Search Results: Authors starting with M from Bauman Rare Books

1962. First Edition . L'ENGLE, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. [New York]: Ariel, (1962). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom clamshell box. $11,000.Rare first edition in original dust jacket of L'Engle's landmark novel, winner of the 1962 Newbery Medal, handsomely housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.""At once a science fiction story, a philosophical meditation on the nature of Evil and Love and a coming-of-age novel, Wrinkle broke new ground in what was considered appropriate for young readers. Rejected by several publishers for being too complex, this title has amply proven L'Engle's belief that 'children are excited by new ideas' and has been credited with bringing science fiction into the mainstream of children's literature. This is L'Engle's best work"" (Silvey, 401). ""First printing, 1962"" stated on copyright page; first state dust jacket without embossed gilt… Read More

1915. Signed. GARVEY, Marcus. Photograph signed. No place: circa 1920. Contemporary sepia-toned photograph (8 by 10-inches), inked signature. $18,500.Photograph circa 1920 of Jamaican-American leader Marcus Garvey—""an important link between early 20th-century black leaders and modern spokesmen""—an exceptional photographic portrait signed by Garvey with his bold inked signature along the lower portion of the sepia-toned image.Born in Jamaica in 1887, the descendant of ""Jamaica's African ex-slaves who successfully defied the slave regime,"" Garvey arrived in New York in 1916 (Martin, Race First, 4). There Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and his campaign for African American rights became ""world-wide in scope and his organization had members scattered from Africa to California… Garvey was part of the American scene for only a decade, but he influenced the life and thinking of his people during that decade as… Read More

1939. Signed. MITCHELL, Margaret. Typed letter signed. Atlanta, Georgia, February 23, 1939. Three sheets of unlined Margaret Mitchell letterhead, each measuring 7 by 11 inches; pp. 3, with original mailing envelope. $7800.Lengthy original typed letter, dated 1939, from Margaret Mitchell to Franklin M. Garrett, the Vice President of the Atlanta Historical Society, in which Mitchell informs Garrett that she has become aware of Atlanta historical tours claiming to show tourists locations from Gone With the Wind and then asks Garrett to stop ""identifying"" such locations from the novel as she purposely made them entirely fictional, boldly signed by Mitchell.This typed signed letter, dated ""Atlanta, Georgia. February 23, 1939,"" implores the Vice President of the Atlanta Historical Society, Franklin M. Garrett, to cease offering the specific locations of houses in Gone With the Wind, as he evidently gave those alleged locations to the Atlanta Convention Bureau,… Read More

1947. Signed. MITCHELL, Margaret. Typed letter signed. Atlanta, Georgia, July 23, 1947. Two sheets of unlined Margaret Mitchell letterhead, each measuring 7 by 11 inches; pp. 2, with original mailing envelope. $7800.Original typed two-page letter, dated 1947, from Margaret Mitchell to Mrs. George W. Johnson of Mississippi's Johnson Printing Company, advising Mrs. Johnson on the process of selling film rights; explaining the necessity of selling a book prior to selling the rights; and enclosing a list of literary agents published in the Saturday Review of Literature, boldly signed by Mitchell.This typed signed letter, dated ""Atlanta 5, Georgia. July 23, 1947,"" was written from Margaret Mitchell to a Mississippi reader (and aspiring author) offering advice on book publication and selling film rights. Here, Mitchell explains the reasons for why publication traditionally precedes the selling of rights; offers insight into the unusual process between the selling of film rights… Read More

1978. First Edition . Signed. CLAVÉ, Antonio, FINI, Léonor, LINDNER, Richard, MARINI, Marino, MASSON, André, RIVERS, Larry, WUNDERLICH, Paul Wunderlich and WYETH, Jamie. Metropolitan Opera Fine Art. New York: Metropolitan Opera Society and Circle Gallery, 1978. Double elephant folio (23-1/2 by 31-1/2 inches), leaves laid loose in original portfolio, as issued. $28,000.Deluxe limited first edition, number IV of only 25 copies with eight enormous poster-size prints for eight different operas by eight different artists, each signed and numbered by their respective artist.The eight works, each signed and numbered ""IV"" by their respective artists, are as follows:Antonio Clavé—Carmen. A five color embossed intaglio print editioned at the atelier Maurice Rousseau in Monaco. One of 25 on hand-made Japanese paper.Léonor Fini—Tristan und Isolde. A twelve color serigraph editioned at Serigraphie Michel Caza. One of 35 on hand-made Japanese… Read More

1909. MILLER, Marion Mills, ed. The Classics in Greek and Latin. New York: Vincent Parke, (1909). Fifteen volumes. Royal octavo, later full patterned russet morocco, raised bands, front boards with large gold and black embossed motif, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $5500.""Roman"" edition, number 16 of only 100 sets signed by the editor in chief, illustrated with numerous plates, some hand-colored, beautifully bound.This beautifully printed, illustrated and bound collection of Greek and Roman classics, edited by Marion Mills Miller, includes the Iliad and the Odyssey, Greek and Roman drama, philosophy, oratory, poetry and history, with and extensive collection of modern essays by writers and scholars guiding the reader to the history, context and interpretation of the works. A beautiful set in fine condition.

