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3 No. 37 John James Audubon’s The Birds of America No. 58 Ernest Shackleton’s Heart of the Antarctic No. 04 First Illustrated Editions of Jane Austen’s Novels No. 31 Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse FEATURING cover, no. 37 left, no. 69
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 4 01KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London, 1820. 12mo, 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $23,500 First edition of Keats’ third and greatest volume of poetry, the last issued during his lifetime, containing two of his finest poems, “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Includes the first printed appearance of “Hyperion,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “To Autumn,” and “Ode to Psyche,” among others. In March 1819, following the death of his brother Tom, Keats emerged from a period of depression and began an astonishing three months of creative energy, producing “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “Ode on Melancholy,” among other works. These poems were the best and last significant poems Keats was to produce; within months it was discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis while nursing his brother, and in the last months of his life he produced little. “By the contents of this volume Keats lives as one of the great English poets… [His] imaginative range is wide, from the pathos and grimness of ‘Isabella’ to the elemental majesty of ‘Hyperion,’ from the glowing romance color of the ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ to the classical enchantments of ‘Lamia,’ and from these to the brooding inwardness of the meditative odes… For easy and assured poetic mastery much of his work in this volume stands next in English literature to that of the great Elizabethans from whom he seems lineally descended… Almost immediately on the appearance of the volume its true value was recognized” (DNB). Of the 13 poems collected here, only two—”Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”—appeared previously in periodicals (both anonymously). Faint text offsetting to page 97, interior otherwise fine. A beautiful copy. First Edition Of Keats’ Lamia, His Last And Greatest Volume Of Poetry
5 02DONNE, 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 6 03HOMER. Iliad of Homer. WITH: The Odyssey of Homer. London, 1715-26. Together, eleven volumes. Small folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), contemporary full paneled calf. $35,000 First folio editions of Pope’s famous illustrated translations—issued almost immediately after the quarto first editions. Samuel Johnson, in his Life of Pope, calls it “certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning” (Allibone, 1632-34). The six volumes of the Iliad were issued between 1715-20. “Contemporaneously with the quarto [for subscribers] [Lintot] issued the work in two forms, a Large Paper folio and a Small (or ‘ordinary’) folio” (Griffith 39). These volumes belong to the ordinary folio issue. The five volumes of the Odyssey were published between 1725-26, in quarto and large-paper folio. These volumes belong to the folio issue. Bookplates of esteemed collector Abel E. Berland. Manuscript slips occasionally laid- or tipped-in. Plates and text generally fresh and bright with just a few leaves mildly embrowned in the Iliad; minor rubbing to boards. A handsome set with outstanding provenance. “He Made The Father Of All Poetry Live…”
7 04AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. London, 1833. Five volumes. Small octavo, contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in later calf-gilt. $38,000 Important first collected and first illustrated British edition of the novels of Jane Austen, printed from the plates of Bentley’s “Standard Novel” separate editions of 1833, each volume with engraved frontispiece illustration and vignette title page, in contemporary marbled boards. “Very rare in any state” (Gilson). “The fact that [Austen] wrote comparatively little and that that little is almost always of the highest quality has resulted in the unique distinction which her reputation now enjoys, that she is the only author of her period whose works can be read, and are read, today with delight in their entirety” (Baugh, et al., 1206). Bentley’s first collected edition of Austen’s novels includes Sense and Sensibility (originally published 1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Emma (1815), Mansfield Park (1814) and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (both published posthumously in 1818). After 1818, the novels went out of print until Bentley purchased the rights to all six books; when this edition first appeared, with its memoir of the author by Henry Austen, it triggered an interest in Jane Austen’s works which has never flagged since. Gilson D6. Book in very good condition with scattered foxing including to frontispieces and engraved titles, inner paper hinges partially split but holding; bindings lightly rubbed with faint splash marks to spines. A handsome set of the rare first collected edition. First Collected And First Illustrated Edition Of The Novels Of Jane Austen, 1833
