Search Results: Authors starting with J from Bauman Rare Books

2001. First Edition . ROWLING, J.K. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. WITH: Quidditch Through the Ages. London: Bloomsbury, (2001). Two volumes. 12mo, original stiff printed pictorial wrappers; pp. 42, 56, original schoolbag-printed plastic bag. Housed together in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $12,000.First editions of Rowling's two whimsical ""textbooks"" from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, each boldly signed by her on the title page, with the Quidditch volume additionally inscribed by her: ""To Christina, lots of love.""How long is an Ashwinder's life span? When did wizards stop using baskets in Quidditch and start using goalposts? What is the only spell capable of repelling a Lethifold? How did the Moontrimmer mark ""a leap forward"" in broomstick manufacture? You'll find answers to all these questions (and more you never knew to ask) in this highly creative pair of ""textbooks,""… Read More

1963. First Edition . SALINGER, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction (uncorrected advance proofs). Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, (1963). Very tall octavo (5-1/4 by 11 inches), comb-bound as issued, original green paper wrappers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $5800.Uncorrected advance proof of this beloved Salinger work, with publisher's advance slip tipped onto front wrapper.Like Franny and Zooey (1961), these two long stories were first printed in The New Yorker, and form part of Salinger's uncompleted series about the Glass family. ""Rarely if ever in literary history has a handful of stories aroused so much discussion, controversy, praise, denunciation, mystification and interpretation"" (New York Times). This rare uncorrected advance proof—clearly derived from the printer's galleys and likely produced in very small numbers—is particularly desirable given the textual changes upon publication. Like the rare… Read More

1926. First Edition . BLACK, Jack. You Can't Win. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.First edition of this cult autobiography about life as a burglar before automatic guns and getaway cars, with a foreword by acclaimed realist author Robert Herrick, in scarce original dust jacket.""The America of career burglar Jack Black's 1926 novel You Can't Win is one of rampant crime, drug use, fugitivity, and punitive justice"" (Art in America). ""It is a good thing that many law-abiding people are reading this remarkable autobiography of an ex-criminal, 13 years removed from the criminal class, but in his time as complete a criminal as any seeker for authentic information could desire. The effort of organized society to protect itself from the outlaw element may reasonably gain power from understanding the enemy, and in this book the reader meets and mingles with criminals almost, one… Read More

1901. First Edition . Signed. RIIS, Jacob. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan, 1901. Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6500.First edition of the pioneering photographer and reformer's autobiography, published the decade after his influential work, How the Other Half Lives, with frontispiece portrait and 83 photographic illustrations, many full-page, in original bright gilt cloth, inscribed to a prominent social reformer and close friend of Jane Addams mentioned in the text: ""Mrs Emmons Blaine with the admiration and respect of the author Jacob A. Riis. New York, Dec 9, 1901.""In this profusely illustrated autobiography, Riis charts his life, from his youth in Denmark to his immigration to America and his dedication to documenting the social injustice of New York's slums, first as a police photographer and then as a newspaper photographer—""the first… Read More

1784. First Edition . NECKER, Jacques. De l'Administration des Finances de la France. [Paris]: No publisher, 1784. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full vellum, brown morocco spine labels. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $5000.First edition of Necker's celebrated justification for his policies as Finance Minister of France during the American Revolution, in French, in contemporary vellum. Ex-libris the Vatican Library, with their stamps and notations.Necker attempted to finance French participation in the American War of Independence without recourse to additional taxation. In trying to raise the necessary loans, Necker published in 1781 his Compte rendu au Roi—a best-seller of the time—claiming a surplus of 10,000,000 livres in the hope of concealing an actual deficit of 46,000,000. The opposition of the leading minister and the hostility of the queen Marie-Antoinette forced Necker to resign on May 19, 1781. He retired to Saint-Ouen, where he wrote this work to justify his… Read More

1829. First Edition . MILBERT, Jacques-Gerard. Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales de l'Amerique du Nord. Paris: Henry Gaugain et Cie., [1829]. Folio (21 3/4 by 14 1/4 inches), original three-quarter red diced calf and red paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine. $16,800.First edition of this outstanding series of American views, which ""constitute a unique and valuable record"" (Sherman) of the natural splendors to be seen along the Hudson River, in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and at Niagara Falls, with lithographed title page, 54 lovely lithographed views, and large double-page hand-colored map. ""The painter Milbert set out for the United States in 1815 as a correspondent of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He remained for seven years, sending back to France almost 8000 specimens of American flora and fauna. He also brought home many sketches from which… lithographs for his book were made by such artists as Adam,… Read More

