Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal. (London) 1737-39. 2 vols. Containing 500 hand-colored engraved plates. $40,000. London, 1739. Second edition. 2 vols. $7,500.
BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. The Laws of Life . . . New York, 1852. Author’s first book. (America’s first female doctor.) $15,000.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London, 1906. Author’s first book. $1,500. New York, 1917. $375.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Fruit Stoners. New York, 1935. $150.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Jimbo: A Fantasy. London, 1909. $850.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. The Listener and Other Stories. London, 1907. $1,000.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon. Shocks. New York (1936). $300.
BLADES, William. The Enemies of Books. London, 1880. In vellum wraps. $200.
BLADES, William. The Life And Typography of William Caxton . . . London, 1861-63. 2 vols. $550.
BLAIR, Robert. The Grave: A Poem. London, 1808. Folio. Portrait after T. Phillips. Engraved title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after designs by Blake. $8,000. Quarto. $3,000. London, 1813. Folio. $7,500. Quarto. $1,750.
BLAKE, Alexander V. The American Bookseller’s Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country . . . Claremont, N.H., 1847. $600.
BLAKE, Nicholas. The Beast Must Die. London (1938). (By C. Day-Lewis.) $1,500.
BLAKE, Nicholas. A Question of Proof. London, 1935. (By C. Day-Lewis.) (First book under this name.) $2,000.
BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Honolulu, 1935. Author’s first book and the first book on surfing. Issued without dust jacket. $5,000.
BLAKE, W. O. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Columbus, Ohio, 1857. $450.
BLAKE, William. America: A Prophecy. Lambeth, 1793. Rebound copy at auction in 1987. $160,000. Edmonton, Canada, 1887. Facsimile by William Muir. Wraps. One of 50 copies. $1,750. London, 1963. One of 526 copies. $1,000.
BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. London, 1825. Title page and 21 other plates engraved by Blake. While title page states “1825,” the plates were not issued until 1826 and a label dated “1826” was pasted on. Folio. $45,000. London, 1902. Facsimile. Wraps. $400. New York, 1935. 6 parts, folio, wraps. One of 200 copies. In slipcase. $2,250.
BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. London, 1974. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $650.
BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (London, 1868.) Facsimile of 1790 edition. 27 hand-colored plates. $1,500. London, 1960. One of 26 copies. $2,000. One of 500 copies. $850.
BLAKE, William. The Note-Book of William Blake Called the Rossetti Manuscript. London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 120 pages in facsimile. Buckram. One of 650 copies. In dust jacket. $200.
BLAKE, William. Pencil Drawings. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 82 facsimile plates. Half buckram. One of 1,550 copies. In dust jacket. $400. Second Series: London, 1956. One of 1,440 copies. In dust jacket. $300.
BLAKE, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. London, 1789. One of 3 known copies with final plate “A Divine Image.” $2,000,000. One of 4 copies in green ink at auction in 2001 for $850,000. Three regular copies. $1,000,000. (See auction records). London, 1954. One of 1,600 copies. $350. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Facsimile reproduction from the 1789 original. Full morocco. One of 26 copies. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 500 copies. In slipcase. $1,250.
BLAKE, William. William Blake’s Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. Trianon Press, 1972. 3 vols. One of 518 copies. Folio. Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. $2,000. One of 100 copies. $3,000.
BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. 3 vols. Half vellum and marbled boards. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $750. Thin-paper issue: 3 vols. in 1, morocco or limp vellum. One of 75 copies. $2,000.
BLAKEY, Dorothy. Minerva Press, 1790-1820. London, 1939. $250.
BLANCHARD, Rufus (publisher). Citizen’s Guide for the City of Chicago; Companion to Blanchard’s Map of Chicago. Chicago (1868). Printed stiff wraps, with folding map bound in. $2,500.
BLANCK, Jacob. Peter Parley to Penrod. New York, 1938. One of 500 copies. $175. New York, 1956. Second edition. Cambridge, Mass., 1961. $100.
BLAND, David. A History of Book Illustration. London (1958). $150. Cleveland (1958). $150.
BLANTON, Wyndham B. Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century. Richmond, 1931-33. 2 vols. $500.
BLATTY, William Peter. The Exorcist. New York (1971). $500.
BLEDSOE, A. J. History of Del Norte County, California. Eureka, Calif., 1881. Wraps. $4,500. (Howes notes that with one possible exception this is the rarest California local history.)
BLEDSOE, A. J. Indian Wars of the Northwest. San Francisco, 1885. Leather. $700. Cloth. $400.
BLEW, William C. A. A History of Steeple-Chasing. London, 1901. 28 illustrations, 12 hand-colored plates. $400.
BLIGH, William. The Log of the Bounty . . . Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. 2 vols. Small folio, with 4 wood engravings by Lynton Lamb. One of 300 copies. $2,500. (Guildford) 1975. One of 50 copies in morocco. $2,250. One of 500 copies. $1,000.
BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty . . . London, 1790. With folding plate and 3 charts. $25,000.
BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea . . . London, 1792. With frontispiece and 6 maps/plans (4 folding), and 1 plate showing breadfruit. $20,000. Limited Editions Club, Adelaide, 1975. One of 2,000 copies. In slipcase. $200.
BLISH, James. A Case of Conscience. London (1959). $1,250. New York (1969). $500.
BLISS, Edward. A Brief History of the New Gold Regions of Colorado Territory. Map. New York, 1864. 30 pages, wraps. $6,000.
BLISS, William R. Paradise in the Pacific; A Book of Travel, Adventure and Facts in the Sandwich Islands. New York, 1873. Mounted photographic frontispiece. $100.
BLITZSTEIN, Marc. The Cradle Will Rock. New York, 1938. $750.
BLIXEN, Karen. Out of Africa. London (1937). First edition stated in dust jacket without any reviews on front flap. $3,500. The second jacket has 5 reviews on front flap. $2,000. (See Isak Dinesen for U.S. edition.)
BLOCH, Robert. The Eighth Stage of Fandom . . . Chicago, 1962. First edition stated. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 signed copies. $450. One of 200 hardbound copies. $200. One of 400 copies in wraps. $60.
BLOCH, Robert. The Opener of the Way. Sauk City, Wis., 1945. $600.
BLOCH, Robert. Psycho. New York, 1959. $2,750. London, 1960. $950. Springfield, 1994. 35th Anniversary edition. One of 500 copies signed by Block and Richard Matheson (introduction). In slipcase. $375.
BLOCH, Robert. Sea Kissed. (London, 1945.) Author’s first book. Wraps. First issue, 39 pages, “Printed in Great Britain” on page 39. $1,000. Second issue,
