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

      COMING Race (The). Edinburgh (1871). (By Edward Bulwer-Lytton.) Scarlet-orange cloth, blocked in black and gold. $2,500.

      COMMERCIAL Tourist (The); or, Gentleman Traveller; A Satirical Poem. London, 1822. (By Charles William Hempel.) Frontis and 4 hand-colored plates by Cruikshank. $600.

      Common Sense. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1776. (By Thomas Paine.) 79 pages plus last page with publisher’s catalogue. Page 63 line 12 last words “pedling politi-”. Page [80], line 3: “There volumes.” Pamphlet. $300,000. Second issue. Last words page 63, line 13: “pidling po-”. Page [80], line 3: “Three volumes.” $225,000. “Second Edition” so stated on title page. 175,000. “Third Edition” so stated on title page. $75,000. For further editions by Bell and Bradford, see Gimbel. Any of the 1776 editions/printings/issues have value.

      COMMUCK, Thomas. Indian Melodies. New York, 1845. Author’s first book. Leather and boards. $1,250.

      COMPLETE Art of Boxing According to the Modern Method . . . (The). London, 1788. By an Amateur of Eminence. $2,500.

      COMPOSITOR’S Handbook: Designed as a Guide in the Composing Room… London, 1854. $400.

      COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy. Dolores. Edinburgh, 1911. Author’s first book, written with her brother (suppressed by her). $1,250.

      COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy. Pastors and Masters. London, 1925. $850.

      CONARD, Howard Louis. “Uncle Dick” Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region. Chicago, 1890. Portrait, 31 plates. Decorated cloth, or leather and cloth. $600.

      CONCISE History of the Origin and Progress of Printing with Practical Instructions to the Trade in General. London, 1770. $900.

      CONCLIN, George. Conclin’s New River Guide, or a Gazeteer of All the Towns on the Western Waters. Cincinnati, 1848. 44 full-page route maps. 128 pages, wraps. $3,500. Cincinnati, 1850. Second edition. $2,000.

      CONDER, Josiah. Landscape Gardening in Japan. Tokyo, 1893. 2 vols., including supplement. $600.

      CONDON, Richard. The Manchurian Candidate. New York (1959). $1,000.

      CONEY, John. Engravings of Ancient Cathedrals . . . London, 1832. Folio with 32 double-page plates. $3,000.

      CONFEDERATE Receipt Book. Richmond, 1863. Wraps. $1,250.

      CONFESSIONS of an English Opium-Eater. London, 1822. (By Thomas De Quincey.) First issue, with ad leaf at end. $4,000. Second issue, lacking ad leaf. $2,000. Philadelphia, 1823. First American edition. $1,500. Limited Editions Club. New York, 1930. Boards. In slipcase. $300.

      CONFESSIONS of Harry Lorrequer (The). Dublin, 1839. (By Charles Lever.) Author’s first book. Illustrated by Phiz. 11 parts, pictorial pink wraps. $750. First edition in book form. $400. Cloth. $300.

      CONFESSIONS of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend . . . London, 1804. $250.

      CONGREVE, William. The Way of the World. London, 1700. $4,000.

      CONJECTURAL Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing. London, 1772. 3 foldout plates. $600.

      CONKLIN, E. Picturesque Arizona. New York, 1878. Illustrated. Green cloth. $300.

      CONNELL, Evan S., Jr. The Anatomy Lesson. New York, 1957. Author’s first book. $400. London (1958). $125.

      CONNELL, Evan S., Jr. Mrs. Bridge. New York, 1959. $500.

      CONNELL, Evan S., Jr. Son of Morning Star. San Francisco, 1984. No statement of edition. First dust jacket parchment-like paper. (Later glossy.) $200.

      CONNELLEY, William E. War with Mexico…Doniphan’s Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California. Topeka, 1907. 2 folding maps. $300.

      CONNELLEY, William E. Quantrill and the Border Wars. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1910. $350.

      CONNELLEY, William E. Wild Bill and His Era. New York, 1933. 12 plates. One of 200 copies. $300.

