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

Taos Pueblo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Written with Mary Austin. Adam’s first book. One of 108 copies signed by both. Folio. $60,000. Boston, 1977. One of 950 facsimile copies signed by Adams. $2,500.

      ADAMS, Charles F., Jr., and ADAMS, Henry. Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays. Boston, 1871. $350.

      ADAMS, Charles Francis. Railroad Legislation. Boston, 1868. Author’s first book. Wraps. $350.

      ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Author’s first book. London, 1979. $1,000. New York (1980) $500.

      ADAMS, Edward C. L. Congaree Sketches . . . Chapel Hill, 1927. Author’s first book. One of 200 signed copies. $250. Trade edition. $150.

      ADAMS, Franklin P. In Cupids Court. Evanston, 1902. Author’s first book. $200.

      ADAMS, Frederick Upham. President John Smith… Chicago, 1897. Wraps. $300.

      ADAMS, Hannah. An Alphabetical Compendium . . . Boston, 1784. $1,000.

      ADAMS, Hannah. A Summary History of New England . . . Dedham (1799). $250.

      ADAMS, Harold. Murder. New York (1981). Author’s first book. Ace Charter 54706. Wraps. $50.

      ADAMS, Henry. See Adams, Charles F., Jr. See also Democracy; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.

      ADAMS, Henry. Civil Service Reform. Boston, 1869. Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,500.

      ADAMS,Henry. Chapters of Erie. Boston, 1871. Written with Charles F. Adams. $200.

      ADAMS, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Washington, 1907. Blue cloth, leather spine label. One of 100 copies. $17,500. Boston, 1918. Revised and edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. First trade edition. In dust jacket. $750. Without. $100. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942. Etchings by Samuel Chamberlain. In slipcase. $125.

      ADAMS, Henry. A Letter to American Teachers of History. Washington, 1910. $250.

      ADAMS, Herbert. The Secret of Bogey House. London, 1924. Author’s first mystery. $750. New York, 1925. $450.

      ADAMS, J. C. Life of J. C. Adams. (Cover title.) (New York, 1860.) 29 pages, printed wraps. $2,000. Lacking covers, and with caption title only: The Hair-Breadth Escapes and Adventures of “Grizzly Adams.” $1,500.

      ADAMS, James Truslow. Memorials of Old Bridgehampton. 1916. Author’s first book. $300.

      ADAMS, Jane. The Greenway. London (1995). Author’s first mystery. $100.

      ADAMS, John Quincy. Letters on Silesia. London, 1804. Author’s first book. Folding map. $500.

      ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Washington, 1835. Original wraps. $250. One of a few on thick paper, specially bound in morocco. $1,000.

      ADAMS, Leonie. High Falcon and Other Poems. New York (1929). First binding in cloth and boards. $200. Second binding in brown cloth. $150.

      ADAMS, Leonie. Those Not Elect. New York, 1925. Author’s first book. One of 10 signed copies. $600. Trade. $250.

      ADAMS, Ramon F., and BRITZMAN, Homer E. Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Biography. With Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Bibliography. By Karl Yost with a note by Homer E. Britzman and Frederic G. Renner. Pasadena (1948). 2 vols. In slipcase. (1,600 copies.) $400.

      ADAMS, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston, 1936. Author’s first book. $200.

      ADAMS, Ramon F. The Rampaging Herd. Norman, Okla., 1959. $150.

      ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London, 1972. Author’s first book. (2,500 copies). $3,000. New York (1972) [1974]. 1972 copyright date, but review copy gives publication date of March 18, 1974. $300. London, 1976. One of 250 numbered copies illustrated by John Lawrence, and signed by him and Adams. Bound in morocco, in slipcase. $2,500. One of 10 of the 250 with fore-edge painting by Lawrence. $7,500. One of about 30 of the 250 with original painting on front end paper signed by Lawrence. $3,000.

      ADAMS, Robert. The New West. (Boulder): 1974. $1,250.

      ADAMS, Thomas. Typographia: Or the Printer’s Instructor . . . Philadelphia, 1837. $850. Later editions with numerous emendations and additions are in the $200 to $300 range.

