Nelson. Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman. New York, 1950. $100. One of 4 signed copies specially bound in gray and black. $600.
BOND, Nelson. Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies and Other Fantastic Tales. New York (1946). Author’s first book. $75.
BOND, Nelson. Nightmares and Daydreams. Sauk City (1968). $100.
BOND, Nelson. The Thirty-first of February. New York (1949). $125. One of 112 signed copies. In slipcase. $300.
BONFILS, Winifred B. The Life and Personality of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. San Francisco, 1928. John Henry Nash printing. Vellum. One of 1,000 copies. In original tan flannel bag. $350.
BONNELL, George W. Topographical Description of Texas. Austin, 1840. $20,000.
BONNER, T. D. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer . . . New York, 1856. Frontispiece and plates. $850.
BONNEY, Edward. Banditti of the Prairies; or, The Murderer’s Doom! Chicago, 1850. Pictorial wraps. With imprint “Chicago, W.W. Dannenhauer 1850” on front cover. $17,500. Chicago, 1853. $12,500. Philadelphia (1855). $2,000. Chicago, 1856. “25th or 30th thousand.” $1,000. Chicago, 1858. 13 plates. Wraps. $3,500.
BONTEMPS, Arna. Black Thunder. New York, 1936. $950.
BONTEMPS, Arna. God Sends Sunday. New York, 1931. Author’s first book. $1,750.
BONTEMPS, Arna, and CONROY, Jack. Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Signer Painter. Boston, 1946. $750.
BOOK Collector ( The). London, 1947-84. Complete run from vol. 1, no.1, to vol. 33, no.1, and The Book Handbook, 9 issues bound in 1 vol. Wraps. $1,250.
BOOK-LORE, A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature. London, 1885-87. 6 vols. $250.
BOOK of Commandments (A), for the Government of the Church of Christ. Zion (Independence, MO.), 1833. (By Joseph Smith, Jr.) This title was destroyed by an angry anti-Mormon mob while the book was being printed. Pages were rescued by faithful Mormons and later crudely hand sewn into rawhide bindings, or none at all. The title page was never printed at the time and was supplied a few years later (there are two different versions of the title page). $1,500,000.
BOOK of Job (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946. Illustrated in color by Arthur Szyk. In slipcase. $450.
BOOK of Jonah (The). Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Illustrated by David Jones. Buckram. One of 175 copies. In dust jacket. $2,500.
BOOK of Princeton Verse 1916 (A). Princeton, 1916. Edited by Alfred Noyes. (Includes poems by Edmund Wilson, John Peale Bishop, and others.) $400.
BOOK of Princeton Verse II (A). Princeton (1919). (First book appearance of three poems by F. Scott Fitzgerald.) In dust jacket. $1,750. Without dust jacket. $200.
BOOK of Psalms (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1960. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $225.
BOOK of Ruth (The). London: Nonesuch Press, 1923. One of 250 copies. In slipcase. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. Introduction by Mary Ellen Chase. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. One of 1,950 copies. In slipcase. $450.
BOOK of the Law of the Lord (The). Saint James, A.R.I. (Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, 1851.) (By James Jesse Strang.) 3 copies known. $50,000. (Beaver Island, 1856.) Second issue, original sheets, lacking title page (some supplied, and with preface, in modern type, circa 1920). $8,000. For a later edition, see James J. Strang entry.
BOOK of the Poets’ Club (The). London, 1909. (Includes first printings of four Ezra Pound poems.) Orange wraps. $900.
BOOK of Vassar Verse (A). (Poughkeepsie, 1916.) (With 3 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.) $125.
BOOLE, George. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought . . . London, 1854. Imprint reads “London: Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower-Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.” Errata leaf bound in the back. (The “Note” leaf is found in later editions.) $8,000.
BOOTH, Edward Thomas. Rough Notes on the Birds. London, 1881-87. 3 vols. 2 hand-colored maps and 114 plates. $17,500.
BOOTH, Stephen. Black Dog. (London, 2000). Author’s first book. Pictorial wraps. $200.
BOOTH, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed’s Chronicles. San Francisco, 1968. Woodcut reproductions and original leaf from the 1587 edition. Decorated boards and cloth. One of 500 copies. $350.
BOOTH, William. In Darkest England and the Way Out. London (1890). Author’s first book. Large folding color map. First issue with last line of dedication in smaller type than preceding line. $350.
BORDEN, Gail, Jr. Letters of . . . to Dr. Ashbel Smith. Galveston, 1850. 9 pages, wraps. $2,000.
BORDEN, Spencer. The Arab Horse. New York, 1906. $150.
BORDER Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi. Philadelphia, 1840. 2 vols. (By William Gilmore Simms.) $250.
BORGES, Jorge Luis. The Congress. London, 1974. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Borges. Illustrated by Hugo Manning. Cloth. One of 50 signed copies. $1,500. One of 250 copies. $500.
BORGES, Jorge Luis. Deathwatch on the Southside. Cambridge (1968). Wraps. One of 150 signed copies. $800.
BORGES, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. London (1962). Author’s first book. $500. New York (1962). $375. Limited Editions Club, New York (1984). $500.
BORGES, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. New York: Grove Press (1962). $450.
BORN, Max. The Constitution of Matter Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. London, 1923. $100.
BORNEMAN, Henry S. Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts. Norristown, Pa., 1937. 38 colored reproductions. Oblong folio, cloth. $350.
BORROW, George. See Celebrated Trials.
BORROW, George. The Bible in Spain. London, 1843. 3 vols. Red cloth, paper labels. $500.
BORROW, George. Faustus: His Life, Death and Descent into Hell. London, 1825. (Translated by Borrow.) $600.
BORROW, George. Lavengro; the Scholar-the Gypsy-the Priest. London, 1851. 3 vols. Blue cloth, paper labels. $750. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936. 2 vols. In slipcase. $225.
BORROW, George. The Romany Rye. London, 1857. 2 vols. $450.
BORROW, George. Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery. London, 1862. 3 vols. Blue cloth, paper labels. $450.
BOSCANA, Father Geronimo. Chinigchinich. Santa Ana, 1933. Translated by Alfred Robinson. Color plates, maps. Folio, boards, and cloth. $450.
BOSQUI, Edward. Memoirs. (Oakland): Grabhorn Press, 1952. One of 350 copies. $250.
BOSSCHERE, Jean de. 12 Occupations. London, 1916. Decorated wraps. (Translated anonymously by Ezra Pound.) $750. One of 50 copies. Boards. 12 hand-colored illustrations. $3,250.
BOSSERT, Helmuth T. Peasant Art in Europe. London, 1927. First English edition. (Originally Berlin, 1926). 100 full-color plates and 32 plates in black-and-white. Folio, cloth. $200. New York, 1927.
