Bauman Rare Books

First Edition. CARLE, Eric. Watch Out! A Giant! Cleveland and New York: Collins World, 1978. Quarto, original pictorial boards. $950.First edition, inscribed on the half title by the author/illustrator, "Love, Eric Carle."Beautiful pictures, easy words, and lots of action make this a delight for any child just learning to read. Ingeniously die-cut pages add to the fun of t deliciously scary (but not too frightening) story with a cozily happy ending." Issued without a dust jacket. One flap roughly and incompletely opened, residue from removed sticker on front free endpaper; boards bright and fresh. An attractive copy of the scarce first edition, desirable signed. Signed.

First Edition. THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. (London): HarperCollins, (1995). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First trade edition of Thatcher's memoir of her early life, inscribed on the title page in Thatcher's characteristic blue ink: "To Jayne with all good wishes. Margaret Thatcher."This autobiographical account, published following 1993's The Downing Street Years, relates the story of Lady Thatcher's early life and the beginnings of her political career. With 38 pages of photographic illustrations. Also issued in a signed limited edition of 500 copies. Fine condition. Signed.

First Edition. (STARK, Freya) LA VALLE, Francesco, editor. Freya Stark in Asolo. Asolo: Magnifica Comunita Pedemontana del Piave al Brenta, 1984. Octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers. $950.First edition of this richly photo-illustrated work about Middle Eastern traveler and photographer Freya Stark's life in Asolo, Italy, signed on the half title by Freya Stark with a stamp affirming that Stark signed it for an event in Asolo in the year of publication. Text in English and Italian.This bilingual (English-Italian) book was produced as a tribute to Middle Eastern traveler Freya Stark's life in Asolo, Italy, which she claimed as her home for many years. Published slightly after Stark's 91st birthday, this book includes pictures of Stark's friends and Stark's travels, as well as essays by Francesco La Valle (the editor of this work and president of the local community) and the Italian travel writer Cino Boccazzi. According to her Italian admirers, Stark was "among the last of those illustrious foreigners who loved this area so much that they chose it as their second home" (p. 41). This copy is signed by Freya Stark and bears a stamp just above her signature confirming that she signed it in the year of publication for the event celebrating her in Asolo. Laid in is a typed letter from Dr. William Gunn to Asolo community president Francesco La Valle thanking him for an invitation to "the ceremonies of Homage to Freya Stark" in Asolo and confirming that he plans to attend with his wife. Stark was close friends with Gunn and his wife, Jean, during her later years. Dr. Gunn was the founder of the European Centre for Disaster Medicine, former Director of Emergency Humanitarian Operations for the WHO, and author of nearly two dozen monographs on humanitarian relief.Interior quite nice, only light wear to extremities of wrappers. A near-fine signed copy. Signed.

(AVIGNONLAW) NICCOLINO, Francisco Abbate. Statuta Inclytae Civitatis Avenionis. Avenione [Avignon]: Laurent Lemolt, 1680. Quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands. $950.Rare 17th-century Latin edition of the statutes of the town of Avignon, printed in Avignon, in contemporary calf-gilt. While most of the text is in Latin, the chapter on bakers and bread (26)detailing permissible weights and pricesis in French. Chapter 34 contains laws regarding the Jews of Avignon.From 1309-77, during the Avignon Papacy, seven successive popes resided in Avignon. In 1348 Pope Clement VI actually bought the town from Joanna I of Naples. The town remained under papal control until 1791 when, during the French Revolution, it became part of France. Editions were also published in 1570 and 1612. Text in Latin. Front inner hinge expertly repaired, minor foxing to text. Light rubbing and wear to sound and attractive contemporary calf binding, gilt bright. A handsome volume.

First Edition. CAMPBELL, John Campbell. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Mansfield. London: John Murray, 1849. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full calf gilt, spines elaborately gilt-decorated, raised bands, black and red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. $950.First edition of John Lord Campbell's important biographies, handsomely bound.Written following his Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Campbell's Lives of the Chief Justices offer "invaluable sources of information about these great English judges" (Catalogue of the Law Collection at NYU, 151). This is the first edition, in two volumes as originally issued. Minor foxing to first and last few pages; leather showing slight traces of wear. A handsomely bound set of this classic legal work.

THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, (2000). Slim folio, original orange cloth, mounted cover illustration, original slipcase, original shipping carton. $950.Signed limited edition of Kay Thompson's fourth Eloise book, number 36 of 300 copies signed by illustrator Hilary Knight.A highlight of this, the last Eloise title to be published in author Kay Thompson's lifetime (the first edition appeared in 1959), is the fold-out color illustration of the Kremlin. Fine condition. Signed.

First Edition. FORD, Gerald R. Humor and the Presidency. New York: Arbor House, (1987). Octavo, original half white paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First edition, inscribed: "To Charles Kelly, best wishes, Gerald R. Ford."An anecdotal account of humorous incidents in the lives of presidents, illustrated with classic and contemporary political cartoons. Fine condition. Signed.

First Edition. (KARAKORAM) VISSER-HOOFT, Jenny. Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925. London: Edward Arnold, 1926. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Visser-Hooft's account of her and her husband's expedition to the Karakoram Mountains, richly illustrated with two maps (one folding), and 25 photographic plates.Dutch climber Visser-Hooft learned to climb in the Alps before World War I. After the war, from 1922-35, she and her husband Philip Visser conducted four expeditions in the forbidding and then-largely-unexplored Karakoram mountain range. She was a member of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society and the Dutch Alpine Club. Neate 861. A bit of faint foxing, chiefly marginal, to text; plates fine. Cloth clean and fine, gilt bright. Scarce original dust jacket with a bit of edge-wear and a few small tape repairs on verso, very good. A desirable copy.

First Edition. LE BLOND, Guillaume. A Treatise of Artillery: or, of the Arms and Machines Used in War Since the Invention of Gunpowder. Being the First Part of Le Blond's Elements of War. London: E. Cave, 1746. Quarto, later burgundy and black cloth rebacked and recornered. $950.First edition in English of French military historian Le Blond's respected treatise on military artillery, with 50 copper-engraved artillery-related illustrations on 14 folding plates.Guillaume Le Blond was an 18th-century professor of mathematics, first as part of the grand stable of the King and later for the French royal children, particularly the children of Louis XIV. He was also a talented military historian. This work focuses on the history (and effectiveness) of artillery, from guns to bombs and features informative copper-engraved illustrations depicting specific types of military weapons. As this was one of the major 18th-century military treatises as well as a standard educational text, this work was undoubtedly used by officers in the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. The first edition was published in French in 1743. The second part of this work (also translated) was not published until 1748 and is quite rare; the first volume, taken alone, is considered a collectible first edition. With advertisement on final leaf of text. Occasional mispagination as issued. ESTC T133610. Early ink owner signature on title page. Date of publication written under roman numeral date on title page. Evidence of bookplate removal.A few tiny tears to preliminary and concluding pages, very light scattered foxing and a few minor stains to interior, only minor wear to binding. An extremely good copy.

First Edition. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. Thy Neighbour's Wife. London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of the author's first novel, inscribed: "To Leslie Shandy from Liam O'Flaherty."Called "the finest Irish writer of his generation" by John Banville in the Irish Times, O'Flaherty developed a style that combined an appreciation for the beauty of Ireland's natural landscape with a willingness to confront the brutality of Irish life. In Thy Neighbour's Wife, O'Flaherty writes about the Aran Islands from the perspective of a native. Ex-library, with small sticker and stamp on dust jacket flap.Book about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to extremities and slight toning to spine. A near-fine inscribed copy. Signed.

