Titles starting with M from Bauman Rare Books

1977. FIRST EDITION. TESHIGAHARA, Sofu. Maboroshi. (Tokyo: Kyuryudo, 1977). Folio, original red cloth gilt, original glassine, original pictorial slipcase, original shipping box. $450. First edition, with 62 beautiful color plates of Teshigahara's paintings, one folding. Maboroshi, which means "fantasy" or "illusion" in Japanese, is the first collected works of Teshigahara's paintings and calligraphic works. The author is most famous for founding the Sogetsu School of Japanese... more information

1910. (MAINTENON, Madame de) DYSON, C.C. Madame de Maintenon. Her Life and Times 1635-1719. London: John Jane, 1910. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter green crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spine panels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $300. Lovely illustrated biography of Madame de Maintenon, with a photogravure frontispiece portrait and 16 other illustrations, finely bound. The daughter of a poor family, Madame de Maintenon (Francoise d'Aubigné) married the famous wit a... more information

1958. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Magic Barrel. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy, 1958. Octavo, original lavender cloth spine and pink boards, original dust jacket. $1100. First edition, signed on the front free endpaper by Malamud. Published jointly with the Jewish Publications Society edition which was released slightly earlier the same year. Malamud's first short story collection and winner of the National Book Award, with thirteen stories revised from versions published in va... more information

1920. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LEWIS, Sinclair. Main Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Octavo, original blue cloth. Housed in a custom slipcase. $1750. First trade edition, second printing of Lewis's breakthrough novel of small-town America, inscribed by him, "To Sally Michener, Sinclair Lewis, Nov. 20, 1942." With the 1920 publication of Main Street, Sinclair Lewis, then a journalist and apprentice novelist, became an overnight success. In Main Street, wrote E.M. Forster, Lew... more information

1891. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GARLAND, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads. Six Mississippi Valley Stories. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. Octavo, original printed cream paper wrappers. Housed in chemise and half green morocco slipcase. $450. First edition, first issue, inscribed by the author on the prefatory note: "Hamlin Garland, Jamaica Plain, Boston, 1891" and further inscribed on the dedication page: "On the cover of a later edition was an illustration, a young man with a pitch-fork ... more information

1945. FIRST EDITION. SALSINGER, H.G. et al., editors. 1945 Major League Baseball. Racine: Whitman, 1945. Small octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers. $125. Major League baseball guide, containing full statistics, rules, and photographs from the 1944 season, including a team photo of the women's 1944 champion Milwaukee Chicks, with an inning-by-inning account of the 1944 World Series between the two St. Louis teams, the Cardinals and the Browns. The front cover depicts Martin Marion, Player of the... more information

1982. FIRST EDITION. MILWAUKEE BREWERS. Major League Baseball Manual Prepared and Used by the Milwaukee Brewers. Garden City: Doubleday, 1982. Quarto, original illustrated stiff paper covers. $100. First edition of this “organizational instruction manual” for the Brewers franchise, with illustrated instructions for playing each position and 29 diagrams of defensive assignments in game situations. “The theory behind our manual is simple—teach young players from their first day in the B... more information

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

1887. FIRST EDITION. MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. "Males Wrestling," Plate 347 from Animal Locomotion. [Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887]. Single large folio sheet, measuring 23-1/2 by 18 inches (colotype image measures 17-1/4 by 6-1/2 inches, apart from letterpress); mat size: 28 by 20 inches. $4500. Original "Author's Edition" collotype of multiple sequential studies of two nude male wrestlers, from the most significant photographic work on the natural motion of animals. ... more information

1929. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HEYWARD, Du Bose. Manba's Daughters. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Octavo, original green cloth, original paper spine label, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $1500. First edition of Heyward's second novel about the residents of Charleston's Catfish Row, inscribed, "With good wishes to W.L.A., Du Bose Heyward." "When Du Bose Heyward published Porgy in 1925… it vaulted him into the literary limelight few Southern writers up to th... more information

