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

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СКАЧАТЬ 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 prices in 1988 of $121,550 and $168,000.)] London, 1651. Translated by John Ogilby. Frontispiece of Aesop among the animals and 80 engraved full-page plates. $7,500. London, 1793. 2 vols. 112 plates. $2,000. London, 1912. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones translation. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1,450 copies signed by Rackham. $2,500. Trade. $500. New York (1931). Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange, with 50 drawings by Alexander Calder. One of 50 copies with an original signed ink drawing by Calder. $10,000. One of 495 copies in dust jacket and slipcase. $1,250. London, 1936. Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Vellum. One of 525 copies signed by Gooden. In slipcase. $1,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1933. Translated by Samuel Croxall. Illustrated by Bruce Rogers. Boards and vellum. In slipcase. $450.

      AGASSIZ, Louis. Journey in Brazil. Boston, 1868. $600.

      AGASSIZ, Louis. Lake Superior. Boston, 1850. 16 plates. $650.

      AGATE, James. L. of C. (Lines of Communication). London, 1917. Author’s first book. $125.

      AGATE, James. A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate. London (1945). 2 vols. Half morocco. One of 100 signed copies. $150.

      AGEE, G. W. Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws. (Cincinnati, 1890.) 194 pages, wraps. $500. Chicago, 1890. Presumed later per Howes. $150.

      AGEE, James. See also Walker Evans Many are Called, Levitt, Helen Way of Seeing

      AGEE, James. A Death in the Family. New York (1957). Blue cloth. First issue, with title page printed in blue, “walking” for “waking” on page 80. $500. Second issue, “waking.” $250. London, 1958. $150.

      AGEE, James. Four Early Stories. West Branch, Iowa, 1964. One of 285 copies. In handmade paper dust jacket. $300.

      AGEE, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston, 1941. Walker Evans photographs. $6,000. Boston (1960). Revised with additional photos and foreword by Evans. $300. London, 1965. $150.

      AGEE, James. The Morning Watch. Rome, 1950. Wraps. (Offprint from Botteghe Oscure.) $1,000. Boston, 1951. $300. London, 1952. $200.

      AGEE, James. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven, 1934. Author’s first book. $1,000.

      Age of Bronze (The). London, 1823. (By George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.) $450.

      AGNER, Dwight. The Books of WAD: A Bibliography of the Books Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Baton Rouge, 1974. 206 copies in total. One of 190 in cloth and boards. $250. One of 16 copies on large-paper copies in half morocco. $750.

      AGNES De Castro. London, 1696. (By Catherine Trotter Cockburn.) Author’s first book. $750.

      AGRICOLA, Georgius. See Hoover, Herbert C., and Henry, Lou.

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