Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bauman Rare Books

1998. Signed. SCHULZ, Charles M. D-Day Snoopy print inscribed. WITH: Schulz archive. Santa Rosa, California, 1998, 1976-2000. Framed print, measuring 20-1/2 by 12 inches. WITH: Typed letter signed, measuring 7-1/2 by 11 inches; photographic print, measuring 16 by 11 inches; autograph letter signed (Mrs. Jean Schulz) and envelope, measuring 5 by 3-1/2 inches; pp. 2; and three Snoopy calendars. $9800.Extraordinary archive of items sent from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and family to Shulz's World War II army buddy, Father Victor Gibson, including a beautiful limited edition—possibly unique—hand-colored framed print of Snoopy listening to Eisenhower's D-Day speech inscribed: ""For Vic with friendship—Sparky [Schulz's nickname]—""; the typed letter that accompanied the print and in which Schulz also apologized for his inability to attend a veterans' reunion, signed by Schulz as Sparky; a photographic print depicting Schulz's Army Company in… Read More

1940. First Edition . Signed. FANTE, John. Dago Red. New York: Viking, 1940. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $5500.First edition of a pivotal work by Fante, ranked with Chandler and Saroyan and of vital importance to Charles Bukowski, who called him, ""my god… a lifetime influence on my writing,"" with 13 stories together in print for the first time, an exceptional copy inscribed by him on publisher's tipped-in leaf in the month of publication, ""John Fante Sept 1, 1940,"" in bright original dust jacket.""John Fante may be one of the few writers for whom the cliché 'before his time' can be used without exaggeration. By 1940 he had three books—Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939) and Dago Red (1940)—and a promising future. The problem was, the future would take a little longer to arrive than he thought… Half a century later [he]… had to be rediscovered by Charles… Read More

1957. First Edition . Signed. BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4900.First edition of Bradbury's semi-autobiographical novel, boldly inscribed by him using several colors of pencil over the entire front free endpaper: ""For Matthew Stiller!?!!! This dandelion! [sketch of dandelion] With good wishes! from Ray Bradbury, Oct. 4, '92.""""Dandelion Wine is one of Bradbury's autobiographical fantasies, a novel that fully embodies Bradbury's love for creating eccentric characters and exploring their lives. The novel is more autobiographical than fantasy (unlike its companion, Something Wicked This Way Comes), with the majority of events being daily moments of life in the Midwest in the late 1920s. The main character, Douglas Spaulding, is based on Bradbury… Considered one of Bradbury's strongest works, the novel has received a good deal of… Read More

1947. First Edition . Signed. BRADBURY, Ray. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $6800.First edition of Bradbury's important first book, signed by him on the title page.The legendary Bradbury was ""as influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne… Bradbury's poetically drawn and atmospheric fictions—horror, fantasy, shadowy American gothics—explored life's secret corners"" (Los Angeles Times). The 27 stories collected in Dark Carnival mark Bradbury's departure from publishing in pulp magazines. Their ""stylistic deftness… stands at the head of a tradition in modern horror fiction"" (Barron 4-24). ""Evocative, poetic and suffused with youthful wonder, Bradbury's tales broke with pulp conventions in their style and approach to the fantastic… Collected in his first book Dark Carnival… they mesh to… Read More

1784. First Edition . NECKER, Jacques. De l'Administration des Finances de la France. [Paris]: No publisher, 1784. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full vellum, brown morocco spine labels. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $5000.First edition of Necker's celebrated justification for his policies as Finance Minister of France during the American Revolution, in French, in contemporary vellum. Ex-libris the Vatican Library, with their stamps and notations.Necker attempted to finance French participation in the American War of Independence without recourse to additional taxation. In trying to raise the necessary loans, Necker published in 1781 his Compte rendu au Roi—a best-seller of the time—claiming a surplus of 10,000,000 livres in the hope of concealing an actual deficit of 46,000,000. The opposition of the leading minister and the hostility of the queen Marie-Antoinette forced Necker to resign on May 19, 1781. He retired to Saint-Ouen, where he wrote this work to justify his… Read More

