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* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 1 "FOR WHAT DO WE LIVE, BUT TO MAKE SPORT FOR OUR NEIGHBORS, AND LAUGH AT THEM IN OUR TURN?": PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON 1. (THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London, 1895. Octavo, original dark green pictorial cloth gilt. $4800 First reprint of the celebrated “Peacock” edition of Jane Austen’s second and most popular novel, the first illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with 101 charming line drawings, in lovely publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated cloth depicting a peacock spreading its feathers. “Elizabeth’s own energy and defiance of character respond to Rousseau’s and the popular notion of the pliant, submissive female… None of her novels delighted Jane Austen more than Pride and Prejudice… She had given a rare example of fiction as a highly intelligent form… This remains her most popular and widely translated novel” (Honan, 313-20). The illustrator of this lovely edition, Hugh Thomson, “takes first place… among the genteel book illustrators” (Harthan, 238). “His style reflected the nostalgia of the time, his fine line drawings of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealed to the imagination of the public” (Olivia Fitzpatrick). He had a knack for “period costumes, coaches and horses, and elegant furniture; and his brisk style give his work irresistible charm” (Hodnett, 218). With Preface by George Saintsbury. First published in 1813; the first Thomson-illustrated “Peacock” edition was published in 1894, in a trade edition and a limited large-paper edition of 275 copies. Contemporary gift inscription. Text and cloth about-fine, gilt bright; front inner hinge expertly reinforced.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 2 “THE DISTILLATION OF A LIFETIME’S WISDOM BY THE WISEST MAN OF HIS DAY”: 1625 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF BACON’S ESSAYS, SCARCE FIRST ISSUE, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO BY RIVIERE 2. BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall… Newly enlarged. London, 1625. Octavo, 20thcentury full crushed red morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, custom slipcase. $15,000 First complete edition (and the last edition to appear during Bacon’s lifetime), extremely scarce first issue, containing 58 essays, a splendid copy bound in full morocco gilt by Riviere. “The first in time, and, we may justly say, the first in excellence, of English writings on moral prudence, are the Essays of Bacon… They are deeper and more discriminating than any earlier, or almost any later, work in the English language” (Allibone, 90). “’I have taken all knowledge to be my province,’ Bacon declared, not at 65 on his deathbed, but at 31… Bacon’s day was, perhaps, the last moment in history when anything like omniscience was within the limits of human attainment; even in his day, Bacon’s was, perhaps, the only mind which could achieve it. At least his was the only mind that ever did… The essays were simply the distillation of a lifetime’s wisdom by the wisest man of his day” (Winterich). “This is the first complete edition and the last to appear in Bacon’s lifetime. It contains 58 essays and is the text most commonly reprinted today. For this reason the present edition ranks in importance with the [extraordinarily rare] first of 1597 and the recension published by John Beale in 1612. In the dedication Bacon says: ‘I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. I have enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke” (Pforzheimer 30). With beautiful woodcut title vignette and woodcut initials throughout. First issue, with “Newly Enlarged” on title page. With occasional mispagination as issued. With initial blank leaf but without terminal blank leaf, both rarely found. Gibson 13. STC 1147. See Pforzheimer 30; PMM 119. Interior clean and fresh, morocco binding handsome.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 3 SIGNED BY 119 NEGRO LEAGUE PLAYERS, INCLUDING HALL OF FAMERS LEON DAY, LARRY DOBY, MONTE IRVIN, BUCK LEONARD AND BUCK O'NEIL 3. (BASEBALL). Negro League Autograph Sheet signed. Baltimore, October 13, 1990. One sheet, measuring 11 by 17 inches, printed and signed on the recto, framed. $9500 “Autograph sheet” from the Negro League Baseball Players Association reunion in Baltimore in 1990, signed by 119 Negro League players, including Hall of Famers Leon Day, Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard and Buck O’Neil and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, one of three women to play in the league. The Negro Leagues developed after the Civil War due to a “gentleman’s agreement” among MLB higher-ups to keep Black players out of the league. After a long period without an organized circuit, Andrew “Rube” Foster founded the Negro National League (NNL) in 1920. The Negro leagues thrived in the 1920s and then again after the Great Depression, but popularity began to wane in the late 1940s when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers and other star Black players started to shift over to the MLB. This autograph sheet is signed by many of the biggest names to play in the Negro leagues. Nicknamed “Peanut” because of her diminutive size, Mamie Johnson was one of only three women to play in the Negro leagues, and the only female pitcher. She played from 1953 to 1955 with the Indianapolis Clowns, and is believed to have had an impressive 33-8 record. Hall of Famer Larry Doby was the second Black player to join the MLB, signing with the Cleveland Indians only three months after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers. Hall of Famer Monte Irvin was also one of the first Black players to break the color line, joining the Giants in 1949. Buck Leonard played for the dynastic Homestead Grays from 1934 to 1950, a team that won nine straight pennants and three Negro World Series titles. In 1999, Sporting News ranked him number 47 on its list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. Fine condition, beautifully framed.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 4 "INVALUABLE BOTH TO ACCOMPLISHED COOKS AND BEGINNERS": FIRST EDITION OF THE NEW JAMES BEARD, SIGNED BY JAMES BEARD 4. BEARD, James. The New James Beard. New York, 1981. