Titles starting with U from Bauman Rare Books

1869. FIRST EDITION. MENDELEEV, Dmitrii. Ueber die Beziehungen der Eigenschaften zu den Atomgewichten der Elemente. IN: Zeitschrift für Chemie, 1869, Vol. 12, pp. 405-06. Leipzig: Von Quandt & Händel, 1869. Octavo, modern full maroon morocco gilt, raised bands. $4800. First edition in German, preceded only by the nearly unobtainable Russian first, of Mendeleev's landmark paper providing the basis of the Periodic Law, as it originally appeared in the renowned German journal Zeitschrift f&... more information

1975. FIRST EDITION. WOLFF, Tobias. Ugly Rumours. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $1800. First edition, one of reportedly less than 1000 copies printed. Wolff's first novel concerns a Special Forces lieutenant and a sergeant serving as advisors to a Vietnamese Infantry Division. Ugly Rumours was never published in the United States and Wolff has refused to list it among his "previous publications." His 1994 memoir, In Pharoah's... more information

1829. (JUDAICA) (NICHOLAS I). Printed proclamation. Ukaz… o sredstvakh k umensheniyu v Kurlyandii i Liflyandi chisla Yevreyev (Concerning the dimunition of the number of Jews in Courland and Livonia). (St. Petersburg): from the Governing Senate, May 24, 1829. Folio, three pages, modern paper wrappers; custom boxed. $3500. An important and extremely rare original printed document relating to the Jewish history of the Baltic provinces: a proclamation listing the regulations issued by Emperor Nicholas I... more information

1973. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. BONINGTON, Chris. The Ultimate Challenge. The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World. New York: Stein and Day, (1973). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $325. First edition, richly illustrated with photographs and signed by Bonington and fellow master climber Doug Scott. In The Ultimate Challenge Bonington recounts his first attempt at mastering the Southwest face of Everest in 1972, an expedition that came within 600 feet of the summit before turni... more information

1961. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. WAUGH, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender. London: Chapman & Hall, 1961. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $4600. First edition to the final work in Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, signed by him on the title page. The Sword of Honour trilogy, a fictionalized account of Waugh's experiences in World War I, is considered by many to be his best work, and is routinely counted among the best depictions of the war. Unconditional Surrender, the last volume ... more information

1965. FIRST EDITION. (GÖDEL, Kurt von) (POST, Emil Leon) DAVIS, Martin, editor. The Undecidable: Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems and Computable Functinos. Hewlett, New York: Raven Press, (1965). Octavo, original blue cloth gilt, original dust jacket. $1450. First edition of this anthology of "fundamental papers dealing with undecidability and unsolvability," including the first appearance in book form of Gödel's critical 1934 lectures on general recurs... more information

1911. HOLMES, Daniel Henry. Under a Fool's Cap: Songs. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1911. Small, slim octavo, contemporary full olive morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $250. Second edition of Holmes' first book of poetry, one of only 900 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, handsomely bound. Inspired by traditional songs and nursery rhymes such as "Old King Cole" and "Humpty-Dumpty," the charming poems Holmes includes here in his first book are meant to... more information

1996. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. LEAR, Bill and Moya. Bill and Moya Lear: An Unforgettable Flight. Reno: Jack Bacon, 1996. Octavo, original full black calf gilt, marbled endpapers, original full calf slipcase. $6500. Signed limited first edition, one of only 20 copies for presentation, signed by Moya Olsen Lear, Buzz Aldrin, Gerald Ford, and Learjet test pilots Hank Beaird and Clay Lacy, with the clipped signature of William Lear laid in. This copy specially bound by the publisher in full calf and housed in p... more information

1899. FIRST EDITION. (WERNER COMPANY, publisher) WAGNER, Arthur L.; KELLEY, J.D. Jerrold. The United States Army and Navy. Akron: Werner Company, 1899. Large oblong folio (18 by 14 inches), publisher's leatherette gilt with pictorial vignettes on front cover, all edges gilt. $2200. First edition, with 43 vivid color lithographs of battle scenes, soldiers and sailors in uniform, and navy vessels in action. "The Werner Company of Akron seems to have been at the forefront of new developments in pri... more information

1816. FIRST EDITION. GREEN, Thomas. The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Liverpool: Henry Fisher (Caxton Press, London), 1816-20. Two volumes. Thick quarto, late 19th-century maroon cloth gilt. $2500. First edition of this "account of all the known plants in the world," with engraved frontispieces and title page, and 106 rich botanical plates (most of which are hand-colored), many by Merian and Ehret. Describing the various uses to which plants can be put, ... more information

SIGNED. (SEGOVIA, Andrés) KOBUNE, Kojiro. Untitled sonata. No place, no date. Quarto, unbound; pp. 9. $700. Autograph manuscript, presentation copy, of this three-section sonata for guitar, inscribed on the first page of each section: "To A. Segovia. Kojiro Kobune." An untitled sonata in three sections identified only as "allegro," "andante," and "allegretto" by the famous Japanese classical guitarist and composer Kojiro Kobune. Segovia and Kojiro Kobune sha... more information

1953. BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Urformen der Kunst. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, (1953). Quarto, original cream cloth, original dust jacket. $950. Later edition of Blossfeldt's first collection of his highly influential photographs. With 96 full-page photographic images. In Berlin during the 1920s, Karl Blossfeldt produced over 6000 botanical photographs. "The close-ups and macro-photographs of plants published in his book Urformen der Kunst… derived from a scientific approach applied to art. Thes... more information