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

His Lithographs. New York, 1927. In slipcase. $400.

      BELLOWS, George. The Paintings. New York, 1929. Color frontispiece, 143 plates. One of 2,000 copies in dust jacket. $350.

      BELOE, William. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. London, 1807-12. 6 vols. $1,250.

      BELTRAMI, G. C. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America. London, 1828. 2 vols. 6 plates including folding map and plan. $3,000.

      BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Hansi. New York, 1934. Author’s first book. $600.

      BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New York, 1939. Date on title page. Dust jacket priced $2.99 on front flap. $1,250.

      BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Small Beer. New York, 1939. One of 75 copies with original colored illustrations. In slipcase. $750.

      BENAVIDES, Alonso de. The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Chicago, 1916. Facsimile of Madrid edition of 1630. Boards. One of 300 copies. $600.

      BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. Garden City, 1974. $350. London, 1974. $250.

      BENCHLEY, Robert. Love Conquers All. New York, 1922. Blue pictorial cloth. $1,000.

      BENCHLEY, Robert. Of All Things. New York, 1921. Author’s first book. Two states with and without ads at end, priority unknown. $1,250. London, 1922. $750.

      BENCHLEY, Robert. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield. New York (1928). $1,000.

      BENDIRE, Charles. Life Histories of North American Birds. Washington, 1892-95. 2 vols. 19 color plates. Folio, cloth. $650.

      BENEDICT, Carl Peters. A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water. Austin, 1943. Edited by J. Frank Dobie. One of 550 copies. $500.

      BENÉT, Laura. Fairy Bread. New York, 1921. $100.

      BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Devil and Daniel Webster. Weston, Vt. (1937). Illustrated by Harold Denison. One of 700 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket and slipcase. $350. New York (1937). Trade. $100.

      BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Drug Shop; or Endymion in Edmonstoun. (New Haven), 1917. Printed wraps. (100 copies.) $250.

      BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. Five Men and Pompey. Boston, 1915. Author’s first book. Wraps over boards. First state in purple wraps. $350. Second state, brown wraps. $150. (Note: Johnson says there were “a few copies” on handmade paper.)

      BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. John Brown’s Body. (Garden City, 1928.) One of 201 signed copies. In slipcase. $850. Trade. $250. Limited Editions Club, New York. 1948. John Steuart Curry illustrations. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $150.

      BENÉT, Stephen Vincent, and BENÉT, Rosemary. A Book of Americans. New York, 1933. One of 125 signed copies. In slipcase. $200. Trade edition with publisher’s monogram on copyright page. $100.

      BEN-GURION, David. Days of David Ben-Gurion… New York, 1967. One of 150 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,500.

      BENJAMIN, Asher. The American Builder’s Compendium. Boston (1827). Sixth edition. $1,500.

      BENJAMIN, Asher. The Country Builder’s Assistant . . . Boston, 1798. 37 plates. $8,500.

      BENJAMIN, Asher. Practice of Architecture. Boston, 1833. 60 engraved plates. $1,000.

      BENJAMIN, Paul. Squeeze Play. London, 1982. (By Paul Auster.) First book under this name. Wraps. $750. New York (1984). Wraps. $125.

      BENN, George. A History of the Town of Belfast. London, 1877. 2 vols in 1. 8 folding maps and plans and an extending genealogical table. $3,500.

      BENNETT, Arnold. See Bennett, E. A.

      BENNETT, Arnold. The Bright Island. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Limp vellum. One of 200 signed copies. $400.

      BENNETT, Arnold. Elsie and the Child. London, 1929. One of 100 signed copies. $550. One of 750 copies. $300.

      BENNETT, Arnold. From the Log of the Velsa. London, 1920. White cloth. One of 110 signed copies. $400.

      BENNETT, Arnold. Imperial Palace. London (1930). 2 vols. Vellum. One of 100 signed copies. $300. Trade edition. $150.

      BENNETT, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale. London, 1908. $750. London, 1927. 2 vols. Parchment and cloth. Facsimile of the manuscript. One of 500 signed copies. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. Illustrated by John Austen. 2 vols. In slipcase. $150.

      BENNETT, E. A. A Man from the North. London, 1898. Arnold Bennett’s first book. Red cloth, stamped in white. $600.

      BENNETT, Emerson. The Bandits of the Osage. Cincinnati, 1847. Wraps. $500.

      BENNETT, Emerson. The Brigand . . . New York, 1842. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

      BENNETT, Frederick D. Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe. London, 1840. 2 vols. Frontispieces, folding map. Cloth. $3,000.

      BENNETT, George. Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia. London, 1860. 7 colored plates, one in sepia, numerous woodcuts. $750.

      BENNETT, John. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare’s Time. New York, 1897. Illustrated by Reginald Birch. Pictorial cloth. $250.

      BENNETT, Melba Berry. Robinson Jeffers and the Sea. San Francisco, 1936. Grabhorn printing. Decorated boards, morocco spine. One of 300 copies. $450.

      BENSON, A. C. See Carr, Christopher.

      BENSON, A. C. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. London, 1887. (Second book, first under own name.) $250.

      BENSON, E(dward) F(redric). Dodo. London, 1893. 2 vols. Author’s first book. $600.

      BENSON, Frank W. (illustrator). Etchings and Drypoints. Boston, 1917 (2), 1923, 1929, and 1959. 500 copies, limited to 275, 275, 525, 600, and 400 copies respectively. 285 reproductions. Text by Adam E. M. Paff. Each volume has frontispiece signed by Benson. In dust jackets. $6,000.

      BENSON, Godfrey R. Tracks in the Snow. London, 1906. $750.

      BENSON, Henry C. Life Among the Choctaw Indians. Cincinnati, 1860. $350.

      BENSON, John Howard. The First Writing Book, An English Translation & Facsimile Text of Arrighi’s Operina, The First Manual of the Chancery Hand. New Haven, 1955. 300 copies signed by Benson. $100.

      BENSON, Mildred. Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario. New York, 1927. (Better known for Nancy Drew under Carolyn Keene.) $750.

      BENSON, Sally. Meet Me in St. Louis. New York, 1942. $1,250.

      BENTLEY, E. C. See Clerihew, E.

      BENTLEY, E. C. Trent’s Last Case. London (1913). (The Woman in Black in U.S.) $350.

      BENTLEY, E. C. The Woman in Black. New York, 1913. (New title.) $250.

      BENTLEY, Harry C., and LEONARD, Ruth S. Bibliography of Works on Accounting by American Authors. Boston, 1933-35. 2 vols. $300.

      BENTLEY, John. The Eyes of Death. Garden City, 1934. Author’s first book. $300.

      BENTON, Frank. Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack. Denver (1903). Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $100.

      BENTON, J. A. California as She Was, as She Is, as She Is to Be. Sacramento, 1850. 16 pages, wraps. $5,000.

      BENTON, Thomas Hart. The Artist in America. New York (1937). Special Missouri edition. Signed. $300.

      BEPPO, A Venetian Story. London, 1818. (By George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.) $1,250. (Kentfield): Allen Press, 1963. Oblong folio with 35 plates, loose, as issued. $500.

      BERDMORE, Thomas. A Treatise on the Disorders and Deformities of the Teeth and Gums. London, 1768. $6,000.

      BERENDT, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. New York, 1994. With “for” misspelled ‘fmr” on page 11, 7 lines up, in dust jacket priced $23. (although we had an advance reader’s edition with “for.” $150. New York, 1995. One of 2,500 signed copies. In pictorial slipcase. $200.

      BERENSON, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. London,