Authors starting with T from Bauman Rare Books

1972. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (TAMAYO, Rufino) ASTURIAS, Miguel Angel. Amanecer en el Delta del Paraná, e Altre Poesie con Due Litografie. Milan: M'Arte Edizioni, (1972). Folio, two lithographs measuring 11 by 15 inches, accompanying text in 16 signatures loose as issued in original orange paper wrappers, original orange pasteboard portfolio and orange cloth slipcase. $4500. Beautiful livre d'artiste of selected poems by Asturias, copy "C" of only five lettered copies with an orig... more information

1843. WILDRAKE, pseudonym [TATTERSALL, George]. The Cracks of the Day. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Royal octavo, early 20th-century full red crushed morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and cover borders with equestrian motifs, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $1250. Second edition of this ten-years' chronicle of the English Turf, "with additions, completing the work to January, 1843," with separate wood-engraved title page and 73 illustrations, including 40 f... more information

1875. TAYLOR, Bayard. Picturesque Europe. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, no date (circa 1875). Five volumes. Folio, contemporary three-quarter brick-red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, all edges gilt. $1600. Early edition, handsomely bound and splendidly illustrated, with sixty-five full-page steel engravings and hundreds of in-text wood engravings. Included are exquisitely detailed views of forest scenery, the southern and Cornish coasts of Great Britain, the Derby Dales... more information

1893. FIRST EDITION. TCHAIKOVSKY, Peter. Symphonie No. 6 (Pathétique) pour grand Orchestre composée par P. Tschaïkowsky. Op. 74. Moscow: P. Jurgenson, [1893]. Folio, original wrappers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $4500. First edition, piano reduction for four hands (preceding the full score), of Tchaikovsky's last symphony, the remarkable "Pathetique." First performed on October 28, 1893, only nine days before Tchaikovsky's death, Symphony No. 6 is now ine... more information

1854. FIRST EDITION. UTAH TERRITORY. Rules for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Utah. No place: Joseph Cain, [1854 or 1855]. Octavo, one folded sheet as issued, uncut; pp. 4. $2200. Printed by Utah pioneer Joseph Cain in 1854 or 1855, one of only 100 copies of this pamphlet outlining the procedural rules of the territorial House of Representatives. Extremely rare. "The Utah Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress on 9 September 1850. The a... more information

1977. FIRST EDITION. TESHIGAHARA, Sofu. Maboroshi. (Tokyo: Kyuryudo, 1977). Folio, original red cloth gilt, original glassine, original pictorial slipcase, original shipping box. $450. First edition, with 62 beautiful color plates of Teshigahara's paintings, one folding. Maboroshi, which means "fantasy" or "illusion" in Japanese, is the first collected works of Teshigahara's paintings and calligraphic works. The author is most famous for founding the Sogetsu School of Japanese... more information

1911. FIRST EDITION. THAYER, William Roscoe. The Life and Times of Cavour. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1911). Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $250. Handsomely bound first edition, later printing, of William Roscoe Thayer's landmark biography of the Italian statesman Cavour, with five maps. "With his ardent love of liberty and hatred of tyranny there could be no question of 'impartiality' in hi... more information

1811. THOMSON, James. The Seasons… To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by P. Murdoch… and an Essay on the Plan and Character of the Poem, by J. Aikin. London: Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, et al., 1811. Small octavo, early full maroon straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with fore-edge painting. Housed in custom cloth slipcase. $1400. Handsomely bound later edition, with a lovely fore-edge painting o... more information

1912. SIGNED. (THOMSON, Hugh) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Folio, original full vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated cover and spine, yellow satin ribbon ties. $1200. Limited illustrated edition, number 146 of 350 copies signed by Thomson, with 25 mounted color plates and 14 in-text line cuts. "Thomson's career was providentially sustained by the development of the color plate… [beginning] in 1909 with the public... more information

