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

Coast Castle to Ashantee. John Murray, 1819. 7 hand-colored plates (2 folding), 2 engraved maps (1 folding), folding facsimile and 3 plates of music. $5,000.

      BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass., 1802. Folding frontispiece map, 7 plates. $4,500.

      BOWEN, Abel. The Naval Monument. Boston, 1816. 25 woodcuts. $100.

      BOWEN, Catherine Drinker. A History of Lehigh University. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), 1924. $150.

      BOWEN, Elizabeth. Ann Lee’s and Other Stories. London, 1926. $750. New York, 1927. $500.

      BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. London, 1938. $300.

      BOWEN, Elizabeth. Encounters. London, 1923. Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $1,750.

      BOWEN, Elizabeth. Seven Winters. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1942. Boards and linen. One of 450 copies. In tissue dust jacket. $200.

      BOWEN, Peter. Yellowstone Kelly… Ottawa, 1987. $150.

      BOWER, B. M. Chip of the Flying U. New York: Street & Smith (1906). (By Bertha Muzzy Sinclair.) $150. (Red-bound G. W. Dillingham edition is later.)

      BOWER, B. M. Lure of the Dim Trails. New York (1907). (By Bertha Muzzy Sinclair.) In light-brown pictorial cloth. $100. (Red-bound G. W. Dillingham edition is later.)

      BOWERING, George. Sticks and Stones. Vancouver [1962]. (30 or 40 copies). Wraps. $750.

      BOWERS, Dorothy. Postscript to Poison. London (1938). $2,000.

      BOWERS, Dorothy. Shadows Before. London, 1939. $1,750. Garden City, 1940. $300.

      BOWERS, Mrs. Dr. J. Milton. The Dance of Life: An Answer to the “Dance of Death.” San Francisco, 1877. Red or green cloth. (By Ambrose Bierce?) $125.

      BOWERS, Edgar. The Form of Loss. Denver, 1956. $200.

      BOWLES, Jane. In the Summer House. New York (1954). $250.

      BOWLES, Jane. Plain Pleasures. London (1966). $125.

      BOWLES, Jane. Two Serious Ladies. New York, 1943. Author’s first book. $3,000. London, 1965. $100.

      BOWLES, Paul. Collected Stories 1939-1976. Santa Barbara, 1979. Introduction by Gore Vidal. One of 60 copies signed by both Bowles and Vidal. In clear acetate dust jacket. $750. One of 300 copies signed by Bowles. $250. One of 750 copies unsigned. $100. Wraps. $50.

      BOWLES, Paul. The Delicate Prey and Other Stories. (New York, 1950.) $500.

      BOWLES, Paul. Let It Come Down. London (1952). $350. New York (1952). $300. Santa Barbara, 1980. One of 350 signed copies. $200. One of 26 signed copies. $350. One of 1,000 hardcover copies. $50.

      BOWLES, Paul. A Little Stone. London (1950). First issue binding is light-green cloth. $350. Second issue in dark green. $250.

      BOWLES, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. London (1949). $6,500. New York (1949). $3,000.

      BOWLES, Paul. Too Far from Home. New York (1993). $40. London, 1994. One of 100 signed copies. $350.

      BOWLES, Paul. Two Poems. (New York, circa 1933.) Author’s first book. Approximately 175 copies. Wraps. $25,000.

      BOWLES, Paul. Yallah. Zurich, 1956. Illustrated with photos. $450. New York, 1957. $350.

      BOWMAN, David. Let the Dog Drive. New York (1992). Author’s first book. $150.

      BOWYER, William. The Origin of Printing in Two Essays . . . London, 1774. $500.

      BOX, Capt. Michael James. Capt. James Box’s Adventures and Explorations in New and Old Mexico. New York, 1861. $3,000. New York, 1869. Second issue (original sheets with cancel title leaf). $600.

      BOX, Edgar. Death Before Bedtime. New York, 1953. (By Gore Vidal.) $300.