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $1200 First edition of Beard’s “impressive” cookbook, signed on the half title by James Beard. In this critically praised cookbook of nearly 1,000 recipes, James Beard “combines foods in new and appealing ways… The result is impressive… invaluable both to accomplished cooks and beginners… Beard’s personality comes through in his pleasant and affable prose… [and] the book is beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Karl Stuecklen” (New York Times). A fine copy.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 5 "THE FOREMOST ADVOCATE OF ABOLITION BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION" 5. BENEZET, Ant[hony. A Caution and Warning to Great Britain, And Her Colonies, In A Short Representation of The Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes In the British Dominions. Philadelphia, 1766. Slim 12mo, disbound, custom box. $19,500 Very rare first edition of Benezet’s electrifying work that broke ground in recording slavery’s relentless violence, “set the tone for much of the debate… during the revolutionary period” and documented England’s profits from the slave trade, affirming its part in “this evil of so deep a dye.” “The campaign to abolish transatlantic slavery effectively began in Philadelphia in the 1750s, 20 years before the American Revolution, and at its epicenter was Anthony Benezet… he confronted the American Revolutionaries and made them look at the hypocrisy of their demand for their own liberty even as they denied the same freedom to their slaves.” (Crosby, Complete Antislavery Writings, 1-2). “The foremost advocate of abolition before the American Revolution.” (Sinha, Slave’s Cause, 20-22). Born in France and educated in England, Benezet emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, where he was a dedicated Quaker educator who taught free classes for Black students. “In the history of abolition, Benezet… should have a place of honor.” (Thomas, Slave Trade, 473). Benezet’s Caution employs “a refined and polished argument… wielded like a laser scalpel to excise the practice of slavery from the British dominions.” He quotes Montesquieu, and offers blunt descriptions of the slave trade, the brutality of the Middle Passage and the torture of enslaved Africans in the southern colonies. His work brings together key excerpts of works of Enlightenment figures to “show that no man had the right to take possession of another’s liberty and make a salable commodity of him” (Crosby, 86). Benezet fundamentally “set the tone for much of the debate over slavery during the revolutionary period” (Nash, Race and Revolution, 97) Using this pioneering work to expose the entrenched practices of the slave trade, Benezet is one of the first abolitionists to cite documents from commercial sources affirming England’s part in supplying “her American Colonies with Negro-slaves.” He was “the first who embraced, as a matter of public policy, the banning of the slave trade... monetary compensation to Negroes for the years they spent in bondage, and equality under the law for those of African descent.” Caution also expresses his determination to convince England’s king, “his ministers and Parliament, that they had become unwitting dupes in their empire’s perpetuation of ‘this evil of so deep a dye,’ and that it was time for them to act by decree or legislation to put an end to it” (Crosby, 84). Only very light toning and a few spots, chiefly to blank leaves at rear. A fine copy, quite scarce and desirable.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 6 LARGE ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A 15THCENTURY FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS, FEATURING JOSEPH, MARY AND JESUS' FLIGHT INTO EGYPT 6. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours. Probably Besancon, France, circa 1460. Single vellum leaf (6-1/2 by 9-1/4 inches), illuminated in gold, black, white, purple, red, green, blue, yellow, and brown inks; silk matted and window framed, entire piece measures 12 by 15 inches. $18,500 Lovely and unusually large illuminated leaf from a 15th-century French Book of Hours, featuring a striking miniature depicting the flight of Joseph, Mary and Jesus into Egypt, four lines of text from the Hours of Terce, a three-line initial, and thick borders of flowers, berries, buds, and acanthus leaves. This beautiful illuminated leaf is from a Book of Hours from the area of Besançon, France, circa 1460. It comprises a lovely and large miniature of the flight of Joseph, Mary and Jesus into Egypt, four lines of Gothic text from the Hours of Terce, one three-line initial in red and blue filigree on a gilt ground, one one-line initials in gold on a filigree ground, a line extender in the same style, and elaborate borders of sprigs, gilt leaves and buds, strawberries, blueberries, flowers, and acanthus leaves. The figures’ faces are finely detailed; the landscape is appealing, full of sloping hills, greenery, and cities in the background. The miniature is surrounded by a full gold border—a three-part arch possibly suggesting the Holy Trinity—and then by a u-shaped border of gold, red, and blue. The text is the first verse of Psalm 70: “Deus, in adiutorium meum intende,” with the response “Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina” (or, as translated in the King James version, “Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord”). The verso is done more simply than the recto, but nevertheless features 15 lines of Gothic text, one two-line initial and six one-line initials in gilt on filigree grounds, three matching line extenders, and a left border of hairline sprays, gilt leaves, and berries. This miniature, with its vibrant color and elegant composition, is in a style similar to that of the Master of Morgan 293. Stylistically, this leaf can be traced to the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. It appears closely related to an atelier specialized in Books of Hours made for the Use of Besançon and is most likely situated in that city. As noted by Avril and Reynaud, the unnamed master of this atelier was deeply indebted to the Master of Morgan 293, an acclaimed Burgundian illuminator who was active in the second quarter of the 15th century. That name—Master of Morgan—derives from a particularly lovely Book of Hours made for the Use of Besançon. There are a number of compositional similarities between this leaf and the corresponding miniature in the Morgan manuscript, including the positioning of Mary and Jesus on the donkey in the foreground, Joseph’s crooked walking stick and red coat, and the medieval citadels in the background. No matter which artist is responsible for the present miniature, the painting represents a distinctive regional style, full of fine detail, and with exceptional composition. Lower right corner of leaf repaired with vellum, just touching image; a few very tiny smudges. About-fine, a beautiful illuminated leaf.