Search Results: Authors starting with H from Bauman Rare Books

1947. First Edition . REY, H.A. Curious George Takes a Job. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Quarto, original pictorial red cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9000.First edition of this second installment in the Curious George series, chronicling Curious George's attempts at finding (and keeping) a job without his curiosity getting him into trouble.Published beginning in 1941, the Curious George books (of which this is the second) were written by Margret Rey and illustrated by her husband, Hans Augusto Rey. ""Through the character of Curious George, the adventurous tailless monkey, H.A. Rey projected his own lively curiosity in the world around him and at the same time kept his stories within the realm of children's activities and comprehension… Curious George remains a recognized and beloved monkey who will continue to amuse and comfort children for years to come"" (Silvey, 554). Owner inscription dated year of… Read More

1765. (HAGGADAH). Seder Haggadah Lepesach. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and son-in-law, 1765. Quarto, period-style full red morocco with elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, black morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers; ff. 33. $9000.1765 illustrated Amsterdam Haggadah, with 14 half-page woodcuts and numerous historiated initials. Beautifully bound in period-style morocco gilt.With commentary and instructions in Yiddish, prepared by Solomon Zalman London. Title within typographical border. Yudlov 244. Yaari 155. Text expertly cleaned with expert paper repairs to top edges of several leaves, not affecting text. A very good copy of a scarce edition, beautifully bound.

1960. First Edition . Signed. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Harper & Row, (circa 1960). Octavo, original half taupe cloth, brown paper boards, original dust jacket. $5500.Later printing of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, inscribed by the author, “To The Russells, with best wishes, Harper Lee.”Harper Lee's portrayal of life in a small Alabama town captured the essence of the South at one of its most trying times. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is ""an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood"" (Jonathan Daniels). First issued in 1960. This copy is forty-ninth printing. Book fine, bright dust jacket with only lightest wear to spine ends and a half-inch closed tear at rear flap fold. An about-fine inscribed copy.

1852. Signed. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Autograph letter signed. Andover, Massachusetts, October 27, 1852. Single sheet of unlined woven cream paper, measuring 8 by 9-3/4 inches; pp. 2. $22,500.Fascinating autograph letter written and signed by Harriet Beecher Stowe discussing slavery laws, penned at the height of Uncle Tom's Cabin's popularity.The autograph letter, dated ""Andover. Oct 27/52,"" was written the same year as Uncle Tom's Cabin was released. Stowe, a devoted abolitionist, was often credited with helping to spark the Civil War through the depictions of cruelty and heartbreak in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book's impact was so widespread and powerful that Lincoln reportedly said to her: ""So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.""The letter, written to an unnamed gentleman who sent Stowe an article, reads in full: ""Dear Sir, I am obliged to you for sending me the 'text to my subject'… Read More

1956. Signed. TRUMAN, Harry. Photograph inscribed. No place, August 12, 1956. Black-and-white photographic print, measuring 13 by 10-1/2 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 21-1/2 by 19 inches. $12,500.Large photographic print showing Truman smiling and holding up the famous issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune in which his loss to Dewey was erroneously predicted based on incomplete returns, inscribed: ""To Courteney Darber with happy memories! 8/12/56 Harry Truman.""This inscribed photograph captures Truman gleefully holding up the Chicago Daily Tribune, which erroneously announced his electoral defeat. During the 1930s and 1940s, editor and publisher Robert ""Bertie"" McCormick used the Chicago Daily Tribune's editorial pages to promote his conservative agenda. The Tuesday, November 2, 1948 headline was ""Go to the Polls Today! / Landslide / for Dewey / is Expected / Democrats Cling / to Wisp of Hope."" Most polls in the… Read More

1953. Signed. TRUMAN, Harry S. Advance Press Transcript of Truman's Final State of the Union Address, Signed. [Washington, DC]: January 7, 1953. Eight leaves, mimeographed typescript on versos and rectos for 16 pages. Legal folio (8 by 14 inches), stapled upper left. $13,500.Advance press transcript of Truman's final State of the Union Address, signed by him, a stirring summation of the challenges and accomplishments of his years in office, and a call to unite behind the efforts of President-Elect Eisenhower. This is a mimeographed advance transcript of the speech, marked ""Confidential"" at the top, issued in very small numbers for the use of the press—most copies would have been discarded after use.""I took the oath of office on April 12, 1945. In May of that same year, the Nazis surrendered. Then, in July, that great white flash of light, man-made at Alamogordo, heralded swift and final victory in World War II—and opened the doorway to the atomic… Read More

