Titles starting with F from Bauman Rare Books

1817. MENNIS, John and Smith, James. Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: or, The Muses Recreation. Conteining Severall Pieces of Poetique Wit. And Wit Restor'd in Severall Poems, Not Formerly Publish't. Also Wits Recreations, Selected from the Finest Facies of Moderne Muses. With a Thousand Out-landish Proverbs. To Which Are Now Added Memoirs of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco, elab... more information

1692. FIRST EDITION. PURCELL, Henry. The Fairy-Queen: An Opera. Represented at the Queen's-Theatre By Their Majesties Servants. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. Small quarto, nineteenth-century half dark green morocco. $4800. First edition of Elkanah Settle's adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. The Fairy-Queen, an operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, was staged in 1692. With music by England's first great operatic composer, Purcell, it is one o... more information

1950. FIRST EDITION. SINGER, I.B. The Family Moskat. Translated from the Yiddish by A. H. Gross. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, original two-tone burgundy and black cloth, original dust jacket. $950. First edition in English. The Family Moskat was the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Dust jacket lightly nicked at edges. A near-fine copy. ... more information

1887. FIRST EDITION. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. "Female Skipping Rope," Plate 174 from Animal Locomotion. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887]. Single large folio sheet, measuring 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype image measures 15 by 7-1/2 inches, apart from letterpress); mat size: 26 by 20-3/4 inches. $4500. Original "Author's Edition" collotype of multiple sequential studies of a semi-nude female skipping rope, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion ... more information

1840. FIRST EDITION. LEIGHTON, John M. Fife Illustrated. Select Views in the County of Fife, Engraved by Joseph Swan, from drawings by James Stewart, With a History of the County, and Topographical and Local Descriptions. Glasgow: Joseph Swan, 1840. Three volumes in one. Thick quarto, contemporary three?quarter black calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine with red morocco onlays, marbled boards and endpapers. $875. First edition of this parish-by-parish historical account of County Fife, fro... more information

1949. FIRST EDITION. MANSO, Leo. Fire House. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1949). Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, spiral-bound as issued, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $500. First edition of this cleverly designed, charming "punch-out" book, which forms a fire house and burning building when assembled, this copy fully intact and in fine condition. When fully assembled, Manso's delightful novelty book would form two sides of a burning house and ... more information

1989. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (LAWRENCE, Jacob). The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. The King James Version. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. Large folio, original full midnight blue Japanese cotton. In original suede-lined linen clamshell box with leather label. $10,500. A magnificent production, number 67 of only 400 copies, signed by Lawrence on the colophon, illustrated with eight superb original multi-colored silkscreen prints by Lawrence depicting a preacher and his congregation. One of La... more information

1973. FIRST EDITION. HUSEBYE, Terry. Flood Victims of Harrisburg. Madison: Pushpress, 1973. Large square quarto, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $4500. Signed limited first edition of Husebye's profound tribute to the survivors of the 1972 Harrisburg flood, number 17 of only 25 copies, with 19 mounted gelatin silver photographs mounted on heavy Strathmore Pastelle stock. In June 1972, "tropical storm Agnes widened its destruction… [causing] what was termed the worst flooding in ... more information

1870. PRATT, Anne. The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. London: Frederick Warne, circa 1870. Six volumes. Tall octavo, contemporary full green polished calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, tan morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $5200. Early edition, containing 313 beautifully detailed drawings by Anne Pratt, rendered in block-colored plates by William Dickes, many finished by hand... more information

1965. FIRST EDITION. CHOPPING, Richard. The Fly. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965). Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. $200. First American edition of Chopping's first novel, published the same year as the first English edition, with original dust jacket featuring the memorable design of this famed author and artist whose covers for James Bond novels helped "turn the spy into a global phenomenon" (Times). Artist and novelist "Richard Chopping was the creator of ... more information

1988. FIRST EDITION. SMITH, Lane. Flying Jake. New York: Macmillan (1988). Quarto, original green cloth and tan boards, original dust jacket. $110. First edition. Lane Smith's delightful wordless tale of young Jake's adventures flying with his pet bird. A fine copy. ... more information

1973. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SINGER, I.B. The Fools of Chelm and Their History. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1973). Square octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $425. First edition, warmly inscribed on the half title, "To Louise, with love, Isaac B. Singer, Oct. 20, 1977." "In this whimsical satire, Singer mocks the 'advantages'-such as war, crime and revolution—that civilization brings to Chelm" (Booklist). With eight full-page illustrations by Uri S... more information

1835. HEMANS, Felicia. The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poems. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1835. 12mo, contemporary full brown diced calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, burgundy morocco spine labels, raised bands, edges gilt with fore-edge painting. $1400. Third edition, with a lovely fore-edge painting of Liverpool from the Ferry. Hemans (1793-1835) was one of the more popular poets of her day, garnering the attention (sometimes unwanted) of contemporaries such as Shelley and Byron. ... more information

2005. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. NACHTWEY, James, KRATOCHVIL, Antonin, et al. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Forgotten War. (Millbrook, New York: de.MO, 2005). Quarto, original printed tan heavy card covers, loose as issued, original coated self-wrappers, original elastic bookband. $250. First edition of this stunning photobook on the Congo, a collaboration between Doctors Without Borders and the innovative VII photo agency, featuring 49 color and duotone plates (ten by James Nachtwey), signed by contribut... more information

1842. ROBERTS, David. Original lithograph plate, Fortress of Akabah, Arabia Petraea. [London: F.G. Moon, 1842-49]. Hand-colored lithograph on onionskin, measuring 9-1/2 by 13-3/8 inches, on original mount, measuring 17 by 24 inches. $3000. Beautiful original hand-colored lithograph of the Fortress of Akabah, Arabia Petraea, from the superb large format first issue of Roberts' landmark work, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia (only the first issue is hand-colored on onionskin and mou... more information

1823. FIRST EDITION. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. 4me Grande Simphonie en si b majeur… par Louis van Beethoven. Op. 60. Partition. Bonn et Cologne: N. Simrock, [1823]. Tall octavo, contemporary half gray cloth, marbled boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4200. First edition of the full score of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, fully engraved. "The Symphony No. 4, in B-flat, written in 1806, is a gentle idyll. In style and structure it is nearer to the Second Symphony than to the Eroica. It mak... more information

1919. FIRST EDITION. STRAUSS, Richard. Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Oper in Drei Akten von Hugo Hofmannsthal. Musik von Richard Strauss. Op. 65. Berlin: Adolf Fürstner, 1919. Quarto, original stiff paper wrappers, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $2500. First edition, piano-vocal score. "The interruption of war prolonged the genesis of Die Frau to a point where Strauss called it his 'child of sorrow.' The libretto is Hofmannsthal's most symbolic and intellectual creation, a... more information

1870. FIRST EDITION. DIXON, William Hepworth. Free Russia. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, green morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. $700. First edition, each volume with color frontispiece. Dixon, a man of letters and editor of the Athenaeum, travelled in Russia in the latter part of 1869. "My journeys, just completed, carried me from the Polar Sea to the Ural Mountains, f... more information

1970. FIRST EDITION. ROBINSON, Joan. Freedom and Necessity. An Introduction to the Study of Society. London: George Allen & Unwin, (1970). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $200. First edition of Robinson's concise yet sweeping historical and economic analysis of the way various political systems have all achieved the same goal: extracting the agricultural surplus to benefit the ruling class. In this brilliant and insightful work, economist Joan Robinson shows how the ruling power... more information