The Artists of My Life. New York, 1982. One of 150 signed numbered copies. $2,000.
BRASSINGTON, Salt. A History of the Art of Bookbinding . . . London, 1894. $600.
BRATHWAITE, Richard. The English Gentleman . . . London, 1630. $2,250.
BRAUN, Lilian Jackson. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. New York, 1966. Author’s first book. $350.
BRATT, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln, Neb., 1921. Portrait frontispiece and plates. Pictorial cloth. $450.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. San Francisco, 1967. One of 1,500 copies. Illustrated yellow wraps. $500.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. A Confederate General at Big Sur. New York (1964). $500.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Galilee Hitch-Hiker. San Francisco (1958). Wraps. $3,000. San Francisco, 1966. Illustrated by Kenn Davis. One of 16 signed copies with a small drawing on separate folded 8½-by-11-inch thin brown paper. $1,000. One of 700 copies. $350.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. In Watermelon Sugar. San Francisco (1968). One of 50 signed copies. $1,750. Trade. Wraps. $200. London (1970). $300.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Lay the Marble Tea. San Francisco (1959). Printed wraps. $1,500.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. New York, 1976. $300.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Octopus Frontier. San Francisco (1960). Printed wraps. $900.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. San Francisco (1968). Tan boards, brown cloth spine. One of 50 signed copies. $1,850.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book. San Francisco (1968). Wraps, with eight seed packets enclosed. $1,250.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Return of the Rivers. (San Francisco, 1958.) Author’s first book. Wraps. Reportedly 100 copies but may have only been 15 or 20. Most signed. $15,000. Unsigned. $10,000.
BRAVO (The): A Venetian Story. London, 1831. (By James Fenimore Cooper.) 3 vols. $800. Philadelphia, 1831. 2 vols. First American edition. $650.
BRAYTON, Matthew. The Indian Captive. Cleveland, 1860. 68 pages, printed green wraps. $4,500. Boards. $2,500. Fostoria, Ohio, 1896. Second edition. $1,000.
BRENAN, Gerald. See Beaton, George.
BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Heart of Earth. Prairie City (1949). Author’s first book. $150.
BRENNAN, Joseph Payne. Nine Horrors and a Dream. Sauk City, 1958. $250.
BRENNER, Anita. Idols Behind Altars. New York, 1929. $1,250.
BRENNER, Anita. The Wind That Swept Mexico. New York (1943). Illustrated with photographs. $300.
BRETON, André. What Is Surrealism? London, 1936. $150.
BRETON, André. Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares. New York, 1946. $1,000. Drawings by Arshile Gorley and jacket by Marcel Duchamp.
BRETT, Simon. (Anthony Lee.) Cast, In Order of Disappearance. London, 1975. $150. New York (1976). $50.
BRETTON, James J. (editor). Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays . . . New York, 1850. $350.
BREVOORT, Elias. New Mexico: Her Natural Resources . . . Sante Fe, 1874. Wraps. $1,750.
BREWSTER, Sir David. A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope. Edinburgh, 1819. 7 plates. $2,000.
BREWSTER, Ralph H. The Good Beards of Athos. London, Hogarth, 1935. $400.
BRICE, Wallace. A History of Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind., 1868. 7 plates. Cloth. $400.
BRIDGENS, Richard. Furniture, with Candelabra and Interior Decoration. London, 1838. 60 full-page color plates (including title). Folio. $3,000.
BRIDGES, Robert. Eros and Psyche: A Poem. Newtown, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1935. Woodcuts from drawings by Edward Burne-Jones. White pigskin. One of 300 copies. In buckram case. $1,750. One of 15 copies specially bound by George Fisher. $6,000.
BRIDGES, Robert. Poems. London, 1873. Author’s first book (suppressed by him in 1878). $600.
BRIDGES, Robert. Poems Written in the Year MCMXIII. (London): Ashendene Press, 1914. Blue printed boards and cloth. One of 85 copies with initials in red or blue. In slipcase. $2,500. One of 6 copies on vellum. $8,500.
BRIDGES, Robert. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford, 1929. One of 50 signed copies. $400. One of 200 copies, unsigned. $200. Trade edition. $150. New York, 1929. One of 250 copies. $300.
BRIDWELL, J. W. (compiler). The Life and Adventures of Robert McKimie. Hillsboro, Ohio, 1878. 56 pages, pictorial wraps. $1,500.
BRIEF Description of Western Texas (A). San Antonio, 1873. (By W. G. Kingsbury.) Pictorial wraps. $2,000.
BRIGGS, Charles Frederick. See The Adventures of Harry Franco . . .
BRIGGS, Clare. Golf: The Book of a Thousand Chuckles. Chicago (1916). $500.
BRIGGS, E. C., and ATTWOOD, R. M. Address to the Saints in Utah and California, Polygamy Proven an Abomination by Holy Writ, Is Brigham Young President of the Church of Jesus Christ . . . Plano, Il., 1869. Wraps. Third edition (noted as “Revised by Joseph Smith and Wm. W. Blair.”) $750.
BRIGGS, L. Vernon. History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Boston, 1889. $225.
BRIGHAM, Clarence S. Paul Revere’s Engravings. Worcester, Mass., 1954. 77 plates (some in color). $150.
BRIGMAN, Anne. Songs of a Pagan. Caldwell, Idaho, 1949. $250.
BRILLAT-SAVARIN, J(ean) A(nthelme). The Physiology of Taste. Philadelphia, 1854. $900. London, 1925. Introduction by Arthur Machen. Portrait, other illustrations. Boards. One of 750 copies. $350. New York, 1926. One of 500 copies. $200. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. Translated by M.F.K. Fisher. Half leather. One of 1,500 copies in slipcase. $300.
BRILLIANT, Ashley. I May Not Be Totally Perfect, But… Santa Barbara (1979). Cloth. Issued without dust jacket. (1,000 copies.) $150. Wraps. $35.
BRINK, André (Philippus). The Ambassador. (Cape Town), 1964. First English translation. $100.
BRIQUET Album: A Miscellany on Watermarks . . . (The). Hilversum, 1952. One of 400 copies. Vol. 2 (one of the more difficult to find). $200.
BRISBANE, Albert. Social Destiny of Man . . . Philadelphia, 1840. Author’s first book. $850.
BRISBIN, James S. The Beef Bonanza. Philadelphia, 1881. 8 plates. Pictorial cloth. $350.
BRITISH Librarian: Exhibiting A Compendious Review or Abstract of Our Most Scarce . . . London, 1738. 6 vols. bound in 1. $750.
BRITTAIN, Vera M. Verses of a V. A. D. London, 1918. $450.
BRITTON, Wiley. Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863. Chicago, 1882. $300.
BROCH, Hermann. The Death of Virgil. New York, 1945. $1,750.
