Slavery and the Constitution
by BOWDITCH William I.
1849. First Edition. BOWDITCH, William I. Slavery and the Constitution. Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1849. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt, black morocco spine label; pp. (iv), (1), 2-156. $2100.First edition of abolitionist attorney Bowditch's incendiary 1849 work declaring the Constitution a proslavery document, defiantly announcing""we are a nation of slaveholders""a crucial work in the highly public dispute that split apart Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.""To this day historians argue about the relationship of slavery to the Constitution""... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Boxiana
by EGAN Pierce BOXING
1823. EGAN, Pierce. Boxiana; or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism. London: Sherwood, Jones and Company, 1823-29. Five volumes. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $3000.Early edition of this boxing classic, with 50 engraved plates, including an engraved vignette title page in Volume I, 45 portraits, and four folding plates of boxing matches, handsomely bound by Bayntun.Egan was probably one of boxing's most enthusiastic and ardent disciples. Egan devotes a major part... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Writings
by HARTE Bret
1896. Signed. HARTE, Bret. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1896). Nineteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $4800.Autograph Edition of Hartes tales, essays and poems, number 31 of 350 sets signed and dated by him, illustrated with vignette title pages, 103 engraved platesincluding one signed by Frederic Remingtonand two-page color map of the Pacific coast, very handsomely bound.With the success... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Writings
by HARTE Bret
1896. Signed. HARTE, Bret. The Writings. WITH: MERWIN, Henry Childs. The Life of Bret Harte. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1896-1914); 1911. Together, twenty-one volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, covers, and full morocco doublures, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $9500.""Autograph Edition"" of Hartes tales, essays and poems, number 336 of 350 sets signed and dated by him, illustrated with vignette title pages, 103 engraved platesincluding one signed... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Iraq in War Time
by PHILBY Harry St. John Bridger
1918. First Edition. PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger. 'Iraq in War Time. Basrah, Iraq: Government Press, circa 1918. Slim folio (10 by 13-1/2 inches), original gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth. $4200.Second edition of the first Western book to be published on Iraq and Najd (a region encompassing the center of Saudi Arabia), lavishly photo-illustrated with a section of Saudi Arabian photographs taken by Harry Philby.This photographic survey of Iraq and Saudi Arabia is divided into four parts: 1. ""Groups and... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Negro American Family
by DU BOIS W. E. B. DU BOIS W. E. Burghardt
1908. First Edition. DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt, ed. The Negro American Family. Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta University Press, 1908 (i.e. 1909). Octavo, original printed gray self-wrappers; pp. 156. $1600.First edition of a pivotal work edited by Du Bois in the landmark Atlanta University Publication Series directed by him, fundamental to his creation of ""the first American school of sociology,"" with 16 pages of illustrations, rare in original wrappers.Du Bois sought ""virtually every possible solution to the problem of 20th-century... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Negro Church
by DU BOIS W. E. B. CROMWELL Adelaide DU BOIS W. E. Burghardt
1903. First Edition. Signed. DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt. The Negro Church. Report of a Social Study made under the direction of Atlanta University; together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903. Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903. Octavo, original printed gray self-wrappers respined; pp. 212. $2800.First edition of a rare association copy of Du Bois' groundbreaking work on the Black Church, with owner signature of... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Efforts for Social Betterment among Negro Americans
by DU BOIS W. E. B. DU BOIS W. E. BURGHARDT
1909. First Edition. DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt, ed. Efforts for Social Betterment among Negro Americans. A Social Study made by Atlanta University, under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund. Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1909 (i.e. 1910). Octavo, original printed gray self-wrappers; pp. 136. $1500.First edition of a major work edited by Du Bois in the landmark Atlanta University Publication Series directed by him, central to his creation of ""the first American school of... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Quick Brown Fox
by BURNETT W. R.
1942. First Edition. Signed. BURNETT, W.R. The Quick Brown Fox. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Burnett's novel about terrorists in a small Midwestern town, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title: ""For Myrtle Eaton, with sincere best wishes, W.R. Burnett.""W.R. (William Riley) Burnett ""is an important and original writer he may be the single most successful writer on the notion of the criminal as... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton
by BURTON Isabel BURTON Richard F.
1893. First Edition. (BURTON, Richard) BURTON, Isabel. Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton, K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S. London: Chapman and Hall, 1893. Two volumes. Octavo, later three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and navy morocco spine labels, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. $1850.First edition of Isabel Burtons biography of her famous husband, with frontispiece portraits, 17 full-page plates (two in color), five maps, and numerous in-text illustrations.It has been said of Captain Richard Burton that ""the whole... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome...
by BURTON Richard F.
1864. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F. Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of the Called ""Amazons,"" The Grand Customs, The Yearly Customs, The Human Sacrifices, The Present State of the Slave Trade. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter olive morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $4500.First edition of this account of Burtons last major expedition in West Africa, handsomely bound by Morrell.In late 1863, while serving as British Consul in... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
by BURTON Richard F.
1864. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of the So Called ""Amazons,"" The Grand Customs, The Yearly Customs, The Human Sacrifices, The Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. Two volumes. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter tan calf, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine labels, top edges gilt, uncut. $4500.First edition of this account of Burtons last major expedition in West Africa, handsomely bound.In late... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Kasidah
by BURTON Richard F.
