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

John. The Secret People. London (1935). (By John Beynon Harris, his first book.) $400. Second issue in green binding with black letters. Dust jacket priced “2/6.” $200.

      BEZZERIDES, A. I. Long Haul. New York (1938). $750.

      BIANCO, Margery (Williams). See Williams, Margery

      BIANCO, Margery (Williams). The Little Wooden Doll. New York, 1925. (First under this name.) $250.

      BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. New York (or London) (1925). 7 mounted color plates by Arthur Rackham. First issue, with pictorial endpapers (VAB). In dust jacket. $1,000. Second issue, plain endpapers. $750. Deluxe signed issue. Half vellum and blue boards. One of 105 copies signed by the author. In slipcase. $12,500.

      BIBLIOGRAPHICA, Papers on Books, Their History and Art. London, 1895-97. 12 parts bound in 3 vols. $1,500.

      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL and Retrospective Miscellany . . . ( The). London, 1830. $250.

      BIBLIOPHILE, (The): A Magazine and Review for the Collector, Students and General Readers. London, 1809-1909. 3 vols. $250.

      BIBLIOPHOBIA; Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade . . . London, 1832. (Thomas Frognall Dibdin.) $750.

      BIBLIOTHECA Americana, Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University . . . Providence, various reprints. 7 vols. constitute a complete set. (An invaluable reference tool.) $700.

      BICKHAM, George. The Universal Penman; or, The Art of Writing Made Useful . . . London, 1733-1741. $4,250. London, 1743. Contains frontispiece and 212 engraved plates. $2,250.

      BICKNELL, A. J. Detail, Cottage and Constructive Architecture. New York, 1873. $500.

      BIDDLE, Owen. The Young Carpenter’s Assistant. Philadelphia, 1805. 46 plates. $3,000.

      BIDWELL, George H. The Printers’ New Hand-Book. A Treatise on the Imposition of Forms . . . New York (1875). $500.

      BIDWELL, John. A Journey to California . . . San Francisco, 1937. $200. (Note: Only one copy is known of the 1842 original of this narrative, and it is imperfect.)

      BIERCE, Ambrose. See Bowers, Mrs. Dr. J. Milton; Grile, Dod; Herman, William.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Battle Sketches. London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Vellum. One of 350 copies. In slipcase. $350.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Black Beetles in Amber. San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. $500. Second issue. Printed gray wraps. Published by Johnson & Emigh. $400.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. The Cynic’s Word Book. New York, 1906. Presumed first issue, without frontispiece (Johnson). $750. Frontispiece inserted. $650. (Reissued as The Devil’s Dictionary.)

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Fantastic Fables. New York, 1899. Tan-yellow cloth. With ads at back headed by “By Anna Fuller.” $500.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. A Horseman in the Sky. San Francisco, 1920. John Henry Nash printing. One of 400 copies. $200.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. In the Midst of Life. London, 1892. Blue cloth. (VAB). First English edition (of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians). $400. (Second issue in colored boards - VAB). New York, 1898. (Reprint of the Tales with 3 added stories.) $200.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. My Favorite Murder. (New York, 1916.) First separate edition. Wraps. $150.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Nuggets and Dust . . . London (1873). Pictorial yellow wraps. $2,000.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays. San Francisco, 1909. Edited by S. O. Howes. Green buckram. In dust jacket. $450. Without dust jacket. $150.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Shapes of Clay. San Francisco, 1903. First issue, with transposed lines 5 and 6 on page 71. $400. Second issue, corrected. $250.

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891. $600. Some copies imprinted “Compliments of” on preliminary leaf and signed by Bierce-the so-called “limited” edition (Johnson). $1,750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1943. Boards and leather. In slipcase. $400. (For first English edition see, In the Midst of Life.)

