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Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values


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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.

      AI (Florence Ogawa). Cruelty. Boston, 1973. Author’s first book. $125.

      AICKMAN, Robert. Dark Entries. London, 1964. Author’s first solo book. $750.

      AICKMAN, Robert. Powers of Darkness. London, 1966. $600.

      AICKMAN, Robert. We Are for the Dark. London, 1951. Author’s first book. Written with Elizabeth Jane Howard. $850.

      AIKEN, Conrad. Blue Voyage. London, 1927. $200. New York, 1927. One of 125 signed copies in slipcase. $400. Trade edition. $150.

      AIKEN, Conrad. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones. New York, 1931. Bluish-green cloth unfaded. With Scribner “A” on copyright page and “THE MUSIC” in capital letters on page 37. $250. With “The music.” $200.

      AIKEN, Conrad. Costumes by Eros. New York, 1928. $200.

      AIKEN, Conrad. Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse. New York, 1914. Author’s first book. $150.

      AIKEN, Conrad. A Heart for the Gods of Mexico. London, 1939. 1,000 copies. $750. New York, 1964. $100.

      AIKEN, Conrad. The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony. Boston, 1916. Possible first issue with “r” missing in “warm” on page 117 line 1. In dust jacket. $250.

      AIKEN, Conrad. King Coffin. New York, 1935. Vivid-greenish cloth, lettered in purple-blue. One of few copies. $450. Grayish purple-blue, stamped in gold on spine. $200.

      AIKEN, Conrad. Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse. Boston, 1916. Wraps over boards. $250. London, 1916. Wraps using American sheets. $200.

      AIKEN, Joan (Delano). All You’ve ever Wanted. London, 1953. Author’s first book. $250.

      AIKIN, Anna Laetitia. See Poems

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. See Sir John Chiverton.

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Cardinal Pole. London, 1863. 3 vols. $1,000.

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Jack Sheppard. London, 1839. Portrait and illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. $2,500.

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. James the Second. London, 1848. 3 vols. Integral ad leaf precedes half title, and list of illustrations follows title leaf. $1,500.

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Merry England or Nobles and Serfs. London, 1874. 3 vols. Green cloth with “Merrie” on spines. $1,250. Second issue with “Merry.” $750.

      AINSWORTH, William Harrison. The Tower of London. London, 1840. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 13 parts in 12 in wraps. $1,500. London, 1840. First book edition. Purple cloth. $750.

      AKEN, David. Pioneers of the Black Hills. (Milwaukee, 1920.) Pictorial wraps. $100.

      AKERLY, Samuel. An Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River . . . New York, 1820. Map. $750.

      AKINS, Zoe. Interpretations. London, 1912. Author’s first book. $125.

      ALARIC at Rome: A Prize Poem. Recited in Rugby School. June XII, MDCCCXL. Rugby (England), 1840. (By Matthew Arnold.) Author’s first book. 12 pages, pink pictorial and printed wraps. $15,000.

      ALBEE, Edward. The American Dream. New York (1961). Cloth. $250. Wraps. $50. London: Samuel French (1962). Wraps. $35.

      ALBEE, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York, 1962. Cloth. $1,500. Wraps. $100. New York: Dramatist Play Service, 1962. Wraps. $40. London (1964). $300. Charlestown, W. Va. (1980). One of 100 signed copies (broadside with drawing by e. e. cummings). $100.

      ALBEE, Edward. The Zoo Story and the Sandbox. (New York, 1960.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $250.

      ALBEE, Edward. The Zoo Story. The Death of Bessie Smith. The Sandbox: Three Plays. New York (1960). Author’s first hardbound book. Cloth. Dust jacket price $2.75. $500. Dust jacket price clipped and $3.50 added. $300. Wraps. $50. London (1962). $150.

      ALBERT, James (By James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw). A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Alber…as Related by Himself. Newport, 1774. $9,500. This may be a later printing.

      ALBERT, Marvin. See Albert Conroy

      ALBERT, Neil. January Corpse. New York, 1991. Author’s first book. $75.

      ALCOHOLICS Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York, 1939. (By Bill Wilson.) Red cloth. In dust jacket. $12,500. New York, 1941. Second printing. $8,500.

      ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction. Boston, 1830. Author’s first book. Wraps. $2,000.

      ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Sonnets and Canzonets. Boston, 1882. Illustrated with photographs. One of 50 signed copies. $1,000. Trade edition, lacking photographs. $150.

      ALCOTT, Amos Bronson. Tablets. Boston, 1868. Brown cloth. $450.

      ALCOTT, Louisa May. Flower Fables. Boston, 1855. Frontispiece and 5 plates. Author’s first book. Published in red, slate-blue, blue and brown bindigs. $3,500. (Note: There is rumored to be a gift binding but not mentioned in standard bibliographies.

      ALCOTT, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston, 1863. Ad on back announcing Wendell Phillips’ Speeches at $2.50 (not $2.25). (VAB). BAL - Boards with ad for “Speeches” on book cover, no price mentioned. Johnson had cloth