1894. [BURTON, Richard F.]. The Kasîdah (Couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F.B. London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Slim quarto, original black cloth, top edge gilt, uncut; pp. [8], 42, [1]. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2200.Limited second edition of this distillation of Sufi thought, generally considered to have been written by Burton, rather than just translated by him as claimed on the title pagecopy number... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Poems of Lord Byron
by BYRON
1923. BYRON. Poems of Lord Byron. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. Octavo, 20th-century full blue morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards with Cosway-style portrait on front board, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $10000.Handsomely printed edition of Byron's poems, beautifully bound by Asprey in a Cosway-style binding with a portrait inset on the front board. Cosway bindings (named in 1909 for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were the brainchild of John Harrison Stonehouse, managing director of... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Don Juan
by BYRON
1819. First Edition. BYRON. Don Juan. London: Thomas Davison [i.e., John Murray], 1819-21 (Cantos I-V, Volumes I-II); John Hunt (Cantos VI-XVI, Volumes III-VI), 1823-24. Six volumes bound in three. Quarto (Volume I) and octavo (Volumes II-III), quarto: 19th-century three-quarter polished tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut; octavos: modern, similarly styled three-quarter polished tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $17,000.Scarce first editions of... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Poetical Works
by SHELLEY Percy Bysshe
1839. First Edition. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1839. Four volumes. 12mo, later full dark green calf, raised bands, tan and rust morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges. $4000.First edition of Mary Shelleys important edition of her husbands poetical works, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the poet by Finden, finely bound..After Percy Shelley's death in 1822, Mary Shelley devoted herself to writing his... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Contraception
by STOPES Marie Carmichael
1923. First Edition. STOPES, Marie Carmichael. Contraception. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1923. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.First edition of the first British textbook on the theory, history, and provision of birth control by birth control advocate and sexologist Marie Stopes, the author of Married Love, in very scarce original dust jacket.""As a scientist, [Marie] Stopes is still a figure of some interest. Her major claim to fame, however, rests on her work as birth... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Fads and Fancies
by HARRISON Constance Cary
1905. First Edition. HARRISON, Constance Cary. Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Being a Portrayal of their Tastes, Diversions, and Achievements. New York: Town Topics, 1905. Large folio (16 by 12 inches), publisher's full dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, covers and dentelles, raised bands, green watered-silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in original felt-lined wooden box with latches. $5000.First and only edition of this beautifully bound, printed, and illustrated work, with... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Autograph letter signed
by WEIZMANN Chaim
1925. Signed. WEIZMANN, Chaim. Autograph letter signed. Oakwood, London, January 31, 1925. Single sheet of booklet-style letterhead, measuring 5-1/4 by 7 inches; pp. 2 (with text). $4250.Wonderful autograph signed letter, dated 1925, from the first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, to his ex-fiancee, pathologist Sophia Sonia Getzova, discussing difficulty installing a director at a medical institute and noting discussions about the issue with Albert Einstein. Text in Russian.The letter, written on ""Oakwood 16. Addison Crescent"" stationery and dated ""Jan.... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Creature Comforts
by ADDAMS Charles
1981. First Edition. Signed. ADDAMS, Charles. Creature Comforts. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). Tall, slim quarto, original half orange cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $4700.First edition, first printing, of this collection of Addams cartoons, inscribed to actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and his wife, with a pen-and-ink drawing to the fly-leaf depicting Addams famed character Uncle Fester flashing himself under a rain coat; appearing as a tattoo on Uncle Festers chest is the inscription, To Marydee [in red... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
by BUKOWSKI Charles
1979. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI, Charles. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. Octavo, original half red cloth, original acetate dust jacket. $1750.First limited signed hardcover edition, number 49 of 100 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, illustrated with an original signed silkscreen of a Bukowski drawing and additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page.First edition: Collected poems from some of the... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
by BUKOWSKI Charles
1986. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI, Charles. You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. Octavo, original half violet cloth, original acetate dust jacket. $2200.Signed limited first edition, number 34 of only 100 special copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray and featuring an original signed silkscreen print of an illustration by Charles Bukowski, additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page.In this collection of poetry, an aging Bukowski looks back... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Roominghouse Madrigals
by BUKOWSKI Charles
1988. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Roominghouse Madrigals. Early Selected Poems 1946-1966. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988. Octavo, original half yellow cloth with paper spine label, original acetate dust jacket. $950.Signed limited first edition, number 120 of 400 special hardcover copies signed by the author with his signature sketch of a smoking man holding a bottle, along with a flower and a dog.Characterized by its dark tone, surprising lyricism and complex use of metaphor, this collection of Bukowski's... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
by BUKOWSKI Charles
1972. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Octavo, original half brown cloth. $1950.Signed limited first edition of this poetry collection, number 68 of 250 copies signed by Bukowski.""Bukowskis writings presented a vision of America starkly different from other celebratory accounts of post-World War II prosperity. Barflies, whores, and vengeful managers populated his pages. But at the same time, he made the down-and-out, crapulous life seem romantic"" (ANB). Also issued in a... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Autograph letter signed
by DARWIN Charles
1866. Signed. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph letter signed. Down, Beckenham, Kent: Dec 17, [1866]. One leaf of black-edged mourning stationery, measuring 4-1/2 by 7 inches, penned on recto for one page; floated, matted and framed with an early photographic card; entire piece measures 17 by 14 inches. $29,500.Fine unpublished 1866 autograph letter written by Charles Darwin, answering the questions of an anonymous correspondent concerning editions of his landmark work, On the Origin of Species, boldly signed by him with his... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books