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

1959. 2 vols. Half leather. In slipcase. One of 500 copies. $350.

      COX, Palmer. The Brownies Around the World. New York (1894). $450.

      COX, Palmer. The Brownies at Home. New York (1893). Pictorial boards. $550.

      COX, Palmer. The Brownies: Their Book. New York (1887). Green glazed pictorial boards. First issue, with DeVinne Press seal immediately below copyright notice. $750. Second issue, with seal about 2 1/2 inches from bottom of page. $500.

      COX, Palmer. Queer People with Wings and Stings and Their Kweer Kapers. Philadelphia (1888). Pictorial boards. $300.

      COX, Palmer. Squibs of California. Hartford, 1874. Author’s first book. $400.

      COX, Ross. Adventures on the Columbia River. London, 1831. 2 vols. $2,500. New York, 1832. $2,000.

      COX, Sandford C. Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley. Lafayette, Ind., 1860. $200.

      COX, William D. Boxing in Art and Literature. New York, 1935. $175.

      COXE, Daniel. A Description of the English Province of Carolana…. London, 1722. Folio size with folding map. $40,000. London, 1926. $25,000. London, 1927. $22,500. London, 1941. $20,000. All prices with folding map.

      COXE, George Harmon. Murder with Pictures. New York, 1935. Author’s first hardcover book. $1,000.

      COXE, John Redman. The American Dispensatory . . . Philadelphia, 1806. $600.

      COXE, Louis O. Uniform of Flesh. Princeton, 1947. Author’s first book (written with R. H. Chapman). Mimeographed sheets in stiff wraps. $450.

      COXE, William. Travels in Switzerland, And in the Country of the Grisons. London, 1789. 3 vols. $1,250.

      COXE, William. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark . . . London, 1784. 2 vols. 13 engraved plates, 7 maps (6 folding), and 4 folding city plans. $2,000. Later editions added volumes.

      COXE, William. A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees . . . Philadelphia, 1817. $600.

      COY, Owen C. Pictorial History of California. Berkeley (1915). 261 photographs. $750. Berkeley, 1925. $350. (There are 5 auction records from 1990’s which list 1915, while all current ABE listings list 1925 as “first.” ?)

      COYLE, Kathleen. Piccadilly. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $350. New York (1923). $350.

      COYNER, David H. The Lost Trappers. Cincinnati, 1847. $750. Cincinnati, 1850. Second edition. $250.

      COZZENS, Frederick S. See Haywarde, Richard.

      COZZENS, Frederick S. Acadia. New York, 1859. 2 plates. $200.

      COZZENS, James Gould. Cock Pit. New York, 1928. $450.

      COZZENS, James Gould. Confusion. Boston, 1924. Author’s first book. Gray-green cloth. Top edge red. $850.

      COZZENS, James Gould. Michael Scarlett. New York, 1925. $450.

      CRABBE, George. Tales of the Hall. London, 1819. 2 vols. $450.

      CRACKANTHORPE, Hubert. Wreckage. London, 1893. Author’s first book. With 16 pages of ads dated October 1892. $150.

      CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London, 1930. There were at least 221

      signed numbered copies (highest number we’ve seen). $3,500. Unsigned $600. (Assume they had dust jackets.)

      CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self. London, 1931. White cloth. One of 256 signed copies. With 8 plates and “A Plea for G.B.S.” Loosely inserted in wallet at end. In slipcase. $750. Trade edition. $200.

      CRAIG, Edward Gordon. Nothing or the Bookplate. London, 1924. One of 280 copies. $500. London (1931). $100.

      CRAIG, John R. Ranching with Lords and Commons. Toronto (1903). 17 plates. Pictorial cloth. $1,250.

      CRAIG, Maurice. Irish Bookbindings, 1600-1800. London, 1954. 58 plates, full-color frontispiece. $400.

      CRAIK, Dinah M. See The Adventures of a Brownie; The Fairy Book; John Halifax, Gentleman; The Ogilvies.

      CRAIS, Robert. Lullaby Town. New York (1992). $400.