1907. Signed. TWAIN, Mark. Christian Science. With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907. Octavo, original red cloth. $13,500.First edition, first state, of Twain’s satirical diatribe on Christian Science—then a relatively new and rapidly growing religion in the United States—and the religion’s founder, Mary Baker Eddy, wonderfully inscribed by Twain, ""Only a very small minority can properly claim to be sane. Mark Twain,"" in answer to a question posed above in an unidentified hand: ""This book should live when the delusion is dead. Is there any danger that a majority of the race will become insane?""""A tour de force of penetrating wit and clean analysis, revealing both his skill in polemics and his disdain for obscure grandiosity and sham spirituality. The work's subject is a natural result of Twain's lifelong fascination with the supernatural"" (Le Master… Read More

1876. First Edition . TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Square octavo, publisher's three-quarter brown morocco, peach endpapers. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco clamshell box. $69,000.First American edition, first state of one of the great masterpieces of American literature and a true touchstone of American childhood, in the exceptionally rare publisher's morocco binding. An essential addition to any Mark Twain collection. Only 200 copies were issued in the publisher's three-quarter morocco binding.""The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical novel… 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… Read More

1862. (WASHINGTON, George and Martha) MIDDLETON, E.C. Pair of framed chromolithographic portraits. Cincinnati: E.C. Middleton, 1861-62. Two portraits. Paper on canvas, oval image measures 13 by 16 inches; in original wood and plaster-gilt frame, each piece measures 19 by 22 inches. $6500.Mid 19th-century chromolithographic portraits of George and Martha Washington, both laid on canvas, in a original gilt frames.Cincinnati engraver Elijah C. Middleton used a unique method of lithography—printing on canvas-backed paper in oil-based inks—to produce color images of unusually high quality that were still affordable. Starting around 1861, his portraits—often of figures such as George and Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster or General Grant—were prized not just locally, but even drew the attention of East Coast markets and competitors. Minor expert restoration to portraits and to original frames. Extremely good condition.

1802. First Edition . SAUER, Martin. An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia… Performed, By Command of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress of all the Russias, By Commodore Joseph Billings… The Whole Narrated from the Original Papers by Martin Sauer. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies (A. Strahan), 1802. Quarto, contemporary mottled calf boards rebacked retaining original marbled endpapers, raised bands. $4000.First edition of this important Russian survey of the extreme northeastern parts of Asia and the coast of Siberia, with large folding chart and 14 full-page copper-engraved plates by William Alexander of views, elevations, portraits of natives, their dress and implements, as well as a comparative glossary of indigenous languages.After serving as an able-bodied seaman aboard the Discovery, one of the two ships commanded by Captain Cook on his fatal last voyage, Joseph Billings joined the Russian navy, where his reputation as… Read More

1979. Signed. SENDAK, Maurice. Original animation cel inscribed [Simple Gifts]. [Ridgefield, Connecticut],1979. Color animation cel, measuring 12-1/2 by 10 inches; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 13-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. $5500.Beautiful original animation cel from the Christmas television special, Simple Gifts, featuring a boy in tattered historical dress, inscribed by Sendak to a close friend and neighbor: ""For Elizabeth, Happy Birthday! Maurice Sendak. Oct: 79.""This animation cel was created for the 1977 television special, Simple Gifts, a collection of six short films narrated by Colleen Dewhurst that were meant to encourage viewers to think about the meaning of Christmas. Sendak was responsible for the animated sequence entitled, ""Prologue."" Set to melancholy piano music, it tells the story of a boy in tattered 18th-century-esque dress struggling to walk through wind and cold before sprouting a single candle from his head and… Read More

1907. Signed. MAETERLINCK, Maurice. The Plays and Essays. New York: Dodd, Mead, (1907-22). Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full burgundy polished morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. $3200.""Autograph Edition"" of Maeterlinck's collected plays and essays, twice signed by Maeterlinck—on a tipped-in leaf in the first volume of Essays and again in the first volume of Plays—handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt.The Belgian symbolist writer Maeterlinck won the 1911 Nobel Prize for literature. ""He made his reputation with his allegorical and romantic plays, mostly produced at the Théâtre de l'oeuvre, the nursery of the Symbolist drama"" (Harvey & Heseltine, 435). In 1905, ""Maeterlinck enjoyed one of his greatest theatrical successes with L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird). Like most of Maeterlinck's early symbolist dramas, it was inspired by several fairy tales, and more particularly by J.M.… Read More

