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

Robert H. K. History of Golf. London, 1955. $300. New York (1955). $200.

      BROWNLOW, William G(annaway). Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism… Knoxville, 1834. $400.

      BROWNLOW, William. A Political Register. Jonesborough, Tenn., 1844. Boards. $600.

      BROWNSON, Orestus Augustus. An Address, On the Fifty-fifth . . . Ithaca, 1831. Author’s first book. In original wraps. $750. Rebound. $300.

      BROWNSTEIN, Michael. Behind the Wheel. (New York, 1967.) Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 6 signed, lettered copies, $250. One of 10 signed copies, $175. 184 unsigned copies, $45.

      BRUCE, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh, 1790. 5 vols. 3 folding maps. Portrait and 58 plates. $10,000. Edinburgh, 1804-05. 8 vols. $2,500.

      BRUCE, Lenny. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. Chicago, 1965. $100.

      BRUCE, Leo. See also Croft-Cooke, Rupert.

      BRUCE, Leo. Case for Three Detectives. London, 1936. (By Rupert Croft-Cooke). Author’s first mystery. $5,000. New York, 1937. $3,500.

      BRUCE, Leo. Case Without a Corpse. London, 1937. (By Rupert Croft-Cooke). $4,000. New York, 1937. $2,500.

      BRUEHL, Anton. Photographs of Mexico. New York, 1933. Full-page photos by Bruehl. One of 1,000 signed. In slipcase. $1,250.

      BRUFF, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff. New York, 1944. Edited by Georgia W. Read and Ruth Gaines. 2 vols. 21 plates. In boards and slipcase. $500.

      BRUFFEY, George A. Eighty-one Years in the West. Butte, 1925. Portrait. Wraps. $150.

      BRUNEFILLE, G. E. Topo. London, 1880. (By Gertrude Elizabeth Cambell.) Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Cloth. $450.

      BRUNSON, Alfred. A Western Pioneer. Cincinnati, 1872 and 1879. 2 vols. Cloth. $200.

      BRUNSON, Edward. Profits in Sheep and Cattle in Central and Western Kansas. Kansas City, 1883. 16 pages, wraps. $600.

      BRUNTON, Mary. See Self-Control.

      BRUTUS. The Crisis; or, Essays on the Usurpation of the Federal Government. Charleston, 1827. (By Robert J. Turnbull.) $600.

      BRYAN, Daniel. The Mountain Muse. Harrisonburg, 1813. $400.

      BRYANT, Edwin. What I Saw in California. New York, 1848. $3,500. New York, 1848. Second edition. $500. Santa Ana, Calif., 1936. Half morocco. $350.

      BRYANT, Gilbert Ernest. The Chelsea Porcelain Toys. London, 1925. 63 plates, 47 in color. One of 650 signed copies. $500.

      BRYANT, William Cullen. See Embargo (The).

      BRYANT, William Cullen. The Embargo: or, Sketches of the Times: A Satire. (Cover title.) Boston, 1809. Second edition. $2,500. (For first edition, see title entry The Embargo.)

      BRYANT, William Cullen. Hymns. (New York, 1864.) Brown-orange or blue cloth. First state, reading “Dwells on Thy works in deep delight” in second line of fourth stanza on page 9. $400.

      BRYANT, William Cullen. Picturesque America. New York (1872-74). 2 vols. $2,500.

      BRYANT, William Cullen. Poems. Cambridge, Mass., 1821. $1,250. New York, 1832. Second edition. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. Illustrated by Thomas Nason. Leather. In slipcase. $100.

      BRYANT, W. N. Bryant’s Texas Almanac and Railway Guide, 1881-1882. (Cover title.) Dallas, 1881. Wraps. $750.

      BRYANT, W. N. Bryant’s Texas Guide! Austin, 1875. 2 folding maps. Wraps. $1,500.

      BRYCE, James. The American Commonwealth. London, 1888. 3 vols. First printing with chapter in vol. 3 on the Tweed Ring (later suppressed). $750. Second, with Tweed Ring matter omitted. $325.

