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B., E. B. Sonnets. Reading, England, 1847 (actually 1890). By E.B.B. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 47 pages, without wraps. Thomas J. Wise’s forgery of “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” which actually appeared first in the second edition of Poems, 1850. $4,000.

B., F. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu EI-Yezdi. London (1880). Translated and annotated by his friend and pupil, F. B. (Sir Richard Burton). Yellow wraps. First issue, without Quaritch imprint. $6,000.

B., H. The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts. Oxford (1896). (By Hilaire Belloc.) Pictorial boards. $200.

B., H. M. Carmen Becceriense . . . (Surrey, 1890.) (By Max Beerbohm.) Author’s first book. 4 pages, Latin with notes in English. 2 known copies. $7,500.

B., J. K. The Lorgnette. By J.K.B. New York (1886). (By John Kendrick Bangs.) Author’s first book. $325.

B., M. Damozel Blanche. (Eton, 1891.) (By Maurice Baring.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $350.

BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London, 1832. $3,000.

BABBIT, E. D. The Principles of Light and Color. New York, 1878. $1,000.

BABBITT, E. L. The Allegheny Pilot. Freeport, Pa., 1855. 16 maps. 64 pages, wraps. $1,250.

BABCOCK, Rufus. Forty Years of Pioneer Life: Memoir of John Mason Peck. Philadelphia, 1864. $150.

BABEL, Isaac. Red Calvary. New York, 1929. $1,750.

BACA, Jimmy Santiago. Jimmy Santiago Baca. No place [Santa Barbara] (1978). $125.

BACH, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. (New York, 1970.) $350.

BACHELLER, Irving. The Master of Silence. New York, 1892. Author’s first book. $150.

BACK, Sir George. Narrative of the Arctic Land . . . London, 1836. Folding map and 16 plates. $2,750.

BACKHOUSE, Janet. The Madresfield Hours. London: Roxburghe Club, 1975. $500.

BACON, Delia S(alter). Tales of the Puritans. New Haven, 1831. Author’s first book. $600.

BACON, Sir Francis. Letters . . . London, 1702. $200.

BACON, Sir Francis. The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. London, 1605. $10,000.

BACON, Leonard. The Ballad of Blonay . . . Vevy, 1906. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

BACON, Peggy. Funeralities. New York (1925). Original etching signed as the frontispiece. One of 250 copies. $600.

BACON, Peggy. The True Philospher . . . Boston, 1919. Author’s first book. $200.

BADDELEY, John F. The Rugged Flanks of Caucasus. London, 1940. 2 vols. 9 maps (8 extending) and 38 plates. $2,000.

BADEN-POWELL, S. S. Aids to Scouting for N.C.O.s and Men. Gale & Polden, no date [1899]. Small pocket size, red cloth wraps. Ads on endpapers. $1,000.

BADGER, Mrs. C. M. Floral Bells from the Green-House & Garden. New York, 1867. With 16 hand-colored lithographed plates. $2,000.

BADGER, Mrs. C. M. Wild Flowers Drawn and Coloured from Nature. New York and London, 1859. With 22 full-page color lithographs. $2,000.

BAER, Elizabeth. Seventeenth Century Maryland, A Bibliography. Baltimore, 1949. One of 300 copies. $300.

BAGNOLD, Enid. National Velvet. London, 1935. $1,250. New York, 1935. $450.

BAGSTER, Samuel. The Management of Bees. London, 1834. Hand-colored frontispiece. $800.

BAHR, Howard. The Black Flower. Baltimore, 1997. First issue without Southern Living blurb on dust jacket. $250.

BAHR, Jerome. All Good Americans. New York, 1937. Preface by Ernest Hemingway. Blue cloth. $250. Reissued in yellow cloth, 1939 (with “A” on copyright page, an exception to the Scribner method of marking only first editions with an “A”). $75.

BAILEY, H. C. Garstons. London (1930). $2,000. Garden City, 1930, as The Garston Murder Case. $350.

BAILEY, H. C. The Great Game. London, 1939. $750.

BAILEY, H. C. The Red Castle. London (1932). $2,000. Garden City (1932). As The Red Castle Mystery. $1,750.

BAILEY, Washington. A Trip to California in 1853. (LeRoy, Ill.), 1915. Portrait. Printed wraps. $1,000.

BAILY, Francis. Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797. London, 1856. $750.

BAIN, Alexander. The Emotions and the Will. London, 1859. Blind-embossed brown cloth. $300.

BAINBRIDGE, Beryl. A Weekend with Claude. (London), 1967. Author’s first book. $200.

BAINBRIDGE, George C. The Fly-Fisher’s Guide. Liverpool, 1816. 8 colored plates. $1,500. One of 12 large-paper copies. $2,500.

BAINES, Thomas. The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa. London, 1877. Folding map in rear pocket. $900.

BAIRD, Joseph A. California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869. San Francisco, 1967. Grabhorn printing. One of 475 signed copies. In plain dust jacket. $300.

BAIRD, Spencer F., BREWER, T. M.; and RIDGWAY, R. A History of North American Birds. Boston, 1874. 3 vols. 64 hand-colored plates. $1,500. Boston, 1875. 3 vols. Second edition. 36 hand-colored and unnumbered plates and 64 chromolithographed numbered plates. $1,750.

BAIRD, Spencer F., BREWER, T. M., and RIDGWAY, R. The Water Birds of North America. Boston, 1884. 2 vols. Hand-colored illustrations. Cloth. $1,000.

BAKER, Asa. Mum’s the Word for Murder. New York, 1938. (By Davis Dresser.) Author’s first book. $1,250.

BAKER, Carlos H. Shadows in the Stone. Hanover, N.H. 1930. Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 125 signed copies. $300.

BAKER, Charles H. Collins. Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters. London, 1912. 2 vols. 240 reproductions. One of 350 copies (50 for U.S.). $700. Vellum. One of 30 copies, with an extra set of plates. $1,250.

BAKER, D. W. C. (compiler). A Texas Scrap-Book. New York (1875). $600.

BAKER, David Erskine. Biographia Dramatica, Or, A Companion to the Playhouse . . . Various publishers. London, 1812. 3 vols. Third edition. $750.

BAKER, David Erskine. The Companion to the Playhouse. London, 1764. 2 vols. $1,500.

BAKER, Dorothy. Young Man with a Horn. (Boston) 1938. $300. London, 1938. $200.

BAKER, Elliott. A Fine Madness. New York (1964). $150. London (1964). $75.

BAKER, George. The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton. London, 1822-41. 2 vols. 39 plates. $2,500.

BAKER, Howard. Orange Valley. New York (1931). $1,000.

BAKER, Hozial H. Overland Journey to Carson Valley, Utah. Seneca Falls, N.Y., 1861. Woodcut frontispiece and other illustrations. 38 pages, yellow printed wraps. $7,500 or more. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1973. In plain dust jacket. $75.

BALDWIN, James. Giovanni’s Room. New York, 1956. $600. London (1957). $250.

BALDWIN, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York, 1953. Author’s first book. $2,500. London, 1954. $450. Franklin Center, 1979. Signed. $175.

BALDWIN, James. If Beale Street Could Talk. New York, 1974. Leatherette. One of 250 signed copies, in slipcase. $300. Trade. $75. London (1974). $60.

BALDWIN, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston (1955). First issue dust jacket without blurbs. $1,000. In later dust jacket. $350. London (1964). $150.

BALDWIN, James. Nothing Personal. (New York, 1964). Photographs by Richard Avedon. Boards. Issued without dust jacket. In slipcase. $850. London (1964). $450.

BALDWIN, James. The Story of Siegfried. New York, 1882. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Pictorial cloth. $250.

BALDWIN, Joseph G. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. New York, 1853. $250.

BALDWIN, Joseph G. Remarks of Mr. Baldwin . . . No place or date [Montgomery, AL, 1843-44]. 16-page pamphlet. Author’s first book. $1,500.

BALFOUR, James. Reminiscenses of Golf on St. Andrews Links. Edinburgh, 1887. Original wraps. $8,500. Carlinville, 1982. Reprint. One of 300 copies. $500.

BALL, John. In the Heat of the Night. New York (1965). $850.

BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. Hudson’s Bay . . . Edinburgh, 1848. Author’s first book. $2,500. Edinburgh/London, 1848. $400.

Ballantyne Press and Its Founders ( The). Edinburgh, 1909. $150.

BALLARD, Ellis Ames. Catalogue, Intimate and Descriptive of My Kipling Collection . . . Philadelphia, 1935. One of 120 copies. $200.

BALLARD, J. G. The Atrocity Exhibition. London (1970). $450.

BALLARD, J. G. The Crystal World. London (1966). $1,250.

BALLARD, J. G. The Day of Creation. London, 1987. One of 100 signed copies. In slipcase. $375. Trade. $90.

BALLARD, J. G. The Drought. London (1965). $1,000.

BALLARD, J. G. The Drowned World. London, 1962. First issue: red boards. $2,500. New York (1962). $250.

BALLARD, J. G. Empire of the Sun. London, 1984. One of 100 copies signed by the author. In slipcase. $350. Trade. $100.

BALSTON, Thomas. William Balston, Paper Maker, 1759-1849. London, 1954. $150.

BALTES, F. W. The Cost of Printing, A System in Practical Operation . . . Portland, 1894. $100.

BALWHIDDER, The Rev. Micah. Annals of the Parish; or The Chronicle of Dalmailing. Edinburgh, 1821. (By John Galt.) $300.

BALMER, Edwin and Philip Wylie. When Worlds Collide. New York, 1933. $8,500.

BALMER, Edwin and William Macharg. The Achievements of Luther Trant. Boston (1910). $350.

BANCROFT, Edward. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours. London, 1794. Vol. 1. (All published.) $1,500. Philadelphia, 1814. 2 vols. Enlarged and improved. $1,500.

BANCROFT, George. Poems. Cambridge, Mass., 1823. $350.

BANCROFT, George. Prospectus of a School . . . (Cambridge, 1823). With J. C. Coggswell. Author’s first book. Wraps. $225.

BANCROFT, H. H. History of the North Mexican States and Texas, 1521-1889. San Francisco, 1883-1889. Two thick volumes. $300.

BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco, 1883-1890. 39 vols. Illustrated. Cloth. $5,000. In half calf or sheep. $15,000.

BANDELIER, Adolph F. The Gilded Man. New York, 1893. $100.

BANDINI, Joseph. A Description of California in 1828. Berkeley, Calif., 1951. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. One of 400 copies. $85.

BANGS, John Kendrick. See B., J. K.

BANGS, John Kendrick. Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmie Boy. New York, 1902. Illustrated by Peter Newell. Decorated cloth. $150.

BANGS, John Kendrick. Mephistopheles: A Profanation. New York, 1889. Red wraps. $200.

BANGS, John Kendrick. Mr. Munchausen. Boston, 1901. First state, with Small, Maynard copyright. (Not seen by BAL.) $150. Second state overstamped with “Noyes, Platt & Co.” $100.

BANGS, John Kendrick. R. Holmes & Co. New York, 1906. $250.

BANGS, John Kendrick. Roger Camerden. New York, 1887. Wraps. $225.

BANKS, Ian. The Wasp Factory. London, 1984. Author’s first book. $350.

BANNEKER, The Afric-American Astronomer. From the Posthumous Papers of Martha E. Tyson. Philadelphia, 1884. (Edited by her Daughter.) Introduction by Anne T. Kirk (who is presumably the author). $1,000.

BANNERMAN, Helen. Sambo and the Twins. New York (1936). $300.

BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: Grant Richards, 1899. Colored plates. Original pale green cloth lettered and stamped in dark green with ruled borders and vertical stripes. Issued as the fourth volume in “Dumpy Books for Children.” $15,000. New York [1901]. $2,500.

BANTA, William, and CALDWELL, J. W., Jr. Twenty-Seven Years on the Frontier, or Fifty Years in Texas. Austin, 1893. Frontispiece. Wraps. $3,000.

BANTOCK, Miles. On Many Greens. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1901. $550.

BANVILLE, John. Long Lankin. London, 1970. Author’s first book. $500.

BARBE-MARBOIS, Francois. The History of Louisiana, Particularly the Cession of That Colony to the U.S.A. Philadelphia, 1830. First edition in English. $750.

BARDIN, John Franklin. The Deadly Percheron. New York, 1946. $500.

BARFIELD, Owen. Dancer, Ugliness and Waste. (London, no date [circa 1922-24].) Wraps. $350.

BARFIELD, Owen. History in English Words. London, 1926. 8 pages of advertisements. $250.

BARHAM, Richard Harris. See Ingoldsby, Thomas.

BARING, Maurice. See B., M.

BARING, Maurice. Algae: An Anthology of Phrases. London, 1928. Wraps, paper label. One of 100 signed copies. In dust jacket and slipcase. $125.

BARING-GOULD, Sabine. The Book of Were-Wolves. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1865. In original cloth. $1,800.

BARKER, A(udrey) L(illian). Innocents. London, 1947. $400. New York, 1948. $50.

BARKER, Clive. The Books of Blood. London, 1984-85. Vols I-VI. Author’s first book. Wraps. $300. London (1985-86). 6 vols. Cloth. One of 200 signed copies. $750. Trade edition. $250.

BARKER, Eugene, C. The Life of Stephen F. Austin. Nashville, 1925. 2 maps, plan, 6 portraits. Boards and vellum. One of 250 signed copies. $450. Trade edition. $175.

BARKER, George. Alanna Autumnal. London, 1932. $250.

BARKER, George (Granville). Catalog of Emotions. (London), 1932. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

BARKER, George. Poems. London (1935). $125.

BARKER, George. Thirty Preliminary Poems. London, 1933. In glassine dust jacket. $200.

BARKER, Matthew Henry. The Old Sailor’s Jolly Boat. London, 1844. 24 full-page engravings by George and Robert Cruikshank. $100.

BARKER, Pat. Union Street. London (1982). $500. New York (1983). $175.

BARLOW, Joel. The Columbiad: A Poem. Philadelphia, 1807. Portrait and 11 plates. (New edition of The Vision of Columbus, see below.) $300.

BARLOW, Joel. Joel Barlow to His Fellow Citizens of the United States. (Caption title.) (Philadelphia, 1799.) $250. (Philadelphia, 1801.) Second American edition. $150.

BARLOW, Joel. The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. Hartford, 1787. $1,000. (Reprinted as The Columbiad.)

BARLOW, Percival. The General History of Europe… London (1790). 2 volumes. 19 maps and 51 plates. $3,500.

BARLOW, William. The Navigators Supply. London, 1597. Author’s first book. Engraved title and 7 folding plates. $55,500.

BARNARD, Edward Emerson. A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Washington, D.C., 1927. 2 vols. 51 mounted glossy photographic plates. Original brown cloth, gilt. One of 700 copies. $8,000.

BARNARD, George. The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting . . . London, 1855. 43 woodcuts and figures. Gilt decorated cover. $500.

BARNARD, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign. New York (1866). 61 gold-toned albumen prints, mounted, with lithographic captions. Oblong folio, morocco. $125,000.

BARNARD, Robert. Death of an Old Goat. London, 1974. $450. New York (1977). $125.

BARNES, David M. The Draft Riots in New York, July, 1863. New York, 1863. 117 pages, wraps, or cloth. $500.

BARNES, Demas. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Overland, A Series of Letters . . . Describing a Trip from New York, Via Chicago, Atchison . . . New York, 1866. $150.

BARNES, Djuna. See Ladies Almanack.

BARNES, Djuna. A Book. New York (1923). 6 portraits. Black boards, paper label. $1,500.

BARNES, Djuna. The Book of Repulsive Women. (New York, 1915.) Author’s first book. Illustrated. Gold wraps. $1,200. Yonkers, 1948. Stiff wraps. One of 1,000 copies. $100.

BARNES, Djuna. A Night Among the Horses. New York, 1929. $1,000.

BARNES, Djuna. Nightwood. London (1936). $500. New York (1937). Introduction by T. S. Eliot. $300.

BARNES, Djuna. Ryder. New York, 1928. $750.

BARNES, Julian. See also Kavanagh, Dan.

BARNES, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot. London (1984). $400. New York, 1985. $125.

BARNES, Julian. Metroland. London (1980). Author’s first book. $350. New York, 1980. $125.

BARNES, Will C. Apaches and Longhorns. Los Angeles, 1941. Edited by Frank C. Lockwood. Illustrated. $200.

BARNES, Will C. Tales from the X-Bar Horse Camp. Chicago, 1920. $300.

BARNES, William C., McCANN, Joseph W., and DUG, Alexander. A Collation of Facts Relative to Fast Typesetting . . . New York, 1887. $600.

BARNEY, James M. Tales of Apache Warfare. (Phoenix) 1933. 45 pages, wraps. $250.

BARNEY, Natalie C. See Tryphe.

BARNEY, Natalie C. The One Who Is Legion. London, 1930. $350.

BARNEY, Natalie C. Poems & Poemes. Paris & New York (1920). Wraps. Copies on blue paper. $350. White paper. $250.

BARNEY, Natalie C. Quelques Portraits. Paris, 1900. Author’s first book. $600.

BARNUM, Phineas Taylor. The Life of P. T. Barnum. New York, 1855. Author’s first book. $200.

BARR, James. Derricks. New York (1951). $150.

BARR, Louise Farrow. Presses of Northern California and Their Books, 1900-1933. Berkeley, 1934. One of 400 copies. $250.

BARR, Nevada. Bittersweet. New York (1984). Author’s first book. $650.

BARR, Nevada. Track of the Cat. New York (1993). Author’s first mystery. $350.

BARR, Robert. The Triumph of Eugene Valmont. London, 1906. $500.

BARRETT, E. B. The Battle of Marathon: A Poem. London, 1820. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) (50 copies.) $100,000.

BARRETT, Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1844. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 2 vols. With ads in vol. 1 dated June 1. $2,500. No ads. $750. London, 1850. 2 vols. Brown cloth. Second edition, first issue, with single address in imprint, called “New Edition.” (First appearance of “Sonnets from the Portuguese” in a book.) $1,500.

BARRETT, Elizabeth B. The Seraphim and Other Poems. London, 1838. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Original cloth. $500.

BARRETT, Elizabeth, and BROWNING, Robert. Two Poems. London, 1854. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Printed wraps. $650.

BARRETT, Ellen C. Baja California, 1535-1956: A Bibliography. Los Angeles, 1957. Blue cloth. One of 500 copies. $350. Also, one of 50 signed copies. $600.

BARRETT, Timothy. Nagashizuki: The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking. North Hills, 1979. One of 300 copies. $450.

BARRIE, Sir James M. See The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899.

BARRIE, Sir James M. The Admirable Crichton. London (1914). Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. $350. One of 500 copies signed by Thomson. $1,500.

BARRIE, Sir James M. Auld Licht Idylls. London, 1888. First issue, with black endpapers (VAB). (Bibliographies call for green end papers). $450.

BARRIE, Sir James M. Better Dead. London, 1888 (actually 1887). Author’s first book. Pictorial glazed yellow (or buff) wraps. $2,000.

BARRIE, Sir James M. An Edinburgh Eleven. London, 1889. (“Gavin Ogilvy” on front cover and “J. M. Barrie” on title page.) First issue in wraps. $150. Later issue same date; gray cloth. $75.

BARRIE, Sir James M. The Little Minister. London, 1891. 3 vols. Brown cloth. With 16 pages of ads in vol. 1. $900.

BARRIE, Sir James M. My Lady Nicotine. London, 1890. First issue, with 6 pages of ads at back. $300.

BARRIE, Sir James M. Peter and Wendy. London (1911). $3,500. New York (1911). $2,500.

BARRIE, Sir James M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906. Illustrated in color and black-and-white by Arthur Rackham. Vellum. One of 500 copies signed by Rackham. $13,000. Trade edition in cloth. $3,000. New York, 1906. $1,650.

BARRIE, Sir James M. Quality Street. (London, 1913.) Vellum with silk ties. One of 1,000 illustrated and signed by Hugh Thomson. $500. Trade issue. Cloth. $175.

BARROW, John. A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions. London, 1818. Illustrated, folding map. $1,200.

BARROW, John. Travels in China . . . London, 1804. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (2 folding and 4 hand-colored). $2,500.

BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, 1792-1793. London, 1806. Double-page map, double-page chart, 19 colored aquatint plates. $6,500.

BARROWS, R. M. (compiler). The Kitbook for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines. Chicago (1942 - facing title page). Pictorial boards. In pictorial mailing box. (Contains J. D. Salinger’s story “The Hang of It,” his first book appearance.) $2,000. Without mailing box. $750. Chicago (1943). With box. $450. More common without box. $150.

BARROWS, Willard. Notes on Iowa Territory. Cincinnati, 1845. Folding map. 46 pages, cloth, printed front cover label. $4,000.

BARRY, T. A., and PATTEN, B. A. Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the “Spring of ‘50.” San Francisco, 1873. 2 plates. Flexible cloth. $250.

BARTELL, Edmund. Hints for Picturesque Improvements in Ornamented Cottages and Their Scenery . . . London, 1804. 6 plates. $1,000.

BARTH, John. The End of the Road. Garden City, 1958. $500. London, 1962. $150.

BARTH, John. The Floating Opera. New York (1956). Author’s first book. $500. Garden City, 1967. Revised. $75. London (1968). $125.

BARTH, John. Giles Goat-Boy. Garden City, 1966. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $350. Trade. With “H18” on last page of text. $125. London (1967). $100.

BARTH, John. Lost in the Funhouse. Garden City, 1968. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $175. Trade. $75. London (1969). $75.

BARTH, John. The Sot-Weed Factor. Garden City, 1960. $600. London, 1961. $150.

BARTHELME, Donald. Come Back, Dr. Caligari. Boston (1964). Author’s first regularly published book. $300. With tipped-in signed page. $600. In wraps. $75. London, 1966. $100.

BARTHELME, Donald. The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine… New York, 1971. $150.

BARTHELME, Donald. Snow White. New York, 1967. $200. London, 1968. $100.

BARTHELME, Donald. Two Stories From Dr. Caligari. (Boston) 1964. Author’s first book. Unbound sheets in box. (Promotional item). $650.

BARTLETT, Edward. A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds . . . (Maidstone, 1888-89.) Parts 1 to 5 in one volume. 31 plates. Ranges from $2,500 with some plates hand-colored to $6,000 with all hand-colored.

BARTLETT, Edward Everett. The Typographic Treasures in Europe and a Study of Contemporaneous Book Production . . . New York, 1925. One of 580 copies. $125.

BARTLETT, John. See A Collection of Familiar Quotations.

BARTLETT, John Russell. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California . . . New York, 1854. 2 vols. Folding map. 44 plates, pictorial cloth. $2,500. London, 1854. 2 vols. $1,000.

BARTON, James L. Commerce of the Lakes. Buffalo, 1847. Folding table. 80 pages. Wraps. $750.

BARTON, William P. C. Compendium Florae Philadelphicae . . . Philadelphia, 1818. 2 vols. $750.