First Edition. DAGROSA, John. A Complete Bibliography of Football. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Football Institute, 1935. Slim octavo, original printed beige paper wrappers. $950.First edition of this 1930s bibliography of works on American football, boldly signed on the title page by early football coach and Pennsylvania Athletic Commissioner John DaGrosa.Covering football writing from the late 1800s to 1935, this bibliography offers sections on nonfiction football books, football novels, and football newspaper and magazine articles. Author John DaGrosa was a Colgate University football player who later coached at Georgetown, Temple, and Holy Cross as well as for the Eagles. DaGrosa was also Pennsylvania Athletic Commissioner from 1949 to 1953, the year he died. Interior generally quite nice, just a couple tiny spots of soiling to wrappers, mild toning to rear wrapper. A handsome copy in near-fine condition. Signed.

First Edition. (BARBIER, George) LE GALLIENNE, Richard. The Romance of Perfume. New York and Paris: Richard Hudnut (William Edwin Rudge), 1928. Slim octavo, original illustrated white paper boards, uncut; original cardboard slipcase. $950.First edition of this beautiful color-illustrated volume on perfume, with a laid-in pamphlet advertising Richard Hudnut's Paris perfumery.Doubtless published to commemorate the opening of Richard Hudnut's perfumery in Paris, this lovely book is accompanied by a special pamphlet (in pocket at rear) entitled "At 20 Rue de la Paix," advertising Hudnut's shop. Le Gallienne's delightful text celebrates the cultural and ceremonial uses of perfume throughout the ages. Both the book and pamphlet contain color plates by famous Art Deco artist and costume designer George Barbier. Renowned for his fashion plates in leading contemporary magazines, including the Gazette du Bon Ton and Vogue, Barbier's artistic style is readily identifiable by his elegant, stylized line. "He was the most sought-after costume designer in Paris, recognized as the theatrical artist who better than any other had captured the mood of the age" (Gordon Ray). "It will just take a few drawings of Barbier to revive the taste and spirit of our time" (Edmond Jaloux). With original slipcase, often not present; without scarce original box. Interior clean and fine, small stain to rear board, spine mildly toned. Some wear and repairs to slipcase, typically not present. A near-fine copy of this lovely production.

First Edition. ANDERSON, Benjamin McAlester. The Value of Money. New York: Macmillan, 1917. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $950.First edition, advance review copy, of this "devastating critique of leading American economist Irving Fisher's quantity theory of money" (ANB)."In 1917 [Anderson] published The Value of Money, a devastating critique of leading American economist Irving Fisher's quantity theory of money, which used a mechanical approach common in the neoclassical school of economics. Building on his concept of social value, Anderson constructed a 'psychological' theory of money that emphasized the quality and the quantity of money and credit. Hazlitt labeled the book 'one of the classics of American economic writings" (ANB). Anderson was a lifelong member of the Austrian School and he devoted much of his life to continuing Ludwig von Mises' work of integrating monetary theory into a general theory of value. Though Mises was regularly excoriated by Anderson, Mises remained largely complimentary toward Anderson's work and once called him "one of the outstanding characters in this age of the supremacy of time-servers." Advance Review Copy with publisher's embossed bookstamp to title page. Small inkstamp of Psychological Bulletin with deaccession mark above title page. Owner signature of economist Olin S. Pugh.Spine a bit toned. A near-fine copy.

(EROTICA) MATHERS, E. Powys (translator). Eastern Love. New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). Three volumes. Octavo, original half vellum gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $950.Limited edition, number 1050 of 1500 copies, of this collection of Asian erotic literature, with 16 color plates by Franz Felix.With a "Notice to Booksellers and Individual Subscribers" tipped into Volume I. "This extraordinary collection of Oriental Folk Lore, ancient, medieval and modern, is offered to Booksellers and Subscribers with the advice of the Publishers that they maintain an attitude of circumspection regarding the sale and possession of this work. The publication of Eastern Love in England and America fills a long felt need for a scholarly translation of and commentary on one of the most important interpretations of the manners and customs relating to the love life of various Oriental peoples. The fine scholarship of Mr. E. Powys Mathers has never been used to better advantage than in his preparation of this text. With skill he avoids the pitfalls of salaciousness and vulgarity, leaving his text to remain, nevertheless, frank, charming and complete." Preceded by a limited edition in 12 volumes one year earlier. Expected darkening to vellum. A beautiful set.