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 7 "HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS": FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE 7. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. New Edition. London, 1850. Two volumes. Small octavo, original blue cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $16,500 Important and preferred second edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems, containing the first appearance of her famous love poems to her husband, Sonnets from the Portuguese, which did not appear in the 1844 first edition of Poems. This enlarged edition of Browning’s Poems is rightly considered an entirely separate work from the 1844 first edition. It includes, in addition to the Sonnets from the Portuguese, a number of poems here printed or collected for the first time. “The strange courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, morally chained to a monstrous father, and their subsequent elopement, is one of the most romantic stories in 19th-century literature. What Browning did not know is that while Elizabeth was lying on that famous sofa in her father’s house on Wimpole Street she was pouring out her heart in some of the most remarkable love poetry ever written by a woman. One morning some time later, when they were living in Pisa, Elizabeth Browning pushed a packet under her husband’s arm, asked him to read the sonnets it contained and, should he disapprove, destroy them. Then she rushed from the room. Browning sat there and read with ever-growing wonder. Even before he had finished he hurried to his wife and demanded their publication. To shelter her feelings it was pretended that the sonnets had been translated from the Portuguese” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 239). Second state, as usual, with publisher’s address of “193, Piccadilly” on title pages (only four copies are known in the first state, and the title page is presumed to have been reset prior to publication). Barnes A6. Wise 7. Early owner signatures, occasional neat pencil annotations. Interiors generally fine, expert restoration to inner hinges and cloth. A very attractive copy, scarce in the original cloth.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 8 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, INSCRIBED SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL CRAYON DRAWING BY ERIC CARLE 8. CARLE, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New York, 1994. Oblong quarto (12 by 8-1/2 inches), original pictorial silver boards. $3600 Signed limited 25th-anniversary edition of Carle’s best known work, number 148 of 500 copies with an original signed drawing in crayon of a caterpillar mounted on the front cover. “Carle was one of the first illustrators intrigued with the idea of introducing natural science concepts to young children. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has remained in print for [over] 25 years, attesting to its popularity… [Carle has written,] ‘I would like to be remembered as a picture writer and as someone who has opened a door for children to the world of pictures and words” (Silvey, 120-21). First published in 1969. With original shipping box. Fine condition.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 9 "OUR REIGN IN INDIA OR ANYWHERE ELSE HAS NEVER STOOD ON THE BASIS OF PHYSICAL FORCE ALONE": CHURCHILL'S INDIA, IN SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS 9. CHURCHILL, Winston. India. Speeches and an Introduction. London, (1931). Octavo, original orange wrappers, custom box. $2750 First edition in book form of this volume of ten Churchill speeches on the issue of the emancipation of India, in scarce original wrappers. Upon first joining the English Army, Churchill served in India during the late 1890s. With the publication of this collection, Churchill wanted “to gain support for his campaign against the India Bill, over which he had broken with his party leadership, believing these relatively modest reforms would lead to the loss of India to the Empire… [however] when the India Bill had passed Parliament in 1935, Churchill even sent Gandhi his best wishes for success, and lent tacit approval to Attlee’s plan to grant India Dominion status (thus de facto independence) in 1948. What he did not approve of was the sudden rush to leave India under Attlee’s Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, who arbitrarily moved Britain’s departure date up to August 1947. British authority thus ended before boundaries could be worked out between Moslems, Hindus and Sikhs; a vast shift of population occurred, amid bloody attacks by the various sides against each other. Later Churchill would exclaim to Mountbatten, ‘What you did in India was like striking me across the face with a riding crop’” (Langworth, 148). Also published simultaneously in orange cloth, no priority given. Cohen A92.1.c. Woods A38. Langworth 148-52. Spotting to edges of text block, text clean. Light expert restoration to wrappers, toning to spine. A very good copy in original wrappers.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 10 SCARCE COMPLETE 12-VOLUME COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS OF CHURCHILL'S WWII AND POSTWAR SPEECHES, 1941-61, HANDSOMELY BOUND 10. CHURCHILL, Winston S. Collection of World War II and post-war speeches. World War II Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Post-War Speeches: The Sinews of Peace; Europe Unite; In the Balance; Stemming the Tide; The Unwritten Alliance. London, 1941-61. Together, 12 volumes. Octavo, modern full threequarter morocco gilt. $9500 First editions of Churchill’s separately published World War II and post-war speeches, including his rare last book, handsomely bound. Churchill’s war speeches, published between 1941 and 1946, “constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph S. Churchill). The bulk of Churchill’s speeches between late 1945, when he was voted out of the office of Prime Minister and became the leader of the opposition party in Parliament, through his second premiership of 1951-1955, up to 1959, when he gave his last public speech, make up the post-war speeches. Toward the end of the Second World War and after, Churchill increasingly advocated that Europe enter the approaching Cold War era as a united and resolute voice. The speeches included in these volumes trace the development of Churchill’s call for European unity through the abatement of socialist party power in Britain’s parliament, the start of the Korean War, rising tensions in the Middle East, and the establishment of NATO. This set contains the rare first and only printing of The Unwritten Alliance, the last of Churchill’s books printed in his lifetime. Cohen A142.1.a; A172.1.a; A183.1.a; A194.1.a; A214.1.a; A223.1.a; A227.2.a, A241, A246, A255, A264, A273. Langworth, 202-247, 283-86, 294-97, 300302, 308-11, 337-39. Woods A66(a)-A114, A124, A128, A130, A137, A142. A handsomely bound set in fine condition.