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

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      ALI, Ahmed. The Land of Twilight. Lucknow (India), (1937). Author’s first book. Published in English. Printed wraps. $2,500.

      ALI, Ahmed. Twilight in Delhi. London, 1940. First English translation. Reportedly most destroyed during bombing. $5,000.

      ALISON, Archibald. Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste. Edinburgh, 1790. $2,250.

      ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London, 1820 (-21). 50 colored plates. Folio. First issue, with engraved 1820 title page and with watermarks dated 1816 and 1818. $60,000. London, 1821. Second issue, without 1820 title page. $50,000. London, 1823. $20,000. London, 1825. First octavo edition. $7,500.

      ALKEN, Henry. Scraps from the Sketch-Books of Henry Alken. London, 1821. 42 colored plates. $3,500. London, 1822. $2,000.

      ALLAHAKBARRIE Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899. (London, 1899.) (By Sir James M. Barrie.) Japanese vellum wraps. One of 520 copies. $12,500.

      ALLAN, J. T. (compiler). Central and Western Nebraska, and the Experiences of Its Stock Growers. (Cover title.) Omaha, 1883. 16 pages, pictorial wraps. (Note: A Union Pacific Land Department pamphlet.) $750.

      ALLAN, J. T. (compiler). Western Nebraska and the Experiences of Its Actual Settlers. Omaha, 1882. 16 pages, wraps. $750.

      ALLBEURY, Ted. A Choice of Enemies. New York, 1972. Author’s first book. $200. London (1973). $150.

      ALLEN, Miss A. J. (compiler). Ten Years in Oregon. Ithaca, N.Y., 1848. Portrait. $350. Second issue, same date, portrait omitted, pages added to included Frémont extracts. $250. Ithaca, 1850. $150.

      ALLEN, Gracie. How To Become President. New York (1940). $150.

      ALLEN, Grant. An African Millionaire. London, 1897. Pictorial binding. $750.

      ALLEN, Grant. The Great Taboo. London, 1890. $350. New York, 1891. $250.

      ALLEN, Grant. Physiological Aesthetics. London, 1877. Author’s first book. $500. New York, 1877. $300.

      ALLEN, Harriss Stearns. The Trail of Beauty. San Francisco, 1940 First book of the Allen Press. 100 signed copies. $1,500.

      ALLEN, Hervey. Anthony Adverse. New York, 1933. With publisher’s monogram on copyright page and with numerous typographical errors, among them “Xaxier” for “Xavier” in line 6 of page 352, “ship” for “shop” in line 18 of page 1086, and the word “found” repeated in line 22 of page 397. $175. Deluxe issue: 3 vols. One of 105 signed copies. $1,500. New York, 1934. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. 2 volumes in slipcase. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937. 3 vols. Orange cloth. In slipcase. $200.

      ALLEN, (William) Hervey. Ballads of the Border. (El Paso), 1916. Author’s first book. Author’s name misspelled “Hervy” on copyright page. Printed wraps. $500.

      ALLEN, Hervey. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. New York, 1926. 2 vols. First state, with wineglass on table in Longfellow portrait facing page 529. $200. Deluxe issue: three-quarter leather. One of 250 copies. In dust jacket and slipcase. $450.

      ALLEN, Hervey. Wampum and Old Gold. New Haven, 1921. Stiff wraps. One of 500 copies. $125.

      ALLEN, Ira. The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont. London, 1798. Folding map. $2,500.

      ALLEN, Ira. Particulars of the Capture of the American Ship, Olive Branch. (Philadelphia, 1804.) $1,500.

      ALLEN, J. A. Notes on the Natural History of Portions of Montana and Dakota. Boston, 1874. 61 pages, wraps. $1,000.

      ALLEN, James Lane. Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales. New York, 1891. Author’s first book. First issue: sheets bulk 1 1/6. inches. $75. Second issue: sheets bulk 15/16” $50. Also variant 11/16” $40.

      ALLEN, John Fisk. Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. Boston, 1854. 6 chromolithographed plates by William Sharp. Elephant folio. In boards or wraps. $60,000.

