Westerner” and notes authorship as being attributed to Robert Dale Owen.
BION and MOSCHUS. Poems. Bristol, 1794. (By Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, their first book.) $3,000.
BIRD, Bessie Calhoun. Airs from the Wood Winds. Philadelphia (1935). Author’s only book. One of 25 signed, lettered copies, $1,500. One of 300 copies, $600.
BIRD, Isabella. See The Englishwoman in America.
BIRD, Robert Montgomery. See The Adventures of Robin Day; Calavar; The Infidel; Nick-of-the-Woods; Peter Pilgrim; Sheppard Lee.
BIRD, William. A Practical Guide to French Wine. Paris, no date [1922?]. Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.
Bird & Bull Commonplace Book ( The). North Hills, 1971. One of 255 copies. Envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. In slipcase. $500.
Bird & Bull Number 13. North Hills, 1972. One of 140 copies. First Bird & Bull publication to use paste paper for the cover. $600.
BIRKBECK, Morris. See An Impartial Appeal.
BIRKBECK, Morris. An Appeal to the People of Illinois, on the Question of a Convention. Shawneetown, 1823. 25 pages. (Howes B 465.) $2,500.
BIRKBECK, Morris. Extracts from a Supplementary Letter from the Illinois. New York, 1819. 29 pages. First edition. $2,500.
BIRKBECK, Morris. Letters from Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. 2 folding maps. Boards and calf. $950.
BIRKBECK, Morris. Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. Philadelphia, 1818. $600. London, 1818. Map. $2,000. (Map in auction copies not noted in Howes.)
BIRNEY, Earle. See Robertson, E.
BIRNEY, Earle. David . . . Toronto, 1942. (500 copies.) $300.
BIRNEY, Earle. Now Is Time. Toronto (1945). $175.
BISHOP, Elizabeth. North & South. Boston, 1946. Author’s first book. $1,500.
BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poem. New York, 1973. One of 26 signed copies. $2,250. One of 100 signed copies. $1,750.
BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1956. $500.
BISHOP, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860. Philadelphia, 1864. 2 vols. $750.
BISHOP, John Peale. Act of Darkness. New York, 1935. Author’s first and only novel. $150.
BISHOP, John Peale. Green Fruit. Boston, 1917. Author’s first book. Boards and cloth. $200.
BISHOP, John Peale. Minute Particulars. New York, 1935. Wraps. One of 165 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket. $200.
BISHOP, John Peale, and WILSON, Edmund. The Undertaker’s Garland. New York, 1922. Wilson’s first book and Bishop’s second. In dust jacket. $400. Boards. One of 50 copies for “bookseller friends.” Issued without dust jacket. $250.
BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Birds: Etchings of Waterfowl and Upland Game Birds. Philadelphia, 1936. 73 reproductions. One of 1,050 copies. $350. One of 135 signed copies, with signed Bishop etching tipped in. $750.
BISHOP, Richard E. Bishop’s Wildfowl . . . Etchings and Oil Painting Reproductions. (St. Paul), 1948. Text by E. Prestrud and R. Williams. Color plates. Full calf. $300.
BISHOP, Zealia. The Curse of Yig. Sauk City, Wis., 1953. Arkham House. $200.
BISLAND, Elizabeth (editor). The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn. Boston, 1906. 2 vols. One of 200 copies with a page of an original manuscript by Hearn. $2,500. Trade. $300.
BISSET, Robert. Douglas; or, the Highlander. Anti-Jacobin Press, 1800. 4 vols. Half titles in vols. 3 and 4 (no others called for). $4,500.
BITTING, Katherine. Gastronomic Bibliography. San Francisco, 1939. $450.
BLACK, Campbell. Assassins and Victims. (London, 1969.) $100.
BLACK, E. L. Why Do They Like it . . . (Dijon, 1927.) (By Sir John Ellerman.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $500.
BLACK, Mansell. Sinister Cargo. London, 1951. (By Elleston Trevor.) Author’s first book. $750.
BLACKBIRD, Andrew J. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. Ypsilanti, Mich., 1887. $750.
BLACKBURN, Henry. Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career. London, 1886. $300.
BLACKBURN, John. A Scent of New-Mown Hay. London, 1958. $500. New York, 1958. $75.
BLACKBURN, Paul. The Dissolving Fabric. Divers Press. (Mallorca) 1955. Author’s first book of poetry. Wraps. $300.
BLACKBURN, Paul. Proensa. (Majorca) 1953. Author’s first book. (Translation.) $300.
BLACKER, William. Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly-Making. London, 1842. $6,000.
BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge. See Melanter.
BLACKMORE, Richard D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London, 1869. 3 vols. Blue cloth. $3,000.
BLACKMORE, William. Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration; With an Account of the Trenchara and Costilla Estates . . . London, 1869. 3 folding maps and mounted frontispiece portrait of author. $2,500.
BLACKMUR, R. P. Dirty Hands or The True Born Censor. Cambridge, 1930. Wraps. $150.
BLACKMUR, R. P. From Jordan’s Delight. New York, 1937. $150.
BLACKMUR, R. P. The Good European . . . Cummington, Mass., 1947. Cloth, paper label. Issued without dust jacket. One of 40 signed copies. $600.
BLACKMUR, R. P. T. S. Eliot. (Cambridge, Mass.), 1928. Author’s first book. Wraps. Offprint from “Hound & Horn.” $250.
BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. 4 vols., including 8-page “supplement to the first edition.” $22,500. Oxford, 1773. 4 vols. $3,750. London, 1803. 4 vols. $3,500.
BLACKWATER Chronicle . . . (The). New York, 1853. (By the Clerke of Oxenforde.) Written and illustrated by Dard Hunter Strother. Sometimes attributed to John Kennedy Pendleton. Frontispiece, engraved title page. $400.
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal. (London) 1737-39. 2 vols. Containing 500 hand-colored engraved plates. $40,000. London, 1739. Second edition. 2 vols. $7,500.
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. The Laws of Life . . . New York, 1852. Author’s first book. (America’s first female doctor.) $15,000.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London, 1906. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1917. $375.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Fruit Stoners. New York, 1935. $150.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Jimbo: A Fantasy. London, 1909. $850.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Listener and Other Stories. London, 1907. $1,000.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Shocks. New York (1936). $300.
BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books. London, 1880. In vellum wraps. $200.
BLADES, William. The Life And Typography of William Caxton . . . London, 1861-63. 2 vols. $550.
BLAIR, Robert. The Grave: A Poem. London, 1808. Folio. Portrait after T. Phillips. Engraved title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after designs by Blake. $8,000. Quarto. $3,000. London, 1813. Folio. $7,500. Quarto. $1,750.
BLAKE, Alexander V. The American Bookseller’s Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country . . . Claremont, N.H., 1847. $600.
BLAKE, Nicholas. The Beast Must Die. London (1938). (By C. Day-Lewis.) $1,500.
BLAKE, Nicholas. A Question of Proof. London, 1935. (By C. Day-Lewis.) (First book under this name.) $2,000.
BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Honolulu, 1935. Author’s first book and the first book on surfing. Issued without dust jacket. $5,000.