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

Jesse R. S. The Life of William Budge by His Son. Salt Lake City, 1915. $400.

      BUECHNER, Frederick. A Long Day’s Dying. New York, 1950. Author’s first book. $200.

      BUECHNER, Thomas S. Norman Rockwell, Artist and Illustrator. New York (1970). 614 plates. “Special Leatherbound Edition.” One of 1,100 copies signed by Rockwell and Buechner. Large color collotype created especially for this edition, hand-numbered and signed by Rockwell. In slipcase. $750. Trade. $250.

      BUEL, J. W. The Border Outlaws. St. Louis, 1881. $1,000.

      BUEL, J. W. Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout. Chicago, 1880. Frontispiece and plate. 93 pages, pictorial wraps. Presumed first issue, with cover dated 1880. $3,000.

      BUFFET, Bernard. Lithographs, 1952-1966. New York (1968). One of 125 copies with 2 additional lithographs signed by Buffet. $3,600. Wraps in dust jacket and slipcase. $850.

      BUFFUM, E. Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines. Philadelphia, 1850. Printed wraps. $1,250. Cloth. $1,000.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. All the Assholes in the World and Mine. (Bensonville, 1966.) Wraps. One of 400 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later with an original drawing by Bukowski tipped in. $2,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. One of 75 copies with an original illustration signed by the author, issued in glassine dust jacket. $4,000. One of 800 copies in wraps. $500. (Also 16 to 18 review copies with front wrap misspelling “sreet.” $2,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. (Chicago) 1965. Wraps. One of 500 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later by author tipping in an illustration or signed poem. $2,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, 1965. One of 475 copies. Decorated wraps. $500. One of 25 copies with “specially autographed drawings by Buk.” $2,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cornered. (No place): Burn Again Press [actually Black Sparrow Press], (no date). One of 30 signed copies. Wraps. $2.250.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Crucifix in a Deathhand. New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1965). Pictorial wraps. One of 3,100 signed copies. $650. (Some copies, with special inscriptions, at higher prices.) One of 26 signed copies. $1,750. Many other variants (see bibliographies).

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Curtains Are Waving . . . (Los Angeles): Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Printed brown wraps. One of 122 signed copies. $1,500. Some with an original drawing. $2,500. 3 signed, lettered copies. $3,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Los Angeles, 1969. One of 250 signed copies. In acetate dust jacket. $1,500. One of 50 copies with a drawing by the author. $6,500. One of 1,250 copies in tan wraps. $150.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. (Eureka, CA, 1959.) Author’s first book. Wraps. (Two previous broadsides, 1950 and 1956.) $6,500. One of 3 or 5 with original drawing or poem tipped in. $9,000. (Although most copies have drawings and/or inscription).

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. A Genius of the Crowd. (Cleveland, 1966.) Pamphlet. One of 103 copies. $2,750.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Heat Wave. Santa Rosa, 1995. One of 170 copies signed by Ken Price. Tray case built into back of book holding 15 loose original serigraphs laid in. Inside front cover has envelope holding compact disc of Bukowski reading his poetry. In plexi-glass slipcase. $3,000. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $6,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Horsemeat. Santa Barbara, 1982. Folio. One of 125 copies signed by both Bukowski and the photographer, Michael Montfort. $2,500. A prospectus for the book. One sheet folded. 1 of 26 signed copies. $1,500.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Post Office. Los Angeles, 1971. Boards. In acetate dust jacket. One of 250 signed copies. $5,000. One of 50 signed copies, with an original drawing by the author. $10,000. Wraps. $350.

      BUKOWSKI, Charles. Run with the Hunted. Chicago (1962). Pictorial wraps. $3,000. (New York): Harper (1993.) One of 26 signed copies. $2,000. One of 200 signed copies. $350. Trade edition. $75. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press (1993). One of 26 signed copies. $1,500. One of 300 signed copies. $300.

      BULFINCH, Thomas. See Authorship.

      BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Chivalry. Boston, 1859. 6 illustrations. Brown cloth. $450.

      BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Fable. Boston, 1855. First state, with names of both printer and stereotyper on copyright page. $500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1958. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. In slipcase. $175.

      BULKELEY, John and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740 . . . London, 1743. $5,000. Dublin, 1743. $3,000. Philadelphia, 1757. First American edition. $3,000.

      BULLAR, Joseph. A Winter in the Azores . . . John Van Voorst, 1841. 2 vols. Cloth. $1,000.

      BULLEN, Frank T. The Cruise of the “Cachalot.” London, 1898. Author’s first book. Folding map and plates. $550. New York, 1899. $200.

      BULLEN, Henry Lewis. Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice . . . San Francisco, 1926. One of 207 copies with an original folio leaf from Plutarch’s Vitae Parallelae Illustrium Virorum loosely inserted. $850.

      BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry. A History of the Birds of New Zealand. London, 1873. 35 hand-colored plates. (500 copies). $15,000. London, 1887-88. 48 colored plates, 2 plain plates. 13 parts in 8, wraps. $15,000. London, 1888. 2 vols. Second edition. Half morocco. $7,500.

      BULLOCK, William. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico. London, 1824. Frontispiece, 15 plates (4 hand-colored), a folding table, and 2 folding maps. $2,250.

      BULLOCK, Wynn. The Photograph as Symbol. Mountain View, 1976. One of 200 copies stated (but only 100 copies printed). Each initialed by Bullock (on mounted slip) and signed by publisher. In slipcase. $2,000.

      BULL-US, Hector. The Diverting History of John Bull . . . New York, 1812. (By James K. Paulding, his first book.) $1,000.

      BULWER, John. Chirologia, or the Natural History of the Hand . . . London, 1644. 2 engraved additional titles, 6 full-page engraved illustrations. $4,000.

      BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. See Caxton, Pisistratus. See also The Coming Race; Falkland; The Last Days of Pompeii.

      BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Falkland. London, 1827. Second edition. $900.

      BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Ismael: an Oriental Tale. London, 1820. Author’s first book. Boards. $1,000.

      BULWER-LYTTON, Edward Robert. See Clytemnestra.

      BUNIN, I. A. The Gentleman from San Francisco. Boston, 1918. $250. (Richmond): Hogarth Press, 1922. Translated by Leonard Woolf. Boards. Issued without dust jacket. With errata slip. $250.

      BUNNER, H. C. A Woman of Honor. Boston, 1883. Author’s first regularly published book. $200. (Previous pamphlets and collaborations.)

      BUNTING, Basil. Briggflatts. London (1966). Wraps. One of 100 copies in black cloth and dust jacket. $1,750. Leather. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $3,000.

      BUNTING, Basil. First Book of Odes. London (1965). Green boards. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 copies. $200. Another issue, one of 50 copies in black boards and green dust jacket. $500. One of 26 signed and lettered copies. In black leather and dust jacket. $1,250.

      BUNTING, Basil. Loquitur. London (1965). Full morocco. One of 26 signed copies. In dust jacket. $500. One of 200 copies. In cloth and dust jacket. $225.

      BUNTING, Basil. Redimiculum Matellarum. Milan, 1930. Author’s first book. Wraps. $6,000.

      BUNTING, Basil. Two Poems. (No place): Unicorn Press, 1967. Wraps. One of 220 copies. $250. One of 30 signed copies. $800.

      BUNTING, Basil, and WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Descant on Rawthey’s Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting. Lexington, Ky. (1968). One of 25 copies signed by Bunting and Williams. In boards and dust jacket. $1,750. One of 475 in white wraps, in light-brown printed dust jacket. $150.