Titles starting with O from Bauman Rare Books

1846. FIRST EDITION. JUDAICA. [Jewish Oath] Imperiale Regio Governo di Venezia. Notificazione…. (Venice): per Francesco Andreola dell I. R. Governo, della Provincia, e dell' I. R. Marina, (1846-47). Folio (measures approximately 11 inches by 16 inches), modern Folio (11 by 16 inches), modern buff boards; pp. (4). $5000. 1846 Venetian printing of the oath to be taken by Jews as litigants in the courts. In medieval Europe, law courts customarily compelled Jews when in litigation with Gentiles to s... more information

2002. FIRST EDITION. (HEJKE, Krzysztof) KOSINSKA, Barbara. Oblicza Krzysztof Hejke [The Faces of Krzysztof Hejke]. (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Terra Nova, 2002). Oblong octavo, original stiff photographic black paper covers. $150. First edition of this selection of Hejke's provocative surrealistic images, with 75 pages of photographs (18 in color) of symbols and visual metaphors "that constitute the author's personality." From the collection of acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley. What i... more information

1760. BENEZET, Anthony. Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes. BOUND WITH: [BROMLEY, Thomas. The Way to the Sabbath of Rest]. BOUND WITH: HARTLEY, Thomas. A Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion, Enthusiasm… & C. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1760, 1759, 1759. Three works bound in one volume. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf rebacked retaining original endpapers; pp. 16; 7-280; 168. $3400. Second edition of one of the earliest abolitionist tracts to be printe... more information

1959. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. AVEDON, Richard. Observations. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Comments by Truman Capote. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1959). Folio, original white paper-covered boards, original acetate dust wrapper, original slipcase. $5200. First edition of Avedon's stellar book of portraiture, a distinctive association copy warmly inscribed to film producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr. and his wife Leonora (Bubbles), "For Bubbles & Arthur with admiration, Dick," featuring commen... more information

1976. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. GARDNER, John. October Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. $1650. First edition, presentation copy, very warmly inscribed and signed by Gardner, "To Andre & Florence, Among the best friends I have. With love, John." Beneath the inscription Gardner has drawn a wonderful caricaturized self-portrait, with an outstretched arm holding a flower. The recipient, Andre L. Speyer, played French horn for the Minneapol... more information

1716. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. DESTOUCHES, [André]. Oenone, Cantate A Voix Seule avec Symphonie. Paris: Ballard, 1716. Tall folio, contemporary full speckled calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $3000. First edition of this score, in contemporary calf gilt, signed by composer Destouches and printer Ballard on last leaf. During the course of his successful career, composer André Destouches served as both Inspector General of the Opéra and Superintende... more information

1925. FRANCE, Anatole. Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Anatole France. Paris: Calman-Levy, 1925-35. Twenty-five volumes. Small quarto, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $3800. Very handsome set of the works of Anatole France, with hundreds of illustrations after compositions by Maxime Dethomas. Nobel Prize-winner Anatole France was known for "his graceful erudition, his love of beauty… his subtle, biting irony ... more information

1935. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. WOLFE, Thomas. Of Time and the River: A Legend of Hunger in Man's Youth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Thick octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $5200. First edition of the sequel to Look Homeward, Angel, inscribed in the year of publication, "For Stephanie Skrent. Sincerely, with best wishes, Thomas Wolfe. Sept. 21, 1935." "On the night of the 14th of December [1933], at about half-past eleven, Wolfe arrived customarily late ... more information

1990. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (PHOTOGRAPHY) EVANS, Walker and CHRISTENBERRY, William. Of Time & Place. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1990. Quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. $150. First edition, issue in wrappers, of this comparison of Evans' and Christenberry's photographic studies of Hale County, Alabama, with 26 black-and-white photographs by both (including several of Evans' iconic portraits) and 28 in color by Christenberry. From the collection of acclaime... more information