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 8 “For What Do We Live, But To Make Sport For Our Neighbors, And Laugh At Them In Our Turn? 05(THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London, 1894. Octavo, publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated dark green pictorial cloth. $9000 First “Peacock” edition of Jane Austen’s second and most popular novel, the first illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with 101 charming line drawings, in lovely publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated cloth depicting a peacock spreading its feathers. The illustrator of this lovely edition, Hugh Thomson, “takes first place… among the genteel book illustrators” (Harthan, 238). “His style reflected the nostalgia of the time, his fine line drawings of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealed to the imagination of the public” (Olivia Fitzpatrick). He had a knack for “period costumes, coaches and horses, and elegant furniture; and his brisk style give his work irresistible charm” (Hodnett, 218). With Preface by George Saintsbury. First published in 1813. This trade edition preceded by a limited largepaper edition of 275 copies. A beautiful copy, with the cloth crisp and the gilt exceptionally bright. “The First, The Longest, And The Best Of Detective Novels” —T.S. Eliot 06COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone. London, 1868. Three volumes. Octavo, late 19thcentury full blue calf. $15,000 First edition of this acclaimed detective novel, widely regarded as one of the best ever written, handsomely bound by Riviere and Son. “A good mystery with unforgettable characters and fine melodrama” (Barzun & Taylor 872). “The Moonstone has remained second only to The Woman in White in popularity among Collins’s novels. Although not the first detective story, it is a classic of the genre, with many features repeatedly borrowed by later writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers” (DNB). Collins had “one of the longest and most distinctive literary careers of the nineteenth century… In the course of nearly half a century’s writing [he] tried many new ways of reaching and expanding his audience. Dickensian Christmas books, short stories, three-decker novels, magazine and newspaper serializations flowed from his pen with a productivity unchecked” (Bowen 4-5). Small marginal closed tear to page 261 of Volume I, scattered foxing and soiling to interiors, light rubbing to spines. A near-fine copy.
9 “Please, Sir, I Want Some More” 07DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” London, 1838. Three volumes. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt. $11,000 First edition, first issue, of Dickens’ classic, with the “Fireside” plate and “Boz” title pages, with original cloth bound in. “When Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until the eve of publication and objected to the Fireside plate. Dickens had Cruikshank design a new plate… This Church plate was not completed in time for incorporation into the early copies of the book, but it replaced the Fireside plate in later copies… Dickens not only objected to the Fireside plate, but also disliked having ‘Boz’ on the title page… the plate and title page were changed between November 9 and 16” (Smith, 35). “A genuine first issue in the original cloth covers, uncut, and with clean, unfoxed plates and leaves is very rare” (Eckel, 54). Expert cleaning to plates, scattered minor foxing and soiling to text. An attractive, handsomely bound set. “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” 08DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London, 1859. Octavo, late 19th-century full red morocco gilt. $12,000 First edition in book form, first issue, of Dickens’ second historical novel and one of his most enduring works, beautifully bound by Morrell. The last of Dickens’ books to be illustrated by H.K. Browne (“Phiz”), with 16 engraved plates by him. “Browne, for 23 years responsible for all the etchings which had so successfully embellished these [Dickens’] books, produced his last drawings for the present work… Bradbury and Evans, the printers of all and publishers of five of Dickens’ works as issued in monthly parts, had ceased to act in this dual capacity after completion of Little Dorrit… [resulting] in the return of Chapman and Hall as publishers of this and all succeeding works” (Hatton & Cleaver, 333). First issue, with all first-issue points. Originally published as a serial in Dickens’ weekly journal All the Year Round. Smith I:13. Text and plates with occasional mild foxing, handsome binding with a few scratches to front cover, rear joint just starting. A very attractive copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 10 09WILDE, Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. London and New York, 1907. Fifteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $14,000 “Edition de Grand Luxe” of the works of Oscar Wilde, one of only 100 sets, illustrated with numerous double-suite engravings and photogravures, beautifully bound in Art Nouveau morocco-gilt bindings by Tapley. Title pages printed in black and red, with additional engraved title pages in each volume and double-suite frontispieces and illustrations. Contains Wilde’s only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays (including, among others, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Salome in which are reproduced four of Aubrey Beardsley’s famous illustrations), poems, fairy tales, essays, lectures, reviews, and other selected prose, as well as a volume of “His Life with a Critical Estimate of his Writings” and a volume of his mother’s writings, “Essays and Stories by Lady Wilde.” This very early edition precedes the 1908 Ross edition of Wilde’s works, often described as the first collected edition. Library blindstamps. Faint evidence of bookplate removals. Interiors fine, spines evenly toned to brown, two headcaps with very minor repairs. A beautiful set in nearfine condition. The Writings Of Oscar Wilde, With Double-Suite Illustrations, Beautifully Bound
