Titles starting with B from Bauman Rare Books

1878. FIRST EDITION. CRANE, Walter. The Baby's Bouquet. London and New York: Frederick Warne, [1878]. Oblong 12mo (measuring 7 by 7-1/2 inches), original half brown cloth, pictorial paper-covered boards, pictorial endpapers. $600. First edition of Crane's second, popular, beautifully designed and illustrated collection of nursery songs, with charming decorations on each page, color wood-engraved frontispiece and ten full-page color wood-engravings. "One of the most popular English illustator... more information

1845. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Bachelor's Own Book; or, the Adventures of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.), in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and Also in Search of Health and Happiness. In Twenty-Four Plates, Designed and Etched by George Cruikshank. London: George Routledge and Sons, circa 1845. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. $850. Early edition, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank and handsomely bound by Riv... more information

1985. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. KING, Stephen. The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. New York: New American Library, (1985). Thick octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $850. First omnibus edition of four early novels written by King under his "Richard Bachman" pseudonym, inscribed by the author, "For Joe—with best wishes, Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), 4/26/94." "Two of these novels, perhaps even all four, might have been published under... more information

1967. FONTEYN, Margot. Ballet slipper. No city: 1967. Pair of pink ballet pointe shoes. $750. Pair of pink pointe shoes worn by English ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a 1967 production of Minkus' La Bayadere. With a career which spanned from her teenage years until her sixties, Fonteyn was considered England's top ballerina. Her partners included the English dancers Robert Helpmann and Michael Somes, but her most famous and long-standing partner was the Soviet defector Rudolf Nureyev, with whom she ... more information

1987. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LEONARD, Elmore. Bandits. New York: Arbor House, (1987). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. $350. First edition of this foray into "Nicaraguan politics and a gun-toting ex-nun," inscribed on the half title, "For Paul, Very best wishes. Elmore Leonard, 1-14-87." "Most thrillers," says Leonard, "are based on a situation, or on a plot, which is the most important element in the book. I don't see it that way. I see my ch... more information

1999. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. MAMET, David. Bar Mitzvah. El Segundo, California.: MFA Contemporary Atelier, 1999. Oblong folio (17-1/2 by 23 inches), original full brown leather gilt, original cardboard box. $5000. Signed limited edition, number 135 of only 395 copies signed by Mamet and artist Donald Sultan Includes 20 hand silk-screened plates (many with hand-inlayed 22-carat gold leaf), four of which are signed by Sultan and removable, suitable for framing. Mamet's original story is of a young boy... more information

1887. FIRST EDITION. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. "Base Ball Batting," Plate 279 from Animal Locomotion. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887]. Single large folio sheet, measuring 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype image measures 18 by 6-1/4 inches, apart from letterpress); mat size: 29 by 19-1/2 inches. $4500. Original "Author's Edition" collotype of multiple sequential studies of a male nude swinging a baseball bat, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion ... more information

1964. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (SENDAK, Maurice) JARRELL, Randall. The Bat-Poet. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, (1964). Octavo, original blind-stamped pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped spine, original cream pictorial dust jacket. $850. First edition, inscribed by illustrator Sendak, "For Marciarose, Maurice Sendak, June '82." "In this story about a young bat who cannot sleep during the day and follows his own individual and isolating creative lights, Jarrell offered his youn... more information

1816. FIRST EDITION. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Wellingtons-Sieg, oder: die Schlacht bey Vittoria; in Musik gesetzt von Ludwig van Beethoven. 91tes Werk. Vollstandige Partitur. Wien: S. A. Steiner und Comp., [1816]. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter brown calf gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $7000. First edition of the full score of Beethoven's "Battle Symphony," commemorating a victory of Wellington over Napoleon. In 1813, Johann Mael... more information

