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

Hawaiian Islands. New York, 1865. $250.

      BAXTER, Charles. Chameleon. New York, 1970. Wraps. $475.

      BAXTER, Stephen. Anti-Ice. (London, 1993.) $450.

      BAY, J. Christian. A Handful of Western Books with a Second Handful of Western Books with a Third Handful of Western Books. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1935-36-37. 3 vols. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. Limited to 350, 400, and 400 copies, respectively. Issued in tissue dust jackets. Together, the 3 vols. $400. Odd vols. $100-$150 each.

      BAY, J. Christian. Three Handfuls of Western Books. (Cedar Rapids) 1941. (Combined 1-vol. edition of preceding items.) Boards. One of 35 copies. $150.

      BAYLDON, Oliver. The Paper Maker’s Craft. Leicester, 1965. Limited to “less than 400 copies.” $250.

      BAYLEY, Harold. A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems. London (1909). $200.

      BAYLIES, Francis. A Narrative of General Wool’s Campaign in Mexico. Albany, 1851. Frontispiece. 78 pages, printed yellow wraps. $400.

      BEACH, Rex. Pardners. New York, 1905. Author’s first book. $125.

      BEACH, Rex. Spoilers. New York, 1905. $125.

      BEADLE, Clayton. Chapters on Papermaking. London, 1908-9. 5 vols. $150.

      BEAGLE, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place. New York, 1960. Author’s first book. $175. London, 1960. $75.

      BEAGLE, Peter S. The Last Unicorn. New York (1968). $500.

      BEAJEAN, Jean. Jiu-Jitsu Partie Judo. Paris, 1954. One of 1,250 copies. $300.

      BEALE, Charles Willing. The Secret of the Earth. New York (1899). Wraps. $1,000.

      BEALE, Joseph Henry. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge (1926). $200.

      BEALS, Carleton. The Crime of Cuba. Philadelphia (1933). 31 photographs by Walker Evans. His first book appearance. $600.

      BEAN, Edwin F. (compiler). Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Nevada, Calif., 1867. Half leather and boards. $7,500.

      BEARD, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York, 1913. $200.

      BEARD, Charles A. The Office of the Justice . . . New York, 1904. Author’s first book. Wraps. $175.

      BEARD, Charles R. A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Frederick John Nettlefold. (London), 1936. 31 color plates, 46 in black-and-white. Half brown morocco. $650. Cloth. $500.

      BEARD, James. Hors D’Oeuvres and Canapes. New York (1940). Author’s first book. $500.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1897. $850. One of 50 on vellum. $1,500.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Second Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1899. One of 1,000 copies. $600. One of 50 copies on vellum. $5,000.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier’s Romance, “Mademoiselle de Maupin.” London, 1898. 6 plates, loose in half-cloth portfolio, silk ties. One of 50 copies. $1,250.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Story of Venus and Tannhauser: A Romantic Novel. London, 1907. One of 250 copies on handmade paper. $500. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Uncollected Work. London (1925). Profusion of plates by Beardsley. Gilt-pictorial cloth. $500. One of 110 copies on Japan vellum. $1,000.

      BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London, 1904. 16 illustrations by the author. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000. Trade edition. $1,000.

      BEASLEY, Gertrude. My First Thirty Years . . . (Paris, 1925.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $850.

      BEATON, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London (1930). 27 photographic plates, 90 text drawings. Buckram. One of 110 signed copies. $1,500. Trade edition. $750.

      BEATON, George. Jack Robinson. London (1933). (By Gerald Brenan.) $400. New York, 1934. $150.

      BEATTIE, Ann. Chilly Scenes of Winter. Garden City, 1976. (Issued simultaneously with Distortions.) $125.

      BEATTIE, Ann. Distortions. Garden City, 1976. Author’s first book. $150.

      BEATTIE, Ann. Jacklighting. Worcester, 1981. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. In dust jacket. $300. One of 250 signed copies in wraps. $125.

      BEATTIE, Ann. Manhattan. South Dennis, Mass., 2004. 75 numbered copies signed by Tom Baril, the photographer. Portfolio of twelve signed, hand-pulled photogravures. Companion book with original story “Perennials” by Ann Beattie, printed in letterpress on cotton. $12,500.

      BEATTIE, William. Switzerland Illustrated. London, 1836. 2 vols. With 2 engraved titles, folding map, and 106 plates by W. H. Bartlett. $1,750.

      BEAUCHAMPE: or, the Kentucky Tragedy. Philadelphia, 1842. (By William Gilmore Simms.) 2 vols. $600.

      BEAUMONT, Charles. The Hunger and Other Stories. New York (1957). (By Charles Nutt.) $500.

      BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The History of Harlequin. London, 1926. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell. 44 plates (5 colored), text decorations by Claudia Guercio. Decorated parchment boards, vellum spine. One of 325 copies. $600.

      BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Puppets and the Puppet Stage. London, 1938. 110 pages of illustrations. Illustrated wraps. $200. Cloth without dust jacket. $75.

      BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John. Comedies and Tragedies Written by . . . London, 1647. Folio. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall with “vates duplex” in line 4 of the lower caption. $7,500.

      BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in Woven Design. London, 1890. Cloth. 32 color plates. $175.

      BEAUMONT, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburg, N.Y., 1833. 3 engravings. $4,500. Boston, 1834. Second issue (first edition sheets with Boston title page). $1,500. Edinburgh, 1838. First English edition. $1,250.

      BEAUMONT, William. The Physiology of Digestion. Burlington, Vt., 1847. Edited by Samuel Beaumont. Cloth. Second edition of Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice. $750.

      BEAUVOIR, Simone de. The Mandarins. New York (1976). One of 500 signed copies. In glassine and slipcase. $200.

      BECK, Lewis C. A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri. Albany, 1823. Folding map, 5 plates. $2,500.

      BECKER, Robert H. Disenos of California Ranchos . . . San Francisco, 1964. Grabhorn printing. One of 400 copies. $650.

      BECKETT, Samuel. See Crowder, Henry; Gorey, Edward.

      BECKETT, Samuel. All Strange Away. No place [New York], (1976). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 200 copies signed by both. In slipcase. $1,250. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. $3,500.

      BECKETT, Samuel. All That Fall: A Play. New York (1957). $250. One of 100 specially bound copies. $500. One of 25 signed copies. $5,000. Wraps (“Holiday Greeting”). $150. London, 1957. Wraps. $150.

      BECKETT, Samuel. Beginning to End. New York, 1988. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 300 signed by both. Pictorial boards. $1,750. One of 26 signed. $4,500.

      BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go: Dramaticule. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. In cloth issued without dust jacket, in slipcase. $3,000. Trade. In wraps. $75.

      BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. 30 pages, printed wraps. One of 25 copies on Normandy vellum, signed. $10,000. One of 250 copies on Alfa paper, unsigned. $2,500. One of 50 hors de commerce. $1,500. There were also 2 copies, A & B, for author and publisher.

      BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. New York (1958). Boards. First American edition. One of 100 numbered copies. $2,500. Translated by the author. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500. Trade. Cloth. $350. Wraps. $35. London (1958). $300.

      BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. New York, 1964. $100. London (1964). (Series A and