Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bauman Rare Books

1905. First Edition . HARRISON, Constance Cary. Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Being a Portrayal of their Tastes, Diversions, and Achievements. New York: Town Topics, 1905. Large folio (16 by 12 inches), publisher's full dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, covers and dentelles, raised bands, green watered-silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in original felt-lined wooden box with latches. $7500.First and only edition of this beautifully bound, printed, and illustrated work, with portraits of over 80 of the early 20th century's most notable American men. A striking large folio volume in original felt-lined wooden box.Contains brief illustrated profiles of men such as John Jacob Astor, Charles M. Schwab, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Alfred and Reginald Vanderbilt, with facsimiles of their signatures. With vignette illustrations throughout. Printed on Japanese vellum with rubricated initials and red-ruled… Read More

1897. First Edition . (CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen (Chiswick Press), 1897. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt, brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut; original wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. $5200.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's ""most ambitious project of book illustration"" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester.""The noblest allegorical poem in our language—indeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world"" (James Montgomery). Originally published in the late 16th century (the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596, with the ""Mutabilitie Cantos"" added… Read More

1738. EDWARDS, (Jonathan) Revd. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton and in the Neighbouring Towns and Villages of Hampshire, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay of New-England… BOUND WITH: [Discourses on Various Important Subjects]. Boston: S. Kneeland, T. Green, 1738. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7-3/4 inches), contemporary full brown sheep rebacked with original spine laid down, original red morocco spine label; pp.(2) (i)-viii, (i) ii-v (vi), (1)-79 (80), (i) ii-vi, 1-286 . $15,000.First American edition of this important account of the beginning of ""The Great Awakening"" by one of the most famous American religious figures, creator of ""the first great religious revival of modern times"" (ANB). Bound with Edwards' Discourses on Various Important Subjects, a collection of five sermons.Edwards' Faithful Narrative describes Christian conversion in his congregations in… Read More

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

1940. First Edition . CHANDLER, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Octavo, original red wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $9200.First edition, Advance Review Copy, of Chandler's scarce second novel—an exceptional copy of this premiere work by “one hell of a writer” (George Higgins)—in original ARC wrappers.""Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool—perhaps—but a fool just the same."" With these words, written by Chandler in 1949, the man who redefined the American crime novel acknowledged what his own writing made evident. It was barely a decade earlier that Chandler began to achieve some success. With the popularity of his first novel The Big Sleep in 1939, Chandler began working on Farewell, My Lovely in April that same year, completing a first draft by September and finishing the novel in the summer of 1940. To many, Farewell, My Lovely, the second Philip… Read More

1928. First Edition . (BARBIER, George) VERLAINE, Paul. Fêtes Galantes. Paris: H. Piazza, 1928. Folio (9 by 12 inches), original illustrated self-wrappers; original slipcase. $9000.Beautiful limited edition, number 810 of 800 copies on Rives paper (of a total edition of 1200), illustrated by George Barbier with 20 full-page hand-colored pochoir plates in his characteristic Art Deco style.Associated with the early Symbolists, Verlaine ""wrote some of the finest and most musical lyrics in the French language"" (Harvey & Heseltine, 738). First published in 1869, Fêtes Galantes reflects the care for form and objectivity characteristic of Verlaine's early poetry. The designs in this splendid production are the work of Art Deco legend George Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set designer for the Ballet Russes and later created décors and costumes for music-halls, movies and the Folies Bergère through Max Weldy Studios. Renowned for his… 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

1887. First Edition . (CIVIL WAR) UNITED STATES ARMY. Flags of the Army of the United States Carried During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, to Designate the Headquarters of the Different Armies, Army Corps, Divisions and Brigades. Philadelphia: Burk and McFetridge, 1887. Folio (12 by 15-1/2 inches), publisher's three-quarter brown morocco sympathetically rebacked, marbled endpapers. $8800.First edition, publisher's special large folio edition containing two additional chromolithographed plates of Regimental Colors and the Engineer Battalion, along with the lithographed title and 87 chromolithographed plates designating flags carried by the U.S. Army during the Civil War and double-page title for Tabular Statements Showing the Names of Commanders of Army Corps, Divisions and Brigades.This special edition features two full-page color lithographs of flags, a double-page Tabular Statements title page and a 12-page Index, along with the separate title page for Flags of the Army of the United… Read More