BARTON, William P. C. A Flora of North America. Philadelphia, 1821-23. 3 vols. 106 hand-colored plates. $7,000.

BARTON, William P. C. The Vegetable Materia Medica Of The U.S.; Or Medical Botany . . . Philadelphia, 1817-1818. 2 vols. 50 hand-colored plates. $9,000.

BARTRAM, John. Observations on the Inhabitants… London, 1751. $9,500.

BARTRAM, William. Travels Through North & South Carolina. Philadelphia, 1791. Author’s first book. Folding map, 8 plates, including frontispiece. $14,000. London, 1792. $7,500. Dublin, 1793. $2,500.

BARZUN, Jacques Martin. Samplings and Chronicles. (Edited by J.M.B.) New York, 1927. (500 copies.) $125.

BASKIN, Leonard. Ars Anatomica, A Medical Fantasia, Thirteen Drawings. New York (1972). Contains two sets of 13 suites enclosed in portfolio. One of 300 signed sets. $475. One of 2,500 signed copies. $500.

BASKIN, Leonard. Demons, Imps & Friends. (Northampton, MA) 1976. 18 plates of illustrations. One of 450 signed copies by Baskin. $350.

BASKIN, Leonard. To Colour Thought. New Haven, 1967. One of 300 copies. In slipcase. $450.

BASKIN, Leonard. The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin, 1948-1959. Northampton, 1961. 168 signed engravings. Folio, loose in half-morocco case. One of 24 copies. $10,000.

BASS, Rick. The Deer Pasture. College Station, 1985. Author’s first book. $225.

BASS, W. W. (editor). Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado by Two of Its Earliest Explorers, James White and H. W. Hawkins. Grand Canyon, 1920. Frontispiece, plate, facsimiles. 38 pages, wraps. $600.

BATCHELOR, John Calvin. The Further Adventures of Haley’s Comet. New York, 1980. Author’s first book. Cloth. $300. Wraps. $100.

BATEMAN, Ed W. The Instinct Never Dies. No place, 1931. Full limp cowhide. $7,500 or more.

BATES, Ed. F. History . . . of Denton County Texas. Denton, Tex. (1918). Plates. Cloth. $1,000.

BATES, H. E. The Beauty of the Dead, and One Other Story. Corvinus Press. London, 1941. One of 25 copies. $1,000.

BATES, H. E. Flowers and Faces. London: Golden Cockerel Press. 1935. Engravings by John Nash. One of 325 copies. $800.

BATES, H. E. A German Idyll. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. $400.

BATES, H. E. The Last Bread: A Play in One Act. London (1926). Author’s first book. Wraps. $250.

BATES, H. E. Sally Go Round the Moon. London, 1932. White Owl Press. One of 21 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,000. Trade. $400.

BATES, H. E. The Story Without an End. (London): White Owl Press, 1932. One of 25 signed copies, with a leaf of manuscript. $1,000.

BATES, H. E. The Two Sisters. London, 1926. $500.

BATES, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazon. London: John Murray, 1863. 2 vols. Folding map. 9 engraved plates. $2,750.

BATES, J. H. Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California. New York, 1887. $400.

BATESON, F. W. (editor). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge, 1940. 5 vols. $500.

BATESON, William. Mendel’s Principles of Heredity. Cambridge, 1902. In original cloth. $1,250.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Intimate Journals. London, 1930. Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Introduction by T. S. Eliot. One of 400 copies in slipcase. $400. One of 50 copies signed by Eliot. $3,000. New York, 1930. $250. Hollywood, 1947. Revised edition, with W. H. Auden introduction. $100.

BAUER, Max. Precious Stones. London, 1904. Translated from the German by L. J. Spencer. 20 colored plates. Half morocco. $425.

NOTE: The bibliography is a necessity for the Oz books, see Bibliography of Works Consulted.

BAUM, L. Frank. American Fairy Tales. Chicago, 1901. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $1,250. Chicago (1908). With 3 additional series, a new author note, and 16 new color plates by George Kerr. $750.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Army Alphabet. Chicago, 1900. Illustrated by Harry Kennedy. Pictorial boards. $2,750.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Book of Hamburgs. Hartford, 1886. Author’s first book. $7,500.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger. Chicago (1923). Color plates. Boards. $400.

BAUM, L. Frank. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Chicago (1908). Illustrated by John R. Neill. 16 full-color inserts. First issue, with “The Reilly & Britton Co.” at bottom of spine versus “Reilly & Britton.” $1,800. Second issue. $900.

BAUM, L. Frank. Dot and Tot of Merryland. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1901. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Gilt-pictorial cloth. $2,000.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Chicago, 1910. First printing page depth is 1 1/4-inches (later printings about 1 3/8-inches thick). $2,500.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Enchanted Island of Yew. Indianapolis (1903). Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. First state with Braunworth’s imprint on copyright page, and illustration on page 238 incorrectly positioned over text. $1,000. Second state. $450.

BAUM, L. Frank. Father Goose’s Year Book. Chicago (1907). Illustrated. $500.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis, 1902. First state with headings “Book First,” “Book Second, and “Book Third.” $1,250. Second state with headings “Youth,” “Manhood,” and “Old Age.” $850.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Little Wizard Series. Chicago (1913). 6 vols. Each a first edition. In wraps stapled in center. Printed on highly calendered, semi-glossy paper stock with shadowed areas below lion and tiger on endpapers printed in solid blue. $6,000. Second issue on slightly rough wove paper stock with shadowed area in blue half-tone stipple. $3,000.

BAUM, L. Frank. Little Wizard Stories of Oz. Chicago (1914). 6 vols in one. First state in yellow cloth with color pictorial label on front cover and one inch thick. $750.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Chicago, 1904. First issue, without “Published July, 1904” on copyright page. $6,000. With date on copyright page. $3,500. With title on cover shortened to “The Land of Oz.” $350. (All have 1904 on title page.)

BAUM, L. Frank. The Master Key. Indianapolis (1901). Illustrated in color by Fanny Cory. Olive-green cloth. First issue, with signatures of 8 pages and second line on copyright page 1 21/32 inches wide. $850. Second issue, signatures of 16 pages. $600. Third issue, second line on copyright page 1 25/32 inches wide. $500.

BAUM, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago (1897). Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, (his first book of illustrations). Way & Williams. Pictorial cloth. First issue with gatherings of 8 and 4 leaves at end concluding on page (268). $8,500. Chicago: Hill (1901). 12 plates. Pictorial cloth. $2,250.

BAUM, L. Frank. A New Wonderland. New York, 1900. Illustrated by Frank Verbeck. Pictorial endpapers. $7,500. Secondary binding with blank endpapers. $3,500.

BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. Chicago (1907). First issue, with illustration in color on page 221, and spine imprint “The Reilly & Britton Co.” $3,000. Second issue “Reilly & Britton.” $950.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1913). Light-green pictorial cloth. First state, with the “C” in chapter 3 touching text. $2,000. Second state with correction, in light-tan cloth. $850.

BAUM, L. Frank. Queen Zixi of Ix. New York, 1905. First state with terra-cotta and black text illustrations on pages 169-236. $750. Second state, with illustrations in turquoise and black on pages 169-84 and 221-36. $450.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Road to Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1909). First two pages of ads at end with color-tinted text sheets. $3,000. Later printings have an ad for Rinkitink in Oz (1916), on verso of ownership page.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Sea Fairies. Chicago (1911). First issue, with three heads on cover label. $900. Second issue has cover label showing girl on a sea horse. $400.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Songs of Father Goose. Chicago, 1900. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Colored pictorial boards. $1,000.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Wishing Horse of Oz. Chicago (1935). Illustrated by John R. Neill. includes 12 color plates. Color pictorial label. Dust jacket repeats cover design. $1,750.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Woggle-Bug Book. Chicago, 1905. Illustrated by Ike Morgan. First state: front cover printed in colors, background is field of gray-green, no printing on back cover. $4,500. Second state: front cover background is field of pale-yellow and yellow lettering on back cover. $3,250.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York, 1900. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Green cloth. First issue, with publisher’s ads enclosed in box on page 2 and at end of book, and with an 11-line colophon. Publisher’s imprint at base of spine stamped in green. $90,000. Second issue, with no box around ads, colophon in 13 lines, and imprint stamped in red. $35,000. (There are other points, and mixed states seem common.) NY, 1982. One of 500 copies signed by illustrator Michael Hague. In slipcase. $100. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. First 25 numbered copies (out of 350 copies) with extra suite of 62 wood engravings each signed and numbered by the artist Barry Moser. $7,500. Remaining 325 copies signed by Moser. $2,000.

BAUM, L. Frank. The Yellow Hen. Chicago (1916). First state, without ads for 6-vol. series on verso of ownership leaf. $1,000. Second state, with ads. $350.

BAX, Clifford (editor). Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1941. Boards, linen spine, paper label. One of 500 copies. In tissue dust jacket. $250.

BAX, Clifford. Twenty Chinese Poems. Hampstead, 1910. $125.

BAXLEY, H. Willis. What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands. New York, 1865. $250.

BAXTER, Charles. Chameleon. New York, 1970. Wraps. $475.

BAXTER, Stephen. Anti-Ice. (London, 1993.) $450.

BAY, J. Christian. A Handful of Western Books with a Second Handful of Western Books with a Third Handful of Western Books. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1935-36-37. 3 vols. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. Limited to 350, 400, and 400 copies, respectively. Issued in tissue dust jackets. Together, the 3 vols. $400. Odd vols. $100-$150 each.

BAY, J. Christian. Three Handfuls of Western Books. (Cedar Rapids) 1941. (Combined 1-vol. edition of preceding items.) Boards. One of 35 copies. $150.

BAYLDON, Oliver. The Paper Maker’s Craft. Leicester, 1965. Limited to “less than 400 copies.” $250.

BAYLEY, Harold. A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems. London (1909). $200.

BAYLIES, Francis. A Narrative of General Wool’s Campaign in Mexico. Albany, 1851. Frontispiece. 78 pages, printed yellow wraps. $400.

BEACH, Rex. Pardners. New York, 1905. Author’s first book. $125.

BEACH, Rex. Spoilers. New York, 1905. $125.

BEADLE, Clayton. Chapters on Papermaking. London, 1908-9. 5 vols. $150.

BEAGLE, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place. New York, 1960. Author’s first book. $175. London, 1960. $75.

BEAGLE, Peter S. The Last Unicorn. New York (1968). $500.

BEAJEAN, Jean. Jiu-Jitsu Partie Judo. Paris, 1954. One of 1,250 copies. $300.

BEALE, Charles Willing. The Secret of the Earth. New York (1899). Wraps. $1,000.

BEALE, Joseph Henry. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge (1926). $200.

BEALS, Carleton. The Crime of Cuba. Philadelphia (1933). 31 photographs by Walker Evans. His first book appearance. $600.

BEAN, Edwin F. (compiler). Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Nevada, Calif., 1867. Half leather and boards. $7,500.

BEARD, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York, 1913. $200.

BEARD, Charles A. The Office of the Justice . . . New York, 1904. Author’s first book. Wraps. $175.

BEARD, Charles R. A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Frederick John Nettlefold. (London), 1936. 31 color plates, 46 in black-and-white. Half brown morocco. $650. Cloth. $500.

BEARD, James. Hors D’Oeuvres and Canapes. New York (1940). Author’s first book. $500.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1897. $850. One of 50 on vellum. $1,500.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Second Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1899. One of 1,000 copies. $600. One of 50 copies on vellum. $5,000.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier’s Romance, “Mademoiselle de Maupin.” London, 1898. 6 plates, loose in half-cloth portfolio, silk ties. One of 50 copies. $1,250.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Story of Venus and Tannhauser: A Romantic Novel. London, 1907. One of 250 copies on handmade paper. $500. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Uncollected Work. London (1925). Profusion of plates by Beardsley. Gilt-pictorial cloth. $500. One of 110 copies on Japan vellum. $1,000.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London, 1904. 16 illustrations by the author. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000. Trade edition. $1,000.

BEASLEY, Gertrude. My First Thirty Years . . . (Paris, 1925.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $850.

BEATON, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London (1930). 27 photographic plates, 90 text drawings. Buckram. One of 110 signed copies. $1,500. Trade edition. $750.

BEATON, George. Jack Robinson. London (1933). (By Gerald Brenan.) $400. New York, 1934. $150.

BEATTIE, Ann. Chilly Scenes of Winter. Garden City, 1976. (Issued simultaneously with Distortions.) $125.

BEATTIE, Ann. Distortions. Garden City, 1976. Author’s first book. $150.

BEATTIE, Ann. Jacklighting. Worcester, 1981. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. In dust jacket. $300. One of 250 signed copies in wraps. $125.

BEATTIE, Ann. Manhattan. South Dennis, Mass., 2004. 75 numbered copies signed by Tom Baril, the photographer. Portfolio of twelve signed, hand-pulled photogravures. Companion book with original story “Perennials” by Ann Beattie, printed in letterpress on cotton. $12,500.

BEATTIE, William. Switzerland Illustrated. London, 1836. 2 vols. With 2 engraved titles, folding map, and 106 plates by W. H. Bartlett. $1,750.

BEAUCHAMPE: or, the Kentucky Tragedy. Philadelphia, 1842. (By William Gilmore Simms.) 2 vols. $600.

BEAUMONT, Charles. The Hunger and Other Stories. New York (1957). (By Charles Nutt.) $500.

BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The History of Harlequin. London, 1926. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell. 44 plates (5 colored), text decorations by Claudia Guercio. Decorated parchment boards, vellum spine. One of 325 copies. $600.

BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Puppets and the Puppet Stage. London, 1938. 110 pages of illustrations. Illustrated wraps. $200. Cloth without dust jacket. $75.

BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John. Comedies and Tragedies Written by . . . London, 1647. Folio. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall with “vates duplex” in line 4 of the lower caption. $7,500.

BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in Woven Design. London, 1890. Cloth. 32 color plates. $175.

BEAUMONT, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburg, N.Y., 1833. 3 engravings. $4,500. Boston, 1834. Second issue (first edition sheets with Boston title page). $1,500. Edinburgh, 1838. First English edition. $1,250.

BEAUMONT, William. The Physiology of Digestion. Burlington, Vt., 1847. Edited by Samuel Beaumont. Cloth. Second edition of Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice. $750.

BEAUVOIR, Simone de. The Mandarins. New York (1976). One of 500 signed copies. In glassine and slipcase. $200.

BECK, Lewis C. A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri. Albany, 1823. Folding map, 5 plates. $2,500.

BECKER, Robert H. Disenos of California Ranchos . . . San Francisco, 1964. Grabhorn printing. One of 400 copies. $650.

BECKETT, Samuel. See Crowder, Henry; Gorey, Edward.

BECKETT, Samuel. All Strange Away. No place [New York], (1976). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 200 copies signed by both. In slipcase. $1,250. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. $3,500.

BECKETT, Samuel. All That Fall: A Play. New York (1957). $250. One of 100 specially bound copies. $500. One of 25 signed copies. $5,000. Wraps (“Holiday Greeting”). $150. London, 1957. Wraps. $150.

BECKETT, Samuel. Beginning to End. New York, 1988. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 300 signed by both. Pictorial boards. $1,750. One of 26 signed. $4,500.

BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go: Dramaticule. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. In cloth issued without dust jacket, in slipcase. $3,000. Trade. In wraps. $75.

BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. 30 pages, printed wraps. One of 25 copies on Normandy vellum, signed. $10,000. One of 250 copies on Alfa paper, unsigned. $2,500. One of 50 hors de commerce. $1,500. There were also 2 copies, A & B, for author and publisher.

BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. New York (1958). Boards. First American edition. One of 100 numbered copies. $2,500. Translated by the author. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500. Trade. Cloth. $350. Wraps. $35. London (1958). $300.

BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. New York, 1964. $100. London (1964). (Series A and Series B.) Translated from the French by the author. 2 issues, vellum and morocco. Each, 100 signed copies. In tissue dust jackets. In slipcase. $1,500 each. Trade. $100.

BECKETT, Samuel. The Lost Ones. London, 1972. Half vellum (or half leather). One of 100 signed copies. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade. $125. New York. $100. Stamford, 1984. One of 250 copies with etching, signed and numbered, by Charles Klabunde. In box. $4,000. One of 60 artist proof copies, signed and numbered (Roman numerals). $7,500.

BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. New York (1956). Translated by the author. Cream-colored canvas. One of 500 copies. In transparent dust jacket. $450. Wraps. $75. London, 1958. $350.

BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy. Paris (1951). Printed wraps. First edition (in French). One of 500 copies on Alfa paper. $500. One of 50 copies on vellum. $2,000. Paris: Olympia Press (1955). Wraps. First edition in English. $750. New York (1955). $400. Wraps. $45.

BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London, 1934. In dust jacket. $30,000. Without dust jacket. $6,000. London (1970). One of 100 signed copies. $2,000. Trade. $200. New York. $75.

BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London (1938). First binding. Estimated at 1250 to 1500 copies, with 782 to 882 in remainder. Green cloth. In dust jacket. $100,000. Without dust jacket. $7,500. Remainder bindings with and without dust jacket probably not too much cheaper. New York (1957). One of 100 signed copies. $2,500. Trade. $250.

BECKETT, Samuel. No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. (Series A.) $1,250. One of 100 signed copies. (Series B.) $1,350. In slipcases. Trade. $125.

BECKETT, Samuel. Poems in English. London (1961). Mottled tan leather-like cloth boards. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $150. New York (1963). $150.

BECKETT, Samuel. Proust. London, 1931. $750. New York (1957). Limited first American edition. One of 250 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $3,000. London, 1965. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $125.

BECKETT, Samuel. The Unnamable. New York: Grove Press (1958). Translated by the author. One of 26 lettered copies, signed. $7,500. One of 100 numbered copies. $450. Trade, hardbound. $300. Wraps. $50.

BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York (1954). Translated by the author. $3,500. London (1956). Publisher’s note tipped in. $1,250.

BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Olympia Press (1953). Printed wraps. One of 25 copies, lettered A to Y, on fine paper and signed by Beckett. $8,500. First trade edition. Wraps. $1,000. New York (1959). $300. One of 100 numbered copies signed. $500. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500.

BECKETT, Samuel. Whoroscope. Paris, 1930. Hours Press. Author’s first separately published work. Stapled wraps, with white (separate) band around the book. One of 100 signed copies (of a total edition of 300). $12,500. One of 200 unsigned copies. $3,500.

BECKETT, Samuel, et al. Our Exagmination Round His Factifaction for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. Printed wraps. $1,000. One of 96 copies (large-paper) on verge d’Arches paper. $3,000. London, [1936]. $500. Norfolk, [1939]. $600. (Both later issues used the Paris sheets and were in cloth with dust jackets.)

BECKFORD, William. See Biographical Memoirs . . .

BEDE, Cuthbert. Photographic Pleasures, Popularly Portrayed with Pen & Pencil. London, 1855. Blue gilt-pictorial cloth. 24 black-and-white lithographs. $1,500.

BEEBE, Henry. The History of Peru. Peru, Ill., 1858. Leather. $500.

BEEBE, Lucius. Fallen Stars. Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. Author’s first book. 50 copies. $400. Boston, 1921. $200.

BEEBE, Lucius. François Villon . . . Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $350.

BEEBE, William. The Arcturus Adventure. New York, 1926. One of 50 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $650. First trade edition. $150.

BEEBE, William. Galápagos: World’s End. New York, 1924. One of 100 signed copies. Issued in glassine dust jacket. In folding box. $1,250. First trade edition. $250.

BEEBE, William. A Monograph of the Pheasants. London, 1918-22. 4 vols. 90 color plates, 20 maps, 87 photogravures. Folio, cloth. One of 600 copies. $6,500.

BEEBE, William. Pheasants: Their Lives and Homes. Garden City, 1926. 2 vols. 64 plates. Vellum. One of 201 copies on large paper, signed. $1,000. Trade edition. 2 vols. $500. Garden City, 1931. 2 vols. $375. Garden City, 1936. 2 vols. in 1. $150.

BEEBE, William. Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico. Boston, 1905. Author’s first book. First issue, Charles M. Beebe on cover. $2,500 (one known copy). Second issue, C. William Beebe on cover. $500. Third issue, gold sky background lacking. $100. Fourth issue, lacks pictorial design, just lettered. $75.

BEECHER, Edward. Narrative of the Riots at Alton. Alton, Ill., 1838. $400.

BEECHER, Harriet Elizabeth. Primary Geography for Children . . . Cincinnati, 1833. (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s first book), with C. Beecher. $3,000.

BEECHER, Harriet Elizabeth. Prize-Tale: A New England Sketch. Lowell, Mass., 1834. First separate book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In original plain wraps with cloth spine. $2,000. Rebound. $1,500.

BEECHER, Henry Ward. Norwood, or Village Life in New England. London, 1867. 3 vols. Green cloth. $650. New York, 1868. $125.

BEECHEY, F. W. An Account of a Visit to California. (San Francisco, 1941.) Grabhorn printing. Map, color plates. Half vellum. One of 350 copies. $225.

BEECHEY, F. W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait. London, 1831. 2 vols. 23 plates, 3 maps. Large-paper (4to) “Admiralty” issue. $10,000. 2 vols. Octavo edition. $4,000. Philadelphia, 1832. $4,500.

BEECHEY, F. W. A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole. London, 1843. Folding map, 6 plates. $5,000.

BEEDING, Francis. Death Walks in Eastrepps. New York, 1931. (By John Palmer and Hilary Saunders.) Their first book under this name. $350.

BEEDING, Francis. (By John Palmer and Hilary Saunders.) The Seven Sleepers. London, 1925. $150.

BEE-HUNTER (The); or, The Oak Openings. London, 1848. By the author of “The Pioneers” (James Fenimore Cooper). 3 vols. Drab boards. First edition. Published in America as The Oak Openings). $1,500. Rebound. $600.

BEER, Thomas. The Mauve Decade. New York, 1926. One of 165 signed copies. In slipcase. $150. One of 15 signed copies. $350. Trade. $75.

BEERBOHM, Max. See H.M.B.

BEERBOHM, Max. A Book of Caricatures. London (1907). Frontispiece in color, 48 drawings. $550.

BEERBOHM, Max. Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. London (1896). 25 plates. First issue with “Leonard/Smithers” on spine. $1,000. Second issue adds “& Co.” $600.

BEERBOHM, Max. Cartoons: “The Second Childhood of John Bull.” London [1911], although states that they were drawn in 1901. 15 full-page tinted plates. $400. Second issue. Plates in cloth folder. $300.

BEERBOHM, Max. Fifty Caricatures. London, 1913. $250.

BEERBOHM, Max. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men. New York, 1897. Printed green wraps. Period on cover, after Bodley Booklets No. 1, colophon dated December 1896. $275.

BEERBOHM, Max. Leaves from the Garland. New York, 1926. One of 72 copies. $600.