      CONNELLY, Marc. Dulcy. New York, 1921. Author’s first book, written with G. S. Kaufman. $650.

      CONNELLY, Marc. The Green Pastures. New York, 1930. Illustrated in color by Robert Edmond Jones. Green boards. One of 550 signed copies. In slipcase. $400. Some signed copies issued in morocco. $500. Trade edition. $250.

      CONNELLY, Michael. The Black Echo. Boston (1992). Author’s first book. $200. London (1992). Reportedly Connelly disliked the dust jacket on this edition as it pictured Bosch as right-handed versus left-handed. Noted two copies cataloged for about $4,000 each in 2010.

      CONNELLY, Michael. Blood Work. Tucson (1997). One of 26 signed, lettered copies. In quarter morocco, dust jacket and slipcase. $1,000. One of 300 signed copies. In dust jacket and slipcase. $250. Boston (1998). $25.

      CONNELLY, Michael. The Poet. Boston (1996). $25. London (1996). $50. Los Angeles, 2004. One of 26 signed in full leather and leather slipcase (as are the others). $1,750. One of 75 signed copies for presentation. $1,000. One of 125 signed copies. $600.

      CONNETT, Eugene V. Magic Hours. New York: Derrydale Press, 1927. 2 mounted plates by the author. 20 pages, gray boards, paper label. One of 100 copies. (First Derrydale Press book.) $15,000.

      CONNETT, Eugene V. (editor). American Big Game Fishing. New York: Derrydale Press (1935). Illustrated, including color plates. In dust jacket. In slipcase. $850.

      CONNETT, Eugene V. (editor). Upland Game Bird Shooting in America. New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Illustrated, including color plates. Pictorial cloth. One of 850 copies. $850. Brown morocco. One of 75 copies with 6 original signed etchings. $12,500.

      CONNICK, Charles J. Adventures in Light and Color. New York (1937). Color plates and collotype plates. Buckram. Deluxe issue, one of 300 copies with 42 plates in color, 48 in collotype. $500. Trade edition with 36 colored plates. $350. London, 1937. 36 color plates, 48 in collotype. $200.

      CONNOLLY, A. P. A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War of 1862-1863. Chicago (1896). Illustrated. $250.

      CONNOLLY, Cyril. See Palinurus.

      CONNOLLY, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. London, 1938. $750. Boston, 1938. $200.

      CONNOLLY. Cyril. The Rock Pool. Obelisk Press. Paris (1936). Wraps. Author’s first book. $750. New York, 1936. $400. London, 1947. New postscript. $125.

      CONOLLY, John. The Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints. London, 1856. $2,000.

      CONOVER, George W. Sixty Years in Southwest Oklahoma. Andarko, 1927. Illustrated. Issued without dust jacket. $250.

      CONQUEST (The) . . . By A Negro Pioneer (Oscar Micheaux). Lincoln, Nebr., 1913. Author’s first book. $2,000.

      CONRAD, Joseph. See The Nigger of the “Narcissus,” Preface.

      CONRAD, Joseph. “Admiralty Paper.” (New York, 1925.) Facsimile plate. Blue wraps. One of 93. $1,500.

      CONRAD, Joseph. Almayer’s Folly: A Story of an Eastern River. London, 1895. Author’s first book. Dark-green cloth. First issue, with first “e” missing in “generosity” in the second line from last on page 110. $2,500. Corrected. $1,750. New York, 1895. Spine reads “Macmillan & Co.” $1,250. Second binding. “The Macmillan Company.” $1,100. London, 1895. Colonial issue. $2,000.

      CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes. Garden City, 1919. Dark-blue cloth. First issue, with the reading “credentials and apparently” in line 16 of page 5. In dust jacket. $750. Second issue (“credentials and who”), in dust jacket. $600. London (1919). In dust jacket. $500. Without dust jacket. $100.

      CONRAD, Joseph. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts. London (1913). Sage-green cloth. First issue, with “First published in 1913” on verso of integral title page, “Methven” on spine, and 32-page catalogue dated July 1913. $3,000. Second issue with “Methuen” on spine and no catalogue. $2,500. Third issue with “Methuen” on spine and “First published