by the author. 2 issues, vellum and morocco. Each, 100 signed copies. In tissue dust jackets. In slipcase. $1,500 each. Trade. $100.
BECKETT, Samuel. The Lost Ones. London, 1972. Half vellum (or half leather). One of 100 signed copies. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade. $125. New York. $100. Stamford, 1984. One of 250 copies with etching, signed and numbered, by Charles Klabunde. In box. $4,000. One of 60 artist proof copies, signed and numbered (Roman numerals). $7,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. New York (1956). Translated by the author. Cream-colored canvas. One of 500 copies. In transparent dust jacket. $450. Wraps. $75. London, 1958. $350.
BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy. Paris (1951). Printed wraps. First edition (in French). One of 500 copies on Alfa paper. $500. One of 50 copies on vellum. $2,000. Paris: Olympia Press (1955). Wraps. First edition in English. $750. New York (1955). $400. Wraps. $45.
BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London, 1934. In dust jacket. $30,000. Without dust jacket. $6,000. London (1970). One of 100 signed copies. $2,000. Trade. $200. New York. $75.
BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London (1938). First binding. Estimated at 1250 to 1500 copies, with 782 to 882 in remainder. Green cloth. In dust jacket. $100,000. Without dust jacket. $7,500. Remainder bindings with and without dust jacket probably not too much cheaper. New York (1957). One of 100 signed copies. $2,500. Trade. $250.
BECKETT, Samuel. No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. (Series A.) $1,250. One of 100 signed copies. (Series B.) $1,350. In slipcases. Trade. $125.
BECKETT, Samuel. Poems in English. London (1961). Mottled tan leather-like cloth boards. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $150. New York (1963). $150.
BECKETT, Samuel. Proust. London, 1931. $750. New York (1957). Limited first American edition. One of 250 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $3,000. London, 1965. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $125.
BECKETT, Samuel. The Unnamable. New York: Grove Press (1958). Translated by the author. One of 26 lettered copies, signed. $7,500. One of 100 numbered copies. $450. Trade, hardbound. $300. Wraps. $50.
BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York (1954). Translated by the author. $3,500. London (1956). Publisher’s note tipped in. $1,250.
BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Olympia Press (1953). Printed wraps. One of 25 copies, lettered A to Y, on fine paper and signed by Beckett. $8,500. First trade edition. Wraps. $1,000. New York (1959). $300. One of 100 numbered copies signed. $500. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. Whoroscope. Paris, 1930. Hours Press. Author’s first separately published work. Stapled wraps, with white (separate) band around the book. One of 100 signed copies (of a total edition of 300). $12,500. One of 200 unsigned copies. $3,500.
BECKETT, Samuel, et al. Our Exagmination Round His Factifaction for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. Printed wraps. $1,000. One of 96 copies (large-paper) on verge d’Arches paper. $3,000. London, [1936]. $500. Norfolk, [1939]. $600. (Both later issues used the Paris sheets and were in cloth with dust jackets.)
BECKFORD, William. See Biographical Memoirs . . .
BEDE, Cuthbert. Photographic Pleasures, Popularly Portrayed with Pen & Pencil. London, 1855. Blue gilt-pictorial cloth. 24 black-and-white lithographs. $1,500.
BEEBE, Henry. The History of Peru. Peru, Ill., 1858. Leather. $500.
BEEBE, Lucius. Fallen Stars. Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. Author’s first book. 50 copies. $400. Boston, 1921. $200.
BEEBE, Lucius. François Villon . . . Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $350.
BEEBE, William. The Arcturus Adventure. New York, 1926. One of 50 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $650. First trade edition. $150.
BEEBE, William. Galápagos: World’s End. New York, 1924. One of 100 signed copies. Issued in glassine dust jacket. In folding box. $1,250. First trade edition. $250.
BEEBE, William. A Monograph of the Pheasants. London, 1918-22. 4 vols. 90 color plates, 20 maps, 87 photogravures. Folio, cloth. One of 600 copies. $6,500.
