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

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