BEERBOHM, Max. Rossetti and His Circle. London (1922). 23 colored caricatures. One of 380 signed copies. In dust jacket. $900. Trade edition. $400.

BEERBOHM, Max. A Survey. London, 1921. 52 plates, including colored frontispiece. Purple cloth. One of 275 signed copies. In dust jacket. $700. Trade edition. $250. New York, 1921. $300.

BEERBOHM, Max. Things New and Old. London, 1923. Colored frontispiece, 49 other plates. White buckram. One of 380 copies signed and with extra signed plate. $850. Trade edition. $450. Oxford, 1975. One of 750 copies. $250.

BEERBOHM, Max. The Works of Max Beerbohm. New York, 1896. (1,000, of which 400 copies were reportedly pulped.) $375. London, 1896. $325.

BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson. London, 1911. Smooth brown cloth, or rough cloth. (No priority, but there were fewer copies bound in rough cloth.) $900. New York, 1912. $225. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. In slipcase. $90. Oxford, 1975. Illustrated and signed by Osbert Lancaster. One of 750 copies. In slipcase. $150.

BEERS, F. W., et al. Atlas of the Counties of Lamoille and Orleans, Vermont. New York, 1878. Maps in color. Half leather. $800.

BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. The Book of Household Management. London, 1861. 2 vols. Frontispiece and pictorial title in color, 12 full-page colored plates, numerous other illustrations. First issue, with “18 Bouverie St.” on woodcut title page. $2,750.

BEETON’S Christmas Annual. 28th Season. London, 1887. Illustrated. Wraps. (Contains first appearance of A. Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet.) $130,000 at auction in 2004 and 2007.

BEGLEY, Louis. Wartime Lies. New York, 1991. $250.

BEHAN, Brendan. The Hostage. London, 1958. $300. New York (1958). First American edition. One of 26 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $1,500. 4 signed copies hors de commerce. $1,750. Trade edition. $100.

BEHAN, Brendan. The Quare Fellow. London (1956). Author’s first book. $250. New York (1956). Cloth. One of 100 copies. Issued without dust jacket. $350. Trade in cloth. $150. Wraps. $75.

BEHN, Aphra. LaMontre; or The Lover’s Watch. London, 1686. $750.

BEHN, Aphra. Poems Upon Several Occasions. London, 1684. Author’s first book. $1,500.

BEHRMAN, Samuel Nathaniel. Bedside Manner. New York, 1924. Written with J. K. Nicholson. Wraps. $450.

BEHRMAN, Samuel Nathaniel. The Second Man. New York, 1927. Author’s first book, preceded by two collaborations. Stiff wraps in dust jacket. $300. London, 1928. $125.

BELCAMP, Jeremy. The History of New Hampshire. Philadelphia, 1784; and Boston, 1791-92. 3 vols. $3,000.

BELCHER, Edward. The Last of The Arctic Voyages . . . London, 1855. 2 vols. 4 folding maps and 36 plates. $3,000.

BELCHER, Sir Edward. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang . . . London, 1848. 2 vols. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 5 maps (3 folding), 30 plates. $3,000.

BELCHER, Sir Edward. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World . . . 1836-1842. London, 1843. 2 vols. 19 plates, 3 maps in pocket. $3,500.

BELDAM, George W. The World’s Champion Golfers. London (1924). 11 vols. Illustrated boards. $1,250.

BELKNAP, Jeremy. See The Foresters . . .

BELL, Acton. Agnes Grey. London, 1847. (By Anne Brontë). The third vol. of Wuthering Heights. (1,000 copies). See that entry under Ellis Bell.

BELL, Acton. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. London, 1848. (By Anne Brontë, her only separate publication.) 3 vols. In original cloth. $45,000. Rebound. $15,000.

BELL, Charles. The Hand . . . Philadelphia, 1833. $750.

BELL, Clive. Art. London, 1914. Author’s first book. $200. New York (1914). English sheets. $150.

BELL, Clive. Poems. Richmond (London): Hogarth Press, 1921. Wraps. One of 350 copies. $600.

BELL, Currer (editor). Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London, 1847. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. First issue, with 36-page catalogue at back of first vol., dated June and October, with half titles, and with a leaf advertising the Calcutta Review (VAB - Not in Wise or Schwartz.) $62,000. London, 1848. Second edition. (Currer Bell as author instead of editor on title page.) $4,000. Third edition. $2,000. New York, 1848. Wraps. $3,000.

BELL, Currer. The Professor. London, 1857. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 2 vols., plum-colored cloth. With 2 pages of ads at end of vol. 1 and 16 pages of ads at end of vol. 2 dated June 1857. $6,500. One-vol. issue. London, 1857 (actually 1858). In a remainder binding, with 1858 ads, $4,500. New York, 1857. First American edition. $1,000.

BELL, Currer. Shirley: A Tale. London, 1849. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Deep claret-colored cloth. With 16 pages of ads dated October 1849, at end of vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1850. Cloth. $500. Wraps. $750.

BELL, Currer. Villette. London, 1853. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Olive-brown cloth. With 12 pages of ads dated January 1853, in vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1853. Cloth. $3,000.

BELL, Currer, Ellis, and Acton. Poems. London, 1846. (By Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.) Dark-green cloth. First issue, published by Aylott and Jones. $45,000. London, 1846 (actually 1848). Green cloth. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. Second issue, with 4-line errata slip. $6,000. Philadelphia, 1848. Wraps. $4,500. Boards. $3,000.

BELL, Ellis (and Acton). Wuthering Heights. London, 1847. 3 vols. Claret-colored cloth (third vol. titled Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell). (First two vols. by Emily Brontë, third by Anne Brontë.) (1,000 copies printed.) $300,000. Rebound. $225,000. New York, 1848. Cloth. $10,000. Wraps. 2 vols. $17,500. London, 1851. New edition, revised. $7,500. New York, 1931. Illustrated by Clare Leighton. Cloth. One of 450 copies signed by the artist. $350. Trade. $75. Limited Editions Club. New York, 1993. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus. $4,000.

BELL, Gertrude. The Arab War. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. Half linen. One of 470 copies. $1,250. One of 30 copies. $3,000.

BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger. Los Angeles, 1881. $850.

BELL, John. Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds. Edinburgh, 1795. $1,500. Walpole, N.H., 1807. 2 vols. in 1. 2 plates. $750.

BELL, John. Travels from St. Petersburg . . . Glasgow, 1763. 2 vols. $2,500.

BELL, Josephine. (Doris Bell and Collier Ball.) Murder in Hospital. London, 1937. $750.

BELL, Madison Smartt. The Washington Square Ensemble. New York, 1983. Author’s first book. $125. (London, 1983). $100.

BELL, Margaret E. The Pirates of Icy Strait. New York, Morrow, 1943. Author’s first book. $350.

BELL, Marvin. Two Poems. Iowa City, 1965. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $450.

BELL, Solomon. Tales of Travel West of the Mississippi. Boston, 1830. (By William J. Snelling.) Map plates. $1,500.

BELL, William A. New Tracks in North America. London, 1869. 2 vols. 20 color lithographs, 3 botanical plates, 1 diagrammatic plate and 1 folding map. $1,500.

BELLAMY, Edward. See Six to One: A Nantucket Idyl.

BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward, 2000-1887. Boston, 1888. Pea-green, orange-brown, or gray cloth. Also reported are copies in red (which seems the scarcest) and in blue-green. First issue, with printer’s imprint of “J. J. Arakelyan” on copyright page; “wore” for “were” on page 210, line 8. $1,500. Another issue. Gray wraps. $1,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. In slipcase. $200.

BELLOC, Hilaire. See B., H.

BELLOC, Hilaire. Cautionary Tales for Children. London (1908). Pictorial boards. $300.

BELLOC, Hilaire. The Highway and Its Vehicles. London, 1926. Illustrated. One of 1,250 copies. $350.

BELLOC, Hilaire. The Missing Masterpiece. London (1929). $600.

BELLOC, Hilaire. New Cautionary Tales. London, 1930. One of 110 signed copies. $300.

BELLOC, Hilaire. Verses and Sonnets. London, 1896. Author’s first book. $950.

BELLOW, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. New York, 1953. First issue, with top edges orange. In first dust jacket without reviews. $1,000. Second issue. $250.

BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man. New York (1944). Author’s first book. $3,500. London, 1946. $600.

BELLOW, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. New York, 1959. First issue, top edges yellow. $750. London (1959). $150.

BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York (1964). Stamped blue cloth. $250. (London, 1965). $150.

BELLOW, Saul. The Victim. New York (1947). $1,250. London (1948). First English edition. $450.

BELLOWS, George. George W. Bellows: His Lithographs. New York, 1927. In slipcase. $400.

BELLOWS, George. The Paintings. New York, 1929. Color frontispiece, 143 plates. One of 2,000 copies in dust jacket. $350.

BELOE, William. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. London, 1807-12. 6 vols. $1,250.

BELTRAMI, G. C. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America. London, 1828. 2 vols. 6 plates including folding map and plan. $3,000.

BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Hansi. New York, 1934. Author’s first book. $600.

BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New York, 1939. Date on title page. Dust jacket priced $2.99 on front flap. $1,250.

BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Small Beer. New York, 1939. One of 75 copies with original colored illustrations. In slipcase. $750.

BENAVIDES, Alonso de. The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Chicago, 1916. Facsimile of Madrid edition of 1630. Boards. One of 300 copies. $600.

BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. Garden City, 1974. $350. London, 1974. $250.

BENCHLEY, Robert. Love Conquers All. New York, 1922. Blue pictorial cloth. $1,000.

BENCHLEY, Robert. Of All Things. New York, 1921. Author’s first book. Two states with and without ads at end, priority unknown. $1,250. London, 1922. $750.

BENCHLEY, Robert. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield. New York (1928). $1,000.

BENDIRE, Charles. Life Histories of North American Birds. Washington, 1892-95. 2 vols. 19 color plates. Folio, cloth. $650.

BENEDICT, Carl Peters. A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water. Austin, 1943. Edited by J. Frank Dobie. One of 550 copies. $500.

BENÉT, Laura. Fairy Bread. New York, 1921. $100.

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Devil and Daniel Webster. Weston, Vt. (1937). Illustrated by Harold Denison. One of 700 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket and slipcase. $350. New York (1937). Trade. $100.

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Drug Shop; or Endymion in Edmonstoun. (New Haven), 1917. Printed wraps. (100 copies.) $250.

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. Five Men and Pompey. Boston, 1915. Author’s first book. Wraps over boards. First state in purple wraps. $350. Second state, brown wraps. $150. (Note: Johnson says there were “a few copies” on handmade paper.)

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. John Brown’s Body. (Garden City, 1928.) One of 201 signed copies. In slipcase. $850. Trade. $250. Limited Editions Club, New York. 1948. John Steuart Curry illustrations. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $150.

BENÉT, Stephen Vincent, and BENÉT, Rosemary. A Book of Americans. New York, 1933. One of 125 signed copies. In slipcase. $200. Trade edition with publisher’s monogram on copyright page. $100.

BEN-GURION, David. Days of David Ben-Gurion… New York, 1967. One of 150 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,500.

BENJAMIN, Asher. The American Builder’s Compendium. Boston (1827). Sixth edition. $1,500.

BENJAMIN, Asher. The Country Builder’s Assistant . . . Boston, 1798. 37 plates. $8,500.

BENJAMIN, Asher. Practice of Architecture. Boston, 1833. 60 engraved plates. $1,000.

BENJAMIN, Paul. Squeeze Play. London, 1982. (By Paul Auster.) First book under this name. Wraps. $750. New York (1984). Wraps. $125.

BENN, George. A History of the Town of Belfast. London, 1877. 2 vols in 1. 8 folding maps and plans and an extending genealogical table. $3,500.

BENNETT, Arnold. See Bennett, E. A.

BENNETT, Arnold. The Bright Island. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Limp vellum. One of 200 signed copies. $400.

BENNETT, Arnold. Elsie and the Child. London, 1929. One of 100 signed copies. $550. One of 750 copies. $300.

BENNETT, Arnold. From the Log of the Velsa. London, 1920. White cloth. One of 110 signed copies. $400.

BENNETT, Arnold. Imperial Palace. London (1930). 2 vols. Vellum. One of 100 signed copies. $300. Trade edition. $150.

BENNETT, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale. London, 1908. $750. London, 1927. 2 vols. Parchment and cloth. Facsimile of the manuscript. One of 500 signed copies. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. Illustrated by John Austen. 2 vols. In slipcase. $150.

BENNETT, E. A. A Man from the North. London, 1898. Arnold Bennett’s first book. Red cloth, stamped in white. $600.

BENNETT, Emerson. The Bandits of the Osage. Cincinnati, 1847. Wraps. $500.

BENNETT, Emerson. The Brigand . . . New York, 1842. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

BENNETT, Frederick D. Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe. London, 1840. 2 vols. Frontispieces, folding map. Cloth. $3,000.

BENNETT, George. Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia. London, 1860. 7 colored plates, one in sepia, numerous woodcuts. $750.

BENNETT, John. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare’s Time. New York, 1897. Illustrated by Reginald Birch. Pictorial cloth. $250.

BENNETT, Melba Berry. Robinson Jeffers and the Sea. San Francisco, 1936. Grabhorn printing. Decorated boards, morocco spine. One of 300 copies. $450.

BENSON, A. C. See Carr, Christopher.

BENSON, A. C. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. London, 1887. (Second book, first under own name.) $250.

BENSON, E(dward) F(redric). Dodo. London, 1893. 2 vols. Author’s first book. $600.

BENSON, Frank W. (illustrator). Etchings and Drypoints. Boston, 1917 (2), 1923, 1929, and 1959. 500 copies, limited to 275, 275, 525, 600, and 400 copies respectively. 285 reproductions. Text by Adam E. M. Paff. Each volume has frontispiece signed by Benson. In dust jackets. $6,000.

BENSON, Godfrey R. Tracks in the Snow. London, 1906. $750.

BENSON, Henry C. Life Among the Choctaw Indians. Cincinnati, 1860. $350.

BENSON, John Howard. The First Writing Book, An English Translation & Facsimile Text of Arrighi’s Operina, The First Manual of the Chancery Hand. New Haven, 1955. 300 copies signed by Benson. $100.

BENSON, Mildred. Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario. New York, 1927. (Better known for Nancy Drew under Carolyn Keene.) $750.

BENSON, Sally. Meet Me in St. Louis. New York, 1942. $1,250.

BENTLEY, E. C. See Clerihew, E.

BENTLEY, E. C. Trent’s Last Case. London (1913). (The Woman in Black in U.S.) $350.

BENTLEY, E. C. The Woman in Black. New York, 1913. (New title.) $250.

BENTLEY, Harry C., and LEONARD, Ruth S. Bibliography of Works on Accounting by American Authors. Boston, 1933-35. 2 vols. $300.

BENTLEY, John. The Eyes of Death. Garden City, 1934. Author’s first book. $300.

BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack. Denver (1903). Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $100.

BENTON, J. A. California as She Was, as She Is, as She Is to Be. Sacramento, 1850. 16 pages, wraps. $5,000.

BENTON, Thomas Hart. The Artist in America. New York (1937). Special Missouri edition. Signed. $300.

BEPPO, A Venetian Story. London, 1818. (By George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.) $1,250. (Kentfield): Allen Press, 1963. Oblong folio with 35 plates, loose, as issued. $500.

BERDMORE, Thomas. A Treatise on the Disorders and Deformities of the Teeth and Gums. London, 1768. $6,000.

BERENDT, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. New York, 1994. With “for” misspelled ‘fmr” on page 11, 7 lines up, in dust jacket priced $23. (although we had an advance reader’s edition with “for.” $150. New York, 1995. One of 2,500 signed copies. In pictorial slipcase. $200.

BERENSON, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. London, 1903. 180 full-page tinted plates. Folio, half morocco. One of 300 copies. $3,000. Chicago, 1938. 3 vols. Small folio, boards, vellum spine. Amplified edition. $750.

BERENSON, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. London, 1957-68. 7 vols. $2,500.

BERESFORD, J(ohn) D(avys). The Hampdenshire Wonder. London, 1911. Author’s first book. $250. In dust jacket. $4,000.

BERETON, Ford. Dolce Cor . . . London, 1886. (By S. R. Crockett.) Author’s first book. $750.

BERGE, Carol. The Vulnerable Island. Cleveland, 1964. Wraps. (105 copies.) $200.

BERGER, John. A Painter of Our Time. London, 1958. $350. New York, 1959. $125.

BERGER, Thomas. Crazy in Berlin. New York (1958). Author’s first book. Dust jacket without Dial Prize Winner notice. $450. With notice. $150.

BERGER, Thomas. Little Big Man. New York, 1964. $500. London, 1965. $200.

BERGMAN, Ray. Trout. Philadelphia, 1938. Flies in color. Full morocco. One of 149 signed copies. $2,500. Trade. $750.

BERKELEY, Anthony. See The Layton Court Mystery.

BERKELEY, Anthony. Death in the House. London, 1939. $1,500.

BERKELEY, Anthony. Murder in the Basement. London, 1937. $1,500.

BERKELEY, Anthony. Not to Be Taken. London, 1938. $1,500.

BERKELEY, Anthony. The Piccadilly Murderer. London, 1929. $2,000.

BERKELEY, Anthony. The Poisoned Chocolates Case. Garden City, 1929. $1,500.

BERKELEY, Anthony. Wychford Poisoning Case. Garden City, 1930. $1,250.

BERLESE, Abbe. Monography of the Genus Camellia, or An Essay on Its Culture, Description & Classification . . . Boston, 1838. $1,000.

BERNARD, Auguste. Geoffrey Tory, Painter and Engraver. (Cambridge, Mass.) 1909. Translated by George B. Ives. One of 370 copies designed by Bruce Rogers. $750.

BERNE, Victoria. Touch and Go. New York, 1939. (By M.F.K. Fisher.) $1,500.

BERNERS, Dame Juliana. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. London (Chelsea): Ashendene Press, 1903. Woodcuts. Full green morocco. One of 25 copies on vellum. $10,000. Vellum. One of 150 copies on paper. In slipcase. $2,500.

BERNIER, R. L. Art in California . . . San Francisco, 1916. 332 plates. $300.

BERNSTEIN, Anne. Three Blue Suits. New York, 1933. Author’s first book. One of 600 signed copies. In slipcase. $150.

BERQUIN-DUVALLON. See Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas.

BERRIGAN, Ted. (Edmund J.) The Sonnets. (New York), 1964. (300 copies.) Stapled mimeographed sheets with a back wrapper. $1,250. Grove Press, New York (1964). Wraps. (Preceded by at least 2 privately printed pamphlets.) $125.

BERRY, W. Turner, and JOHNSON, A. F. Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types by English and Scottish Printers . . . London, 1935. $500.

BERRY, Wendell. The Long-Legged House. New York (1969). $300.

BERRY, Wendell. Nathan Colter. Boston, 1960. Author’s first book. $850. San Francisco, 1985. Revised. One of 26 signed copies. $1,750. One of 100 signed copies. $750.

BERRY, Wendell. November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three. New York (1964). Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Limited issue signed by Shahn and Berry. In slipcase. $300. Trade edition. $150.

BERRYMAN, John. See Five Young American Poets.

BERRYMAN, John. The Dispossessed. New York (1948). $450.

BERRYMAN, John. His Thought Made Pockets and the Plane Buckt. Pawlet, Vt., 1958. Boards, leather spine. One of 26 lettered copies. $3,000. Wraps. One of 500 copies. 20 copies in printed envelope. $300.

BERRYMAN, John. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. New York (1956). Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Boards. $500.

BERRYMAN, John. Love and Fame. New York, 1970. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $450. Trade edition. $150.

BERRYMAN, John. Poems. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions (1942). Author’s first book. Printed blue wraps. Poet of the Month series. In dust jacket. $150. Boards. One of 500 hardbound copies. In dust jacket. $500.

BERRYMAN, John. Stephen Crane. (New York, 1950.) $250.

BERT, Edmund. An Approved Treatise of Hawks and Hawking. London, 1619. $15,000. London, 1891. Illustrated. Boards, leather spine. One of 100 copies. $2,000.

BESSIE, Alvah C. Dwell in the Wilderness. New York (1935). Author’s first book other than a 1930 translation of Gautier. $300.

BESTER, Alfred. The Demolished Man. Chicago (1953). Author’s first book. One of 200 signed copies. $1,500. Unsigned copies. $1,000. London (1953). $250.

BESTER. Alfred. Tiger, Tiger. London (1956). $2,500. (U.S. edition was published the following year as The Stars My Destination.)

BESTON, Henry. The Outermost House. Garden City, 1928. $1,000.

BETJEMAN, John. See O’Betjeman, Deirdre.

BETJEMAN, John. Antiquarian Prejudice. London: Hogarth Press, 1939. Wraps. $175.

BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. London (1937). $400.

BETJEMAN, John. A Few Late Chrysanthemums. London, 1954. White buckram. One of 50 signed copies. $600. Trade edition. $150.

BETJEMAN, John. Ghastly Good Taste. London, 1933. Folding plate. Printed pink boards and cloth. First issue, with pages 119-20 not canceled. $600. London, 1970. Half leather. One of 200 signed copies. In slipcase. $350.

BETJEMAN, John. John Betjeman’s Collected Poems. London, 1958. Compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead. Scarlet leather. One of 100 signed copies. In slipcase. $600. Trade edition. $150.

BETJEMAN, John. Mount Zion, or In Touch with the Infinite. London (1931). Author’s first book. Blue-and-gold patterned cover. $2,750. Striped paper cover. $1,500. Issued without dust jacket.

BETJEMAN, John. New Bats in Old Belfries. London, 1945. Red cloth, paper label. One of a few signed copies on special paper with colored title page. $1,250. Unsigned. $150.

BETJEMAN, John. Old Lights for New Chancels. London (1940). Portrait frontispiece. Wraps. In dust jacket. $300.

BETJEMAN, John. An Oxford University Chest. London (1938). Photographs by Moholy-Nagy. Illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, etc. Marbled boards, cloth spine, gilt top. $250.

BETJEMAN, John. Selected Poems. London, 1948. One of 18 signed copies. $3,000. Trade edition. $150.

BETJEMAN, John. Summoned by Bells. London, 1960. Illustrated, Full green leather, gilt top. One of 125 signed copies. $550. Trade. $200.

BETTS, Doris. The Gentle Insurrection . . . New York, 1954. Author’s first book. $175.

BEVERIDGE, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall. Boston, 1919. 4 vols. Autograph edition. One of 500 signed copies. $350.

BEVIER, Robert S. History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, 1861-1865. St. Louis, 1879. $950.

BEWICK, Thomas. The Fables of Aesop . . . Newcastle, 1818. 323 wood-engraved vignettes including headpieces and tailpieces. “Thumbprint” edition. $1,500.

BEWICK, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle, 1790. $900.

BEWICK, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Newcastle, 1797-1804. 2 vols. Woodcuts. $2,000.

