Titles starting with G from Bauman Rare Books

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

1947. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BURNS, John Horne. The Gallery. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1947). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $2200. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "For Roul Tunley, in the hope that he will turn from the slicks and grind out another Divinia [sic] Commedia, John Horne Burns, 17 Nov 47, Windsor, Conn." With a typed letter signed by Burns laid in. This important World War II novel was the author&... more information

1904. HICHENS, Robert. The Garden of Allah. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1904. Two volumes. 12mo (measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches), contemporary full green morocco, raised bands, all edges gilt. Housed together in custom slipcase. $950. First German edition (stated "Copyright Edition," published the same year as the first edition; text in English) of Hichens' "greatest success and best-known novel," extra-illustrated with 14 vintage mounted albumen photographic prints. George Bern... more information

1892. RABELAIS, Master Francis. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. Two volumes. Quarto, 20th-century full royal blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $900. Lovely illustrated limited edition of Rabelais' classic satire, number 30 of only 210 copies printed, with frontispiece portrait and 16 full-page plates after designs by Louis Chalon. Often censured by conservative peers, Fra... more information

1923. SIGNED. PROKOFIEV, Serge. Gavotte de la Symphonie classique. Op. 25. Transcription pour Piano par l'auteur. Moscow, Paris, Bruxelles, etc.: A. Gutheil, [1923]. Quarto, original self wrappers; pp. 4. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. $4500. First separate edition of the piano reduction of the Gavotte from Prokofiev's First ("Classical") Symphony, inscribed on the front wrapper "To Mr. Irving Schwerke, Serge Prokofieff, 1932." "The February Revolution [1917] cause... more information

1966. FIRST EDITION. PRICE, Reynolds. A Generous Man. New York: Atheneum, 1966. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $225. First edition of Reynolds Price's second novel. Continues the story of the Mustian family of rural North Carolina begun in A Long and Happy Life. Book fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information

1775. FIRST EDITION. URBANUS, Sylvanus. The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLV. London: D. Henry, 1775. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down, marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $5300. First edition of the 12 issues of Gentleman's Magazine for 1775, a turning point in Revolutionary history, containing a very early English printing of America's Declaration on the Causes and Necessity ... more information

2007. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HARRIS, Robert. The Ghost. London: Hutchinson, (2007). Octavo, original black cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $175. First trade edition of Harris' slyly satirical politcal thriller, signed on the title page by the author. Harris' "amusingly acerbic" thriller "unfolds with clarity and panache—and with a classy twist on the very last page" (New York Times). Basis for the 2010 motion picture directed by Roman Polanski. Also issu... more information

1885. LE SAGE, Alain Rene. Gil Blas de Santillane. Paris: Charavay et Martin, [circa 1885]. Large quarto, contemporary full dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, crimson morocco doublures with gilt tooling, patterned silk endpapers, silk flyleaves, top edge gilt. $2500. Deluxe limited illustrated edition of Lesage's renowned satire, number 5 of only 50 copies on Japan vellum, with 38 in-text engravings, 12 full-page color plates and an original signed Leloir watercolor. ... more information

1924. FIRST EDITION. (GIOTTO) CARRA, Carlo. Giotto. WITH: LONGHI, Roberto. Piero della Francesca. Two copies of the same work; i.e., two volumes. Rome: Casa Editrice d'Arte 'Valori Pastici', 1924. Together, three volumes. Small quarto, original pictorial boards, uncut. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $550. First editions of these works on two of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance, Giotto di Bondone and Piero della Francesca, each richly illustrated ... more information

1991. FIRST EDITION. SMITH, Lane. Glasses Who Needs 'Em? (New York): Viking, (1991). Quarto, original pictorial boards, original dust jacket. $150. First edition. Charming story of a young boy's acceptance of having to wear glasses after hearing tales of numerous bespectacled and distinguished people. Fine condition. ... more information

1876. FIRST EDITION. ZANNONI, Antonio. Gli Scavi Della Certosa di Bologna, Descritti ed Illustrati. Bologna: Regio Tipografia, 1876. Two volumes. Folio text volume, modern three-quarter brown calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled boards and endpapers; elephant folio plate volume, plates loose as issued, housed in matching three-quarter calf felt-lined clamshell box. $4500. First edition, with 147 (of 150) archaeological plates on 52 double-page and four full-page sheets (many printed in two colors) ... more information

1978. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. O'BRIEN, Tim. Going After Cacciato. (New York): Delacorte, (1978). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1400. First edition of this National Book Award-winner—"O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life… a beautiful, painful book" (New York Times), signed on the half title by Tim O'Brien. Going After Cacciato "is among the most outstanding fictional narratives of the Vietnam War" (Stringer,... more information

1639. APULEIUS, Lucius. The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse: Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius, Interlaced with Sundry Pleasant and Delectable Tales… Translated out of Latine into English, by William Adlington. London: Thomas Harper for Thomas Alchorn, 1639. Octavo (i.e., small quarto), early 19th-century full diced calf rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4600. Rare early edition of William Adlington's translation (the first in English) o... more information

1903. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GIBSON, Wilfrid Wilson. The Golden Helm and Other Verse. London: Elkin Mathews, 1903. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, uncut. $600. First edition, inscribed by the author on front flyleaf, "To John Drinkwater from Wilfrid Gibson." W.W. Gibson was described by D.H. Lawrence as, "one of the clearest and most lovable personalities I know," and was known as a spokesman for the common man. He was a contemporary of and collaborator with the war poet Rupert Br... more information

1968. SIGNED. (HOWE, Gordon) VIPOND, Jim. Gordie Howe, Number 9. Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg: Ryerson Press, (1968). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $175. Second edition, third printing of this candid biography of "Mr. Hockey," with 16 pages of photographs, inscribed, "Hello & best wishes to my 25 handycap [sic] friend. Gordon Howe." "His teammates called him 'Power,' and with good reason. After 22 seasons in the National Hockey League—longe... more information

1968. FIRST EDITION. CREWS, Harry. The Gospel Singer. New York: William Morrow, 1969. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $1100. First edition of the author's first book. A highly acclaimed addition to the Southern Gothic literary vein, The Gospel Singer reflects Crews' lifelong interest in the grotesque, bizarre, and absurd. Fine condition. ... more information

1852. FIRST EDITION. YOUNG, Brigham. Governor's Message to the Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory. Great Salt Lake City, January 5, 1852. Octavo, single folded sheet as issued, uncut and unopened; pp. 8. $2200. First edition, one of 1000 copies ordered printed, of Young's second annual message to the Utah territorial legislature. Extremely rare. Although the Latter-day Saints who, under Brigham Young's leadership, settled in Utah petitioned Congress for statehood in 1849, the land was ins... more information

1816. FIRST EDITION. (ROWLANDSON, Thomas). QUIZ. The Grandmaster or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. Octavo, early 20th-century full straight-grain burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1600. First edition, with 25 brightly hand-colored aquatint plates by popular satirist Thomas Rowlandson, admired for his "instantly recognizable gallery of social types" (Oxford). Handsomely bound. Following the imme... more information

1802. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. Concert pour le Piano-forte avec accompagnement de toutes les parties d'orchestre… Oeuvre 15. WITH: First Piano Concerto, op. 15 [and 19], fine early 19th-century manuscript of the piano reduction of all orchestral parts except strings and piano. Bonn: chez N. Simrock, [1802]. Seventeen parts, conductor's copy, manuscript piano reduction. Conductor's copy: folio, 14 leaves saddle-stitched as issued, respined in marbled paper at a later date. Parts: folio, bifol... more information