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ОглавлениеA. Strayed Reveller (The), and Other Poems. London, 1849. (By Matthew Arnold.) Author’s first book. Dark-green cloth. One of 500 copies, most withdrawn soon after publication. $750.
A., T. B. The Bells: A Collection of Chimes. New York, 1855. (By Thomas Bailey Aldrich.) Author’s first book. $350.
ABBE, George. Voices in the Square. New York, 1938. (Author’s first book, although he edited his brother’s work in 1936). $100.
ABBEY, Edward. Abbey’s Road. New York (1979). States “First Edition.” $500.
ABBEY, Edward. Appalachian Wilderness. New York, 1970. With photographs by Eliot Porter. $200.
ABBEY, Edward. The Brave Cowboy. New York (1956). $7,500. London, 1957. $2,000. London: Western Book Club edition, 1957. $750. Santa Barbara/Salt Lake City, 1993. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Kirk Douglas. In dust jacket and slipcase. $750. One of 500 copies signed by Douglas. In dust jacket. $200. One of a small number of copies signed by Douglas and marked for presentation. In dust jacket. $300. Trade. $100.
ABBEY, Edward. Desert Solitaire. New York (1968). $1,000. Salt Lake City, 1981. $125. Tucson, 1988. $100.
ABBEY, Edward. Fire on the Mountain. New York, 1962. $2,000. London, 1963. $1,000.
ABBEY, Edward. Jonathan Troy. New York (1954). Author’s first book. $3,500.
ABBEY, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. Philadelphia (1975). $750. Edinburgh (1978). $150. Salt Lake City, 1985. Tenth Anniversary Edition. One of 15 copies signed and lettered (“A” through “O”) copies designated “Publisher’s Presentation Copy,” with signed print by Robert Crumb laid in. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 250 signed copies with signed and numbered print by Crumb laid in. In slipcase. $1,500. [There was an earlier version of the limited edition that was destroyed with very few surviving copies. Bound in black cloth with a red buckram slipcase.] Salt Lake City, 1985. Trade edition with added chapter. $125. Salt Lake City, 1985 [actually 1989]. Adds five full-page Crumb drawings, and two photos of Abbey and Crumb. $75.
ABBEY, J. R. Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860. London, 1953. One of 400 copies. $850.
ABBEY, J. R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860... London, 1952. One of 500 copies. In dust jacket. $1,000.
ABBEY, J. R. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860. London, 1956. 2 vols. One of 400 copies. $1,000.
ABBEY, James. California. A Trip Across the Plains in the Spring of 1850. New Albany, Ind., 1850. 64 pages, printed wraps. $7,500.
ABBOTSFORD, and Newstead Abbey. London, 1835. By the Author of “The Sketch-Book” (Washington Irving.) $300. Philadelphia, 1835. With copyright notices on both pages (2) and (4). $200.
ABBOTT, Anthony. (Charles Fulton Oursler). About the Murder of Geraldine Foster. New York (1930). Author’s first mystery. $1,250.
ABBOTT, Berenice. Changing New York. New York, 1939. Author’s first book. $2,500.
ABBOTT, Berenice. Greenwich Village, Today and Yesterday. New York (1949). $750.
ABBOTT, Berenice. The World of Atget. New York, 1964. $300.
ABBOTT, Charles D. Howard Pyle, A Chronicle. New York, 1925. $250.
ABBOTT, E. C. (Teddy Blue), and SMITH, Helena Huntington. We Pointed Them North. New York (1939). $300.
ABBOTT, Edwin See A Square.
ABBOTT, John S(tevens) C(abot). The Mother at Home. Boston, 1833. Blue cloth spine, tan boards. $200.
ABBOTT, Lee K. The Heart Never Fits . . . Cedar Fall, 1980. Author’s first book. $100. Wraps. $35.
ABDULLAH, Achmed. The Red Stain. New York 1915. (By Alexander Romanoff). Author’s first book. $450.
ABE, Kobo. The Woman In The Dunes. New York, 1964. Author’s first book. (First translation). $300. London, 1965. $150.
ÁBECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. London, 1846-48. Illustrated in color by John Leech. 20 parts in 19, blue wraps. $1,250. London, 1847-48. 2 vols. First edition in book form. $400.
ÁBECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome. London 1847-48 [1852]. 10 parts in 9. Green wraps. $1,250. One vol. $400.
ABEL, Annie H. The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist… Cleveland, 1915-25. 3 vols. $2,500.
ABEL, Lionel. Some Poems of Rimbaud. New York (1939). Wraps. (Author’s first book, albeit a translation by L. Abel). $50.
ABERCROMBIE, John. The British Fruit-Gardner; and Art of Pruning . . . London, 1779. $750.
ABERCROMBIE, John. The Hot-House Gardener on the General Culture of the Pineapple... London, 1789. 5 hand-colored plates. $1,500.
ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles. Interludes and Poems. London, 1908. Author’s first book. $75.
ABERCROMBIE, Capt. W. R. Cooper River Exploring Expedition. Washington, D. C., 1900. Folding map. $750.
ABISH, Walter. Duel Site. New York, 1970. Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 300 copies. $100.
ABLEMAN, Paul. I Hear Voices. Paris [1958]. Author’s first book. $150.
ABRAHAMS, Peter. A Blackman Speaks of Freedom. Durban, 1938. Author’s first book. $1,000.
ABRAHAMS, Peter. Dark Testament. London, 1942. Author’s first novel. $350.
AB-SA-RA-KA, Home of the Crows. Philadelphia, 1868. (By Mrs. Henry B. Carrington.) Folding map. Cloth. $600.
ABSE, Dannie. After Every Green Thing. London, 1949. Author’s first book. Issued in boards, without dust jacket. $100.
ABSTRACT of Land Claims Compiled from the Records of the General Land Office of the State of Texas . . . Galveston, 1852. By John Burlage and J. P. Hollingsworth. Third edition. $1,750. The first, 1838, is virtually unobtainable, while the second, 1841, is only slightly less rare.
ABSTRACT of The Laws of New Englnd…. London, 1641. This is the first Anglo-American law code. $30,000.
ACCUM, Frederick. A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light. London, 1815. 7 hand-colored plates, 2 folding. $1,500.
ACELDAMA, a Place to Bury Strangers In. London, 1898. By a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge. (Aleister Crowley.) Wraps. Author’s first book. $3,500.
ACHEBE, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London, 1958. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1958. $750.
AKELEY, Mary L. Jobe. Carl Akeley’s Africa. Mew York: 1929. $300.
ACKERLEY, J. R. Poems by Four Authors. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $250.
ACKERLEY, J. R. The Prisoners of War. London, 1925. Wraps. $350.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. A History of Eton College. 10 colored plates. $1,500.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s . . . London, 1812. 2 vols. Portrait, plan & 81 hand-colored plates. First plate in volume 2 by F. MacKenzie. $4,500. With plate by A. Pugin. $2,500. (See Abbey).
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster. Ackermann, 1816. With 48 hand-colored plates, although also issued uncolored. First issue of “Westminster School Room” has the masters bareheaded. $7,500. Second issue of Charter House plate has washerwomen but with slip pasted over original “school” title. $6,000. Third issue with the plate “Charter House from the Playground”. $5,000. (See Abbey).
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The Microcosm of London. London, (1808-10). 3 vols. 104 colored aquatint plates by Pugin and Rowlandson. $20,000. London, 1904. 3 vols. Parchment and boards. $750. See Abbey Scenery 212
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Cambridge. London, 1815. 2 vols. Portrait and 95 color plates. $9,500. (See Abbey).
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford. London, 1814. Illustrated with 115 colored plates. 2 vols. $7,500. There were two large paper issues about 17x13 inches and the ordinary about 14 ¼ x 11 ½. See Abbey Scenery 278.
ACKLEY, Mary E. Crossing the Plains and Early Days in California. San Francisco, 1928. Illustrated. Boards, printed label on spine. $750.
ACKROYD, Peter. London Lickpenny. London, 1973. One of 26 signed copies. Wraps. $350. One of 474 copies. $100.
ACKROYD, Peter. Ouch. London, 1971. Author’s first book. One of about 200 copies. Entire issue of The Curiously Strong, vol. 4, no. 2 (October 31, 1971). Wraps. $500.
ACTON, Eliza. POEMS. Ipswich, 1826. Author’s first book $500.
ACORN, Milton. In Love and Anger. Montreal, 1956. Author’s first book. Wraps. $750.
ACOSTA, Oscar “Zeta.” The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. (San Francisco, 1972.) . First printing stated. $125. Wraps $50. Hunter Thompson’s lawyer.
ACTON, Harold. Aquarium. London, 1923. Author’s first book. Patterned boards in plain dust jacket. $750.
ACTON, Harold. The Last of the Medici. Florence, Italy, 1930. Introduction by Norman Douglas. Portrait. Boards. One of 365 signed copies in dust jacket. $750.
ADAIR, Gilbert. Hollywood’s Vietnam. London, 1981. Author’s first book. $100.
ADAIR, James. The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia . . . Also an Appendix Containing a Description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi Lands . . . London, 1775. Folding map. $6,000.
ADAM, G. Mercer (editor). Sandow on Physical Training. New York, 1894. $400. London, 1894. $300.
ADAM, Helen (Douglas). The Elfin Pedlar & Tales Told by Pixiy Pool. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $300. New York, 1924. $100.
ADAM, R. B. The R. B. Adam Library Relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson. London/New York, 1929, 1930. 4 vols. (the fourth was issued separately in 1930 without dust jacket). The first three volumes were limited to 500 copies, the fourth volume was limited to 250 copies. The four together. $1,000.
ADAMIC, Louis. Robinson Jeffers: A Portrait. Seattle, 1929. . Author’s first book. Wraps. $75. Covelo, Calif., 1983. (265 copies signed by Garth Jeffers). $150.
ADAMS, Alice. Careless Love. New York, 1966. Author’s first book. $400.
ADAMS, Alice. The Fall of Daisy Duke. London, 1967. New title for above. $200.
ADAMS, Amos. A Concise, Historical View of the Difficulties…. Boston, 1769. $2,500. London, 1770. $2,000.
ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy. Boston, 1903. Author’s first book. Map, 6 plates. Brown pictorial cloth. First issue, with map at page 28 not in list of illustrations. $300. Map listed. $200.
ADAMS, Andy. The Ranch on the Beaver. Boston, 1927. With illustrations by Edward Borein. $300.
ADAMS, Ansel. See also Austin, Mary, and Anderson, David
ADAMS, Ansel. Images: 1923-1974. New York, 1974. $250. One of 1,000 copies, with one original signed print. $7,500. Without print. $1,250. Also for Time-Life subscribers with tipped-in signed page. $450.
ADAMS, Ansel. Making a Photograph. London (1935). $350.