11 10DANTE. (BOYD, Henry, translator). The Divina Commedia… Consisting of the Inferno— Purgatorio—and Paradiso. London, 1802. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter calf gilt. $17,500 First edition of the first complete 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. This set marks 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); here it is accompanied by the first appearances of the Purgatorio and Paradiso in English. The edition also includes preliminary essays and notes to each of the three books. Bound without half titles. Lowndes, 589. First volume with early inked owner name. Faint traces of bookplate removal. Contents overall clean with occasional light spotting; one leaf in volume I with closed tear touching text without loss. Expert restoration to joints and extremities, slight rubbing to marbled boards. A handsome set. “The First Of Its Kind”: Rare First Complete Divine Comedy In English, 1802
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 12 11FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners. London, 1886. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped blue-green cloth, custom clamshell box. $14,000 First edition in English of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, translated by Karl Marx’s daughter Eleanor MarxAveling. Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were arrested on charges of immorality and narrowly escaped conviction. Although the work was purportedly based in part on the life 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 his reputation as the great master of the Realist school of French literature. “Novelists should thank Gustave Flaubert the way poets thank spring: it begins again with him. He is the originator of the modern novel… He began writing Madame Bovary in September 1851, and delivered the manuscript in 1856, when he was 35… No novelist agonized as much or as publicly… And no novelist reflected as self-consciously on questions of technique… Thus ‘style’ was born” (New York Times Book Review). First published in French in 1857. Mahaffey, 156. Minor foxing to text block edges, otherwise bright and beautiful. A very nearly fine copy. “The Originator Of The Modern Novel”: First Edition In English Of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, A Beautiful Copy
13 12POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia, 1840 [i.e. 1839]. Two volumes. 12mo (4-5/16 by 7-9/16 inches), original purple cloth recased, replica printed paper spine labels. $37,500 First edition of Poe’s first collection of tales, one of only 750 copies, one of the most important and influential collections of short stories in the history of both horror and mystery and an indisputable high spot in American literature, most rare in original cloth. Edgar Allan Poe is “one of the founding writers of modern literature” (Sova, Critical Companion, 11). The publication of these 25 stories marked “a milestone in [Poe’s] career as a prose writer” (Heartman & Canny, 49-54). Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque includes all of the stories Poe had published to that point in magazines and periodicals, as well as one, “Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling,” appearing here for the first time. Two stories—”Fall of the House of Usher” and “MS. Found in a Bottle”—are among the most enduring in American literature. Only “three collections of the shorter fiction were issued during the lifetime of Poe” (Ollive, Tales and Sketches I:xxvii). Volume I with light expert cleaning to text; text block professionally recased with expert restoration to spine and cloth extremities. Volume II rebacked with spine laid down, cloth expertly restored. “One Of The Founding Writers Of Modern Literature”: Exceedingly Rare And Important 1840 First Edition Of Poe’s Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque, One Of Only 750 Copies
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 14 “True! Nervous, Very, Very Dreadfully Nervous I Had Been And Am” 13POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. Edinburgh, 1874-75. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20thcentury three-quarter navy morocco gilt. $3200 First edition of Poe’s complete works edited by Poe scholar John Ingram, with engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. After his death, Poe’s reputation suffered under the willful misrepresentation of his literary executor, critic Rufus Griswold. In an attempt to set the record straight, Englishman “John Henry Ingram published the first significant life of Poe in 1874, which he expanded into two volumes in 1880… Ingram devoted years of his life to corresponding with everyone he could find who had known Poe or who had reliable information about him. Ingram also edited a fourvolume edition of Poe’s works and wrote nearly 50 articles about him… Ingram’s biography… effected a turning point in Poe’s reputation” (Meyers, 264). Volume I with small owner marks to contents list. Very slight rubbing to some joints and edges, Volume I with joints expertly repaired. A fine set, handsomely bound. First Edition Of Thoreau’s First Book, A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, The Arthur Swann Copy 14THOREAU, 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 good reviews, the first edition (consisting of 1000 copies) did not sell. In 1862, 595 copies of the first edition were bought from Thoreau by Ticknor and Fields and rebound with a new title page bearing their imprint. BAL 20104. With the bookplate of Arthur Swann. Swann’s collection was known for the excellence of its copies. A few contemporary ink marks to text block fore-edge, lower front joint with an expert cloth repair. A beautiful copy.
