Search Results: Authors starting with S from Bauman Rare Books

1887. (JOHNSON, Samuel) BOSWELL, James. Boswell's Life of Johnson, including… Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Oxford: Clarendon, 1887. Six volumes bound in eleven. Octavo, contemporary full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $11,000.First George Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's travels, extra-illustrated with 1153 finely engraved portraits, views, maps and facsimiles (including many proofs on India paper), and facsimile of handwritten note by Hill tipped in. Handsomely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son.Hill was a renowned Johnsonian scholar; when the Clarendon Press brought out this six-volume set in 1887, ""the edition was accepted as a masterpiece of spacious editing. The index, forming the sixth volume, is a monument of industry and completeness"" (DNB). ""The fascination of [Boswell and Johnson's] dialogue, that dialogue of… Read More

1685. PARLIAMENT. An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion, to be naturalized by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. WITH: An Act to Repeal. London: Thomas Baskett, 1753. Two pieces. Slim folio, original tan self-wrappers disbound; pp.(2) 407-410 and modern cardboard boards, pp. 1-4. $6500.First edition of the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753, the ""Jew Bill"" that notoriously provoked such fierce opposition that it was repealed within months by Parliament, together with a first edition of that repeal.Under Cromwell, in 1656, it had finally ""became possible, for the first time for three and a half centuries, for Jews to live, trade and worship openly and, for the most part, untroubled in the City of London"" (Schama, History of Britain II:234-35). Subsequently, despite anti-Jewish agitation in the early years of George II's reign, the King was not inclined ""to reverse the arrangement that had become established… Read More

1824. First Edition . MEYRICK, Samuel Rush. A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, As It Existed in Europe, But Particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages. London: John Dowding, circa 1832. Three volumes. Folio (11-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches), modern three-quarter crimson morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $6000.Early edition—issued sometime after the 1824 first edition, but preceding the 1842 revised ""second"" edition—of Meyrick's beautifully illustrated work on arms and armor, in three folio volumes with 70 richly hand-colored plates, ten etched plates, and 27 brightly illuminated and hand-colored historiated initials. ""Practically the first on the subject… [one that] remains an authority.""Antient Armour established noted English collector Samuel Meyrick as the leading authority on the topic. He was asked to arrange the national… Read More

1801. First Edition . STEARNS, Samuel. American Herbal, or Materia Medica. Walpole, New Hampshire: David Carlisle, for Thomas & Thomas, 1801. Octavo, original boards sympathetically respined, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $7200.First edition of the first American herbal, in original boards.""The first herbal both produced and printed in the United States, as opposed to those which were reprints of European works. Stearns' home remedies sometimes strayed beyond the boundaries of herbal medicine; for instance, he devoted an entry to bears, in which he described the uses of their flesh, oil and grease, and warned his readers that they often do much damage by killing sheep, destroying corn, and sometimes the human species. The work also includes information on American Indian remedies"" (Norman). ""Stearns was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, in 1747; he became a physician and astronomer, practicing his profession first in Worcester, Massachusetts, then… Read More

1922. Signed. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Autograph letter signed. St. Paul, Minnesota, circa May 9, 1922. Two sheets of unlined wove paper, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, penned on the rectos for two pages. $22,000.Exceptional signed two-page autograph letter with excellent literary content, written entirely in F. Scott Fitzgerald's hand, to Harford Powell, an editor at Collier's, concerning mystery stories and publishing ""Benjamin Button,"" along with other novelettes and his earlier collection Flappers and Philosophers. Accompanied by Powell's typed one-page letter in response.The letter, written entirely in F. Scott Fitzgerald's hand, reads: ""Your letter was very interesting. The trouble is this: all the obvious stuff of romance & mystery while it is at the same time the best stuff has in the last twenty five years been pretty well pawed over by newspaper feature writers and detective story Shakespeares not to mention people like Doyle, Haggard,… Read More

1925. First Edition . FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Octavo, original blue-green cloth. $11,500.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. A bit of foxing to first few leaves, small faint stain along text block outer edge; cloth exceptionally bright and fine. A beautiful copy.

