William. Switzerland Illustrated. London, 1836. 2 vols. With 2 engraved titles, folding map, and 106 plates by W. H. Bartlett. $1,750.
BEAUCHAMPE: or, the Kentucky Tragedy. Philadelphia, 1842. (By William Gilmore Simms.) 2 vols. $600.
BEAUMONT, Charles. The Hunger and Other Stories. New York (1957). (By Charles Nutt.) $500.
BEAUMONT, Cyril W. The History of Harlequin. London, 1926. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell. 44 plates (5 colored), text decorations by Claudia Guercio. Decorated parchment boards, vellum spine. One of 325 copies. $600.
BEAUMONT, Cyril W. Puppets and the Puppet Stage. London, 1938. 110 pages of illustrations. Illustrated wraps. $200. Cloth without dust jacket. $75.
BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John. Comedies and Tragedies Written by . . . London, 1647. Folio. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall with “vates duplex” in line 4 of the lower caption. $7,500.
BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in Woven Design. London, 1890. Cloth. 32 color plates. $175.
BEAUMONT, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Plattsburg, N.Y., 1833. 3 engravings. $4,500. Boston, 1834. Second issue (first edition sheets with Boston title page). $1,500. Edinburgh, 1838. First English edition. $1,250.
BEAUMONT, William. The Physiology of Digestion. Burlington, Vt., 1847. Edited by Samuel Beaumont. Cloth. Second edition of Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice. $750.
BEAUVOIR, Simone de. The Mandarins. New York (1976). One of 500 signed copies. In glassine and slipcase. $200.
BECK, Lewis C. A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri. Albany, 1823. Folding map, 5 plates. $2,500.
BECKER, Robert H. Disenos of California Ranchos . . . San Francisco, 1964. Grabhorn printing. One of 400 copies. $650.
BECKETT, Samuel. See Crowder, Henry; Gorey, Edward.
BECKETT, Samuel. All Strange Away. No place [New York], (1976). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 200 copies signed by both. In slipcase. $1,250. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. $3,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. All That Fall: A Play. New York (1957). $250. One of 100 specially bound copies. $500. One of 25 signed copies. $5,000. Wraps (“Holiday Greeting”). $150. London, 1957. Wraps. $150.
BECKETT, Samuel. Beginning to End. New York, 1988. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of 300 signed by both. Pictorial boards. $1,750. One of 26 signed. $4,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go: Dramaticule. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. In cloth issued without dust jacket, in slipcase. $3,000. Trade. In wraps. $75.
BECKETT, Samuel. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. 30 pages, printed wraps. One of 25 copies on Normandy vellum, signed. $10,000. One of 250 copies on Alfa paper, unsigned. $2,500. One of 50 hors de commerce. $1,500. There were also 2 copies, A & B, for author and publisher.
BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. New York (1958). Boards. First American edition. One of 100 numbered copies. $2,500. Translated by the author. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500. Trade. Cloth. $350. Wraps. $35. London (1958). $300.
BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. New York, 1964. $100. London (1964). (Series A and Series B.) Translated from the French by the author. 2 issues, vellum and morocco. Each, 100 signed copies. In tissue dust jackets. In slipcase. $1,500 each. Trade. $100.
BECKETT, Samuel. The Lost Ones. London, 1972. Half vellum (or half leather). One of 100 signed copies. In slipcase. $2,000. Trade. $125. New York. $100. Stamford, 1984. One of 250 copies with etching, signed and numbered, by Charles Klabunde. In box. $4,000. One of 60 artist proof copies, signed and numbered (Roman numerals). $7,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. Malone Dies. New York (1956). Translated by the author. Cream-colored canvas. One of 500 copies. In transparent dust jacket. $450. Wraps. $75. London, 1958. $350.
BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy. Paris (1951). Printed wraps. First edition (in French). One of 500 copies on Alfa paper. $500. One of 50 copies on vellum. $2,000. Paris: Olympia Press (1955). Wraps. First edition in English. $750. New York (1955). $400. Wraps. $45.
BECKETT, Samuel. More Pricks Than Kicks. London, 1934. In dust jacket. $30,000. Without dust jacket. $6,000. London (1970). One of 100 signed copies. $2,000. Trade. $200. New York. $75.
BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London (1938). First binding. Estimated at 1250 to 1500 copies, with 782 to 882 in remainder. Green cloth. In dust jacket. $100,000. Without dust jacket. $7,500. Remainder bindings with and without dust jacket probably not too much cheaper. New York (1957). One of 100 signed copies. $2,500. Trade. $250.
BECKETT, Samuel. No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966. London (1967). One of 100 signed copies. (Series A.) $1,250. One of 100 signed copies. (Series B.) $1,350. In slipcases. Trade. $125.
BECKETT, Samuel. Poems in English. London (1961). Mottled tan leather-like cloth boards. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $150. New York (1963). $150.
BECKETT, Samuel. Proust. London, 1931. $750. New York (1957). Limited first American edition. One of 250 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $3,000. London, 1965. One of 100 signed copies. $1,250. Trade. $125.
BECKETT, Samuel. The Unnamable. New York: Grove Press (1958). Translated by the author. One of 26 lettered copies, signed. $7,500. One of 100 numbered copies. $450. Trade, hardbound. $300. Wraps. $50.
BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York (1954). Translated by the author. $3,500. London (1956). Publisher’s note tipped in. $1,250.
BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Olympia Press (1953). Printed wraps. One of 25 copies, lettered A to Y, on fine paper and signed by Beckett. $8,500. First trade edition. Wraps. $1,000. New York (1959). $300. One of 100 numbered copies signed. $500. One of 26 signed copies. $7,500.
BECKETT, Samuel. Whoroscope. Paris, 1930. Hours Press. Author’s first separately published work. Stapled wraps, with white (separate) band around the book. One of 100 signed copies (of a total edition of 300). $12,500. One of 200 unsigned copies. $3,500.
BECKETT, Samuel, et al. Our Exagmination Round His Factifaction for Incamination of Work in Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. Printed wraps. $1,000. One of 96 copies (large-paper) on verge d’Arches paper. $3,000. London, [1936]. $500. Norfolk, [1939]. $600. (Both later issues used the Paris sheets and were in cloth with dust jackets.)
BECKFORD, William. See Biographical Memoirs . . .
BEDE, Cuthbert. Photographic Pleasures, Popularly Portrayed with Pen & Pencil. London, 1855. Blue gilt-pictorial cloth. 24 black-and-white lithographs. $1,500.
BEEBE, Henry. The History of Peru. Peru, Ill., 1858. Leather. $500.
BEEBE, Lucius. Fallen Stars. Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. Author’s first book. 50 copies. $400. Boston, 1921. $200.
BEEBE, Lucius. François Villon . . . Cambridge, 1921. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $350.
BEEBE, William. The Arcturus Adventure. New York, 1926. One of 50 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $650. First trade edition. $150.
BEEBE, William. Galápagos: World’s End. New York, 1924. One of 100 signed copies. Issued in glassine dust