15 Important 1922 Standard Edition Of Melville’s Works, Including The First Publication Of Billy Budd 15MELVILLE, Herman. The Works. London, 1922-24. 16 volumes. Octavo, full 20th-century blue morocco gilt. $20,000 Extremely important limited Standard edition of the works of Herman Melville, one of 750 sets, featuring the first publication of his Billy Budd and the first book publication of many other works. When Melville died in 1891, his obituary in the New York Times noted somewhat ironically that “he has died an absolutely forgotten man… In its kind this speedy oblivion by which a once famous man so long survived his fame is almost unique.” Perhaps almost as unique was the resurgence of his reputation in the early 20th century. The publication of this edition was a key component of that resurgence, and featured the important first publication of the novella Billy Budd, which had been discovered in Melville’s papers in 1919 by his biographer Raymond Weaver; it was quickly hailed as a masterpiece by figures such as D.H. Lawrence. Contents very clean and fresh save for a small area of spotting to the upper margin of a few leaves at the back of volume I; spines evenly toned. A handsome copy of this significant edition. “One Of Mark Twain’s Most Important Books” 16TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston, 1883. Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth. $9500 First American edition, first state, of Twain’s enduring evocation of the steamboat’s heyday, with hundreds of illustrations, many by Edmund Henry Garrett. During an 1872 visit to the Midwest, the author “was struck by the great diminution of steamboat traffic on the Ohio River and became anxious to document the steamboat era before it vanished altogether… [The resulting volume is] widely regarded as both one of Mark Twain’s major works and a classic on the Mississippi itself. Its early chapters especially are unrivaled in evoking the excitement of their time” (Rasmussen, 283, 291-2). “One of Mark Twain’s most important books… It usefully supplements [his] fictional works about the river and includes much else of value” (LeMaster & Wilson, 467). First state, with tailpiece illustration of Twain’s head in flames on page 441 and caption on page 443 reading “The St. Louis Hotel.” Faint toning to page edges; binding in excellent condition with most mild rubbing and one faint mark to rear board, gilt exceptionally bright. A near-fine copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 16 17TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, 1876. Square octavo, original black- and gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $35,000 Rare first American edition, first printing, first state, of one of the universally recognized masterpieces of American literature, Twain’s irrepressible and unforgettable “true boy’s book.” “The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical… Enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child” (Rasmussen, 459). Originally published in England (without illustrations), Tom Sawyer arrived at a momentous point in American history: Custer had recently lost the battle at Little Big Horn and America was celebrating its centennial. “Publication of Tom Sawyer was little noticed… The book has, however, proved to be one of the most durable works in American literature” (Rasmussen, 459). “This was a true boy’s book, and surviving copies are proof of how rough little boys can be on books” (MacDonnell, 40). First printing, first state (with “THE” on half title in 10-point rather than 14-point type), peach endpapers, printed on wove paper, with triple flyleaves of wove paper, and preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI. BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. Interior quite clean, with only a few instances of light foxing or soiling; original cloth with light expert restoration. “One Of The Most Durable Works In American Literature”: Rare First Edition, First State Of An American Highspot
17 18TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth, custom clamshell box. $22,000 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, with a card signed by Twain tipped in. 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. First half of text extremely clean, second half with only occasional mild soiling, notably less than usually seen; bright cloth with minor wear to corners and spine ends, publisher’s name at foot of spine a bit rubbed, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. “All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 18 19STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York, 1937. Small octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $6800 First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s “beautifully written [and] marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt), in scarce original dust jacket. Steinbeck 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 with very slight toning to cloth, dust jacket with toning to spine, less so to rear panel and along edges of flaps, mild soiling to rear panel. An extremely good copy. “An’ You Get To Tend The Rabbits”
