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

Daniel. The New Humpty-Dumpty. London, 1912. (By Ford Madox Ford.) Brick brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Copies seen with 14 pages or 8 pages of ads at rear. $1,200.

      CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. (Westminister: Caxton, 1478.) Almost $7,000,000 at auction in 1998. London, 1913. Riccardi Press. Colored plates by W. Russell Flint. 3 vols. Limp vellum, silk ties. One of 500 copies. $2,000. Also, one of 12 copies on vellum, and with extra plates in cloth portfolio. $12,500. New York, 1930. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 2 vols. Pigskin. One of 75 signed copies. $4,000. Another issue; cloth. One of 924 signed copies. $1,750. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. 4 vols. Eric Gill engravings. Folio, boards, morocco spine. One of 485 copies. $10,000. One of 15 copies on vellum. In slipcase. $35,000 or more. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Half pigskin. In slipcase. $600. London, 1972. Cloth portfolio with 19 etchings by Elizabeth Frink. One of 50 signed copies. $4,500. One of 175 copies. $1,500.

      CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. 5 full-page illustrations, 5 half-page decorations, and engraved title page by Eric Gill. Folio, boards, and morocco. One of 219 copies. $15,000. Limited Editions Club, London, 1939. $225.

      CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Workes (or Works) of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed. [London: T. Godfray, 1532]. Bad copy at auction in 2003 for $64,400. London, 1561. $40,000. London, 1687. Adds for the first time the conclusions to the Cook’s and the Squire’s Tale, on the verso of the last leaf. $5,000. Take this entry with a big grain of salt.

      CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London, 1721. Three tales that were previously unprinted. Folio. $5,000. (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896.) 425 copies issued in blue paper on boards with paper label on spine. $100,000. 13 copies on vellum. $1,000,000. 46 (or so) copies bound in white pigskin at Doves Bindrey. $225,000. London, 1975. 2 vols. One of 515 copies. $5,000.

      CHEEVER, Henry T. The Island World of the Pacific. Glasgow (1851?). Frontispiece. Calf. $300. New York, 1851. $200.

      CHEEVER, John. The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. New York, 1953. “I” on copyright page. $350. London, 1953. $175.

      CHEEVER, John. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories. New York, 1958. $175. London, 1958. $125.

      CHEEVER, John. The Leaves, the Lionfish and the Bear. Los Angeles, 1980. One of 4 copies with printed name of recipient. $750. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $500. 300 signed copies. $125.

      CHEEVER, John. Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel. New York (1961). $175. London, 1961. $75.

      CHEEVER, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. New York (1957). $300. London, 1957. $125. Franklin Library, 1978. Signed “Limited Edition.” $75.

      CHEEVER, John. The Way Some People Live. New York (1943). Author’s first book. $2,500.

      CHENG Man-ch’ing and SMITH, Robert W. T’ai-chi: The Supreme Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense. Tokyo, 1967. First edition stated. $100.

      CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913. London, 1922. 2 vols. 73 maps, panoramas, color plates, including 10 folding. Boards, paper labels. $4,500. New York (1922). Without 10 folding plates. $2,500.

      CHESNUTT, Charles W. The Colonel’s Dream. New York, 1905. Name spelled “Chestnutt” on spine and front. $600. Name spelled correctly. $400. London, 1905. $350.

      CHESNUTT, Charles W. The Conjure Woman. Boston, 1899. Author’s first book. 150 large-paper copies. $2,000. Trade edition. $750. London, 1899. $500. New York, 1927. $175.

      CHESNUTT, Charles W. Frederick Douglass. Boston, 1899. $750. Also seen in limp leather (VAB), and in limp blue cloth with flowered endpapers. $1,250. London, 1899. $750.

      CHESNUTT, Charles W. The House Behind the Cedars. Boston, 1900. $600.

      CHESNUTT, Charles W. The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories. Boston, 1899. $750.

      CHESTER, Alfred. Here Be Dragons. Paris, 1955. Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 125 deluxe copies, $400. One of 1,000 copies. $150.

      CHESTERFIELD, Lord. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable . . . Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. London, 1774. 2 vols. $3,500.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. Charles Dickens Fifty Years After. No place, 1920. Wraps. One of 25 copies. $750.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. Club of Queer Complaints. London, 1905. $600.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. Collected Poems. London, 1927. Boards and parchment. One of 350 signed copies. $350.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Coloured Lands. London, 1938. Illustrated by the author. Boards. In dust jacket. $150.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. Graybeards at Play: Rhymes and Sketches. London, 1900. Author’s first book. $850.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London (1926). $3,000. New York, 1926. $1,250.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Innocence of Father Brown. London, 1911. Illustrated by S. S. Lucas. Red cloth. $1,200. New York, 1911. $500.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. London. London, 1914. 10 tipped-in photogravure plates by Alvin Langdon Coburn. $1,250.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Poet and the Lunatics. London, 1929. $1,000.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Scandal of Father Brown. London (1935). $2,000. New York, 1935. $750.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Secret of Father Brown. London (1927). $2,750. New York, 1927. $1.250.

      CHESTERTON, G. K. The Wisdom of Father Brown. London, 1914. $750. New York, 1915. $300.

      CHEW, Beverly. Essays & Verses About Books. New York, privately printed, 1926. Limited to 275 copies. (Printed by D. B. Updike at Merrymount Press.) $100.

      CHICAGO Illustrated. (Cover title.) (Chicago, 1866-67.) 52 tinted lithograph views. Text by James W. Sheahan. Oblong folio, morocco. Jevne and Almini, publishers. First edition, second issue. $50,000. (The original issue was in 13 parts and is now very rare.) New York, 1952. 12 plates. Portfolio. Reprint edition. $500.

      CHIDSEY, Donald Barr. John the Great: The Times and Life of a Remarkable American, John L. Sullivan. Garden City, 1942. $100.

      CHILD, Andrew. Overland Route to California. Milwaukee, 1852. Full leather. $9,500.

      CHILD, Julia. The Art of French Cooking. New York, 1961. $1,250. The second volume was published in 1970.

      CHILD, Lee. Killin Floor. New York (1997). Author’s first book. $150.

      CHILD, Lydia Maria. See Emily Parker; Evenings in New England; The First Settlers in New England; The Frugal Housewife; Hobomok.

      CHILD, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston, 1833. Errata slip and tipped-in frontispiece. $3,000.

      CHILDERS, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands. London, 1903. $8,500. New York, 1915. $1,500.

      CHILDRESS, Alice. Like One of the Family. Brooklyn (1956). Author’s first book. One of 100 copies. In slipcase. $300. Trade. $150.

      CHILDS, C. G. (engraver). Views in Philadelphia and Its Vicinity. Philadelphia, 1827-(30). Engraved title page, plan, 24 engraved views. $8,500.

      CHINESE Poems. London, 1916. (By Arthur Waley, his first book.) Wraps. (About 50 copies.) $5,000.

      CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director. London, 1754. Engraved dedication and 161 plates. $17,500. London, 1755. $9,000. London, 1762. Engraved dedication and 200 plates. $20,000. New York, 1938. Folio, cloth, with a sketch of Chippendale’s Life and Works by Walter Rendell Storey. With more than 400 plates. $350.

      CHITTENDEN, Hiram M. The American Fur Trade of the Far West. New York, 1902. 3 vols. Folding map, plan, 3 facsimiles, 6 plates. Green cloth. $1,650. New York, 1935. 2 vols. Plates. In slipcase. $300.

      CHITTENDEN, Hiram M. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River. New