ADAMS, Ansel. My Camera in Yosemite Valley. Yosemite / Boston, 1949. Wraps. $600.
ADAMS, Ansel. Portfolio Four . . . San Francisco, 1963. One of 250 copies. Portfolio includes 15 signed photographs. $25,000 at auction in 1998.
ADAMS, Ansel. Portfolio Three . . . San Francisco, 1960. One of 200 copies. Portfolio includes 16 signed photographs. $44,000 at auction in 1999.
ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada . . . Berkeley, 1938. One of 500 signed copies with 50 mounted plates. Issued in dust jacket. $8,500.
ADAMS, Ansel. Taos Pueblo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Written with Mary Austin. Adam’s first book. One of 108 copies signed by both. Folio. $60,000. Boston, 1977. One of 950 facsimile copies signed by Adams. $2,500.
ADAMS, Charles F., Jr., and ADAMS, Henry. Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays. Boston, 1871. $350.
ADAMS, Charles Francis. Railroad Legislation. Boston, 1868. Author’s first book. Wraps. $350.
ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Author’s first book. London, 1979. $1,000. New York (1980) $500.
ADAMS, Edward C. L. Congaree Sketches . . . Chapel Hill, 1927. Author’s first book. One of 200 signed copies. $250. Trade edition. $150.
ADAMS, Franklin P. In Cupids Court. Evanston, 1902. Author’s first book. $200.
ADAMS, Frederick Upham. President John Smith… Chicago, 1897. Wraps. $300.
ADAMS, Hannah. An Alphabetical Compendium . . . Boston, 1784. $1,000.
ADAMS, Hannah. A Summary History of New England . . . Dedham (1799). $250.
ADAMS, Harold. Murder. New York (1981). Author’s first book. Ace Charter 54706. Wraps. $50.
ADAMS, Henry. See Adams, Charles F., Jr. See also Democracy; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.
ADAMS, Henry. Civil Service Reform. Boston, 1869. Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,500.
ADAMS,Henry. Chapters of Erie. Boston, 1871. Written with Charles F. Adams. $200.
ADAMS, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Washington, 1907. Blue cloth, leather spine label. One of 100 copies. $17,500. Boston, 1918. Revised and edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. First trade edition. In dust jacket. $750. Without. $100. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942. Etchings by Samuel Chamberlain. In slipcase. $125.
ADAMS, Henry. A Letter to American Teachers of History. Washington, 1910. $250.
ADAMS, Herbert. The Secret of Bogey House. London, 1924. Author’s first mystery. $750. New York, 1925. $450.
ADAMS, J. C. Life of J. C. Adams. (Cover title.) (New York, 1860.) 29 pages, printed wraps. $2,000. Lacking covers, and with caption title only: The Hair-Breadth Escapes and Adventures of “Grizzly Adams.” $1,500.
ADAMS, James Truslow. Memorials of Old Bridgehampton. 1916. Author’s first book. $300.
ADAMS, Jane. The Greenway. London (1995). Author’s first mystery. $100.
ADAMS, John Quincy. Letters on Silesia. London, 1804. Author’s first book. Folding map. $500.
ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Washington, 1835. Original wraps. $250. One of a few on thick paper, specially bound in morocco. $1,000.
ADAMS, Leonie. High Falcon and Other Poems. New York (1929). First binding in cloth and boards. $200. Second binding in brown cloth. $150.
ADAMS, Leonie. Those Not Elect. New York, 1925. Author’s first book. One of 10 signed copies. $600. Trade. $250.
ADAMS, Ramon F., and BRITZMAN, Homer E. Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Biography. With Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Bibliography. By Karl Yost with a note by Homer E. Britzman and Frederic G. Renner. Pasadena (1948). 2 vols. In slipcase. (1,600 copies.) $400.
ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston, 1936. Author’s first book. $200.
ADAMS, Ramon F. The Rampaging Herd. Norman, Okla., 1959. $150.
ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London, 1972. Author’s first book. (2,500 copies). $3,000. New York (1972) [1974]. 1972 copyright date, but review copy gives publication date of March 18, 1974. $300. London, 1976. One of 250 numbered copies illustrated by John Lawrence, and signed by him and Adams. Bound in morocco, in slipcase. $2,500. One of 10 of the 250 with fore-edge painting by Lawrence. $7,500. One of about 30 of the 250 with original painting on front end paper signed by Lawrence. $3,000.
ADAMS, Robert. The New West. (Boulder): 1974. $1,250.
ADAMS, Thomas. Typographia: Or the Printer’s Instructor . . . Philadelphia, 1837. $850. Later editions with numerous emendations and additions are in the $200 to $300 range.
ADAMS, Will. Errata: or, The Works of Will Adams. New York, 1823. (By John Neal.) 2 vols. $350.
ADAMS, William Taylor. See Ashton, Warren T.; Optic, Oliver.
ADDAMS, Charles. Drawn and Quartered. New York, 1942. Author’s first book. $500.
ADDISON, Lancelot. The Present State of the Jews. London, 1675. $2,500.
ADDISON, Lancelot. West Barbary . . . Oxford, 1671. Title page, dedication, preface and an index of Moorish words. $2,500.
ADE, George. Artie. Chicago, 1896. Author’s first regularly published book. Cloth. $150.
ADE, George. Circus Day. Chicago, 1896. Author’s first book. (5 previous anonymous offprints from Chicago quarterly.) $750.
ADE, George. One Afternoon with Mark Twain. (Chicago) 1939. One of 350 copies. Stiff wraps. $175.
ADE, George. Revived Remarks on Mark Twain. Chicago, 1936. 36 pages, wraps. One of 500 signed copies. $200. Also, one of 500 copies unsigned. $100.
ADE, George. Stories of the Streets and of the Towns. Chicago, 1894. (Offprint from Chicago Record). Author’s first book. $1,000.
ADE, George. The Strenuous Lad’s Library. Phoenix, 1903-4. 3 vols. Wraps. $1,500.
ADELER, Max. Out of the Hurly-Burly. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and others. Philadelphia, 1874. (By Charles Heber Clark.) Author’s first book and first book illustrated by Frost. Decorated cloth. $150.
ADVENTURES of a Brownie (The), as Told to My Child. London, 1872. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” (Dinah M. Craik.) $1,500. New York, 1872. $600.
ADVENTURES of a Post Captain . . . (The). London (1817). By a Naval Officer (Alfred Thornton.) Engraved title and 24 colored plates. First issue printed by J. and T. Agg. $1,000. Second issue printed by W. Lewis. $750. Another issue by J. Johnson. $450.
ADVENTURES of a Younger Son (The). London, 1831. (By Edward John Trelawny.) 3 vols. Author’s first book. $1,250.
ADVENTURES of David Simple (The). London, 1744. (By Sarah Fielding.) 2 vols. Author’s first book. $1,500. Second edition, revised and corrected. $750.
ADVENTURES of Harry Franco (The). New York, 1839. (By Charles Frederick Briggs.) 2 vols. Author’s first book. $450.
ADVENTURES of Hunters and Travellers, and Narratives of Border Warfare. Philadelphia, 1852. By “An Old Hunter.” $150.
ADVENTURES of Peregrine Pickle (The). (London, 1751.) (By Tobias Smollett.) 4 vols. Blank leaf at end of volumes 2 and 3. $2,000. Limited Editions Club, Oxford, 1935. 2 vols. In dust jacket and slipcase. $200.
ADVENTURES of Robin Day (The). Philadelphia, 1839. (By Robert Montgomery Bird.) 2 vols. $1,500.
ADVENTURES of Roderick Random (The). London, 1748. (By Tobias Smollett.) London, 1748. Author’s fourth book. 2 volumes. $3,000. (Three rare volumes precede, The Tears of Scotland. Edinburg 1746? Advice: A Satire. London, 1746. and Reproof: A Satir. London, 1747.)
ADVENTURES of Timothy Peacock, Esquire (The). Middlebury, Vt., 1835. By a Member of the Vermont Bar. (By Daniel Pierce Thompson.) Author’s first novel. $1,000.
ADVENTURES of Ulysses (The). London, 1808. (By Charles Lamb.) Frontispiece, engraved title page. $750.
AESCHYLUS. Agamemnon: A Tragedy. (London, 1865.) Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Wraps. $750. London, 1876. Half leather. One of 250 copies. $300.
AESOP. Fables. [Note: Auction price records for the past 20 years show that the earliest editions to have appeared on the market were from 1479 (which sold in 1993 for $19,240) and 1485 (with prices in 1988 of $121,550 and $168,000.)] London, 1651. Translated by John Ogilby. Frontispiece of Aesop among the animals and 80 engraved full-page plates. $7,500. London, 1793. 2 vols. 112 plates. $2,000. London, 1912. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones translation. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1,450 copies signed by Rackham. $2,500. Trade. $500. New York (1931). Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange, with 50 drawings by Alexander Calder. One of 50 copies with an original signed ink drawing by Calder. $10,000. One of 495 copies in dust jacket and slipcase. $1,250. London, 1936. Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Vellum. One of 525 copies signed by Gooden. In slipcase. $1,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1933. Translated by Samuel Croxall. Illustrated by Bruce Rogers. Boards and vellum. In slipcase. $450.
AGASSIZ, Louis. Journey in Brazil. Boston, 1868. $600.
AGASSIZ, Louis. Lake Superior. Boston, 1850. 16 plates. $650.
AGATE, James. L. of C. (Lines of Communication). London, 1917. Author’s first book. $125.
AGATE, James. A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate. London (1945). 2 vols. Half morocco. One of 100 signed copies. $150.
AGEE, G. W. Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws. (Cincinnati, 1890.) 194 pages, wraps. $500. Chicago, 1890. Presumed later per Howes. $150.
AGEE, James. See also Walker Evans Many are Called, Levitt, Helen Way of Seeing
AGEE, James. A Death in the Family. New York (1957). Blue cloth. First issue, with title page printed in blue, “walking” for “waking” on page 80. $500. Second issue, “waking.” $250. London, 1958. $150.
AGEE, James. Four Early Stories. West Branch, Iowa, 1964. One of 285 copies. In handmade paper dust jacket. $300.
AGEE, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston, 1941. Walker Evans photographs. $6,000. Boston (1960). Revised with additional photos and foreword by Evans. $300. London, 1965. $150.
AGEE, James. The Morning Watch. Rome, 1950. Wraps. (Offprint from Botteghe Oscure.) $1,000. Boston, 1951. $300. London, 1952. $200.
AGEE, James. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven, 1934. Author’s first book. $1,000.
Age of Bronze (The). London, 1823. (By George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.) $450.
AGNER, Dwight. The Books of WAD: A Bibliography of the Books Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Baton Rouge, 1974. 206 copies in total. One of 190 in cloth and boards. $250. One of 16 copies on large-paper copies in half morocco. $750.
AGNES De Castro. London, 1696. (By Catherine Trotter Cockburn.) Author’s first book. $750.