19 “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 20HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $5750 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. Slight offsetting to endpapers; dust jacket with minor rubbing and a few short closed tears from upper edge. An exceptionally nice copy. “Man Is Not Made For Defeat” 21HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000 First edition of Hemingway’s classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed 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). Hanneman A24a. Very slight rubbing to book extremities; faint dampstaining to one corner of bright dust jacket. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 20 “That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence” 22HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $9500 First trade edition, first issue, of the novel that “placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters,” in scarce first-issue dust jacket. “Probably [Hemingway’s] best… 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). First edition, first printing,with all first issue points, in first-issue Art Deco dust jacket, with misspelling of the heroine’s name. Book with very faint spotting to cloth, dust jacket with very light rubbing, mild toning to spine, tape repairs to verso. An extremely good copy. “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?”: First Edition Of Hemingway’s To Have And Have Not 23HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 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 rum-running 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.” “In To Have and Have Not, Hemingway for the first time showed an interest in a possible solution of social problems through collective action” (Hart, 327). Hanneman 14A. Text with a few instances of faint marginal foxing, cloth fine; bright dust jacket with very modest wear to spine ends. An exceptionally attractive copy in near-fine condition.
21 “Paris Is A Moveable Feast” 24HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York, 1964. Octavo, original half russet cloth, dust jacket. $950 First edition of Hemingway’s celebration of Paris, with eight pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Hemingway declared to a friend in 1950: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” With eight pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Hanneman 31A. Grissom A.36.1a. Dust jacket with one small chip to front panel, one short closed tear. A near-fine copy. “The Apprentice Work Of A Major Novelist” 25KEROUAC, John. The Town and the City. New York, 1950. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3800 First edition of Kerouac’s first book, by “John Kerouac,” published seven years before On the Road. The only book Kerouac published under his given name rather than the more casual “Jack” under which he published his Beat novels. Kerouac later would disclaim the novel as too traditional, strongly influenced by Thomas Wolfe and William Saroyan, but it remains linked to his later novels by its autobiographical nature. “In The Town and the City, Kerouac is just beginning to test his ability to dispense with plot… [the novel] is the apprentice work of a major novelist… notable for the highly consistent symbolism Kerouac develops to deal with troubling questions like loss, sickness, and death” (Nicosia, 318). Book with slight rubbing to extremities; dust jacket with light wear and one short closed tear from spine head. A near-fine copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 22 26FAULKNER, William. Sartoris. New York, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $16,500 First edition of Faulkner’s rare third novel, one of only 1998 copies printed. The first of Faulkner’s works to be set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, this novel “concerns the Sartoris family, which revels in a mythical history of clan heroism and nobility that is belied by their current desperation and recklessness” (Encyclopedia of Literature, 994). In addition to introducing characters who would figure prominently in later novels, such as the Snopes family, Faulkner also takes up a number of themes in Sartoris that he would develop at length in later works: racism, innate brutality, deep-seated sexual obsessions and the disparity between a romanticized Southern past and a paltry present. Petersen A5.1. Hamblin & Brodsky 50. Book beautiful and fine, dust jacket near-fine with only very minor edge-wear and mild toning to spine. An exceptional copy. “The Dusk Was Peopled With Ghosts Of Glamorous And Old Disastrous Things”
23 “Because The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones” 27KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $12,000 First edition of Kerouac’s second and most important novel, in colorful original dust jacket. “Between 1947 and 1950, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac took off on a freewheeling journey through the USA and Mexico in search of something outside their domestic experience. Ten years later their adventures were related in On the Road… The novel’s composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right. Returning home from his wanderings, Kerouac spent almost a year pondering how (specifically, in what form) he might convey the life he had been living. Several false starts were made, but in April 1951 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, 339). Book fine, bright dust jacket with a bit of chipping to spine ends, a few short closed tears to bottom edge, creasing along flap folds. A near-fine copy. “A Magnificent Classic”: Invisible Man, Inscribed By Ralph Ellison 28ELLISON, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York, 1952. