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

The Historical Paintings in the Great Hall of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. London, 1909. One of 300 copies. $750. One of 25 copies on vellum. $3,000.

      BRANGWYN, Frank. The Way of the Cross. London (1935). 14 plates. One of 250 copies. $1,250.

      BRASHER, Rex. Birds and Trees of North America. (Kent, CN, 1929-32). 12 vols. 867 hand-colored plates. Oblong folio, half leather folders. $17,000. New York, 1961-62. 4 vols., 875 colored plates. $400.

      BRASIL, Angela. A Terrible Tomboy. London, 1904. $400.

      BRASSAI. The Artists of My Life. New York, 1982. One of 150 signed numbered copies. $2,000.

      BRASSINGTON, Salt. A History of the Art of Bookbinding . . . London, 1894. $600.

      BRATHWAITE, Richard. The English Gentleman . . . London, 1630. $2,250.

      BRAUN, Lilian Jackson. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. New York, 1966. Author’s first book. $350.

      BRATT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Neb., 1921. Portrait frontispiece and plates. Pictorial cloth. $450.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. San Francisco, 1967. One of 1,500 copies. Illustrated yellow wraps. $500.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. A Confederate General at Big Sur. New York (1964). $500.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Galilee Hitch-Hiker. San Francisco (1958). Wraps. $3,000. San Francisco, 1966. Illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 16 signed copies with a small drawing on separate folded 8½-by-11-inch thin brown paper. $1,000. One of 700 copies. $350.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. In Watermelon Sugar. San Francisco (1968). One of 50 signed copies. $1,750. Trade. Wraps. $200. London (1970). $300.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Lay the Marble Tea. San Francisco (1959). Printed wraps. $1,500.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. New York, 1976. $300.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Octopus Frontier. San Francisco (1960). Printed wraps. $900.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. San Francisco (1968). Tan boards, brown cloth spine. One of 50 signed copies. $1,850.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book. San Francisco (1968). Wraps, with eight seed packets enclosed. $1,250.

      BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Return of the Rivers. (San Francisco, 1958.) Author’s first book. Wraps. Reportedly 100 copies but may have only been 15 or 20. Most signed. $15,000. Unsigned. $10,000.

      BRAVO (The): A Venetian Story. London, 1831. (By James Fenimore Cooper.) 3 vols. $800. Philadelphia, 1831. 2 vols. First American edition. $650.

      BRAYTON, Matthew. The Indian Captive. Cleveland, 1860. 68 pages, printed green wraps. $4,500. Boards. $2,500. Fostoria, Ohio, 1896. Second edition. $1,000.

      BRENAN, Gerald. See Beaton, George.

      BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Heart of Earth. Prairie City (1949). Author’s first book. $150.

      BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Nine Horrors and a Dream. Sauk City, 1958. $250.

      BRENNER, Anita. Idols Behind Altars. New York, 1929. $1,250.

      BRENNER, Anita. The Wind That Swept Mexico. New York (1943). Illustrated with photographs. $300.

      BRETON, André. What Is Surrealism? London, 1936. $150.

      BRETON, André. Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares. New York, 1946. $1,000. Drawings by Arshile Gorley and jacket by Marcel Duchamp.

      BRETT, Simon. (Anthony Lee.) Cast, In Order of Disappearance. London, 1975. $150. New York (1976). $50.

      BRETTON, James J. (editor). Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays . . . New York, 1850. $350.

      BREVOORT, Elias. New Mexico: Her Natural Resources . . . Sante Fe, 1874. Wraps. $1,750.

      BREWSTER, Sir David. A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope. Edinburgh, 1819. 7 plates. $2,000.

      BREWSTER, Ralph H. The Good Beards of Athos. London, Hogarth, 1935. $400.

      BRICE, Wallace. A History of Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind., 1868. 7 plates. Cloth. $400.

      BRIDGENS, Richard. Furniture, with Candelabra and Interior Decoration. London, 1838. 60 full-page color plates (including title). Folio. $3,000.

