Search Results: Titles starting with R from Bauman Rare Books

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

1726. First Edition . MATHER, Cotton. Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised; in the Churches of New=England… Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish, 1726. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 6-3/4 inches), contemporary full brown paneled calf, later red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (2) i-iv, 1-10, 1-207, (3). $6800.First edition of Cotton Mather's ""important exposition of the tenants of Congregationalism,"" signed on the title page, dated 1772, by Minister Moses Hemmenway, a Harvard classmate and friend of John Adams who described him in a July 2, 1774 letter to Abigail Adams as ""my old worthy learned ingenious Friend Hemmenway.""""If Cotton Mather had not existed, historians would have been tempted to invent him. An extraordinary man, the best known member of a distinguished New England ministerial family… Mather left an indelible mark on his time… In fact, without Cotton… Read More

1986. Signed. FEYNMAN, Richard P. Recommendations. No place: No publisher, circa 1986. Five sheets of mimeographed paper, each measuring 8-1/2 by 14 inches, stapled at top corner; pp. 5. $22,500.Mimeograph of the galleys of the Recommendations of the Rogers Commission tasked with investigating the Challenger disaster, signed on the front page by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman with his additional note: ""PRIVATE (CLOSE HOLD).""The Rogers Commission was formed in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster to investigate the reasons behind the space shuttle's explosion. Richard Feynman was in the final months of his life and reluctantly accepted the appointment to the Commission, despite believing it would ""ruin [his] life."" Feynman was consumed by the investigation, painstakingly analyzing the evidence and eventually reaching a conclusion that exposed systemic problems at NASA that extended well beyond the Challenger. Feynman harshly criticized… Read More

1669. First Edition . (VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da, and MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI). The Regular Architect: or the General Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture of M. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola. With A New Addition of Michael Angelo Buonaroti. Rendered into English from the Original Italian, and Explained By John Leeke… London: William Sherwin and Rowland Reynolds, 1669. Folio (measures 10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked; red morocco spine label, raised bands. original endpapers retained. $5500.First folio edition in English of Vignola’s 1563 classic, with 44 fine engraved copperplates of designs by Vignola and Michelangelo, in contemporary calf boards.Eight designs by Michelangelo are included among the 44 engraved plates. Vignola (1507-73), pupil and successor to Michelangelo, was the leading mannerist architect of his day in Rome and was ""another of the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance, as influential in France as Palladio was in… Read More

1840. First Edition . (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) WATERMAN, Catherine H., editor. Religious Offering 1840. Philadelphia: W. Marshall, (1840). Small octavo, original elaborately embossed black morocco, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $5500.First edition of this religious gift book for 1840, illustrated with engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and eight engraved plates. This copy from the personal library of Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by him ""Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park 1920.""This is Roosevelt's personal copy of a 19th century illustrated religious gift book. Roosevelt was an ardent bibliophile. He was a member of such book collectors' organizations as the Club of Odd Volumes and the Grolier Club. At his death, his personal library numbered more than 21,000 volumes. Roosevelt willed a small portion of his personal book collection to his children who sold their bequest; the vast majority of FDR's personal library and papers… Read More

1721. (GEORGE I) (PARLIAMENT—HOUSE OF LORDS). Remembrances for Order and Decency to Be Kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords, When His Majesty Is Not There. No place: no publisher, 1721. Octavo, original full red paneled morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers with the arms of King George I as centerpieces on both covers, silver clasps and catches engraved with thistles, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. 154. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. $8500.Fine 18-century manuscript, ruled in red, providing the rules for the House of Lords, beautifully bound in full red paneled morocco featuring the gilt arms of King George I as centerpieces on the covers and silver catches and clasps.This finely penned manuscript provides an early iteration of the Parliamentary protocol, Standing Orders of the House of Lords relating to Public Business, most likely penned for the use of a peer during Parliamentary sessions. The majority of the… Read More

1797. First Edition . (CONSTITUTION) (BLOUNT, William). Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Appointed to Prepare and Report Articles of Impeachment Against William Blount, A Senator of the United States, Impeached of High Crimes and Misdemeanors… To Discover the Whole Nature and Extent of the Offence, And Who Are the Parties and Associates Therein. (Philadelphia): John Fenno, (1797). Octavo, period-style full speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (2) (i), ii-vi, (1-3), 4-16, (i), ii-clx. $7800.First edition of the authoritative Report detailing the House of Representatives' assertion of ""High Crimes and Misdemeanors"" in its groundbreaking impeachment of Senator Blount—""setting precedent… concerning the nature of impeachment, conviction and expulsion""—inaugurating ""how the Founders generation… believed the removal of public officials should… Read More