First Edition. SEGAR, E.C. Popeye with the Hag of the Seven Seas. Chicago: Pleasure, (1935). Quarto, original pictorial paper boards. $950.First edition of this early pop-up book starring Popeye, one of the scarcest of the comic pop-ups, featuring three bright, double-page pop-ups."American cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar developed Thimble Theater, a series featuring Olive Oyl, Caster Oyl, and (later) Popeye, for the New York Journal in 1919. This beautifully illustrated pop-up book is one of several published by Pleasure Books in the 1930s that were inspired by comic strips" (Cooper Hewitt). Montanaro, 233. Published later the same year in a Blue Ribbon Press edition. Interior generally quite nice, rear pop-up creased and taped at center split but fully functional, boards unusually nice. A near-fine copy.

First Edition. (SPORT) STEEL, A.G. and LYTTELTON, R.H. Cricket. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Large octavo, original three-quarter navy morocco gilt rebacked, top edge gilt, uncut. $950.Limited large paper first edition, number 219 of only 250 copies, of this generously illustrated guide to that "great, glorious and unsurpassable," quintessentially British game of cricket.Henry Somerset, eighth Duke of Beaufort, conceived of the "Badminton Library" (named after his principal country house, not the game) as a comprehensive series of instructional guidebooks, presenting history, rules and strategic hints for pastimes popular among Victorian England's aristocracy. Each chapter boasts expert commentary, accompanied by copious pictures and drawings. Published between 1885 and 1920, "the books provide a rich source of information on the growth and development of sport during the late 19th century in Britain, and are highly sought after by collectors" (Nauright & Parrish, Sports Around the World, 33). This volume includes chapters on cricket's history, batting and bowling, captains and umpires, cricket in Australia, "The University Cricket Match," "Cricket Reform" and more. Illustrated with 11 full-page engraved plates and numerous in-text woodcuts. Front board gilt-stamped with Beaufort coat of arms. Occasional light foxing and minor creasing. Binding with light expert restoration. Extremely good condition.

"(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE) (ANONYMOUS). London Cries, for Children. With Twenty Elegant Wood Cuts. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1810. 12mo, later stiff paper wrappers. $950.First American edition, following the London printing of the same year, with woodcut frontispiece, vignette woodcut on the title page, and a half-page woodcut illustration for each of the 18 cries in the text.Dr. Rosenbach notes, "This edition of the London Cries resembles [the Cries] of Philadelphia and of New York in that each Cry is accompanied by a verse, and a long explanatory passage in prose And although the book is intended for children, the propaganda introduced into [it] is at times obviously intended for their parents" (Rosenbach, Children's, 421). Welch, American Children's Books 249.12. Shaw & Shoemaker 19892 & 20586. Minor expected embrowning to text. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, just touching text. An extremely good copy of this early children's book.".

First Edition. "AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, (1993). Folio (11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches), original brown cloth, photographic self-portrait mounted on rear cover, original printed acetate wrapper. $950.First trade edition of this impressive folio retrospective, boldly signed and dated by Avedon in the year of publication, containing over 280 full-page and double-page plates in tritone black and white, in original printed acetate."With the publication of An Autobiography, a massive, very personal collection of his photographs, Richard Avedon attempted to redefine and reposition his life's work This exquisitely printed book weaves his thematic obsessions into a kind of narrative. It's meant to be read cinematically, so that each photograph is considered as part of a whole story: 'the whole,' Avedon explains, 'being my life in photography" (David Ansen, Newsweek). Autobiography reveals that "inside the celebrity portraitist and fêted fashion photographer Richard Avedon, there are two other photographers struggling to get out the 'artist' and the political nonconformist" (Parr & Badger I:252). It is here that we find evidence of Avedon's oft-quoted belief that "All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Although Avedon initially achieved fame in the fashion world, "it is his portraits, stark and penetrating, which have won the greatest acclaim among collectors" (Blodgett, 102). First trade edition, published same year as signed limited edition of 250 copies. With original acetate. See Roth, 148; Parr & Badger I:252. A fine copy.". Signed.