AGRICOLA, Georgius. See Hoover, Herbert C., and Henry, Lou.
AI (Florence Ogawa). Cruelty. Boston, 1973. Author’s first book. $125.
AICKMAN, Robert. Dark Entries. London, 1964. Author’s first solo book. $750.
AICKMAN, Robert. Powers of Darkness. London, 1966. $600.
AICKMAN, Robert. We Are for the Dark. London, 1951. Author’s first book. Written with Elizabeth Jane Howard. $850.
AIKEN, Conrad. Blue Voyage. London, 1927. $200. New York, 1927. One of 125 signed copies in slipcase. $400. Trade edition. $150.
AIKEN, Conrad. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones. New York, 1931. Bluish-green cloth unfaded. With Scribner “A” on copyright page and “THE MUSIC” in capital letters on page 37. $250. With “The music.” $200.
AIKEN, Conrad. Costumes by Eros. New York, 1928. $200.
AIKEN, Conrad. Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse. New York, 1914. Author’s first book. $150.
AIKEN, Conrad. A Heart for the Gods of Mexico. London, 1939. 1,000 copies. $750. New York, 1964. $100.
AIKEN, Conrad. The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony. Boston, 1916. Possible first issue with “r” missing in “warm” on page 117 line 1. In dust jacket. $250.
AIKEN, Conrad. King Coffin. New York, 1935. Vivid-greenish cloth, lettered in purple-blue. One of few copies. $450. Grayish purple-blue, stamped in gold on spine. $200.
AIKEN, Conrad. Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse. Boston, 1916. Wraps over boards. $250. London, 1916. Wraps using American sheets. $200.
AIKEN, Joan (Delano). All You’ve ever Wanted. London, 1953. Author’s first book. $250.
AIKIN, Anna Laetitia. See Poems
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. See Sir John Chiverton.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Cardinal Pole. London, 1863. 3 vols. $1,000.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Jack Sheppard. London, 1839. Portrait and illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. $2,500.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. James the Second. London, 1848. 3 vols. Integral ad leaf precedes half title, and list of illustrations follows title leaf. $1,500.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Merry England or Nobles and Serfs. London, 1874. 3 vols. Green cloth with “Merrie” on spines. $1,250. Second issue with “Merry.” $750.
AINSWORTH, William Harrison. The Tower of London. London, 1840. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 13 parts in 12 in wraps. $1,500. London, 1840. First book edition. Purple cloth. $750.
AKEN, David. Pioneers of the Black Hills. (Milwaukee, 1920.) Pictorial wraps. $100.
AKERLY, Samuel. An Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River . . . New York, 1820. Map. $750.
AKINS, Zoe. Interpretations. London, 1912. Author’s first book. $125.
ALARIC at Rome: A Prize Poem. Recited in Rugby School. June XII, MDCCCXL. Rugby (England), 1840. (By Matthew Arnold.) Author’s first book. 12 pages, pink pictorial and printed wraps. $15,000.
ALBEE, Edward. The American Dream. New York (1961). Cloth. $250. Wraps. $50. London: Samuel French (1962). Wraps. $35.
ALBEE, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York, 1962. Cloth. $1,500. Wraps. $100. New York: Dramatist Play Service, 1962. Wraps. $40. London (1964). $300. Charlestown, W. Va. (1980). One of 100 signed copies (broadside with drawing by e. e. cummings). $100.
ALBEE, Edward. The Zoo Story and the Sandbox. (New York, 1960.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $250.
ALBEE, Edward. The Zoo Story. The Death of Bessie Smith. The Sandbox: Three Plays. New York (1960). Author’s first hardbound book. Cloth. Dust jacket price $2.75. $500. Dust jacket price clipped and $3.50 added. $300. Wraps. $50. London (1962). $150.
ALBERT, James (By James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw). A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Alber…as Related by Himself. Newport, 1774. $9,500. This may be a later printing.
ALBERT, Marvin. See Albert Conroy
ALBERT, Neil. January Corpse. New York, 1991. Author’s first book. $75.
ALCOHOLICS Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York, 1939. (By Bill Wilson.) Red cloth. In dust jacket. $12,500. New York, 1941. Second printing. $8,500.
ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction. Boston, 1830. Author’s first book. Wraps. $2,000.
ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Sonnets and Canzonets. Boston, 1882. Illustrated with photographs. One of 50 signed copies. $1,000. Trade edition, lacking photographs. $150.
ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Tablets. Boston, 1868. Brown cloth. $450.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Flower Fables. Boston, 1855. Frontispiece and 5 plates. Author’s first book. Published in red, slate-blue, blue and brown bindigs. $3,500. (Note: There is rumored to be a gift binding but not mentioned in standard bibliographies.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston, 1863. Ad on back announcing Wendell Phillips’ Speeches at $2.50 (not $2.25). (VAB). BAL - Boards with ad for “Speeches” on book cover, no price mentioned. Johnson had cloth first because ad for “Speeches” had “as ready for September”; and stated boards had “reviews” of “Speeches” on back, whereas BAL stated cloth had advertisement for fourth edition of “Speeches.” Assume BAL is correct. $1,000.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Men. London, 1871. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. $250. Boston, 1871. First American edition, first issue, with ads at front listing Pink and White Tyranny as nearly ready. $750.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston, 1868-69. Frontispiece and 3 plates. 2 vols. Without “Part One” on spine of vol. 1 and with vol. 2 having no notice of Little Women, Part First, on page iv. $20,000. (Should see BAL). London, 1869. One of 250 copies using American sheets. $10,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967. In slipcase. $150.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales… Boston (1864). Printed green wraps. $2,500.
ALCOTT, L(ouisa) M(ay). The Rose Family. Boston, 1864. 47 pages, printed wraps. $2,500. Johnson stated this was also published in cloth, but BAL disputes this. If a cloth edition. $3,500.
ALCUIN: A Dialogue. (By Charles Brockden Brown.) New York, 1798. Author’s first book. $5,000. New Haven, 1935. Wraps. Facsimile reprint of the first edition. One of 250 copies in slipcase. Northhampton, 1970 [1975]. Gehenna Tracts. One of 300 copies. Edited with an afterword by Lee R. Edwards. Orange cloth, in a marbled slipcase. 100 copies with signed etching of Brown. $450. Other 200. $250.
ALDIN, Cecil. An Artist’s Model. London, 1930. One of 310 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,750. Trade edition. $500.
ALDINGTON, Richard. A. E. Housman and W. B. Yeats, Two Lectures. (Hurst, England): Peacocks Press, 1955. One of 350 copies. In glassine dust jacket. $150.
ALDINGTON, Richard. All Men Are Enemies. London, 1933. One of 110 signed copies. $250. Trade edition. $125. Garden City, 1933. $100.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Death of a Hero. New York, 1929. $300. London, 1929. $250. Paris, 1930. 2 vols. Printed wraps in slipcase. Unexpurgated text. One of 300 copies. $1,250.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot: A Lecture. London: Peacocks Press, 1954. One of 350 copies. $300. Full morocco. One of 10 trial copies on azure paper, signed. $600.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Images (1910-1915). (Cover title.) (London, 1915.) Author’s first book. Pictorial wraps. $200. Boston, 1916. Wraps. $150.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Images of War. London, 1919. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. One of 120 copies on hand-made paper. $600. One of 50 copies on cartridge paper with hand-colored illustrations. $1,250. One of 30 copies on japon vellum, signed. $2,500. Trade. $250. Boston, 1921. $150.
ALDISS, Brian W. The Brightfount Diaries. London (1955). Author’s first book. $200.
ALDISS, Brian W. Hothouse. London (1962). $650.
ALDISS, Brian W. Non-Stop. London (1958). Red boards (second printing in brown cloth). $650. (Published in US as Starship.)
ALDISS, Brian W. Space, Time and Nathaniel. London (1957). Author’s first science fiction title. Gray cloth. $350.
ALDISS, Brian W. Starship. New York (1959). First U.S. edition of Non-Stop with textual changes. $200.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. Aso see A., T.B.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems. New York, 1859. Presumed first issue with Broadway address for publisher (Johnson). BAL doesn’t mention two issues. $200.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Story of a Bad Boy. Boston, 1870. First issue, with line 20 on page 14 reading “scattered” and line 10 on page 197 reading “ abroad.” $600. Second state, “scatter and aboard.” $200. Boston, 1895. Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Decorated cloth. $150.
ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Life on a Ranch. New York, 1884. Frontispiece and 3 plates. Stiff wraps. $1,000.
ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Ranch Notes in Kansas . . . London, 1884. First English edition of Life on a Ranch. 4 plates. Pictorial cloth. $1,000.
ALEGRIA, Ciro. Broad and Alien is the World. New York, 1941. First book translated into English. $150. London,, 1941. $150.
ALEXANDER, E. P. Military Memoirs of a Confederate. New York, 1907. Maps, 3 plates. Cloth. $350.
ALEXANDER, Hartley B. (editor). Sioux Indian Painting. Nice, France (1938). 50 color plates (51 per two auction records). 2 vols, loose in portfolios. One of 400, but many destroyed during war. $7,500.
ALEXANDER, James Edward. Travels from India to England . . . Parbury, 1827. 2 engraved maps, 14 lithographic plates, 5 of which are hand-colored. Errata and author’s ad on last leaf. $4,500.
ALEXANDER, John H. Mosby’s Men. New York, 1907. $400.
ALEXANDER, William. The Costume of China. London, 1805. With engraved title and 48 hand-colored plates. $5,000.
ALEXANDER, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians. London, 1814. 64 color plates. $1,500.
ALEXANDRE, Arsene. The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst. London, 1913. Notes on the Ballets by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Harry Melvill. Portrait. 77 plates, 50 in color. Folio, half vellum. $2,500. One of 80 copies with an original watercolor. $25,000.
ALEXANDRE, Arsene. The Modern Poster. New York, 1895. Frontispiece by Will Bradley. One of 250 copies on Imperial Japan paper. $750. One of 750 plain paper copies. $250. Note: Prices without the separate poster, which is normally missing.
ALEXIE, Sherman. The Businesss of Fancy Dancing. New York, 1992. Author’s first book. Hardcover, 100 copies. $1,500. Wraps. $350.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Also see Starr, Julian. See, and Timothy Crump’s Ward
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Abraham Lincoln, The Backwoods Boy. New York, 1883. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. With ads listing this book as no. 2 in “Boyhood and Manhood” series. $850.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf. Boston, 1856. Author’s first book. Blindstamped cloth. $7,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Dan, the Detective. New York, 1884. $1,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Five Hundred Dollar Check. New York: United States Book Co. (1891). First book edition, first issue, with “Porter & Coates” on spine. $1500. Later issue, with “Lovell” on spine. $350.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving. Boston: Loring Publisher (1875). $1,250.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Ragged Dick; or Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks. Boston: Loring Publisher (1868). With Fame and Fortune listed in ads for publication in December and Dick standing alone on pictorial title page. $5,000.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Robert Coverdale’s Struggle. New York: Street & Smith (1910). Pictorial colored wraps with “New Medal Library No. 555/15 cents” on cover. $1,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Western Boy. (New York, 1878.) With G. W. Carleton ad at front of book and American News Company in gold at bottom of spine. $1,000.
