Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values. Allen OSB Ahearn

Guillaume. The Poet Assassinated. New York, 1968. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 8 drawings. Loose wraps. One of 250 copies. $2,500. Trade edition. $100.

      APPEAL (An) to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1875. (By Robert Louis Stevenson.) 12 pages, stitched, without wraps. $6,000.

      APPEL, Benjamin. Brain Guy. New York, 1934. Author’s first book. $2,000. London, 1937. $750.

      APPERLEY, C. J. See Nimrod. See also Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.

      APPLE, Max. Introducing the Oranging of America. (New York, 1973). Wraps. Author’s first book. $150.

      APPLEGATE, Jesse. A Day with the Cow Column in 1843. Chicago, 1934. Caxton Club. Pictorial cloth. One of 300 copies. $450. Another edition. (Portland), 1952. One of 225 copies. $200.

      APPLEGATE, Jesse. Recollections of My Boyhood. Roseburg, Ore., 1914. 99 pages, pictorial wraps. $1,250.

      ARAGON, Louis. Henry Matisse, A Novel. London, 1972. 2 vols. 541 illustrations, including 155 in color. $600. NewYork (1972). 2 vols. $400. Both are in dust jackets and slipcases.

      ARAGON, Louis. The Red Front. Chapel Hill (1933). Translated by E. E. Cummings. Stapled red wraps. $500.

      ARBUTHNOT, John. See Know Your Self.

      ARCHBOLD, Ann. A Book for the Married and Single, the Grave and the Gay and Especially Designed for Steamboat Passengers. East Plainfield, Ohio, 1850. $1,000.

      ARCHER, Jeffrey. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. London, 1976. Author’s first book. $250. New York, 1976. $150.

      ARCHITEC-TONICS . . . New York, 1914. First book illustrated by Rockwell Kent. $350.

      ARD, William. The Perfect Frame. New York, 1951. Author’s first book. $150.

      ARDEN, John Serjeant. Musgrave Dance. London, 1960. Author’s first book. $150.

      ARDIZZONE, Edward. In a Glass Darkly. London, 1929. (By J. Sheridan Le Fanu.) First book illustrated by Ardizzone. First issue in reddish cloth. $1,000. Second issue in orange cloth. $600.

      ARDIZZONE, Edward. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. London, 1936. Author’s first book. $2,000. New York, 1936. $1,500. Oxford, 1953. $500.

      ARENAS, Reinaldo. Hallucinations. London, 1971. $125. New York, 1971. $75. First book translated into English.

      ARENSBERG, Walter Conrad. Poems. Boston/New York, 1914. Author’s first book. $125.

      ARIAS, Ron. The Road to Tamazunchale. Reno, 1975. First issue in stapled wraps. $150. Second issue in orange perfect bound wraps, no blurbs. $75. Third issue in tan perfect bound wraps, rear blurbs. $50.

      ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. London, 1896. 8 plates by Aubrey Beardsley. Boards. One of 100 copies. $9,500. London (1926). Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Half morocco. One of 725 copies signed by the artist. $1,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1934. Translated by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Boards. In slipcase. $9,500. (There also were 150 sets of 6 proofs, each set signed by Picasso, issued in cloth portfolio and sold separately.) $15,000.

      ARISTOTLE. The Organon; or Logical Treatises. London, 1807. First edition in English. $3,000.

      ARISTOTLE. Politics and Poetics. Limited Editions Club, Lunenburg, 1964. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Buckram. In slipcase. $200.

      ARKWRIGHT, William. The Pointer & His Predecessors. London, 1906. Illustrated. One of 750 copies. $1,500.

      ARLEN, Michael. The Green Hat. London (1924). $500. New York, 1925. (Acting version.) Boards. One of 175 signed copies. $750.

      ARLEN, Michael. The London Venture. London, 1920. (Reportedly, the edition dated “1919” was actually printed later.) Author’s first book. $300. New York (1920). $200.

      ARMAGEDDON: A Fragment: Avalon. Charleston, S. C., 1923. Wraps. Contains poems by John Crowe Ransom and others. $750.