First Edition. "[JOHNSON, Samuel]. The False Alarm. London: T. Cadell, 1770. Slim octavo, period-style half brown calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled boards; pp. 53. $950.First edition, second printingone of 500 copies issued one month after the firstof Johnson's controversial tract on the scandalous John Wilkes, found guilty of libel and initially blocked by the House of Commons from taking the seat to which he had been elected over his rival Col. Luttrell."This, the first of Johnson's series of political pamphlets, all of which were anonymous, though their authorship was generally known, was composed at the request of the Ministry It supported the action of the Ministerial majority in the House of Commons in assuming that the expulsion of a member of Parliament was equivalent to exclusion, and in asserting that Col. Luttrell (not John Wilkes, who had a great majority of votes) was the duly elected representative of Middlesex. The pamphlet, which was at once known to be by Johnson, was fiercely attacked, both in the newspapers and in separate productions" (Courtney & Smith, 114). "The decision to write these pamphlets was perhaps the most purely surprising of Johnson's life. For at least ten years he had been on a pedestal as the great lexicographer and moralist, the lawgiver on letters and on experience, above every conceivable battle. Now, suddenly, he descended into the arena and began laying about him Quite probably a large part of the motivation was sheer enjoyment, the love of a free-for-all. Controversy, after all, is quite enjoyable, to write as well as to tread Certainly, if the pamphlets of the 1770s had never been written, we should lack some of his most vigorous and exhilarating prose. The first of the four [The False Alarm] is a case in point Johnson argues that the action of the House of Commons was constitutional, that Parliament has the right to make up its own mind and ought not to be influenced by shouting from the street. The pamphlet is interesting as marking the extreme point of Johnson's anti-populist feeling. His attitude is much the same as Shakespeare's; while allowing the inalienable human right to rise against a tyrant, he has no belief in the political wisdom of the populace It is worth reading not only for its exuberant prose, but as a reminder that his deep humanitarianism did not spill over into democratic populism" (Wain, Samuel Johnson, 281-82). First edition, Fleeman's second printing: with "Second Edition" on title page. Fleeman 70.1.FA/1b. Courtney & Smith, 113-15. Early bookseller notation to rear blank: "Mr [John] Sewell No. 32 Cornhill."A touch of offsetting to scarce half title, text clean, period-style binding handsome and fine.".

First Edition. "STARK, Freya. Beyond Euphrates. Autobiography 1923-1933. London: John Murray, (1951). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition, first printing, of the self-contained second volume of Freya Stark's autobiographical trilogy, the sequel to Traveller's Prelude, inscribed by her on the half title: "By Freya Stark."This is the second autobiography by Middle Eastern traveler Freya Stark, written during her brief post-war marriage. A war nurse and mountaineer, Freya Stark used a period of convalescence from a stomach ulcer to train as a governess, studying at the School of Oriental Studies in London. "In 1927 Stark lived in Lebanon for several months and travelled through Syria with Buddicom She planned a journey to northern Persia after reading about the region at the British Museum. In 1929 she moved to Baghdad, where she went slumming in Arab clothing and was an outsider among priggish British expatriates. She gained acceptance after adventurous journeys to Lurestan and the Alamut district of Mazandaran, and the War Office made maps from her observations In 1933 Stark returned to London to receive accolades as a female traveller. She was awarded the Back grant from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and was the first woman to receive the Burton medal of the Royal Asiatic Society" (DNB). This is the second of three autobiographies by Freya Stark. With laid-in list of Stark's works, featuring underlining in a similar pen to the inscription.Book extremely good, with light soiling to cloth and mild toning to spine. Dust jacket very good only, with dampstaining, two large chips including to middle of spine, light wear to extremities, and several repairs visible on both sides.". Signed.

