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

      ARTHUR, T. S. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There. Philadelphia, 1854. First issue, with both Lippincott and Bradley named in imprint and woodcut frontispiece by Van Ingen (VAB). $750.

      ARTHUR Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793. Philadelphia, 1799-1800. By the Author of Wieland (Charles Brockden Brown). 2 vols. (For first English edition, see author entry). $2,000.

      ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen. See East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

      ASBURY, Herbert. Up From Methodism. New York, 1926. Author’s first book. $175.

      ASHBEE, C. R. Jerusalem, 1920-1922. London, 1924. 25 plates. $750.

      ASHBEE, C. R. The Private Press: A Study In Idealism. To Which Is Added a Bibliography of the Essex House. (London, 1909.) One of 127 copies. $1,000.

      ASHBEE, Henry Spencer. An Iconography of Don Quixote, 1605-1895. London, 1895. Half cloth or wraps. $500.

      ASHBERY, John. Fragment. Los Angeles, 1969. Illustrated by Alex Katz. One of 250 copies signed by both. Hardbound. Acetate dust jacket. $750.

      ASHBERY, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Middletown (1962). $850.

      ASHBERY, John. The New Spirit. New York (1970). Pictorial wraps. One of 65 signed copies. $350. Also, 100 unsigned copies. $125.

      ASHBERY, John. Some Trees. Foreword by W. H. Auden. New Haven, 1956. $600.

      ASHBERY, John. Sunrise in Suburbia. New York, 1968. Wraps. One of 100 signed copies. $500. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. $1,250.

      ASHBERY, John. Turandot and Other Poems. New York, 1953. Author’s first book. Illustrated. Wraps. One of 300 copies. $2,500.

      ASHDOWN, Clifford. The Adventures of Romney Pringle. London, 1902. (By R. Austin Freeman and J. J. Pitcairn.) $1,750.

      ASHE, Thomas. Travels in America. London, 1808. 3 vols. $1,000. Newburyport, 1808. 3 vols. $1,250.

      ASHLEY, Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler. Boston, 1926. Plates, some in color. Half cloth and boards. One of 156 signed copies, with an original drawing. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade, in dust jacket. $850. 1,625 copies in total.

      ASHLEY, William H. The West of William H. Ashley. Denver, 1964. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Illustrated. Pictorial buckram. One of 750 copies. $350. Deluxe issue in half calf. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $850.

      ASHTON, Warren T. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave. Boston, 1853. (By William Taylor Adams.) Author’s first book. Black cloth. $2,500.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. The End of Eternity. Garden City, 1955. $450.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation. New York (1951). First binding, in cloth with sheets bulking 1.9 cm. $2,000.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation and Empire. New York (1952). First binding in red boards with spine imprint 2.2 cm across (2.8 cm. in second binding). First issue dust jacket with 26 titles on back. $1,500.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. I, Robot. New York (1950). Cloth. $3,500. Wraps. $750.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. Little Brothers. (Rochester, Mich.): Pretentious Press, 1988. One of 26 signed copies. $750. One of 100 signed copies. $250.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. Pebble in the Sky. Garden City, 1950. Author’s first book. $1,750.

      ASIMOV, Isaac. Second Foundation. (New York, 1953.) First binding, blue boards. $1,000.

      ASINOF, Eliot. Eight Men Out. New York (1963). $350.

      ASKIN, John. The John Askin Papers 1747-1820. Detroit, 1928-1931. 2 vols. 13 plates and maps. $450.

      “ASK Mama”; or, The Richest Commoner in England. London (1857) and 1858. (By Robert Smith Surtees.) 13 full-page color plates and 6 woodcuts by John Leech. 13 parts, red wraps. $1,750. London, 1858. Pictorial cloth. First book edition. $450.

      ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia (editor). The Ghost Book . . . London, 1926. $750. New York, 1927. $500.

      ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia. The Child at Home. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $500. New York, 1923. $350.

