state with correction, in light-tan cloth. $850.
BAUM, L. Frank. Queen Zixi of Ix. New York, 1905. First state with terra-cotta and black text illustrations on pages 169-236. $750. Second state, with illustrations in turquoise and black on pages 169-84 and 221-36. $450.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Road to Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Britton (1909). First two pages of ads at end with color-tinted text sheets. $3,000. Later printings have an ad for Rinkitink in Oz (1916), on verso of ownership page.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Sea Fairies. Chicago (1911). First issue, with three heads on cover label. $900. Second issue has cover label showing girl on a sea horse. $400.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Songs of Father Goose. Chicago, 1900. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Colored pictorial boards. $1,000.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Wishing Horse of Oz. Chicago (1935). Illustrated by John R. Neill. includes 12 color plates. Color pictorial label. Dust jacket repeats cover design. $1,750.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Woggle-Bug Book. Chicago, 1905. Illustrated by Ike Morgan. First state: front cover printed in colors, background is field of gray-green, no printing on back cover. $4,500. Second state: front cover background is field of pale-yellow and yellow lettering on back cover. $3,250.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York, 1900. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Green cloth. First issue, with publisher’s ads enclosed in box on page 2 and at end of book, and with an 11-line colophon. Publisher’s imprint at base of spine stamped in green. $90,000. Second issue, with no box around ads, colophon in 13 lines, and imprint stamped in red. $35,000. (There are other points, and mixed states seem common.) NY, 1982. One of 500 copies signed by illustrator Michael Hague. In slipcase. $100. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. First 25 numbered copies (out of 350 copies) with extra suite of 62 wood engravings each signed and numbered by the artist Barry Moser. $7,500. Remaining 325 copies signed by Moser. $2,000.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Yellow Hen. Chicago (1916). First state, without ads for 6-vol. series on verso of ownership leaf. $1,000. Second state, with ads. $350.
BAX, Clifford (editor). Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1941. Boards, linen spine, paper label. One of 500 copies. In tissue dust jacket. $250.
BAX, Clifford. Twenty Chinese Poems. Hampstead, 1910. $125.
BAXLEY, H. Willis. What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands. New York, 1865. $250.
BAXTER, Charles. Chameleon. New York, 1970. Wraps. $475.
BAXTER, Stephen. Anti-Ice. (London, 1993.) $450.
BAY, J. Christian. A Handful of Western Books with a Second Handful of Western Books with a Third Handful of Western Books. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1935-36-37. 3 vols. Illustrated. Boards and cloth. Limited to 350, 400, and 400 copies, respectively. Issued in tissue dust jackets. Together, the 3 vols. $400. Odd vols. $100-$150 each.
BAY, J. Christian. Three Handfuls of Western Books. (Cedar Rapids) 1941. (Combined 1-vol. edition of preceding items.) Boards. One of 35 copies. $150.
BAYLDON, Oliver. The Paper Maker’s Craft. Leicester, 1965. Limited to “less than 400 copies.” $250.
BAYLEY, Harold. A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems. London (1909). $200.
BAYLIES, Francis. A Narrative of General Wool’s Campaign in Mexico. Albany, 1851. Frontispiece. 78 pages, printed yellow wraps. $400.
BEACH, Rex. Pardners. New York, 1905. Author’s first book. $125.
BEACH, Rex. Spoilers. New York, 1905. $125.
BEADLE, Clayton. Chapters on Papermaking. London, 1908-9. 5 vols. $150.
BEAGLE, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place. New York, 1960. Author’s first book. $175. London, 1960. $75.
BEAGLE, Peter S. The Last Unicorn. New York (1968). $500.
BEAJEAN, Jean. Jiu-Jitsu Partie Judo. Paris, 1954. One of 1,250 copies. $300.
BEALE, Charles Willing. The Secret of the Earth. New York (1899). Wraps. $1,000.
BEALE, Joseph Henry. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge (1926). $200.
BEALS, Carleton. The Crime of Cuba. Philadelphia (1933). 31 photographs by Walker Evans. His first book appearance. $600.
BEAN, Edwin F. (compiler). Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Nevada, Calif., 1867. Half leather and boards. $7,500.
BEARD, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York, 1913. $200.
BEARD, Charles A. The Office of the Justice . . . New York, 1904. Author’s first book. Wraps. $175.
BEARD, Charles R. A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Frederick John Nettlefold. (London), 1936. 31 color plates, 46 in black-and-white. Half brown morocco. $650. Cloth. $500.
BEARD, James. Hors D’Oeuvres and Canapes. New York (1940). Author’s first book. $500.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1897. $850. One of 50 on vellum. $1,500.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. A Second Book of Fifty Drawings. London, 1899. One of 1,000 copies. $600. One of 50 copies on vellum. $5,000.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier’s Romance, “Mademoiselle de Maupin.” London, 1898. 6 plates, loose in half-cloth portfolio, silk ties. One of 50 copies. $1,250.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Story of Venus and Tannhauser: A Romantic Novel. London, 1907. One of 250 copies on handmade paper. $500. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Uncollected Work. London (1925). Profusion of plates by Beardsley. Gilt-pictorial cloth. $500. One of 110 copies on Japan vellum. $1,000.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London, 1904. 16 illustrations by the author. One of 50 copies on Japan vellum. $2,000. Trade edition. $1,000.
BEASLEY, Gertrude. My First Thirty Years . . . (Paris, 1925.) Author’s first book. Wraps. $850.
BEATON, Cecil. The Book of Beauty. London (1930). 27 photographic plates, 90 text drawings. Buckram. One of 110 signed copies. $1,500. Trade edition. $750.
BEATON, George. Jack Robinson. London (1933). (By Gerald Brenan.) $400. New York, 1934. $150.
BEATTIE, Ann. Chilly Scenes of Winter. Garden City, 1976. (Issued simultaneously with Distortions.) $125.
BEATTIE, Ann. Distortions. Garden City, 1976. Author’s first book. $150.
BEATTIE, Ann. Jacklighting. Worcester, 1981. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. In dust jacket. $300. One of 250 signed copies in wraps. $125.
BEATTIE, Ann. Manhattan. South Dennis, Mass., 2004. 75 numbered copies signed by Tom Baril, the photographer. Portfolio of twelve signed, hand-pulled photogravures. Companion book with original story “Perennials” by Ann Beattie, printed in letterpress on cotton. $12,500.
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