1819. First Edition . BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians. London: Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. Octavo, modern three-quarter russet morocco, black morocco spine label, marbled boards. $6000.First edition of Burney's classic work, giving a firsthand account of Cook's last voyage, with two folding maps.James Burney ""sailed with Captain Cook in his second voyage, 1772-4… In 1775 he was in the Cerberus on the North American station, and was recalled to sail again under Cook in his third voyage. Consequent on the deaths of Cook and Clerke, he came home in command of the Discovery"" (DNB). ""Pages 202-270 contain an account of Cook's third voyage which includes some intimate details not to be found elsewhere"" (Holmes, 82). This compilation also contains Burney's ""important researches"" on the maritime discoveries of the… Read More

1820. First Edition . COOPER, James Fenimore. Precaution, a Novel. New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1820. Two volumes. Small octavo, 20th-century full brown morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. $5500.First edition of Cooper's first novel, published anonymously, handsomely bound by Bennett.""Playfully challenged by his wife's cousin to write a better book than one he was reading aloud, Cooper, after a false start, produced Precaution (1820), an imitation of an English novel of manners, which… brought him to the attention of the New York literary world"" (ANB). Until the publication of Precaution, Cooper had been a gentleman farmer with large debts. His literary career was so immediately successful that his financial problems were solved by 1826, the year in which The Last of the Mohicans appeared. His writing career continued until 1850, one year before his death. ""His worldwide fame attests his power of invention, for his novels have been popular principally for their… Read More

1939. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, (1939). Large octavo, original red cloth, uncut and unopened, original dust jacket. $5500.First trade edition of Joyce’s ""last and most innovative prose work.""Finnegans Wake stands as ""Joyce's last and most innovative prose work, written in a revolutionary narrative style that approximates the protean nocturnal dream world… [that gave] Joyce the freedom he needed to weave together archetypal and historical themes that embrace, among other things, the creation, the fall and the resurrection of humanity"" (Fargnoli & Gillespie, 74). Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake ""took longer to write… was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon of… Read More

1921. First Edition . JOYCE, James. Ulysses Prospectus. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1921. One folded leaf, printed on both sides; pp. 4. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $10000.Very rare original Shakespeare and Company prospectus for Joyce's Ulysses.In 1919, Joyce's Ulysses began appearing in installments in the Egoist in London; although the Egoist's editor, Harriet Weaver, intended to publish the whole novel in book form (she even issued announcements of its forthcoming publication), no printers were willing to take the legal risk. The Little Review in Chicago then began publishing chapters, promptly leading to the prosecution of its editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, on charges of obscenity. Upon hearing of this from Joyce himself, Sylvia Beach offered to publish the work through her Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. ""Undeterred by lack of capital, experience, and all the other requisites of a publisher, I went right ahead with… Read More

1925. First Edition . Signed. JOHNSON, James Weldon. The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York: Viking, 1925. Quarto, original brown cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6500.First edition, presentation copy, of the Harlem Renaissance classic, inscribed to a famous sports columnist and short story writer: ""For Ring W. Lardner with sincere regards—James Weldon Johnson.""Poet, novelist, civil rights leader, lawyer and lyricist, James Weldon Johnson edited The Book of American Negro Spirituals. Johnson, who also signed this first edition, initially explored the legacy of African American music in 1900 when he co-wrote the classic ""Lift Every Voice and Sing"" with his brother John Rosamond Johnson, who provided this volume's musical arrangements. After the two brothers became successful songwriters James Weldon Johnson's life took a turn as he became active in civil rights, publishing the autobiographical novel, Autobiography of an… Read More

1826. First Edition . KENT, James. Commentaries on American Law. New York: O. Halsted, 1826-30. Four volumes. Octavo, modern full tan calf, red and black morocco spine labels. $7800.First edition of one of the most important legal treatises in American history, handsomely bound.""Superior to any previous treatise on this subject, and a landmark in the history of international law"" (Chamberlain). ""The foremost American institutional legal treatise"" (DAB). ""Without Kent and Story, it is doubtful that the common law could have been received as readily as it was or that judicial decision could have taken over as the law's growing point… Above all, the text writers and their affiliated law schools were a great unifying influence in American law"" (Schwartz, 111). Kent's Commentaries ""contain not only a clear statement of the English law, with all the alterations that have taken place since the time of Blackstone, but a… Read More

1819. First Edition . (ROME) MERIGOT, James. A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity. Recently Executed from Drawings Made upon the Spot. London: Messrs. Robinsons, White, Faulder and Evans, circa 1821. Folio (14 by 20 inches), modern half red morocco, marbled endpapers, uncut. $8800.Imperial paper edition of Merigot's classic work on Rome, with 62 magnificent, finely hand-colored aquatint engravings—a lovely uncut copy.Although many books of a similar nature were released during the late 18th to early 19th centuries due to the rise of Neo-classicism among the British populace, this work was unique in its particular attention to the accurate depiction of the Roman ruins. Merigot visited each of the ruins and drew them in person, making this an important record both of Ancient Rome and also of the state of Roman ruins at the turn of the 19th century. First published in 1797-99; a second edition was issued by White and Cochrane circa 1805. This is the third edition,… Read More

