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

Westerner” and notes authorship as being attributed to Robert Dale Owen.

      BION and MOSCHUS. Poems. Bristol, 1794. (By Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, their first book.) $3,000.

      BIRD, Bessie Calhoun. Airs from the Wood Winds. Philadelphia (1935). Author’s only book. One of 25 signed, lettered copies, $1,500. One of 300 copies, $600.

      BIRD, Isabella. See The Englishwoman in America.

      BIRD, Robert Montgomery. See The Adventures of Robin Day; Calavar; The Infidel; Nick-of-the-Woods; Peter Pilgrim; Sheppard Lee.

      BIRD, William. A Practical Guide to French Wine. Paris, no date [1922?]. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

      Bird & Bull Commonplace Book ( The). North Hills, 1971. One of 255 copies. Envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. In slipcase. $500.

      Bird & Bull Number 13. North Hills, 1972. One of 140 copies. First Bird & Bull publication to use paste paper for the cover. $600.

      BIRKBECK, Morris. See An Impartial Appeal.

      BIRKBECK, Morris. An Appeal to the People of Illinois, on the Question of a Convention. Shawneetown, 1823. 25 pages. (Howes B 465.) $2,500.

      BIRKBECK, Morris. Extracts from a Supplementary Letter from the Illinois. New York, 1819. 29 pages. First edition. $2,500.

      BIRKBECK, Morris. Letters from Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. 2 folding maps. Boards and calf. $950.

      BIRKBECK, Morris. Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. $600. London, 1818. Map. $2,000. (Map in auction copies not noted in Howes.)

      BIRNEY, Earle. See Robertson, E.

      BIRNEY, Earle. David . . . Toronto, 1942. (500 copies.) $300.

      BIRNEY, Earle. Now Is Time. Toronto (1945). $175.

      BISHOP, Elizabeth. North & South. Boston, 1946. Author’s first book. $1,500.

      BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poem. New York, 1973. One of 26 signed copies. $2,250. One of 100 signed copies. $1,750.

      BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1956. $500.

      BISHOP, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860. Philadelphia, 1864. 2 vols. $750.

      BISHOP, John Peale. Act of Darkness. New York, 1935. Author’s first and only novel. $150.

      BISHOP, John Peale. Green Fruit. Boston, 1917. Author’s first book. Boards and cloth. $200.

      BISHOP, John Peale. Minute Particulars. New York, 1935. Wraps. One of 165 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket. $200.

      BISHOP, John Peale, and WILSON, Edmund. The Undertaker’s Garland. New York, 1922. Wilson’s first book and Bishop’s second. In dust jacket. $400. Boards. One of 50 copies for “bookseller friends.” Issued without dust jacket. $250.

      BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Birds: Etchings of Waterfowl and Upland Game Birds. Philadelphia, 1936. 73 reproductions. One of 1,050 copies. $350. One of 135 signed copies, with signed Bishop etching tipped in. $750.

      BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Wildfowl . . . Etchings and Oil Painting Reproductions. (St. Paul), 1948. Text by E. Prestrud and R. Williams. Color plates. Full calf. $300.

      BISHOP, Zealia. The Curse of Yig. Sauk City, Wis., 1953. Arkham House. $200.

      BISLAND, Elizabeth (editor). The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Boston, 1906. 2 vols. One of 200 copies with a page of an original manuscript by Hearn. $2,500. Trade. $300.

      BISSET, Robert. Douglas; or, the Highlander. Anti-Jacobin Press, 1800. 4 vols. Half titles in vols. 3 and 4 (no others called for). $4,500.

      BITTING, Katherine. Gastronomic Bibliography. San Francisco, 1939. $450.

      BLACK, Campbell. Assassins and Victims. (London, 1969.) $100.

      BLACK, E. L. Why Do They Like it . . . (Dijon, 1927.) (By Sir John Ellerman.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.

      BLACK, Mansell. Sinister Cargo. London, 1951. (By Elleston Trevor.) Author’s first book. $750.

      BLACKBIRD, Andrew J. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. Ypsilanti, Mich., 1887. $750.

      BLACKBURN, Henry. Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career. London, 1886. $300.

      BLACKBURN, John. A Scent of New-Mown Hay. London, 1958. $500. New York, 1958. $75.

      BLACKBURN, Paul. The Dissolving Fabric. Divers Press. (Mallorca) 1955. Author’s first book of poetry. Wraps. $300.

      BLACKBURN, Paul. Proensa. (Majorca) 1953. Author’s first book. (Translation.) $300.

      BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly-Making. London, 1842. $6,000.

      BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge. See Melanter.

      BLACKMORE, Richard D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London, 1869. 3 vols. Blue cloth. $3,000.

      BLACKMORE, William. Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates . . . London, 1869. 3 folding maps and mounted frontispiece portrait of author. $2,500.

      BLACKMUR, R. P. Dirty Hands or The True Born Censor. Cambridge, 1930. Wraps. $150.

      BLACKMUR, R. P. From Jordan’s Delight. New York, 1937. $150.

      BLACKMUR, R. P. The Good European . . . Cummington, Mass., 1947. Cloth, paper label. Issued without dust jacket. One of 40 signed copies. $600.

      BLACKMUR, R. P. T. S. Eliot. (Cambridge, Mass.), 1928. Author’s first book. Wraps. Offprint from “Hound & Horn.” $250.

      BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. 4 vols., including 8-page “supplement to the first edition.” $22,500. Oxford, 1773. 4 vols. $3,750. London, 1803. 4 vols. $3,500.

      BLACKWATER Chronicle . . . (The). New York, 1853. (By the Clerke of Oxenforde.) Written and illustrated by Dard Hunter Strother. Sometimes attributed to John Kennedy Pendleton. Frontispiece, engraved title page. $400.

      BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal. (London) 1737-39. 2 vols. Containing 500 hand-colored engraved plates. $40,000. London, 1739. Second edition. 2 vols. $7,500.

      BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. The Laws of Life . . . New York, 1852. Author’s first book. (America’s first female doctor.) $15,000.

      BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London, 1906. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1917. $375.

      BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Fruit Stoners. New York, 1935. $150.

      BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Jimbo: A Fantasy. London, 1909. $850.

      BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Listener and Other Stories. London, 1907. $1,000.

      BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Shocks. New York (1936). $300.

      BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books. London, 1880. In vellum wraps. $200.

      BLADES, William. The Life And Typography of William Caxton . . . London, 1861-63. 2 vols. $550.

      BLAIR, Robert. The Grave: A Poem. London, 1808. Folio. Portrait after T. Phillips. Engraved title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after designs by Blake. $8,000. Quarto. $3,000. London, 1813. Folio. $7,500. Quarto. $1,750.

      BLAKE, Alexander V. The American Bookseller’s Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country . . . Claremont, N.H., 1847. $600.

      BLAKE, Nicholas. The Beast Must Die. London (1938). (By C. Day-Lewis.) $1,500.

      BLAKE, Nicholas. A Question of Proof. London, 1935. (By C. Day-Lewis.) (First book under this name.) $2,000.

      BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Honolulu, 1935. Author’s first book and the first book on surfing. Issued without dust jacket. $5,000.