1703. PUFENDORF, Samuel. Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. London: J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, et al., 1729. Folio, modern beige cloth, raised bands, printed paper spine label. $1600. Fourth edition in English of Pufendorf's landmark work on the law of nature and nations, De Jure Naturae et Gentium, containing for the first time the notes and prefatory discourse of Jean Barbeyrac, Pufendorf's French translator. A landmark in the German Enlightenment, "the De Jure Naturae is a large w... more information

1875. [FISHER, Captain Robert J.]. Officers of the United States: Army and Navy: Prisoners of War. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. [Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger, 1864]. Broadside measures approximately 24 inches by 31 inches, handsomely framed. $4500. Handsome engraved broadside listing officers imprisoned at Libby Prison in Richmond, "the most notorious prison after Andersonville" (Boatner, 482). Contains at top center a Union war eagle nestled in the Stars and Stripes; four separate cartouches ... more information

1946. FIRST EDITION. SPINK, J.G. Taylor. Official Pro Rules [cover title]. St. Louis: C.C. Spink & Son, 1946. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. $160. First edition of Spink's early football rule book, featuring a biography of Amos Alonzo Stagg by Francis J. Powers, with numerous photographs. "John George Taylor Spink began his journalistic career as a teenage copyboy at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Within months he moved to his father's sports weekly, The Sporting News, and quickly prog... more information

1948. FIRST EDITION. SPINK, J.G. Taylor. Official National League Football Pro Record and Rule Book. St. Louis: C.C. Spink & Son, 1948. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. $160. First edition of Spink's early football record and rule book, featuring a biography of Frank Leahy by Charlie Callahan, with numerous photographs. "John George Taylor Spink began his journalistic career as a teenage copyboy at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Within months he moved to his father's sports weekly, The S... more information

2006. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FALCONER, Ian. Olivia Forms a Band. New York: Anne Schwartz—Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (2006). Slim quarto, original pictorial white paper boards, patterned endpapers, original dust jacket. $1100. First edition of the fourth book in Falconer's delightful series, signed on the title page by the author-illustrator. "With perfectly nuanced dialogue and a mixture of comical and artful scenes, Falconer explores the logic, invention and humor emanating from a t... more information

1955. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SEUSS, Dr. On Beyond Zebra. New York: Random House, (1955). Quarto, original pictorial boards, original dust jacket. $6500. First edition of Seuss' paean to free thinking, warmly inscribed by him on the verso of the front free endpaper to the children of Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, "For Cris and Tandy whose parents I admire so much. Best wishes—Dr. Seuss." "The story of the boy whose philosophy is 'most people stop with the Z but not me!' en... more information

1845. FIRST EDITION. STEENSTRUP, Johannes Japetus Sm. On the Alternation of Generations; or, The Propagation and Development of Animals throughout Alternate Generations: A Peculiar Form of Fostering the Young in the Lower Classes of Animals. London: Ray Society, 1845. Octavo, original blind-and gilt-stamped navy cloth, top edge gilt. $500. Rare first edition in English of the first treatise on metagenesis, with three folding illustrated tables. "The first comprehensive presentation of the phenomenon... more information

1923. SIGNED. HUGHES, Langston. On the Dusty Road. Poem by Langston Hughes. Music by Hall Johnson. On a Theme by Toy Harper. New York: Independent Music Publishers, [circa 1923]. Sheet music. Five leaves measuring approximately 11 by 14 inches. $1800. Piano and vocal arrangement for Hughes' poem "On the Dusty Road," boldly inscribed: "For Edward Stewart - Sincerely - Langston Hughes." The arranger, violinist Hall Johnson, set a number of Hughes' poems to music. "Aunt"... more information

1826. FIRST EDITION. SOMERVILLE, Mary. On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays. IN: Philosophical Transactions… for the Year 1826. Part II, pp.132-139. London: W. Nicol, 1826. Quarto, contemporary full marbled calf rebacked at an early date, red morocco spine label, later endpapers. $3500. First edition of the first published paper by "one of the foremost women of science of the 19th century" (DSB), the report of experiments she designed and carried out on the magnetizin... more information