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

Max. Zuleika Dobson. London, 1911. Smooth brown cloth, or rough cloth. (No priority, but there were fewer copies bound in rough cloth.) $900. New York, 1912. $225. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. In slipcase. $90. Oxford, 1975. Illustrated and signed by Osbert Lancaster. One of 750 copies. In slipcase. $150.

      BEERS, F. W., et al. Atlas of the Counties of Lamoille and Orleans, Vermont. New York, 1878. Maps in color. Half leather. $800.

      BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. The Book of Household Management. London, 1861. 2 vols. Frontispiece and pictorial title in color, 12 full-page colored plates, numerous other illustrations. First issue, with “18 Bouverie St.” on woodcut title page. $2,750.

      BEETON’S Christmas Annual. 28th Season. London, 1887. Illustrated. Wraps. (Contains first appearance of A. Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet.) $130,000 at auction in 2004 and 2007.

      BEGLEY, Louis. Wartime Lies. New York, 1991. $250.

      BEHAN, Brendan. The Hostage. London, 1958. $300. New York (1958). First American edition. One of 26 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $1,500. 4 signed copies hors de commerce. $1,750. Trade edition. $100.

      BEHAN, Brendan. The Quare Fellow. London (1956). Author’s first book. $250. New York (1956). Cloth. One of 100 copies. Issued without dust jacket. $350. Trade in cloth. $150. Wraps. $75.

      BEHN, Aphra. LaMontre; or The Lover’s Watch. London, 1686. $750.

      BEHN, Aphra. Poems Upon Several Occasions. London, 1684. Author’s first book. $1,500.

      BEHRMAN, Samuel Nathaniel. Bedside Manner. New York, 1924. Written with J. K. Nicholson. Wraps. $450.

      BEHRMAN, Samuel Nathaniel. The Second Man. New York, 1927. Author’s first book, preceded by two collaborations. Stiff wraps in dust jacket. $300. London, 1928. $125.

      BELCAMP, Jeremy. The History of New Hampshire. Philadelphia, 1784; and Boston, 1791-92. 3 vols. $3,000.

      BELCHER, Edward. The Last of The Arctic Voyages . . . London, 1855. 2 vols. 4 folding maps and 36 plates. $3,000.

      BELCHER, Sir Edward. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang . . . London, 1848. 2 vols. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 5 maps (3 folding), 30 plates. $3,000.

      BELCHER, Sir Edward. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World . . . 1836-1842. London, 1843. 2 vols. 19 plates, 3 maps in pocket. $3,500.

      BELDAM, George W. The World’s Champion Golfers. London (1924). 11 vols. Illustrated boards. $1,250.

      BELKNAP, Jeremy. See The Foresters . . .

      BELL, Acton. Agnes Grey. London, 1847. (By Anne Brontë). The third vol. of Wuthering Heights. (1,000 copies). See that entry under Ellis Bell.

      BELL, Acton. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. London, 1848. (By Anne Brontë, her only separate publication.) 3 vols. In original cloth. $45,000. Rebound. $15,000.

      BELL, Charles. The Hand . . . Philadelphia, 1833. $750.

      BELL, Clive. Art. London, 1914. Author’s first book. $200. New York (1914). English sheets. $150.

      BELL, Clive. Poems. Richmond (London): Hogarth Press, 1921. Wraps. One of 350 copies. $600.

      BELL, Currer (editor). Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London, 1847. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. First issue, with 36-page catalogue at back of first vol., dated June and October, with half titles, and with a leaf advertising the Calcutta Review (VAB - Not in Wise or Schwartz.) $62,000. London, 1848. Second edition. (Currer Bell as author instead of editor on title page.) $4,000. Third edition. $2,000. New York, 1848. Wraps. $3,000.

      BELL, Currer. The Professor. London, 1857. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 2 vols., plum-colored cloth. With 2 pages of ads at end of vol. 1 and 16 pages of ads at end of vol. 2 dated June 1857. $6,500. One-vol. issue. London, 1857 (actually 1858). In a remainder binding, with 1858 ads, $4,500. New York, 1857. First American edition. $1,000.