      BIERCE, Ambrose. Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. New York, 1909. First issue 5 3/4 by 3 inches in size (VAB). (Johnson, 5 1/2 inches tall.) $400. Second printing 6 by 3 7/8 inches. $200. San Francisco, 1971. Grabhorn printing. One of 400. $150.

      BIERCE, Ambrose, and DANZIGER, Gustav Adolph. (A pseudonym for Adolphe De Castro.) The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter. Chicago, 1892. Illustrated by Theodore Hampe. Printed yellow wraps. $600. Gray cloth. $300. New York, 1907. New introduction by Bierce. $200. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967. In slipcase. $100.

      BIERSTADT, O. A. The Library of Robert Hoe . . . New York, 1895. One of 350 copies. $600.

      BIGELOW, Jacob. American Medical Botany. Boston, 1817-20. 3 vols. or 6 parts. 60 color plates. The first U.S. horticulture book printed in color. $11,000.

      BIGELOW, Jacob. Insensibility During Surgical Operations. Boston, 1847. $4,000.

      BIGGERS, Don H. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch. Abilene, Tex. (1905). Illustrated. Stiff wraps. $4,500. Bandera, Tex., 1944. $200.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Behind That Curtain. Indianapolis (1928). With Bobbs-Merrill symbol on copyright page. $1,000. London, 1928. $750.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Black Camel. Indianapolis, 1929. $750.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Chinese Parrot. Indianapolis (1926). $2,250.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The House Without a Key. Indianapolis (1925). First edition not stated. $3,500. London, 1926. $750.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. If You’re Only Human. 1912. Author’s first book. $600.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Keepers of the Keys. Indiana (1932). $500.

      BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Seven Keys to Baldpate. Indianapolis (1913). $250.

      BIGGS, William. Narrative of William Biggs, While He Was a Prisoner with the Kickepoo Indians. (No place), June 1825. (per Howes). Copy in worn wraps, (Edwardsville, Ill.), June 1826 at auction in 1999 for $17,000. (New York), 1922. One of 81 copies in boards. $1,500. There were also 5 copies on vellum. $2,500.

      BIGSBY, John Jeremiah. The Shoe and Canoe. London, 1850. 2 vols. 20 engraved plates, 4 maps, 1 plan. Blue cloth. $2,500.

      BINDINGS of To-Morrow: A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders . . . London, 1902. (By George Eliot Anstruther.) $925.

      BINYON, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli. London, 1913. Muirhead Bone etching, 23 color plates. Folio, cloth, vellum spine. One of 275 copies. $750.

      BINYON, Laurence. The Engraved Designs of William Blake. London, 1926. Plates. Half cloth and boards. One of 100 copies with an extra set of plates. $1,000. Without the extra plates. $500. Trade edition. $300.

      BINYON, Laurence. The Followers of William Blake. London, 1925. 79 plates, 7 colored. Issued without dust jacket. $200. One of 100 copies. $500.

      BINYON, Laurence. Lyric Poems. London, 1894. $200.

      BINYON, Laurence. Persephone. London, 1890. Author’s first book. (Newdigate Prize.) Wraps. $350.

      BINYON, Laurence. Poems. Oxford: Daniel Press, 1895. Wraps. One of 200 copies. $250.

      BINYON, Laurence, and SEXTON, J. J. O’Brien. Japanese Colour Prints. London, 1923. 46 plates, some in color. $175. Pigskin. One of 100 signed copies, with an extra set of plates. $700.

      BINYON, Laurence; WILKINSON, J.V.S.; and GRAY, Basil. Persian Miniature Painting. London, 1933. Illustrated, including color plates. Folio, cloth. In dust jacket. $2,500.

      BIOGRAPHICAL Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters. London, 1780. (By William Beckford.) Author’s first book. $1,250.

      BIOGRAPHICAL Souvenir of the State of Texas. Chicago, 1889. Illustrated. Full leather. $500.

      BIOGRAPHY of Joseph Lane. Washington, 1852. “By Western.” $1,000.