Authors starting with G from Bauman Rare Books

1971. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GAINES, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. New York: Dial Press, 1971. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. $2500. First edition of Gaines' great saga of black history in the South seen through the memories of the 110 year-old Miss Jane Pittman. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Clarence and Sharyn: / It was so good / meeting the both / of you. / And again, let me / say that that was / a great review / in Essence- / Best always, /... more information

1898. FIRST EDITION. ARMSTRONG, Sir Walter. Gainsborough and His Place in English Art. London: William Heinemann [and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons], 1898. Two volumes. Folio, contemporary full blue crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt. $3200. First edition, splendidly illustrated with 62 photogravures in double suite and ten color lithographs, beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf. Written by Sir Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery, Ireland, this mo... more information

1935. GALSWORTHY, John. End of the Chapter. London: William Heinemann, (1935). Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. $350. First English edition, beautifully bound. Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga is "remarkable for a very sensitive and exact observation of life as well as for purity of style" (DNB). The final three novels, Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River, originally published separ... more information

1919. GALSWORTHY, John. Saint's Progress. London: William Heinemann, 1919. Octavo, original gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth. Housed in custom half red morocco slipcase. $350. First edition of Galsworthy's sense of the aftermath of "the cursed war." John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, originally trained as a marine lawyer. A chance encounter with Joseph Conrad (who became a lifelong friend) and the encouragement of his future wife turned him to writing. Galsw... more information

1860. FIRST EDITION. GALTON, Francis editor. Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860. WITH: Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861. WITH: Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3. London: Macmillan, 1861, 1862, 1864. Three volumes. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, uncut. $850. First edition, with 14 maps, many folding, and numerous in-text illustrations. Sir Francis Galton, best known as the founder of the school of eugenics, was also an accomplished traveler. In 1861 he agreed to e... more information

1976. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GARDNER, John. October Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. $1650. First edition, presentation copy, very warmly inscribed and signed by Gardner, "To Andre & Florence, Among the best friends I have. With love, John." Beneath the inscription Gardner has drawn a wonderful caricaturized self-portrait, with an outstretched arm holding a flower. The recipient, Andre L. Speyer, played French horn for the Minneapol... more information

1971. FIRST EDITION. GARDNER, John. Every Night's a Bullfight. London: Michael Joseph, 1971. Octavo, original blue boards, original dust jacket. $150. First edition. A novel about a theatre company based upon Gardner's experiences as a drama critic, covering the Royal Shakespeare Company for the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, for which he worked in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Owner blindstamp. Book fine, dust jacket with minor rubbing along edges, near-fine. ... more information

1870. (GARFIELD, James) HUNT, T. Sterry, et al. [Bound collection of 13 pamphlets relating to the production and taxation of salt]. Montreal, et al.: Dawson, et al., 1870-72. Thirteen pamphlets bound in one volume. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco rebacked to match original, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $2500. Interesting, annotated collection of pamphlets relating to the mining, manufacture and imposition of duties on salt, compiled and bound together for then-Congressman J... more information

1868. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (GARFIELD, James) (WELLS, David A.). Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue. Washington: Treasury Department, January, 1868. Octavo, original green cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3500. House of Representatives printing of this report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue for 1868, a presentation/association copy inscribed by the Special Commissioner on the front free endpaper, "With respect... more information

1867. (GARFIELD, James) MOTLEY, John Lothrop, et al. [Bound collection of 11 pamphlets on political, financial and scholarly subjects]. New York, et al.: Charles Scribner, et al., 1867-69. Eleven pamphlets bound in one volume. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco rebacked, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $3600. An interesting collection of political, financial and scholarly pamphlets from the years 1867-69, compiled by and bound together for James A. Garfield, Representative of Ohio and 2... more information

1872. FIRST EDITION. (GARFIELD, James A.) UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Counter Case of Great Britain. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872. Thick octavo, original dark gray cloth gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3000. First edition of this government publication of the British case presented to the Tribunal of Arbitration, regarding the claims of the U.S. for damages inflicted during the Civil War by Confederate vessels built in Great Britain. Copy belonging to President James A. Garfield, with... more information

1880. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (GARFIELD, James) CORTHELL, E.L. A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1880. Octavo, contemporary full black morocco rebacked to style with elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $2500. First edition of Corthell's influential engineering work on the Mississippi River jetties, President Garfield's copy, a rare association copy with a gift inscription to Garfield from C... more information

1873. FIRST EDITION. (GARFIELD, James) [DAVIS, John Chandler Bancroft]. Notes upon the Treaties of the United States with Other Powers. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. Tall octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown sheep, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3800. First edition, a rare presentation/association copy with a tipped-in leaf inscribed in different hands to "Gen. Garfield" and dated in the year of publication, with a speci... more information

1869. FIRST EDITION. (GARFIELD, James) (UNITED STATES CONGRESS). The National Currency Act, With Amendments, And the Laws Relating to Taxation of National Banks, And Schedule of Stamp Duties, 1864-'69. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. Slim octavo, original flexible brown cloth, stitched as issued; pp. 70. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $1600. Scarce official 1869 publication of the 1864 National Currency Act, with printings of that law, amendments and related acts through 1869, an impo... more information

1891. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GARLAND, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads. Six Mississippi Valley Stories. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. Octavo, original printed cream paper wrappers. Housed in chemise and half green morocco slipcase. $450. First edition, first issue, inscribed by the author on the prefatory note: "Hamlin Garland, Jamaica Plain, Boston, 1891" and further inscribed on the dedication page: "On the cover of a later edition was an illustration, a young man with a pitch-fork ... more information

1891. FIRST EDITION. GARRETT, Edmund. Elizabethan Songs in Honour of Love and Beauty. Collected and Illustrated by Edmund Garrett. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. Boston: Little, Brown, 1891. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $400. First edition of this compendium of English verse. Profusely illustrated with 21 full-page tissue-guarded watercolor illustrations (reproduced by photogravure, six in sepia). Gift inscription and contemporary review pinned to front free endpaper. Book fine, s... more information

1904. GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Cranford. London: J.M. Dent, 1904. Octavo, contemporary full vellucent vellum, spine and front-cover elaborately hand-painted in pink, purple and gold, round centerpiece vignette portrait of the narrator, Mary Smith, surrounded by a mother-of-pearl inlay, top edge gilt. $1200. Beautifully illustrated edition, with 25 full-color lithographs by C.E. Brock, in lovely hand-painted "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers. First published in 1853, Gaskell's Cranfo... more information

1977. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GAUCH, Patricia Lee. The Impossible Major Rogers. Drawings by Robert Andrew Parker. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1977). Octavo, original blue cloth boards, original dust jacket. $95. First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page: "For the children of the Trenton Public Schools—a special hello—Patricia Lee Gauch, '77." "A biography of Robert Rogers, the wily leader of a band of rangers in the French and Indian War, is written in a ... more information

1806. GENLIS, Countess de. Tales of the Castle: Or Stories of Instruction and Delight. London: G. Robinson, R. Phillips, et al., 1837. Five volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full marbled calf gilt, green and red morocco spine labels. $875. Early (eighth) English edition, in lovely contemporary marbled calf bindings, with engraved frontispiece illustration in each volume. Thomas Holcroft first published his translation of Genlis' early collection of tales (originally Les Veillées du Châ... more information