1913. SIGNED. (THOMSON, Hugh) BARRIE, James M. Quality Street. (London): Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Folio, original full vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated cover and spine, yellow satin ribbon ties. $1200. Limited illustrated edition, number 561 of 1000 copies signed by Thomson, with 22 mounted color plates and 17 in-text line cuts. "Thomson's career was providentially sustained by the development of the color plate… [beginning] in 1909 with the publication of six plays in a sumptuous ... more information

1966. SIGNED. THOMSON, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Octavo, original full black cloth, original dust jacket. $400. First edition inscribed by Thomson for tennis player Eleanor Means, "For Eleanor Means/ tennis champion/ whom/ I serve/ loyally/ Virgil T./ 1967." The autobiography of Thomson, the forward-looking, Pulitzer Prize winning musician whose ideas revitalized modern music. A few small closed tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Near-fine condition. ... more information

1834. FIRST EDITION. TIERNEY, Mark Aloysius. History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel Including the Biography of Its Earls from the Conquest to the Present Time. London: G. and W. Nicol, 1834. Two volumes. Small quarto, 20th-century three-quarter navy pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $785. First edition, handsomely bound, with several engraved plates, numerous vignettes, and two genealogical tables. Tierney, a Roman Catho... more information

1887. TILLINGHAST, A.O. Ready Pay Must Be Resumed! West Valley, New York: [Tillinghurst], 1887. Broadside sheet printed on recto, measuring 8 by 14-1/2 inches. $600. Vintage broadside announcing new transaction policy in local dry goods store: "All goods must be sold for ready pay," or "I will take in exchange for goods almost anything but trust." With wood-engraved portrait of the owner. This generous proprietor had overextended credit to his customers to the point of desperation. &q... more information

1966. FIRST EDITION. TOMATSU, Shomei. 11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo: Shashin Dojinsha, 1966. Square octavo, original white paper boards, original cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000. First edition of this important look at Nagasaki, with 119 black-and-white photogravure plates depicting the effect of the atom bomb. This is the first photobook by Tomatsu, a founding member of the avant-garde photographers' group Vivo and the leading figure in a generation of "angry young men who s... more information

1988. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. TORME, Mel. It Wasn't All Velvet. (New York): Viking, (1988). Octavo, original half cream cloth, original dust jacket. $225. First edition of the Velvet Fog's autobiography, warmly and boldly inscribed by him on the half title, "To Barbara's friend, Freda, with love! Mel Tormé." "In 1946 Tormé embarked on a solo career as 'the Velvet Fog.' The nickname, invented by a local disc jockey, referred to Tormé's light, smoo... more information

1895. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de. Aristide Bruant dans Son Cabaret. Paris: Edw. Ancourt, circa 1895. Large poster (20 by 26 inches), four-color lithographic image on stiff wove stock. $3200. Circa-1895 Edward Ancourt printing of the1893 third poster Lautrec designed for his friend, cabaret entertainer Aristide Bruant, whose comedic style was to fling lewd and degrading insults at his audiences—to their utter delight. Hypnotic entertainer and shrewd entrepreneur Aristide Bruant was one of Toulouse-La... more information

1915. FIRST EDITION. TRAVERS, Jerome and RICE, Grantland. The Winning Shot. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1915. Octavo, original blue-green pictorial cloth. $475. First edition of this illustrated account of the great golfer's early triumphs, celebrating his dramatic victory as an amateur in the 1915 U.S. Open. "From 1907 to 1915 Travers dominated golf. He won the United States Amateur in 1907, 1908, 1912, and 1913, and was runner-up in 1914. His victory in 1913 set a record for that tournament ... more information

1864. FIRST EDITION. TROLLOPE, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter russet calf, black morocco spine labels, raised bands. $1600. First edition in book form of the first novel in Trollope's fascinating Palliser series, works he considered "the best productions of his literary life," illustrated with 40 engraved plates, many by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?--the first of ... more information

1832. FIRST EDITION. TROLLOPE, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1832. Two volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter speckled brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, original marbled boards. $1600. First edition of Mrs. Trollope's acerbic portrait of the Jacksonian United States, which amused British readers and angered American ones, illustrated with 24 lithographic plates, in handsome three-quarter calf-gilt and original marbled boards. "Anthony Trollo... more information