      BRYDGES, Sir Egerton. Restituta; Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived. London, 1814-16. 28 numbers in 4 vols. $300.

      BRYHER. See Ellerman, Annie Winifred.

      BRYHER. Civilians. Territet, Switzerland (1927). (Pseudonym of Winifred Ellerman.) Wraps. $400.

      BRYHER. Development. London, 1920. $650.

      BRYHER, Winifred. The Lament for Adonis. London, 1918. Translated from the Greek. Wraps. $500. Also copies on handmade paper. $1,500.

      BUBER, Martin. I and Thou. Edinburgh, 1937. Wraps. $300.

      BUCANIERS OF AMERICA . . . London, 1684-1685. (By Alexandre Olivier Exquemeling [a.k.a. John Esquemeling, Basil Ringrose].) Two vols. in one. 16 maps, 3 of which are folding. $11,000.

      BUCHAN, John. Greenmantle. London, 1916. Issued without front endpaper. $400.

      BUCHAN, John. The Pilgrim Fathers: The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1898. Oxford, 1898. Wraps. $1,000.

      BUCHAN, John. The Runagates Club. London (1928). $600.

      BUCHAN, John. Sir Quixote of the Moors. London, 1895. Author’s first book. Assumed first issue with title running down spine. $1,500. Second issue with “Sir Quixote” on spine. $300. New York, 1895. $250.

      BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-nine Steps. Edinburgh and London (1915). $1,750.

      BUCHANAN, Robert. The Devil’s Case. London (1896). $125.

      BUCHANAN, Robert. The Fleshly School of Poetry. London, 1872. Pink or violet pictorial wraps. $400.

      BUCHANAN, Robertson. Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat. Glasgow, 1810. 2 plates. $600.

      BUCHANAN, Robertson. A Practical Treatise on Propelling Vessels by Steam. Glasgow, 1816. 17 plates, 1 folding. $1,000.

      BUCK, Irving A. Cleburne and His Command. New York, 1908. Plates. $750.

      BUCK, Pearl S. East Wind: West Wind. New York (1930). Author’s first book. $1,250.

      BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York (1931). The reading “flees” for “fleas,” line 17 of page 100 also is in the second and third printings. The “John Day Publishing Company” on copyright page is scarcer than “The John Day Company,” so may be valid point. Top edges stained brown. $12,500. Presumed later issue with “The John Day Company,” green top edge. $11,500. (Also reported with tan top edge). London, 1931. $2,500. [Note: the book was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the differences of publisher’s name and top edge may reflect their edition. This was the time they were switching from sending out publisher’s editions and printing their own from publisher’s plates.] Has anyone seen a priced jacket?

      BUCK, Pearl S. Sons. New York (1932). One of 371 deluxe copies, signed. In dust jacket and slipcase. $450.

      BUCKINGHAM, Nash. De Shootinest Gent’man and Other Tales. Edited by Col. Harold P. Sheldon. New York: Derrydale Press (1934). One of 950 copies. $750. New York (1961). One of 260 copies. $300.

      BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Mark Right! New York: Derrydale Press (1936). One of 1,250 copies. $400.

      BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Ole Miss. New York: Derrydale Press (1937). Edited by Paul A. Curtis. One of 1,250 copies. $350.

      BUCKLER, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley. New York, 1952. $450.

      BUCKLEY, Francis. English Baluster Stemmed Glasses of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Edinburgh, 1912. 18 plates. Buckram. $600.

      BUCKLEY, Francis. Old London Drinking Glasses. Edinburgh, 1913. 14 plates. Buckram. $500.

      BUCKLEY, Wilfred. Diamond Engraved Glasses of the 16th Century. London, 1929. 33 plates. Boards. One of 250 copies. $425.

      BUCKLEY, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale. Chicago, 1951. Author’s first book. $350.

      BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. Amulets and Superstitions. London, 1930. 22 plates, 300 other illustrations. $300.

      BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology. London, 1904. 2 vols. 98 color plates. Pictorial