      ASTLE, Thomas. The Origin and Progress of Writing, as Well Hieroglyphic . . . London, 1784. 31 plates. $1,000. London, 1803. Portrait. 32 plates. $500.

      ASTON, James. First Lesson. London, (1932). (By T. H. White.) $1,250. New York, 1933. $650.

      ASTON, James. They Winter Abroad. London, 1932. (By T. H. White). $1,000. New York, 1932. $650.

      ATALANTIS. New York, 1832. (By William Gilmore Simms.) In original wraps. $1,750.

      ATGET, Eugène. Atget Photographie de Paris. Paris, 1930. $1,750. New York (1930). $1,750. Also published in German the same year. Assume issued without dust jacket.

      ATHERTON, Gertrude. See Lin, Frank.

      ATHERTON, Gertrude. Black Oxen. New York (1923). One of 250 signed copies. $400.

      ATHERTON, Gertrude. The Conqueror. New York, 1902. First state, with page numerals on page 546 in upper left corner. $200.

      ATHERTON, Gertrude. Hermia Suydam. New York, 1889. Second book, first under her own name. Wraps. $350.

      ATHERTON, Gertrude. What Dreams May Come. London, 1889. First British edition of author’s first book, which was issued in America under the pseudonym Frank Lin. $300.

      ATHERTON, William. Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester. Frankfort, Ky., 1842. Leather-backed boards, printed paper label. $600. Rebound. $350.

      ATKINSON, George H. Address . . . Upon The Possession, Settlement, Climate and Resources of Oregon and the Northwest Coast including Some Remarks Upon Alaska. New York, 1868. Wraps, 17 pages. $500.

      ATKINSON, J(ustin) Brooks. Skyline Promenades. New York, 1925. One of 500 numbered copies in bluish-gray cloth. $300. One of 1950 numbered copies in blue cloth and patterned boards. $150.

      ATKINSON, Kate. Behind the Scenes at the Museum. London (1995). Author’s first book. $300. New York (1995). $60.

      ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor . . . New York, 1860. Folding map. $1,000.

      ATLAS of Long Island. New York: Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1873. $5,000. Auction records (1990) show a copy with 99 hand colored plates and a 13 x 50 inch fold out map of Long Island. Another in 1977 showed 159 colored plates?

      ATLEE, Edwin A. An Inaugural Essay on the Influence of Music in the Cure of Diseases. Philadelphia, 1804. $2,250.

      ATLEE, Philip. The Inheritors. New York, 1940. (By David Philips). Author’s first book. $2,000.

      ATTACHÉ (The); or, Sam Slick in England. (First and second series.) London, 1843-4. (By Thomas Chandler Haliburton.) 2 vols. Ribbed plum-colored cloth. With 48 pages of ads at end of vol. 2 (VAB). $750. Rebound. $350.

      ATTANASIO, A. A. Radix. New York, 1981. Author’s first book. Hardback. $1,000. Wraps. $75.

      ATTAWAY, William. Blood on the Forge. Garden City, 1941. $350.

      ATTAWAY, William. Let Me Breathe Thunder. New York, 1939. Author’s first book. $400.

      ATTERLEY, Joseph. A Voyage to the Moon. New York, 1827. (By George Tucker.) $3,500.

      ATWATER, Caleb. A History of the State of Ohio. Cincinnati (1838). $250.

      ATWATER, Caleb. Mysteries of Washington City. Washington, 1844. Boards and leather. $500. Rebound. $250.

      ATWATER, Caleb. Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; Thence to Washington City. Columbus, Ohio, 1831. $1,000.

      ATWOOD, Daniel Topping. Atwood’s Modern American Homesteads. New York, 1876. 46 plates. $750.

      ATWOOD, Margaret. The Animals in That Country. Toronto, 1968. $350. Wraps. $75. Boston (1968). $125.

      ATWOOD, Margaret.