ALGREN, Nelson. Ballet for Opening Day: The Swede Was a Hard Guy. Chicago, 2002. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the artist, Tony Fitzpatrick, and the bookmakers. Issued in cloth slipcase. $2,000.
ALGREN, Nelson. The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, 1949. Signed on tipped-in sheet. $750. Trade. $350. London, 1959. $125.
ALGREN, Nelson. The Neon Wilderness. Garden City, 1947. Green cloth. Ads for other books on back of dust jacket. $350. With reviews of this book on back of dust jacket. $250. London (1965). $100.
ALGREN, Nelson. Never Come Morning. New York (1942). Introduction by Richard Wright. Tipped-in signed leaf. $750. Without leaf. $600. London (1958). $125.
ALGREN, Nelson. Somebody in Boots. New York (1935). Author’s first regularly published book. (Off-print in 1935 preceded). Orange cloth with top edge stained brown. $6,000. Tan cloth with top unstained. $5,000. London (1937). Blue-gray cloth. $2,500. Deep reddish-orange cloth. $2,000.
ALHAMBRA (The). See Crayon, Geoffrey.
ALI, Ahmed. The Land of Twilight. Lucknow (India), (1937). Author’s first book. Published in English. Printed wraps. $2,500.
ALI, Ahmed. Twilight in Delhi. London, 1940. First English translation. Reportedly most destroyed during bombing. $5,000.
ALISON, Archibald. Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste. Edinburgh, 1790. $2,250.
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London, 1820 (-21). 50 colored plates. Folio. First issue, with engraved 1820 title page and with watermarks dated 1816 and 1818. $60,000. London, 1821. Second issue, without 1820 title page. $50,000. London, 1823. $20,000. London, 1825. First octavo edition. $7,500.
ALKEN, Henry. Scraps from the Sketch-Books of Henry Alken. London, 1821. 42 colored plates. $3,500. London, 1822. $2,000.
ALLAHAKBARRIE Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899. (London, 1899.) (By Sir James M. Barrie.) Japanese vellum wraps. One of 520 copies. $12,500.
ALLAN, J. T. (compiler). Central and Western Nebraska, and the Experiences of Its Stock Growers. (Cover title.) Omaha, 1883. 16 pages, pictorial wraps. (Note: A Union Pacific Land Department pamphlet.) $750.
ALLAN, J. T. (compiler). Western Nebraska and the Experiences of Its Actual Settlers. Omaha, 1882. 16 pages, wraps. $750.
ALLBEURY, Ted. A Choice of Enemies. New York, 1972. Author’s first book. $200. London (1973). $150.
ALLEN, Miss A. J. (compiler). Ten Years in Oregon. Ithaca, N.Y., 1848. Portrait. $350. Second issue, same date, portrait omitted, pages added to included Frémont extracts. $250. Ithaca, 1850. $150.
ALLEN, Gracie. How To Become President. New York (1940). $150.
ALLEN, Grant. An African Millionaire. London, 1897. Pictorial binding. $750.
ALLEN, Grant. The Great Taboo. London, 1890. $350. New York, 1891. $250.
ALLEN, Grant. Physiological Aesthetics. London, 1877. Author’s first book. $500. New York, 1877. $300.
ALLEN, Harriss Stearns. The Trail of Beauty. San Francisco, 1940 First book of the Allen Press. 100 signed copies. $1,500.
ALLEN, Hervey. Anthony Adverse. New York, 1933. With publisher’s monogram on copyright page and with numerous typographical errors, among them “Xaxier” for “Xavier” in line 6 of page 352, “ship” for “shop” in line 18 of page 1086, and the word “found” repeated in line 22 of page 397. $175. Deluxe issue: 3 vols. One of 105 signed copies. $1,500. New York, 1934. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. 2 volumes in slipcase. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937. 3 vols. Orange cloth. In slipcase. $200.
ALLEN, (William) Hervey. Ballads of the Border. (El Paso), 1916. Author’s first book. Author’s name misspelled “Hervy” on copyright page. Printed wraps. $500.
ALLEN, Hervey. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. New York, 1926. 2 vols. First state, with wineglass on table in Longfellow portrait facing page 529. $200. Deluxe issue: three-quarter leather. One of 250 copies. In dust jacket and slipcase. $450.
ALLEN, Hervey. Wampum and Old Gold. New Haven, 1921. Stiff wraps. One of 500 copies. $125.
ALLEN, Ira. The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont. London, 1798. Folding map. $2,500.
ALLEN, Ira. Particulars of the Capture of the American Ship, Olive Branch. (Philadelphia, 1804.) $1,500.
ALLEN, J. A. Notes on the Natural History of Portions of Montana and Dakota. Boston, 1874. 61 pages, wraps. $1,000.
ALLEN, James Lane. Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales. New York, 1891. Author’s first book. First issue: sheets bulk 1 1/6. inches. $75. Second issue: sheets bulk 15/16” $50. Also variant 11/16” $40.
ALLEN, John Fisk. Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. Boston, 1854. 6 chromolithographed plates by William Sharp. Elephant folio. In boards or wraps. $60,000.
ALLEN, Lewis M. Printing with the Handpress. Kentfield, 1969. One of 140 copies. $2,000. New York [1971]. $150.
ALLEN, Paula Gunn. The Blind Lion. (Berkeley, 1974). Author’s first book. In stapled wraps. $400.
ALLEN, Phoebe. Gilmory. London, 1876. 3 vols. Author’s first book. $1,250.
ALLEN, Samuel. See Vesey, Paul.
ALLEN, William A. Adventures with Indians and Game. Chicago, 1903. 25 plates. Cloth, or half leather. $400.
ALLEN, Woody. (Allen Stewart Konigsberg). Don’t Drink the Water. New York: French 1967. Author’s first book. Wraps. $100. New York: Random House (1967). $500.
ALLEN, Woody. (Allen Stewart Konigsberg). Play It Again, Sam. New York: French (1969). Yellow wraps. $100. Random House. NY (1969). Issued in dust jacket priced $4.50 and with “10/67” at bottom corner of front flap. $450.
ALLENDE, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. New York, 1985. Author’s first book. $150. London, 1985. $100.
ALLIES’ Fairy Book (The). London (1916). 12 colored plates, other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Buckram. One of 525 copies signed by the artist. $2,250. Trade edition. Blue cloth. First issue, with pictorial endpapers. $600.
ALLINGHAM, Margery. Black’er Chief Dick. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $3,000. Garden City, 1923. $1,500.
ALLINGHAM, Margery. The Fashion in Shrouds. London, 1938. $2,500. New York, 1938. $750.
ALLINGHAM, Margery. Mr. Campion: Criminologist. New York: Crime Club, 1937. $1,250. London (1939). $2,500.
ALLINGHAM, William. Poems. London, 1850. Author’s first book. $350.
ALLINGHAM, William. Sixteen Poems. Dundrum, Ireland: 1905. Selected by William Butler Yeats. Boards and linen. One of 200. $500.
ALLISON, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York, 1992. $200.
ALLISON, Dorothy. The Women Who Hate Me. Brooklyn, 1983. Wraps. $200. The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990. Ithaca, 1991. Expanded version. Cloth. $75. Wraps. $50.
ALLISON, William. The British Thoroughbred Horse. London, 1901. $350. London, 1907. Second edition. $250.
ALLOTT, Kenneth. Poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1938. $125.
ALLSTON, Washington. Outlines and Sketches. Boston, 1850. 18 plates. $750.
ALNWICK Castle, with Other Poems. New York, 1827. (By FitzGreene Halleck.) Printed tan wraps bound in. $350.
ALPHA and Omega. Blight, the Tragedy of Dublin. Dublin, 1917. (By Oliver St. John Gogarty.) Written with Joseph O’Connor. $500.
ALTER, J. Cecil. James Bridger: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide. Salt Lake City (1925). 18 plates. One of 1,000 signed copies. $350.
ALTOWAN; Or Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains. New York, 1846. By an Amateur Traveller. Edited by J. Watson Webb. (By Sir William Drummond Stewart.) Howes states this was “probably actually written by Webb.” 2 vols. Cloth. $3,000.
ALTSHELER, Joseph Alexander. The Hidden Mine. New York, 1896. Author’s first book. $750.
ALTSHELER, Joseph Alexander. The Sun of Saratoga. New York, 1897. $350.
ÁLVAREZ, A. (Poems). Oxford, 1952. Author’s first book. Fantasy Poets. Wraps. $125.
ALVAREZ, Julia. Homecoming. New York, 1984. Author’s first book. $350.
ALVAREZ, Julia. Seven Trees. North Andover, 1998. Illustrated by Sara Eichner. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator, in slipcase. $1,750.
ALVORD, Clarence W. The Mississippi Valley in British Politics… Cleveland, 1917. 2 vols. Illustrated with colored maps. In original cloth. $400.
AMADI, Elechi. The Concubine. London (1966). $150.
AMADO, Jorge. The Violent Land. New York, 1945. Author’s first book translated into English. $200.
AMBLER, Eric. Background to Danger. New York, 1937. (First American edition of Uncommon Danger.) $1,250.
AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. London, 1938. $3,000.
AMBLER, Eric. A Coffin for Dimitrios. New York, 1939. $2,500. (First American edition of The Mask of Dimitrios.)
AMBLER, Eric. The Dark Frontier. London, 1936. Author’s first book. $5,000.
AMBLER, Eric. Epitaph for a Spy. London, 1938. $2,500.
AMBLER, Eric. The Mask of Dimitrios. London, 1937. $7,500.
AMBLER, Eric. Uncommon Danger. London, 1937. $5,000.
AMERICANA Beginnings: A Selection from the Library of Thomas W. Streeter. Morristown, N.J., 1952. 97 pages, wraps. One of 325 copies. $250.
AMERICAN Arguments for British Rights. London, 1806. (By William Loughton Smith.) $450.
AMERICAN Caravan (The). New York, 1927. $300.
AMERICAN Caravan (The Second). New York, 1928. $250.
AMERICAN Chap-Book (The). Jersey City, 1904-1905. Volumes I and II in 12 numbers. (Will Bradley.) $1,250.
American Cookery… Hartford, 1796 (By Amelia Simmons). $35,000.
AMERICAN Shooter’s Manual (The). Philadelphia, 1827. By a Gentleman of Philadelphia County (Jesse Y. Kester). Frontispiece, 2 plates, errata. With “ribbon” misspelled on page 235. $2,750. Second issue, corrected. $1,750.