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 11 THE DIMAGGIO ALBUMS, ONE OF ONLY 700 SETS SIGNED BY DIMAGGIO 11. DIMAGGIO, Joe. The DiMaggio Albums. Selections from Public and Private Collections Celebrating the Baseball Career of Joe DiMaggio. New York, 1989. Two volumes. Quarto, original full blue morocco, blue cloth slipcase. $2200 Signed limited first edition, number 430 of 700 sets signed by DiMaggio on the limitation page in Volume I. A splendid copy. Joltin’ Joe developed from “a gawky, awkward kid” to one of the game’s most graceful athletes— a “picture player” both at bat and in center field. Many rate DiMaggio’s 56-consecutive-game hitting streak in 1941 as the top baseball feat of all time. This two-volume commemorative album contains over 800 pages of newspaper accounts, photos and reproductions of memorabilia from DiMaggio’s incomparable career, with an introduction and commentary by DiMaggio himself, and signed by him. A fine copy.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 12 "THEY HAVE MUCH LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL IMPORTANCE": FIRST EDITION OF DONNE'S LETTERS TO SEVERALL PERSONS OF HONOUR, 1651 12. DONNE, John. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour. London, 1651. Small quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf gilt rebacked, custom box. $13,500 First edition, first issue, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart, and woodcut initials, in contemporary calf boards. “The great majority of those of Donne’s letters that have survived have been preserved through the energy of his son… In 1651, the younger Donne issued a volume containing 129 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour; these letters were not ‘edited’ by him according to the standards of the present day, as, although printed with reasonable care, their arrangement is irregular and they are for the most part without dates. Nevertheless, they have much literary and biographical importance” (Keynes, 133). Among the recipients are Lord Herbert of Cherbury, the Countess of Bedford, and, most numerously, Sir Henry Goodere. Bound without front and rear blanks. Keynes 55. Wing D1864. Wither to Prior 296. Pforzheimer 295. Engraved bookplate. Pages with a bit of marginal wormholing near the end not affecting text, otherwise fine, inner hinges neatly reinforced; contemporary calf boards very handsome. An excellent copy.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 13 “PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT LANDMARK IN DORÉ’S CAREER”: HIS GREAT FOLIO BIBLE, WITH 238 FULL-PAGE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS, LARGE-FORMAT COPY IN FULL CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO 13. (DORÉ, Gustave). The Holy Bible. With Illustrations by Gustave Doré. London and New York, circa 1867. Two volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full brown morocco gilt. $7500 One of the earliest editions in English (all undated) of Gustave Doré’s great folio Bible, splendidly illustrated by him with 238 full-page wood-engravings and handsomely bound in contemporary full morocco. “In the 1870s, The Doré Bible was perhaps the most treasured (and expensive) book in the world” (Malan, 81). Certainly, it proved a milestone in Doré’s career. “Whereas he had to hawk round to publishers his drawings for the Rabelais [part of his intended series of volumes illustrating the masterpieces of literature], only to see them ruined by the cheap-jack who eventually took them on, the Bible was enthusiastically sponsored by one of the greatest French publishers of illustrated books of the day, Mame of Tours… Its original reception was truly remarkable… A second edition of the Bible was called for almost at once… Editions appeared in almost every European country… One of the first off the mark was an English edition from Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1867. This caused an even greater sensation than the French edition, and the demand among collectors for any and everything by Doré was clamorous” (Muir, 224). Because of demand, a number of editions in English saw print between 1867 and 1903 in a variety of formats, none of which were dated on the title page. This set is among the earliest editions, in that it contains 238 plates (later editions had only 205) and is in the large format of 12 by 15 inches. With separate title pages for Apocrypha and New Testament. Malan, 239. Herbert 1977. Light marginal dampstaining, principally in Volume I, not touching text or images; minor expert restoration to joints of handsome contemporary binding. An impressive production.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 14 "I LOVE ITS COLOUR, ITS BRILLIANCE, ITS DIVINE HEAVINESS… THE POWER THAT GOLD ALONE GIVES" 14. FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, 1959. Octavo, original gilt-stamped black paper boards, dust jacket, custom box. $7200 First edition of the seventh James Bond thriller, in which Fleming’s superspy thwarts Auric Goldfinger’s plot to plunder Fort Knox. “Written when Fleming was on top of his game,” Goldfinger “is not only the longest entry in the [Bond] series but also one of the most exuberant, and garnered a certain degree of credibility in literary circles when author Anthony Burgess listed it in his Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939” (Gilbert, 230). Made into the 1965 film starring Sean Connery as Bond and Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore. Cloth in Gilbert’s second state, without small indent in the top left section of the skull: “both were available upon publication.” Gilbert A7a (1.2). Biondi & Pickard, 45. Book fine, dust jacket bright and nearly fine with only most minimal wear to extremities.