BEWICK, Thomas. Vignettes. Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1827. Folio. 205 vignettes. $2,000.

BEWICK Gleanings. Newcastle, 1886. (By Thomas Bewick.) Edited by Julia Boyd. 53 plates. Green morocco. Large-paper edition, signed. $600.

BEYER, Edward. Album of Virginia. Richmond, 1858. Lithograph title and 44 views on 40 tinted lithograph sheets in folio plate volume and octavo text volume (seldom seen with text volume, which adds little to the price). $30,000.

BEYNON, John. The Secret People. London (1935). (By John Beynon Harris, his first book.) $400. Second issue in green binding with black letters. Dust jacket priced “2/6.” $200.

BEZZERIDES, A. I. Long Haul. New York (1938). $750.

BIANCO, Margery (Williams). See Williams, Margery

BIANCO, Margery (Williams). The Little Wooden Doll. New York, 1925. (First under this name.) $250.

BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. New York (or London) (1925). 7 mounted color plates by Arthur Rackham. First issue, with pictorial endpapers (VAB). In dust jacket. $1,000. Second issue, plain endpapers. $750. Deluxe signed issue. Half vellum and blue boards. One of 105 copies signed by the author. In slipcase. $12,500.

BIBLIOGRAPHICA, Papers on Books, Their History and Art. London, 1895-97. 12 parts bound in 3 vols. $1,500.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL and Retrospective Miscellany . . . ( The). London, 1830. $250.

BIBLIOPHILE, (The): A Magazine and Review for the Collector, Students and General Readers. London, 1809-1909. 3 vols. $250.

BIBLIOPHOBIA; Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade . . . London, 1832. (Thomas Frognall Dibdin.) $750.

BIBLIOTHECA Americana, Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University . . . Providence, various reprints. 7 vols. constitute a complete set. (An invaluable reference tool.) $700.

BICKHAM, George. The Universal Penman; or, The Art of Writing Made Useful . . . London, 1733-1741. $4,250. London, 1743. Contains frontispiece and 212 engraved plates. $2,250.

BICKNELL, A. J. Detail, Cottage and Constructive Architecture. New York, 1873. $500.

BIDDLE, Owen. The Young Carpenter’s Assistant. Philadelphia, 1805. 46 plates. $3,000.

BIDWELL, George H. The Printers’ New Hand-Book. A Treatise on the Imposition of Forms . . . New York (1875). $500.

BIDWELL, John. A Journey to California . . . San Francisco, 1937. $200. (Note: Only one copy is known of the 1842 original of this narrative, and it is imperfect.)

BIERCE, Ambrose. See Bowers, Mrs. Dr. J. Milton; Grile, Dod; Herman, William.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Battle Sketches. London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Vellum. One of 350 copies. In slipcase. $350.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Black Beetles in Amber. San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. $500. Second issue. Printed gray wraps. Published by Johnson & Emigh. $400.

BIERCE, Ambrose. The Cynic’s Word Book. New York, 1906. Presumed first issue, without frontispiece (Johnson). $750. Frontispiece inserted. $650. (Reissued as The Devil’s Dictionary.)

BIERCE, Ambrose. Fantastic Fables. New York, 1899. Tan-yellow cloth. With ads at back headed by “By Anna Fuller.” $500.

BIERCE, Ambrose. A Horseman in the Sky. San Francisco, 1920. John Henry Nash printing. One of 400 copies. $200.

BIERCE, Ambrose. In the Midst of Life. London, 1892. Blue cloth. (VAB). First English edition (of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians). $400. (Second issue in colored boards - VAB). New York, 1898. (Reprint of the Tales with 3 added stories.) $200.

BIERCE, Ambrose. My Favorite Murder. (New York, 1916.) First separate edition. Wraps. $150.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Nuggets and Dust . . . London (1873). Pictorial yellow wraps. $2,000.

BIERCE, Ambrose. The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays. San Francisco, 1909. Edited by S. O. Howes. Green buckram. In dust jacket. $450. Without dust jacket. $150.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Shapes of Clay. San Francisco, 1903. First issue, with transposed lines 5 and 6 on page 71. $400. Second issue, corrected. $250.

BIERCE, Ambrose. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891. $600. Some copies imprinted “Compliments of” on preliminary leaf and signed by Bierce-the so-called “limited” edition (Johnson). $1,750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1943. Boards and leather. In slipcase. $400. (For first English edition see, In the Midst of Life.)

BIERCE, Ambrose. Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. New York, 1909. First issue 5 3/4 by 3 inches in size (VAB). (Johnson, 5 1/2 inches tall.) $400. Second printing 6 by 3 7/8 inches. $200. San Francisco, 1971. Grabhorn printing. One of 400. $150.

BIERCE, Ambrose, and DANZIGER, Gustav Adolph. (A pseudonym for Adolphe De Castro.) The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter. Chicago, 1892. Illustrated by Theodore Hampe. Printed yellow wraps. $600. Gray cloth. $300. New York, 1907. New introduction by Bierce. $200. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967. In slipcase. $100.

BIERSTADT, O. A. The Library of Robert Hoe . . . New York, 1895. One of 350 copies. $600.

BIGELOW, Jacob. American Medical Botany. Boston, 1817-20. 3 vols. or 6 parts. 60 color plates. The first U.S. horticulture book printed in color. $11,000.

BIGELOW, Jacob. Insensibility During Surgical Operations. Boston, 1847. $4,000.

BIGGERS, Don H. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch. Abilene, Tex. (1905). Illustrated. Stiff wraps. $4,500. Bandera, Tex., 1944. $200.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Behind That Curtain. Indianapolis (1928). With Bobbs-Merrill symbol on copyright page. $1,000. London, 1928. $750.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Black Camel. Indianapolis, 1929. $750.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Chinese Parrot. Indianapolis (1926). $2,250.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The House Without a Key. Indianapolis (1925). First edition not stated. $3,500. London, 1926. $750.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. If You’re Only Human. 1912. Author’s first book. $600.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Keepers of the Keys. Indiana (1932). $500.

BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Seven Keys to Baldpate. Indianapolis (1913). $250.

BIGGS, William. Narrative of William Biggs, While He Was a Prisoner with the Kickepoo Indians. (No place), June 1825. (per Howes). Copy in worn wraps, (Edwardsville, Ill.), June 1826 at auction in 1999 for $17,000. (New York), 1922. One of 81 copies in boards. $1,500. There were also 5 copies on vellum. $2,500.

BIGSBY, John Jeremiah. The Shoe and Canoe. London, 1850. 2 vols. 20 engraved plates, 4 maps, 1 plan. Blue cloth. $2,500.

BINDINGS of To-Morrow: A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders . . . London, 1902. (By George Eliot Anstruther.) $925.

BINYON, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli. London, 1913. Muirhead Bone etching, 23 color plates. Folio, cloth, vellum spine. One of 275 copies. $750.

BINYON, Laurence. The Engraved Designs of William Blake. London, 1926. Plates. Half cloth and boards. One of 100 copies with an extra set of plates. $1,000. Without the extra plates. $500. Trade edition. $300.

BINYON, Laurence. The Followers of William Blake. London, 1925. 79 plates, 7 colored. Issued without dust jacket. $200. One of 100 copies. $500.

BINYON, Laurence. Lyric Poems. London, 1894. $200.

BINYON, Laurence. Persephone. London, 1890. Author’s first book. (Newdigate Prize.) Wraps. $350.

BINYON, Laurence. Poems. Oxford: Daniel Press, 1895. Wraps. One of 200 copies. $250.

BINYON, Laurence, and SEXTON, J. J. O’Brien. Japanese Colour Prints. London, 1923. 46 plates, some in color. $175. Pigskin. One of 100 signed copies, with an extra set of plates. $700.

BINYON, Laurence; WILKINSON, J.V.S.; and GRAY, Basil. Persian Miniature Painting. London, 1933. Illustrated, including color plates. Folio, cloth. In dust jacket. $2,500.

BIOGRAPHICAL Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters. London, 1780. (By William Beckford.) Author’s first book. $1,250.

BIOGRAPHICAL Souvenir of the State of Texas. Chicago, 1889. Illustrated. Full leather. $500.

BIOGRAPHY of Joseph Lane. Washington, 1852. “By Western.” $1,000. Howes lists another copy same date but with pseudonym “A Westerner” and notes authorship as being attributed to Robert Dale Owen.

BION and MOSCHUS. Poems. Bristol, 1794. (By Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, their first book.) $3,000.

BIRD, Bessie Calhoun. Airs from the Wood Winds. Philadelphia (1935). Author’s only book. One of 25 signed, lettered copies, $1,500. One of 300 copies, $600.

BIRD, Isabella. See The Englishwoman in America.

BIRD, Robert Montgomery. See The Adventures of Robin Day; Calavar; The Infidel; Nick-of-the-Woods; Peter Pilgrim; Sheppard Lee.

BIRD, William. A Practical Guide to French Wine. Paris, no date [1922?]. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

Bird & Bull Commonplace Book ( The). North Hills, 1971. One of 255 copies. Envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. In slipcase. $500.

Bird & Bull Number 13. North Hills, 1972. One of 140 copies. First Bird & Bull publication to use paste paper for the cover. $600.

BIRKBECK, Morris. See An Impartial Appeal.

BIRKBECK, Morris. An Appeal to the People of Illinois, on the Question of a Convention. Shawneetown, 1823. 25 pages. (Howes B 465.) $2,500.

BIRKBECK, Morris. Extracts from a Supplementary Letter from the Illinois. New York, 1819. 29 pages. First edition. $2,500.

BIRKBECK, Morris. Letters from Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. 2 folding maps. Boards and calf. $950.

BIRKBECK, Morris. Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. $600. London, 1818. Map. $2,000. (Map in auction copies not noted in Howes.)

BIRNEY, Earle. See Robertson, E.

BIRNEY, Earle. David . . . Toronto, 1942. (500 copies.) $300.

BIRNEY, Earle. Now Is Time. Toronto (1945). $175.

BISHOP, Elizabeth. North & South. Boston, 1946. Author’s first book. $1,500.

BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poem. New York, 1973. One of 26 signed copies. $2,250. One of 100 signed copies. $1,750.

BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1956. $500.

BISHOP, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860. Philadelphia, 1864. 2 vols. $750.

BISHOP, John Peale. Act of Darkness. New York, 1935. Author’s first and only novel. $150.

BISHOP, John Peale. Green Fruit. Boston, 1917. Author’s first book. Boards and cloth. $200.

BISHOP, John Peale. Minute Particulars. New York, 1935. Wraps. One of 165 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket. $200.

BISHOP, John Peale, and WILSON, Edmund. The Undertaker’s Garland. New York, 1922. Wilson’s first book and Bishop’s second. In dust jacket. $400. Boards. One of 50 copies for “bookseller friends.” Issued without dust jacket. $250.

BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Birds: Etchings of Waterfowl and Upland Game Birds. Philadelphia, 1936. 73 reproductions. One of 1,050 copies. $350. One of 135 signed copies, with signed Bishop etching tipped in. $750.

BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Wildfowl . . . Etchings and Oil Painting Reproductions. (St. Paul), 1948. Text by E. Prestrud and R. Williams. Color plates. Full calf. $300.

BISHOP, Zealia. The Curse of Yig. Sauk City, Wis., 1953. Arkham House. $200.

BISLAND, Elizabeth (editor). The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Boston, 1906. 2 vols. One of 200 copies with a page of an original manuscript by Hearn. $2,500. Trade. $300.

BISSET, Robert. Douglas; or, the Highlander. Anti-Jacobin Press, 1800. 4 vols. Half titles in vols. 3 and 4 (no others called for). $4,500.

BITTING, Katherine. Gastronomic Bibliography. San Francisco, 1939. $450.

BLACK, Campbell. Assassins and Victims. (London, 1969.) $100.

BLACK, E. L. Why Do They Like it . . . (Dijon, 1927.) (By Sir John Ellerman.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

BLACK, Mansell. Sinister Cargo. London, 1951. (By Elleston Trevor.) Author’s first book. $750.

BLACKBIRD, Andrew J. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. Ypsilanti, Mich., 1887. $750.

BLACKBURN, Henry. Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career. London, 1886. $300.

BLACKBURN, John. A Scent of New-Mown Hay. London, 1958. $500. New York, 1958. $75.

BLACKBURN, Paul. The Dissolving Fabric. Divers Press. (Mallorca) 1955. Author’s first book of poetry. Wraps. $300.

BLACKBURN, Paul. Proensa. (Majorca) 1953. Author’s first book. (Translation.) $300.

BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly-Making. London, 1842. $6,000.

BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge. See Melanter.

BLACKMORE, Richard D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London, 1869. 3 vols. Blue cloth. $3,000.

BLACKMORE, William. Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates . . . London, 1869. 3 folding maps and mounted frontispiece portrait of author. $2,500.

BLACKMUR, R. P. Dirty Hands or The True Born Censor. Cambridge, 1930. Wraps. $150.

BLACKMUR, R. P. From Jordan’s Delight. New York, 1937. $150.

BLACKMUR, R. P. The Good European . . . Cummington, Mass., 1947. Cloth, paper label. Issued without dust jacket. One of 40 signed copies. $600.

BLACKMUR, R. P. T. S. Eliot. (Cambridge, Mass.), 1928. Author’s first book. Wraps. Offprint from “Hound & Horn.” $250.

BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. 4 vols., including 8-page “supplement to the first edition.” $22,500. Oxford, 1773. 4 vols. $3,750. London, 1803. 4 vols. $3,500.

BLACKWATER Chronicle . . . (The). New York, 1853. (By the Clerke of Oxenforde.) Written and illustrated by Dard Hunter Strother. Sometimes attributed to John Kennedy Pendleton. Frontispiece, engraved title page. $400.

BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal. (London) 1737-39. 2 vols. Containing 500 hand-colored engraved plates. $40,000. London, 1739. Second edition. 2 vols. $7,500.

BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. The Laws of Life . . . New York, 1852. Author’s first book. (America’s first female doctor.) $15,000.

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London, 1906. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1917. $375.

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Fruit Stoners. New York, 1935. $150.

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Jimbo: A Fantasy. London, 1909. $850.

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Listener and Other Stories. London, 1907. $1,000.

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Shocks. New York (1936). $300.

BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books. London, 1880. In vellum wraps. $200.

BLADES, William. The Life And Typography of William Caxton . . . London, 1861-63. 2 vols. $550.

BLAIR, Robert. The Grave: A Poem. London, 1808. Folio. Portrait after T. Phillips. Engraved title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after designs by Blake. $8,000. Quarto. $3,000. London, 1813. Folio. $7,500. Quarto. $1,750.

BLAKE, Alexander V. The American Bookseller’s Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country . . . Claremont, N.H., 1847. $600.

BLAKE, Nicholas. The Beast Must Die. London (1938). (By C. Day-Lewis.) $1,500.

BLAKE, Nicholas. A Question of Proof. London, 1935. (By C. Day-Lewis.) (First book under this name.) $2,000.

BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Honolulu, 1935. Author’s first book and the first book on surfing. Issued without dust jacket. $5,000.

BLAKE, W. O. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Columbus, Ohio, 1857. $450.

BLAKE, William. America: A Prophecy. Lambeth, 1793. Rebound copy at auction in 1987. $160,000. Edmonton, Canada, 1887. Facsimile by William Muir. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $1,750. London, 1963. One of 526 copies. $1,000.

BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London, 1825. Title page and 21 other plates engraved by Blake. While title page states “1825,” the plates were not issued until 1826 and a label dated “1826” was pasted on. Folio. $45,000. London, 1902. Facsimile. Wraps. $400. New York, 1935. 6 parts, folio, wraps. One of 200 copies. In slipcase. $2,250.

BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. London, 1974. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $650.

BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (London, 1868.) Facsimile of 1790 edition. 27 hand-colored plates. $1,500. London, 1960. One of 26 copies. $2,000. One of 500 copies. $850.

BLAKE, William. The Note-Book of William Blake Called the Rossetti Manuscript. London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 120 pages in facsimile. Buckram. One of 650 copies. In dust jacket. $200.

BLAKE, William. Pencil Drawings. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 82 facsimile plates. Half buckram. One of 1,550 copies. In dust jacket. $400. Second Series: London, 1956. One of 1,440 copies. In dust jacket. $300.

BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. London, 1789. One of 3 known copies with final plate “A Divine Image.” $2,000,000. One of 4 copies in green ink at auction in 2001 for $850,000. Three regular copies. $1,000,000. (See auction records). London, 1954. One of 1,600 copies. $350. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Facsimile reproduction from the 1789 original. Full morocco. One of 26 copies. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $1,250.

BLAKE, William. William Blake’s Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. Trianon Press, 1972. 3 vols. One of 518 copies. Folio. Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. $2,000. One of 100 copies. $3,000.

BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 3 vols. Half vellum and marbled boards. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $750. Thin-paper issue: 3 vols. in 1, morocco or limp vellum. One of 75 copies. $2,000.

BLAKEY, Dorothy. Minerva Press, 1790-1820. London, 1939. $250.

BLANCHARD, Rufus (publisher). Citizen’s Guide for the City of Chicago; Companion to Blanchard’s Map of Chicago. Chicago (1868). Printed stiff wraps, with folding map bound in. $2,500.

BLANCK, Jacob. Peter Parley to Penrod. New York, 1938. One of 500 copies. $175. New York, 1956. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass., 1961. $100.

BLAND, David. A History of Book Illustration. London (1958). $150. Cleveland (1958). $150.

BLANTON, Wyndham B. Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century. Richmond, 1931-33. 2 vols. $500.

BLATTY, William Peter. The Exorcist. New York (1971). $500.

BLEDSOE, A. J. History of Del Norte County, California. Eureka, Calif., 1881. Wraps. $4,500. (Howes notes that with one possible exception this is the rarest California local history.)

BLEDSOE, A. J. Indian Wars of the Northwest. San Francisco, 1885. Leather. $700. Cloth. $400.

BLEW, William C. A. A History of Steeple-Chasing. London, 1901. 28 illustrations, 12 hand-colored plates. $400.

BLIGH, William. The Log of the Bounty . . . Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. 2 vols. Small folio, with 4 wood engravings by Lynton Lamb. One of 300 copies. $2,500. (Guildford) 1975. One of 50 copies in morocco. $2,250. One of 500 copies. $1,000.

BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty . . . London, 1790. With folding plate and 3 charts. $25,000.

BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea . . . London, 1792. With frontispiece and 6 maps/plans (4 folding), and 1 plate showing breadfruit. $20,000. Limited Editions Club, Adelaide, 1975. One of 2,000 copies. In slipcase. $200.

BLISH, James. A Case of Conscience. London (1959). $1,250. New York (1969). $500.

BLISS, Edward. A Brief History of the New Gold Regions of Colorado Territory. Map. New York, 1864. 30 pages, wraps. $6,000.

BLISS, William R. Paradise in the Pacific; A Book of Travel, Adventure and Facts in the Sandwich Islands. New York, 1873. Mounted photographic frontispiece. $100.

BLITZSTEIN, Marc. The Cradle Will Rock. New York, 1938. $750.

BLIXEN, Karen. Out of Africa. London (1937). First edition stated in dust jacket without any reviews on front flap. $3,500. The second jacket has 5 reviews on front flap. $2,000. (See Isak Dinesen for U.S. edition.)

BLOCH, Robert. The Eighth Stage of Fandom . . . Chicago, 1962. First edition stated. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 signed copies. $450. One of 200 hardbound copies. $200. One of 400 copies in wraps. $60.

BLOCH, Robert. The Opener of the Way. Sauk City, Wis., 1945. $600.

BLOCH, Robert. Psycho. New York, 1959. $2,750. London, 1960. $950. Springfield, 1994. 35th Anniversary edition. One of 500 copies signed by Block and Richard Matheson (introduction). In slipcase. $375.

BLOCH, Robert. Sea Kissed. (London, 1945.) Author’s first book. Wraps. First issue, 39 pages, “Printed in Great Britain” on page 39. $1,000. Second issue, 36 pages, “Printed in Eire” on page 36. $600.

BLOCK, Lawrence. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling. New York, 1979. $150.

BLOCK, Lawrence. Eight Million Ways to Die. New York, 1982. $750.

BLOCK, Lawrence. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man. New York, 1971. $450.

BLOCK, Lawrence. A Stab in the Dark. New York, 1981. $650.

BLOCK, Lawrence. Time to Murder and Create. London, 1979. $1,250. Illinois, 1993. One of 300 signed copies. In slipcase. $150.

BLOCKMAN, Lawrence G. Diagnosis Homicide: The Casebook of Dr. Coffee. Philadelphia (1950). $350.

BLODGET, Lorin. Climatology of the United States, and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent . . . Philadelphia, 1857. Folding map. $400.

BLOME, Richard. A Description of the Island of Jamaica. London, 1672. 3 folding maps. $10,000. London, 1678. Portrait. 4 folding maps. $10,000.

BLOME, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry. London: Cresset Press, 1929. One of 650 copies. $300.

BLOME, Richard. The Present State of His Majesties Isles… London, 1687. 1 plate of sun-dials and 7 folding maps. $15,000.

BLOWE, Daniel. A Geographical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America. Liverpool (1820). Portrait, 2 maps, 4 plans. $1,500.

BLUE Grotto (The) and Its Literature. London, 1904. (By Norman Douglas.) 18 pages, printed red wraps. $600.

BLUNDELL, John W. F. The Muscles and Their Story. London, 1864. $300.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Dead Letters. London: Pelican Press, 1923. Decorated wraps, paper label. One of 50 copies. $200.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Japanese Garland. London: Beaumont Press, 1928. 6 color plates. Boards and vellum. One of 80 signed copies. $850. One of 310 signed. $175.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Masks of Time. London: Beaumont Press, 1925. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabs. Boards and vellum. One of 80 copies on vellum, signed. $350. One of 310 copies on paper. In plain dust jacket. $150.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Pastorals: A Book of Verses. London (1916). Wraps. $300.

BLUNDEN, E(dmund) C. Poems 1913 and 1914. (Horsham, 1914.) Author’s first book. Wraps. (100 copies.) $2,000.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Retreat: New Sonnets and Poems. (London, 1928.) One of 112 signed copies. $300. Garden City. $150.

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Undertones of War. London, 1928. $400.

BLUNT, Edmund M. Traveller’s Guide to and Through the State of Ohio, with Sailing Directions for Lake Erie. New York, 1832. 16 pages. $1,750. New York, 1833. Folding map in color. 28 pages. $1,500.

BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. See Proteus.

BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. London, 1892. One of 50 copies. $4,500. Regular edition. $200. Newtown, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1930. Translated from the Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and done into verse by W.S.B. Boards and leather. One of 275 copies. $1,000. One of 25 copies (of this edition) especially bound in morocco. $5,000.

BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus . . . with the LoveSonnets. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892. Woodcut borders and initials. Stiff vellum with ties. One of 300 copies. $2,500.

BLY, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York (1967). $125.