1775. SHARP, Granville. A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature; Which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State. London: Printed for B. White, 1775. Octavo, original blue-gray paper boards rebacked period-style in white paper spine with replica paper spine label, entirely uncut; pp. (4), (i-xl), 1-278 (279), (1), 2-4. $5250.Rare true expanded ""Second Edition,"" with same initial collation as a virtually unavailable 1774 edition ""made for the purpose only of being given among the Author's friends,"" combining the sheets of that work with text substantially added to assert rights such as trial by jury, the fallibility of kings, the ""people's right of representation"" and the dire effect of slavery on America's struggle for independence, noting the colonies' ""toleration of it greatly weakens the claim or natural right of our American brethren to… Read More

1787. First Edition . ADAMS, John. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1787. Octavo, contemporary full speckled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $14,000.First edition of Adams' important work on a constitutional separation of powers, his reasoned yet impassioned ""rendition of the case for checks and balances in government"" (McCullough).While acting as America's minister in Great Britain, John Adams ""felt an urgency like that of 1776. Great events were taking place at home… A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours… By early January 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer. Titled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the… Read More

1835. First Edition . TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, 1840. Four volumes. Volumes I-II: Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, marbled boards; Volumes III-IV: Octavo, late 19th-century three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Housed in matching custom clamshell boxes. $60,000.First editions in English of both parts of Tocqueville's important and influential analysis of American democracy, one of the most outstanding intellectual achievements of the 19th century—""one of the most important texts in political literature"" (PMM)—with very scarce folding map colored in outline, handsomely housed in half morocco clamshell boxes.Democracy in America is ""the first systematic and empirical study of the effects of political power on modern society"" (Nisbet). ""One of the most important texts in… Read More

1835. First Edition . TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la Democratie en Amerique. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary half red calf gilt, marbled boards, papers and edges. Housed together in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $62,000.First edition presentation copy in the original French of the first two volumes of Tocqueville's classic work, one of no more than 500 copies published, inscribed by Tocqueville in Volume I ""Donne par l'Auteur, 1836."" ""One of the most important texts in political literature"" (PMM 358). Accompanied by the two volumes of the second edition of Part II in a contemporary binding.""This is by far the best book ever written about America, and the most penetrating book ever written about democracy. It won instant acclaim, not only in the writer's native France, where Royer-Collard declared: 'Nothing equal to it had appeared since Montesquieu,' but in England, where John… Read More

1671. First Edition . (JEFFERSON, Thomas) STEPHANO, Carolo (ESTIENNE, Charles). Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum. Oxford: Gul. Wells & Rob. Scott, 1671. Small folio (8 by 12 inches), contemporary full dark brown calf rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine panels neatly laid down, raised bands. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $80,000.A superb Presidential association copy—Thomas Jefferson's personal copy with his characteristic ownership markings of an important historical dictionary based on Estienne’s famous 16th-century Dictionarium, “the first French encyclopedia.” This is an early reissue of editor Nicholas Lloyd’s Oxford 1670 edition, in Latin, an updated and improved edition of Estienne’s work that was “superior to any of the previous editions.” From the renowned Americana collection of Mrs. Philip D. Sang, in contemporary calf. Rare and desirable. This volume was in Jefferson's final ""Retirement… Read More

1776. First Edition . PRIMATT, Humphry. A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals. London: Printed by R. Hett, 1776. Octavo, 19th-century full speckled brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $8500.First edition of this foundational philosophical text, one of the first works devoted entirely to an attack on cruelty to animals and preceding Bentham's landmark work by over a decade. Very rare, no copy has appeared at auction since 1968.""The first articulation of concern for the moral and legal status of animals appearing in British writing"" (Favre and Tsang, The Development of the Anti-Cruelty Laws During the 1800's). ""One day in the 1770s a retired Anglican vicar, the Reverend Humphry Primatt, DD (Aberdeen), sat down in his library in Kingston-on-Thames and wrote a short devout book about the relationship between mankind and the rest of the animal world. Others of his… Read More

1862. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, January 22, 1862. One leaf, 17 by 13 inches, printed on one side and finished by hand, with embossed seal. Matted and framed, entire piece measures 23 by 19 inches. $21,000.Civil-War era document signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State William Henry Seward, appointing George S. Gideon to be the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia.The document reads, in part: ""The President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents greeting. Know ye, that, reposing special trust and confidence in the abilities & integrity of George S. Gideon, of Washington City, D.C., I have nominated and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him to be a Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia; and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to Law, and to have and to hold the… Read More