      ADAMS, Will. Errata: or, The Works of Will Adams. New York, 1823. (By John Neal.) 2 vols. $350.

      ADAMS, William Taylor. See Ashton, Warren T.; Optic, Oliver.

      ADDAMS, Charles. Drawn and Quartered. New York, 1942. Author’s first book. $500.

      ADDISON, Lancelot. The Present State of the Jews. London, 1675. $2,500.

      ADDISON, Lancelot. West Barbary . . . Oxford, 1671. Title page, dedication, preface and an index of Moorish words. $2,500.

      ADE, George. Artie. Chicago, 1896. Author’s first regularly published book. Cloth. $150.

      ADE, George. Circus Day. Chicago, 1896. Author’s first book. (5 previous anonymous offprints from Chicago quarterly.) $750.

      ADE, George. One Afternoon with Mark Twain. (Chicago) 1939. One of 350 copies. Stiff wraps. $175.

      ADE, George. Revived Remarks on Mark Twain. Chicago, 1936. 36 pages, wraps. One of 500 signed copies. $200. Also, one of 500 copies unsigned. $100.

      ADE, George. Stories of the Streets and of the Towns. Chicago, 1894. (Offprint from Chicago Record). Author’s first book. $1,000.

      ADE, George. The Strenuous Lad’s Library. Phoenix, 1903-4. 3 vols. Wraps. $1,500.

      ADELER, Max. Out of the Hurly-Burly. Illustrated by A. B. Frost and others. Philadelphia, 1874. (By Charles Heber Clark.) Author’s first book and first book illustrated by Frost. Decorated cloth. $150.

      ADVENTURES of a Brownie (The), as Told to My Child. London, 1872. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” (Dinah M. Craik.) $1,500. New York, 1872. $600.

      ADVENTURES of a Post Captain . . . (The). London (1817). By a Naval Officer (Alfred Thornton.) Engraved title and 24 colored plates. First issue printed by J. and T. Agg. $1,000. Second issue printed by W. Lewis. $750. Another issue by J. Johnson. $450.

      ADVENTURES of a Younger Son (The). London, 1831. (By Edward John Trelawny.) 3 vols. Author’s first book. $1,250.

      ADVENTURES of David Simple (The). London, 1744. (By Sarah Fielding.) 2 vols. Author’s first book. $1,500. Second edition, revised and corrected. $750.

      ADVENTURES of Harry Franco (The). New York, 1839. (By Charles Frederick Briggs.) 2 vols. Author’s first book. $450.

      ADVENTURES of Hunters and Travellers, and Narratives of Border Warfare. Philadelphia, 1852. By “An Old Hunter.” $150.

      ADVENTURES of Peregrine Pickle (The). (London, 1751.) (By Tobias Smollett.) 4 vols. Blank leaf at end of volumes 2 and 3. $2,000. Limited Editions Club, Oxford, 1935. 2 vols. In dust jacket and slipcase. $200.

      ADVENTURES of Robin Day (The). Philadelphia, 1839. (By Robert Montgomery Bird.) 2 vols. $1,500.

      ADVENTURES of Roderick Random (The). London, 1748. (By Tobias Smollett.) London, 1748. Author’s fourth book. 2 volumes. $3,000. (Three rare volumes precede, The Tears of Scotland. Edinburg 1746? Advice: A Satire. London, 1746. and Reproof: A Satir. London, 1747.)

      ADVENTURES of Timothy Peacock, Esquire (The). Middlebury, Vt., 1835. By a Member of the Vermont Bar. (By Daniel Pierce Thompson.) Author’s first novel. $1,000.

      ADVENTURES of Ulysses (The). London, 1808. (By Charles Lamb.) Frontispiece, engraved title page. $750.

      AESCHYLUS. Agamemnon: A Tragedy. (London, 1865.) Translated by Edward FitzGerald. Wraps. $750. London, 1876. Half leather. One of 250 copies. $300.

      AESOP. Fables. [Note: Auction price records for the past 20 years show that the earliest editions to have appeared on the market were from 1479 (which sold in 1993 for $19,240) and 1485 (with