BLY, Robert. The Lion’s Tail and Eyes. Madison, 1962. (Author’s first book with J. Wright and W. Duffy.) $150.

BLY, Robert. The Silence in the Snowy Fields. Middletown, 1962. Author’s first solely authored book. Cloth. $150. Wraps. $60.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron. London, 1620. 2 vols. $40,000. London: Ashendene Press, 1920. Folio, boards and linen. One of 105 copies on paper. $5,000. One of 6 copies on vellum. $7,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1930. Translated by Frances Winwar. 2 vols. In slipcase. $300. Another Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940. Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. One of 530 copies. In slipcase. $500.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Life of Dante. (Boston, 1904.) Translated by Philip Henry Wicksteed. Woodcut title portrait. Boards and vellum. One of 325 copies designed by Bruce Rogers. In slipcase. $250.

BOCKSTOCE, John R. American Whalers in the Western Arctic. Fairhave, 1983. One of 30 copies. 12 signed reproductions (extra suite laid in) and 2 original signed pencil sketches by artist, William Gilkerson. In portfolio and clamshell case. $2,000. One of 370 numbered copies. As above without 2 original sketches. $1,000.

BODENHEIM, Maxwell. See Hecht, Ben.

BODENHEIM, Maxwell. Minna and Myself. New York, 1918. Author’s first book. First issue, with “Master-Posner” for “Master-Poisoner” on page 67. $125.

BODENHEIM, Maxwell. The Sardonic Arm. Chicago, 1923. Issued without dust jacket. One of 575 copies. $100.

BODKIN, M. McDonnell. Paul Beck: The Rule of Thumb Detective. London, 1898. $2,500.

BODKIN, M. McDonnell. White Magic. London, 1897. Author’s first book. $1,500.

BOGAN, Louise. Body of This Death: Poems. New York, 1923. Author’s first book. $600.

BOGAN, Louise. Dark Summer. New York, 1929. $600.

BOGAN, Louise. The Sleeping Fury. New York, 1937. $375.

BOGDANOVICH, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. New York (1961). Wraps. $150.

BOGGS, Mae Helene Bacon (compiler). My Playhouse Was a Concord Coach. (Oakland, 1942.) Maps, illustrations. $550.

BOLDREWOOD [sic] Rolf (Bolderwood). Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. London, 1888. (By Thomas A. Browne.) 3 vols. Decorated green cloth. $3,500.

BOLLER, Henry A. Among the Indians. Philadelphia, 1868. Folding map, cloth, paper label. $6,000.

BOLTON, Arthur T. The Architecture of Robert & James Adam. London, 1922. 2 vols. $850.

BOLTON, George G. A Specialist in Crime. London, 1904. Author’s only book. $175.

BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Anza’s California Expeditions. Berkeley, 1930. 5 vols. Folding map, illustrations. $1,000.

BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Athanase de Mezieres and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier. Cleveland, 1914. 2 vols. Map, 2 facsimiles. $750.

BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. The Rim of Christendom. New York, 1936. 12 plates, 3 facsimiles. $150.

BOLTON, Theodore. American Book Illustrators, Bibliographical Check Lists of 123 Artists. New York, 1938. $150.

BOND, J. Wesley. Minnesota and Its Resources. Chicago, 1856. Folding map, 6 plates, cloth. $150.

BOND, Michael. Bear Called Paddington. London, 1958. Author’s first book. $3,500. Boston, 1960. $1,250.

BOND, Nelson. Exiles of Time. Philadelphia, 1949. $75. One of 112 signed copies. In slipcase. $200.

BOND, Nelson. Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman. New York, 1950. $100. One of 4 signed copies specially bound in gray and black. $600.

BOND, Nelson. Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies and Other Fantastic Tales. New York (1946). Author’s first book. $75.

BOND, Nelson. Nightmares and Daydreams. Sauk City (1968). $100.

BOND, Nelson. The Thirty-first of February. New York (1949). $125. One of 112 signed copies. In slipcase. $300.

BONFILS, Winifred B. The Life and Personality of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. San Francisco, 1928. John Henry Nash printing. Vellum. One of 1,000 copies. In original tan flannel bag. $350.

BONNELL, George W. Topographical Description of Texas. Austin, 1840. $20,000.

BONNER, T. D. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer . . . New York, 1856. Frontispiece and plates. $850.

BONNEY, Edward. Banditti of the Prairies; or, The Murderer’s Doom! Chicago, 1850. Pictorial wraps. With imprint “Chicago, W.W. Dannenhauer 1850” on front cover. $17,500. Chicago, 1853. $12,500. Philadelphia (1855). $2,000. Chicago, 1856. “25^th or 30^th thousand.” $1,000. Chicago, 1858. 13 plates. Wraps. $3,500.

BONTEMPS, Arna. Black Thunder. New York, 1936. $950.

BONTEMPS, Arna. God Sends Sunday. New York, 1931. Author’s first book. $1,750.

BONTEMPS, Arna, and CONROY, Jack. Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Signer Painter. Boston, 1946. $750.

BOOK Collector ( The). London, 1947-84. Complete run from vol. 1, no.1, to vol. 33, no.1, and The Book Handbook, 9 issues bound in 1 vol. Wraps. $1,250.

BOOK-LORE, A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature. London, 1885-87. 6 vols. $250.

BOOK of Commandments (A), for the Government of the Church of Christ. Zion (Independence, MO.), 1833. (By Joseph Smith, Jr.) This title was destroyed by an angry anti-Mormon mob while the book was being printed. Pages were rescued by faithful Mormons and later crudely hand sewn into rawhide bindings, or none at all. The title page was never printed at the time and was supplied a few years later (there are two different versions of the title page). $1,500,000.

BOOK of Job (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946. Illustrated in color by Arthur Szyk. In slipcase. $450.

BOOK of Jonah (The). Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Illustrated by David Jones. Buckram. One of 175 copies. In dust jacket. $2,500.

BOOK of Princeton Verse 1916 (A). Princeton, 1916. Edited by Alfred Noyes. (Includes poems by Edmund Wilson, John Peale Bishop, and others.) $400.

BOOK of Princeton Verse II (A). Princeton (1919). (First book appearance of three poems by F. Scott Fitzgerald.) In dust jacket. $1,750. Without dust jacket. $200.

BOOK of Psalms (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1960. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $225.

BOOK of Ruth (The). London: Nonesuch Press, 1923. One of 250 copies. In slipcase. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. Introduction by Mary Ellen Chase. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. One of 1,950 copies. In slipcase. $450.

BOOK of the Law of the Lord (The). Saint James, A.R.I. (Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, 1851.) (By James Jesse Strang.) 3 copies known. $50,000. (Beaver Island, 1856.) Second issue, original sheets, lacking title page (some supplied, and with preface, in modern type, circa 1920). $8,000. For a later edition, see James J. Strang entry.

BOOK of the Poets’ Club (The). London, 1909. (Includes first printings of four Ezra Pound poems.) Orange wraps. $900.

BOOK of Vassar Verse (A). (Poughkeepsie, 1916.) (With 3 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.) $125.

BOOLE, George. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought . . . London, 1854. Imprint reads “London: Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower-Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.” Errata leaf bound in the back. (The “Note” leaf is found in later editions.) $8,000.

BOOTH, Edward Thomas. Rough Notes on the Birds. London, 1881-87. 3 vols. 2 hand-colored maps and 114 plates. $17,500.

BOOTH, Stephen. Black Dog. (London, 2000). Author’s first book. Pictorial wraps. $200.

BOOTH, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed’s Chronicles. San Francisco, 1968. Woodcut reproductions and original leaf from the 1587 edition. Decorated boards and cloth. One of 500 copies. $350.

BOOTH, William. In Darkest England and the Way Out. London (1890). Author’s first book. Large folding color map. First issue with last line of dedication in smaller type than preceding line. $350.

BORDEN, Gail, Jr. Letters of . . . to Dr. Ashbel Smith. Galveston, 1850. 9 pages, wraps. $2,000.

BORDEN, Spencer. The Arab Horse. New York, 1906. $150.

BORDER Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi. Philadelphia, 1840. 2 vols. (By William Gilmore Simms.) $250.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. The Congress. London, 1974. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Borges. Illustrated by Hugo Manning. Cloth. One of 50 signed copies. $1,500. One of 250 copies. $500.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. Deathwatch on the Southside. Cambridge (1968). Wraps. One of 150 signed copies. $800.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. London (1962). Author’s first book. $500. New York (1962). $375. Limited Editions Club, New York (1984). $500.

BORGES, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. New York: Grove Press (1962). $450.

BORN, Max. The Constitution of Matter Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. London, 1923. $100.

BORNEMAN, Henry S. Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts. Norristown, Pa., 1937. 38 colored reproductions. Oblong folio, cloth. $350.

BORROW, George. See Celebrated Trials.

BORROW, George. The Bible in Spain. London, 1843. 3 vols. Red cloth, paper labels. $500.

BORROW, George. Faustus: His Life, Death and Descent into Hell. London, 1825. (Translated by Borrow.) $600.

BORROW, George. Lavengro; the Scholar-the Gypsy-the Priest. London, 1851. 3 vols. Blue cloth, paper labels. $750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936. 2 vols. In slipcase. $225.

BORROW, George. The Romany Rye. London, 1857. 2 vols. $450.

BORROW, George. Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery. London, 1862. 3 vols. Blue cloth, paper labels. $450.

BOSCANA, Father Geronimo. Chinigchinich. Santa Ana, 1933. Translated by Alfred Robinson. Color plates, maps. Folio, boards, and cloth. $450.

BOSQUI, Edward. Memoirs. (Oakland): Grabhorn Press, 1952. One of 350 copies. $250.

BOSSCHERE, Jean de. 12 Occupations. London, 1916. Decorated wraps. (Translated anonymously by Ezra Pound.) $750. One of 50 copies. Boards. 12 hand-colored illustrations. $3,250.

BOSSERT, Helmuth T. Peasant Art in Europe. London, 1927. First English edition. (Originally Berlin, 1926). 100 full-color plates and 32 plates in black-and-white. Folio, cloth. $200. New York, 1927. $175.

BOSWELL, James. An Account of Corsica . . . Glasgow, 1768. Map. $2,000.

BOSWELL, James. Boswell in Search of a Wife. London, 1957. Edited by F. Brady and Frederick A. Pottle. Blue buckram and calf. Yale deluxe edition. One of 400 copies. In slipcase. $400.

BOSWELL, James. Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland. London, 1953. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. Illustrated, folding map. Blue buckram and calf. London, 1953. Yale deluxe edition. One of 1,000 copies. In slipcase. $250.

BOSWELL, James. Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France. London, 1955. Edited by F. Brady and Frederick A. Pottle. Illustrated, folding maps. Blue buckram and calf. Yale deluxe edition. One of 400 copies. In slipcase. $325.

BOSWELL, James. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London, 1785. $1,000. New York, 1936. First complete edition. One of 816 copies. In slipcase. $350.

BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London, 1791. 2 vols., with the “gve” reading on page 135 of vol. 1. $25,000. With “give.” $10,000. Boston, 1807. First American edition. $750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1938. 3 vols. In slipcase. $250.

BOSWORTH, Newton. Hochelaga Depicta: The Early History and Present State of the City and Island of Montreal. Montreal, 1839. Illustrated, including 2 folding maps. $350.

BOTTA, Charles. History of the War of Independence of the United States of America. Philadelphia, 1820. 3 vols. $750.

BOTTOMLEY, Gordon. Poems of Thirty Years. London, 1925. One of 75 signed copies. $200.

BOUCHER, Anthony. The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars. New York, 1940. $350.

BOUCHER, Anthony. The Case of the Seven of Calvary. New York, 1937. Author’s first book. $650.

BOUCHETTE, Joseph. The British Dominions in North America; Or a Topographical and Statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia . . . London, 1831. 2 vols. Portrait. 10 maps and plans, 20 plates and 3 tables. $2,500.

BOUCHETTE, Joseph. A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with Remarks Upon Upper Canada. London, 1815. First English edition with portrait and 17 plates. $1,750. London, 1832. 2 vols. 30 plates and plans. $2,500.

BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine. A Voyage Around the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, And 1769. London, 1772. First edition in English. With 1 double-page plate and 5 folding maps. $7,500.

BOUGARD, R. The Little Sea Torch. London, 1801. First English edition, with 20 hand-colored plates and 24 hand-colored charts on twelve sheets. $12,500.

BOULLE, Pierre. The Bridge Over the River Kwai. London, 1954. (First translation in English.) $750. New York, 1954. $550.

BOULTER, Hugh. Letters . . . Oxford, 1769-70. 2 vols. $750. Dublin, 1770. 2 vols. $500.

BOURDILLON, Francis W. Among the Flowers, and Other Poems. London, 1878. Author’s first book. Decorated white cloth. $750.

BOURJAILY, Vance. The End of My Life. New York, 1947. Author’s first book. $175.

BOURKE, John G. An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre. New York, 1886. 12 plates. Printed wraps or pictorial cloth. $500.

BOURKE, John G. Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes. Governor’s Island, N.Y., 1890. Portrait. 44 pages, printed wraps. $2,000.

BOURKE, John G. On the Border with Crook. New York, 1891. Frontispiece portrait, other plates. $650.

BOURKE, John G. Scatologic Rites of All Nations. Washington, 1891. $400.

BOURKE, John G. The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona. New York, 1884. 33 plates, some in color. Pictorial cloth. $500. London, 1884. Half calf. $300.

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret. Eyes on Russia. New York, 1931. Author’s first book. $800.

BOURNE, Randolph. The History of a Literary Radical. New York, 1920. Edited by Van Wyck Brooks. In dust jacket. $150.

BOURNE, Randolph. Youth and Life. Boston, 1913. Author’s first book. $225.

BOVA, Ben. Star Conquerors. Philadelphia (1959). Author’s first book. $400.

BOWDEN, Charles. Killing the Hidden Waters. Austin (1977). $300.

BOWDICH, Thomas Edward. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo . . . London, 1825. 22 plates (4 hand-colored, 3 folding). $3,000.

BOWDICH, Thomas Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. John Murray, 1819. 7 hand-colored plates (2 folding), 2 engraved maps (1 folding), folding facsimile and 3 plates of music. $5,000.

BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass., 1802. Folding frontispiece map, 7 plates. $4,500.

BOWEN, Abel. The Naval Monument. Boston, 1816. 25 woodcuts. $100.

BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. A History of Lehigh University. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), 1924. $150.

BOWEN, Elizabeth. Ann Lee’s and Other Stories. London, 1926. $750. New York, 1927. $500.

BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. London, 1938. $300.

BOWEN, Elizabeth. Encounters. London, 1923. Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $1,750.

BOWEN, Elizabeth. Seven Winters. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. Boards and linen. One of 450 copies. In tissue dust jacket. $200.

BOWEN, Peter. Yellowstone Kelly… Ottawa, 1987. $150.

BOWER, B. M. Chip of the Flying U. New York: Street & Smith (1906). (By Bertha Muzzy Sinclair.) $150. (Red-bound G. W. Dillingham edition is later.)

BOWER, B. M. Lure of the Dim Trails. New York (1907). (By Bertha Muzzy Sinclair.) In light-brown pictorial cloth. $100. (Red-bound G. W. Dillingham edition is later.)

BOWERING, George. Sticks and Stones. Vancouver [1962]. (30 or 40 copies). Wraps. $750.

BOWERS, Dorothy. Postscript to Poison. London (1938). $2,000.

BOWERS, Dorothy. Shadows Before. London, 1939. $1,750. Garden City, 1940. $300.

BOWERS, Mrs. Dr. J. Milton. The Dance of Life: An Answer to the “Dance of Death.” San Francisco, 1877. Red or green cloth. (By Ambrose Bierce?) $125.

BOWERS, Edgar. The Form of Loss. Denver, 1956. $200.

BOWLES, Jane. In the Summer House. New York (1954). $250.

BOWLES, Jane. Plain Pleasures. London (1966). $125.

BOWLES, Jane. Two Serious Ladies. New York, 1943. Author’s first book. $3,000. London, 1965. $100.

BOWLES, Paul. Collected Stories 1939-1976. Santa Barbara, 1979. Introduction by Gore Vidal. One of 60 copies signed by both Bowles and Vidal. In clear acetate dust jacket. $750. One of 300 copies signed by Bowles. $250. One of 750 copies unsigned. $100. Wraps. $50.

BOWLES, Paul. The Delicate Prey and Other Stories. (New York, 1950.) $500.

BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. London (1952). $350. New York (1952). $300. Santa Barbara, 1980. One of 350 signed copies. $200. One of 26 signed copies. $350. One of 1,000 hardcover copies. $50.

BOWLES, Paul. A Little Stone. London (1950). First issue binding is light-green cloth. $350. Second issue in dark green. $250.

BOWLES, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. London (1949). $6,500. New York (1949). $3,000.

BOWLES, Paul. Too Far from Home. New York (1993). $40. London, 1994. One of 100 signed copies. $350.

BOWLES, Paul. Two Poems. (New York, circa 1933.) Author’s first book. Approximately 175 copies. Wraps. $25,000.

BOWLES, Paul. Yallah. Zurich, 1956. Illustrated with photos. $450. New York, 1957. $350.

BOWMAN, David. Let the Dog Drive. New York (1992). Author’s first book. $150.

BOWYER, William. The Origin of Printing in Two Essays . . . London, 1774. $500.

BOX, Capt. Michael James. Capt. James Box’s Adventures and Explorations in New and Old Mexico. New York, 1861. $3,000. New York, 1869. Second issue (original sheets with cancel title leaf). $600.

BOX, Edgar. Death Before Bedtime. New York, 1953. (By Gore Vidal.) $300.

BOX, Edgar. Death in the Fifth Position. New York, 1952. (By Gore Vidal.) $400.

BOX, Edgar. Death Likes It Hot. New York, 1954. (By Gore Vidal.) $275.

BOYD, James. Bitter Creek. New York, 1939. $100.

BOYD, James. Drums. New York/London, 1925. Author’s first book. $300. New York (1928). Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. One of 525 copies signed by author and artist. In slipcase. $1,500. Trade. $300.

BOYD, Nancy. Distressing Dialogues. New York (1924). (By Edna St. Vincent Millay.) First edition stated. $400.

BOYD, Thomas. Through the Wheat. New York, 1923. $400.

BOYD, William. A Good Man in Africa. London, 1981. Author’s first book. $900. New York, 1982. $125.

BOYDELL, John and BOYDELL, Josiah. An History of the River Thames. London, 1794-96. Dedication to George III. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 76 hand-colored plates. $15,000.

BOYLE, Jack. Boston Blackie. New York (1919). Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $3,000. Without dust jacket. $300.

BOYLE, Kay. See H. H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak.

BOYLE, Kay. The Crazy Hunter. London (1940). $150. New York (1940). $125.

BOYLE, Kay. The First Lover and Other Stories. New York (1933). $250. London (1937). $200.

BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York, 1933. $450. London (1934). $250.

BOYLE, Kay. Monday Night. New York (1938). $250.

BOYLE, Kay. Plagued by the Nightingale. New York, 1931. Her first novel. $400. London, 1931. $350.

BOYLE, Kay. Short Stories. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. Author’s first book. Printed wraps in gold- or silver-tied protective boards. One of 15 signed copies on Japan paper. $1,750. One of 150 on Van Gelder paper. In tissue dust jacket. In slipcase. $1,000. One of 20 copies on Arches paper, for France. $1,250.

BOYLE, Kay. Wedding Day and Other Stories. New York (1930). Decorated boards, cloth spine. (The author’s first book, retitled as shown. Also variant spine title, “Short/Stories”. Priority unknown. $500. London, 1932. $250.

BOYLE, Kay. The White Horses of Vienna. New York (1936). $250.

BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. Descent of Man. Boston (1979). Author’s first book. $500. London, 1980. $150.

BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Homesteaders. Chicago, 1909. $75.

BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Langford of the Three Bars. Chicago, 1907. $125.

“BOZ.” See Dickens, Charles. See also Sketches by “Boz.”

“BOZ.” Master Humphrey’s Clock. London, 1840-41. (By Charles Dickens.) 88 weekly parts, white wraps. $4,000. Second edition, 20 monthly parts in 19, green wraps. $2,500. (For first book edition, see author entry.)

“BOZ.” Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. London, 1838. (By Charles Dickens.) Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. In original reddish-brown cloth. First issue, with “Rose Maylie and Oliver” plate in vol. 3 showing them at fireside. $12,500. Rebound in nice old half calf. $4,000. In new “Bayntun-style” morocco. $7,000. Second issue showing them at church. $6,000. (For later editions see author entries under Oliver Twist and The Adventures of Oliver Twist.)

BRACKENRIDGE, H. H. See A Poem on the Rising Glory . . . and Strictures on a Voyage to South America, etc.

BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry. Gazette Publications. Carlisle, Pa., 1806. $750.

BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri. Baltimore, 1815. First edition (actually second appearance of the journal, which first appeared in author’s Views of Louisiana, which see). $2,500. Baltimore, 1816 (cover date 1815). Second edition. Boards. $750.

BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Views of Louisiana; Together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1814. Pittsburgh, 1814. $2,500. Baltimore, 1817. (Revised.) $750.

BRACKETT, Leigh. No Good for a Corpse. New York (1944). $1,500.

BRADBURY, John. Travels in the Interior of America. Liverpool, 1817. With errata slip. $4,000. London, 1819. Second edition. Folding map. $5,000.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Anthem Sprinters. New York: Dial Press, 1963. Cloth. $500. Wraps (actually precedes by a month or so). $75.

BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. Garden City, 1957. $1,750. London, 1957. $400.

BRADBURY, Ray. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, 1947. Author’s first book. $2,500. London (1948). $850.

BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York (1953). (About 50 author’s copies were bound in red cloth with gold lettering.) $7,500. Asbestos boards. One of 200 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $20,000 if perfect. Other copies. $10,000 and up. Trade in red boards with various colored lettering. $6,000. Simultaneous issue by Ballantine in wraps (actually true first.) $350. London, 1954. $1,250. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982. $750.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City, 1953. $850. London, 1953. $150.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Garden City, 1951. $3,000. London, 1952. $500.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Machineries of Joy. New York, 1964. $450. London, 1964. $250.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, 1950. First state in green binding. Signed on tipped-in leaf. $7,500. Unsigned. $6,000. Second state in blue binding. $4,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1974. 2,000 copies signed by author and illustrator. $350.

BRADBURY, Ray. A Medicine for Melancholy. Garden City, 1959. $450.

BRADBURY, Ray. The October Country. New York (1955). One of 50 copies bound for author in full red cloth with gold stamping. $5,000. Trade. First state has Ballantine logo on spine inverted. $2,500. Second state with logo corrected. $1,000. London, 1956. $350.

BRADBURY, Ray. The Silver Locusts. London, 1951. First British edition (of The Martian Chronicles). $400.

BRADBURY, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. New York: 1962. $1,500. London (1963). $400.