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $13,500 First edition of Ralph Ellison’s great American novel, boldly inscribed by him, “Best wishes from Ralph Ellison.” “It is a resolutely honest, tormented, profoundly American book” (Wright Morris, New York Times, 1952). Winner of the 1952 National Book Award, Ellison’s matchless first novel is “one of the most important works of the 20th century” (New York Times). This is a work in which Ellison’s “visionary genius achieved a perfection” (Harold Bloom, Genius)—and the only novel published in his lifetime— Invisible Man is a “magnificent classic… [which] soon became a vital and permanent contribution to American literature” (Blockson 86). Book with interior fine, faint trace of rubbing to front board. Light edge-wear to exceptionally lovely dust jacket. A near-fine copy, very scarce inscribed.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 24 “She Has Something Like Genius” 29HOLIDAY, Billie and DUFTY, William. Lady Sings the Blues. Garden City, New York, 1956. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $9200 First edition of the autobiography of the immortal Billie Holiday, boldly inscribed by her: “For Shirley / Best of Everything, Billie Holiday.” On publication of Billie Holiday’s Lady Sings the Blues, the singer’s autobiography was praised for its powerful story of “a woman who is probably the foremost living singer of the blues… at her best, she has something like genius” (New York Times). Holiday gave a Carnegie Hall concert performing songs associated with Lady Sings the Blues in the year of publication; three years later she was dead at the age of 44. Text overall clean with a few small spots, traces of tape removal to endpapers, rubbing to spine lettering; price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge wear, toning to spine, tape reinforcement to flaps and edges. A very good signed copy. Boldly Inscribed By Langston Hughes And Signed By Photographer Roy DeCarava 30(DECARAVA, Roy) HUGHES, Langston. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York, 1955. Small octavo, original photographic and textual wrappers, custom box. $7000 First edition of this landmark collaboration between Hughes and DeCarava, preferred softcover edition, inscribed by Hughes in his trademark green ink, “Sincerely—Langston Hughes,” exceedingly scarce signed on the same page by photographer DeCarava. DeCarava is considered “the spiritual ‘father’ of much contemporary African American photography” (New York Times). Langston Hughes, already “acknowledged as the most influential black writer of his generation, and as one of the greatest American poets of all time, here composed a fictional story to accompany DeCarava’s images, creating a lyrical tale about imaginary characters to go with photographs of real people” (Roth, 138). “One of the most successful collaborations between a great writer and a great photographer ever published” (Roth, 138). Open Book, 160. Interior very fresh, light marginal toning and wear to fragile wrappers and spine. A near-fine copy.
25 31HURSTON, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. Philadelphia and New York, 1938. Octavo, original striped red and blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $34,000 First edition of Hurston’s major anthropological work focusing on voodoo and Caribbean folklore, with photographic frontispiece and 25 plates, signed by her in red ink. In the 1930s Hurston, trained as an anthropologist, made a series of visits to Haiti and Jamaica using a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowship extension, hoping to sort out the truth from the rumors when it came to the little-studied voodoo practices of the islands. She was determined to “tell stories that reflected the truth, as she knew it, of black people’s lives… ‘My ultimate purpose,’ she asserted in her Guggenheim application,’ is to collect for scientific scrutiny all phases of Negro folk life… that shall give a true picture’” (Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows, 285). Participating as a hounci, a first-level initiate, rather than as an observer, Hurston engaged in voodoo rites and studied Caribbean folklore. She focused her considerable literary talents on the history of the native black population and their unique culture. This book, one of the finest first-person accounts of Caribbean voodoo culture and practice resulted. On publication Tell My Horse won praise as an “intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information… strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained” (New York Times). Book very nearly fine, price-clipped dust jacket with only shallow chipping to extremities. A near-fine signed copy. “Richly Packed With Strange Information… Strikingly Dramatic”: First Edition Of Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse, Signed By Her
