Paul. Let It Come Down. London (1952). $350. New York (1952). $300. Santa Barbara, 1980. One of 350 signed copies. $200. One of 26 signed copies. $350. One of 1,000 hardcover copies. $50.
BOWLES, Paul. A Little Stone. London (1950). First issue binding is light-green cloth. $350. Second issue in dark green. $250.
BOWLES, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. London (1949). $6,500. New York (1949). $3,000.
BOWLES, Paul. Too Far from Home. New York (1993). $40. London, 1994. One of 100 signed copies. $350.
BOWLES, Paul. Two Poems. (New York, circa 1933.) Author’s first book. Approximately 175 copies. Wraps. $25,000.
BOWLES, Paul. Yallah. Zurich, 1956. Illustrated with photos. $450. New York, 1957. $350.
BOWMAN, David. Let the Dog Drive. New York (1992). Author’s first book. $150.
BOWYER, William. The Origin of Printing in Two Essays . . . London, 1774. $500.
BOX, Capt. Michael James. Capt. James Box’s Adventures and Explorations in New and Old Mexico. New York, 1861. $3,000. New York, 1869. Second issue (original sheets with cancel title leaf). $600.
BOX, Edgar. Death Before Bedtime. New York, 1953. (By Gore Vidal.) $300.
BOX, Edgar. Death in the Fifth Position. New York, 1952. (By Gore Vidal.) $400.
BOX, Edgar. Death Likes It Hot. New York, 1954. (By Gore Vidal.) $275.
BOYD, James. Bitter Creek. New York, 1939. $100.
BOYD, James. Drums. New York/London, 1925. Author’s first book. $300. New York (1928). Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. One of 525 copies signed by author and artist. In slipcase. $1,500. Trade. $300.
BOYD, Nancy. Distressing Dialogues. New York (1924). (By Edna St. Vincent Millay.) First edition stated. $400.
BOYD, Thomas. Through the Wheat. New York, 1923. $400.
BOYD, William. A Good Man in Africa. London, 1981. Author’s first book. $900. New York, 1982. $125.
BOYDELL, John and BOYDELL, Josiah. An History of the River Thames. London, 1794-96. Dedication to George III. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 76 hand-colored plates. $15,000.
BOYLE, Jack. Boston Blackie. New York (1919). Author’s first book. In dust jacket. $3,000. Without dust jacket. $300.
BOYLE, Kay. See H. H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak.
BOYLE, Kay. The Crazy Hunter. London (1940). $150. New York (1940). $125.
BOYLE, Kay. The First Lover and Other Stories. New York (1933). $250. London (1937). $200.
BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York, 1933. $450. London (1934). $250.
BOYLE, Kay. Monday Night. New York (1938). $250.
BOYLE, Kay. Plagued by the Nightingale. New York, 1931. Her first novel. $400. London, 1931. $350.
BOYLE, Kay. Short Stories. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. Author’s first book. Printed wraps in gold- or silver-tied protective boards. One of 15 signed copies on Japan paper. $1,750. One of 150 on Van Gelder paper. In tissue dust jacket. In slipcase. $1,000. One of 20 copies on Arches paper, for France. $1,250.
BOYLE, Kay. Wedding Day and Other Stories. New York (1930). Decorated boards, cloth spine. (The author’s first book, retitled as shown. Also variant spine title, “Short/Stories”. Priority unknown. $500. London, 1932. $250.
BOYLE, Kay. The White Horses of Vienna. New York (1936). $250.
BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. Descent of Man. Boston (1979). Author’s first book. $500. London, 1980. $150.
BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Homesteaders. Chicago, 1909. $75.
BOYLES, Kate and Virgil. Langford of the Three Bars. Chicago, 1907. $125.
“BOZ.” See Dickens, Charles. See also Sketches by “Boz.”
“BOZ.” Master Humphrey’s Clock. London, 1840-41. (By Charles Dickens.) 88 weekly parts, white wraps. $4,000. Second edition, 20 monthly parts in 19, green wraps. $2,500. (For first book edition, see author entry.)
“BOZ.” Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. London, 1838. (By Charles Dickens.) Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. In original reddish-brown cloth. First issue, with “Rose Maylie and Oliver” plate in vol. 3 showing them at fireside. $12,500. Rebound in nice old half calf. $4,000. In new “Bayntun-style” morocco. $7,000. Second issue showing them at church. $6,000. (For later editions see author entries under Oliver Twist and The Adventures of Oliver Twist.)
BRACKENRIDGE, H. H. See A Poem on the Rising Glory . . . and Strictures on a Voyage to South America, etc.
BRACKENRIDGE, Hugh Henry. Gazette Publications. Carlisle, Pa., 1806. $750.
BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri. Baltimore, 1815. First edition (actually second appearance of the journal, which first appeared in author’s Views of Louisiana, which see). $2,500. Baltimore, 1816 (cover date 1815). Second edition. Boards. $750.
BRACKENRIDGE, H. M. Views of Louisiana; Together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1814. Pittsburgh, 1814. $2,500. Baltimore, 1817. (Revised.) $750.
BRACKETT, Leigh. No Good for a Corpse. New York (1944). $1,500.
BRADBURY, John. Travels in the Interior of America. Liverpool, 1817. With errata slip. $4,000. London, 1819. Second edition. Folding map. $5,000.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Anthem Sprinters. New York: Dial Press, 1963. Cloth. $500. Wraps (actually precedes by a month or so). $75.
BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. Garden City, 1957. $1,750. London, 1957. $400.
BRADBURY, Ray. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, 1947. Author’s first book. $2,500. London (1948). $850.
BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York (1953). (About 50 author’s copies were bound in red cloth with gold lettering.) $7,500. Asbestos boards. One of 200 signed copies. Issued without dust jacket. $20,000 if perfect. Other copies. $10,000 and up. Trade in red boards with various colored lettering. $6,000. Simultaneous issue by Ballantine in wraps (actually true first.) $350. London, 1954. $1,250. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982. $750.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City, 1953. $850. London, 1953. $150.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Garden City, 1951. $3,000. London, 1952. $500.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Machineries of Joy. New York, 1964. $450. London, 1964. $250.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, 1950. First state in green binding. Signed on tipped-in leaf. $7,500. Unsigned. $6,000. Second state in blue binding. $4,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1974. 2,000 copies signed by author and illustrator. $350.
BRADBURY, Ray. A Medicine for Melancholy. Garden City, 1959. $450.
BRADBURY, Ray. The October Country. New York (1955). One of 50 copies
