Olivier Exquemeling [a.k.a. John Esquemeling, Basil Ringrose].) Two vols. in one. 16 maps, 3 of which are folding. $11,000.
BUCHAN, John. Greenmantle. London, 1916. Issued without front endpaper. $400.
BUCHAN, John. The Pilgrim Fathers: The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1898. Oxford, 1898. Wraps. $1,000.
BUCHAN, John. The Runagates Club. London (1928). $600.
BUCHAN, John. Sir Quixote of the Moors. London, 1895. Author’s first book. Assumed first issue with title running down spine. $1,500. Second issue with “Sir Quixote” on spine. $300. New York, 1895. $250.
BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-nine Steps. Edinburgh and London (1915). $1,750.
BUCHANAN, Robert. The Devil’s Case. London (1896). $125.
BUCHANAN, Robert. The Fleshly School of Poetry. London, 1872. Pink or violet pictorial wraps. $400.
BUCHANAN, Robertson. Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat. Glasgow, 1810. 2 plates. $600.
BUCHANAN, Robertson. A Practical Treatise on Propelling Vessels by Steam. Glasgow, 1816. 17 plates, 1 folding. $1,000.
BUCK, Irving A. Cleburne and His Command. New York, 1908. Plates. $750.
BUCK, Pearl S. East Wind: West Wind. New York (1930). Author’s first book. $1,250.
BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York (1931). The reading “flees” for “fleas,” line 17 of page 100 also is in the second and third printings. The “John Day Publishing Company” on copyright page is scarcer than “The John Day Company,” so may be valid point. Top edges stained brown. $12,500. Presumed later issue with “The John Day Company,” green top edge. $11,500. (Also reported with tan top edge). London, 1931. $2,500. [Note: the book was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the differences of publisher’s name and top edge may reflect their edition. This was the time they were switching from sending out publisher’s editions and printing their own from publisher’s plates.] Has anyone seen a priced jacket?
BUCK, Pearl S. Sons. New York (1932). One of 371 deluxe copies, signed. In dust jacket and slipcase. $450.
BUCKINGHAM, Nash. De Shootinest Gent’man and Other Tales. Edited by Col. Harold P. Sheldon. New York: Derrydale Press (1934). One of 950 copies. $750. New York (1961). One of 260 copies. $300.
BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Mark Right! New York: Derrydale Press (1936). One of 1,250 copies. $400.
BUCKINGHAM, Nash. Ole Miss. New York: Derrydale Press (1937). Edited by Paul A. Curtis. One of 1,250 copies. $350.
BUCKLER, Ernest. The Mountain and the Valley. New York, 1952. $450.
BUCKLEY, Francis. English Baluster Stemmed Glasses of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Edinburgh, 1912. 18 plates. Buckram. $600.
BUCKLEY, Francis. Old London Drinking Glasses. Edinburgh, 1913. 14 plates. Buckram. $500.
BUCKLEY, Wilfred. Diamond Engraved Glasses of the 16th Century. London, 1929. 33 plates. Boards. One of 250 copies. $425.
BUCKLEY, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale. Chicago, 1951. Author’s first book. $350.
BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. Amulets and Superstitions. London, 1930. 22 plates, 300 other illustrations. $300.
BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians, or Studies in Egyptian Mythology. London, 1904. 2 vols. 98 color plates. Pictorial cloth. $1,250.
BUDGE, Jesse R. S. The Life of William Budge by His Son. Salt Lake City, 1915. $400.
BUECHNER, Frederick. A Long Day’s Dying. New York, 1950. Author’s first book. $200.
BUECHNER, Thomas S. Norman Rockwell, Artist and Illustrator. New York (1970). 614 plates. “Special Leatherbound Edition.” One of 1,100 copies signed by Rockwell and Buechner. Large color collotype created especially for this edition, hand-numbered and signed by Rockwell. In slipcase. $750. Trade. $250.
BUEL, J. W. The Border Outlaws. St. Louis, 1881. $1,000.
BUEL, J. W. Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout. Chicago, 1880. Frontispiece and plate. 93 pages, pictorial wraps. Presumed first issue, with cover dated 1880. $3,000.
BUFFET, Bernard. Lithographs, 1952-1966. New York (1968). One of 125 copies with 2 additional lithographs signed by Buffet. $3,600. Wraps in dust jacket and slipcase. $850.
BUFFUM, E. Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines. Philadelphia, 1850. Printed wraps. $1,250. Cloth. $1,000.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. All the Assholes in the World and Mine. (Bensonville, 1966.) Wraps. One of 400 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later with an original drawing by Bukowski tipped in. $2,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. One of 75 copies with an original illustration signed by the author, issued in glassine dust jacket. $4,000. One of 800 copies in wraps. $500. (Also 16 to 18 review copies with front wrap misspelling “sreet.” $2,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. (Chicago) 1965. Wraps. One of 500 copies. $750. “Author’s Edition” created later by author tipping in an illustration or signed poem. $2,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, 1965. One of 475 copies. Decorated wraps. $500. One of 25 copies with “specially autographed drawings by Buk.” $2,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Cornered. (No place): Burn Again Press [actually Black Sparrow Press], (no date). One of 30 signed copies. Wraps. $2.250.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Crucifix in a Deathhand. New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1965). Pictorial wraps. One of 3,100 signed copies. $650. (Some copies, with special inscriptions, at higher prices.) One of 26 signed copies. $1,750. Many other variants (see bibliographies).
BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Curtains Are Waving . . . (Los Angeles): Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Printed brown wraps. One of 122 signed copies. $1,500. Some with an original drawing. $2,500. 3 signed, lettered copies. $3,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Los Angeles, 1969. One of 250 signed copies. In acetate dust jacket. $1,500. One of 50 copies with a drawing by the author. $6,500. One of 1,250 copies in tan wraps. $150.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail. (Eureka, CA, 1959.) Author’s first book. Wraps. (Two previous broadsides, 1950 and 1956.) $6,500. One of 3 or 5 with original drawing or poem tipped in. $9,000. (Although most copies have drawings and/or inscription).
BUKOWSKI, Charles. A Genius of the Crowd. (Cleveland, 1966.) Pamphlet. One of 103 copies. $2,750.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Heat Wave. Santa Rosa, 1995. One of 170 copies signed by Ken Price. Tray case built into back of book holding 15 loose original serigraphs laid in. Inside front cover has envelope holding compact disc of Bukowski reading his poetry. In plexi-glass slipcase. $3,000. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $6,500.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Horsemeat. Santa Barbara, 1982. Folio. One of 125 copies signed by both Bukowski and the photographer, Michael Montfort. $2,500. A prospectus for the book. One sheet folded. 1 of 26 signed copies. $1,500.
