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

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