1962. First Edition . Signed. CARPENTER, M. Scott, COOPER, L. Gordon, Jr., GLENN, John H., Jr., GRISSOM, Virgil I., SCHIRRA, Walter M., Jr., SHEPARD, Alan B., Jr., SLAYTON, Donald K. We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $2900.First edition of this comprehensive and engaging first-hand account of the genesis of America's manned space program, inscribed ""To J— John Glenn,"" richly illustrated with photographs, in original dust jacket.""The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort… In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercury's spirit and Atlas' strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean, they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology and history had prepared for them"" (Swenson, Grimwood… Read More

1944. First Edition . Signed. (EISENSTEIN, Sergei). Ivan Groznyi (Ivan the Terrible). Moscow: Goskinozdat, 1944. Octavo, original brown paper boards. Housed in a cutom clamshell box. $15,000.1944 Moscow edition of Eisenstein's script for Ivan Groznyi (Ivan the Terrible), featuring eight full-page illustrations of scenes from the film, published the same year as the Moscow premier of Part I, an exceptional presentation copy boldly inscribed in Russian by him (English translation), ""To Arthur, in whose interpretation this script benefited so much… Thankfully, Eisenstein."" Text in Russian.Eisenstein remains ""one of the world's most creative, pioneering and influential filmmakers… his films, as well as his writings and his theory of montage, have shaped how cinema is made and understood."" From Battleship Potemkin (1925) to Ivan the Terrible, his films ""still shock with their extraordinary beauty and invention"" (University… Read More

1664. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $13,500.Sixteen original leaves from the rare and important Third Folio, containing the complete text of Shakespeare's historical drama, Richard III (with two leaves supplied from another copy of the same edition). Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the… Read More

1900. SHAKESPEARE. The New Century Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright. Boston: Dana Estes, 1900-01. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter maroon morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, silk boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $4800.Limited “Edition de Grand Luxe” of the ""New Century"" edition, number 184 of 500 copies, “copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text,” with over 220 engraved plates.This edition was designed as ""a complete edition de luxe, in the best sense of the term—first-class and faultless in every detail of mechanical execution, copiously and artistically illustrated, with an authoritative text, and amply furnished with explanatory and critical matter in keeping with its outward elegance and beauty."" The text is the Cambridge edition, in its latest revised form (1891-93) by William Wright,… Read More

1632. SHAKESPEARE. The Life and Death of King Richard the Second; The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; The Second Part…; The Life of King Henry the Fifth; The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Second Part…; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; pp. 327-508. $35,000.Ninety original leaves from the rare and important Third Folio, containing the complete text of seven of Shakespeare's historical dramas: Richard II, Parts 1 and 2 of Henry IV, Henry V, and the three parts of Henry VI (with five leaves supplied from another copy of the same edition). Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619… Read More

1664. SHAKESPEARE. The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $14,500.The complete text of Shakespeare's great historical tragedy, Julius Caesar, from the rare and important Third Folio, on 11 original leaves (one leaf supplied from another copy of this edition). Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the first complete edition of Shakespeare's plays. The Third Folio is believed to be… Read More

1863. SHAKESPEARE. The Works. Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1863-66. Nine volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $7800.First edition set of the “Cambridge Shakespeare,” extra-illustrated with over 250 plates (many of which are hand-colored) of views and scenes and actors and actresses, very handsomely bound by Bayntun.""Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature"" (Harold Bloom). ""The Cambridge Shakespeare,"" first published in this 1863-66 edition, has ""become the standard text of Shakespeare… The introductions contain the safest guide as to authorities for the text and the notes form a complete apparatus criticus of the text… [It] is a monument of editorial judgment and accurate scholarship"" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature V § 20). Jaggard,… Read More

1632. SHAKESPEARE. A Midsommer Nights Dreame. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; pp. 145-62. $19,500.Nine original leaves from the rare and important Third Folio, containing the complete text of Shakespeare's festive, fantasy-filled comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the first complete edition of Shakespeare's plays. The Third Folio is believed to be the scarcest of… Read More