1817. First Edition . JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: J. Jenkins, [1817]. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full olive straight-grain morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked, all edges gilt. $21,000.First edition, first issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, with vignette title page and 55 vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt.""As a record of naval events spanning a period of over 20 years Jenkins' Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy which makes Jenkins so valuable above all"" (Roger Quarm, National Maritime Museum). Jenkins' work ""is worthy of its theme; nor could one desire a… Read More

1912. First Edition . Signed. STEPHENS, James. The Crock of Gold. London: Macmillan, 1912. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $15,000.First edition of James Stephens’ masterpiece, inscribed to American Book Company President W.T.H. Howe's secretary: ""To Edith Tranter: Dear Miss Tranter. Here am I going away from 'Freelands', and from a daily companionship with you which I am going sadly to miss. I shall remember you often; and, though you are surely the busiest person in the world, I hope you will remember me now and again when you have nothing better to do. Give, occasionally, my love to Larkspur: and when you & she turn your next fifty thousand miles break a flask of coca-cola on her bonnet in my name. Au revoir: James Stephens.""The Crock of Gold, with its rich Celtic theme, established Stephens' fame; his astringent, ironic style has invited comparisons with his friend, James… Read More

1853. First Edition . (WASHINGTON, George) SPARKS, Jared, editor. Correspondence of the American Revolution: Being Letters of Eminent Men to George Washington, from the Time of his Taking Command of the Army to the End of His Presidency. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1853. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, black and maroon morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. $2800.First edition of this collection of Jared Sparks' edition of George Washington's correspondence relating to the Revolution, in contemporary calf.The publication of Washington's writings was Sparks' great life work. In addition to using Washington's own papers and manuscripts, Sparks ""searched public and private archives for material, questioned survivors of the Revolution, visited and mapped historic sites… Only by knowing the paucity and poverty of printed material on the American Revolution before 1830 can one realize the debt that… Read More

1803. First Edition . SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'Économie Politique, ou Simple Exposition de la Manière dont se Forment, se Distribuent, et se Consomment les Richesses. Paris: [Printed by] Crapelet [for] Deterville, 1803. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full marbled calf rebacked, raised bands, original red morocco title spine labels, later green morocco volume spine labels, gilt seal of the ""Society of Writers to the Signet"" on front and rear covers. $15,000.First edition of this important contribution to the study of market economics, in the original French, in contemporary marbled calf boards.Say was among the first to divide the field of economics into the areas of production, distribution and consumption, to discuss the role of the entrepreneur, and to incorporate those ideas into a framework of laissez-faire liberalism. Of additional importance was his emphasis on utility as the determinant of value. ""Say is usually ranked with Smith… Read More

1881. First Edition . DAVIS, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $3000.First edition of Jefferson Davis' seminal history of the Confederacy, one of the most important works on the Civil War written by one of the conflict's primary figures, and one of the major arguments for the Constitutional basis of the war, with 18 maps (14 folding) and 19 plates, including stipple-engraved portraits of Davis, members of the presidential staff, General Lee and others, a handsome copy in publisher's original three-quarter morocco.""As president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis directed the new nation's mighty struggle for independence… Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the 19th century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal transformation of the United States from fledgling… Read More

1814. First Edition . JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London: Js. Jenkins, [1814-15]. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full olive straight-grain morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked, all edges gilt. $12,800.First edition, early issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British military action during Lord Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, hand-colored dedication page not present in all copies, and 51 vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt.""A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England's history"" (Hardie, English Coloured Books, 147). From the terrifying rout and retreat at Corunna to the glorious victory at Talavera, the British and their allies fought to keep Napoleon out of Spain and Portugal. In 1807 a demoralized and… Read More

1862. First Edition . THOMAS, Jerry. How to Mix Drinks, Or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States… To Which Is Appended a Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, [and] Fancy Syrups… The Whole Containing Over 600 Valuable Recipes. By Christian Schultz. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1862). Octavo, original brown cloth. $9000.First edition, later state, of the first drink manual published in the United States, prepared by the bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, illustrated with numerous in-text wood-engravings, including a diagram of a still, in the original cloth.Jerry Thomas (to whom the famous Savoy Cocktail Book is dedicated) presents 236 recipes for social drinks ""apart from water and those of the breakfast and tea-table."" ""It struck us that a list of all the social drinks of America would really be one of the curiosities of jovial… Read More