1847. DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun, 1847. 16mo, original full red cloth. $1000. Copyright edition for Continental Circulation of the fourth of Dickens' five Christmas books. The fourth of Dickens' Christmas Books, The Battle of Life was the least successful of his books, despite having sold 23,000 copies in the first 24 hours. According to Todd, this was probably set from advance proofs, and this edition may precede the English first. First pub... more information

1900. MOLLOY, J. Fitzgerald, et al. Beaux & Belles of England. London: The Grolier Society, circa 1900. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary full turquoise morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and occasionally unopened. $4500. "Édition des Amateurs," number 28 of 100 sets, of this collection of memoirs and biographies, illustrated with 84 double suites of photogravures, two plates in each volume with hand-colo... more information

1964. SIGNED. (SENDAK, Maurice) STOCKTON, Frank R. The Bee-Man of Orn. New York, Chicago, and San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1964). Slim quarto, original half taupe cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $450. Early edition, inscribed on the half title: "For Marian—Maurice Sendak." "The Bee-Man of Orn (1964) concerns an elderly man who sets out to discover his true origins. Highlighted by Sendak's memorable color illustrations, [... more information

1879. FIRST EDITION. LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. Small octavo, original white gold-lithographed wrappers, uncut. Housed in custom chemise and slipcase. $1500. First edition of this collection of Longfellow's poems, containing eight poems published here for the first time. "The most popular American poet of the 19th century" (Encyclopedia of Literature, 693), Longfellow "created a new body of romantic American legends&qu... more information

1887. FIRST EDITION. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. "Belgian Draught Horse," Plate 565 from Animal Locomotion. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887]. Single large folio sheet, measuring 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype image measures 14 by 8-1/4 inches, apart from letterpress); mat size: 25 by 21-1/2 inches. $4500. Original "Author's Edition" collotype of multiple sequential studies of a draught horse hauling, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion of anim... more information

1932. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. ANDERSON, Sherwood. Beyond Desire. New York: Liveright, (1932). Octavo, original tan cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Housed in custom chemise and slipcase. $1100. First trade edition, with laid-in typed autograph letter by Anderson to his publishers, dated August 16, 1930 and signed by Anderson. Described by H.L. Mencken as "America's most distinctive novelist," Sherwood Anderson had largely abandoned the novel for more journalistic writings when he publishe... more information

1923. MARTINDELL, Ernest Walter. A Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1881-1923. London: John Lane, 1923. Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket. $135. Limited edition, one of only 700 copies, illustrated with 52 plates. "Kipling's works span over five decades, with Tennyson and Browning still writing and Hardy and Yeats unheard of, when his first work Schoolboy Lyrics hit the press" (Norman Page). Book fine, dust jacket chipped. ... more information

1965. WORK, Monroe. A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. New York: Argosy, 1965. Thick octavo, original blue cloth. $70. Second edition. An indispensable bibliography on the subject. Near-fine. ... more information

1894. (CHICAGO AND THE MIDWEST). A Biographical History with Portraits of Prominent Men of the Great West. Chicago: Manhattan Publishing Company, 1894. Thick folio, contemporary full brown blind-tooled morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. $850. First edition, with over 160 fine engraved portraits. With about 400 individual biographies. Plates and text fine, contemporary full morocco quite handsome. A near-fine copy. ... more information

1885. FIRST EDITION. CORY, Charles Barney. The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1885. Large quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. $4800. First edition of this detailed description of Caribbean birds, with 22 beautifully hand-colored lithographic bird plates and full-page map of Haiti. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Cory's most noted ornithological work, The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo, was written after h... more information

1907. FIRST EDITION. CRAWSHAY, Richard. The Birds of Tierra del Fuego. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. Quarto, mid-20th-century half brown morocco gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. $4200. Limited first edition, number 197 of only 300 copies of this "most comprehensive collection [of birds] yet made in the island" which "includes many recorded from there for the first time," with 21 beautiful hand-colored bird plates by John Keulemans, 23 green-tone photogravures of bird habitats and ... more information