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 15 "ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME": FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION OF THE STAR WARS TRILOGY NOVELIZATIONS, SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS 15. (FOSTER, Alan Dean) LUCAS, George; GLUT, Donald F.; KAHN, James. The Star Wars Trilogy. Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi. New York, 2002. Large octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $6000 First one-volume trilogy edition of the novelizations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, signed on the title page by Star Wars ghostwriter Alan Dean Foster, and the credited novelization authors of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Donald F. Glut and James Kahn respectively. Though credited to screenwriter and director George Lucas, veteran scifi author Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelization of Star Wars based on Lucas’ script, for a flat fee of $5000. The following year Foster published his sequel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (1978), which Lucas commissioned for the purpose of being filmed as a low-budget sequel in the event that Star Wars did not do well at the box office. Needless to say, the movie’s spectacular success led to the big-budget sequel The Empire Strikes Back, scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett and directed by Irvin Kershner; Lucas picked his USC classmate Donald F. Glut to pen the novelization. Doctor and writer James Kahn wrote the novelization of the movie Poltergeist, which led to several more novelizations: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and—most famously—Return of the Jedi. Book corners gently bumped; dust jacket bright and fine. Most desirable signed by all three authors.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 16 16. FRANK, Robert. The Americans. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York, 1969. Oblong octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $12,000 Second American edition of Robert Frank’s influential masterpiece, a work that “forever changed the course of 20thcentury photography,” signed by him (“Robert Frank!”) on the half title, with 83 full-page photogravures, introduction by Jack Kerouac. In his preface to his friend Robert Frank’s magnum opus, Jack Kerouac wrote, “Anybody doesn’t like these pitchers dont like potry see? Robert Frank… he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message. You got eyes.” This iconoclastic Swiss-born artist— ”one of the great photographers of the last 50 years”—traveled across America from 1955 to 1965, using his Leica to reveal “a starkly asymmetrical and lonely America,” and creating images that revolutionized photography with their “irreverence and a dark humor… their grainy, out-of-focus effects, their tilting perspectives and over-the-shoulder half views” (New York Times). “From the more than 20,000 images that resulted, Frank eventually chose 83 of them and arranged them into four chapters… ‘With these photographs,’ he later wrote, ‘I have attempted to show a crosssection of the American population. My effort was to express it simply and without confusion. The view is personal…’ Such a simple intention for a book that would so alter the course of modern photography” (Roth, 150). Soon after Frank’s return to New York, he became close friends with Kerouac and the writer offered to introduce a book of Frank’s photographs with a few words. Initial sales of the first American edition of The Americans were poor, “and by December 1960, when Grove Press had sold only a little over 1,100 copies, they declared the book out of print” (Looking In, 197, 315). Nevertheless The Americans quickly achieved legendary status as “the most renowned photobook of all… It struck a chord with a whole generation of American photographers… Many memorable photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank’s masterpiece” (Parr & Badger I:237). “Forever changed the course of 20th-century photography” (Looking In, xix). Preceded by the 1958 French edition and the 1959 first American edition. Open Book, 176. Book about-fine, dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends, closed tear to rear panel, slightest fading to spine. An excellent copy. “THE MOST RENOWNED PHOTOBOOK OF ALL”: ROBERT FRANK'S THE AMERICANS, SIGNED BY HIM, WITH 83 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAVURES
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 17 "TYGER! TYGER! TYGER!": EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTATION-ASSOCIATION COPY OF GINSBERG'S PHOTOGRAPHS, INSCRIBED BY HIM TO HIS LONG-TIME PARTNER PETER ORLOVSKY WITH A LARGE ORIGINAL DRAWING AND INSCRIPTION OVER TWO FOLIO PAGES 17. GINSBERG, Allen. Photographs. Altadena, California, 1990. Folio, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $14,000 First trade edition, boldly inscribed by Ginsberg to his long-time partner Peter Orlovsky with a large, accomplished drawing over two folio pages: “E. 12 St, New York June 30, 1991 / For Beloved Peter Orlovsky, whose form reappears decade after decade on these phantom pages / Tyger! Tyger! Tyger! / 437 E12, Apt 23 / Allen Ginsberg, 4:30 AM.” “In December 1953 Ginsberg left New York City on a trip to Mexico to explore Indian ruins in Yucatan and experiment with various drugs. He settled in San Francisco, where he fell in love with a young artist’s model, Peter Orlovsky… During the furor of the trial [over his poem Howl], Ginsberg left California and settled in Paris with Orlovsky, who was to remain his companion for the next 40 years” (ANB). In this flamboyantly inscribed copy Ginsberg depicts a demonic visage, large ears decorated with dangling earrings, and lightning bolts striking above flame-like spiky hair. Subjects in this collection of 91 large photographs include several of the recipient, Peter Orlovsky, as well as William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Paul Bowles, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lou Reed, Louis Auchincloss, Olga Rudge, and others. With introduction by Gregory Corso, short biographies and hand-lettered captions by Ginsberg. “[Ginsberg’s] pictures of himself and his ‘angelheaded hipster’ companions in their flaming youth are not merely beat generation relics, and their oversize presentation here gives the work exceptional presence. Jack Woody’s Twelvetrees Press (now Twin Palms) established itself as a publisher of quality limited-edition photography books in the ‘80s… all characterized, like Ginsberg’s Photographs, by bold graphic design (usually by Woody himself) and a combination of sheet-fed gravure and off-set printing, often in Japan. This luxurious treatment gives Ginsberg’s ‘snapshots’ a richness and warmth the originals aren’t likely to possess, and the poet adds his own casually artful touch by supplying each image with a long descriptive caption in his tight, inelegant hand” (Roth, 266). There were 5000 copies of the first trade edition and 100 signed and numbered copies. Roth, Book of 101 Books, 266-67. An extraordinary presentation-association copy in fine condition.