1924. Signed. MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. WITH: Winnie-the-Pooh. WITH: Now We Are Six. WITH: The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1924-28). Four volumes. 2mo, modern full blue morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, gilt dentelles, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. $19,500.First American editions of Milne’s beloved “Pooh quartet”—including the signed limited first American edition of When We Were Very Young, number 24 of 100 copies signed by Milne—elegantly bound in full morocco-gilt. A beautiful set.""One would have to search far and wide to find fictional characters as beloved to so many readers… Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults… it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame""… Read More

1960. First Edition . Signed. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, (1960). Tall quarto, original cream and marbled paper boards, original marbled slipcase. $6200.Signed limited edition of this highspot of 20th-century poetry, number 102 of 290 copies signed by Eliot, beautifully printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona.The Officina Bodini was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig and named for Giambattista Bodoni, the great eighteenth-century Parma printer. In 1923 the Italian government granted the press the sole right to use the original Bodoni matrices housed in the Biblioteca Palatina. ""Mardersteig's approach was closer to that of the early scholar printers like Aldus Manutius or Robert Estienne than to the dilettantes of the Arts and Crafts Movement; the result has been that Officina Bodoni books have a value far above their success as examples of fine printing: they are…designed to be read."" (Cave, 177). First published in four separate parts… Read More

1965. First Edition . Signed. SEUSS, Dr. Fox in Socks. A Tongue Twister for Super Children. New York: Beginner Books, 1965. Octavo, original pictorial boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $7500.First edition of Seuss' series of tremendous tongue-twisters for ready readers, inscribed by him, ""for JOE with Best Wishes from Dr. Seuss.""In this book for young readers, Mr. Fox and Mr. Knox begin a dialogue involving a box and some socks, only to find themselves caught up with clocks and blocks, bricks and chicks, and everything else necessary to get buried in a very long tongue-twister. First-issue dust jacket, with ""reading easiness (175-300 Word Vocabularies)"" on rear panel. Younger & Hirsch 24. Interior clean, a couple stray marks to boards, boards with edges slightly rubbed. Dust jacket with spine ends lightly rubbed, a few soiled spots to panels. A near-fine copy, most desirable inscribed by Seuss.

1864. (WASHINGTON, George and Martha) MIDDLETON, E.C. Framed chromolithographic portraits. Cincinnati: E.C. Middleton, 1864. Together, two framed pieces. Paper on canvas, oval image measures 13-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches; handsomely framed, each piece measures 19 by 22 inches. $6500.Mid-19th-century chromolithographic portraits of George and Martha Washington, laid on canvas, each in a contemporary gilt frame.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. A few minor cracks to frames, a few spots of discoloration to Martha Washington portrait, not touching her face. Near-fine condition.

1887. First Edition . (DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor) DOSTOIEFFSKY, Fedor. The Friend of the Family; and The Gambler. London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887. Octavo, original red- and black-stamped green cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6200.First editions in English of Dostoevsky's Friend of the Family and The Gambler, two of his finest and most influential early novellas, with The Friend begun while imprisoned in Siberia—featuring ""the direct precursor of Prince Myshikin in The Idiot""—and The Gambler written against a desperate three-week deadline, an electrifying tale of obsession that ""rings true in part because it was true."" Together as issued in Volume XXII of Vizetelly's One-Volume Novels with the translation of Frederick Whishaw.""Something of astonishing force can break loose in Dostoevsky, as it so frequently does in Shakespeare"" (Bloom, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 10). This rare volume contains the first editions in… Read More

1907. First Edition . Signed. WHARTON, Edith. The Fruit of the Tree. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Small octavo, original red cloth, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $8500.Rare pre-publication copy of Wharton's classic novel about the tragic results of unregulated industry and the need for labor reform, inscribed to Wharton's close friend and fellow author in the year of publication: ""Robert Grant from Edith Wharton. Oct. 1907.""In this novel, Wharton examines such controversial topics as euthanasia, treatment of factory workers, divorce, and drug addiction. It's ""an interesting and rewarding book in many ways—especially in its depiction of the heroine, Justine Brent, and her marriage to a weak man"" (Modern American Women Writers, 389). This pre-publication copy was produced without the frontispiece, list of illustrations, and illustration attribution on the title page, but contains one of the three first edition… Read More