had “reviews” of “Speeches” on back, whereas BAL stated cloth had advertisement for fourth edition of “Speeches.” Assume BAL is correct. $1,000.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Men. London, 1871. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. $250. Boston, 1871. First American edition, first issue, with ads at front listing Pink and White Tyranny as nearly ready. $750.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston, 1868-69. Frontispiece and 3 plates. 2 vols. Without “Part One” on spine of vol. 1 and with vol. 2 having no notice of Little Women, Part First, on page iv. $20,000. (Should see BAL). London, 1869. One of 250 copies using American sheets. $10,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967. In slipcase. $150.
ALCOTT, Louisa May. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales… Boston (1864). Printed green wraps. $2,500.
ALCOTT, L(ouisa) M(ay). The Rose Family. Boston, 1864. 47 pages, printed wraps. $2,500. Johnson stated this was also published in cloth, but BAL disputes this. If a cloth edition. $3,500.
ALCUIN: A Dialogue. (By Charles Brockden Brown.) New York, 1798. Author’s first book. $5,000. New Haven, 1935. Wraps. Facsimile reprint of the first edition. One of 250 copies in slipcase. Northhampton, 1970 [1975]. Gehenna Tracts. One of 300 copies. Edited with an afterword by Lee R. Edwards. Orange cloth, in a marbled slipcase. 100 copies with signed etching of Brown. $450. Other 200. $250.
ALDIN, Cecil. An Artist’s Model. London, 1930. One of 310 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,750. Trade edition. $500.
ALDINGTON, Richard. A. E. Housman and W. B. Yeats, Two Lectures. (Hurst, England): Peacocks Press, 1955. One of 350 copies. In glassine dust jacket. $150.
ALDINGTON, Richard. All Men Are Enemies. London, 1933. One of 110 signed copies. $250. Trade edition. $125. Garden City, 1933. $100.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Death of a Hero. New York, 1929. $300. London, 1929. $250. Paris, 1930. 2 vols. Printed wraps in slipcase. Unexpurgated text. One of 300 copies. $1,250.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot: A Lecture. London: Peacocks Press, 1954. One of 350 copies. $300. Full morocco. One of 10 trial copies on azure paper, signed. $600.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Images (1910-1915). (Cover title.) (London, 1915.) Author’s first book. Pictorial wraps. $200. Boston, 1916. Wraps. $150.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Images of War. London, 1919. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. One of 120 copies on hand-made paper. $600. One of 50 copies on cartridge paper with hand-colored illustrations. $1,250. One of 30 copies on japon vellum, signed. $2,500. Trade. $250. Boston, 1921. $150.
ALDISS, Brian W. The Brightfount Diaries. London (1955). Author’s first book. $200.
ALDISS, Brian W. Hothouse. London (1962). $650.
ALDISS, Brian W. Non-Stop. London (1958). Red boards (second printing in brown cloth). $650. (Published in US as Starship.)
ALDISS, Brian W. Space, Time and Nathaniel. London (1957). Author’s first science fiction title. Gray cloth. $350.
ALDISS, Brian W. Starship. New York (1959). First U.S. edition of Non-Stop with textual changes. $200.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. Aso see A., T.B.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems. New York, 1859. Presumed first issue with Broadway address for publisher (Johnson). BAL doesn’t mention two issues. $200.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Story of a Bad Boy. Boston, 1870. First issue, with line 20 on page 14 reading “scattered” and line 10 on page 197 reading “ abroad.” $600. Second state, “scatter and aboard.” $200. Boston, 1895. Illustrated by A. B. Frost. Decorated cloth. $150.
ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Life on a Ranch. New York, 1884. Frontispiece and 3 plates. Stiff wraps. $1,000.
ALDRIDGE, Reginald. Ranch Notes in Kansas . . . London, 1884. First English edition of Life on a Ranch. 4 plates. Pictorial cloth. $1,000.
ALEGRIA, Ciro. Broad and Alien is the World. New York, 1941. First book translated into English. $150. London,, 1941. $150.
ALEXANDER, E. P. Military Memoirs of a Confederate. New York, 1907. Maps, 3 plates. Cloth. $350.
ALEXANDER, Hartley B. (editor). Sioux Indian Painting. Nice, France (1938). 50 color plates (51 per two auction records). 2 vols, loose in portfolios. One of 400, but many destroyed during war. $7,500.
ALEXANDER, James Edward. Travels from India to England . . . Parbury, 1827. 2 engraved maps, 14 lithographic plates, 5 of which are hand-colored. Errata and author’s ad on last leaf. $4,500.
ALEXANDER, John H. Mosby’s Men. New York, 1907. $400.
ALEXANDER, William. The Costume of China. London, 1805. With engraved title and 48 hand-colored plates. $5,000.
ALEXANDER, William. Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians. London, 1814. 64 color plates. $1,500.
ALEXANDRE, Arsene. The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst. London, 1913. Notes on the Ballets by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Harry Melvill. Portrait. 77 plates, 50 in color. Folio, half vellum. $2,500. One of 80 copies with an original watercolor. $25,000.
ALEXANDRE, Arsene. The Modern Poster. New York, 1895. Frontispiece by Will Bradley. One of 250 copies on Imperial Japan paper. $750. One of 750 plain paper copies. $250. Note: Prices without the separate poster, which is normally missing.
ALEXIE, Sherman. The Businesss of Fancy Dancing. New York, 1992. Author’s first book. Hardcover, 100 copies. $1,500. Wraps. $350.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Also see Starr, Julian. See, and Timothy Crump’s Ward
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Abraham Lincoln, The Backwoods Boy. New York, 1883. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. With ads listing this book as no. 2 in “Boyhood and Manhood” series. $850.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf. Boston, 1856. Author’s first book. Blindstamped cloth. $7,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Dan, the Detective. New York, 1884. $1,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Five Hundred Dollar Check. New York: United States Book Co. (1891). First book edition, first issue, with “Porter & Coates” on spine. $1500. Later issue, with “Lovell” on spine. $350.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving. Boston: Loring Publisher (1875). $1,250.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Ragged Dick; or Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks. Boston: Loring Publisher (1868). With Fame and Fortune listed in ads for publication in December and Dick standing alone on pictorial title page. $5,000.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. Robert Coverdale’s Struggle. New York: Street & Smith (1910). Pictorial colored wraps with “New Medal Library No. 555/15 cents” on cover. $1,500.
ALGER, Horatio, Jr. The Western Boy. (New York, 1878.) With G. W. Carleton ad at front of book and American News Company in gold at bottom of spine. $1,000.
ALGREN, Nelson. Ballet for Opening Day: The Swede Was a Hard Guy. Chicago, 2002. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the artist, Tony Fitzpatrick, and the bookmakers. Issued in cloth slipcase. $2,000.
ALGREN, Nelson. The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, 1949. Signed on tipped-in sheet. $750. Trade. $350. London, 1959. $125.
ALGREN, Nelson. The Neon Wilderness. Garden City, 1947. Green cloth. Ads for other books on back of dust jacket. $350. With reviews of this book on back of dust jacket. $250. London (1965). $100.
ALGREN, Nelson. Never Come Morning. New York (1942). Introduction by Richard Wright. Tipped-in signed leaf. $750. Without leaf. $600. London (1958). $125.
ALGREN, Nelson. Somebody in Boots. New York (1935). Author’s first regularly published book. (Off-print in 1935 preceded). Orange cloth with top edge stained brown. $6,000. Tan cloth with top unstained. $5,000. London (1937). Blue-gray cloth. $2,500. Deep reddish-orange cloth. $2,000.