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 18 "RALPH WEPT FOR THE END OF INNOCENCE, THE DARKNESS OF MAN'S HEART…": VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF LORD OF THE FLIES 18. GOLDING, William. Lord of the Flies. London, 1954. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $17,500 First edition of one of the best-known novels in modern literature, Golding’s “profoundly disturbing reflection on the innate, irrepressible savagery of humanity” (Fantasy and Horror 6-143), especially rare in original dust jacket. Rescued from Faber and Faber’s “slush pile” by a junior editor, Golding’s first and greatest novel reflected many Westerners’ increasingly apocalyptic fears at the height of the Cold War. It captured the public’s imagination by asking hard questions about human nature and whether society is, in fact, worth saving. “The novel constitutes a complex utterance about the darkness of the human condition and the shapes human nature takes when ‘free’ to do so” (Clute & Nicholls, 507). “A collection of modern fiction would never be complete without it” (Connolly, 136). First issue dust jacket, without reviews. Without scarce wrap-around band. Parker & Kermode, 314-15. Nobel Laureates in Literature, 153. Horror 100 Best 53. Book bright and very nearly fine with very thin bands of toning to spine ends only; price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to corners and spine ends, one short closed tear to foot of spine, very slight toning to spine. An exceptionally lovely copy.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 19 FIRST EDITION OF GRAHAM’S WORLD COMMODITIES AND WORLD CURRENCY, 1944 19. GRAHAM, Benjamin. World Commodities and World Currency. New York and London, 1944. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $5400 First edition of Graham’s important work on developing a new international commodity standard. In World Commodities and World Currency, Benjamin Graham “proposed an international ‘commodity standard’ where macroeconomic policies would focus on a general basket of commodities, a concept supported by Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman” (qFinance Newsletter). “By tying the world monetary system to a basket of commodities, rather than a single precious metal, Graham hoped to solved the… issues with the gold standard while still tying currency to a basket of commodities which possessed a distinct tangible value. A basket of currencies would help alleviate many of the economic problems which were created when large amounts of capital crossed international borders” (John Emerson).Graham’s approach found an avid following in the financial community. He was nicknamed the “Dean of Wall Street” and raised to almost mythic status among investors. “Graham’s method of investing is as relevant today as it was when he first espoused it during the Roaring Twenties” (Investor’s Business Daily). “The wider Mr. Graham’s gospel spreads, the more fairly the market will deal with its public” (Barron’s). Without scarce original dust jacket. Interior fine, cloth with light rubbing to spine ends and corners. A near-fine copy.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 20 20. HAMILTON, Alexander. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures. Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791. Dublin, 1792. Octavo, modern half brown calf, brown morocco spine label. $37,000 The rare second edition of Hamilton’s famous report urging Congress to promote manufacturing, “one of the great American state papers, ‘the Magna Carta of industrial America’” (Howes). This was Hamilton’s most innovative report, “a remarkably modern economic vision based on investment, industry, and expanded commerce.” After Washington was elected President in 1789, “the first thing he had to do was to get the national finances in order. That meant appointing Hamilton the first Secretary of the Treasury, and giving him a free hand to get on with the job.” (Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 211). “Hamilton’s ‘Report on Manufactures’ (1791) is a classic document of U.S. economic policy… Hamilton made a broad-ranging and powerful case for the government promotion of manufacturing. The report opened by attacking the then influential French physiocratic doctrine that agriculture is the ultimate source of all wealth. Hamilton argued that manufacturing is no less valuable or productive than agriculture and, indeed, had many specific economic advantages, such as the increased productivity that comes from enhancing the division of labor, the use of machinery and technical skills, and the added diversity of employment opportunities offered workers… [Hamilton then] argued that ‘the incitement and patronage of government’ was required in order to overcome the inhibitions that prevented the start of manufacturing production… [D]omestic manufacturers not only had to contend with the ‘natural disadvantages of a new undertaking,’ but also ‘the gratuities and remunerations which other governments bestow’ on their own producers. After discussing the current conditions in the United States in relation to manufacturing, particularly the high price of labor and the scarcity of capital, the report shifted to the means by which government could promote domestic manufactures. Hamilton analyzed various trade measures, including import duties, pecuniary bounties (subsidies), patents, and other government policies… Finally, Hamilton’s report turned to specific proposals regarding a long list of itemized commodities… The report was not just a visionary document about the economic advantages of manufacturing, but also a policy document that made specific and concrete proposals for government action” (Douglas A. Irwin, The Aftermath of Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures”). “Hamilton offered a remarkably modern economic vision based on investment, industry, and expanded commerce. Most strikingly, it was an economic vision with no place for slavery. Before the 1790s, the American economy, North and South, was tied to a trans-Atlantic system of slavery. A member of New York’s first anti-slavery society, Hamilton wanted to reorient the American economy away from slavery and trade with the slave colonies of the Caribbean” (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online Archive). This Dublin printing is the second edition of this important report, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare (and virtually unobtainable) 1791 first edition, printed in Philadelphia by Childs and Swaine. Ford, Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana 202. See Howes H123. Light scattered foxing, faint dampstaining to preliminary and final leaves. A very good copy. Exceptionally rare. "ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, 'THE MAGNA CARTA OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA'": ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S IMPORTANT 1791 REPORT ON MANUFACTURES