1975. Signed. SENDAK, Maurice. Original drawing inscribed [Mickey Mouse]. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1975. Pen-and-ink illustration, measuring 5-1/4 by 6-3/4 inches; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 8-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches. $9500.Beautiful original drawing of Mickey Mouse—who shared Maurice Sendak's birthday—with a speech balloon reading: ""One Mickey Mouse Birthday deserves another!"", additionally inscribed to a close friend and neighbor: ""For Betty—All best wishes to you! Maurice Sendak. July 12, 75.""Sendak and Mickey Mouse were both ""born"" in 1928 and Sendak maintained a deep affinity for his cartoon counterpart. ""Sendak credited his decision to become an illustrator to watching the Walt Disney film 'Fantasia' when he was 12"" (Penn Live Patriot News). He was also an enthusiastic Mickey collector for much of his life and his impressive and valuable collection was sold at… Read More

1850. First Edition . FARADAY, Michael. Experimental Researches in Electricity… From the Philosophical Transactions. Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth Series, Thirtieth Series. WITH: Bakerian Lecture. London: [R. and J.E. Taylor], 1850-57. Nine papers bound in two volumes. Quarto, modern marbled paper wrappers. $6800.First appearances of nine papers from Faraday's important Experimental Researches in Electricity bound in two volumes, the 23rd through the 30th Series—laying the foundations for the origins of Field Theory—along with his 1857 Bakerian lecture, extracted from the journal Philosophical Transactions where they originally appeared, with all related engraved plates and illustrations.The electrical research of Faraday, ""one of the greatest physicists of the 19th century and one of the finest experimenters of all time… was the starting point for the revolutionary theories of Clerk Maxwell… Read More

1768. First Edition . CATHERINE THE GREAT. The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias. To which is prefixed, A Description of the Manner of opening the Commission, with the Order and Rules for Electing the Commissioners. London: T. Jefferys, 1768. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (i-v), vi-xxiii, (1), 3-258. $7200.First edition in English of the celebrated Nakaz of Catherine the Great, drawing extensively on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, heralded by Voltaire and Diderot, initially issued in Russia in 1767 —""the single piece of Russian legislative material best known abroad""—aligned with the later American constitution for its ""shared characteristics and techniques,"" highly elusive in contemporary boards.""Born into… Read More

1953. First Edition . FRIEDMAN, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. (Chicago): University of Chicago Press, (1953). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $6500.First edition of the work containing the first appearance of Friedman's pivotal essay, ""Methodology of Positive Economics,"" hailed as ""the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of methodological writing in 20th-century economics,"" in very scarce dust jacket.""The most famous methodological piece within 20th century economics is Milton Friedman's 'Methodology of Positive Economics.' This piece is taken to advocate prediction-ism as the most important goal for and criterion of the success of economic theories"" (Eric Schliesser, ""The Stigler-Kuhn Correspondence and the Philosophial Prehistory of Prediction in Chicago Economics""). It ""remains the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of… Read More

1817. First Edition . (NAPOLEON) MUDFORD, William. An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher, Comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo… London: Henry Colburn, 1817. Folio (11 by 13 inches), contemporary full tan calf rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine neatly laid down, original marbled endpapers, marbled edges. $12,000.First edition of this beautifully illustrated history of the final battles against Napoleon's forces in the Netherlands, including his historic defeat at Waterloo. With double-page plate depicting the raging battle of Waterloo, engraved extra title page, a large folding map, a double-page map, and 26 full-page plates, all save the maps aquatint engravings with vivid hand-coloring. Handsomely bound in nicely restored contemporary calf-gilt.Mudford's work chronicles in detail and unabashedly celebrates the fall of Napoleon and the victory of the Allied… Read More

1982. First Edition . Signed. ROTHBARD, Murray. The Ethics of Liberty. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, (1982). Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $7200.First edition of Rothbard's ""second magnum opus… a pillar of the Rothbardian system"" in its bold pursuit of principles introduced in Man, Economy and State, inscribed in the year of publication by Rothbard, the father of libertarianism: ""To L— & L— F— Warmest regards to two genuine and uncompromising radical (i.e. genuine) libertarians. Murray Rothbard.""""Following his revered teacher and mentor, Ludwig von Mises, Mises' teachers Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk and Carl Menger… Rothbard was one of those rare individuals who did contribute to ethics as well as economics."" Building on principles introduced in his first book, Man, Economy and State (1962), Ethics is a ""pillar of the Rothbardian system… his second magnum opus.… Read More