Alois. The Discovery of the Natural Printing Process. Wien, 1854. 75 pages and 19 plates (one is double-page) in folio. $4,000.
AUGUSTINE, Saint. Of the Citie of God. With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J[ohn] H[ealy]. (London) 1610. Folio. With index and errata (often lacking). $8,500. London, 1620. Second edition. Folio. $3,000.
AUGUSTINE, Saint. The Confessions of Saint Augustine. London, 1620. First English translation by Tobie Matthew. $60,000. London, 1631. William Watt’s translation. $7,500.
AUSCHER, Ernest Simon. A History and Description of French Porcelain. London, 1905. 24 plates in color. $200.
AUSTEN, Jane. See also Elizabeth Bennet; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility.
AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion. By Miss Austen. Philadelphia, 1832. 2 vols. First separate edition. Purple quarter cloth. $15,000. Rebound. $7,500.
AUSTEN, Ralph. A Treatise of Fruit-Trees Shewing the Manner of Grafting . . . Oxford, 1653. $3,500. Second edition, adds new experiments and observations. $1,250.
AUSTER, Paul. See also Paul Benjamin.
AUSTER, Paul. Autobiography of the Eye. (Portland, 1993). Photographic frontispiece by Karin Welch tipped-in, original string-tied French-fold unprinted wrappers, printed paper label, publisher’s envelope. One of 35 copies. $750.
AUSTER, Paul. City of Glass. Los Angeles, 1985. One of 26 copies. $3,000. Trade without publisher’s device on spine of dust jacket. $1,750. Device tipped on. $1,250. Reprinted with device on spine. $750.
AUSTER, Paul. Ghosts. Los Angeles, 1986. One of 26 copies. $1,250. Trade. $250.
AUSTER, Paul. The Locked Room. Los Angeles, 1986. One of 26 copies. $1,000. Retains colophon page but not lettered or signed. $300.
AUSTER, Paul. Fits and Starts. (Salisbury,1973). Poems by Jacques Dupin, translated by Auster. 100 copies signed by both and with an original signed lithograph frontispiece by Alexander Calder. Author’s first book. $1,750. (Weston,Conn., 1974). 1,000 copies in wraps. $100.
AUSTER, Paul. New York Trilogy. Los Angeles, 1994. One of 200 copies. $750. Trade. $125.
AUSTER, Paul. Unearthed. (Weston, Conn., 1974). Wraps. $350.
AUSTIN, Jane Goodwin. Fairy Dreams . . . Boston (1859). Author’s first book. $150.
AUSTIN, Mary. See aslo Adams, Ansel.
AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, 1903. Author’s first book. $500. Boston, 1950. Illustrated by Ansel Adams. $350.
AUSTIN, Mary. California, The Land of the Sun. London, 1914. Illustrated by Sutton Palmer. $300.
AUSTIN, Mary. The Lands of the Sun. Boston, 1927. New title, illustrated by E. boyd Smith. $350.
AUSTIN, Mary, and MARTIN, Ann. Suffrage and Government. New York, 1914. Printed wraps. $500.
AUTHENTIC Narrative of the Seminole War (An), and of the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and Her Four Female Children. Providence, R.I., 1836. Folding frontispiece in color, 24 pages, plain wraps. $22,500. New York, 1836. $17,500.
AUTHORSHIP of the Imprecatory Psalms. Boston (1852). (By Thomas Bulfinch.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,500.
AUTHORS Take Sides on the Spanish War. London: Left Review (1937). Wraps. $400.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an Ex-Colored Man (The). Boston, 1912. (By James Weldon Johnson.) Author’s first book. $4.500. First Knopf edition issued under his name, with a new introduction by Carl van Vechten, New York, 1927. $1,000.
AUTOCRAT of the Breakfast Table (The). Boston, 1858. (By Oliver Wendell Holmes.) With engraved half title, with period after word “Company” on title page, and with left endpaper at back headed “Poetry and the Drama” and right “School Books.” $1,000. Boston, 1859. Illustrated. Large-paper edition. $1,750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1955. $75.