First Edition. PRYNNE, William. Brief Animadversions on, Amendments of, & Additional Explanatory Records to the Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, Concerning The Jurisdiction of Courts, compiled by the late Famous Lawyer Sir Edward Cooke Knight. London: Thomas Ratcliffe and Thomas Daniel, for A. Crooke, W. Leake, et al., 1669. Small folio (7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full calf rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp. (15), (1), 423, (69). $950.First edition of Prynne examining Coke's Fourth Institute in great detail, expounding upon this important Institute page by page, often quite critically."William Prynne wrote a folio of Brief animadversions upon the IVth Institute, in which he charges Lord Coke with piracy and numberless errors; but the virulence and spleen manifested in his criticisms detracts very much from the value of his animadversions'' (Marvin, 209). Prynne, a puritan pamphleteer and one of the most outspoken and controversial political figures of his day, was the author of over 200 books and pamphlets, for which he was, at various times, imprisoned, fined and tortured. Marvin, 591. HLC II, 402. Engraved armorial bookplate; early owner ink signatures to title page.Text generally clean. Pastedown endpapers lifted; light wear to contemporary calf covers, corners rounded. A very good copy.

First Edition. "KUBASTA, Vojtech. Moko and Koko in the Jungle. London: Bancroft, [1961]. Folio (9 by 13 inches), staple-bound as issued, original half green cloth, original pictorial paper wrappers; pp. 8 and double-page pop-up. $950.First edition of Kubasta's jungle-themed pop-up book, featuring an eight-page story ("Moko and Koko in the Jungle") and a vibrant, double-page, folio pop-up of an animal-filled jungle, with Swinging Orangutan intact and with rare paper dolls of Moko and Koko, in original pictorial wrappers depicting Moko and Koko riding an elephant.This wonderful pop-up book includes an eight-page story and an extremely large pop-up (17-3/4 by 12-1/2 by 10-3/4 inches) about two children who go on an expedition into the deep jungle and meet a talking elephant, who introduces them to all of the jungles other animals. "Kubasta's talent as a graphic artist was to combine a robust graphic style of great charm and humor with a puppet-master's flair for story-telling in three dimensions" (John Michael Dawson). "His distinctive bold and colorful figures, as seen in this work, became increasingly popular. After the Czech publishing industry was nationalized in 1948, Kubasta began creating advertising materials for Czech products abroad that included three-dimensional cards for items such as Pilsner beer, porcelain and sewing machines. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed elaborate paper construction crèches annually each Christmas season His beautifully designed and intricate pop-ups were later produced from the 1960s-1980s worldwide and became the inspiration for the revival of the pop-up book industry in America" (Stephen Van Dyke, Smithsonian Libraries). "Kubasta's faux-naif style with a Bohemian flavor is somewhat exotic to an American eye" (Ellen G.K. Rubin), and "today, original editions of his illustrations and books are sought after by collectors from around the world" (James A. Findlay). Kubasta's works were all printed in Czechoslovakia using a special pre-war press at the state-run company, Artia Prague. They were then published for various markets, including Great Britain. This copy has the rare Swinging Orangutan moveable, often missing due to its fragility, as well as unattached-as-issued paper dolls of Moko and Koko, also often missing due to careless handling by children. About-fine condition.".

First Edition. FORD, Gerald R. Humor and the Presidency. New York: Arbor House/Ultramarine, (1987). Octavo, original half brown morocco. $950.Signed limited edition, number 67 of 150 copies specially bound and signed by Gerald Ford on a tipped-in limitation page.An anecdotal account of humorous incidents in the lives of presidents, illustrated with classic and contemporary political cartoons. Issued in the same year as the first trade edition. Back free endpaper with owner blind stamp.A fine signed copy of this deluxe limited edition. Signed.