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 21 “SCARCEST EDITION” OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, “VERY RARE” (SABIN): LESS THAN 300 ISSUED USING THE UNSOLD 1788 FIRST EDITION COPIES 21. (HAMILTON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon By the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York, 1799. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary tree sheep, rebacked in early tree sheep, red morocco spine labels, pp. vi, 227, vi, 384. Housed together in a custom clamshell box. $110,000 Exceedingly rare 1799 edition of The Federalist Papers, one of the most significant books in American political history, which “exerted a powerful influence in procuring the adoption of the Federal Constitution,” this copy one of fewer than 300 issued. “This is the first edition of The Federalist with new title pages only” (Evans), using the unsold copies of the 1788 first edition, in contemporary tree sheep boards. “When Alexander Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in writing the series of essays published as The Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need of convincing the reluctant New York State electorate of the necessity of ratifying the newly proposed Constitution of the United States. The 85 essays, under the pseudonym `Publius,’ were designed as political propaganda, not as a treatise of political philosophy. In spite of this, The Federalist survives as one of the new nation’s most important contributions to the theory of government” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 234). “This is the first edition of The Federalist with new title pages only” (Evans 35581). “It is very rare” (Sabin), given that this 1799 publication “was not a new printing, but the issuance of the remaining copies of the McLean edition” (Cooke, xv). The McLeans published the first volume of the first edition in March 1788 and the second in May. They “printed 500 copies of their two-volume collection of essays. The book initially did not sell very well. The publishers complained in October 1788, long after New York had ratified the Constitution, that they still had several hundred unsold copies.” Of these “Hamilton sent about 50 copies to Richmond in time for the Virginia state ratifying convention” of that June (Maggs, “Concise Guide,” 815). The unsold copies of the first edition of The Federalist “passed into the hands of John Tiebout, who printed new title-pages. It is the scarcest edition” (Ford 20). Type on title page of Vol II noticeably darker than that of Vol I due to variations in ink during printing. Contents pages of Volume II on thicker sheets, very likely from thicker issue text that would have been available to John Tiebout during re-issue of 1799. Sabin 23980. Howes H114b. Recently paired together, with separate provenances, having early owner signatures in both volumes, one dated 1817 (John Wiley) and the other 1845 (Henry Nichols). Volume I has an extensive note in a contemporary hand on a front flyleaf listing the authorship of the individual essays; Volume II has notes in the margins of the Contents listing the authorship of each essay in the volume, with a note of authorship (sometimes just a letter—”M” for Madison, for example) next to many of the essays. Both sets of attributions differ from the current scholarly consensus of the respective authors of each essay. Volume I with light dampstaining and scattered foxing to text, title page with staining and top corner excised, removing most of an owner signature but not affecting printing; contemporary tree sheep boards with expert restoration to board edges. Volume II with only light scattered foxing and very faint occasional dampstaining, flyleaves with expert paper restoration to edges, evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown, edge of text block with small abrasion; contemporary tree sheep with expert restoration but with original spine label preserved.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 22 "PRODUCED A FERMENTATION OF ENGLISH THOUGHT UNSURPASSED UNTIL THE ADVENT OF DARWINISM" (PMM): FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF HOBBES' WORKS, IN ENGLISH, 1750 22. HOBBES, Thomas. The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes… Never Before Collected Together, To Which Is Prefixed, The Author’s Life. London, Printed in the Year 1750. Folio (9-1/2 by 14 inches), contemporary full brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $9200 First collected edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, “the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM), featuring such seminal writings as Leviathan, De Corpore, Human Nature, Behemoth and others, with engraved frontispiece portrait and re-engraved Leviathan title page, in contemporary calf binding. The Works of Thomas Hobbes spans “one of the most momentous periods of English history, and he was one of its most conspicuous figure,” celebrated for writings such Human Nature (1650) well before he “embarked on his greatest work Leviathan (1651)” (PMM 138). It was there that Hobbes “produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the advent of Darwinism… It still remains a model of vigorous exposition, unsurpassed in the language” (Pforzheimer 491). “Few books have caused more or fiercer controversy” (Rosenbach 36:345). Much of what Hobbes argues in Leviathan can be traced to his De Corpore, also herein, a work published after Leviathan, yet the first to offer his view “of a trilogy on body, man and citizen, in which everything in the world of nature and man was to be included in a conceptual scheme” (Edwards IV, 31). Hobbes’ influence fully extended to “the framers of the [American] Constitution… When John Adams wrote that ‘he who would found a state, and make proper laws for the government of it, must presume that all men are bad by nature,’ he was expressing an idea that was derived at once from Hobbes” (Lutz & Warden, 38). To many Hobbes remains “the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM 138). First collected edition, preceded only by a partial collection printed in Amsterdam in 1668. With engraved full-page portrait of Hobbes, re-engraved Leviathan frontispiece dated 1651. Containing Leviathan, De Corpore, Human Nature, Behemoth (1679) and other key writings. Macdonald & Hargreaves 107. See Lowndes, 1077. Text about fine, handsome contemporary calf with expert restoration.
