Titles starting with H from Bauman Rare Books

1915. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LEFÈVRE, Edwin. H.R. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1915. Octavo, original navy cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5200. First edition of Lefèvre's novel about a young man's rise from obscurity as a bank clerk to New York business mogul headed for the White House, inscribed: "To Arthur E. Meaker, with the affectionate regard of his grateful Edwin Lefèvre. Bronxville, N.Y. Oct. 1916." Edwin Lefèvre was known for... more information

1816. (HAGGADAH). Seder Haggadah Shel Pesah Im Targum Ashkenazi. Basel: printed by Wilhelm Haas for Solomon Coschelsberg, 1816. Small quarto, original decorative printed paper boards respined, printed endpapers. $3800. Handsome illustrated Haggadah, with 24 charming woodcuts including vignette title page depicting Moses at the Burning Bush, an exceptional copy in original decorative paper boards. Most unusual as all translations and commentaries are printed in Yiddish. "In an age of general decline ... more information

1864. (HAGGADAH). Seder Ha-Haggadah Shel Pesah Im Tziyurim. L'Haggada Illustrata, Tradotta da A. V. Morpurgo. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. Folio, early pebbled purple cloth rebacked; pp. [4], 64, [2]. $5200. Beautifully and richly illustrated Haggadah printed in Trieste, with elaborately engraved Gothic title page depicting Moses, Aaron, David and Solomon, and with 58 splendid wood engravings by C. Kirchmayr (one on nearly every page). "The Trieste Haggadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished ... more information

2006. FIRST EDITION. HAI, Bo. Hai Bo. (New York: Max Protetch Gallery, 2006). Oblong quarto, original photographic paper boards. $150. First edition, featuring 19 pages of photogravures by Hai Bo of changing China. One of China's new generation of photographers, "Hai Bo intends to demonstrate a 'historical' 'change' through 'the unchanged.' [His work] is filled with personal Utopian behavior and imagination. The 'history' that Hai Bo depicts is not a cultural hist... more information

1967. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Octavo, original half black and half gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $1600. First edition of Stone's first novel, inscribed by him on the half-title: "For Bob Lighter / With every best wish, / Robert Stone." This story of three young Americans whose lives intersect in New Orleans at the end of Mardi Gras in 1962 announced the arrival of a major new talent, who lived up to his early pro... more information

1914. LELAND, Charles Godfrey. Hans Breitmann's Ballads. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. Octavo, contemporary full navy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, morocco doublures, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $400. Limited edition of Charles Leland's humorous poems in a German accent poking fun at cultural quirks and universal human folly, number 143 of 350 copies, of which only 300 were for sale, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt. Han... more information

1947. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SCHULBERG, Budd. The Harder They Fall. New York: Random House, (1947). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $1100. First edition of Schulberg's boxing classic, signed by him on the title page. Screenwriter, novelist and boxing fan, Schulberg followed the success of his Hollywood novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) with this critically praised look at corruption in the world of boxing. In 1956, it became the source for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogar... more information

1647. (POMPADOUR, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, mistress of Louis XV) SCHERVELUS, Theodorus. Harlemum, Sive Urbus Harlemensis. Leyden, 1647. Small quarto, full 18th-century calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. $4000. With the arms of Madame de Pompadour on the front cover. A first edition of Schrevelius' history of the Dutch city of Harlem, with the arms of Madame de Pompadour and stamped with the smaller variant of her arms (Olivier 2399, fer 1). With engraved... more information

1866. HARTWIG, G. The Harmonies of Nature, or the Unity of Creation. New York: D. Appleton, 1866. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $575. First American edition, published the same year as the first edition, illustrated with eight wood-engraved plates and numerous in-text woodcuts, handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. Hartwig surveys the stars, the oceans and a wide variety of life on the land—pl... more information

1899. (BROWNE, Hablôt Knight) [SURTEES, Robert Smith]. Hawbuck Grange, or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. [London: Whitefriars Press, 1899]. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, red linen boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $450. Re-issue of the first edition of this rollicking chronicle of a "gentleman" farmer, printed from the original plates, humorously illustrated with eight full-page hand-colored etchin... more information

