Thoreau manuscript leaf mounted and bound into the first volume. The leaf in this set is from the chapter entitled “Baker Farm” from Walden, Thoreau’s masterwork. The leaf reads, in large part: “[If it had] lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life. As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished…” (See Volume II, p. 224). The verso of the leaf is from an earlier section of this chapter. It reads, again in part: [I know but one small] grove of sizable trees left in Concord, supposed to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown; some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual…” (See Volume II, p. 224). This beautiful set also contains a foldout map of Concord, reproductions of Thoreau’s journal illustrations, and over 100 tissue-guarded illustrations, several beautifully hand-finished in color. Fine condition. A beautiful set, with exceptional and valuable manuscript leaf from Walden.
17 “A Central Document Of The American Experience” 19THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston, 1854. Octavo, original brown cloth. $13,500 First edition of this important American classic, one of only 2000 copies published. “Thoreau’s Walden occupies a special place in our American heritage. Moreover, the book is still alive and vibrant, and it reaches out to touch the life of each one of us who is receptive… it has come to be thought a central document in the American experience” (Thorpe, Treasures of the Huntington Library). “For almost a hundred years an inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers, to sociologists… and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity” (Grolier, 100 American,63). BAL 20106. Magazine photograph of a bust of Thoreau tipped-in opposite title page. Interior generally clean with closed marginal tears to two leaves (165-68), two locations with offsetting from pressed leaves (38-9, 82-83); expert restoration to cloth spine ends. A very attractive copy. First Edition Of Thoreau’s First Book 20THOREAU, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge, 1849. Octavo, original brown cloth gilt, custom chemise, slipcase. $25,000 First edition, first issue, of Thoreau’s first book, one of only 1000 copies printed and one of less than 400 copies in the publisher’s cloth. In residence at Walden Pond, “Thoreau’s first concentrated effort (was) to assemble, flesh out, and then rearrange material about the trip he and (his brother) John had taken on the Concord and Merrimack rivers… It is the first of the many American books shaped along a river trip, the first in which the river becomes a stream, not just of water or even of time, but of consciousness itself” (Richardson, 155). Despite some good reviews, the first edition (consisting of one thousand copies) did not sell. In 1862, the remainder of 595 copies of the first edition were bought from Thoreau by Ticknor and Fields and rebound with a new title page bearing their imprint. With the bookplate of Arthur Swann. Swann’s collection, known for the excellence of its copies, was auctioned in 1960 at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York. In the catalogue for the auction, this copy is described as “an unusually fine copy.” A few contemporary ink marks to text block fore-edge, lower front joint with an expert cloth repair. A beautiful copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 18 21TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth, custom box. $32,000 First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. A beautiful copy. Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks from the moment of publication, standing accused of “bloodcurdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.” This copy has all of the commonly identified first-issue points (the printer assembled copies haphazardly; bibliographers do not yet agree as to the priority of many points). Pages 283-84 is a cancel (illustration with straight pant-fly) as described by Johnson (p. 48) and MacDonnell (p. 32-33). BAL 3415. Johnson, 43-50. Interior fine, cloth beautiful, gilt bright, with only most minor rubbing to spine. A stunning copy. “All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had”
19 “I Am The Poet Of The Body, And I Am The Poet Of The Soul” 22WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York, 1856. 12mo, original dark green cloth, custom clamshell box. $15,000 Rare and enlarged second edition, one of only 1000 copies printed, with frontispiece portrait of Whitman and advertisement leaf following text. With 20 additional poems not appearing in the 1855 first edition—including “A Woman Waits for Me” and “Who Learns My Lesson Complete?” This second edition, with 20 more poems than the first edition in 1855, introduced numerous other changes. The most controversial change would prove to be his inclusion of praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson on the book’s spine. Acknowledging receipt of his complimentary copy of the first edition, Emerson had hailed Whitman’s achievement: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” When this unguarded testimonial appeared on the spine of the second edition, Emerson was greatly angered. Myerson A.2.2. Without front free endpaper. Original cloth with a bit of wear, chipping to spine ends, spine faded with the famous Emerson quote on spine still readable, boards fresh with front board gilt bright. Usual foxing through text. Very good condition. A rare and desirable edition of this literary masterpiece. “O Captain! My Captain!” 23WHITMAN, Walt. Drum-Taps. BOUND WITH: Sequel to Drum-Taps. When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d. New York and Washington, 1865-6. 