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 26 32HURSTON, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia, 1935. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $38,000 First edition of Hurston’s first non-fiction work, inscribed to a fellow folklorist, “To Dr. Thompson—who plays high trombone in God’s best band. With admiration, Zora Neale Hurston.” To Alice Walker, Hurston was “The Genius of the South”— words Walker engraved on Hurston’s gravestone. “When I read Mules and Men, I was delighted. Here was the perfect book.” To Walker, it embodied “the quality I feel in most characteristic of Zora’s work… black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings”(emphasis in original, Foreword, Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston, xii). “The first popular book about Afro-American folklore ever written by a black scholar, Mules and Men so compellingly displays the rich imaginative life in a black community that Alan Lomax has called it ‘the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore.’” Even amidst the brilliance of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston’s “presence was legendary.” On returning to her home state of Florida, Eatonville and New Orleans, she began “exploring the ways black history affected folk narratives.” Offering several versions to publishers from 1929 to 1934, “the book’s core—70 folktale texts— remained the same… [but] not until her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, had been accepted by Lippincott’s did Mules and Men find a publisher” (Hemenway, 6, 6063, 159-63). Without rarely found dust jacket. Harold William “Tommy” Thompson was the co-founder of the New York Folklore Society and a professor at Cornell University. Text and illustrations fine, inner paper hinges starting but sound, only mild wear to edges and spine. A highly desirable extremely good inscribed copy. “The First Popular Book About Afro-American Folklore Ever Written By A Black Scholar”
27 “I Love Its Colour, Its Brilliance, Its Divine Heaviness… The Power That Gold Alone Gives” 33FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, 1959. Octavo, original gilt-stamped black paper boards, dust jacket. $5600 First edition of the seventh James Bond thriller, in which Fleming’s superspy thwarts Auric Goldfinger’s plot to plunder Fort Knox. “Written when Fleming was on top of his game,” Goldfinger “is not only the longest entry in the [Bond] series but also one of the most exuberant, and garnered a certain degree of credibility in literary circles when author Anthony Burgess listed it in his Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939” (Gilbert, 230). Cloth in Gilbert’s second state, without the extra skull detail: “both were available upon publication.” Gilbert A7a (1.2). Biondi & Pickard, 45. Book nearfine with a few instances of marginal staining to pages and text block edge; dust jacket extremely good with a bit of wear to spine ends, faint discoloration to back panel, slightest toning to spine. “How’s Your Coefficient Of Toughness, James?” 34FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London, 1960. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $5600 First edition of Fleming’s eighth Bond title, the only collection of Bond short stories published in the author’s lifetime, including the title story, “From a View to a Kill,” and “Quantum of Solace.” The book is notable for its jacket, “the only British dust jacket with any depiction of Bond: the eye in the peephole is his. Fleming made [artist Richard] Chopping paint it many times, until he was satisfied with the shape and, particularly, the color” (Biondi & Pickard, 46). “For Your Eyes Only” was made into the 1981 film starring Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet; the 1985 film A View to a Kill starred Moore, Christopher Walken, and Grace Jones; the 2008 film Quantum of Solace starred Daniel Craig. Book clean and near-fine; price-clipped dust jacket bright, with red lettering unfaded, also near-fine. A lovely copy.
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 28 “I Think It Pisses God Off If You Walk By The Color Purple In A Field Somewhere And Don’t Notice It” 35WALKER, Alice. The Color Purple. New York and London, 1982. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition of Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, boldly signed by the author in purple. With this, her third novel, Alice Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. “Critics have both praised and attacked Walker’s use of black folk English to capture [protagonist] Celie’s perspective. Walker responded, ‘Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. And, amazingly, it has sustained us more securely than the arms of angels” (New York Public Library, Books of the Century, 135). Blockson 5026. Traces of rubbing to corners and spine lettering; slightly worn dust jacket with faint crease to front panel. A near-fine signed copy. “So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past” 36FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, custom clamshell box. $10,500 First edition of this landmark of 20th-century fiction. Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half-dozen best American novels: “Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it” (48). First printing, with “sick in tired” on page 205 and all other first issue points. Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Bruccoli A11.1.a. Interior clean but mildly toned, cloth fresh and crisp with a bit of dulling to spine gilt, only most minor edge-wear. A near-fine copy.