First Edition. "SANDERS, Bernie. Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016. Octavo, original blue paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as "well worth reading his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn," signed in black felt pen by him on publisher's tipped-in leaf.Published soon after Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton, Our Revolution "recaps the successes of his underdog run and emphasizes that he's still fighting for populist causes. 'The support that we won showed that our ideas were not outside of the mainstream,' he writes. 'We showed that millions of Americans want a bold, progressive agenda that takes on the billionaire class and creates a government that works for all of us and not just for big campaign donors.' He repeats his basic policy positions (a higher minimum wage, stricter banking regulations, a carbon tax, etc.) and offers a Brooklyn take on the usual humanizing biography" (New York Times). On publication, Washington Times reviewer called Sanders' account of the campaign, "well worth reading for starters, it tells us who this man who energized so many young people really isan enthusiastic young socialist trapped in an old curmudgeon's body, his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn." "Autographed Copy" label on front dust jacket panel.A fine copy.". Signed.

First Edition. "A'BECKETT, Gilbert A. The Comic History of England. WITH: The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury, Agnew, circa 1881. Three Volumes in total. Quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $950.Early editions of these irreverent recountings of British and Roman histories, illustrated with hundreds of in-text woodcuts and 30 hand-colored etchings by famous satirical artist John Leech, handsomely bound by Stikeman."The first point to be made about Victorian laughter is simply that there was so much of it" (Donald J. Gray)a truth borne out by these mirthful and much-illustrated volumes, which aim, as the Preface states, "to blend amusement with instruction by serving up, in as palatable a shape as [the author] could, the facts of English [and, later, Roman] history." "One of the wittiest writers of the day" (Allibone, 152), writer Becket worked with illustrator Leech on the staff of the poplar and influential humor magazine Punch. Leech's "humor is as keen, his sense of fun as marked [as George Cruikshank's] [Leech's pictures] are of the most graphic and mirth-producing kind, and yet the raillery is invariably good-humored" (DNB). Each volume illustrated with numerous in-text wooducts and 10 full-page hand-colored plates, after etchings by Leech, satirizing historical events. Comic History of England first published 1847-48; Comic History of Rome, 1851. Text and plates clean. A bit of rubbing to extremities, spines uniformly toned. A near-fine, handsomely bound copy.".

First Edition. "WHITEHEAD, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, (2016). Octavo, original cream and black paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Whitehead's National Book Award winner, boldly signed on the title page in the year of publication by him with his date of "9/14/16." Underground Railroad is "a potent, almost hallucinatory novel that leaves the reader with a devastating understanding of the terrible human costs of slavery Whitehead has told a story essential to our understanding of the American past and the American present" (New York Times). "Imagine a runaway slave novel written with Joseph Heller's deadpan voice leasing both Frederick Douglass' grim realities and Lovecraft's rococo fantasiesand that's when you begin to understand how startlingly original this book is. Whitehead continues the African-American artists' inquiry into race mythology and history with rousing audacity and razor-sharp ingenuity; he is now assuredly a writer of the first rank" (Kirkus). Awarded the 2016 National Book Award, this is "literature at its finest and history at its most barbaric. Would that this novel were required reading for every American citizen" (Publishers Weekly). First edition, first printing. This copy contains four laid-in color photographs of Whitehead at the book signing.A fine copy.". Signed.

