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

W. O. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Columbus, Ohio, 1857. $450.

      BLAKE, William. America: A Prophecy. Lambeth, 1793. Rebound copy at auction in 1987. $160,000. Edmonton, Canada, 1887. Facsimile by William Muir. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $1,750. London, 1963. One of 526 copies. $1,000.

      BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London, 1825. Title page and 21 other plates engraved by Blake. While title page states “1825,” the plates were not issued until 1826 and a label dated “1826” was pasted on. Folio. $45,000. London, 1902. Facsimile. Wraps. $400. New York, 1935. 6 parts, folio, wraps. One of 200 copies. In slipcase. $2,250.

      BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. London, 1974. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $650.

      BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (London, 1868.) Facsimile of 1790 edition. 27 hand-colored plates. $1,500. London, 1960. One of 26 copies. $2,000. One of 500 copies. $850.

      BLAKE, William. The Note-Book of William Blake Called the Rossetti Manuscript. London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 120 pages in facsimile. Buckram. One of 650 copies. In dust jacket. $200.

      BLAKE, William. Pencil Drawings. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 82 facsimile plates. Half buckram. One of 1,550 copies. In dust jacket. $400. Second Series: London, 1956. One of 1,440 copies. In dust jacket. $300.

      BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. London, 1789. One of 3 known copies with final plate “A Divine Image.” $2,000,000. One of 4 copies in green ink at auction in 2001 for $850,000. Three regular copies. $1,000,000. (See auction records). London, 1954. One of 1,600 copies. $350. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Facsimile reproduction from the 1789 original. Full morocco. One of 26 copies. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $1,250.

      BLAKE, William. William Blake’s Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. Trianon Press, 1972. 3 vols. One of 518 copies. Folio. Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. $2,000. One of 100 copies. $3,000.

      BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 3 vols. Half vellum and marbled boards. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $750. Thin-paper issue: 3 vols. in 1, morocco or limp vellum. One of 75 copies. $2,000.

      BLAKEY, Dorothy. Minerva Press, 1790-1820. London, 1939. $250.

      BLANCHARD, Rufus (publisher). Citizen’s Guide for the City of Chicago; Companion to Blanchard’s Map of Chicago. Chicago (1868). Printed stiff wraps, with folding map bound in. $2,500.

      BLANCK, Jacob. Peter Parley to Penrod. New York, 1938. One of 500 copies. $175. New York, 1956. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass., 1961. $100.

      BLAND, David. A History of Book Illustration. London (1958). $150. Cleveland (1958). $150.

      BLANTON, Wyndham B. Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century. Richmond, 1931-33. 2 vols. $500.

      BLATTY, William Peter. The Exorcist. New York (1971). $500.

      BLEDSOE, A. J. History of Del Norte County, California. Eureka, Calif., 1881. Wraps. $4,500. (Howes notes that with one possible exception this is the rarest California local history.)

      BLEDSOE, A. J. Indian Wars of the Northwest. San Francisco, 1885. Leather. $700. Cloth. $400.

      BLEW, William C. A. A History of Steeple-Chasing. London, 1901. 28 illustrations, 12 hand-colored plates. $400.

      BLIGH, William. The Log of the Bounty . . . Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. 2 vols. Small folio, with 4 wood engravings by Lynton Lamb. One of 300 copies. $2,500. (Guildford) 1975. One of 50 copies in morocco. $2,250. One of 500 copies. $1,000.

      BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty . . . London, 1790. With folding plate and 3 charts. $25,000.

      BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea . . . London, 1792. With frontispiece and 6 maps/plans (4 folding), and 1 plate showing breadfruit. $20,000. Limited Editions Club, Adelaide, 1975. One of 2,000 copies. In slipcase. $200.

      BLISH, James. A Case of Conscience. London (1959). $1,250. New York (1969). $500.

      BLISS, Edward. A Brief History of the New Gold Regions of Colorado Territory. Map. New York, 1864. 30 pages, wraps. $6,000.

      BLISS, William R. Paradise in the Pacific; A Book of Travel, Adventure and Facts in the Sandwich Islands. New York, 1873. Mounted photographic frontispiece. $100.

      BLITZSTEIN, Marc. The Cradle Will Rock. New York, 1938. $750.

      BLIXEN, Karen. Out of Africa. London (1937). First edition stated in dust jacket without any reviews on front flap. $3,500. The second jacket has 5 reviews on front flap. $2,000. (See Isak Dinesen for U.S. edition.)

      BLOCH, Robert. The Eighth Stage of Fandom . . . Chicago, 1962. First edition stated. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 signed copies. $450. One of 200 hardbound copies. $200. One of 400 copies in wraps. $60.

      BLOCH, Robert. The Opener of the Way. Sauk City, Wis., 1945. $600.

      BLOCH, Robert. Psycho. New York, 1959. $2,750. London, 1960. $950. Springfield, 1994. 35th Anniversary edition. One of 500 copies signed by Block and Richard Matheson (introduction). In slipcase. $375.

      BLOCH, Robert. Sea Kissed. (London, 1945.) Author’s first book. Wraps. First issue, 39 pages, “Printed in Great Britain” on page 39. $1,000. Second issue, 36 pages, “Printed in Eire” on page 36. $600.

      BLOCK, Lawrence. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling. New York, 1979. $150.

      BLOCK, Lawrence. Eight Million Ways to Die. New York, 1982. $750.

      BLOCK, Lawrence. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man. New York, 1971. $450.

      BLOCK, Lawrence. A Stab in the Dark. New York, 1981. $650.

      BLOCK, Lawrence. Time to Murder and Create. London, 1979. $1,250. Illinois, 1993. One of 300 signed copies. In slipcase. $150.

      BLOCKMAN, Lawrence G. Diagnosis Homicide: The Casebook of Dr. Coffee. Philadelphia (1950). $350.

      BLODGET, Lorin. Climatology of the United States, and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent . . . Philadelphia, 1857. Folding map. $400.

      BLOME, Richard. A Description of the Island of Jamaica. London, 1672. 3 folding maps. $10,000. London, 1678. Portrait. 4 folding maps. $10,000.

      BLOME, Richard. Hawking or Faulconry. London: Cresset Press, 1929. One of 650 copies. $300.

      BLOME, Richard. The Present State of His Majesties Isles… London, 1687. 1 plate of sun-dials and 7 folding maps. $15,000.

      BLOWE, Daniel. A Geographical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America. Liverpool (1820). Portrait, 2 maps, 4 plans. $1,500.

      BLUE Grotto (The) and Its Literature. London, 1904. (By Norman Douglas.) 18 pages, printed red wraps. $600.

      BLUNDELL, John W. F. The Muscles and Their Story. London, 1864. $300.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Dead Letters. London: Pelican Press, 1923. Decorated wraps, paper label. One of 50 copies. $200.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Japanese Garland. London: Beaumont Press, 1928. 6 color plates. Boards and vellum. One of 80 signed copies. $850. One of 310 signed. $175.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Masks of Time. London: Beaumont Press, 1925. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabs. Boards and vellum. One of 80 copies on vellum, signed. $350. One of 310 copies on paper. In plain dust jacket. $150.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Pastorals: A Book of Verses. London (1916). Wraps. $300.

      BLUNDEN, E(dmund) C. Poems 1913 and 1914. (Horsham, 1914.) Author’s first book. Wraps. (100 copies.) $2,000.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Retreat: New Sonnets and Poems. (London, 1928.) One of 112 signed copies. $300. Garden City. $150.

      BLUNDEN, Edmund. Undertones of War. London, 1928. $400.

      BLUNT, Edmund M. Traveller’s Guide