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

Pictorial boards in color. $7,000. (Constituting Verve, No. 33/34, issued in French and in English.)

      CHAGALL, Marc (illustrator). The Jerusalem Windows. (French: Vitraux pour Jerusalem.) New York (or Monte Carlo), 1962. Text by Jean Leymarie. $2,750.

      CHAGALL, Marc (illustrator). The Lithographs of Chagall. Monte Carlo and New York or Boston, 1960-84. Text by Fernand Mourlot. 27 original lithographs. 5 vols. Quarto, cloth. $6,000.

      CHAINBEARER (The), or, The Littlepage Manuscripts. London, 1845. (By James Fenimore Cooper.) 3 vols. $1,250. New York, 1845. 2 vols. $500.

      CHALLONER, Bishop Richard. The True Principles of a Catholic . . . Philadelphia, 1789. $1,000.

      CHALMERS, George. The Life of Thomas Ruddimann, A.M., The Keeper, for Almost Fifty Years, of the Library . . . London, 1794. $450.

      CHALMERS, Stephen. The Affair of the Gallows Tree. Garden City, 1930. $300.

      CHAMBERS, Andrew Jackson. Recollections. No place (1947). 40 pages, stapled. $200.

      CHAMBERS, Charles E. S. Golfing: A Handbook . . . Edinburgh, 1887. $1,000.

      CHAMBERS, Robert. A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf . . . Edinburgh, 1862. Illustrated Wraps. $12,500.

      CHAMBERS, Robert W. In the Quarter. Chicago, 1894. Author’s first book. $1,000.

      CHAMBERS, Robert W. The King in Yellow. Chicago, 1895. Green cloth with lizard design (preferred binding, perhaps earliest). $2,000. Second binding. $1,000.

      CHAMBERS, Robert W. The Red Republic: A Romance of the Commune. New York, 1895. Pictorial cloth. $150.

      CHAMISSO, Adelbert von. A Sojourn at San Francisco Bay 1816. San Francisco, 1936. Grabhorn printing. One of 250 copies. $300.

      CHAMPION, Joseph. The Young Penman’s Daily Practice . . . (London) 1759. $850.

      CHANDLER, Francis W. Municipal Architecture in Boston, . . . Boston, 1898. 2 vols. $1,250.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The Big Sleep. New York, 1939. Author’s first book. $20,000. London (1939). $7,500. San Francisco, 1986. 425 copies. $1,250.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. New York, 1940. $7,500. London (1940). $2,000.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The High Window. New York, 1942. $7,500. London (1943). $1,750.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. New York, 1943. $8,500. London (1944). $2,500.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. London (1949). In reddish-orange binding (presumed earlier). $3,000. In yellow binding. $2,500 Boston, 1949. $2,000.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. London (1953). $2,000. Boston, 1954. $2,000.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. London (1958) in red-orange binding with silver lettering. $750. Red binding with gold lettering. $600. Boston, 1958. $500.

      CHANDLER, Raymond. The Smell of Fear. London (1965). $750.

      CHANDLESS, William. A Visit to Salt Lake: Being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlements of Utah. London, 1857. Folding map. $850.

      CHANNING, Walter. A Treatise on Etherization in Childbirth. Boston, 1848. $1,750.

      CHANNING, William Ellery (1780-1842). The Duties of Children. Boston, 1807. Author’s first book. Wraps. $250.

      CHANNING, William Ellery (1780-1842). A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Jared Sparks . . . Baltimore, 1819. $150.

      CHANNING, William Ellery (1780-1842). Slavery. Boston, 1835. $400.

      CHANNING, William Ellery (1818-1901). John Brown, and the Heroes of Harper’s Ferry: A Poem. Boston, 1886. $200.

      CHANSLOR, Roy. Johnny Guitar. New York (1953). Author’s first book. $1,500. London, 1954. $1,000.

      CHANTICLEER: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press. Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1936. One of 300 copies. $600.

      CHANUTE, Octave. Progress in Flying Machines. New York (1894). 85 illustrations. $1,250. Long Beach, 1976. $50.