      BRIDGES, Robert. Eros and Psyche: A Poem. Newtown, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1935. Woodcuts from drawings by Edward Burne-Jones. White pigskin. One of 300 copies. In buckram case. $1,750. One of 15 copies specially bound by George Fisher. $6,000.

      BRIDGES, Robert. Poems. London, 1873. Author’s first book (suppressed by him in 1878). $600.

      BRIDGES, Robert. Poems Written in the Year MCMXIII. (London): Ashendene Press, 1914. Blue printed boards and cloth. One of 85 copies with initials in red or blue. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 6 copies on vellum. $8,500.

      BRIDGES, Robert. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford, 1929. One of 50 signed copies. $400. One of 200 copies, unsigned. $200. Trade edition. $150. New York, 1929. One of 250 copies. $300.

      BRIDWELL, J. W. (compiler). The Life and Adventures of Robert McKimie. Hillsboro, Ohio, 1878. 56 pages, pictorial wraps. $1,500.

      BRIEF Description of Western Texas (A). San Antonio, 1873. (By W. G. Kingsbury.) Pictorial wraps. $2,000.

      BRIGGS, Charles Frederick. See The Adventures of Harry Franco . . .

      BRIGGS, Clare. Golf: The Book of a Thousand Chuckles. Chicago (1916). $500.

      BRIGGS, E. C., and ATTWOOD, R. M. Address to the Saints in Utah and California, Polygamy Proven an Abomination by Holy Writ, Is Brigham Young President of the Church of Jesus Christ . . . Plano, Il., 1869. Wraps. Third edition (noted as “Revised by Joseph Smith and Wm. W. Blair.”) $750.

      BRIGGS, L. Vernon. History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Boston, 1889. $225.

      BRIGHAM, Clarence S. Paul Revere’s Engravings. Worcester, Mass., 1954. 77 plates (some in color). $150.

      BRIGMAN, Anne. Songs of a Pagan. Caldwell, Idaho, 1949. $250.

      BRILLAT-SAVARIN, J(ean) A(nthelme). The Physiology of Taste. Philadelphia, 1854. $900. London, 1925. Introduction by Arthur Machen. Portrait, other illustrations. Boards. One of 750 copies. $350. New York, 1926. One of 500 copies. $200. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. Translated by M.F.K. Fisher. Half leather. One of 1,500 copies in slipcase. $300.

      BRILLIANT, Ashley. I May Not Be Totally Perfect, But… Santa Barbara (1979). Cloth. Issued without dust jacket. (1,000 copies.) $150. Wraps. $35.

      BRINK, André (Philippus). The Ambassador. (Cape Town), 1964. First English translation. $100.

      BRIQUET Album: A Miscellany on Watermarks . . . (The). Hilversum, 1952. One of 400 copies. Vol. 2 (one of the more difficult to find). $200.

      BRISBANE, Albert. Social Destiny of Man . . . Philadelphia, 1840. Author’s first book. $850.

      BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza. Philadelphia, 1881. 8 plates. Pictorial cloth. $350.

      BRITISH Librarian: Exhibiting A Compendious Review or Abstract of Our Most Scarce . . . London, 1738. 6 vols. bound in 1. $750.

      BRITTAIN, Vera M. Verses of a V. A. D. London, 1918. $450.

      BRITTON, Wiley. Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863. Chicago, 1882. $300.

      BROCH, Hermann. The Death of Virgil. New York, 1945. $1,750.

      BROCH, Hermann. The Sleepwalkers. London, 1932. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. $250. Boston, 1932. $200.

      BRODER, Patricia Janis. Bronzes of the American West. New York (1974). 511 illustrations, including 48 plates in color (not including sculpture). One of 262 copies. $600.

      BRODIE, Walter. Pitcairn’s Island and the Islanders in 1850. London, 1851. 4 plates. Cloth, paper label. $600. London,