BRADBURY, Ray. Switch on the Night. (New York, 1955.) $1,250. Later printings have pictorial covers without dust jacket. (London), 1955. $500.

BRADDON, Mary Elizabeth. Garibaldi . . . London, 1861. Author’s first book. $2,500.

BRADDON, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley’s Secret. London, 1862. 3 vols. $4,500. New York (1863). $1,750.

BRADFORD, Gamaliel. Daughters of Eve. Boston (1930). Illustrated. Cloth. One of 200 signed copies. $150.

BRADFORD, Gamaliel. Types of American Character. New York, 1895. Author’s first book. $150.

BRADFORD, Roark. Ol’ Man Adam and His Chillun. New York, 1928. Author’s first book. $125.

BRADFORD, William. The Arctic Regions. (London, 1873.) 141 albumen prints. Folio, morocco. $150,000.

BRADLEY, David. South Street. New York, 1975. Author’s first book. $300.

BRADLEY, Edward. College Life. Oxford, 1849-50. Author’s first book. (6 parts in 5.) $1,000.

BRADLEY, James. The Confederate Mail Carrier. Mexico, Mo., 1894. 15 plates. $450.

BRADLEY, John W. A Dictionary of Miniaturists. London, 1887-89. 3 vols. Half leather. $750.

BRADLEY, Joshua. Accounts of Religious Revivals in Many Parts of the United States from 1815 to 1818. Albany, 1819. $200.

BRADLEY, Omar Nelson. A Soldier’s Story. New York (1951). One of 750 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,500.

BRADLEY, Van Allen. The Book Collector’s Handbook of Values. New York (1982). The fourth, revised, and enlarged edition. $100.

BRADLEY, Will. The American Chap-Book. Jersey City, September 1904 - August 1905. Volumes I and II, each in 6 numbers. Original wraps. $1,750. Original wraps bound in one volume. $1,000.

BRADLEY, Will. His Book. Vol. 1 through Vol. 2, No. 4 (8 volumes) and prospectus all published in Springfield, Mass. May 1896 to February 1897. Wraps and envelopes. $5,000.

BRADLEY, William Aspenwall. The Etching of Figures. Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1915. Half vellum. Dard Hunter paper and printing (his first). One of 250. $750.

BRADSTREET, Anne. See The Tenth Muse . . .

BRADY, Cyrus Townsend. Arizona. New York, 1914. $300.

BRADY, William. Glimpses of Texas. Houston, 1871. Folding map in color. Stiff wraps, or cloth. $2,500.

BRAINE, John. Room at the Top. London, 1957. Author’s first book. (Some with wraparound band.) $450. Boston, 1957. $150.

BRAIT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Chicago, Dallas, 1921. 26 photographs and illustrations. In slipcase. $1,500.

BRAITHWAITE, William S. Lyrics of Life and Love. Boston, 1904. Author’s first book. $500.

BRAITHWAITE, William S. (editor). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913. Cambridge, Mass. (1913). (First of the Braithwaite anthologies.) Wraps. $300. Boards. $175.

BRAITHWAITE, William S. (editor). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923. Boston, 1923. Boards and cloth. Issued without dust jacket. One of 245 copies signed by Braithwaite. $300. Trade edition in dust jacket. $150.

BRAMAH, Ernest. English Farming and Why I Turned It Up. London, 1894. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $300.

BRAMAH, Ernest. The Eyes of Max Carrados. London, 1923. $3,500. New York (1924). $1,250.

BRAMAH, Ernest. Kai Lung’s Golden Hours. London, 1924. One of 250 signed copies. $600. Trade. $350.

BRAMAH, Ernest. Max Carrados. London (1914). With ads dated “Autumn 1913.” $750.

BRAMAH, Ernest. The Transmutation of Ling. London (1911). One of 500. $400.

BRAMAH, Ernest. The Wallet of Kai Lung. London (1900). Light-green cloth. First issue, measuring 1 1/2 inches thick. $500. London, 1923. Boards. One of 200 signed copies. $650.

BRAMAN, D.E.E. Information About Texas. Philadelphia, 1857. $1,000. Philadelphia, 1858. Second edition. Cloth. $600.

BRAMMER, William. The Gay Place. Boston, 1961. Author’s first book. Rear dust jacket flap with name of designer, $300. Second issue, rear dust jacket flap with name of designer covered by design, $200. Third issue, rear dust jacket flap with name of designer removed. $100.

BRANCH, Douglas. The Cowboy and His Interpreters. New York and London, 1926. Illustrated by Will James, Joe de Young, and Charles M. Russell. 21 illustrations in text plus frontispiece. $150.

BRAND, Christianna. (Mary Christianna Lewis.) Death in High Heels. London, 1941. $400. New York, 1954. $100.

BRAND, Max. Calling Dr. Kildare. New York, 1940. (By Frederick Faust.) $600.

BRAND, Max. Destry Rides Again. New York, 1930. (By Frederick Faust.) $6,000.

BRAND, Max. Night Horseman. New York, 1920. (By Frederick Faust.) In dust jacket. $750.

BRAND, Max. The Untamed. New York, 1919. (By Frederick Faust.) Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $1,500. Without dust jacket. $300.

BRANDEIS, Louis D. Other People’s Money . . . New York (1914). Author’s first book. $300.

BRANDT, Bill. Camera in London. London & New York (1948). $400.

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. London (1936). Author’s first book. 63 plates. Issued in glassine dust jacket. $1,500. New York, 1936. Issued in tissue dust jacket. $1,500.

BRANDT, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. New York (1961). $1,000.

BRANDT, Herbert. Arizona Bird Life. Cleveland, 1951. Illustrated, including map and color plates. Green cloth. $250.

BRANGWYN, Frank. Catalogue of the Etched Work…. London, 1912. Enlarged edition of next entry with 200 illustrations on 108 plates. $600.

BRANGWYN, Frank. The Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn. London, 1908. One of 100 copies. 51 plates. $1,250.

BRANGWYN, Frank. The Historical Paintings in the Great Hall of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. London, 1909. One of 300 copies. $750. One of 25 copies on vellum. $3,000.

BRANGWYN, Frank. The Way of the Cross. London (1935). 14 plates. One of 250 copies. $1,250.

BRASHER, Rex. Birds and Trees of North America. (Kent, CN, 1929-32). 12 vols. 867 hand-colored plates. Oblong folio, half leather folders. $17,000. New York, 1961-62. 4 vols., 875 colored plates. $400.

BRASIL, Angela. A Terrible Tomboy. London, 1904. $400.

BRASSAI. The Artists of My Life. New York, 1982. One of 150 signed numbered copies. $2,000.

BRASSINGTON, Salt. A History of the Art of Bookbinding . . . London, 1894. $600.

BRATHWAITE, Richard. The English Gentleman . . . London, 1630. $2,250.

BRAUN, Lilian Jackson. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. New York, 1966. Author’s first book. $350.

BRATT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Neb., 1921. Portrait frontispiece and plates. Pictorial cloth. $450.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. San Francisco, 1967. One of 1,500 copies. Illustrated yellow wraps. $500.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. A Confederate General at Big Sur. New York (1964). $500.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Galilee Hitch-Hiker. San Francisco (1958). Wraps. $3,000. San Francisco, 1966. Illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 16 signed copies with a small drawing on separate folded 8½-by-11-inch thin brown paper. $1,000. One of 700 copies. $350.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. In Watermelon Sugar. San Francisco (1968). One of 50 signed copies. $1,750. Trade. Wraps. $200. London (1970). $300.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Lay the Marble Tea. San Francisco (1959). Printed wraps. $1,500.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. New York, 1976. $300.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Octopus Frontier. San Francisco (1960). Printed wraps. $900.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. San Francisco (1968). Tan boards, brown cloth spine. One of 50 signed copies. $1,850.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book. San Francisco (1968). Wraps, with eight seed packets enclosed. $1,250.

BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Return of the Rivers. (San Francisco, 1958.) Author’s first book. Wraps. Reportedly 100 copies but may have only been 15 or 20. Most signed. $15,000. Unsigned. $10,000.

BRAVO (The): A Venetian Story. London, 1831. (By James Fenimore Cooper.) 3 vols. $800. Philadelphia, 1831. 2 vols. First American edition. $650.

BRAYTON, Matthew. The Indian Captive. Cleveland, 1860. 68 pages, printed green wraps. $4,500. Boards. $2,500. Fostoria, Ohio, 1896. Second edition. $1,000.

BRENAN, Gerald. See Beaton, George.

BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Heart of Earth. Prairie City (1949). Author’s first book. $150.

BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Nine Horrors and a Dream. Sauk City, 1958. $250.

BRENNER, Anita. Idols Behind Altars. New York, 1929. $1,250.

BRENNER, Anita. The Wind That Swept Mexico. New York (1943). Illustrated with photographs. $300.

BRETON, André. What Is Surrealism? London, 1936. $150.

BRETON, André. Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares. New York, 1946. $1,000. Drawings by Arshile Gorley and jacket by Marcel Duchamp.

BRETT, Simon. (Anthony Lee.) Cast, In Order of Disappearance. London, 1975. $150. New York (1976). $50.

BRETTON, James J. (editor). Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays . . . New York, 1850. $350.

BREVOORT, Elias. New Mexico: Her Natural Resources . . . Sante Fe, 1874. Wraps. $1,750.

BREWSTER, Sir David. A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope. Edinburgh, 1819. 7 plates. $2,000.

BREWSTER, Ralph H. The Good Beards of Athos. London, Hogarth, 1935. $400.

BRICE, Wallace. A History of Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind., 1868. 7 plates. Cloth. $400.

BRIDGENS, Richard. Furniture, with Candelabra and Interior Decoration. London, 1838. 60 full-page color plates (including title). Folio. $3,000.

BRIDGES, Robert. Eros and Psyche: A Poem. Newtown, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1935. Woodcuts from drawings by Edward Burne-Jones. White pigskin. One of 300 copies. In buckram case. $1,750. One of 15 copies specially bound by George Fisher. $6,000.

BRIDGES, Robert. Poems. London, 1873. Author’s first book (suppressed by him in 1878). $600.

BRIDGES, Robert. Poems Written in the Year MCMXIII. (London): Ashendene Press, 1914. Blue printed boards and cloth. One of 85 copies with initials in red or blue. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 6 copies on vellum. $8,500.

BRIDGES, Robert. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford, 1929. One of 50 signed copies. $400. One of 200 copies, unsigned. $200. Trade edition. $150. New York, 1929. One of 250 copies. $300.

BRIDWELL, J. W. (compiler). The Life and Adventures of Robert McKimie. Hillsboro, Ohio, 1878. 56 pages, pictorial wraps. $1,500.

BRIEF Description of Western Texas (A). San Antonio, 1873. (By W. G. Kingsbury.) Pictorial wraps. $2,000.

BRIGGS, Charles Frederick. See The Adventures of Harry Franco . . .

BRIGGS, Clare. Golf: The Book of a Thousand Chuckles. Chicago (1916). $500.

BRIGGS, E. C., and ATTWOOD, R. M. Address to the Saints in Utah and California, Polygamy Proven an Abomination by Holy Writ, Is Brigham Young President of the Church of Jesus Christ . . . Plano, Il., 1869. Wraps. Third edition (noted as “Revised by Joseph Smith and Wm. W. Blair.”) $750.

BRIGGS, L. Vernon. History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Boston, 1889. $225.

BRIGHAM, Clarence S. Paul Revere’s Engravings. Worcester, Mass., 1954. 77 plates (some in color). $150.

BRIGMAN, Anne. Songs of a Pagan. Caldwell, Idaho, 1949. $250.

BRILLAT-SAVARIN, J(ean) A(nthelme). The Physiology of Taste. Philadelphia, 1854. $900. London, 1925. Introduction by Arthur Machen. Portrait, other illustrations. Boards. One of 750 copies. $350. New York, 1926. One of 500 copies. $200. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. Translated by M.F.K. Fisher. Half leather. One of 1,500 copies in slipcase. $300.

BRILLIANT, Ashley. I May Not Be Totally Perfect, But… Santa Barbara (1979). Cloth. Issued without dust jacket. (1,000 copies.) $150. Wraps. $35.

BRINK, André (Philippus). The Ambassador. (Cape Town), 1964. First English translation. $100.

BRIQUET Album: A Miscellany on Watermarks . . . (The). Hilversum, 1952. One of 400 copies. Vol. 2 (one of the more difficult to find). $200.

BRISBANE, Albert. Social Destiny of Man . . . Philadelphia, 1840. Author’s first book. $850.

BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza. Philadelphia, 1881. 8 plates. Pictorial cloth. $350.

BRITISH Librarian: Exhibiting A Compendious Review or Abstract of Our Most Scarce . . . London, 1738. 6 vols. bound in 1. $750.

BRITTAIN, Vera M. Verses of a V. A. D. London, 1918. $450.

BRITTON, Wiley. Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863. Chicago, 1882. $300.

BROCH, Hermann. The Death of Virgil. New York, 1945. $1,750.

BROCH, Hermann. The Sleepwalkers. London, 1932. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. $250. Boston, 1932. $200.

BRODER, Patricia Janis. Bronzes of the American West. New York (1974). 511 illustrations, including 48 plates in color (not including sculpture). One of 262 copies. $600.

BRODIE, Walter. Pitcairn’s Island and the Islanders in 1850. London, 1851. 4 plates. Cloth, paper label. $600. London, 1851. Second edition. $350.

BRODKEY, Harold. First Love & Other Sorrows. New York (1957). Author’s first book. $500. London, 1958. $150.

BROMFIELD, Louis. The Green Bay Tree. New York, 1924. Author’s first book. $2,000.

BRONK, William. Light and Dark. (Ashland, Mass.), 1956. Author’s first book. Wraps. $200.

BRONTË, Anne. See Bell, Acton; Bell, Currer.

BRONTË, Charlotte. See Bell, Currer.

BRONTË, Emily. See Bell, Ellis.

BROOKE, Arthur De Capell. Travels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to the North Cape. London, 1823. Map, 21 plates (2 colored). $2,000. London, 1831. Second edition. $1,000.

BROOKE, Arthur De Capell. A Winter in Lapland and Sweden. London, 1826. Frontispiece, folding map, and 24 plates. $3,500. London, 1827. Second edition. 21 plates. $1,350.

BROOKE, H. K. Annals of the Revolution. Philadelphia, 1843. Boards. First issue with “88½ N. Second St.” for publisher’s address. $800. Second issue [1848] “198 Market St.” $400.

BROOKE, James. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes. London, 1848. 2 vols. 18 plates and 5 maps (1 folding, 4 extending). $1,800.

BROOKE, Jocelyn. Six Poems. Oxford, 1928. Author’s first book. Wraps. $400.

BROOKE, Rupert. The Bastille. Rugby: A. J. Lawrence, 1905. Wraps. Signed “R. C. B.” at end. $15,000. Rugby: George E. Over, 1905 [1920]. Wraps. $1,500.

BROOKE, Rupert. Collected Poems. New York, 1915. $300. One of 100 copies bound for members of the Woodberry Society. $1,000. London, 1919. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat. One of 1,000 copies. $300. One of 13 copies on vellum. $1,000.

BROOKE, Rupert. Lithuania: A Drama in One Act. (Chicago): Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. Pictorial brown wraps. $1,000.

BROOKE, Rupert. 1914 and Other Poems. London, 1915. Portrait frontispiece. Dark-blue cloth, paper label. $750. In dust jacket (which is usually short). $3,500. New York, 1915. American copyright edition, 87 copies, folded sheets. Bound in morocco. $3,000. In cloth and boards. $2,500. Unbound sheets. $2,250.

BROOKE, Rupert. “1914”: Five Sonnets. London, 1915. Printed wraps. In printed envelope. $350.

BROOKE, Rupert. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. London, 1916. Gray wraps. $150.

BROOKE, Rupert. Poems. London, 1911. Author’s first book of verse and first commercial publication. Dark blue cloth, paper label. (Issued without dust jacket.) $1,750.

BROOKE, Rupert. The Pyramids. Rugby, 1904. Author’s first book. Wraps. $25,000.

BROOKNER, Anita. J. A. Dominique Ingres… London, 1965. Author’s first book. Large paper wraps. $75.

BROOKNER, Anita. A Start in Life. London, 1981. $150.

BROOKNER, Anita. Watteau. London, 1967. $75.

BROOKS, Bryant B. Memoirs of Bryant B. Brooks. Glendale, Calif., 1939. Plates. One of 150 copies. $350.

BROOKS, Cleanth. The Relations of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect . . . Baton Rouge, 1935. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $125.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Annie Allen. New York (1949). $600.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. The Bean Eaters. New York (1960). $350.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Bronzeville Boys and Girls. New York (1956). First edition not stated. $350.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Maud Martha. New York (1953). $350.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Song After Sunset. 1936. (One known copy). $10,000.

BROOKS, Gwendolyn. A Street in Bronzeville. New York, 1945. Author’s first regularly published book. $600.

BROOKS, Juanita. John Doyle Lee: Zealot. Glendale, 1961. Blue cloth. Issued without dust jacket. One of 209 copies. $2,000. Glendale, 1962. Trade edition. Red cloth in dust jacket. $175.

BROOKS, Noah. The Fairport Nine. New York, 1880. $1,400.

BROOKS, Terry. The Sword of Shannara. New York (1977). $1,000.

BROOKS, Walter R. Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans. New York, 1957. $400.

BROOKS, Walter R. Freddy and the Men from Mars. New York, 1954. $475.

BROSSARD, Chandler. Who Walk in Darkness. (New York, 1952.) Author’s first book. Cloth. $150. Wraps. $40. London (1952). $75.

BROTHEREA, W. Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia, with Bibliographical Remarks. Philadelphia, 1891. $200.

BROTHER Jonathan. Edinburgh, 1825. (By John Neal.) 3 vols. $750.

BROTHERS (The): A Tale of the Fronde. New York, 1835. 2 vols. (By Henry William Herbert.) Author’s first book. First issue, in original brown cloth. $750. Rebound. $350.

BROUGHTON, James. Songs for Certain Children. San Francisco, 1947. Author’s first book. $400.

BROUGHTON, William Robert. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean. London, 1804. 9 plates and maps (7 folding). $35,000.

BROUILLET, J.B.A. A True Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman and Other Missionaries. Portland, 1869. 108 pages, wraps. Second edition of Protestantism in Oregon (see item following). $4,000.

BROUILLET, J.B.A. Protestantism in Oregon: Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman, and the Ungrateful Calumnies of H. H. Spalding, Protestant Missionary. New York, 1853. Wraps. $6,500.

BROWER, Jacob V. Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi. Maps. St. Paul, Minn., 1898-1904. 8 vols. Cloth. One of 300 copies. $2,000.

BROWN, Alice. Fools of Nature. Boston, 1887. Author’s first book to be published with her name on a title page. $150.

BROWN, Benjamin. Testimonies for the Truth: A Record of Manifestations of the Power of God . . . High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Liverpool, 1843. $1,500.

BROWN, Bob. Demonics. Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1931. Wraps. $400.

BROWN, Bob. Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine. Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1931. Wraps. One of 300 copies. $750.

BROWN, Bob. The Remarkable Adventures of Christopher Poe. Chicago, 1913. Author’s first book. $200.

BROWN, Bob. What Happened to Mary. New York (1913). $100.

BROWN, Bob. Words. Paris: Hours Press, 1931. One of 150 signed copies. $400.

BROWN, Charles Brockden. See Alcuin . . . ; Wieland . . .

BROWN, Charles Brockden. Arthur Mervyn: A Tale. London, 1803. 3 vols. First English edition. $1,750. (The first edition was issued anonymously in America. See Arthur Mervyn.)

BROWN, Christie. My Left Foot. London, 1954. Author’s first book. $350.

BROWN, Dan. Angels & Demons. New York (2000). $1,250.

BROWN, Dan. Deception Point. New York (2001). $300.

BROWN, Dan. The Da Vinci Code. New York (2003). $300.

BROWN, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York (1970). 9½ inches x 6½ inches. Fore edges rough. Dust jacket has “0171” at bottom of front flap. $300. Second issue. Without “0171” and 9¼ inches x 6¼ inches. Fore edges smooth. $125. (Both state “First Edition” and are in priced dust jacket.)

BROWN, Dee. Wave the Banner High. Philadelphia, 1942. Author’s first book. First edition stated. $200.

BROWN, Fredric. The Dead Ringer. New York, 1948. $1,000. London (1949). Wraps. $150. London (1950). $350.

BROWN, Fredric. The Fabulous Clipjoint. New York, 1947. Author’s first book. $1,250.

BROWN, Fredric. Martians, Go Home. New York, 1955. $450.

BROWN, Fredric. Murder Can Be Fun. New York, 1948. $1,000. London (1951). $350.

BROWN, Fredric. What Mad Universe. New York, 1949. $450. London (1951). $350.

BROWN, George MacKay. Let’s See the Orkney Island. Port William, no date [1948]. Wraps. $150.

BROWN, Henry. A History of Illinois. New York, 1844. Map. Cloth. $750.

BROWN, Henry. A Narrative of the Anti-Masonick . . . Batavia, 1829. $300.

BROWN, J. Cabell. Calabazas, or Amusing Recollections of an Arizona “City.” San Francisco, 1892. Printed wraps. $250.

BROWN, J. Willard. The Signal Corps, U.S.A., in the War of the Rebellion. Boston, 1896. $650.

BROWN, James S. California Gold: An Authentic History of the First Find. Oakland, 1894. Portrait frontispiece. 20 pages, printed wraps. $3,500.

BROWN, James S. Life of a Pioneer. Salt Lake City, 1900. Portrait. 2 plates. $1,000.

BROWN, Jesse, and WILLARD, A. M. The Black Hills Trails. Rapid City, S.D., 1924. Numerous illustrations. $300.

BROWN, John Arthur. Short History of Pine Valley. New Jersey, 1963. Privately printed. $200.

BROWN, John Henry. History of Dallas County from 1837 to 1887. Dallas, 1887. 114 pages, wraps. $600.

BROWN, John Henry. History of Texas, 1685-1892. St. Louis (1892-93). 2 vols. 25 plates. Cloth. $600.

BROWN, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. Austin, Tex. (1896). Plates. $1,000.

BROWN, John Henry. Political History of Oregon. Portland, Ore., 1892. Vol. 1 (All published.) Illustrated, folding map. $850.

BROWN, John H(enry). Reminiscences and Incidents, of “The Early Days” of San Francisco. San Francisco (1886). Folding frontispiece plan. $2,250. San Francisco (1933). Grabhorn printing. Half cloth. One of 500 copies. $150. One of 25 copies in morocco, with additional reproductions. $600.

BROWN, John Henry, and SPEER, W. S. The Encyclopedia of the New West. Marshall, Tex., 1881. $1,750.

BROWN, Joseph M. Astyanax: An Epic Romance of Llion, Atlantis, and Amaraca. New York, 1907. Illustrated. Cloth. $350.

BROWN, Larry. Facing the Music. Chapel Hill, 1988. $250.