BEEBE, William. Pheasants: Their Lives and Homes. Garden City, 1926. 2 vols. 64 plates. Vellum. One of 201 copies on large paper, signed. $1,000. Trade edition. 2 vols. $500. Garden City, 1931. 2 vols. $375. Garden City, 1936. 2 vols. in 1. $150.
BEEBE, William. Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico. Boston, 1905. Author’s first book. First issue, Charles M. Beebe on cover. $2,500 (one known copy). Second issue, C. William Beebe on cover. $500. Third issue, gold sky background lacking. $100. Fourth issue, lacks pictorial design, just lettered. $75.
BEECHER, Edward. Narrative of the Riots at Alton. Alton, Ill., 1838. $400.
BEECHER, Harriet Elizabeth. Primary Geography for Children . . . Cincinnati, 1833. (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s first book), with C. Beecher. $3,000.
BEECHER, Harriet Elizabeth. Prize-Tale: A New England Sketch. Lowell, Mass., 1834. First separate book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In original plain wraps with cloth spine. $2,000. Rebound. $1,500.
BEECHER, Henry Ward. Norwood, or Village Life in New England. London, 1867. 3 vols. Green cloth. $650. New York, 1868. $125.
BEECHEY, F. W. An Account of a Visit to California. (San Francisco, 1941.) Grabhorn printing. Map, color plates. Half vellum. One of 350 copies. $225.
BEECHEY, F. W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait. London, 1831. 2 vols. 23 plates, 3 maps. Large-paper (4to) “Admiralty” issue. $10,000. 2 vols. Octavo edition. $4,000. Philadelphia, 1832. $4,500.
BEECHEY, F. W. A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole. London, 1843. Folding map, 6 plates. $5,000.
BEEDING, Francis. Death Walks in Eastrepps. New York, 1931. (By John Palmer and Hilary Saunders.) Their first book under this name. $350.
BEEDING, Francis. (By John Palmer and Hilary Saunders.) The Seven Sleepers. London, 1925. $150.
BEE-HUNTER (The); or, The Oak Openings. London, 1848. By the author of “The Pioneers” (James Fenimore Cooper). 3 vols. Drab boards. First edition. Published in America as The Oak Openings). $1,500. Rebound. $600.
BEER, Thomas. The Mauve Decade. New York, 1926. One of 165 signed copies. In slipcase. $150. One of 15 signed copies. $350. Trade. $75.
BEERBOHM, Max. See H.M.B.
BEERBOHM, Max. A Book of Caricatures. London (1907). Frontispiece in color, 48 drawings. $550.
BEERBOHM, Max. Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. London (1896). 25 plates. First issue with “Leonard/Smithers” on spine. $1,000. Second issue adds “& Co.” $600.
BEERBOHM, Max. Cartoons: “The Second Childhood of John Bull.” London [1911], although states that they were drawn in 1901. 15 full-page tinted plates. $400. Second issue. Plates in cloth folder. $300.
BEERBOHM, Max. Fifty Caricatures. London, 1913. $250.
BEERBOHM, Max. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men. New York, 1897. Printed green wraps. Period on cover, after Bodley Booklets No. 1, colophon dated December 1896. $275.
BEERBOHM, Max. Leaves from the Garland. New York, 1926. One of 72 copies. $600.
BEERBOHM, Max. Rossetti and His Circle. London (1922). 23 colored caricatures. One of 380 signed copies. In dust jacket. $900. Trade edition. $400.
BEERBOHM, Max. A Survey. London, 1921. 52 plates, including colored frontispiece. Purple cloth. One of 275 signed copies. In dust jacket. $700. Trade edition. $250. New York, 1921. $300.
BEERBOHM, Max. Things New and Old. London, 1923. Colored frontispiece, 49 other plates. White buckram. One of 380 copies signed and with extra signed plate. $850. Trade edition. $450. Oxford, 1975. One of 750 copies. $250.
BEERBOHM, Max. The Works of Max Beerbohm. New York, 1896. (1,000, of which 400 copies were reportedly pulped.) $375. London, 1896.