      BOX, Edgar. Death in the Fifth Position. New York, 1952. (By Gore Vidal.) $400.

      BOX, Edgar. Death Likes It Hot. New York, 1954. (By Gore Vidal.) $275.

      BOYD, James. Bitter Creek. New York, 1939. $100.

      BOYD, James. Drums. New York/London, 1925. Author’s first book. $300. New York (1928). Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. One of 525 copies signed by author and artist. In slipcase. $1,500. Trade. $300.

      BOYD, Nancy. Distressing Dialogues. New York (1924). (By Edna St. Vincent Millay.) First edition stated. $400.

      BOYD, Thomas. Through the Wheat. New York, 1923. $400.

      BOYD, William. A Good Man in Africa. London, 1981. Author’s first book. $900. New York, 1982. $125.

      BOYDELL, John and BOYDELL, Josiah. An History of the River Thames. London, 1794-96. Dedication to George III. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 76 hand-colored plates. $15,000.

      BOYLE, Jack. Boston Blackie. New York (1919). Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $3,000. Without dust jacket. $300.

      BOYLE, Kay. See H. H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak.

      BOYLE, Kay. The Crazy Hunter. London (1940). $150. New York (1940). $125.

      BOYLE, Kay. The First Lover and Other Stories. New York (1933). $250. London (1937). $200.

      BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York, 1933. $450. London (1934). $250.

      BOYLE, Kay. Monday Night. New York (1938). $250.

      BOYLE, Kay. Plagued by the Nightingale. New York, 1931. Her first novel. $400. London, 1931. $350.

      BOYLE, Kay. Short Stories. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. Author’s first book. Printed wraps in gold- or silver-tied protective boards. One of 15 signed copies on Japan paper. $1,750. One of 150 on Van Gelder paper. In tissue dust jacket. In slipcase. $1,000. One of 20 copies on Arches paper, for France. $1,250.

      BOYLE, Kay. Wedding Day and Other Stories. New York (1930). Decorated boards, cloth spine. (The author’s first book, retitled as shown. Also variant spine title, “Short/Stories”. Priority unknown. $500. London, 1932. $250.

      BOYLE, Kay. The White Horses of Vienna. New York (1936). $250.

      BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. Descent of Man. Boston (1979). Author’s first book. $500. London, 1980. $150.

      BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Homesteaders. Chicago, 1909. $75.

      BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Langford of the Three Bars. Chicago, 1907. $125.

      “BOZ.” See Dickens, Charles. See also Sketches by “Boz.”

      “BOZ.” Master Humphrey’s Clock. London, 1840-41. (By Charles Dickens.) 88 weekly parts, white wraps. $4,000. Second edition, 20 monthly parts in 19, green wraps. $2,500. (For first book edition, see author entry.)

      “BOZ.” Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. London, 1838. (By Charles Dickens.) Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. In original reddish-brown cloth. First issue, with “Rose Maylie and Oliver” plate in vol. 3 showing them at fireside. $12,500. Rebound in nice old half calf. $4,000. In new “Bayntun-style” morocco. $7,000. Second issue showing them at church. $6,000. (For later editions see author entries under Oliver Twist and The Adventures of Oliver Twist.)

      BRACKENRIDGE, H. H. See A Poem on the Rising Glory . . . and Strictures on a Voyage to South America, etc.

      BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry. Gazette Publications. Carlisle, Pa., 1806. $750.

      BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri. Baltimore, 1815. First edition (actually second appearance of the journal, which first appeared in author’s Views of Louisiana, which see). $2,500. Baltimore, 1816 (cover date 1815). Second edition. Boards. $750.

      BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Views of Louisiana; Together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1814. Pittsburgh, 1814. $2,500. Baltimore, 1817. (Revised.) $750.

      BRACKETT, Leigh. No Good for a Corpse. New York (1944). $1,500.

      BRADBURY, John. Travels in the Interior of America. Liverpool, 1817.