      CRAIS, Robert. The Monkey’s Raincoat. New York (1987). Wraps. Author’s first book. $150. New York: Doubleday, 1993. First hardback. $200.

      CRAKES, Sylvester. Five Years a Captive Among the Black-Feet Indians. Columbus, Ohio, 1858. 6 plates. $2,250.

      CRAM, Ralph Adams. Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain. Boston, 1927. Full calf. One of 350 signed copies. $200.

      CRANCH, Christopher Pearse. Giant Hunting: or, Little Jacket’s Adventures. Boston, 1860. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $600.

      CRANCH, Christopher Pearse. The Last of the Huggermuggers. Boston, 1856. $500.

      CRANCH, Christopher Pearse. A Poem Delivered in the First Congregation Church . . . Boston, 1840. Author’s first book. Wraps. $450.

      CRANE, Hart. See A Pagan Anthology.

      CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. 3 photographs by Walker Evans. Stiff printed wraps. One of 200 copies (weighing 19 1/4 ounces). In glassine dust jacket. In silver slipcase. $4,500. Also, 25 advance copies not for sale, on thin paper and weighing 15 1/4 ounces. $7,500. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed. In glassine dust jacket and slipcase. $45,000. Also, 8 signed lettered copies on vellum. $75,000. New York (1930). $2,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1981. Folio. One of 2,000 copies signed by Richard Benson (photographer). $300.

      CRANE, Hart. The Collected Poems of Hart Crane. New York: Liveright Inc. Publishers (1933). Edited by Waldo Frank. Portrait frontispiece. Red cloth. $600. Second printing with imprint of “Liveright Publishing Corporation.” $150. Brown cloth. One of 50 copies “for presentation to the friends . . .” $850. London (1938). $350.

      CRANE, Hart. Two Letters. Brooklyn Heights, 1934. Leaflet, 4 pages. One of 50 copies. $3,000.

      CRANE, Hart. Voyages: Six Poems . . . New York, 1957. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Oblong, wraps in board folder. One of 975 copies. $450. One of 25 review copies. $1,000.

      CRANE, Hart. White Buildings. (New York), 1926. Author’s first book. Foreword by Allen Tate. First issue, with Tate’s first name misspelled “Allan.” $6,500. Second issue, with tipped-in title page, Tate’s name spelled correctly. $1,250. Paris, 1930. Wraps and dust jacket. (200 copies.) $1,250.

      CRANE, Stephen. See Smith, Johnston. See also The Lanthorn Book; Pike County Puzzle.

      CRANE, Stephen. Active Service. New York (1899). $300. London, 1899. $200.

      CRANE, Stephen. The Black Riders and Other Lines. Boston, 1895. Gray paper boards with first line of title on front cover indented one space to right has been presumed to be the first, but Pastore believes cream laid paper over yellow boards is the first. $1,000. [There are variants in pale-yellow paper over boards, pale-yellow cloth (no known copies), gray laid paper (assume the “other first”), light-gray paper over boards (one known copy), and publisher leather (Williams & Starrett call for black morocco). We would assume all the variants would be about the same value or perhaps a few hundred more, except the leather, which would be somewhat more.] Also, boards, paper label. One of 50 copies in white paper over boards and printed in green ink on Japan vellum. $4,000. One of 3 copies bound in white vellum. $6,000. One of 3 copies bound in full green levant. $6,000. (For further detail see Stephen R. Pastore’s bibliographical study of this title in Stephen Crane Studies vol. 6, no. 2, [Fall 1997].) London, 1896. 500 copies in black morocco. $1,000.

      CRANE, Stephen. George’s Mother. New York, 1896. $275. London, 1896. $250.

      CRANE, Stephen. Great Battles of the World. Philadelphia, 1901. Illustrated by John Sloan. $300. London, 1901. Pictorial cloth. $250. Plain cloth. $200.

      CRANE, Stephen. Last Words. London, 1902. Maroon cloth stamped in gold and blind. $1,000. Red, brown, blue, or green cloth stamped in black, presumed remainder bindings. $750.

      CRANE,