1784. First Edition . CAVENDISH, Henry. Experiments on Air. ISSUED WITH: Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on Air. In a Letter from Richard Kirwan. ISSUED WITH: An Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks. ISSUED WITH: Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer, by R. Kirwan. BOUND WITH: Experiments on Air [Part II]. Read June 2, 1785. EXCERPTED FROM: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 74. [London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1784-85]. Small quarto, modern marbled wrappers; pp. 119-53, 154-69, 170-77, 178-80, 372-84. Housed in custom portfolio. $7500.First edition of Cavendish's experimental proof that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen and therefore not a separate element unto itself, with a folding plate. As issued in Philosophical Transactions for the year 1784.""Cavendish was the first to prove experimentally that hydrogen ('inflammable air') and oxygen ('dephlogisticated air'), when mixed in the proper proportions and fired,… Read More

1904. CLAY, Henry. The Works of Henry Clay. Comprising His Life, Correspondence and Speeches. Edited by Calvin Colton, LL.D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark blue morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $3500.""Federal Edition"" of Clay’s writings, number 98 of 1000 sets, with ten frontispiece portraits, an introduction by Thomas B. Reed, and a ""History of Tariff Legislation, 1812-1896"" by William McKinley, handsomely bound.Senator, Congressman, Speaker of the House of Representatives, presidential candidate, Secretary of State: ""No man in American public life has had more ardent supporters or more bitter enemies than Clay, and no one has depended more for his happiness on the friendship of the people… In his ability to appeal to the common reason, and his absolute fearlessness in stating his convictions, he was unexcelled by any of his contemporaries""… Read More

1944. Signed. MILLER, Henry. Original watercolor. No place, 1944. One leaf, measuring 9 by 12 inches; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 14-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches. $6200.Original watercolor of human figure standing in a town, featuring a presentation inscription: ""For Cecilia Draeger from Henry Miller 1944.""Miller began painting watercolors in the 1920s and continued throughout his life. After spending years in Europe, Miller moved to Big Sur in 1942, where he lived a modest existence. This watercolor, painted during the Big Sur years, depicts a person with a gentle facial expression and closed eyes with a town in the background and a blue sun overhead. Although Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn were published in Paris in the 1930s, it was not until the easing of censorship in the early 1960s that his work was published in the United States. Fine condition.

1890. First Edition . STANLEY, Henry M. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Two volumes. Large thick quarto (10 by 12 inches), publisher's three-quarter dark brown morocco, raised bands, vellum boards, top edges gilt, uncut. $15,000.Deluxe signed limited first edition, American issue, number 39 of only 250 copies signed by Stanley, of the classic 19th-century account of African exploration. Profusely illustrated with engraved frontispieces, 38 mounted plates on India paper, six additional full-page etchings (each signed by the artist), three color folding maps (two backed in cloth), a folding table of comparative vocabularies, and numerous mounted, in-text India-prints.Perhaps no adventurer is more closely connected with Africa than Lord Stanley, whose various expeditions did more to reveal the nature of that continent than any modern explorer. His 1887 mission to relieve the besieged governor of Egypt, his… Read More

1865. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Letters to Various Persons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Octavo, original blind- and gilt-stamped purple cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $2600.First edition of this wonderful posthumous collection of Thoreau’s letters, edited by Emerson, a fine copy in the original cloth. This first collection of Thoreau's letters was edited after his death by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who notes in his preface, ""It may interest the reader… to know that nearly all these letters have been printed from the original autographs furnished by the persons to whom they were addressed."" With nine poems appended to the letters. BAL binding ""A""; Borst binding ""5,"" priority undetermined. BAL 20116. Borst A6.1.a. Allen, 21. Johnson, 501. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