29 37AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America. New York and Philadelphia, 1840-44. Seven volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $120,000 First octavo edition, and first American edition, containing 500 superb handcolored plates. “The most splendid book ever produced in relation to America, and certainly one of the finest ornithological works ever printed… [Audubon] insisted on drawing from life, never from stuffed specimens, and was much in advance of his time in portraying the birds (in many cases unrecorded species) in their natural surroundings… This immense undertaking... was the work of a man of relentless energy, with no private fortune, who supported himself by hack painting… It is a story without equal in the whole history of publishing” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 210-13). This royal octavo edition contained new species of birds and plants not included in the double elephant folio edition (published between 1827 and 1838). Light to moderate foxing to text as often seen, plates almost entirely clean; spines gently toned, joints slightly rubbed. A handsome set of one of the most important and desirable of all American plate books. “The Most Splendid Book Ever Produced In Relation To America… One Of The Finest Ornithological Works Ever Printed”
BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 30 First Edition Of Hamilton’s Collected Works, Including The Third Edition Of The Federalist 38HAMILTON, Alexander. The Works of Alexander Hamilton. New York, 1810. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary mottled calf rebacked. $15,000 First edition of Hamilton’s collected works, including the third edition of the Federalist Papers. This printing of the Federalist, “in fact, Vols. II and III of Hamilton’s works,” was preceded only by the rare 1787 first edition, 1799 reissue, and 1802 second edition (Sabin 23982). “The Federalist is the most important work in political science that has ever been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States” (Rossiter, The Federalist Papers). “The eighty-five essays, under the pseudonym Publius, were designed as political propaganda, not as a treatise of political philosophy. In spite of this The Federalist survives as one of the new nation’s most important contributions to the theory of government” (PMM 234). Minor expert paper repair to preliminary leaves of volume II, mild embrowning and spotting to some signatures, as usual. A scarce early set of the writings of one of our most influential founding fathers, handsome in contemporary calf boards. “The Epitome Of Franklin’s Spirit” 39FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin. London, 1793. Octavo, contemporary full calf rebacked in period style. $12,000 First edition in English (expanded from the French) of Franklin’s renowned autobiography. “The most widely read of all American autobiographies… [it] holds the essence of the American way of life” (Grolier 21). “This account is the epitome of Franklin’s spirit. In it one sees him as a typical though great example of 18th-century enlightenment, a Yankee Puritan who could agree with Rousseau and Voltaire, and use the language of Defoe and Addison with a genial homely twang” (Hart, 142). “A year after Franklin’s death his autobiography was published in Paris in March of 1791… Considered to be the greatest autobiography produced in colonial America” (Archiving Early America). Title page and dedication with early ink owner names; one early ink annotation . Scattered light foxing. An excellent copy of this American classic, in contemporary boards.
31 40MONTESQUIEU, [Charles Louis] de Secondat, Baron de. The Spirit of Laws. London, 1750. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine preserved. $22,000 First edition in English of Montesquieu’s classic, an enormous influence on American and French revolutionary thought, published just two years after the first French edition. “One of the most remarkable works of the 18th century… Spirit of the Laws consists of six main sections, the first dealing with law in general and different forms of government, and the second with the means of government, military matters, taxation and so on. The third deals with national character and the effect on it of climate; a subject of peculiar originality… The fourth and fifth deal with economic matters and religion; the last is an appendix on law… The scheme that emerges of a liberal benevolent monarchy limited by safeguards on individual liberty was to prove immensely influential… his theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated” (PMM 197). “One of the greatest masterpieces of political theory and a pioneering work in sociology… its emphasis on the separation of powers of government and on a system of checks and balances profoundly influenced constitutional thought in both America and France. Indeed, during the early and later stages of the French Revolution, Montesquieu’s theories were much more important than those of Rousseau” (McNamara, France in the Age of Revolution). “The theories of Montesquieu had a most important and far reaching influence on the thinking of the framers of the United States Constitution” (Sowerby III:2325). Marginal tear to lower corner of p. 113/114 in Volume I, not affecting text; only occasional light foxing. Handsome contemporary calf bindings with a bit of age-wear, extremities expertly restored. “One Of The Greatest Masterpieces Of Political Theory”
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