1796. HAYDN, Joseph. Haydn's Celebrated Overture, Composed for & Performed at Mr. Salomons Concert, Hanover Square, Adapted for the Piano Forte, with an Accompaniment for a Violin & Violoncello. No. 1. WITH: Nos. 2-6. Edinburgh: Corri, Dussek & Co., [circa 1796]. Folio, modern half brown morocco, marbled boards. $4200. Superb collection of six of Haydn's London Symphonies arranged for Piano, Violin and Cello, including a number of first English editions. Signed on each of five title pa... more information

1644. FIRST EDITION. ROW, (John). Hebraeae Linguae institutiones compendiossimae & facillimae, in Discipulorum primum concinnatae… BOUND WITH: Childias Hebraica: Seu Vocabularium Continens praecipuas radices Linguae Hebraeae…. Glasgow: Georgius Andersonus, 1644. Two volumes in one. 12mo, modern full brown calf, blind-stamped ornaments on covers and spine, raised bands, red morocco label. $4500. First edition of the first book with Hebrew characters to be printed in Scotland, Row's Hebrew... more information

1991. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri). Henri Cartier-Bresson (exhibition catalogue). (Osaka: Kunihiko Tsukamoto, 1991). Quarto, original white stiff photographic covers. $150. First edition of this extensive catalogue of the exhibition at the Osaka University of Arts, with 411 illustrations. From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley, signed by him. "Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in capturing the essence of what has not previou... more information

1996. FIRST EDITION. (CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri). Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush, and Cameras (exhibition catalogue). (Minneapolis): Minneapolis Institute of Arts, (1996). Slim quarto, original white stiff photographic covers. $100. First edition of this creative catalogue of Cartier-Bresson's sketches, paintings and photographs held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, with 47 full-page illustrations (four in color). From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley. "Cartier-Bres... more information

1912. FIRST EDITION. ESSWEIN, Hermann and HEYMEL, Alfred Walter. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Zweite, vermehrte auflage. Munich: R. Piper, 1912. WITH: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Dritte auflage. Munich: R. Piper, 1916. Two volumes. Slim quarto, original half blue cloth, illustrated paper boards; pp. [66]. Housed together in custom chemise and slipcase. $650. Second and third editions of this famous scholarly article on Toulouse-Lautrec, with 50 halftone photographs of Lautrec's works, many from Heymel... more information

1903. (MASUCCIO, Salernitano). The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret Queen of Navarre… Two volumes. WITH: The Novellino of Masuccio. Two volumes. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society, 1903. Four volumes in all. Octavo, three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, gilt spines with decorative floral motif, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $650. Beautifully bound and illustrated collection of Renaissance stories by Margaret of Navarre and Masuccio, translated into Engl... more information

1964. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York: Viking, (1964). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2600. First edition of the Nobel laureate's award-winning novel, signed by Bellow. To writer Ian McEwan, the work of Saul Bellow is "the embodiment of an American vision of plurality… It will be some time before we have the full measure of Saul Bellow's achievement… And most vivid of all, for me at least, Moses Herzog. Be... more information

1887. FIRST EDITION. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. "High-Jumper," Plate 152 from Animal Locomotion. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887]. Single large folio sheet, measuring 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype image measures 18-1/4 by 6-1/4 inches, apart from letterpress); mat size: 29-1/2 by 19-1/2 inches. $4500. Original "Author's Edition" collotype of multiple sequential studies of a straight-on high jump, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion of animals... more information

1992. SIGNED. LUMBERS, James. Hillary Conquers Everest. No place, 1992. Color lithograph measures 19 by 26 inches. $450. Limited edition lithograph of Hillary on Everest, number 441 of 1953 copies signed in pencil by Edmund Hillary and artist James Lumbers. With an image of Tenzig Norgay (who summated with Hillary) in the distance. A fine copy, suitable for framing. ... more information