AMES, Joseph. Catalogue of English Heads; or An Account of About Two Thousand Prints, Describing What Is Peculiar to Each . . . London, 1848. $500.
AMIS, Kingsley. Bright November. London (1947). Author’s first book. $2,500.
AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London, 1953. $3,500. Garden City, 1954. $600.
AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London (1975). $600. New York, 1976. $250.
AMIS, Martin. The Rachel Papers. London, 1973. Author’s first book. $850. New York, 1974. $250.
AMIS, Martin. Success. London, 1978. $250. New York, 1978. $25.
AMMONS, A. R. Ommateum: With Doxology. Philadelphia (1955 [actually 1954]). The poet’s first book. One of 300 copies, 200 reportedly destroyed. $1,750.
AMSDEN, Charles A. Navaho Weaving. Santa Ana, 1934. 122 plates, many in color. $1,000. Albuquerque, 1948 (actually 1949). In dust jacket. $500.
AMUNDSEN, Roald. The Northwest Passage. London, 1908. 2 vols. First edition in English. Illustrated, 2 folding maps in pocket. Cloth. $1,250. New York, 1908. $1,000.
AMUNDSEN, Roald. The South Pole . . . London, 1912. 2 vols. 2 frontispieces, 158 photographic illustrations on 103 plates, 6 maps (4 folding). $3,000.
ANALYSIS of the Hunting Field (The). London, 1846. (By Robert Smith Surtees.) 7 colored plates (including title page) by Henry Alken, 43 woodcuts. First issue in green cloth (some copies with preface dated 1846, some dated 1847 per VAB). $1,750. Second issue, red cloth. $1,250. Rebound. $1,000.
ANAND, Mulk Raj. The Coolie. London (1936). $750.
ANAYA, Rudolfo A. Bless Me. Ultima. (Berkeley), 1972. $600. Wraps. $125.
ANAYA, Rudolfo A. Heart of Aztlán. (Berkeley, 1976.) $350. Wraps. $150.
ANBUREY, Thomas. Travels Through the Interior Parts of America . . . London, 1789. 2 vols. Large folding engraved map, and 7 plates. $2,500.
ANCIENT and Modern Michilimackinac . . . (Cover title.) (St. James, Mich.), MDCLIV (1854). (By James Jesse Strang.) 48 pages. Wraps. First issue. $7,500. Another, dated 1854, obviously on later paper (1894?). $600. Later printings. $250.
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Complete Andersen. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. Translated by Jean Hersholt. Hand-colored illustrations by Fritz Kredel. 6 vols. Buckram and boards. One of 1,500 copies signed by Kredel, in slipcase. $450.
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales. London, no date [1924]. 12 tipped-in color plates, numerous black-and-white illustrations by Kay Nielsen. White vellum. One of 500 copies signed by the artist. $8,500. Trade. Green ribbed cloth. $1,750. London (1932). 12 colored plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Vellum. $750. One of 525 copies signed by the artist. $5,000.
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. London (1911). 28 color plates by Edmund Dulac. Vellum, silk ties. One of 750 copies signed by Dulac. $4,500. Pigskin. One of 100 copies on Japan paper. $9,500.
ANDERSON, David. The Enchanted Galleon. (San Francisco, 1930.) Signed frontispiece photo by Ansel Adams. One of 60 copies. In slipcase. $2,000.
ANDERSON, Forrest. Sea Pieces . . . New York, 1935. Author’s first book. (155 copies.) $175.
ANDERSON, Frederick Irving. Adventures of the Infallible Godahl. New York, (1914). Author’s first book. $400.
ANDERSON, J(ohn) Redwood. The Music of Death. Clifton, England, 1904. Author’s first book. Wraps. $200.
ANDERSON, Kent. Sympathy For The Devil. Garden City, 1987. Author’s first book. $150.
ANDERSON, Laurie. The Package. Indianapolis (1971). Author’s first book. $450.
ANDERSON, Maxwell. Key Largo. Washington, 1939. First edition stated. $500.
ANDERSON, Maxwell. You Who Have Dreams. New York, 1925. Author’s first book, preceded by four collaborations in 1924/25. One of 975 copies. $150. One of 25 signed copies. $350.
ANDERSON, Patrick. A Tent for April. Montreal, 1945. First regularly published book, preceded by two published items in his teens. Stiff wraps and dust jacket. $200.
ANDERSON, Poul. Brain Wave. London (1955). $600. New York (1969). $250.
ANDERSON, Poul. The Enemy Stars. Philadelphia, 1959. $350.
ANDERSON, Poul. The Fox, The Dog and The Griffin . . . Garden City (1966). $300.
ANDERSON, Poul. Vault of the Ages. Philadelphia (1952). Author’s first book. $300.
ANDERSON, Robert. Tea and Sympathy. New York (1953). $250.
ANDERSON, Rufus (Catherine Brown.) Memoirs of Catherine Brown, A Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation. Boston, 1825. Author’s first book. $750.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. 6 Mid-American Chants, 11 Midwest Photographs. Highlands (1964). 1,550 copies. Spiral-bound pictorial wraps. Illustrated with photos by Art Sinsabaugh; the foreword by Edward Dahlberg. Issued as Jargon 45. $2,250.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Beyond Desire. New York (1932). One of 165 signed copies. In slipcase. $350. Trade edition. $200.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. New York, 1925. One of 350 signed copies. In slipcase. $400. One of 20 copies signed, lettered copies. In slipcase. $1,750. Trade edition. $250. London (1926). $200.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Horses and Men. New York, 1923. First issue, with top edges stained orange. $350. London, 1924. $200.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Many Marriages. New York, 1923. $350.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Marching Men. New York, 1917. Crimson cloth. In dust jacket. $1,000. Without dust jacket. $200.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Mid-American Chants. New York, 1918. Yellow cloth. In dust jacket. $1,000. Without dust jacket. $200. New York, 1923. $200.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. The Modern Writer. San Francisco, 1925. One of 950 copies. $150. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum, signed. In slipcase. $600.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Nearer the Grass Roots. San Francisco, 1929. Half cloth. Grabhorn printing. One of 500 signed copies, issued without dust jacket in slipcase. $600. Without slipcase. $300.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. A New Testament. New York, 1927. One of 265 large-paper copies, signed. In slipcase. $350. Trade edition. $150.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Poor White. New York, 1920. First issue with top edges stained blue (Johnson). Sheehy and Lohf don’t consider this an issue point. $350. Unstained. $300. London (1921). $150.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Windy McPherson’s Son. New York, 1916. Author’s first book. (Preceded by a pamphlet). In dust jacket. $3,000. Without jacket. $500. London, 1916. In dust jacket. $2,000. Without jacket. $300. New York, 1922. Revised, new last chapter. $600.
ANDERSON, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New York, 1919. Yellow cloth, paper label on spine. First issue, with line 5 of page 86 reading “lay,” and with broken type in the word “the” in line 3 of page 251. Presumed to have top stained yellow, and endpaper map at front. In dust jacket. $17,500. Without dust jacket. $1,000. Second issue, top unstained. In dust jacket. $17,500. Without dust jacket. $250. London (1922). $3,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1978. In slipcase. $125.
ANDERSON, William. The Pictorial Arts of Japan. London, 1886. $1,500.
ANDERSSON, Charles. The Okavango River . . . London, 1861. $500. New York, 1861. Folding colored map. 15 plates. (Chronology and distances not in the London edition.) $600.
ANDRE, John. Major Andre’s Journal. Boston, 1903. Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. Facsimile maps, plans, and other illustrations. 2 vols. Full vellum. One of 488 copies. In slipcase. $750. One of 10 copies on Japan vellum. $1,500.
ANDREAE, Christine. Trail of Murder. New York (1992). Author’s first book. $150.
ANDREAS, A. T. Atlas Map of Peoria County, Illinois. Chicago, 1873. 25 maps in color. $1,000.
ANDREAS, A. T. History of Chicago. Chicago, 1884-86. Illustrated. 3 vols. Morocco and cloth. $1,250. Full morocco. $2,000.
ANDREAS, A. T. History of the State of Kansas. Chicago, 1883. Morocco or pictorial boards. Folding map. $1,500.
ANDREAS, A. T. Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa. Chicago, 1875. Colored maps and views. Three-quarter morocco. $1,250.
ANDREWS, Eliza Frances. The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-65. New York, 1908. 16 plates. $350.
ANDREWS, Jane. The Seven Little Sisters . . . Boston, 1861. Author’s first book. $300.
ANDREWS, Jane. Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now. Boston, 1886. Illustrated by Charles Copeland. Pictorial cloth. $400.
ANDREWS, John. History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland; Commencing In 1775 and Ending In 1783. London, 1785-86. 4 vols. 24 plates, 6 folding maps, and 1 single-page map (maps partially hand-colored). $2,000.
ANDREWS, Michael. River Run. (Hermosa Beach, CA, 1977). Folio, 10 original color photographs, each numbered and signed by Andrews. One of 100 copies signed by Andrews. The text and prints are loose within a custom wood box. $450.
ANDREWS, Raymond. Appalachee Red. New York, 1978. Author’s first book. $100.
ANDREWS, William Loring. Among My Books. New York, 1894. One of 50 copies. 14 engravings and 13 other illustrations. $750. One of 10 on japon paper in cloth. $1,750.
ANDREWS, William Loring. Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects. New York, 1902. One of 36 copies on Imperial Japan paper. $1,000. One of 141 copies in dust jacket. $500.
ANDREWS, William Loring. A Choice Collection of Books from the Aldine Presses. New York, 1885. Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $1,000.
ANDREWS, William Loring. An English XIX Century Sportsman, Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books. NewYork, 1906. One of 32 copies. $2,000. One of 125 copies in dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. $1,000.
ANDREWS, William Loring. Gossip About Book Collecting. New York, 1900. 2 vols. Wraps. Limited to 157 copies for subscribers. 5 plates in first vol., 7 plates in second vol. One of 32 copies. $1,750. One of 125 copies. $750.
ANDREWS, William Loring. The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers. New York, 1895. 84 pages and four plates. Limited to 142 copies. $750.
ANGEL in the House (The). Book 1 – The Betrothal. London, 1854. Book 2 – The Espousals. London, 1856. (By Coventry Patmore.) 2 vols, cloth, paper labels. $1,000.
ANGELO, Valenti. The Book of Esther. New York, 1935. One of 135 signed copies. $300.
ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York (1969). Top edge stained magenta, text bulks 15/16 inch. $350.
ANGULO, Jaime De. The “Trial” of Ferrer . . . New York, 1911. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.
ANNEBERG, Maurice. Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs. Baltimore, 1975. One of 500 copies. $150.
ANONYMOUS. Paris (1930). (By Michael Fraenkel.) Author’s first book. (First Carrefour Editions book, with Walter Lowenfels.) Wraps. $350.