BROWN, Norman O. Hermes the Thief. (Madison, Wisconsin) 1947. $100.

BROWN, Oliver Madox. Gabriel Denver. London, 1873. Author’s first book. $2,000.

BROWN, Paul. Aintree. New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. One of 850 copies. $500. One of 50 large-paper copies with an initialed drawing by Brown. $2,500.

BROWN, Richard. Domestic Architecture… London (1942). Preface dated 2 May 1842. 63 plates. $300.

BROWN, Richard. The Principles of Practical Perspective . . . London, 1815. 51 plates. $1,200.

BROWN, Richard. The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture… London, 1820. $3,000.

BROWN, Rita Mae. The Hand That Cradles the Rock. New York, 1971. $200.

BROWN, Robert Carlton. See Brown, Bob.

BROWN, Samuel J. In Captivity: The Experience, Privations and Dangers of Sam’l J. Brown... Mankato, Minn. (1896). Full leather. $1,250.

BROWN, Samuel R. The Western Gazetteer, or Emigrant’s Directory. Auburn, N.Y., 1817. First issue, with 3-line errata slip. $1,000. Second issue, with 4-line errata. $600. Third issue, with advertisements. $500.

BROWN, Sterling. Southern Road. New York, 1932. Author’s first book. $3,000.

BROWN, William C. The Sheepeater Campaign in Idaho. Boise, 1926. Folding map. 32 pages, wraps. One of 50 copies. $300.

BROWN, William H. The Early History of the State of Illinois. Chicago, 1840. 16 pages, printed wraps. $2,500.

BROWN, William Hill. See The Power of Sympathy (The).

BROWN, William Robinson. The Horse of the Desert. New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. Illustrated. Cloth. One of 750 copies. In dust jacket. $750. One of 75 signed copies. $4,500.

BROWN, William Wells. Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter. London, 1853. $7,500.

BROWN, William Wells. Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States. (New title.) Boston/New York (1864). $3,000.

BROWN, William Wells. The Narrative of . . . Fugitive Slave. Boston, 1847. $5,500.

BROWN, Zenith Jones. See Frome, David.

BROWNE, Francis F. Volunteer Grain. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1895. Green cloth. One of 160 copies. (First book by the publisher.) $750.

BROWNE, J. Ross. Adventures in the Apache Country. New York, 1869. $300.

BROWNE, J. Ross. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise. New York, 1846. 13 plates. $1,000. New York, 1850. $850.

BROWNE, J. Ross. Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of the State Constitution. Washington, 1850. $500.

BROWNE, Thomas A. See Boldrewood, Rolf.

BROWNE, Sir Thomas. Religio Medici. (London) 1642. 97 leaves. $10,000. Second edition. 81 leaves. $7,500. (London) 1643. First authorized edition. $7,500. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. One of 115 copies. $300. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1939. John Henry Nash printing. In slipcase. $200.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. See B., E. B.; Barrett, E. B.; Barrett, Elizabeth B.; Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett. See also An Essay on Mind; Prometheus Bound.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London, 1857 (actually 1856). $600.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem. London, 1851. $350.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems Before Congress. London, 1860. Red cloth. With page 25, line 1 having single quote mark ‘. . . different scarce.” (Second impression, lines 1, 2, 3, and 5 reset and reads “. . . different scarce.”). In some copies a 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated February 1860 (no priority). $400.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. The following are some separate editions: (Boston): Copeland & Day, 1896. Hand-colored illustrations. One of 750 copies. $1,000. London (1909). One of 500 copies. $400. Montagnola, 1925. Morocco. One of 225 copies. $1,500. San Francisco, 1925-27. 2 vols. Half vellum (including facsimile volume). One of 250 copies. $250. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1948. In slipcase. $200.

BROWNING, Robert. See Barrett, Elizabeth, and Browning, Robert. See also Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession.

BROWNING, Robert. Bells and Pomegranates. London, 1841-46. 8 parts, printed wraps. First edition, with half title for second part. $2,000. First book edition (parts bound in 1 vol., cloth, with the half title to the second part). $850.

BROWNING, Robert. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. London: Ballantyne Press, 1899. Illustrated. Morocco. One of 10 copies on vellum. $5,000. One of 210 copies. $750.

BROWNING, Robert. Dramatis Personae. London, 1864. Red cloth. $1,000. Doves Press. (London, 1910.) Vellum. One of 250 copies on paper. $750. One of 15 copies on vellum. $15,000.

BROWNING, Robert. Paracelsus. London, 1835. Author’s first acknowledged book. First issue, with 8 pages of ads at front dated Dec. 1, 1842. In original drab boards, paper label. $2,500. Rebound. $850.

BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London (1888). 35 colored illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Pictorial boards. $350. London, 1934. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Limp vellum. One of 410 copies. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade. $300.

BROWNING, Robert. The Ring and the Book. London, 1868-69. 4 vols. Dark-green cloth. First edition, first binding, with spines of first 2 vols. in Arabic numerals and of next 2 in Roman numerals (VAB). All Roman numerals according to Schwartz, who states later have Arabic on first 2 vols. Also seen with Arabic on all but Vol. III (in Roman). Wise just states second edition was in brown cloth. $750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. 2 vols. Boards and morocco. In slipcase. $150.

BROWNING, Robert. Sordello. London, 1840. First issue, in boards, paper label. $1,500. Cloth. $750.

BROWNING, Robert H. K. History of Golf. London, 1955. $300. New York (1955). $200.

BROWNLOW, William G(annaway). Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism… Knoxville, 1834. $400.

BROWNLOW, William. A Political Register. Jonesborough, Tenn., 1844. Boards. $600.

BROWNSON, Orestus Augustus. An Address, On the Fifty-fifth . . . Ithaca, 1831. Author’s first book. In original wraps. $750. Rebound. $300.

BROWNSTEIN, Michael. Behind the Wheel. (New York, 1967.) Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 6 signed, lettered copies, $250. One of 10 signed copies, $175. 184 unsigned copies, $45.

BRUCE, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh, 1790. 5 vols. 3 folding maps. Portrait and 58 plates. $10,000. Edinburgh, 1804-05. 8 vols. $2,500.

BRUCE, Lenny. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Chicago, 1965. $100.

BRUCE, Leo. See also Croft-Cooke, Rupert.

BRUCE, Leo. Case for Three Detectives. London, 1936. (By Rupert Croft-Cooke). Author’s first mystery. $5,000. New York, 1937. $3,500.

BRUCE, Leo. Case Without a Corpse. London, 1937. (By Rupert Croft-Cooke). $4,000. New York, 1937. $2,500.

BRUEHL, Anton. Photographs of Mexico. New York, 1933. Full-page photos by Bruehl. One of 1,000 signed. In slipcase. $1,250.

BRUFF, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff. New York, 1944. Edited by Georgia W. Read and Ruth Gaines. 2 vols. 21 plates. In boards and slipcase. $500.

BRUFFEY, George A. Eighty-one Years in the West. Butte, 1925. Portrait. Wraps. $150.

BRUNEFILLE, G. E. Topo. London, 1880. (By Gertrude Elizabeth Cambell.) Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Cloth. $450.

BRUNSON, Alfred. A Western Pioneer. Cincinnati, 1872 and 1879. 2 vols. Cloth. $200.

BRUNSON, Edward. Profits in Sheep and Cattle in Central and Western Kansas. Kansas City, 1883. 16 pages, wraps. $600.

BRUNTON, Mary. See Self-Control.

BRUTUS. The Crisis; or, Essays on the Usurpation of the Federal Government. Charleston, 1827. (By Robert J. Turnbull.) $600.

BRYAN, Daniel. The Mountain Muse. Harrisonburg, 1813. $400.

BRYANT, Edwin. What I Saw in California. New York, 1848. $3,500. New York, 1848. Second edition. $500. Santa Ana, Calif., 1936. Half morocco. $350.

BRYANT, Gilbert Ernest. The Chelsea Porcelain Toys. London, 1925. 63 plates, 47 in color. One of 650 signed copies. $500.

BRYANT, William Cullen. See Embargo (The).

BRYANT, William Cullen. The Embargo: or, Sketches of the Times: A Satire. (Cover title.) Boston, 1809. Second edition. $2,500. (For first edition, see title entry The Embargo.)

BRYANT, William Cullen. Hymns. (New York, 1864.) Brown-orange or blue cloth. First state, reading “Dwells on Thy works in deep delight” in second line of fourth stanza on page 9. $400.

BRYANT, William Cullen. Picturesque America. New York (1872-74). 2 vols. $2,500.

BRYANT, William Cullen. Poems. Cambridge, Mass., 1821. $1,250. New York, 1832. Second edition. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. Illustrated by Thomas Nason. Leather. In slipcase. $100.

BRYANT, W. N. Bryant’s Texas Almanac and Railway Guide, 1881-1882. (Cover title.) Dallas, 1881. Wraps. $750.

BRYANT, W. N. Bryant’s Texas Guide! Austin, 1875. 2 folding maps. Wraps. $1,500.

BRYCE, James. The American Commonwealth. London, 1888. 3 vols. First printing with chapter in vol. 3 on the Tweed Ring (later suppressed). $750. Second, with Tweed Ring matter omitted. $325.

BRYDGES, Sir Egerton. Restituta; Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived. London, 1814-16. 28 numbers in 4 vols. $300.

BRYHER. See Ellerman, Annie Winifred.

BRYHER. Civilians. Territet, Switzerland (1927). (Pseudonym of Winifred Ellerman.) Wraps. $400.

BRYHER. Development. London, 1920. $650.

BRYHER, Winifred. The Lament for Adonis. London, 1918. Translated from the Greek. Wraps. $500. Also copies on handmade paper. $1,500.

BUBER, Martin. I and Thou. Edinburgh, 1937. Wraps. $300.

BUCANIERS OF AMERICA . . . London, 1684-1685. (By Alexandre Olivier Exquemeling [a.k.a. John Esquemeling, Basil Ringrose].) Two vols. in one. 16 maps, 3 of which are folding. $11,000.

BUCHAN, John. Greenmantle. London, 1916. Issued without front endpaper. $400.

BUCHAN, John. The Pilgrim Fathers: The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1898. Oxford, 1898. Wraps. $1,000.

BUCHAN, John. The Runagates Club. London (1928). $600.

BUCHAN, John. Sir Quixote of the Moors. London, 1895. Author’s first book. Assumed first issue with title running down spine. $1,500. Second issue with “Sir Quixote” on spine. $300. New York, 1895. $250.

BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-nine Steps. Edinburgh and London (1915). $1,750.

BUCHANAN, Robert. The Devil’s Case. London (1896). $125.

BUCHANAN, Robert. The Fleshly School of Poetry. London, 1872. Pink or violet pictorial wraps. $400.

BUCHANAN, Robertson. Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat. Glasgow, 1810. 2 plates. $600.

BUCHANAN, Robertson. A Practical Treatise on Propelling Vessels by Steam. Glasgow, 1816. 17 plates, 1 folding. $1,000.

BUCK, Irving A. Cleburne and His Command. New York, 1908. Plates. $750.

BUCK, Pearl S. East Wind: West Wind. New York (1930). Author’s first book. $1,250.

BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York (1931). The reading “flees” for “fleas,” line 17 of page 100 also is in the second and third printings. The “John Day Publishing Company” on copyright page is scarcer than “The John Day Company,” so may be valid point. Top edges stained brown. $12,500. Presumed later issue with “The John Day Company,” green top edge. $11,500. (Also reported with tan top edge). London, 1931. $2,500. [Note: the book was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the differences of publisher’s name and top edge may reflect their edition. This was the time they were switching from sending out publisher’s editions and printing their own from publisher’s plates.] Has anyone seen a priced jacket?

BUCK, Pearl S. Sons. New York (1932). One of 371 deluxe copies, signed. In dust jacket and slipcase. $450.

BUCKINGHAM, Nash. De Shootinest Gent’man and Other Tales. Edited by Col. Harold P. Sheldon. New York: Derrydale Press (1934). One of 950 copies. $750. New York (1961). One of 260 copies. $300.

BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Mark Right! New York: Derrydale Press (1936). One of 1,250 copies. $400.

BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Ole Miss. New York: Derrydale Press (1937). Edited by Paul A. Curtis. One of 1,250 copies. $350.

BUCKLER, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley. New York, 1952. $450.

BUCKLEY, Francis. English Baluster Stemmed Glasses of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Edinburgh, 1912. 18 plates. Buckram. $600.

BUCKLEY, Francis. Old London Drinking Glasses. Edinburgh, 1913. 14 plates. Buckram. $500.

BUCKLEY, Wilfred. Diamond Engraved Glasses of the 16th Century. London, 1929. 33 plates. Boards. One of 250 copies. $425.

BUCKLEY, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale. Chicago, 1951. Author’s first book. $350.

BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. Amulets and Superstitions. London, 1930. 22 plates, 300 other illustrations. $300.

BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology. London, 1904. 2 vols. 98 color plates. Pictorial cloth. $1,250.

BUDGE, Jesse R. S. The Life of William Budge by His Son. Salt Lake City, 1915. $400.

BUECHNER, Frederick. A Long Day’s Dying. New York, 1950. Author’s first book. $200.

BUECHNER, Thomas S. Norman Rockwell, Artist and Illustrator. New York (1970). 614 plates. “Special Leatherbound Edition.” One of 1,100 copies signed by Rockwell and Buechner. Large color collotype created especially for this edition, hand-numbered and signed by Rockwell. In slipcase. $750. Trade. $250.

BUEL, J. W. The Border Outlaws. St. Louis, 1881. $1,000.

BUEL, J. W. Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout. Chicago, 1880. Frontispiece and plate. 93 pages, pictorial wraps. Presumed first issue, with cover dated 1880. $3,000.

BUFFET, Bernard. Lithographs, 1952-1966. New York (1968). One of 125 copies with 2 additional lithographs signed by Buffet. $3,600. Wraps in dust jacket and slipcase. $850.

BUFFUM, E. Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines. Philadelphia, 1850. Printed wraps. $1,250. Cloth. $1,000.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. All the Assholes in the World and Mine. (Bensonville, 1966.) Wraps. One of 400 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later with an original drawing by Bukowski tipped in. $2,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. One of 75 copies with an original illustration signed by the author, issued in glassine dust jacket. $4,000. One of 800 copies in wraps. $500. (Also 16 to 18 review copies with front wrap misspelling “sreet.” $2,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. (Chicago) 1965. Wraps. One of 500 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later by author tipping in an illustration or signed poem. $2,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, 1965. One of 475 copies. Decorated wraps. $500. One of 25 copies with “specially autographed drawings by Buk.” $2,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cornered. (No place): Burn Again Press [actually Black Sparrow Press], (no date). One of 30 signed copies. Wraps. $2.250.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Crucifix in a Deathhand. New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1965). Pictorial wraps. One of 3,100 signed copies. $650. (Some copies, with special inscriptions, at higher prices.) One of 26 signed copies. $1,750. Many other variants (see bibliographies).

BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Curtains Are Waving . . . (Los Angeles): Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Printed brown wraps. One of 122 signed copies. $1,500. Some with an original drawing. $2,500. 3 signed, lettered copies. $3,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Los Angeles, 1969. One of 250 signed copies. In acetate dust jacket. $1,500. One of 50 copies with a drawing by the author. $6,500. One of 1,250 copies in tan wraps. $150.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. (Eureka, CA, 1959.) Author’s first book. Wraps. (Two previous broadsides, 1950 and 1956.) $6,500. One of 3 or 5 with original drawing or poem tipped in. $9,000. (Although most copies have drawings and/or inscription).

BUKOWSKI, Charles. A Genius of the Crowd. (Cleveland, 1966.) Pamphlet. One of 103 copies. $2,750.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Heat Wave. Santa Rosa, 1995. One of 170 copies signed by Ken Price. Tray case built into back of book holding 15 loose original serigraphs laid in. Inside front cover has envelope holding compact disc of Bukowski reading his poetry. In plexi-glass slipcase. $3,000. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $6,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Horsemeat. Santa Barbara, 1982. Folio. One of 125 copies signed by both Bukowski and the photographer, Michael Montfort. $2,500. A prospectus for the book. One sheet folded. 1 of 26 signed copies. $1,500.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Post Office. Los Angeles, 1971. Boards. In acetate dust jacket. One of 250 signed copies. $5,000. One of 50 signed copies, with an original drawing by the author. $10,000. Wraps. $350.

BUKOWSKI, Charles. Run with the Hunted. Chicago (1962). Pictorial wraps. $3,000. (New York): Harper (1993.) One of 26 signed copies. $2,000. One of 200 signed copies. $350. Trade edition. $75. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press (1993). One of 26 signed copies. $1,500. One of 300 signed copies. $300.

BULFINCH, Thomas. See Authorship.

BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Chivalry. Boston, 1859. 6 illustrations. Brown cloth. $450.

BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Fable. Boston, 1855. First state, with names of both printer and stereotyper on copyright page. $500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1958. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. In slipcase. $175.

BULKELEY, John and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740 . . . London, 1743. $5,000. Dublin, 1743. $3,000. Philadelphia, 1757. First American edition. $3,000.

BULLAR, Joseph. A Winter in the Azores . . . John Van Voorst, 1841. 2 vols. Cloth. $1,000.

BULLEN, Frank T. The Cruise of the “Cachalot.” London, 1898. Author’s first book. Folding map and plates. $550. New York, 1899. $200.

BULLEN, Henry Lewis. Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice . . . San Francisco, 1926. One of 207 copies with an original folio leaf from Plutarch’s Vitae Parallelae Illustrium Virorum loosely inserted. $850.

BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry. A History of the Birds of New Zealand. London, 1873. 35 hand-colored plates. (500 copies). $15,000. London, 1887-88. 48 colored plates, 2 plain plates. 13 parts in 8, wraps. $15,000. London, 1888. 2 vols. Second edition. Half morocco. $7,500.

BULLOCK, William. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico. London, 1824. Frontispiece, 15 plates (4 hand-colored), a folding table, and 2 folding maps. $2,250.

BULLOCK, Wynn. The Photograph as Symbol. Mountain View, 1976. One of 200 copies stated (but only 100 copies printed). Each initialed by Bullock (on mounted slip) and signed by publisher. In slipcase. $2,000.

BULL-US, Hector. The Diverting History of John Bull . . . New York, 1812. (By James K. Paulding, his first book.) $1,000.

BULWER, John. Chirologia, or the Natural History of the Hand . . . London, 1644. 2 engraved additional titles, 6 full-page engraved illustrations. $4,000.

BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. See Caxton, Pisistratus. See also The Coming Race; Falkland; The Last Days of Pompeii.

BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Falkland. London, 1827. Second edition. $900.

BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Ismael: an Oriental Tale. London, 1820. Author’s first book. Boards. $1,000.

BULWER-LYTTON, Edward Robert. See Clytemnestra.

BUNIN, I. A. The Gentleman from San Francisco. Boston, 1918. $250. (Richmond): Hogarth Press, 1922. Translated by Leonard Woolf. Boards. Issued without dust jacket. With errata slip. $250.

BUNNER, H. C. A Woman of Honor. Boston, 1883. Author’s first regularly published book. $200. (Previous pamphlets and collaborations.)

BUNTING, Basil. Briggflatts. London (1966). Wraps. One of 100 copies in black cloth and dust jacket. $1,750. Leather. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $3,000.

BUNTING, Basil. First Book of Odes. London (1965). Green boards. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 copies. $200. Another issue, one of 50 copies in black boards and green dust jacket. $500. One of 26 signed and lettered copies. In black leather and dust jacket. $1,250.

BUNTING, Basil. Loquitur. London (1965). Full morocco. One of 26 signed copies. In dust jacket. $500. One of 200 copies. In cloth and dust jacket. $225.

BUNTING, Basil. Redimiculum Matellarum. Milan, 1930. Author’s first book. Wraps. $6,000.

BUNTING, Basil. Two Poems. (No place): Unicorn Press, 1967. Wraps. One of 220 copies. $250. One of 30 signed copies. $800.

BUNTING, Basil, and WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Descant on Rawthey’s Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting. Lexington, Ky. (1968). One of 25 copies signed by Bunting and Williams. In boards and dust jacket. $1,750. One of 475 in white wraps, in light-brown printed dust jacket. $150.

BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress. London, 1678. $150,000. London: Chiswick Press, 1899. One of 750 copies. $600. London: Cresset Press, 1928. 2 vols. 10 wood engravings. Folio, cloth. One of 195 copies. $2,500. One of 10 copies on vellum with an extra suite of plates. $20,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. 29 William Blake illustrations in color. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $250.

BURCH, R. M. Colour Printing and Colour Printers. London, 1910. Second edition. $250. New York, 1910. $200.

BURCHELL, William J. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. London, 1822-24. 2 vols. Large folding map, 20 hand-colored aquatint plates (5 folding). Contemporary calf. $15,000.

BURCKHARDT, John Lewis. Travels in Nubia. London, 1819. 2 folding maps. $2,000.

BURDICK, William. An Oration on the Nature and Effects of the Art of Printing. Boston, 1802. The earliest book on printing history with a U.S. imprint. $1,750.

BURGESS, Anthony. See Kell, Joseph.

BURGESS, Anthony. Beds in the East. London (1959). $250.

BURGESS, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. London (1962). In dust jacket with price of 16 shillings. $10,000. New York (1963). $850.

BURGESS, Anthony. The Doctor Is Sick. London (1960). $400. New York (1960). $200.

BURGESS, Anthony. The Enemy in the Blanket. London (1958). $350.

BURGESS, Anthony. Honey for the Bears. London (1963). $250. New York (1964). $150.

BURGESS, Anthony. The Right to an Answer. London (1960). $250. New York (1961). $150.

BURGESS, Anthony. Time for a Tiger. London, 1956. Author’s first book. $1,000.

BURGESS, Anthony. The Worm and the Ring. London, 1961. (Suppressed.) $1,150. A revised edition was issued in 1970.

BURGESS, Gelett. The Nonsense Almanack for 1900. New York (1899). Wraps. $200.

BURGESS, Gelett. The Purple Cow! (San Francisco, 1895.) Author’s first publication. Illustrated. 8 leaves. First state of first printing (printed on both sides of leaf) on rough China paper. $350. Second state (printed on one side of leaf only). $125.

BURGESS, Gelett. Vivette, or the Memoirs of the Romance Association. Boston, 1897. Author’s first book, aside from The Purple Cow leaflet. $150.

BURGESS, Thornton Waldo. Old Mother West Wind. Boston (1910). Author’s first book for children. Pictorial tan cloth. $450.

BURGOYNE, Lieut. Gen. John. A State of the Expedition from Canada . . . London, 1780. Large folding map, 5 folding plans. $10,000. Octavo. $4,500.

BURK, John. The History of Virginia. Petersburg, 1804-16. 4 vols. $3,000.

BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France . . . London, 1790. First state title page has “M” in imprint date immediately below the “D” of Dodsley, instead of slightly to the right. $3,000.

