1817-1818. 2 vols. 50 hand-colored plates. $9,000.
BARTRAM, John. Observations on the Inhabitants… London, 1751. $9,500.
BARTRAM, William. Travels Through North & South Carolina. Philadelphia, 1791. Author’s first book. Folding map, 8 plates, including frontispiece. $14,000. London, 1792. $7,500. Dublin, 1793. $2,500.
BARZUN, Jacques Martin. Samplings and Chronicles. (Edited by J.M.B.) New York, 1927. (500 copies.) $125.
BASKIN, Leonard. Ars Anatomica, A Medical Fantasia, Thirteen Drawings. New York (1972). Contains two sets of 13 suites enclosed in portfolio. One of 300 signed sets. $475. One of 2,500 signed copies. $500.
BASKIN, Leonard. Demons, Imps & Friends. (Northampton, MA) 1976. 18 plates of illustrations. One of 450 signed copies by Baskin. $350.
BASKIN, Leonard. To Colour Thought. New Haven, 1967. One of 300 copies. In slipcase. $450.
BASKIN, Leonard. The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin, 1948-1959. Northampton, 1961. 168 signed engravings. Folio, loose in half-morocco case. One of 24 copies. $10,000.
BASS, Rick. The Deer Pasture. College Station, 1985. Author’s first book. $225.
BASS, W. W. (editor). Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado by Two of Its Earliest Explorers, James White and H. W. Hawkins. Grand Canyon, 1920. Frontispiece, plate, facsimiles. 38 pages, wraps. $600.
BATCHELOR, John Calvin. The Further Adventures of Haley’s Comet. New York, 1980. Author’s first book. Cloth. $300. Wraps. $100.
BATEMAN, Ed W. The Instinct Never Dies. No place, 1931. Full limp cowhide. $7,500 or more.
BATES, Ed. F. History . . . of Denton County Texas. Denton, Tex. (1918). Plates. Cloth. $1,000.
BATES, H. E. The Beauty of the Dead, and One Other Story. Corvinus Press. London, 1941. One of 25 copies. $1,000.
BATES, H. E. Flowers and Faces. London: Golden Cockerel Press. 1935. Engravings by John Nash. One of 325 copies. $800.
BATES, H. E. A German Idyll. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. $400.
BATES, H. E. The Last Bread: A Play in One Act. London (1926). Author’s first book. Wraps. $250.
BATES, H. E. Sally Go Round the Moon. London, 1932. White Owl Press. One of 21 signed copies. In slipcase. $1,000. Trade. $400.
BATES, H. E. The Story Without an End. (London): White Owl Press, 1932. One of 25 signed copies, with a leaf of manuscript. $1,000.
BATES, H. E. The Two Sisters. London, 1926. $500.
BATES, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazon. London: John Murray, 1863. 2 vols. Folding map. 9 engraved plates. $2,750.
BATES, J. H. Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California. New York, 1887. $400.
BATESON, F. W. (editor). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge, 1940. 5 vols. $500.
BATESON, William. Mendel’s Principles of Heredity. Cambridge, 1902. In original cloth. $1,250.
BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Intimate Journals. London, 1930. Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Introduction by T. S. Eliot. One of 400 copies in slipcase. $400. One of 50 copies signed by Eliot. $3,000. New York, 1930. $250. Hollywood, 1947. Revised edition, with W. H. Auden introduction. $100.
BAUER, Max. Precious Stones. London, 1904. Translated from the German by L. J. Spencer. 20 colored plates. Half morocco. $425.
NOTE: The bibliography is a necessity for the Oz books, see Bibliography of Works Consulted.
BAUM, L. Frank. American Fairy Tales. Chicago, 1901. Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. $1,250. Chicago (1908). With 3 additional series, a new author note, and 16 new color plates by George Kerr. $750.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Army Alphabet. Chicago, 1900. Illustrated by Harry Kennedy. Pictorial boards. $2,750.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Book of Hamburgs. Hartford, 1886. Author’s first book. $7,500.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger. Chicago (1923). Color plates. Boards. $400.
BAUM, L. Frank. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Chicago (1908). Illustrated by John R. Neill. 16 full-color inserts. First issue, with “The Reilly & Britton Co.” at bottom of spine versus “Reilly & Britton.” $1,800. Second issue. $900.
BAUM, L. Frank. Dot and Tot of Merryland. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1901. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Gilt-pictorial cloth. $2,000.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Chicago, 1910. First printing page depth is 1 1/4-inches (later printings about 1 3/8-inches thick). $2,500.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Enchanted Island of Yew. Indianapolis (1903). Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. First state with Braunworth’s imprint on copyright page, and illustration on page 238 incorrectly positioned over text. $1,000. Second state. $450.
BAUM, L. Frank. Father Goose’s Year Book. Chicago (1907). Illustrated. $500.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis, 1902. First state with headings “Book First,” “Book Second, and “Book Third.” $1,250. Second state with headings “Youth,” “Manhood,” and “Old Age.” $850.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Little Wizard Series. Chicago (1913). 6 vols. Each a first edition. In wraps stapled in center. Printed on highly calendered, semi-glossy paper stock with shadowed areas below lion and tiger on endpapers printed in solid blue. $6,000. Second issue on slightly rough wove paper stock with shadowed area in blue half-tone stipple. $3,000.
BAUM, L. Frank. Little Wizard Stories of Oz. Chicago (1914). 6 vols in one. First state in yellow cloth with color pictorial label on front cover and one inch thick. $750.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Chicago, 1904. First issue, without “Published July, 1904” on copyright page. $6,000. With date on copyright page. $3,500. With title on cover shortened to “The Land of Oz.” $350. (All have 1904 on title page.)
BAUM, L. Frank. The Master Key. Indianapolis (1901). Illustrated in color by Fanny Cory. Olive-green cloth. First issue, with signatures of 8 pages and second line on copyright page 1 21/32 inches wide. $850. Second issue, signatures of 16 pages. $600. Third issue, second line on copyright page 1 25/32 inches wide. $500.
BAUM, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago (1897). Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, (his first book of illustrations). Way & Williams. Pictorial cloth. First issue with gatherings of 8 and 4 leaves at end concluding on page (268). $8,500. Chicago: Hill (1901). 12 plates. Pictorial cloth. $2,250.
BAUM, L. Frank. A New Wonderland. New York, 1900. Illustrated by Frank Verbeck. Pictorial endpapers. $7,500. Secondary binding with blank endpapers. $3,500.
BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. Chicago (1907). First issue, with illustration in color on page 221, and spine imprint “The Reilly & Britton Co.” $3,000. Second issue “Reilly & Britton.” $950.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1913). Light-green pictorial cloth. First state, with the “C”