ANSA, Tina McElroy. Baby of the Family. San Diego, 1989. Author’s first book. $100.
ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London, 1748. 42 folding copper-engraved plates, maps, plans, and charts. $7,500.
ANSTEY, Christopher. See The New Bath Guide . . .
ANSTEY, F. The Pariah. London, 1889. (By Thomas Anstey Guthrie.) 3 vols. $750.
ANSTEY, F. Vice Versa. London, 1882. (By Thomas Anstey Guthrie.) $350.
ANTHOLOGY of Younger Poets (An). Philadelphia, 1932. Edited by Oliver Wells. Boards. One of 500 copies. In glassine dust jacket. $350. (Contains five poems by William Faulkner.)
ANTHONY, C. L. Autumn Crocus. London, 1931.(By Dodie Smith). Author’s first book. $350.
ANTHONY, Peter. The Women in the Wardrobe. London, 1951. (By Peter and Anthony Shaffer.) Author’s first book. $400.
ANTHONY, Piers. Chthon. New York: Ballantine (1967). (By P. A. Dillingham Jacob). Author’s first book. $100. London (1970). $100.
ANTIN, David. Definitions. New York, 1967. Spiral-bound stiff wraps. (300 copies). $100.
ANTIN, David. Martin Buber’s Tales of Angels, Spirits and Demons. New York, 1958. Translated by Antin and Jerome Rothenberg. Author’s first book. Wraps. $200.
ANTIN, Mary. From Plotzk to Boston. Boston, 1899. Author’s first book. Cloth. $600. Wraps. $450.
ANTI-TEXASS Legion (The): Protest of Some Free Men, States, and Presses Against the Texass Rebellion. New York, 1844. 72 pages, wraps. $1,000.
ANTONINUS, Brother. See William Everson.
ANTONINUS, Brother. An Age Insurgent. San Francisco (1959). (By William Everson.) 500 copies, of which all but 60 to100 copies were destroyed. $1,500.
ANTONINUS, Brother. The Poet Is Dead: A Memorial for Robinson Jeffers. San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1964. Boards and leather. (By William Everson.) One of 205 signed copies. In plain white dust jacket. $450.
ANTONINUS, Brother. A Privacy of Speech. Berkeley, 1949. (By William Everson.) One of 100 signed copies, but reportedly less than half may have been printed. Issued without dust jacket. $4,500.
ANTONINUS, Brother. Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning. Santa Barbara, 1972. (By William Everson.) One of 250 signed copies. In acetate dust jacket. $150.
ANTRIM, Benajah J. Pantography, Or Universal Drawings, in the Comparison of Their Natural And Arbitrary Laws . . . Philadelphia, 1843. $200.
APES, William. A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apes . . . New York, 1829. Author’s first book. $1,250. New York, 1831. $500.
APOCRYPHA (The). London: Cresset Press, 1929. Authorized version. Full-page woodcuts by Stephen Gooden, Eric Jones, et al. Folio, black vellum. One of 30 copies on handmade paper with an extra set of illustrations signed by the artists. In slipcase. $3,500. Boards. One of 450 copies. In slipcase. $600.
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. The Poet Assassinated. New York, 1968. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 8 drawings. Loose wraps. One of 250 copies. $2,500. Trade edition. $100.
APPEAL (An) to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1875. (By Robert Louis Stevenson.) 12 pages, stitched, without wraps. $6,000.
APPEL, Benjamin. Brain Guy. New York, 1934. Author’s first book. $2,000. London, 1937. $750.
APPERLEY, C. J. See Nimrod. See also Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.
APPLE, Max. Introducing the Oranging of America. (New York, 1973). Wraps. Author’s first book. $150.
APPLEGATE, Jesse. A Day with the Cow Column in 1843. Chicago, 1934. Caxton Club. Pictorial cloth. One of 300 copies. $450. Another edition. (Portland), 1952. One of 225 copies. $200.
APPLEGATE, Jesse. Recollections of My Boyhood. Roseburg, Ore., 1914. 99 pages, pictorial wraps. $1,250.
ARAGON, Louis. Henry Matisse, A Novel. London, 1972. 2 vols. 541 illustrations, including 155 in color. $600. NewYork (1972). 2 vols. $400. Both are in dust jackets and slipcases.
ARAGON, Louis. The Red Front. Chapel Hill (1933). Translated by E. E. Cummings. Stapled red wraps. $500.
ARBUTHNOT, John. See Know Your Self.
ARCHBOLD, Ann. A Book for the Married and Single, the Grave and the Gay and Especially Designed for Steamboat Passengers. East Plainfield, Ohio, 1850. $1,000.
ARCHER, Jeffrey. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. London, 1976. Author’s first book. $250. New York, 1976. $150.
ARCHITEC-TONICS . . . New York, 1914. First book illustrated by Rockwell Kent. $350.
ARD, William. The Perfect Frame. New York, 1951. Author’s first book. $150.
ARDEN, John Serjeant. Musgrave Dance. London, 1960. Author’s first book. $150.
ARDIZZONE, Edward. In a Glass Darkly. London, 1929. (By J. Sheridan Le Fanu.) First book illustrated by Ardizzone. First issue in reddish cloth. $1,000. Second issue in orange cloth. $600.
ARDIZZONE, Edward. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. London, 1936. Author’s first book. $2,000. New York, 1936. $1,500. Oxford, 1953. $500.
ARENAS, Reinaldo. Hallucinations. London, 1971. $125. New York, 1971. $75. First book translated into English.
ARENSBERG, Walter Conrad. Poems. Boston/New York, 1914. Author’s first book. $125.
ARIAS, Ron. The Road to Tamazunchale. Reno, 1975. First issue in stapled wraps. $150. Second issue in orange perfect bound wraps, no blurbs. $75. Third issue in tan perfect bound wraps, rear blurbs. $50.
ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. London, 1896. 8 plates by Aubrey Beardsley. Boards. One of 100 copies. $9,500. London (1926). Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Half morocco. One of 725 copies signed by the artist. $1,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1934. Translated by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Boards. In slipcase. $9,500. (There also were 150 sets of 6 proofs, each set signed by Picasso, issued in cloth portfolio and sold separately.) $15,000.
ARISTOTLE. The Organon; or Logical Treatises. London, 1807. First edition in English. $3,000.
ARISTOTLE. Politics and Poetics. Limited Editions Club, Lunenburg, 1964. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Buckram. In slipcase. $200.
ARKWRIGHT, William. The Pointer & His Predecessors. London, 1906. Illustrated. One of 750 copies. $1,500.
ARLEN, Michael. The Green Hat. London (1924). $500. New York, 1925. (Acting version.) Boards. One of 175 signed copies. $750.
ARLEN, Michael. The London Venture. London, 1920. (Reportedly, the edition dated “1919” was actually printed later.) Author’s first book. $300. New York (1920). $200.
ARMAGEDDON: A Fragment: Avalon. Charleston, S. C., 1923. Wraps. Contains poems by John Crowe Ransom and others. $750.
ARMES, George A. Ups and Downs of an Army Officer. Washington, 1900. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $350.
ARMITAGE, John. The History of Brazil. London, 1836. 2 portraits. 2 vols. London, 1836. $1,500.
ARMITAGE, Merle. The Art of Edward Weston. New York, 1932. One of 550 copies signed by Weston. $3,500.
ARMITAGE, Merle. Brett Weston: Photographs. New York, 1956. $1,750.
ARMSMEAR: The Home, the Arm and the Armory of Col. Samuel Colt: A Memorial. New York, 1866. Plates. Cloth. $1,500. Full morocco. Presentation binding. $2,500.
ARMSTRONG, A. N. Oregon: A Brief History and Description of Oregon and Washington. Chicago, 1857. $650.
ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth. Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus. Cambridge, 1954. $250.
ARMSTRONG, Margaret. Western Wild Flowers. New York/London, 1915. Written with J. J. Thornburg. $150.
ARMSTRONG, Martin. Exodus +. London, 1912. $175.
ARMSTRONG, Moses K. History and Resources of Dakota, Montana and Idaho. Yankton, Dakota Territory, 1866. Map. Printed wraps. $9,500.
ARMSTRONG, Perry A. The Sauks and the Black War. Springfield, 1887. $600.
ARNETT, John Andrews. Bibliopegia; Or, the Art of Bookbinding . . . London, 1835. 9 plates. $750.
ARNETT, John. An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients . . . London, 1837. 14 plates. $650.
ARNO, PETER. Whoops, Dearie! (New York, 1927.) (By Curtis Arnoux Peters.) Author’s first book. $200.
ARNOLD, Arthur. Through Persia by Caravan. London, 1877. 2 vols. $1,500.
ARNOLD, Elliot. Blood Brother. New York, 1936. $250.
ARNOLD, Henry V. The Early History of the Devil’s Lake Country. Larimore, N.D., 1920. 105 pages, printed wraps. $750.
ARNOLD, Henry V. The History of Old Pembina, 1780-1872. Larimore, N.D., 1917. Wraps. $600.
ARNOLD, Matthew. See A. (pseudonym-first entry in list). See also Alaric at Rome.
ARNOLD, Matthew. Cromwell: A Prize Poem. Oxford, 1843. Wraps. $2,500.
ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in Criticism. London, 1865. $400.
ARNOLD, Matthew. Merope: A Tragedy. London, 1858. First issue with ads dated November 1857. $300.
ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems. London, 1853. $350. London, 1855. (Second series.) $250. Boston, 1856. $200. London, 1895. 3 vols. $600.
ARNOLD, Oren and HALE, John P. Hot Irons: Heraldry of the Range. New York, 1940. $250.
ARNOLD, R. Ross. Indian Wars of Idaho. Caldwell, Idaho, 1932. 85 illustrations. $450.
ARNOLD, William Harris. First Report of a Book-Collector…. New York, 1897-98. One of 85 copies. $350. Second edition. Limited to 220 copies. $150.
ARNOW, Harriette. See Harriette Simpson.
ARNOW, Harriette. The Dollmaker. New York, 1954. $450.
ARNOW, Harriette. Hunter’s Horn. New York, 1949. Author’s second book, first under real name. (First edition stated.) $150.
AROUND the Horn in ‘49. See Journal of the Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company.
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. New York (1952). 15 pages of text and 28 folded sheets with woodcuts by Arp, laid in wrappers, and blue board folder. One of 320 signed copies. $2,500. Special edition of 25 with separate set of woodcuts on Japan paper. Justification signed by Arp. Loose as issued, boxed. $5,000.
ARRANGEMENT of Places: Will Each Gentleman Kindly Take in to Dinner the Lady Seated on His Right. (New York), 1905. 12 pages, wraps. (Program of Seventieth birthday dinner for Mark Twain at Delmonico’s.) $1,000.
ARTHUR, T. S. See INSUBORDINATION . . .