12mo, original brown cloth, custom box. $12,500 First edition, the important and preferred second issue, one of only 1000 copies, with the first appearance of the sequel celebrating Lincoln containing “Lilacs” and “O Captain! My Captain!” Drum-Taps “stands among the nation’s finest poems” (ANB). Upon the death of Lincoln, Whitman delayed the printing of Drum-Taps and added “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” a “profoundly moving dirge for the martyred Lincoln” (CHAL), with separate pagination, table of contents, and title page. Armorial bookplate of bibliographer and poet Percy L. Babington. Text clean, inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, minuscule rubs to cloth extremities. A near-fine copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 20 “The Most Influential Work Of Modern Times”: First Edition Of Ulysses, In Original Wrappers First edition of the novel that changed the path of modern literature, number 456 of only 750 numbered copies on handmade paper, in the now-iconic original paper wrappers. “The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times” (Grolier Joyce 69). After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. “Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922… Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways” (de Grazia, 27). Of the 1000 copies of the first edition, 100 copies were printed on Holland paper and were signed by Joyce, 150 copies were printed on vergé d’Arches paper, and the other 750 copies, numbered 251 to 1000, were printed on slightly less costly handmade paper, as here. Slocum A17. Interior fine, notoriously fragile original wrappers with minor restoration at spine ends, a few creases. An exceptionally attractive copy. 24JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris, 1922. Quarto, original blue paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $52,000
21 “With All His Kinks English Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues” 25JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris and New York, 1930. Slim folio, original printed paper wraps, glassine, gilt chemise, custom chemise, 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. This is 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. The effort nearly ruined Kahane, and only by selling the American rights to the work were he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy” (Ellmann, 617n). Slocum and Cahoon A41. A beautiful, fine copy, in a slightly worn slipcase. “Seashell Ebb Music Wayriver She Flows”: Anna Livia Plurabelle, Signed By Joyce, The Hersholt Copy 26JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York, 1928. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $9000 First separate publication of the centerpiece and most beautiful segment of Finnegans Wake, one of only 800 copies signed by Joyce, from the library of Danish-American actor and noted bibliophile Jean Hersholt. Responding to critics who accused him of writing off the cuff, Joyce claimed to have spent 1200 hours composing this integral part of his Work in Progress, later published as Finnegans Wake. He incorporated nearly 350 river names into the text and wrought perhaps the most lyrical of his published works. “He was prepared, he said, ‘to stake everything’ on this section of his book…” (Ellman, 598). Without scarce original glassine. Slocum & Cahoon 32. DanishAmerican actor and bibliophile Jean Hersholt’s copy, with his signed bookplate and shelf label. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown. A beautiful copy in fine condition with exceptional provenance.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 22 Rare first edition of Joyce’s first prose work, his great collection of short stories. One of only 1250 copies printed (499 of which were sunk en route to America). Dubliners was first accepted by publisher Grant Richards in February 1906, but the printer objected to certain passages and refused to do the job. In 1910 Maunsel and Co. agreed to publish it; again certain passages were found objectionable. The firm of John Falconer printed 1000 copies but then, with the exception of the page proofs, promptly burned the entire edition. In 1913 Joyce again offered the book to Elkin Mathews who again turned it down. Finally Grant Richards decided to accept the book a second time, with no royalties on the first 500 copies and Joyce agreeing to buy 120 copies himself. Only 1250 sets of sheets were printed; 504 were sold to New York publisher B.W. Huebsch for the first American edition. “It has also been reported that in 1915 Grant Richards sold without Joyce’s knowledge 500 sets of [the original 1250] Dubliners sheets to Albert and Charles Boni of New York… 499 copies were shipped to New York on the S.S. Arabic which was torpedoed.... All copies were lost except one which Albert Boni kept” (Slocum & Cahoon A8). Thus, of the original 1250 sets of sheets, 504 are known to have been sold for the American edition and 499 are believed lost. Text block split but firmly attached to backstrip, a few tiny spots to edges of text block, cloth fresh. An extraordinary copy. “His Soul Swooned Slowly As He Heard The Snow Falling Faintly Through The Universe And Faintly Falling, Like The Descent Of Their Last End, Upon All The Living And The Dead” 27JOYCE, James. Dubliners. London, 1914. Octavo, original dark red cloth, custom cloth clamshell box. $32,000