      ALLEN, Lewis M. Printing with the Handpress. Kentfield, 1969. One of 140 copies. $2,000. New York [1971]. $150.

      ALLEN, Paula Gunn. The Blind Lion. (Berkeley, 1974). Author’s first book. In stapled wraps. $400.

      ALLEN, Phoebe. Gilmory. London, 1876. 3 vols. Author’s first book. $1,250.

      ALLEN, Samuel. See Vesey, Paul.

      ALLEN, William A. Adventures with Indians and Game. Chicago, 1903. 25 plates. Cloth, or half leather. $400.

      ALLEN, Woody. (Allen Stewart Konigsberg). Don’t Drink the Water. New York: French 1967. Author’s first book. Wraps. $100. New York: Random House (1967). $500.

      ALLEN, Woody. (Allen Stewart Konigsberg). Play It Again, Sam. New York: French (1969). Yellow wraps. $100. Random House. NY (1969). Issued in dust jacket priced $4.50 and with “10/67” at bottom corner of front flap. $450.

      ALLENDE, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. New York, 1985. Author’s first book. $150. London, 1985. $100.

      ALLIES’ Fairy Book (The). London (1916). 12 colored plates, other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Buckram. One of 525 copies signed by the artist. $2,250. Trade edition. Blue cloth. First issue, with pictorial endpapers. $600.

      ALLINGHAM, Margery. Black’er Chief Dick. London, 1923. Author’s first book. $3,000. Garden City, 1923. $1,500.

      ALLINGHAM, Margery. The Fashion in Shrouds. London, 1938. $2,500. New York, 1938. $750.

      ALLINGHAM, Margery. Mr. Campion: Criminologist. New York: Crime Club, 1937. $1,250. London (1939). $2,500.

      ALLINGHAM, William. Poems. London, 1850. Author’s first book. $350.

      ALLINGHAM, William. Sixteen Poems. Dundrum, Ireland: 1905. Selected by William Butler Yeats. Boards and linen. One of 200. $500.

      ALLISON, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York, 1992. $200.

      ALLISON, Dorothy. The Women Who Hate Me. Brooklyn, 1983. Wraps. $200. The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990. Ithaca, 1991. Expanded version. Cloth. $75. Wraps. $50.

      ALLISON, William. The British Thoroughbred Horse. London, 1901. $350. London, 1907. Second edition. $250.

      ALLOTT, Kenneth. Poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1938. $125.

      ALLSTON, Washington. Outlines and Sketches. Boston, 1850. 18 plates. $750.

      ALNWICK Castle, with Other Poems. New York, 1827. (By FitzGreene Halleck.) Printed tan wraps bound in. $350.

      ALPHA and Omega. Blight, the Tragedy of Dublin. Dublin, 1917. (By Oliver St. John Gogarty.) Written with Joseph O’Connor. $500.

      ALTER, J. Cecil. James Bridger: Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide. Salt Lake City (1925). 18 plates. One of 1,000 signed copies. $350.

      ALTOWAN; Or Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains. New York, 1846. By an Amateur Traveller. Edited by J. Watson Webb. (By Sir William Drummond Stewart.) Howes states this was “probably actually written by Webb.” 2 vols. Cloth. $3,000.

      ALTSHELER, Joseph Alexander. The Hidden Mine. New York, 1896. Author’s first book. $750.

      ALTSHELER, Joseph Alexander. The Sun of Saratoga. New York, 1897. $350.

      ÁLVAREZ, A. (Poems). Oxford, 1952. Author’s first book. Fantasy Poets. Wraps. $125.

      ALVAREZ, Julia. Homecoming. New York, 1984. Author’s first book. $350.

      ALVAREZ, Julia. Seven Trees. North Andover, 1998. Illustrated by Sara Eichner. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator, in slipcase. $1,750.

      ALVORD, Clarence W. The Mississippi Valley in British Politics… Cleveland, 1917. 2 vols. Illustrated with colored maps. In original cloth. $400.

      AMADI, Elechi. The Concubine. London (1966). $150.

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