ARTHUR, T. S. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There. Philadelphia, 1854. First issue, with both Lippincott and Bradley named in imprint and woodcut frontispiece by Van Ingen (VAB). $750.
ARTHUR Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793. Philadelphia, 1799-1800. By the Author of Wieland (Charles Brockden Brown). 2 vols. (For first English edition, see author entry). $2,000.
ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen. See East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
ASBURY, Herbert. Up From Methodism. New York, 1926. Author’s first book. $175.
ASHBEE, C. R. Jerusalem, 1920-1922. London, 1924. 25 plates. $750.
ASHBEE, C. R. The Private Press: A Study In Idealism. To Which Is Added a Bibliography of the Essex House. (London, 1909.) One of 127 copies. $1,000.
ASHBEE, Henry Spencer. An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605-1895. London, 1895. Half cloth or wraps. $500.
ASHBERY, John. Fragment. Los Angeles, 1969. Illustrated by Alex Katz. One of 250 copies signed by both. Hardbound. Acetate dust jacket. $750.
ASHBERY, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Middletown (1962). $850.
ASHBERY, John. The New Spirit. New York (1970). Pictorial wraps. One of 65 signed copies. $350. Also, 100 unsigned copies. $125.
ASHBERY, John. Some Trees. Foreword by W. H. Auden. New Haven, 1956. $600.
ASHBERY, John. Sunrise in Suburbia. New York, 1968. Wraps. One of 100 signed copies. $500. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. $1,250.
ASHBERY, John. Turandot and Other Poems. New York, 1953. Author’s first book. Illustrated. Wraps. One of 300 copies. $2,500.
ASHDOWN, Clifford. The Adventures of Romney Pringle. London, 1902. (By R. Austin Freeman and J. J. Pitcairn.) $1,750.
ASHE, Thomas. Travels in America. London, 1808. 3 vols. $1,000. Newburyport, 1808. 3 vols. $1,250.
ASHLEY, Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler. Boston, 1926. Plates, some in color. Half cloth and boards. One of 156 signed copies, with an original drawing. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade, in dust jacket. $850. 1,625 copies in total.
ASHLEY, William H. The West of William H. Ashley. Denver, 1964. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Illustrated. Pictorial buckram. One of 750 copies. $350. Deluxe issue in half calf. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $850.
ASHTON, Warren T. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave. Boston, 1853. (By William Taylor Adams.) Author’s first book. Black cloth. $2,500.
ASIMOV, Isaac. The End of Eternity. Garden City, 1955. $450.
ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation. New York (1951). First binding, in cloth with sheets bulking 1.9 cm. $2,000.
ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation and Empire. New York (1952). First binding in red boards with spine imprint 2.2 cm across (2.8 cm. in second binding). First issue dust jacket with 26 titles on back. $1,500.
ASIMOV, Isaac. I, Robot. New York (1950). Cloth. $3,500. Wraps. $750.
ASIMOV, Isaac. Little Brothers. (Rochester, Mich.): Pretentious Press, 1988. One of 26 signed copies. $750. One of 100 signed copies. $250.
ASIMOV, Isaac. Pebble in the Sky. Garden City, 1950. Author’s first book. $1,750.
ASIMOV, Isaac. Second Foundation. (New York, 1953.) First binding, blue boards. $1,000.
ASINOF, Eliot. Eight Men Out. New York (1963). $350.
ASKIN, John. The John Askin Papers 1747-1820. Detroit, 1928-1931. 2 vols. 13 plates and maps. $450.
“ASK Mama”; or, The Richest Commoner in England. London (1857) and 1858. (By Robert Smith Surtees.) 13 full-page color plates and 6 woodcuts by John Leech. 13 parts, red wraps. $1,750. London, 1858. Pictorial cloth. First book edition. $450.
ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (editor). The Ghost Book . . . London, 1926. $750. New York, 1927. $500.
ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia. The Child at Home. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $500. New York, 1923. $350.
ASTLE, Thomas. The Origin and Progress of Writing, as Well Hieroglyphic . . . London, 1784. 31 plates. $1,000. London, 1803. Portrait. 32 plates. $500.
ASTON, James. First Lesson. London, (1932). (By T. H. White.) $1,250. New York, 1933. $650.
ASTON, James. They Winter Abroad. London, 1932. (By T. H. White). $1,000. New York, 1932. $650.
ATALANTIS. New York, 1832. (By William Gilmore Simms.) In original wraps. $1,750.
ATGET, Eugène. Atget Photographie de Paris. Paris, 1930. $1,750. New York (1930). $1,750. Also published in German the same year. Assume issued without dust jacket.
ATHERTON, Gertrude. See Lin, Frank.
ATHERTON, Gertrude. Black Oxen. New York (1923). One of 250 signed copies. $400.
ATHERTON, Gertrude. The Conqueror. New York, 1902. First state, with page numerals on page 546 in upper left corner. $200.
ATHERTON, Gertrude. Hermia Suydam. New York, 1889. Second book, first under her own name. Wraps. $350.
ATHERTON, Gertrude. What Dreams May Come. London, 1889. First British edition of author’s first book, which was issued in America under the pseudonym Frank Lin. $300.
ATHERTON, William. Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester. Frankfort, Ky., 1842. Leather-backed boards, printed paper label. $600. Rebound. $350.
ATKINSON, George H. Address . . . Upon The Possession, Settlement, Climate and Resources of Oregon and the Northwest Coast including Some Remarks Upon Alaska. New York, 1868. Wraps, 17 pages. $500.
ATKINSON, J(ustin) Brooks. Skyline Promenades. New York, 1925. One of 500 numbered copies in bluish-gray cloth. $300. One of 1950 numbered copies in blue cloth and patterned boards. $150.
ATKINSON, Kate. Behind the Scenes at the Museum. London (1995). Author’s first book. $300. New York (1995). $60.
ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor . . . New York, 1860. Folding map. $1,000.
ATLAS of Long Island. New York: Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1873. $5,000. Auction records (1990) show a copy with 99 hand colored plates and a 13 x 50 inch fold out map of Long Island. Another in 1977 showed 159 colored plates?
ATLEE, Edwin A. An Inaugural Essay on the Influence of Music in the Cure of Diseases. Philadelphia, 1804. $2,250.
ATLEE, Philip. The Inheritors. New York, 1940. (By David Philips). Author’s first book. $2,000.
ATTACHÉ (The); or, Sam Slick in England. (First and second series.) London, 1843-4. (By Thomas Chandler Haliburton.) 2 vols. Ribbed plum-colored cloth. With 48 pages of ads at end of vol. 2 (VAB). $750. Rebound. $350.
ATTANASIO, A. A. Radix. New York, 1981. Author’s first book. Hardback. $1,000. Wraps. $75.
ATTAWAY, William. Blood on the Forge. Garden City, 1941. $350.
ATTAWAY, William. Let Me Breathe Thunder. New York, 1939. Author’s first book. $400.
ATTERLEY, Joseph. A Voyage to the Moon. New York, 1827. (By George Tucker.) $3,500.
ATWATER, Caleb. A History of the State of Ohio. Cincinnati (1838). $250.
ATWATER, Caleb. Mysteries of Washington City. Washington, 1844. Boards and leather. $500. Rebound. $250.
ATWATER, Caleb. Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; Thence to Washington City. Columbus, Ohio, 1831. $1,000.
ATWOOD, Daniel Topping. Atwood’s Modern American Homesteads. New York, 1876. 46 plates. $750.
ATWOOD, Margaret. The Animals in That Country. Toronto, 1968. $350. Wraps. $75. Boston (1968). $125.
ATWOOD, Margaret. The Circle Game. (Bloomfield Hills, 1964.) One of 2 signed copies on handmade paper. $7,500. One of 13 signed copies on Rives paper. $6,000. Contact Press. Toronto (1966). One of 50 copies. Hardbound in dust jacket. $1,750. Stiff wraps. $500. House of Anasi. Toronto, 1967. One of 100 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $2,000. Wraps. $100.
ATWOOD, Margaret. Double Persephone. Toronto, 1961. Author’s first book. About 200 copies. Wraps. $7,500.
ATWOOD, Margaret. The Edible Woman. Toronto, 1969. (U.K. sheets.) $750. London, 1969. $600. Boston, 1969. $450.
ATWOOD, Margaret. Kaleidoscopes: Baroque: A Poem. Bloomfield Hills, 1965. One of 20 copies signed by Atwood and the artist Charles Pachter. $5,000.
ATWOOD, Margaret. Power Politics. Toronto (1971). Cloth. $350. Wraps. $75. New York [1973] $125. Wraps. $35.
ATWOOD, Margaret. Snake Poems. Toronto, 1983. 16 pages in accordion binding. One of 100 signed copies. $500.
ATWOOD, Margaret. Unearthing Suite. Toronto, 1983. 16 pages in accordion binding without dust jacket. One of 150 signed copies. $350.
AUBREY-FLETCHER, Henry Lancelot. See Henry Wade.
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. See Lee, Andrew.
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. The Injustice Collectors. Boston, 1950. Author’s second book, first under own name. $300.
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. Sybil. Boston, 1952. $350.
AUDEN, W. H. See Baudelaire, Charles; Rich, Adrienne Cecile.
AUDEN, W. H. The Age of Anxiety. New York (1947). $250. London (1948). $250.
AUDEN, W. H. Another Time. New York (1940). $350. London (1940). $300.
AUDEN, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1930-1944. London (1950). $350.
AUDEN, W. H. The Dance of Death. London (1933). $450.
AUDEN, W. H. Epithalamion. Princeton, 1939. Single sheet, printed both sides, folded to make 4 pages. (About 100 printed.) $4,500.
AUDEN, W. H. Look, Stranger! London (1936). $350. (First American edition of On This Island.)
AUDEN, W. H. Louis MacNeice: A Memorial Address. London, 1963. Printed wraps. $250.
AUDEN, W. H. Marginalia. (Cambridge, Mass., 1966.) Engravings by Laurence Scott. Oblong printed wraps. One of 150 copies signed by author and artist, Laurence Scott, of which 45 copies were hors de commerce. $300. Also, perhaps, one of 26 signed lettered copies, as a copy lettered “Z” has been cataloged. $600.
AUDEN, W. H. On This Island. New York (1937). Brown cloth. (First published in London, as Look, Stranger!) $350.
AUDEN, W. H. The Orators: An English Study. London (1932). $750. London (1934). Revised edition. $200.
AUDEN, W. H. A Platonic Blow. New York, 1965. Pamphlet. One of 300 (of 310) copies. $125. Another 10 copies, 5 labeled “Rough Trade edition,” 2, the Turkey edition,” and 3 with a sealed envelope containing secret gobble relics from Auden’s body.” $1,500. (Latter two issues not seen.)
AUDEN, W. H. Poems. (Hampstead, England) 1928. Wraps. About 30 to 45 copies. $60,000.