      BELL, Currer. Shirley: A Tale. London, 1849. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Deep claret-colored cloth. With 16 pages of ads dated October 1849, at end of vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1850. Cloth. $500. Wraps. $750.

      BELL, Currer. Villette. London, 1853. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Olive-brown cloth. With 12 pages of ads dated January 1853, in vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1853. Cloth. $3,000.

      BELL, Currer, Ellis, and Acton. Poems. London, 1846. (By Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.) Dark-green cloth. First issue, published by Aylott and Jones. $45,000. London, 1846 (actually 1848). Green cloth. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. Second issue, with 4-line errata slip. $6,000. Philadelphia, 1848. Wraps. $4,500. Boards. $3,000.

      BELL, Ellis (and Acton). Wuthering Heights. London, 1847. 3 vols. Claret-colored cloth (third vol. titled Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell). (First two vols. by Emily Brontë, third by Anne Brontë.) (1,000 copies printed.) $300,000. Rebound. $225,000. New York, 1848. Cloth. $10,000. Wraps. 2 vols. $17,500. London, 1851. New edition, revised. $7,500. New York, 1931. Illustrated by Clare Leighton. Cloth. One of 450 copies signed by the artist. $350. Trade. $75. Limited Editions Club. New York, 1993. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus. $4,000.

      BELL, Gertrude. The Arab War. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. Half linen. One of 470 copies. $1,250. One of 30 copies. $3,000.

      BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger. Los Angeles, 1881. $850.

      BELL, John. Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds. Edinburgh, 1795. $1,500. Walpole, N.H., 1807. 2 vols. in 1. 2 plates. $750.

      BELL, John. Travels from St. Petersburg . . . Glasgow, 1763. 2 vols. $2,500.

      BELL, Josephine. (Doris Bell and Collier Ball.) Murder in Hospital. London, 1937. $750.

      BELL, Madison Smartt. The Washington Square Ensemble. New York, 1983. Author’s first book. $125. (London, 1983). $100.

      BELL, Margaret E. The Pirates of Icy Strait. New York, Morrow, 1943. Author’s first book. $350.

      BELL, Marvin. Two Poems. Iowa City, 1965. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $450.

      BELL, Solomon. Tales of Travel West of the Mississippi. Boston, 1830. (By William J. Snelling.) Map plates. $1,500.

      BELL, William A. New Tracks in North America. London, 1869. 2 vols. 20 color lithographs, 3 botanical plates, 1 diagrammatic plate and 1 folding map. $1,500.

      BELLAMY, Edward. See Six to One: A Nantucket Idyl.

      BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward, 2000-1887. Boston, 1888. Pea-green, orange-brown, or gray cloth. Also reported are copies in red (which seems the scarcest) and in blue-green. First issue, with printer’s imprint of “J. J. Arakelyan” on copyright page; “wore” for “were” on page 210, line 8. $1,500. Another issue. Gray wraps. $1,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. In slipcase. $200.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. See B., H.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. Cautionary Tales for Children. London (1908). Pictorial boards. $300.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. The Highway and Its Vehicles. London, 1926. Illustrated. One of 1,250 copies. $350.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. The Missing Masterpiece. London (1929). $600.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. New Cautionary Tales. London, 1930. One of 110 signed copies. $300.

      BELLOC, Hilaire. Verses and Sonnets. London, 1896. Author’s first book. $950.

      BELLOW, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. New York, 1953. First issue, with top edges orange. In first dust jacket without reviews. $1,000. Second issue. $250.

      BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man. New York (1944). Author’s first book. $3,500. London, 1946. $600.

      BELLOW, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. New York, 1959. First issue, top edges yellow. $750. London (1959). $150.

      BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York (1964). Stamped blue cloth. $250. (London, 1965). $150.

      BELLOW, Saul. The Victim. New York (1947). $1,250. London (1948). First English edition. $450.

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