AVEDON, Richard (photographer). See also Baldwin, James.
AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York (1993). One of 250 signed copies with a print of Marilyn Monroe laid in. Folio. 284 full-page plates in black and white. Not paginated. White cloth with paste-down portrait of Avedon on rear board. $1,750. Trade edition in dust jacket and box. $300.
AVEDON, Richard. Avedon Photographs 1947-1977. (New York, 1978.) In printed acetate dust jacket. $450.
AVEDON, Richard (photographer). Observations. New York, 1959. Text by Truman Capote. Acetate dust jacket, in slipcase. Avedon’s first book. $750. London, 1959. Also in acetate dust jacket and slipcase. $600.
AVERY, Milton. Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960. New York/London (1962). Full black oasis morocco, handbound, gilt, in cloth slipcase. Deluxe edition, one of 90 specially bound copies containing a loosely inserted original signed and numbered engraving by Avery. $6,000. Trade edition. $350.
AVIRETT, James B. The Memoirs of Gen. Turner Ashby and His Compeers. Baltimore, 1867. Portrait. Cloth. $500.
AWAHSOOSE the Bear. Forest and Stream Fables. (By Rowland Evans Robinson.) New York (1886). Author’s first book. Wraps. $1,250.
AXELROD, George. Beggar’s Choice. New York, 1947. Author’s first book. $350.
AXTON, David. Prison of Ice. Philadelphia (1976). (By Dean Koontz.) $450. London, 1976. $350.
AYDY, Catherine. The Colour of Rain. London, 1964. (By Emma Tennant, her first book.) $450.
AYESHA, The Maid of Mars. London, 1834. By the Author of “Zohrab” . . . (By James Morier.) 3 vols. $2,000.
AYRTON, Michael. Gilles de Rais. London (1945). (By Cecil Gray.) First book illustrated by Ayrton. Stiff wraps and dust jacket. One of 200 signed copies. $400.
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B., E. B. Sonnets. Reading, England, 1847 (actually 1890). By E.B.B. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 47 pages, without wraps. Thomas J. Wise’s forgery of “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” which actually appeared first in the second edition of Poems, 1850. $4,000.
B., F. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu EI-Yezdi. London (1880). Translated and annotated by his friend and pupil, F. B. (Sir Richard Burton). Yellow wraps. First issue, without Quaritch imprint. $6,000.
B., H. The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts. Oxford (1896). (By Hilaire Belloc.) Pictorial boards. $200.
B., H. M. Carmen Becceriense . . . (Surrey, 1890.) (By Max Beerbohm.) Author’s first book. 4 pages, Latin with notes in English. 2 known copies. $7,500.
B., J. K. The Lorgnette. By J.K.B. New York (1886). (By John Kendrick Bangs.) Author’s first book. $325.
B., M. Damozel Blanche. (Eton, 1891.) (By Maurice Baring.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $350.
BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London, 1832. $3,000.
BABBIT, E. D. The Principles of Light and Color. New York, 1878. $1,000.
BABBITT, E. L. The Allegheny Pilot. Freeport, Pa., 1855. 16 maps. 64 pages, wraps. $1,250.
BABCOCK, Rufus. Forty Years of Pioneer Life: Memoir of John Mason Peck. Philadelphia, 1864. $150.
BABEL, Isaac. Red Calvary. New York, 1929. $1,750.
BACA, Jimmy Santiago. Jimmy Santiago Baca. No place [Santa Barbara] (1978). $125.
BACH, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. (New York, 1970.) $350.
BACHELLER, Irving. The Master of Silence. New York, 1892. Author’s first book. $150.
BACK, Sir George. Narrative of the Arctic Land . . . London, 1836. Folding map and 16 plates. $2,750.
BACKHOUSE, Janet. The Madresfield Hours. London: Roxburghe Club, 1975. $500.
BACON,