1863. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. City of Washington, July 7, 1863. Folio, single sheet (measures 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches folded) partially printed and accomplished in secretarial hand, signed. Framed with a portrait of Lincoln, measures 19 by 16 inches total. $49,000.Fine July 7, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union's powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for New York to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days after the date of this rare Civil War signed document. Handsomely framed with a portrait of Lincoln.""The summer of 1863 witnessed the great Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg during the same week in July, but little more than a week later it saw the eruption of the bloody riots in New York City"" (Wilson, Lincoln's Sword, 182). This important July 7,… Read More

1846. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $5500.First edition, first issue in scarce original parts of Dickens' novel of ""Pride,"" with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (""Phiz""), including the famous first ""dark plate."" An excellent copy in the original parts, with all of the advertisements called for.For its inclusion of fairy-tale themes and the much discussed demise of Paul Dombey, Dombey and Son ""has a sense of the numinous, is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things, than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception, so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end, so that… Read More

1802. First Edition . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare. Revised by George Steevens. London: W. Bulmer and Company for John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nichol, 1802. Nine volumes. Large thick folio (each volume measures approximately 13 by 17 inches), contemporary full burgundy morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spines, all edges gilt. $21,000.The monumental 1802 Boydell-Steevens edition of Shakespeare's Works, complete with two engraved frontispieces and the full complement of 94 fine full-page copper engravings after paintings by the leading English artists of the time. Edited by Boydell and revised by renowned 18th-century Shakespearean scholar George Steevens. Sumptuously bound in full contemporary morocco-gilt.""Boydell's gallery completely altered the course of English painting. Most painters earned their livings by painting portraits for the wealthy nobility, but when Boydell began to commission works from the best artists in… Read More

1857. First Edition . (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin. C. Dred Scott v. Sandford. IN: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. December Term, 1856. Volume XIX. Washington, D.C.: William Morrison, 1857. Octavo, contemporary tan cloth, tan and black morocco spine labels. $5200.First edition of the complete report of the landmark Dred Scott decision that divided a nation, became “a prominent cause” of the Civil War, and ultimately generated the 14th Amendment, with complete opinions of all nine judges, including that of Chief Justice Taney.""The Dred Scott decision is erroneous,"" pronounced Lincoln in 1857, and it is ""based on assumed historical facts which were not really true… The court that made it, has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it over rule this"" (Basler 355-57). ""What troubled Lincoln most"" about Dred Scott ""was the Chief… Read More

1930. Signed. (DUVEEN, Joseph). Dreyfus Collection. Florence: Privately Printed, 1930. Large folio (19 by 26 inches), original tan cloth, uncut. $6000.Limited first edition, one of only 24 copies, with 28 stunning large tipped-in photographs of Renaissance sculpture from the Gustave Dreufus collection, inscribed by legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen to philanthropist and art collector Marshall Field (grandson of the founder of the department store), ""To Mr. Marshall Field with best wishes Joseph Duveen. New York Jany 31/31.""Duveen was one of the great art dealers of the early 20th century, making his fortune by pairing American millionaires with the artworks they so keenly wanted. He published this work to showcase the Dreyfus collection which he had recently acquired for $4.5 million dollars, an enormous fortune at the time. A number of these works are now owned by the National Gallery of Art; others are at the Frick and the Fogg art museums. Signed on the limitation page by… Read More

1923. First Edition . RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duineser Elegien. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923. Tall quarto, publisher's full green crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, uncut; housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,000.Deluxe limited large-paper first edition of one of the greatest volumes of poetry of the 20th century, number 83 of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound in full green gilt-decorated morocco at the Wiener Werkstadt.Rilke spent the winter of 1911-12 at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea as a guest of his friend Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe, who later related Rilke's account of the genesis of the Elegies. One windy night there, while pacing the cliffs above a raging sea, Rilke heard a voice from out of the storm: ""Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?"" He quickly wrote down these words and some others that came to him and hurried back to his room where, that night, he… Read More