1961. First Edition . Signed. YATES, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly, (1961). Octavo, original half red cloth, original dust jacket. $7800.First edition of Yates' explosive debut novel, named ""the Great Gatsby of our time"" by Vonnegut, inscribed in the year of publication, ""For N— G— with best wishes Richard Yates Bread Loaf—8/24/61.""Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates' groundbreaking first novel, ""creates an indelible portrait of lost promises and mortgaged hopes"" in suburban America, a work richly praised for achieving ""an intensity that excites the reader's compassion as well as his interest."" A National Book Award finalist in 1962, the novel was hailed by Tennessee Williams as ""intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it… 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

1791. First Edition . PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Fourth Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791, 1792. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter calf, marbled boards; pp. [iii-vii], viii-x, [7]-171, [2]; [i-v], vi, [vii], viii-xv, [xvi], [1], 2-174, [175], 176-178. $12,500.Rare fourth edition of Part I and second edition of Part II of Rights of Man, each published shortly after the first editions by J.S. Jordan, who published Part I after the original edition was suppressed and was arrested for publishing Part II. One of Paine’s most important, influential, and bestselling works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publishers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France.Hoping Rights of Man ""would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America,"" Paine answered… Read More

1905. First Edition . Signed. (RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905. Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, renewed ribbon ties, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom slipcase. $12,000.Deluxe signed limited first edition, with 51 full-color mounted plates by Rackham, number 137 of only 250 copies signed by Rackham, one of the smallest limitations for a Rackham title and ""the first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition"" (Riall). One of the most scarce and desirable Rackham titles.""Rip Van Winkle of 1905 was a turning point in Rackham's career because of its 51 color plates. Known previously as a black-and-white artist, Rackham with this book achieved preeminence as an illustrator working in the three-color process… Rackham's Rip Van Winkle is among the most thoroughly illustrated of English books… His 50 illustrations, which are grouped at the end, come at a rate… 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

1899. First Edition . CHURCHILL, Winston. The River War, An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green, 1899. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. Housed in a pair of custom chemise and together in a clamshell box. $11,500.First edition, first printing, of Churchill's rare second book, one of only 2000 copies printed, in original cloth.Churchill served in the 21st Lancers during Lord Kitchener's campaign on the Upper Nile in the late 1890s and was a participant there in the last great cavalry charge of the British Army. ""Hopping on a ferry, and not bothering to trouble his commanding officer in distant South India for leave, Winston turned up in the Abbasya barracks in Cairo on August 2, 1898, and joined the 21st's A Squadron. He was fully outfitted, had bought a horse, and was, most important of all, equipped with a commission from the Morning Post to send dispatches at £15 a time"" (Keegan, 46). Though… Read More

1805. First Edition . (ENGLAND) (WALES) LOUTHERBOURG, P.J. de. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales… With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Several Places of Which Views Are Given. Engraved by William Pickett, and Coloured by John Clarke. London: Robert Bowyer, 1805. Folio (13-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in dark green straight-grain morocco, original morocco lettering piece on front cover. $8200.First edition of this splendid picturesque tour of the countryside of England and Wales, with 18 beautifully hand-colored aquatint folio plates.Born in Germany, de Loutherbourg arrived in England in 1771 after extensive travels on the continent. ""De Loutherbourg's landscapes and marine subjects are characterised by romantic feeling, and, although they have a tendency to staginess, are wholly free from vulgarity. His acquaintance with Alpine scenery and his knowledge of the continent generally did not impair his… Read More

1904. Signed. HERFORD, Oliver. The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Small octavo, original printed gray boards rebacked, original spine laid down. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $16,500.First edition, presentation copy from Mark Twain to his daughter, boldly inscribed by Twain on the front pastedown, “Clara Clemens from one of her principal friends—her father.”Herford's playful satire of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, beautifully illustrated by him, follows the adventures of a Persian kitten in search of milk who encounters a series of calamities (""And that Inverted Bowl of Skyblue Delf/ That helpless lies upon the Pantry Shelf—/ Lift not your eyes to It for help, for It/ Is quite as empty as you are yourself""). Herford, English-born cartoonist, illustrator, poet, author and wit, was a regular contributor to such magazines as Harper's Weekly and Punch. He evidently was acquainted with Twain,… Read More