1864. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Small octavo, original green cloth. $3300.First edition of Thoreau’s acclaimed account of his ascent of Mount Katahdin and related writings, in original cloth.At the end of August 1846, ""Thoreau left Walden for a two-week excursion to the Maine woods… The ascent of [Mount] Katahdin was the central experience both of the trip and of Thoreau's subsequent account of it. It was an experience of nature as vast, drear and indifferent to humankind"" (ANB). Thoreau published his essay about his excursion, ""Ktaadn,"" in the Union Magazine in 1848. ""Emerson reading over the essay decided it was the first piece of American literature he had seen in ten years that was worth binding"" (Harding). It would not, however, appear in book form until 1864 after Thoreau's death, as part of the present volume, accompanied by other accounts of two… Read More

1906. Signed. THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Twenty volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt, uncut. $37,500.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… Read More

1854. THOREAU, Henry David. Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden. Concord, Massachusetts, 1854. One leaf, measuring eight by ten inches, writing in ink on recto and verso, window mounted housed in a custom portfolio. $39,000.A wonderful item: an original autograph manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden, including passages from the chapter ""Higher Laws"" where Thoreau discusses his moral ambivalence about fishing, and another from the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter that also features fishing.This autograph manuscript leaf contains passages from at least two chapters of Walden. The first paragraph can be found in the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter, where at one point Thoreau takes shelter from the weather with an Irish farmer, John Field. The passage reads: ""…I trust he does not hear this:—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country — to catch perch with… Read More

1863. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Small octavo, original recased green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, edges gilt, original brown endpapers retained. $2000.First edition, in original cloth with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait.Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau. It was published the year after Thoreau's death and includes a eulogy delivered at his funeral by Emerson, here included as a preface. After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau became more of a naturalist, taking trips to Cape Cod and Canada and using his experiences as material for an article entitled ""Excursion to Canada"" in Putnam's Monthly in 1853. ""He toured Cape Cod on foot late in 1849, spent a week in Canada in 1850, went in 1853 on his second journey into Maine. Four of his posthumous books derive…from these expeditions: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape… Read More

1865. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Octavo, original green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, brown coated endpapers. $2200.First edition, in original cloth.""On October 9, 1849, Thoreau set out… for a week's tour on Cape Cod, wishing, as he said, 'to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean.' Before he was done with the Cape, he would have a better view not only of the ocean and the shore but of early New England…"" The book makes use of essays from the 1849 trip as the thread of the narrative and weaves materials as well from his subsequent 1850 and 1855 trips. Filled with jokes and tall tales and digressions on the history of the Cape, ""Cape Cod is [also] Thoreau's exploration of salvation, of how, if at all, man is (to be) saved… The sense of being alone, the fate of bare unaccommodated man, the bleak emptiness of death is strongest in Cape… Read More

1854. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 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). With lithographed map of Walden Pond facing page 307; advertisements at rear dated April 1854. BAL 20106. Myerson A2.1.a. Johnson 73. Magazine photograph of a bust of Thoreau tipped-in opposite title… Read More

1927. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. The Moon. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Small octavo, original half vellum with purple paper boards, original slipcase. $900.Limited first edition, one of 500 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon.Found after his death among his manuscripts, The Moon was probably intended by Thoreau ""to form the basis of a lecture, which, following the course usual with his writings, would eventually find periodical publication as an essay and later be included in a book"" (from the introduction). Which is exactly what happened, albeit in a much abbreviated form. The Moon is an attempt to present these extracts ""just as he left them… they are not to be judged as a finished essay, but Thoreau's writing always has distinction and hardly the slightest entry in his Journal but has a dignity and beauty of its own."" A fine copy in a toned slipcase.

1901. HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901. Seven volumes bound as nine. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. Housed in publisher's original chemises and slipcases. $5000.Limited illustrated edition, one (unnumbered) of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition.Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as ""versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets."" Each poem is additionally decorated with numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and… Read More

1980. First Edition . Signed. ZINN, Howard. A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper & Row, (1980). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $5200.First edition of Zinn's controversial work that challenged ""a generation to rethink America’s past,"" signed and dated by him across the expanse of the title page, in very scarce dust jacket.Zinn, who died in 2010, was ""proudly, unabashedly radical,"" a lifelong activist and groundbreaking historian whose People's History peeled back ""the rosy veneer of much of American history to reveal sordid realities that had remained hidden for too long."" Writing of Andrew Jackson, he said: ""If you look through high school textbooks and elementary school textbooks in American history, you will find Jackson the frontiersman, soldier, democrat, man of the people—not Jackson the slaveholder, land speculator, executioner of dissident… Read More