* * * N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 23 "THE MOST ORIGINAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER OF HIS TIME" (PMM): FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF HOBBES' TRACTS, 1682 23. HOBBES, Thomas. Tracts… Containing I. Behemoth… II. An Answer to Arch-Bishop Bramhall’s Book… III. An Historical Narration of Heresie… IV. Philosophical Problems. London, 1682. Octavo, contemporary full dark brown mottled calf. $5200 First collected edition of four late works by Thomas Hobbes, revised from the original manuscripts, including Behemoth, Hobbes’ dialogue-history of the Civil War, as well as his Answer to Archbishop Bramhall, a useful source for Hobbes’ complicated religious doctrines. An excellent copy, complete with engraved frontispiece portrait and folding engraved plate, in contemporary calf. This posthumous collection includes Behemoth, Hobbes’ dialogue-history of the Civil War, originally written in the 1660s and suppressed by Charles II. The work was originally published without Hobbes’ authorization (and to his considerable discomfort) in 1679; the present edition, published by Hobbes’ chosen publisher, William Crooke, constitutes the first authorized edition. The Answer to Archbishop Bramhall, drawn up in 1668, is Hobbes’ final reply in his long-running dispute with John Bramhall over liberty and free will, written when Bramhall had been dead for five years. The Historical Narration of Heresy and the Punishment Thereof, also written in 1668, responds to a bill, contemplated in the House of Commons, to punish atheistic tendencies. The thrust of these measures was widely understood to be aimed at Hobbes in particular; he responded by arguing that perhaps people ought not to be burned for that offense. Crooke originally published this work in 1680. Finally, the Philosophical Problems contain various exercises on gravity, vacuums, motion, and geometry. The work was originally published as the Problemata Physica in 1662—Crooke notes that the English translation was undertaken by Hobbes himself at the same time. This is the first edition in English. To many Hobbes remains “the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM 138). With general title page; each work with individual title page as well. Bound with leaf of publisher’s advertisements at rear. Macdonald & Hargreaves 100. With the 20th-century bookplate of the Fox Pointe Manor library of Howard and Linda Krohl; early owner ink signature on general title page. Text generally clean; mild rubbing to sound and attractive binding. A desirable, extremely good copy in unrestored contemporary calf.
N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S * J U L Y 2 0 2 4 B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S * * * 24 "MUCH OF THIS BOOK, YOU KNOW, WAS WRITTEN AT HOLLOW HILLS": FIRST EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, INSCRIBED AT LENGHT BY LANGSTON HUGHES TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND PATRON NOËL SULLIVAN 24. HUGHES, Langston. Shakespeare in Harlem. New York, 1942. Octavo, original half orange and black cloth, dust jacket. $7500 First edition of Hughes’ major book of poetry—”a work of genuine talent and artistry”—inscribed at length by him in the year of publication, “Dear Noël—Much of this book, you know, was written at Hollow Hills. But the poems are of much less pleasant places. Happiness to you always! Langston. New York, February 6, 1942.” “Shakespeare in Harlem was emphatically, unashamedly about being Black… resounding in its success as a representation of the lives and thoughts of the mass of Black Americans… In building this book of poems on the blues, Langston had returned to the inspiration for his greatest creative period.” While Hughes was distressed over the design of the dust jacket, Van Vechten assured him: “The whole book sings with that kind of wistful loneliness you have made peculiarly your own” (Rampersad, Life V.I:390). On publication the Christian Science Monitor praised it as “’a work of genuine talent and skillful artistry.” The Saturday Review of Literature noted: “rarely in our poetry do we find this subtle blending of tragedy and comedy. It is an exquisite art and a difficult one,” and the HeraldTribune reviewer especially “spoke of ‘so sure a touch and an insight so genuine’ in Hughes’ brilliant gliding between exhilaration and despair” (Rampersad, Life V.II: 40-42). “First Edition” stated on copyright page. With frontispiece and 12 full-page illustrations after drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Bruccoli & Clark, 160. Blockson 6355. The recipient of this copy was beloved California art patron Noël Sullivan, who was “as close a friend as any relative Hughes ever had… for a quarter of a century Sullivan was the poet’s most trusted confidant” (Berry, Langston Hughes, 150). Hughes dedicated his first collection of short stories, Ways of White Folks (1934) to Sullivan, who regularly offered Hughes refuge at his home in San Francisco and his farm in Carmel—the “Hollow Hills” of the inscription— where Sullivan often welcomed 40 or more dinner guests, including artists, writers, actors and musicians such as Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson and Duke Ellington. Sullivan eventually built Hughes his own cottage at the farm, providing an ever-ready retreat for the writer. At Sullivan’s death in 1956, Hughes knew he had lost both “a haven” and steadfast benefactor (Rampersad, Life V.II:257). Book fine, dust jacket with a few short closed tears, toning to spine. An excellent presentation copy to a person very important to Hughes.
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