BURKE, James Lee. The Convict. Baton Rouge, 1985. Cloth. $4,000. Wraps. $350.

BURKE, James Lee. Half of Paradise. Boston, 1965. Author’s first book. $2,500.

BURKE, James Lee. Neon Rain. New York, 1987. $300.

BURKE, James Lee. To the Bright and Shining Sun. New York (1970). $1,250. (Huntington Beach, 1992). One of 400 signed copies in slipcase. $175.

BURKE, Kenneth. The White Oxen and Other Stories. New York, 1924. Author’s first book. $250.

BURKE, Leda. Dope-Darling. London, 1919. (By David Garnett, his second book.) $350.

BURKE, Thomas. Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown. London, 1916. $750.

BURKE, Thomas. Nights in Town. London, 1915. $200.

BURKE, Thomas. Verses. (Guilford, 1906.) Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 25 copies. $1,500.

BURKE, Thomas. Whispering Windows. London, 1921. $350. (More Limehouse Nights in the U.S.)

BURKE, W. S. (compiler). Directory of the City of Council Bluffs and Emigrants’ Guide to the Gold Regions of the West. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1866. Folding map. 32 pages, plus ads, patterned cloth. $6,000.

BURKE, William. See Memoirs of William Burke . . .

BURLEND, Rebecca. A True Picture of Emigration. London (1848). Wraps. $450.

BURLEY, W. J. A Taste of Power. London, 1966. $300.

BURLINGAME, H. J. Herrmann the Great. Chicago (1897). 43 figures, original chromolithograph wrappers. $400.

BURNET, Bishop [Gilbert]. Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. London, 1724-34. 2 vols. $1,000.

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Drury Lane Boys’ Club. Washington, 1892. Blue wraps. $750.

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York, 1886. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. First issue, with De Vinne Press imprint at end. $2,500.

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. New York (1911). $2,000. London, 1911. 8 full-color plates by Charles Robinson. $1,500. New York (1987). Illustrated by Michael Hague. $100.

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. That Lass O’Lowrie’s. New York, 1877. Author’s first book. First state, with illustrator’s name on title page. $150. Without name, second state. $75.

BURNETT, Peter H. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer. New York, 1880. $400.

BURNETT, W. R. The Asphalt Jungle. New York, 1949. $1,000.

BURNETT, W. R. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek. New York, 1934. $200.

BURNETT, W. R. High Sierra. New York, 1940. $750.

BURNETT, W. R. Little Caesar. New York, 1929. Author’s first book. $6,500.

BURNEY, Fanny (Frances). Camilla: Or a Picture of Youth. London, 1796. 5 vols. $2,750. New York, 1797. 5 vols. $2,000.

BURNEY, Fanny (Frances). Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. London, 1782. 5 vols. $3,000. Boston, 1793. 3 vols. $1,500.

BURNEY, Fanny (Frances). Evelina. London, 1778. 3 vols. $17,500.

BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London, 1803-17. With 41 maps, charts, or plates. 5 vols. $17,500.

BURNEY, James. History of the Buccaneers of America. London, 1816. 3 maps (2 folding). First separate edition. Large-paper issue. $3,500. Ordinary. $1,500.

BURNHAM, Daniel H., and BENNETT, Edward H. Plan of Chicago. Chicago, 1909. Illustrated. Leather and/or cloth. One of 1,650 copies. $1,500. Full vellum. $2,000.

BURNS, John H. Memoirs of a Cow Pony. Boston (1906). Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $1,500.

BURNS, John Horne. The Gallery. New York (1947). Author’s first book. $300.

BURNS, Martin. The Life Work of “Farmer Burns.” Omaha, 1911. $150.

BURNS, Robert. Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns. Glasgow, 1801. $750.

BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock edition, 1786. Author’s first book. $60,000. Edinburgh, 1787. Second edition, first issue, with “skinking” on page 263. $7,500. Second issue, with “stinking” on page 263. $4,000. London, 1787. $1,750. Philadelphia, 1788. $1,500.

BURNS, Robert. Tam O’Shanter. London: Essex House Press, 1902. Illustrated, colored by hand. Stiff vellum. One of 150 copies on vellum. $1,750.

BURNS, Tex. Hopalong Cassidy & the Riders of High Rock. New York, 1951. (By Louis L’Amour.) $1,000.

BURNS, Tex. Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines. New York, 1951. (By Louis L’Amour.) $900.

BURNS, Tex. Hopalong Cassidy, Trouble Shooter. New York, 1952. (By Louis L’Amour.) $800.

BURNSHAW, Stanley. Poems. Pittsburgh, 1927. Author’s first book. $250.

BURPEE, Lawrence J. The Search for the Western Sea. London, 1908. 6 maps, 51 plates. $275. New York, 1908. $150. New York, 1936. 2 vols. Maps and plates. $225.

BURR, Aaron. The Private Journal of Aaron Burr. Rochester, 1903. Edited by W. K. Bixby. 2 vols. Portraits. Half cloth. One of 250 copies signed by Bixby. $450.

BURR, Frederic M. Life and Works of Alexander Anderson, M.D., The First American Wood Engraver. New York. 1893. One of 700 signed copies. $400. One of 25 signed copies on Japan vellum. $1,000.

It should be noted that the prices for Burroughs shown below assume some chipping and wear to dust jackets. Fine copies would be significantly higher.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. At the Earth’s Core. Chicago, 1922. With “M. A. Donohue & Co.” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $4,500. Without jacket. $650.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Back to the Stone Age. Tarzana, Calif. (1937). $800.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Bandit of Hell’s Bend. Chicago, 1925. $4,000.

BURROUGHS. Edgar Rice. The Beasts of Tarzan. Chicago, 1916. With “W. F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $10,000. Without dust jacket. $300.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Chessmen of Mars. Chicago, 1922. $3,500. Without dust jacket. $400.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Eternal Lover. Chicago, 1925. With “M. A. Donohue . . .” on copyright page. $3,500. Without dust jacket. $350.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. A Fighting Man of Mars. New York (1931). With Metropolitan Books imprint. $3,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Gir1 from Hollywood. New York (1923). Pebbled red cloth, lettered in green. In first-issue dust jacket with “The Macauley Company, New York” within a box at the bottom of the spine. $3,000. (Later in smooth red cloth. The later dust jacket has the Macauley shield on the spine.) Without jacket. $350.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Gods of Mars. Chicago, 1918. In dust jacket. $6,000. Without dust jacket. $350.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Chicago, 1919. In orange cloth with publisher’s imprint on spine in three lines. In dust jacket. $2,500. Without dust jacket. $350. Second issue, in two lines. $1,750. Without jacket. $150. (Later in green cloth.)

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Tarzana, Calif. (1938). In laminated dust jacket. $850.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Land That Time Forgot. Chicago, 1924. $7,500. Without dust jacket. $500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Lost on Venus. Tarzana, Calif. (1935). $850.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Mad King. Chicago, 1926. (5,000 copies printed.) $4,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Master Mind of Mars. Chicago, 1928. $6,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Monster Men. Chicago, 1929. $2,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Mucker. Methuen. London (1921). In dust jacket. (Precedes American.) $5,000. Chicago. 1921. $7,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Outlaw of Torn. Chicago, 1927. First edition not stated. Publisher’s acorn on copyright page. $4,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Pellucidar. Chicago, 1923. $5,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. A Princess of Mars. Chicago, 1917. With “W. F. Hall . . .” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $10,000 or more. Without dust jacket. $1,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Return of Tarzan. Chicago, 1915. With “W. F. Hall . . .” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $10,000 or more. Without jacket. $850.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Son of Tarzan. Chicago, 1917. With “W. F. Hall . . .” at bottom of copyright page and lacking dedication leaf (to Hubert Burroughs). In dust jacket. $8,500. Without jacket. $1,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. New York, 1929. $2,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Ant Men. Chicago, 1924. With “A. C. McClurg/& Co.” on spine. $4,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Golden Lion. Chicago, 1923. With “M. A. Donohue . . .” at bottom of copyright page. $6,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Chicago, 1918. With “W. F. Hall . . .” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $4,000. Without jacket. $275.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Leopard Men. Tarzana, Calif. (1935). $500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan at the Earth’s Core. New York: Metropolitan Books (1930). Green cloth lettered in black. $3,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. Chicago, 1928. $3,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago, 1914. Author’s first book. Frontispiece. Red cloth. First edition with printer’s name on copyright page in Old English letters. In dust jacket. $50,000 or more. Without dust jacket. $5,000. London (1917). Orange-colored cloth. With ads dated Autumn. $1,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan Triumphant. Tarzana (1932). Illustrated by Stanley Burroughs. First edition not stated. $500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Chicago, 1920. With “M. A. Donohue . . .” at bottom of copyright page. In dust jacket. $7,500.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The War Chief. Chicago, 1927. First edition not stated. Publisher’s acorn on copyright page. $3,000.

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. The Warlord of Mars. Chicago, 1919. First issue, with “W. F. Hall” on copyright page. In dust jacket. $7,500. Without dust jacket. $500.

BURROUGHS, John. Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. New York, 1867. Blue wraps with leaves trimmed to 6 9/16 inches high. $1,250. New York, 1867. Cloth, leaves 7 1/4 inches high. $750.

BURROUGHS, John. Wake-Robin. New York, 1871. $400.

BURROUGHS, William. S. See Lee, William.

BURROUGHS, William S. Ali’s Smile. (Brighton) 1971. Oblong, boards and cloth. One of 99 signed copies. (Issued with a Burroughs LP record.) $5,000. Without record. $1,500.

BURROUGHS, William S. The Last Words of Dutch Schultz. London, 1970. One of 100 signed copies. In tissue dust jacket. $400. Trade. Cloth. $150. Wraps. $75. New York (1975). $100.

BURROUGHS, William S. The Naked Lunch. Paris: Olympia Press (1959). Wraps. Green border on title page, “Francs 1500” on back cover. In dust jacket. $3,500. With new price over stamped. $3,000. New York [1962]. Copyright page dated 1959, but this edition actually published March 21, 1962 [Maynard and Miles, A2b]. $1,000. London, 1964. $300.

BURROUGHS, William S. The Soft Machine. Paris: Olympia Press (1961). “Printed in France June 1961” on page 4. Wraps. In dust jacket. $500. New York (1966). New edition. Revised and augmented. $150. London (1968). Adds an appendix. Cloth. $150. Wraps. $40.

BURROUGHS, William S. The Ticket That Exploded. Paris: Olympia Press (1962). Wraps. In dust jacket. $500. New York (1967). $175.

BURROUGHS, William S. Time. New York, 1965. Illustrated by Brion Gysin. Wraps. One of 100 signed copies. $500. Ordinary copies. $200. One of 10 signed, lettered copies. $2,500.

BURRUS, Ernest. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain. (Tucson), 1965. One of 750 copies designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Glassine wrapper. $500.

BURT, (Maxwell) Struthers. The Man from Where. Philadelphia, 1904. Pictorial wraps. $250.

BURTON. Alfred. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. London, 1818. 16 colored plates by Rowlandson. (By John Mitford.) $850. (See John Mitford entry for second and third editions.)

BURTON, Harley True. A History of the JA Ranch. Austin, 1928. Portrait, map. $1,500.

BURTON, Isabel. The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton… London, 1893. 2 vols. $800.

BURTON, John Hill. The Book-Hunter. Edinburgh & London, 1862. One of 25 copies on large paper. Bookplate of Robert Buchanan Stewart. $400.

BURTON, Miles. (Cecil John Charles Street.) The Hardway Diamonds Mystery. London, 1930. $400. New York, 1930. $200.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. London, 1863. 2 vols. Portrait, 4 plates and folding map. $6,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London, 1884. $3,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. (Arabian Nights.) (London, 1885-88.) 16 vols. $9,000. London, 1897. 12 vols. $3,600. Denver, 1900-01. 16 vols. One of 1,000 copies. $3,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1934. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. 6 vols., boards, cowhide spines. In slipcase. $400. Another edition. New York, 1954. 4 vols. Illustrated in color by Arthur Szyk. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $350.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. London, 1861. 8 plates. Folding map, folding plan. $3,000. New York, 1862. $1,200.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil. London, 1869. 2 vols. Green cloth with gilt-stamped figure on covers, pages untrimmed. $6,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. London, 1852. Frontispiece, other plates. $9,500.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar. London, 1856. With 2 maps and 4 colored plates. First issue, in dull-violet cloth, with all edges uncut. $7,500. Second issue. Red cloth with bottom edge trimmed. $5,500.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Goa, and the Blue Mountains. London, 1851. Author’s first book. Folding map and 4 plates. First issue, in fawn cloth, 5 by 8 1/8 inches. $5,250. Second issue in light blue cloth, 4 3/4 by 8 inches. $4,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. London, 1878. Folding map. $3,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. The Lake Regions of Central Africa. London, 1860. Folding map. 12 colored plates. 2 vols. Red cloth. $7,500. (There is also a trial or first issue in purple cloth, few copies known.) New York, 1860. $1,500.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. The Land of Midian (Revisited). London, 1879. Folding map. 16 plates (6 colored). 2 vols. First issue, with ads dated “9.78.” $4,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay. London, 1870. Engraved title, frontispiece, folding map. $2,500.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. London, 1864. 2 vols. Two plates. Plum-colored cloth. $4,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London, 1855-56. 3 vols. 15 plates (4 colored), 4 maps and plans (3 folding). Cloth. $12,000. London, 1857. Second edition. 2 vols. Folding map. Maroon pebbled cloth with gilt designs on spine and covers. $3,000. New York, 1856. $1,000.

BURTON, Sir Richard F. Wanderings in West Africa. London, 1863. 2 vols. Folding map in vol. 1 and frontispiece in vol 2. $5,500.

BURTON, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London, 1621. $35,000 or more. Oxford, 1624. $4,500. Philadelphia, 1836. First American edition. 2 vols. $1,500. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925-26. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. 2 vols. Half vellum and boards. One of 750 copies. $700. 2 vols. in 1. One of 40 copies on vellum. $1,200.

BURTON, Virginia Lee. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Roller. Boston, 1942. Date on title page. $6,000.

BURTON, W. Josiah Wedgwood and His Pottery. London, 1922. 32 color plates, 84 in black-and-white. One of 1,500 copies. In dust jacket. $350.

BURY, Mrs. Edward. A Selection of Hexandrian Plants…. (London), 1831-34. Large folio. 51 hand-colored aquatints by Robert Havell. $150,000.

BUSH, Christopher. Dead Man’s Music. London, 1931. $1,250. New York, 1932. $300.

BUSH, Christopher. The Perfect Murder Case. London, 1929. $1,500. Garden City, 1929. $450.

BUTCHER, S. D. S. D. Butcher’s Pioneer History of Custer Country. Broken Bow, Neb., 1901. Cloth, or leather. $1,250.

BUTLER, Arthur G. Foreign Finches in Captivity. London, 1894. 60 hand-colored plates. $7,000. London, 1899. Second edition, illustrated with chromolithographs. $1,000.

BUTLER, Arthur G. Lepidoptera Exotica. London, 1874. Author’s first book. 64 colored plates. $1,500.

BUTLER, Ellis Parker. See Pigs Is Pigs.

BUTLER, Ellis Parker. Philo Gubb: Correspondence School Detective. Boston (1918). $1,500.

BUTLER, Henry. South African Sketches . . . London, 1841. Engraved title page and 15 plates (some hand-colored). $2,000.

BUTLER, Mann. A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Louisville, 1834. Portrait. $400.

BUTLER, Octavia E. Patternmaster. Garden City, 1976. Author’s first book. $400.

BUTLER, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden. New York (1981). Author’s first book. $400.

BUTLER, Samuel. See Erewhon.

BUTLER, Samuel. The Authoress of the Odyssey. London, 1897. Maps and illustrations. $125.

BUTLER, Samuel. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement. London, 1863. Author’s first book. Folding map. Red cloth. With 32 pages of ads and light-brown endpapers. $600.

BUTLER, Samuel. Seven Sonnets and a Psalm of Montreal. Cambridge, 1904. Unbound, or printed wraps. $300.

BUTLER, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. London, 1903. Red cloth, top edges gilt. $750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936. 2 vols. Leather. In slipcase. $150.

BUTORINA, Evgenia. The Lettering Art, Works by Moscow Book Designers, 1959-1974. Kniga, 1977. In slipcase. $300.

BUTTERFIELD, C. W. An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky. Cincinnati, 1873. Portrait. $450.

BUTTERFIELD, C. W. History of the Discovery of the Northwest. Cincinnati, 1881. $250.

BUTTERFIELD, C. W. History of Seneca County, Ohio. Sandusky, Ohio, 1848. $300.

BUTTERWORTH, Benjamin J. The Growth of Industrial Art. Washington, 1888. 200 full-page plates. Folio. $1,500. Washington, 1892. $800.

BUTTERWORTH, E. Butterworth’s Young Writer’s Instructor. Designed for the Improvment of Youth. (No place) 1800. $500.

BUTTERWORTH, E. Elegant Extracts for Butterworth & Son’s Universal Penman . . . (No place) 1809. $400.

BUTTERWORTH, Hezekiah. Zig-Zag Journeys in Europe. Boston, 1880. $200.

BUTTS, Mary. Armed with Madness. London, 1928. Drawings by Jean Cocteau. One of 100 copies. $400.

BUTTS, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet. London (1937). $250.

BUTTS, Mary. Imaginary Letters. Paris, 1928. Illustrated by Jean Cocteau. Cloth, paper label. Paris, 1928. One of 250 copies. In glassine dust jacket and slipcase. $250.

BUTTS, Mary. Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra. London (1937). $200.

BUTTS, Mary. Speed the Plow and Other Stories. London, 1923. Author’s first book. Yellow or red cloth. $1,000.

BYAM, Mrs. Lydia. A Collection of Exotics from the Island of Antigua. (London, 1797). 12 hand-colored plates. $17,500.

BYAM, Mrs. Lydia. A Collection of Fruits from the West Indies. London, 1800. 2 vols. in 1. 9 hand-colored plates. $12,500.

BYATT, A. S. Possession… London (1990). $200. New York (1990). $125.

BYATT, A. S. Shadow of a Sun. London, 1964. Author’s first book. $350. New York (1964). $200.

BYERS, William N., and KELLOM, John H. A Hand Book to the Gold Fields of Nebraska and Kansas. Chicago, 1859. Map. Blue pictorial printed wraps. $12,500.

BYLES, Mather. A Poem on the Death of His Late Majesty King George. (Boston, 1727.) Author’s first book. $3,500.

BYNNER, Witter. See Morgan, Emanuel, and Knish, Anne.

BYNNER, Witter. An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems. Boston, 1907. Author’s first book. Cloth, or leather. $125.

BYNNER, Witter. The Persistence of Poetry. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1929. Full red buckram. One of 325 signed copies. In slipcase. $175.

BYRD, Richard E. Discovery . . . New York, 1935. Photographic plates. One of 500 copies signed by Byrd. In slipcase. $500. Trade. $225.

BYRD, Richard E. Little America. New York, 1930. 74 maps and plates. Half vellum. One of 1,000 signed copies. In slipcase. $850. Trade with the middle “E” in Eleanor E. Bolling Byrd’s name in dedication. $250. With middle “E” removed. $200.

BYRD, Richard E. Skyward. New York, 1928. Boards. 58 maps and plates. One of 500 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket. With extra set of plates. Boxed. $950. Trade. $175.

BYRD, William (of Westover). The Writings of “Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esqr.” New York, 1901. Edited by John Spencer Bassett. Half vellum. One of 500 copies. $200.

BYRNE, B. M. Florida and Texas: A Series of Letters Comparing the Soil, Climate, and Productions of These States. Ocala, Fla., 1866. 40 pages, wraps. Third edition (of Letters on the Climate, etc.; see below). $500.

BYRNE, B. M. Letters on the Climate, Soils, and Productions of Florida. Jacksonville, 1851. Second edition. 28 pages, wraps. $850. (The first edition was published in Ralston, Pa., according to Howes, who gives no date.)

BYRNE, Donn. Brother Saul. New York (1927). One of 500 signed copies. In slipcase. $175.

BYRNE, Donn. Messer Marco Polo. New York, 1921. Illustrated by C. B. Falls. Rust-colored cloth. With perfect type in the word “of” in the last line of page 10 (Johnson, not in BAL). In dust jacket. $100.

BYRNE, Donn. Stories Without Women. New York, 1915. Author’s first book. Frontispiece. Red ribbed cloth. $150.

BYRNE, William S. Directory of Grass Valley Township for 1865. San Francisco, 1865. 144 pages, boards. $1,200.

BYRNES, Thomas. Professional Criminals of America. New York (1886). $750.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. See The Age of Bronze; Beppo; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte; The Siege of Corinth.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Bride of Abydos. London, 1813. 72 pages. First issue, with errata slip and with only 20 lines on page 47. $2,500. Second issue, without errata slip and with 22 lines on page 47. $1,500.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto the Third. London, 1816. First issue with “L” in “Lettre” under the word “La” in line above on title page; at end of the first line second stanza, page 4. No exclamation mark. $400. Second issue, “L” under “U” in “CGLU”; and exclamation mark added. $300.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth. London, 1818. First issue, with page 155 ending with “the impressions of.” $1,000.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. (Containing Cantos I and II.) London, 1812. First issue; with “Written beneath a Picture of J-V-D” on page 189 (“of J-V-D” omitted later). $1,200.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Fugitive Pieces. London, 1806. Author’s first book. Three known copies. $75,000. London, 1886. (100 copies.) $1,500.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Hebrew Melodies. London, 1815. First issue, with ad for Roger’s Jacqueline. $3,000. Second issue, without Jacqueline ad. $1,000.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Hours of Idleness. Newark, England, 1807. First issue, with line 2 of page 22 reading “Those tissues of fancy .…” $4,500. Second issue, reading “Those tissues of falsehood, . . .”. $3,250. London, 1820. $800.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Manfred, a Dramatic Poem. London, 1817. 80 pages (originally in plain wraps). First issue, without quotation on title page and with printer’s imprint in 2 lines on back of title page. $1,000. Second issue, with printer’s imprint in one line. $600. Third issue, with Hamlet quotation on title page. $400.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Mazeppa: A Poem. London, 1819. (Originally in plain drab wraps.) First issue, with imprint on page 70. $1,100. Second issue, with imprint on back of page 71. $800.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Parliamentary Speeches of Lord Byron. London, 1824. $1,000.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. London, 1816. (Originally in drab plain wraps.) First issue, with ads on back of last page. $1,250. Second issue, with ads on front of last page. $500.

BYRON George Gordon Noel, Lord. Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain. London, 1821. $650.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Werner: A Tragedy. London, 1823. First issue, without the words “The End” on page 188. $750. Second issue, with “The End.” $400.

BYRON, Robert. An Essay on India. London (1931). $1,500.

BYRON, Robert. Europe in the Looking Glass . . . London, 1926. Author’s first book. $1,750.

BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London, 1937. $4,500.