Titles starting with S from Bauman Rare Books

1919. GALSWORTHY, John. Saint's Progress. London: William Heinemann, 1919. Octavo, original gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth. Housed in custom half red morocco slipcase. $350. First edition of Galsworthy's sense of the aftermath of "the cursed war." John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, originally trained as a marine lawyer. A chance encounter with Joseph Conrad (who became a lifelong friend) and the encouragement of his future wife turned him to writing. Galsw... more information

1870. (GARFIELD, James) HUNT, T. Sterry, et al. [Bound collection of 13 pamphlets relating to the production and taxation of salt]. Montreal, et al.: Dawson, et al., 1870-72. Thirteen pamphlets bound in one volume. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco rebacked to match original, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $2500. Interesting, annotated collection of pamphlets relating to the mining, manufacture and imposition of duties on salt, compiled and bound together for then-Congressman J... more information

1948. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. COCTEAU, Jean. Le Sang d'un Poète. Film. [Paris]: Robert Marin, (1948). Octavo, original tan paper wrappers, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800. Limited first edition ("l'edition originale") of the book version of Cocteau's first film, number 566 of 2900 copies, this copy wonderfully inscribed by Cocteau on the half title with a large original sketch of a face, "Á Worth Durham, souvenir d'amity française, Jean Coc... more information

1897. DAUDET, Alphonse. Sapho: Parisian Customs. Translated by T. F. Rogerson. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, (1897). Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. $400. Limited edition, number 970 of 1000 copies on Japanese vellum paper, with ten etchings by Eugene Abot and Albert Duvivier in double suite, with one of each suite on India paper, and drawings by Stanislas Rejchan. First published in France in 1884, Daudet's no... more information

1964. SIGNED. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus. The Satyricon. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Tall octavo, original half vellum, original slipcase. $225. Limited Editions Club Satyricon, one of only 1500 copies illustrated and signed by Antonio Sotomayor. "It is the picture of a man who disguised real abilities and independence under a cloak of languid aestheticism, who hated shams, rhetoric, and theatrical gestures, who looked on life steadily and accurately." Translated by William Burnaby, in... more information

1975. SIGNED. FORD, Gerald R. Scratch notes on a proposed structure for speeches, directed to White House speechwriter Paul Theis. Washington: White House, 1975. Two original sheets of yellow legal pad, written on rectos. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3500. Original hand-written outline of a speechwriting concept, jotted down by Ford after hearing an address in Congress (probably by Rep. Louis Wyman). Once belonging to speechwriter Paul A. Theis. Gerald Ford served as President during one of the mos... more information

1979. SIGNED. (STAPLETON, Jean) SHEA, Patt and WEISS, Harriett. Script inscribed (Archie Bunker's Place, "Edith Gets Hired"). Los Angeles: Tandem Productions, August 9, 1979. Quarto, 36 leaves, typing on rectos only, three-hole punched, unbound. $450. Working script (final draft dated August 9, 1979) used by cast and crew of the episode "Edith Gets Hired" of the television series Archie Bunker's Place, inscribed on the cover page, "Warmest Wishes, Jean Stapleton." &q... more information

1968. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The Seance and Other Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1968). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $600. First edition of this collection of 16 "psychological" short stories, inscribed, "With my greetings, I.B. Singer." Singer's fifth collection of short stories includes the title story and fifteen others. "Singer's stories are compulsively readable; they unwind with a dazzling swiftness…... more information

1811. THOMSON, James. The Seasons… To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by P. Murdoch… and an Essay on the Plan and Character of the Poem, by J. Aikin. London: Printed for Wilkie and Robinson, et al., 1811. Small octavo, early full maroon straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with fore-edge painting. Housed in custom cloth slipcase. $1400. Handsomely bound later edition, with a lovely fore-edge painting o... more information

1970. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. (MARCOS, Ferdinand) MARAMAG, Ileana. The Second Marcos Inaugural. (Printed in Japan: Toppan Printing Company, 1970). Quarto, original blue cloth gilt, original dust jacket. $1200. First edition of this commemoration of Philippine president (later dictator) Ferdinand Marcos' second inauguration, abundantly illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs (many full-page), inscribed by Marcos to award-winning foreign reporter Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and his wife, "... more information