      ARMES, George A. Ups and Downs of an Army Officer. Washington, 1900. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $350.

      ARMITAGE, John. The History of Brazil. London, 1836. 2 portraits. 2 vols. London, 1836. $1,500.

      ARMITAGE, Merle. The Art of Edward Weston. New York, 1932. One of 550 copies signed by Weston. $3,500.

      ARMITAGE, Merle. Brett Weston: Photographs. New York, 1956. $1,750.

      ARMSMEAR: The Home, the Arm and the Armory of Col. Samuel Colt: A Memorial. New York, 1866. Plates. Cloth. $1,500. Full morocco. Presentation binding. $2,500.

      ARMSTRONG, A. N. Oregon: A Brief History and Description of Oregon and Washington. Chicago, 1857. $650.

      ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth. Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus. Cambridge, 1954. $250.

      ARMSTRONG, Margaret. Western Wild Flowers. New York/London, 1915. Written with J. J. Thornburg. $150.

      ARMSTRONG, Martin. Exodus +. London, 1912. $175.

      ARMSTRONG, Moses K. History and Resources of Dakota, Montana and Idaho. Yankton, Dakota Territory, 1866. Map. Printed wraps. $9,500.

      ARMSTRONG, Perry A. The Sauks and the Black War. Springfield, 1887. $600.

      ARNETT, John Andrews. Bibliopegia; Or, the Art of Bookbinding . . . London, 1835. 9 plates. $750.

      ARNETT, John. An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients . . . London, 1837. 14 plates. $650.

      ARNO, PETER. Whoops, Dearie! (New York, 1927.) (By Curtis Arnoux Peters.) Author’s first book. $200.

      ARNOLD, Arthur. Through Persia by Caravan. London, 1877. 2 vols. $1,500.

      ARNOLD, Elliot. Blood Brother. New York, 1936. $250.

      ARNOLD, Henry V. The Early History of the Devil’s Lake Country. Larimore, N.D., 1920. 105 pages, printed wraps. $750.

      ARNOLD, Henry V. The History of Old Pembina, 1780-1872. Larimore, N.D., 1917. Wraps. $600.

      ARNOLD, Matthew. See A. (pseudonym-first entry in list). See also Alaric at Rome.

      ARNOLD, Matthew. Cromwell: A Prize Poem. Oxford, 1843. Wraps. $2,500.

      ARNOLD, Matthew. Essays in Criticism. London, 1865. $400.

      ARNOLD, Matthew. Merope: A Tragedy. London, 1858. First issue with ads dated November 1857. $300.

      ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems. London, 1853. $350. London, 1855. (Second series.) $250. Boston, 1856. $200. London, 1895. 3 vols. $600.

      ARNOLD, Oren and HALE, John P. Hot Irons: Heraldry of the Range. New York, 1940. $250.

      ARNOLD, R. Ross. Indian Wars of Idaho. Caldwell, Idaho, 1932. 85 illustrations. $450.

      ARNOLD, William Harris. First Report of a Book-Collector…. New York, 1897-98. One of 85 copies. $350. Second edition. Limited to 220 copies. $150.

      ARNOW, Harriette. See Harriette Simpson.

      ARNOW, Harriette. The Dollmaker. New York, 1954. $450.

      ARNOW, Harriette. Hunter’s Horn. New York, 1949. Author’s second book, first under real name. (First edition stated.) $150.

      AROUND the Horn in ‘49. See Journal of the Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company.

      ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. New York (1952). 15 pages of text and 28 folded sheets with woodcuts by Arp, laid in wrappers, and blue board folder. One of 320 signed copies. $2,500. Special edition of 25 with separate set of woodcuts on Japan paper. Justification signed by Arp. Loose as issued, boxed. $5,000.

      ARRANGEMENT of Places: Will Each Gentleman Kindly Take in to Dinner the Lady Seated on His Right. (New York), 1905. 12 pages, wraps. (Program of Seventieth birthday dinner for Mark Twain at Delmonico’s.) $1,000.

      ARTHUR, T. S. See