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

Author’s first book. Cloth in dust jacket. $750. Wraps. $150.

      CARTLAND, Barbara. Jig-Saw. London (1925). Author’s first book. $2,000.

      CARTWRIGHT, George. A Journal of Transactions and Events… Newark, 1792. 2 vols. $5,500.

      CARUSO, Enrico. Caricatures. New York, 1908. Folio. $600.

      CARUTHERS, William Alexander. The Kentuckian in New York. New York, 1834. 2 vols. $1,000.

      CARVER, Jonathan. Three Years Travels, Through the Interior Parts of North America… Philadelphia, 1784. First American edition. $1,000.

      CARVER, Jonathan. Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. London, 1778. Two large folding maps and four engraved plates. $4,500. London, 1770. Second edition. With added plate. $2,500. London, 1781. Third Edition. With added plate. $2,000. (Hand-colored maps or plates would be more.)

      CARVER, Raymond. Near Klamath. Sacramento, 1968. Author’s first book. Wraps. $7,500.

      CARVER, Raymond. Put Yourself in My Shoes. Santa Barbara, 1974. One of 75 hardcover copies in pictorial boards signed by Carver. $750. Wraps. $150.

      CARVER, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York, 1981. $300.

      CARVER, Raymond. Where I’m Calling From. New York (1988). One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $400. Trade edition. $150. Franklin Library. Pennslvania, 1988. Unspecified number published. Signed. $350.

      CARVER, Raymond. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? New York, 1976. $1,250.

      CARVER, Raymond. Winter Insomnia. (Santa Cruz, 1970.) Wraps. $300.

      CARY, Arthur. Verse. Edinburgh, 1908. (Joyce Cary’s first book.) $5,000.

      CARY, Joyce. See above.

      CARY, Joyce. The African Witch. London, 1936. $500. New York, 1936. $200.

      CARY, Joyce. Aissa Saved. London, 1932. $850. New York (1962). $75.

      CARY, Joyce. An American Visitor. London, 1933. $250.

      CARY, Joyce. The Horse’s Mouth. London (1944). $400. New York (1944). $200. London, 1957. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $150.

      CASLER, John. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade. Guthrie, Okla., 1893. Folding facsimile. $750.

      CASPARY, Vera. Laura. Boston, 1943. In dust jacket. $17,500. London, 1944. $1,500.

      CASPER, C. N. Directory of the Antiquarian Booksellers and Dealers in Second-Hand Books of the United States . . . Milwaukee, 1885. $200.

      CASSON, Stanley. Murder By Burial. New York, 1938. $450.

      CASTANEDA, Carlos. The Teachings of Don Juan: Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Berkeley, 1968. Author’s first book. $1,250. London, 1971. $200.

      CASTANEDA, Carlos E. Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 1519-1810. Austin, 1936-50. 6 vols. $1,000.

      CASTLE Dismal; or, the Bachelor’s Christmas. New York, 1844. (By William Gilmore Simms.) $400.

      CASTLE of Otranto, A Story (The). London, 1765. (By Horace Walpole.) No mention of this being a Gothic novel on title page. $12,500.

      CASTLE Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale. London, 1800. (By Maria Edgeworth.) $2,500.

      CASTLEMAN, Alfred L. Army of the Potomac: Behind the Scenes. Milwaukee, 1863. $300.

      CASTLEMON, H(arry) C. (Harry). Frank on the Lower Mississippi. Cincinnati, 1867. (By Charles Austin Fosdick.) $500.

      CASTLEMON, H. C. Frank, the Young Naturalist. Cincinnati, 1865. (By Charles Austin Fosdick, his first book.) $750.

      CASTLEMON, Harry. Guy Harris, the Runaway. New York, 1887. (By Charles Austin Fosdick.) Printed wraps. $450.

      CASTLEMON, Harry. The Sportsman’s Club Among the Trappers. Philadelphia, 1874. (By Charles Austin Fosdick.) Plates. $500.

      CATALOG of the Avery Architectural Library, A Memorial Library of Architecture, Archaeology, and Decorative Art. New York, 1895. Limited to 1,000 copies. $500.