1871. FIRST EDITION. HUXLEY, Thomas Henry. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals. WITH: A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1871; 1877. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original brown and oxblood cloths. $1100. First editions of Huxley's companion works on the anatomy of animals. Known primarily as the protagonist of evolution in the controversies immediately following the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species late in 1859, zoologist Huxl... more information

1451. (JUDAICA). Manuscript Legal Document, in consideration of 280 "sueldos" between "The Hon. Salom-Alazar, Jew" and four Christians. Calatayud, Aragon (Spain): January 29, 1451. Oblong folio (visible portion measures 14 by 10 inches), single vellum leaf, handwritten in brown ink. Matted and framed; entire piece measures 20 by 15 inches. $4500. Lovely manuscript legal document creating a carriers' contract between a Jew and four Christians. A very attractively scribed document fr... more information

1878. SIGNED. CLIFFORD, Nathan. Manuscript Supreme Court opinion. [Washington]: May (?) 1878. Seven legal-size pages. $4500. Manuscript Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Nathan Clifford. Nathan Clifford served as attorney general under President Polk, and as a minister plenipotentiary to Mexico following the amending of the peace treaty between Mexico and America. Under the Polk administration, he developed close ties with secretary of state Buchanan. When Buchanan became President, Clifford was a... more information

1610. SPEED, John. Map of Huntington both Shire and Shire Towne with the Ancient Citie of Ely Described. [London]: Performed by John Speed, 1610. Map measures 20 by 15 inches; entire piece measuring 29 inches by 23 inches. $1500. Elaborate 1610 hand-colored Speed map of Huntington, from his landmark Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. With inset plans of Huntington and Ely, coats-of-arms of local families, and engraved figures in contemporary dress. "Tailor and amateur historian John Speed scor... more information

1845. FIRST EDITION. PREUSS, Charles. Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Baltimore: E. Weber, [1845]. ISSUED FOR: FREMONT, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845. Large original color-outlined (blue rivers and lakes) lithographic map, measuring 52 by 32 inches unfolded. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5000. This rare landmark of American over... more information

1970. (AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF DJAKARTA, INDONESIA). Marilah Masak—Lantas Makan. Let Us Cook—Then Eat. (Djakarta: P.T. Hidajah, 1970). Octavo, original patterned cloth. $200. First edition, second printing, of this cookbook compiled by the American Women's Association of Djakarta, featuring a collection of recipes highlighting both mid-century American favorites and Asian classics. The ex-pat women who edited this collection set out to produce a book that would reflect the frien... more information

1998. FIRST EDITION. (GIACOMELLI, Mario) NORI, Claude, editor. Mario Giacomelli. (Paris): Éditions Nathan, (1998). Oblong quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $125. First edition of this stinging photo-essay on southern Italian rural life, with 128 full-page duotones of farm folk and village street scenes. From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley. Known for his intriguing photographs of Italian seminaries and his poetic transcription of everyday li... more information

1662. MARKHAM, Gervase. Markham's Maister-Peece. Containing all Knowledge belonging to Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leech, touching the Curing of all Diseases in Horses. London: William Wilson, 1662. Square octavo, contemporary full blind-tooled brown speckled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, raised bands. $1750. Important 1662 edition, revised and enlarged by Markham, the recognized turn-of-the-16th-century authority on horses, horsemanship and equine care, with wonderful engraved title page conta... more information

1898. (MARRIAGE). Marriage license. Commonwealth of Kentucky: November 23, 1898. Printed and manuscript document (5 by 8 inches), matted and framed; entire piece measures 11 by 13 inches. $250. Kentucky marriage license granting permission "To any Minister of the Gospel… to solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between James Covington and Mattie Graugen both of color." Signed by the Clerk of the Warren County Court. Very good condition, framed. ... more information

1832. FIRST EDITION. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. Now First Published, With a Preface By Leigh Hunt. London: Edward Moxon, 1832. Small octavo, original boards expertly respined. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500. First edition in original boards, with an inscription in Leigh Hunt's hand. "The poem was written in 1819 on the occasion of the infamous 'Peterloo' affair, and was sent to Leigh Hunt, for publication in The Examiner, before November 1819. Hunt did... more information