23 “Man Is Not Made For Defeat” 28HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $6500 First edition of Hemingway’s classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, winning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributing to his award of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94). “Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else” (New York Times). In this short novel Hemingway perfected the minimalist style that he had been honing and refining throughout his career. Hanneman A24a. Book fine, dust jacket nearly so with only very mild toning. An exceptionally nice copy. 1931 Autograph Letter Signed By Hemingway 29HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed. St. Louis, circa October 1931. One leaf of Hotel Statler stationery, measuring 6 by 9-1/2 inches, writing on recto and verso. $9500 Fine autograph letter signed from Hemingway to Charles MacGregor, secretary to Robert Benchley, one of the members of the famed Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s. The recipient of this letter, Charles MacGregor, was the secretary for writer and actor Robert Benchley, one of the central figures of the famed Algonquin Round Table writers of the 1920s. The letter reads, in part: “Dear Mac: -If you have not received the camera it is because it was packed in the trunk Monday morning in my absence and shipped direct for Kansas City by Gabrielle (Gaby)... If you ever become dissatisfied with your life with [Robert] Benchley and that whole gin crazed Saturnalia and want to lead a cleaner life bring your shortwave set down to Key West and we could try to turn an honest penny running Chinamen.... Ernie.” Writing bold and clear. Fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 24 “Flashes Of Genius By An Expert In Self-Destruction” First edition, in scarce first-issue dust jacket, of “Fitzgerald’s most ambitious work, his intended masterpiece.” Fitzgerald began Tender is the Night in 1925, the same year The Great Gatsby was published. He knew he had written a most important book in Gatsby but felt that his career hinged on the follow-up. By the time he finished Tender in 1933, however, his life had taken several tortuous turns: Zelda’s breakdown and the onset of the Great Depression darkened Fitzgerald’s sensibilities, a shift which became evident in portions of the book. Cyril Connolly 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” (Modern Movement, 79). This was “Fitzgerald’s most ambitious work, his intended masterpiece” (Turnbull, 241-6). Firstissue dust jacket, with blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld on front flap. Bruccoli A15.I.a. Book nearfine, with faint discoloration to top of rear board; very good dust jacket with chipping to extremities, affecting imprint on spine, a few spots, minor expert restoration along folds. 30FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York, 1934. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $16,500
25 “I’m Grateful Now To Anybody Who Loved Her” 31GREENE, Graham. The End of the Affair. London, 1951. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition of Greene’s celebrated novel—”singularly moving and beautiful” (Evelyn Waugh), inscribed by him, “To Oliver and M—-, in memory of the Feast of the Bells and many gasthofs, from Graham.” “One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language” (William Faulkner), End of the Affair also won praise by Evelyn Waugh, who declared it “singularly moving and beautiful.” On publication, the New York Times noted: “Greene’s verbal skill is as impressive as ever.” Original dust jacket, supplied from another copy, without very scarce Daily Mail belly band. Miller 29a. Book with embrowning to first and last few leaves, with inscription ghosted through to the half title, cloth spine and extremities toned. Dust jacket with mild wear, toning to spine and along flap seams, one small rub near foot of spine. A very good inscribed copy. “Hammett’s Finest Work And Possibly The Best American Detective Novel Ever Written” 32HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York and London, 1930. Octavo, original gray cloth. $5800 First edition of Hammett’s most famous and influential novel. In 1995, the Mystery Writers of America ranked The Maltese Falcon second in its top 100 mystery novels of all time (first was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes works, and third Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination). On its publication, the New Republic called the novel “glistening and fascinating,” achieving “an absolute distinction of real art… [and] the genuine presence of myth” (Bruccoli & Layman, 119-20). “The only novel in which the famous Sam Spade appears, regarded by many as Hammett’s finest work, this is possibly the best American detective novel ever written” (Crown Crime Companion: Top 100 Mystery Novels 2). Without extremely scare original dust jacket. Text fine, cloth with staining to rear board and top of front board, spine unusually crisp. An extremely good copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 26 “But There Are No Absolutes In Human Misery And Things Can Always Get Worse” 34MCCARTHY, Cormac. Suttree. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $3500 First edition of McCarthy’s celebrated, searing, semiautobiographical novel—”like a good, long scream in the ear.” Considered by many McCarthy’s finest novel, Suttree features “a sensitive and mature protagonist, unlike any other in McCarthy’s work… Part Stephen Daedalus, part Prince Hal—he is also McCarthy, the willful outcast” (New York Times). Like so much of McCarthy’s fiction, the book exemplifies what Saul Bellow (who sat on the committee that awarded McCarthy his 1981 MacArthur Fellowship) called the writer’s “absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences.” In his contemporary review, Jerome Charyn said Suttree’s language “licks, batters, wounds—a poetic, troubled rush of debris… [McCarthy’s] text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots… Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear.” Small remainder stamp, as often seen. Privratsky, 27. A fine copy. “The Major Esthetic Achievement Of Any Living American Writer” 33MCCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $28,000 First edition of McCarthy’s mythic vision of the American West, inscribed by him, “For Bonnie All the best from your friend Cormac.” Harold Bloom called Blood Meridian “clearly the major esthetic achievement of any living American writer.” To fellow novelist Madison Smartt Bell, “McCarthy puts most other American writers to shame… His diction and phrasing come from all over the evolutionary history of English and combine into a prose that seems to invent itself as it unfolds, resembling Elizabethan language in its flux of remarkable possibilities” (New York Times). Little noticed at the time of publication, most copies of the first edition were remaindered— this copy, however, has no remainder mark on the bottom of the text block. Book with a bit of soiling along front joint; dust jacket with one small closed tear to front panel, minimal wear to spine ends, crease to front flap. A near-fine copy.
27 “Because The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones” 35KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7200 First edition of Kerouac’s second and most important novel, “a physical and metaphysical journey across America.” “The novel’s composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right... he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road” (Parker). “On the Road has become a classic of the Beat Movement with its stream-of-consciousness depiction of the rejection of mainstream American values set in a physical and metaphysical journey across America” (Book in America, 136). An extremely good copy. “A Girl Doesn’t Read This Sort Of Thing Without Her Lipstick” 36CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York, 1958. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly. “If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine, with none of the usual fading to spine and only minor wear to spine ends, slight soiling to rear panel. “The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote” (Neruda) 37GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, 1970. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition in English of “one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century,” in scarce first-issue dust jacket. García Márquez’s wife Mercedes “had to pawn her hair dryer and their electric heater to pay for the postage to mail the finished manuscript... to his Argentine publisher, who printed 8000 copies. They sold out in a week… the popular response to One Hundred Years of Solitude was almost unimaginable” (Jon Lee Anderson). Pablo Neruda proclaimed it “the greatest achievement in Spanish literature since Don Quixote” (Klein, 26). A lovely copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 28 “All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”: Rare First Edition Of Orwell’s Animal Farm First edition, first printing, of Orwell’s “savagely ironical allegory” (Clute & Grant) on the gap between radical ideals and reality, his most famous and widely read work, an exceptional copy in original dust jacket. “A political fable that partly recounts, in an allegorical mode, the aftermath of the Russian revolution, and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt” (Stringer, 22). “Animal Farm, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is [Orwell’s] masterpiece” (Connolly 93). Because of wartime paper shortages, the first printing of this book was only 4500 copies and the dust jacket was usually printed on the reverse of Searchlight Books jackets (as here in blue). With “May 1945” imprint. Fenwick A.10a. Fantasy and Horror 5-236. Book with very slight foxing to endpapers only, toning to spine ends; dust jacket bright and crisp with minimal wear. A nearly fine copy. 38ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London, 1945. Slim octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $28,500
29 “A Screaming Comes Across The Sky” 40PYNCHON, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York, 1973. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3500 First edition of Pynchon’s National Book Awardwinning third novel. “One of the few truly great novels of the century, and at the same time one of the most disappointing, disturbing, maddening…. One of the most original fictive styles to have been developed since Joyce” (Contemporary Novelists, 1136). “Its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville, Faulkner and Nabokov” (New York Times Books of the Century, 487). Mead A3a. A beautiful copy in fine condition. “This Is America, You Live In It, You Let It Happen. Let It Unfurl” 39PYNCHON, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia, 1966. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1400 First edition of Pynchon’s second novel. “The wealth of invention is overwhelming… Pynchon’s trick of sitting the action on the edge of absurdity without letting it fall off is carefully performed” (Parker, 20th Century Novel, 428). “First Edition” stated on copyright page. Mead A2. Bookplate. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with only most minor rubbing. A beautiful copy.
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