1916. First Edition . FREUD, Sigm[und], Prof. Dr. Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse. Leipzig und Wien: Hugo Heller, 1916-17. Three volumes. Octavo, original tan paper wrappers; housed in a custom clamshell box. $25,000.First edition in original wrappers of all three volumes of one of Freud's most popular works, the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, inscribed in Volume II on the front wrapper to Rudolf Reitler, a friend and colleague of Freud who was instrumental in the development of psychoanalysis as a discipline and the first person after Freud himself to perform analysis on patients: ""Herr Dr. R. Reitler mit herzlichen Gruss. Verf[asser]"" [Dr. R. Reitler with warm regards. The Author.].One of Freud's most popular works, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis was for Freud himself not so much an introduction as it was a culmination. Twenty-some years earlier, Freud had begun a series of publications that announced the development of a new field,… Read More

1913. First Edition . FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. Authorised Translation of Third Edition with Introduction by A.A. Brill. New York: Macmillan, 1913. Octavo, original blue cloth gilt. $4800.First edition in English of arguably the greatest book in the history of psychoanalysis.""Unquestionably Freud's greatest single work. It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the 'Oedipus complex,' the libido and the rest; all related to the background of the 'unconscious,' later to be called the 'sub-conscious"" (PMM 389). First published in German in 1899 (postdated on the title page as 1900, to mark the book's epochal significance), Die Traumdeutung has ""ranked Freud with Darwin and Marx… This book remained for Freud his greatest achievement."" He later wrote that it contains ""'the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good… Read More

1925. First Edition . Signed. LEWIS, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1925). Octavo, original buckram spine, blue paper boards, original printed paper label, top edge gilt, uncut. $14,000.Signed limited first edition of what many consider Lewis' greatest novel, number 1 of only 500 large-paper copies signed by him. An excellent association copy, owned by Ellen Knowles Eayrs-Harcourt, wife of Lewis' publisher Alfred Harcourt, who in a page and a half inscription describes advancing Lewis and his friend, science writer Paul de Kruif, $1000 from her personal account for de Kruif to get married before the two men set out for a year-long trip to research the book that would become Arrowsmith, with the check she made out to de Kruif endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif tipped to the front pastedown.""Using for his theme the losing fight made by two men with whom scientific truth is religion, Mr. Lewis draws a picture for us that is disquieting in its… Read More

1854. First Edition . SMITH, Gerrit. Speeches of Gerrit Smith. In Congress 1853-'4. Washington, D.C.: Buell and Blanchard, 1854. Octavo, original printed green self-wrappers, original stitching. $1850.First edition of nine major 1854 speeches by radical abolitionist Smith, together in print for the first time, featuring elemental works such as ""No Slavery in Nebraska,"" defying Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska bill and denouncing ""the federal government as a 'bastard democracy,'"" very elusive in fragile original wrappers.In the early 1850s Gerrit Smith, ""a man of enormous emotional complexity, religious fervor, antislavery commitment and wealth… embraced political abolitionism."" By then Frederick Douglass had become ""an outspoken supporter… [and] rejoiced in Smith's election to Congress as a radical abolitionist in 1852"" (Blight, Frederick Douglass, 207, 252). Once linked to… Read More

1926. First Edition . Signed. (EDISON, Thomas Alva) RAMSAYE, Terry. A Million and One Nights. A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original half brown pigskin and Japanese patterned paper boards, top edges gilt. Housed in two custom chemise and together in a clamshell box. $10,500.Signed limited first edition of one of the most important histories of cinema, number 8 of only 327 sets signed by Ramsaye and Thomas Edison, an exceptional association copy containing a laid-in typed letter by award-winning film scholar and author Dr. Donald Crafton, this rare copy a gift to him from ""film aficionado and collector… Spencer Berger."" With over 100 illustrations, a splendid copy in publisher’s leather and Japanese patterned paper boards.At a time when only Columbia University offered lectures on film, and when the Museum of Modern Art kept quiet plans for a film archive because it was considered ""highly… Read More

1943. First Edition . Signed. DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins. A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl. New York: Random House, (1943). Slim quarto, original half red cloth, pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in custom pictorial clamshell box. $13,500.Presentation first edition of Dahl's rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions, twice inscribed by him: on the half title, ""To Joe and Steve with love from Roald Dahl 10/5/47,"" and opposite the half title, ""One by one a cow came by/ Howling around for the moon/ They asked me where the hell it was/ I said it's gone you dopes—you're much too soon. R."" An exceptionally elusive and desirable Dahl first edition in any condition, particularly in the original dust jacket and inscribed by him.Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attaché for the British Embassy. After having a story published… Read More