AUDEN, W. H. Poems. London (1930). Wraps with flaps. Author’s first regularly published book. $1,250. New York (1934). Different contents. Orange cloth. $350.
AUDEN, W. H. Three Songs for St. Cecilia’s Day. (New York), 1941. Wraps. One of 250 copies. $500.
AUDEN, W. H. Two Songs. New York, 1968. Wraps. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $750. One of 100 signed copies. $450.
AUDEN, W. H., and ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin, or, Where Is Francis? London (1935). $350. New York, 1935. $200.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Art of Chromolithography Popularly Explained. New York, 1883. Folio, 44 plates. $2,500.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Art of Organ-Building. New York, 1905. 2 vols. Illustrated. $750.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan. New York, 1882-84. 2 vols. 70 plates in gold and colors, 31 in monochrome, loose in 4 cloth portfolios. Folio. $4,000. Artist’s proofs edition. One of 50 signed copies. $6,000. 2 vols. morocco. (Not signed.) $5,000.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown, and AUDSLEY, Maurice Ashdown. The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, no date [1892]. Plates A and B, and 100 numbered chromolithographic plates. Folio. In cloth box. $2,750.
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown, and BOWES, J. L. The Keramic Art of Japan. Liverpool, 1875. (80) 63 plates, 42 in gold and colors; 4 plates of potters’ marks, other illustrations. London, 1881. Half morocco. $3,000. Cloth. $2,000.
AUDSLEY, William James. Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture. London [circa 1868-70]. Folding table. Half leather and cloth. $500.
AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America from Original Drawings. London, 1827-38. 435 double elephant folio hand-colored plates without text. 87 parts in wraps, or 4 leather-bound double elephant folio vols. Rare in the original parts. $10,000,000. New York, 1840-44. 500 colored plates. 100 parts in wraps or 7 vols., full or half leather. First American and first octavo edition. $75,000. New York, 1856, the second octavo edition. $40,000. New York, 1860. Second edition of large folio. $1,000,000. New York, 1870. 8 vols., octavo. $35,000. New York (c. 1870-1871). 11 vols. (8 vols. with 500 hand-colored plates. 3 vols. with 155 tinted plates). Published by George R. Lockwood. $30,000. New York, 1937. Edited by William Vogt. 500 plates in color. One-volume edition. Buckram. One of 2,500 copies on all-rag paper. In slipcase. $300. Trade edition. Buckram. In dust jacket. $150. New York, 1966. 2 vols. $200. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-72. 4 vols. Double elephant folio or 36 paper folios in 6 wooden files. One of 250 copies. $75,000. London, 1972-73. (The Birds of America: A Selection of Plates.) 2 vols., Ariel Press, folio, half cloth. One of 250 copies. $5,000. One of 1,000 copies. $3,000. New York: Abbeyville Press, 1985, 4 vols. One of 350 copies. $60,000.
AUDUBON, John James. Journal of John James Audubon, Made During His Trip to New Orleans in 1820-21 with Journal of John James Audubon, Made While Obtaining Subscriptions to His “Birds of America,” 1840-1843. Boston, 1929. Edited by Howard Corning. 2 vols. 250 copies. Usually sold as a set. $600.
AUDUBON, John James. The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for the Birds of America. New York, 1966. Edited by Marshall B. Davidson. 2 vols. Brown cloth. In slipcase. $450.
AUDUBON, John James. Ornithological Biography; or, An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America. Edinburgh, 1831-49 (actually 1839). 5 vols. The text volumes to accompany the double elephant folios of The Birds of America. $12,500.
AUDUBON, John James. The Quadrupeds of North America. See Audubon and Bachman, The Viviparous Quadrupeds, etc.
AUDUBON, John James. A Synopsis of the Birds of America. Edinburgh, 1839. $1,000.
AUDUBON, John James, and BACHMAN, John. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York, 1845-48. 150 colored plates without text. 30 parts in wraps, or 3 vols. (vol. 1, 1845; vol. 2, 1846; vol. 3, 1848). Folio set. $1,000,000. Octavo in wraps. $50,000. New York, 1849-54. 155 hand-colored plates. 3 vols. $12,500. Later octavo editions. $10,000.
AUDUBON, John Woodhouse. Audubon’s Western Journal, 1849-50. Cleveland, 1906. Edited by Maria R. Audubon. Folding map, 6 plates. Reprint of Audubon’s extremely rare and virtually unobtainable Illustrated Notes of an Expedition Through Mexico and California. $400.
AUDUBON, John Woodhouse. The Drawings of John Woodhouse Audubon, Illustrating His Adventures Through Mexico and California. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957. 34 full-page illustrations, including 2 in color. Folio, boards, and cloth. Grabhorn printing. One of 400 copies. In plain dust jacket. $350.
AUDUBON, Maria R. Audubon and His Journals. New York, 1897. Edited by Elliot Coues. 2 vols. Plates. $400. London, 1898. $350. New York, 1900. 2 vols. $250.
AUEL, Jean M. The Clan of the Cave Bear. New York (1980). $200.
AUER, Alois. The Discovery of the Natural Printing Process. Wien, 1854. 75 pages and 19 plates (one is double-page) in folio. $4,000.
AUGUSTINE, Saint. Of the Citie of God. With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J[ohn] H[ealy]. (London) 1610. Folio. With index and errata (often lacking). $8,500. London, 1620. Second edition. Folio. $3,000.
AUGUSTINE, Saint. The Confessions of Saint Augustine. London, 1620. First English translation by Tobie Matthew. $60,000. London, 1631. William Watt’s translation. $7,500.
AUSCHER, Ernest Simon. A History and Description of French Porcelain. London, 1905. 24 plates in color. $200.
AUSTEN, Jane. See also Elizabeth Bennet; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility.
AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion. By Miss Austen. Philadelphia, 1832. 2 vols. First separate edition. Purple quarter cloth. $15,000. Rebound. $7,500.
AUSTEN, Ralph. A Treatise of Fruit-Trees Shewing the Manner of Grafting . . . Oxford, 1653. $3,500. Second edition, adds new experiments and observations. $1,250.
AUSTER, Paul. See also Paul Benjamin.
AUSTER, Paul. Autobiography of the Eye. (Portland, 1993). Photographic frontispiece by Karin Welch tipped-in, original string-tied French-fold unprinted wrappers, printed paper label, publisher’s envelope. One of 35 copies. $750.
AUSTER, Paul. City of Glass. Los Angeles, 1985. One of 26 copies. $3,000. Trade without publisher’s device on spine of dust jacket. $1,750. Device tipped on. $1,250. Reprinted with device on spine. $750.
AUSTER, Paul. Ghosts. Los Angeles, 1986. One of 26 copies. $1,250. Trade. $250.
AUSTER, Paul. The Locked Room. Los Angeles, 1986. One of 26 copies. $1,000. Retains colophon page but not lettered or signed. $300.
AUSTER, Paul. Fits and Starts. (Salisbury,1973). Poems by Jacques Dupin, translated by Auster. 100 copies signed by both and with an original signed lithograph frontispiece by Alexander Calder. Author’s first book. $1,750. (Weston,Conn., 1974). 1,000 copies in wraps. $100.
AUSTER, Paul. New York Trilogy. Los Angeles, 1994. One of 200 copies. $750. Trade. $125.
AUSTER, Paul. Unearthed. (Weston, Conn., 1974). Wraps. $350.
AUSTIN, Jane Goodwin. Fairy Dreams . . . Boston (1859). Author’s first book. $150.
AUSTIN, Mary. See aslo Adams, Ansel.
AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, 1903. Author’s first book. $500. Boston, 1950. Illustrated by Ansel Adams. $350.
AUSTIN, Mary. California, The Land of the Sun. London, 1914. Illustrated by Sutton Palmer. $300.
AUSTIN, Mary. The Lands of the Sun. Boston, 1927. New title, illustrated by E. boyd Smith. $350.
AUSTIN, Mary, and MARTIN, Ann. Suffrage and Government. New York, 1914. Printed wraps. $500.
AUTHENTIC Narrative of the Seminole War (An), and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and Her Four Female Children. Providence, R.I., 1836. Folding frontispiece in color, 24 pages, plain wraps. $22,500. New York, 1836. $17,500.
AUTHORSHIP of the Imprecatory Psalms. Boston (1852). (By Thomas Bulfinch.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,500.
AUTHORS Take Sides on the Spanish War. London: Left Review (1937). Wraps. $400.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an Ex-Colored Man (The). Boston, 1912. (By James Weldon Johnson.) Author’s first book. $4.500. First Knopf edition issued under his name, with a new introduction by Carl van Vechten, New York, 1927. $1,000.
AUTOCRAT of the Breakfast Table (The). Boston, 1858. (By Oliver Wendell Holmes.) With engraved half title, with period after word “Company” on title page, and with left endpaper at back headed “Poetry and the Drama” and right “School Books.” $1,000. Boston, 1859. Illustrated. Large-paper edition. $1,750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1955. $75.
AVEDON, Richard (photographer). See also Baldwin, James.
AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York (1993). One of 250 signed copies with a print of Marilyn Monroe laid in. Folio. 284 full-page plates in black and white. Not paginated. White cloth with paste-down portrait of Avedon on rear board. $1,750. Trade edition in dust jacket and box. $300.
AVEDON, Richard. Avedon Photographs 1947-1977. (New York, 1978.) In printed acetate dust jacket. $450.
AVEDON, Richard (photographer). Observations. New York, 1959. Text by Truman Capote. Acetate dust jacket, in slipcase. Avedon’s first book. $750. London, 1959. Also in acetate dust jacket and slipcase. $600.
AVERY, Milton. Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960. New York/London (1962). Full black oasis morocco, handbound, gilt, in cloth slipcase. Deluxe edition, one of 90 specially bound copies containing a loosely inserted original signed and numbered engraving by Avery. $6,000. Trade edition. $350.
AVIRETT, James B. The Memoirs of Gen. Turner Ashby and His Compeers. Baltimore, 1867. Portrait. Cloth. $500.
AWAHSOOSE the Bear. Forest and Stream Fables. (By Rowland Evans Robinson.) New York (1886). Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,250.
AXELROD, George. Beggar’s Choice. New York, 1947. Author’s first book. $350.
AXTON, David. Prison of Ice. Philadelphia (1976). (By Dean Koontz.) $450. London, 1976. $350.
AYDY, Catherine. The Colour of Rain. London, 1964. (By Emma Tennant, her first book.) $450.
AYESHA, The Maid of Mars. London, 1834. By the Author of “Zohrab” . . . (By James Morier.) 3 vols. $2,000.
AYRTON, Michael. Gilles de Rais. London (1945). (By Cecil Gray.) First book illustrated by Ayrton. Stiff wraps and dust jacket. One of 200 signed copies. $400.