      CHAPELLE, Howard I. The Baltimore Clipper. Salem, Mass., 1930. Cloth. 36 plates and 48 plans. $300. Marbled boards. One of 97 copies (VAB). $450.

      CHAPMAN, John Jay. See The Two Philosophers.

      CHAPMAN, R. W. Cancels. London, 1930. One of 500 copies. $300.

      CHAPPE D’AUTAEROCHE, Jean. A Voyage to California, to Observe the Transit of Venus . . . London, 1778. Folding plan of Mexico City. First English translation from the French of 1772. $2,500.

      CHAPPELL, Fred. It Is Time, Lord. New York, 1963. $200. London, 1965. $100.

      CHAPPELL, Fred. Renaissance Paper… No place [1962]. Author’s first book. Wraps. $350.

      CHAPPELL, George S. Colonial Architecture in Vermont. New York, 1918. Wraps. $350.

      CHARLES Auchester. London, 1853. (By Elizabeth Sara Shepard, her first book.) 3 vols $1,000.

      CHARLES, Will. The Hombre from Sonora. (New York) 1971. (By Charles Willeford.) $5,000.

      CHARLEVOIX, Francis Xavier. A Voyage to North America, Under the Command of the Present King of France . . . Dublin, 1766. 2 vols. 8 folding maps. 2 plates. $4,500.

      CHARLEVOIX, Pierre F. X. Journal of a Voyage to North America. London, 1761. Folding map. 2 vols. $4,000. Chicago, 1923. One of 200 copies. $500.

      CHARLOT, Jean. Picture Book. New York, 1933. Illustrated with 32 original multicolor lithographic plates. One of 500 copies signed by Charlot and Lynton R. Kistler, the printer. Wraps. In slipcase. $2,500.

      CHARTERIS, Leslie. Enter the Saint. London [1930]. (By Charles Bowyer Lin.) $7,500. New York, 1931. $5,000.

      CHARTERIS, Leslie. The Last Hero. London [1930]. (By Charles Bowyer Lin ) $2,500. New York, 1931. $1,250.

      CHARTERIS, Leslie. Meet the Tiger. London (1928). (By Charles Bowyer Lin.) $5,000. New York, 1929. $3,000.

      CHARTERIS, Leslie. X Esquire. London, 1927. (By Charles Bowyer Lin, his first book.) $2,500.

      CHASE, Borden. Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail. New York (1948). Author’s first book. Filmed as Red River. $5,000.

      CHASE, Charles M. The Editor’s Run in New Mexico and Colorado. Lyndon, Vt., 1882. Illustrated. Pictorial wraps. $600.

      CHASE, James Hadley. No Orchids for Miss Blandish. London (1939). $4,500. (New York, 1942.) $2,500.

      CHASE, Owen (and others). Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale Ship “Essex.” Golden Cockerel Press. London, 1935. 12 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. One of 275 copies. Issued without dust jacket. $1,250.

      CHATEAUBRIAND, François A. Travels in America and Italy . . . London, 1828. 2 vols. $600.

      CHATHAM, Russell. The Angler’s Coast. Clark City Press (1990). One of 150 signed deluxe copies. In slipcase. $300.

      CHATTERTON, E. Keble. Ship-Models. London, 1923. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. 142 plates, many in color. One of 1,000 copies. $300.

      CHATTERTON, E. Keble. Steamship Models. London, 1924. 128 plates, some in color. One of 1,000 signed copies. $300.

      CHATTO, William A. See Careless, John.

      CHATTO, William A. A Treatise on Wood Engraving . . . London, 1839. Engravings by John Jackson. $600. London (1861). $300.

      CHATWIN, Bruce. The Attractions of France. (London) 1993. One of 10 signed, (Roman) numbered copies. Issued without dust jacket. $750. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $350. One of 175 copies. Wraps. $150.

      CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London, 1977. Author’s first book. With map endpapers. $1,500. White endpapers. $1,250. New York (1978). $200.

      CHATWIN, Bruce, and THEROUX, Paul. Patagonia Revisited. (Great Britain, 1985.) One of 250 copies signed by both authors. Without dust jacket. $350.

      CHAUCER,