First Edition. "FORMAN, James. Sammy Younge, Jr. The first black college student to die in the Black Liberation Movement. New York: Grove, 1968. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of a powerful account of the murder of Black Navy veteran Sammy Younge, Jr., which marked, to Forman, "the end of tactical non-violence," inscribed by him, "To B N, All hands & help are needed in the long range struggle. Keep on pushing & we will win without a doubt. James Forman 1/29/69."Forman was an Air Force veteran and journalist who became involved with CORE before his association with the Freedom Riders and SNCC. In 1961 he barely survived racist attacks by armed whites before his appointment as executive secretary of SNCC, where he quickly "filled a vacuum . [and] expanded SNCC's role" (Branch, Parting the Waters, 533). He called the disappearance of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner "the first interracial lynching in the history of Mississippi," and was leading a meeting in church when he learned that the bodies of the three men had been discovered (Watson, Freedom Summer, 206). Forman viewed the all-white jury's acquittal of Marvin Segrest for the January 1966 murder of Sammy Younge as a turning point in uniting the civil rights and antiwar movements. Younge, a Navy veteran who had only one kidney, was shot and killed by Segrest when he tried to use a "whites only" restroom. At his funeral, as John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael and Forman "stood looking at the American flag draped over his casket, Lewis recalled, 'The irony hit me hard. Here was a man who has served his country, and what had it gotten him?'" To Forman, Younge's murder "marked the end of tactical non-violence." The April of the following year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rose in New York's Riverside Church and boldly called for a "radical revolution." He challenged the values of a nation that sent Black men "crippled by our society" to Vietnam, in order to "guarantee liberties which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem." In 1968, on "the one-year anniversary of King's Riverside speech," he was assassinated (Lucks, Selma to Saigon, 113, 195-96, 209). "First printing" stated on copyright page. With double-page map, 15 pages of black-and-white illustrations and full-page facsimile. A fine inscribed copy.". Signed.

First Edition. "YOUNG, Lyman. Tim Tyler in the Jungle. Chicago: Pleasure Books, (1935). Slim, square octavo, staple-bound as issued, original printed pictorial paper boards, pictorial "pop-up" endpapers; pp. 20. $950.First edition of this pop-up book based on a popular 1930s comic strip, with numerous in-text black-and-white illustrations and three two-page color "pop-ups".Lyman Young's boys' adventure comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck debuted in 1928 and ran until 1996; however, it is perhaps best remembered for its influence on other notable cartoonists. Alex Raymond, who would go on to create Flash Gordon, ghosted the strip for most of 1933, and Charles M. Schultz learned to draw, in part, by imitating Young's "realistic settings, which offered precisely drawn panoramas and deep perspectives He copied Young's simplified forms, learning with his hand how cartoonists obtain their effects" (Michaelis, 78). In this dramatically illustrated adventure, boasting three two-page color "pop-up" spreads (two of which serve as endpapers), Montanaro, 311. Letters on boards neatly outlined by a child owner. Early price sharpied on front board.Expert repairs to pop-ups and text block, light soiling, mild wear, and a bit of toning to text and boards, inoffensive pencil tracing to front cover. A very good copy.".

First Edition. "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 early poems highlights his evolution as a poet and provides an interesting glimpse into "that wondrous and crazy time those distant hours" when "the typewriter was there when the job wasn't and the food wasn't and the rent wasn't." Published simultaneously with 500 hardcover trade copies and 176 hand-bound copies including signed prints. Krumhansl 108c. A very nearly fine copy with traces of shelfwear to lower edges.". Signed.

First Edition. "FUSCO, Paul. RFK Funeral Train. (New York): Magnum/Umbrage, (2008). Oblong quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $950.First Aperture edition, with over 50 color plates of Americans paying final tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, inscribed and signed by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco on the half title: "Jason I appreciate the opportunity to visit with all of you. All the best, Paul Fusco 11/13/09."On Saturday afternoon, June 8, Kennedy's body, as President Lincoln's 103 years before, was carried by a funeral train from New York to Washington. As they had for Lincoln, many thousandsperhaps, for RFK, a million peoplelined the tracks" (Evan Thomas). Magnum photographer Paul Fusco here records that passage, in images that have a "powerful, cinematic quality" (Parr & Badger II:46). "Like The Americans, Robert Frank's seminal book of 1959 Fusco balances a compassionate eye with a photojournalist's lightning-quick instincts for the telling picture" (New York Times). With Senator Edward M. Kennedy's eulogy to his brother, delivered Jun 8, 1968, along with memorial essays by Norman Mailer and RFK biographer Evan Thomas, afterword by Paul Fusco. First Aperture edition, preceded by scarce special edition produced by The Photographer's Gallery, 1999 and the Magnum/Umbrage trade edition published in 2000. A fine inscribed copy.".