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

(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