      CATALOGUE of Books & Manuscripts in the Estelle Doheny Collection. Los Angeles, 1940, 1946, 1955. 3 vols. Each vol. limited to 100 copies. $1,250.

      CATALOGUE of First Editions of American Authors. New York, 1885. $150.

      CATALOGUE of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York. New York, 1911-12. 8 vols. $1,000.

      CATALOGUE of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. New York, 1909. 2 vols. $550.

      CATALOGUE of Valuable Printed Books and Fine Bindings from the Celebrated Collection . . . J. R. Abbey. London, 1965-1989. 11 vols. $500.

      CATES, Cliff D. Pioneer History of Wise County, Texas. Decatur, Tex., 1907. Illustrated. Stiff wraps. $250.

      CATESBY, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida And The Bahama Islands . . . London (1730-) 1731-43 (-1747). 2 vols. 220 hand-colored engraved plates. $850,000. London, 1754. Second edition. 2 vols. $350,000. London, 1771. Third edition. $175,000. Savannah, 1974. One of 500 copies. $1,500.

      CATHER, Willa. See McClure, S. S.; Milmine, Georgine. See also The Sombrero.

      CATHER, Willa. Alexander’s Bridge. Boston, 1912. Coarse blue, or purple-mesh, cloth. With “Willa S. Cather” on spine and half-title before title page or after title page. (Priority unresolved.) $750. London, 1912. First English edition. $750.

      CATHER, Willa. April Twilights. Boston, 1903. Brown boards, paper labels. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $2,750. New York, 1923. First revised edition (deleted 13 and added 112 poems). Boards and parchment. One of 450 signed copies. In slipcase. $750. Trade edition. $300. London, 1924. $400.

      CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York, 1927. $2,500. Also, boards and cloth. One of 175 signed copies. In dust jacket and slipcase. $4,500. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum, signed. In slipcase. $12,500. London, 1927. $1,000. New York, 1929. Illustrated by Harold von Schmidt. Vellum. One of 170 signed copies. In slipcase. $2,500. Trade. $500. London 1930. $300.

      CATHER, Willa. A Lost Lady. New York, 1923. First issue, in green cloth with title at top of spine, and pages 164, 171, 173, and 174 too closely crammed. $750. Second issue with Cather’s name at top of spine. In green or tan cloth. $600. Boards and cloth. With pages 164 and 173 reset. $125. One of 20 copies lettered A to T, signed. In glassine dust jacket. In slipcase. $4,000. One of 200 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,750.

      CATHER, Willa. My Antonia. Boston, 1918. Illustrated by W. T. Benda. Brown cloth. First issue, with illustrations on glazed or coated paper inserted. In dust jacket. $4,500. Lacking dust jacket. $1,000. (Later dustwrppers has 4 reviews on front cover.) Second state with illustrations on text paper. $3,500. Lacking jacket. $500. London, 1919. $2,500. Lacking jacket. $400.

      CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. New York, 1936. $125. One of 333 large-paper copies on Japan vellum, signed. In dust jacket. In slipcase. $1,000. London. $250.

      CATHER, Willa. The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. Boston, 1937-41. 13 vols., two-toned cloth. Autograph edition. One of 970 signed copies. In dust jackets. $112,500. Lacking jackets. $2,500. Three-quarter morocco. $15,000. Full morocco. $20,000.

      CATHER, Willa. Obscure Destinies. New York, 1932. $200. Vellum and boards. One of 260 copies on Japan vellum, signed. In dust jacket. In slipcase. $1,000. London (1932). $300.

      CATHER, Willa. One of Ours. New York, 1922. One of 35 copies on Japan vellum, signed. $7,500. One of 310 copies on handmade paper, signed. In numbered slipcase. $2,000. “One of 250” copies. In mottled gray boards, “Made for bookseller friends…”. 155 copies in U.S. $1,250. Remaining 95 copies issued with Toronto: Macmillan, 1922, without limitation leaf. $750. First trade edition states “Second printing, September 1922.” In dark-orange dust jacket. $2,000 (Also noted in dark-green dust jacket.) London, 1923. In red linen boards. $1,250. In salmon cloth with dull black lettering. $1,000.