BELL, Clive. Poems. Richmond (London): Hogarth Press, 1921. Wraps. One of 350 copies. $600.
BELL, Currer (editor). Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London, 1847. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. First issue, with 36-page catalogue at back of first vol., dated June and October, with half titles, and with a leaf advertising the Calcutta Review (VAB - Not in Wise or Schwartz.) $62,000. London, 1848. Second edition. (Currer Bell as author instead of editor on title page.) $4,000. Third edition. $2,000. New York, 1848. Wraps. $3,000.
BELL, Currer. The Professor. London, 1857. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 2 vols., plum-colored cloth. With 2 pages of ads at end of vol. 1 and 16 pages of ads at end of vol. 2 dated June 1857. $6,500. One-vol. issue. London, 1857 (actually 1858). In a remainder binding, with 1858 ads, $4,500. New York, 1857. First American edition. $1,000.
BELL, Currer. Shirley: A Tale. London, 1849. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Deep claret-colored cloth. With 16 pages of ads dated October 1849, at end of vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1850. Cloth. $500. Wraps. $750.
BELL, Currer. Villette. London, 1853. (By Charlotte Brontë.) 3 vols. Olive-brown cloth. With 12 pages of ads dated January 1853, in vol. 1. $10,000. New York, 1853. Cloth. $3,000.
BELL, Currer, Ellis, and Acton. Poems. London, 1846. (By Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.) Dark-green cloth. First issue, published by Aylott and Jones. $45,000. London, 1846 (actually 1848). Green cloth. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. Second issue, with 4-line errata slip. $6,000. Philadelphia, 1848. Wraps. $4,500. Boards. $3,000.
BELL, Ellis (and Acton). Wuthering Heights. London, 1847. 3 vols. Claret-colored cloth (third vol. titled Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell). (First two vols. by Emily Brontë, third by Anne Brontë.) (1,000 copies printed.) $300,000. Rebound. $225,000. New York, 1848. Cloth. $10,000. Wraps. 2 vols. $17,500. London, 1851. New edition, revised. $7,500. New York, 1931. Illustrated by Clare Leighton. Cloth. One of 450 copies signed by the artist. $350. Trade. $75. Limited Editions Club. New York, 1993. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus. $4,000.
BELL, Gertrude. The Arab War. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. Half linen. One of 470 copies. $1,250. One of 30 copies. $3,000.
BELL, Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger. Los Angeles, 1881. $850.
BELL, John. Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds. Edinburgh, 1795. $1,500. Walpole, N.H., 1807. 2 vols. in 1. 2 plates. $750.
BELL, John. Travels from St. Petersburg . . . Glasgow, 1763. 2 vols. $2,500.
BELL, Josephine. (Doris Bell and Collier Ball.) Murder in Hospital. London, 1937. $750.
BELL, Madison Smartt. The Washington Square Ensemble. New York, 1983. Author’s first book. $125. (London, 1983). $100.
BELL, Margaret E. The Pirates of Icy Strait. New York, Morrow, 1943. Author’s first book. $350.
BELL, Marvin. Two Poems. Iowa City, 1965. Author’s first book. Issued without dust jacket. $450.
BELL, Solomon. Tales of Travel West of the Mississippi. Boston, 1830. (By William J. Snelling.) Map plates. $1,500.
BELL, William A. New Tracks in North America. London, 1869. 2 vols. 20 color lithographs, 3 botanical plates, 1 diagrammatic plate and 1 folding map. $1,500.
BELLAMY, Edward. See Six to One: A Nantucket Idyl.
BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward, 2000-1887. Boston, 1888. Pea-green, orange-brown, or gray cloth. Also reported are copies in red (which seems the scarcest) and in blue-green. First issue, with printer’s imprint of “J. J. Arakelyan” on copyright page; “wore” for “were” on page 210, line 8. $1,500. Another issue. Gray wraps. $1,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. In slipcase. $200.
BELLOC, Hilaire. See B., H.
BELLOC, Hilaire. Cautionary Tales for Children. London (1908). Pictorial boards. $300.
BELLOC, Hilaire. The Highway and Its Vehicles. London, 1926. Illustrated. One of 1,250 copies. $350.
BELLOC, Hilaire. The Missing Masterpiece. London (1929). $600.
BELLOC, Hilaire. New Cautionary Tales. London, 1930. One of 110 signed copies. $300.
BELLOC, Hilaire. Verses and Sonnets. London, 1896. Author’s first book. $950.
BELLOW, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. New York, 1953. First issue, with top edges orange. In first dust jacket without reviews. $1,000. Second issue. $250.
BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man. New York (1944). Author’s first book. $3,500. London, 1946. $600.
BELLOW, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. New York, 1959. First issue, top edges yellow. $750. London (1959). $150.
BELLOW, Saul. Herzog. New York (1964). Stamped blue cloth. $250. (London, 1965). $150.
BELLOW, Saul. The Victim. New York (1947). $1,250. London (1948). First English edition. $450.
BELLOWS, George. George W. Bellows: His Lithographs. New York, 1927. In slipcase. $400.
BELLOWS, George. The Paintings. New York, 1929. Color frontispiece, 143 plates. One of 2,000 copies in dust jacket. $350.
BELOE, William. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. London, 1807-12. 6 vols. $1,250.
BELTRAMI, G. C. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America. London, 1828. 2 vols. 6 plates including folding map and plan. $3,000.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Hansi. New York, 1934. Author’s first book. $600.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New York, 1939. Date on title page. Dust jacket priced $2.99 on front flap. $1,250.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Small Beer. New York, 1939. One of 75 copies with original colored illustrations. In slipcase. $750.
BENAVIDES, Alonso de. The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. Chicago, 1916. Facsimile of Madrid edition of 1630. Boards. One of 300 copies. $600.
BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. Garden City, 1974. $350. London, 1974. $250.
BENCHLEY, Robert. Love Conquers All. New York, 1922. Blue pictorial cloth. $1,000.
BENCHLEY, Robert. Of All Things. New York, 1921. Author’s first book. Two states with and without ads at end, priority unknown. $1,250. London, 1922. $750.
BENCHLEY, Robert. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or David Copperfield. New York (1928). $1,000.
BENDIRE, Charles. Life Histories of North American Birds. Washington, 1892-95. 2 vols. 19 color plates. Folio, cloth. $650.
BENEDICT, Carl Peters. A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water. Austin, 1943. Edited by J. Frank Dobie. One of 550 copies. $500.
BENÉT, Laura. Fairy Bread. New York, 1921. $100.
BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Devil and Daniel Webster. Weston, Vt. (1937). Illustrated by Harold Denison. One of 700 signed copies. In glassine dust jacket and slipcase. $350. New York (1937). Trade. $100.
BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. The Drug Shop; or Endymion in Edmonstoun. (New Haven), 1917. Printed wraps. (100 copies.) $250.
BENÉT,
