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

Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. London, 1846-48. Illustrated in color by John Leech. 20 parts in 19, blue wraps. $1,250. London, 1847-48. 2 vols. First edition in book form. $400.

      ÁBECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome. London 1847-48 [1852]. 10 parts in 9. Green wraps. $1,250. One vol. $400.

      ABEL, Annie H. The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist… Cleveland, 1915-25. 3 vols. $2,500.

      ABEL, Lionel. Some Poems of Rimbaud. New York (1939). Wraps. (Author’s first book, albeit a translation by L. Abel). $50.

      ABERCROMBIE, John. The British Fruit-Gardner; and Art of Pruning . . . London, 1779. $750.

      ABERCROMBIE, John. The Hot-House Gardener on the General Culture of the Pineapple... London, 1789. 5 hand-colored plates. $1,500.

      ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles. Interludes and Poems. London, 1908. Author’s first book. $75.

      ABERCROMBIE, Capt. W. R. Cooper River Exploring Expedition. Washington, D. C., 1900. Folding map. $750.

      ABISH, Walter. Duel Site. New York, 1970. Author’s first book. Wraps. One of 300 copies. $100.

      ABLEMAN, Paul. I Hear Voices. Paris [1958]. Author’s first book. $150.

      ABRAHAMS, Peter. A Blackman Speaks of Freedom. Durban, 1938. Author’s first book. $1,000.

      ABRAHAMS, Peter. Dark Testament. London, 1942. Author’s first novel. $350.

      AB-SA-RA-KA, Home of the Crows. Philadelphia, 1868. (By Mrs. Henry B. Carrington.) Folding map. Cloth. $600.

      ABSE, Dannie. After Every Green Thing. London, 1949. Author’s first book. Issued in boards, without dust jacket. $100.

      ABSTRACT of Land Claims Compiled from the Records of the General Land Office of the State of Texas . . . Galveston, 1852. By John Burlage and J. P. Hollingsworth. Third edition. $1,750. The first, 1838, is virtually unobtainable, while the second, 1841, is only slightly less rare.

      ABSTRACT of The Laws of New Englnd…. London, 1641. This is the first Anglo-American law code. $30,000.

      ACCUM, Frederick. A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light. London, 1815. 7 hand-colored plates, 2 folding. $1,500.

      ACELDAMA, a Place to Bury Strangers In. London, 1898. By a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge. (Aleister Crowley.) Wraps. Author’s first book. $3,500.

      ACHEBE, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London, 1958. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1958. $750.

      AKELEY, Mary L. Jobe. Carl Akeley’s Africa. Mew York: 1929. $300.

      ACKERLEY, J. R. Poems by Four Authors. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $250.

      ACKERLEY, J. R. The Prisoners of War. London, 1925. Wraps. $350.

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph. A History of Eton College. 10 colored plates. $1,500.

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s . . . London, 1812. 2 vols. Portrait, plan & 81 hand-colored plates. First plate in volume 2 by F. MacKenzie. $4,500. With plate by A. Pugin. $2,500. (See Abbey).

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster. Ackermann, 1816. With 48 hand-colored plates, although also issued uncolored. First issue of “Westminster School Room” has the masters bareheaded. $7,500. Second issue of Charter House plate has washerwomen but with slip pasted over original “school” title. $6,000. Third issue with the plate “Charter House from the Playground”. $5,000. (See Abbey).

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The Microcosm of London. London, (1808-10). 3 vols. 104 colored aquatint plates by Pugin and Rowlandson. $20,000. London, 1904. 3 vols. Parchment and boards. $750. See Abbey Scenery 212

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Cambridge. London, 1815. 2 vols. Portrait and 95 color plates. $9,500. (See Abbey).

      ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford. London, 1814. Illustrated with 115 colored plates. 2 vols. $7,500. There were two large paper issues about 17x13 inches and the ordinary about 14 ¼ x 11 ½. See Abbey Scenery 278.

      ACKLEY, Mary E. Crossing the Plains and Early Days in California. San Francisco, 1928. Illustrated. Boards, printed label on spine. $750.

      ACKROYD, Peter. London Lickpenny. London, 1973. One of 26 signed copies. Wraps. $350. One of 474 copies. $100.

      ACKROYD, Peter. Ouch. London, 1971. Author’s first book. One of about 200 copies. Entire issue of The Curiously Strong, vol. 4, no. 2 (October 31, 1971). Wraps. $500.

      ACTON, Eliza. POEMS. Ipswich, 1826. Author’s first book $500.

      ACORN, Milton. In Love and Anger. Montreal, 1956. Author’s first book. Wraps. $750.

      ACOSTA, Oscar “Zeta.” The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. (San Francisco, 1972.) . First printing stated. $125. Wraps $50. Hunter Thompson’s lawyer.

      ACTON, Harold. Aquarium. London, 1923. Author’s first book. Patterned boards in plain dust jacket. $750.

      ACTON, Harold. The Last of the Medici. Florence, Italy, 1930. Introduction by Norman Douglas. Portrait. Boards. One of 365 signed copies in dust jacket. $750.

      ADAIR, Gilbert. Hollywood’s Vietnam. London, 1981. Author’s first book. $100.

      ADAIR, James. The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia . . . Also an Appendix Containing a Description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi Lands . . . London, 1775. Folding map. $6,000.

      ADAM, G. Mercer (editor). Sandow on Physical Training. New York, 1894. $400. London, 1894. $300.

      ADAM, Helen (Douglas). The Elfin Pedlar & Tales Told by Pixiy Pool. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $300. New York, 1924. $100.

      ADAM, R. B. The R. B. Adam Library Relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson. London/New York, 1929, 1930. 4 vols. (the fourth was issued separately in 1930 without dust jacket). The first three volumes were limited to 500 copies, the fourth volume was limited to 250 copies. The four together. $1,000.

      ADAMIC, Louis. Robinson Jeffers: A Portrait. Seattle, 1929. . Author’s first book. Wraps. $75. Covelo, Calif., 1983. (265 copies signed by Garth Jeffers). $150.

      ADAMS, Alice. Careless Love. New York, 1966. Author’s first book. $400.

      ADAMS, Alice. The Fall of Daisy Duke. London, 1967. New title for above. $200.

      ADAMS, Amos. A Concise, Historical View of the Difficulties…. Boston, 1769. $2,500. London, 1770. $2,000.

      ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy. Boston, 1903. Author’s first book. Map, 6 plates. Brown pictorial cloth. First issue, with map at page 28 not in list of illustrations. $300. Map listed. $200.

      ADAMS, Andy. The Ranch on the Beaver. Boston, 1927. With illustrations by Edward Borein. $300.

      ADAMS, Ansel. See also Austin, Mary, and Anderson, David

      ADAMS, Ansel. Images: 1923-1974. New York, 1974. $250. One of 1,000 copies, with one original signed print. $7,500. Without print. $1,250. Also for Time-Life subscribers with tipped-in signed page. $450.

      ADAMS, Ansel. Making a Photograph. London (1935). $350.

      ADAMS, Ansel. My Camera in Yosemite Valley. Yosemite / Boston, 1949. Wraps. $600.

      ADAMS, Ansel. Portfolio Four . . . San Francisco, 1963. One of 250 copies. Portfolio includes 15 signed photographs. $25,000 at auction in 1998.

      ADAMS, Ansel. Portfolio Three . . . San Francisco, 1960. One of 200 copies. Portfolio includes 16 signed photographs. $44,000 at auction in 1999.

      ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada . . . Berkeley, 1938. One of 500 signed copies with 50 mounted plates. Issued in dust jacket. $8,500.