Titles starting with 1 from Bauman Rare Books

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

1954. AESOP. 12 Fables of Aesop. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1954). Slim octavo, original pale brown illustrated wrappers; pp. [16]. Original red envelope. $150. First trade edition of Glenway Wescott's interpretations of Aesop, illustrated with ten full-page linocuts and numerous vignettes by Frasconi. Artist Antonio Frasconi "hews into the wood [or in this case linoleum] like a sculptor into stone… with energy-laden ebullience" (Silvey, 252). Adapted from a limited edition desig... more information

1915. FIRST EDITION. BROOKE, Rupert. "1914": Five Sonnets. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. 12mo, printed paper wrappers. $650. First separate edition, in original paper wrappers. Contains one of Brooke's most famous sonnets, "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me:/ That there's some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England…" These five sonnets originally appeared in the journal New Numbers in 1914, and were first collected in boo... more information