1900. (ROYALTY). Secret Court Memoirs. WITH: Historic Court Memoirs. Paris and Boston: The Grolier Society, circa 1900. Twenty volumes in all. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt; uncut and partially unopened. $2500. Edition de Grand Luxe, number 669 of only 1000 sets, lavishly illustrated with over 160 tissue-guarded portraits and plates (etchings, photogravures, mezzotints, etc.). The set consists of memoirs of the courts of Napole... more information

1859. (JUDAICA—MISHNAH). Sefer Pirke Avot [The Sayings of the Fathers]. Trattato di Abot o Sentenze Morali dei Rabbini, Tradotte dall'Ebraico da I. Costa. Livorno: Solomon Belforte, 1859. 12mo, modern blue buckram. $1250. Nineteenth-century Livorno edition of the Sayings of the Fathers, in Hebrew with Italian translation by I. Costa, printed by Solomon Belforte. "Livorno also became a center of Hebrew printing… Sixteen printers set up in Livorno between 1763 and 1870, the most importan... more information

1738. (BINDING) DURAN, Simeon ben Zemah, et al. Sefer ha-Tashbets. Amsterdam: Be-vet ha-rofe Naftali Hirts Levi ben Ziskind Levi, 1738-39. Four volumes in one. Small, thick folio, contemporary full Dutch vellum, paneled and mottled with rose and green stains, rose center panel decorated with gilt corner stamps and centerpieces representing Moses and Abraham. $5200. Handsome Dutch stained vellum paneled binding, with gilt centerpieces depicting Moses with the tablets and Abraham sacrificing Isaac, on Simeo... more information

1960. KNOWLES, John. A Separate Peace. New York: Macmillan, 1960. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $800. First American edition of Knowles' first book, his critically celebrated and commericially successful story of "loyalty, cruelty, betrayal and original sin" (New York Times). Though an American author, Knowles traveled extensively in Europe during the 1950s. His first novel, the story of two students' competitive friendship at a New England preparatory school during... more information

2003. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. RUFF, Matt. Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls. (New York): HarperCollins, (2003). Octavo, original blue half cloth, original dust jacket. $150. First edition, signed by Matt Ruff, with his customary "Kilroy" drawing. Ruff's critically acclaimed third novel about two people with multiple personality disorder. "With Set This House in Order Matt Ruff… establishes himself as a novelist of great achievement and distinction. This is a stunning, th... more information

1874. EASTMAN, Edwin and JOHNSON, Clark. Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography. Jersey City: Clark Johnson, 1874. Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in blind and black. $365. Second edition of this "fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup… with considerable garbling from Catlin" (Ayer, 29), with frontispiece portrait and seven full-page wood-engravings. First published a year earlier, Eastman's tale includes a... more information

1910. HEARN, Lafcadio. Shadowings. Boston: Little, Brown, 1910. Octavo, original blue cloth. $150. Second edition of this collection of Japanese tales and essays by Orientalist Hearn. Journalist and translator Lafcadio Hearn traveled to Japan in 1890 to write an article for Harper's. He never returned to the U.S., instead becoming one of the most renowned western authors of Japan of his day. His goal was "to create, in the minds of the readers, a vivid impression of living in Japan—not simp... more information

1976. FIRST EDITION. NELSON, Byron. Shape Your Swing the Modern Way. (Norwalk, Connecticut): Golf Digest, (1976). Slim quarto, original brown cloth gilt, original dust jacket. $225. First edition of this instructional guide to the modern swing, illustrated with stop-action photographs and 18 drawings by Anthony Ravielli. Considered by many golf historians to have perfected the first modern swing, PGA Tour player and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Byron Nelson was one of the finest golfers of his day. H... more information

1912. SIGNED. (THOMSON, Hugh) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Folio, original full vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated cover and spine, yellow satin ribbon ties. $1200. Limited illustrated edition, number 146 of 350 copies signed by Thomson, with 25 mounted color plates and 14 in-text line cuts. "Thomson's career was providentially sustained by the development of the color plate… [beginning] in 1909 with the public... more information