Charles. Post Office. Los Angeles, 1971. Boards. In acetate dust jacket. One of 250 signed copies. $5,000. One of 50 signed copies, with an original drawing by the author. $10,000. Wraps. $350.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Run with the Hunted. Chicago (1962). Pictorial wraps. $3,000. (New York): Harper (1993.) One of 26 signed copies. $2,000. One of 200 signed copies. $350. Trade edition. $75. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press (1993). One of 26 signed copies. $1,500. One of 300 signed copies. $300.
BULFINCH, Thomas. See Authorship.
BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Chivalry. Boston, 1859. 6 illustrations. Brown cloth. $450.
BULFINCH, Thomas. The Age of Fable. Boston, 1855. First state, with names of both printer and stereotyper on copyright page. $500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1958. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. In slipcase. $175.
BULKELEY, John and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740 . . . London, 1743. $5,000. Dublin, 1743. $3,000. Philadelphia, 1757. First American edition. $3,000.
BULLAR, Joseph. A Winter in the Azores . . . John Van Voorst, 1841. 2 vols. Cloth. $1,000.
BULLEN, Frank T. The Cruise of the “Cachalot.” London, 1898. Author’s first book. Folding map and plates. $550. New York, 1899. $200.
BULLEN, Henry Lewis. Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice . . . San Francisco, 1926. One of 207 copies with an original folio leaf from Plutarch’s Vitae Parallelae Illustrium Virorum loosely inserted. $850.
BULLER, Sir Walter Lawry. A History of the Birds of New Zealand. London, 1873. 35 hand-colored plates. (500 copies). $15,000. London, 1887-88. 48 colored plates, 2 plain plates. 13 parts in 8, wraps. $15,000. London, 1888. 2 vols. Second edition. Half morocco. $7,500.
BULLOCK, William. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico. London, 1824. Frontispiece, 15 plates (4 hand-colored), a folding table, and 2 folding maps. $2,250.
BULLOCK, Wynn. The Photograph as Symbol. Mountain View, 1976. One of 200 copies stated (but only 100 copies printed). Each initialed by Bullock (on mounted slip) and signed by publisher. In slipcase. $2,000.
BULL-US, Hector. The Diverting History of John Bull . . . New York, 1812. (By James K. Paulding, his first book.) $1,000.
BULWER, John. Chirologia, or the Natural History of the Hand . . . London, 1644. 2 engraved additional titles, 6 full-page engraved illustrations. $4,000.
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. See Caxton, Pisistratus. See also The Coming Race; Falkland; The Last Days of Pompeii.
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Falkland. London, 1827. Second edition. $900.
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George. Ismael: an Oriental Tale. London, 1820. Author’s first book. Boards. $1,000.
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward Robert. See Clytemnestra.
BUNIN, I. A. The Gentleman from San Francisco. Boston, 1918. $250. (Richmond): Hogarth Press, 1922. Translated by Leonard Woolf. Boards. Issued without dust jacket. With errata slip. $250.
BUNNER, H. C. A Woman of Honor. Boston, 1883. Author’s first regularly published book. $200. (Previous pamphlets and collaborations.)
BUNTING, Basil. Briggflatts. London (1966). Wraps. One of 100 copies in black cloth and dust jacket. $1,750. Leather. One of 26 signed, lettered copies. $3,000.
BUNTING, Basil. First Book of Odes. London (1965). Green boards. Issued without dust jacket. One of 125 copies. $200. Another issue, one of 50 copies in black boards and green dust jacket. $500. One of 26 signed and lettered copies. In black leather and dust jacket. $1,250.
BUNTING, Basil. Loquitur. London (1965). Full morocco. One of 26 signed copies. In dust jacket. $500. One of 200 copies. In cloth and dust jacket. $225.
BUNTING, Basil. Redimiculum Matellarum. Milan, 1930. Author’s first book. Wraps. $6,000.
BUNTING, Basil. Two Poems. (No place): Unicorn Press, 1967. Wraps. One of 220 copies. $250. One of 30 signed copies. $800.
BUNTING, Basil, and WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Descant on Rawthey’s Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting. Lexington, Ky. (1968). One of 25 copies signed by Bunting and Williams. In boards and dust jacket. $1,750. One of 475 in white wraps, in light-brown printed dust jacket. $150.
BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress. London, 1678. $150,000. London: Chiswick Press, 1899. One of 750 copies. $600. London: Cresset Press, 1928. 2 vols. 10 wood engravings. Folio, cloth. One of 195 copies. $2,500. One of 10 copies on vellum with an extra suite of plates. $20,000. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941. 29 William Blake illustrations in color. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $250.
BURCH, R. M. Colour Printing and Colour Printers. London, 1910. Second edition. $250. New York, 1910. $200.
BURCHELL, William J. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. London, 1822-24. 2 vols. Large folding map, 20 hand-colored aquatint plates (5 folding). Contemporary calf. $15,000.
BURCKHARDT, John Lewis. Travels in Nubia. London, 1819. 2 folding maps. $2,000.
BURDICK, William. An Oration on the Nature and Effects of the Art of Printing. Boston, 1802. The earliest book on printing history with a U.S. imprint. $1,750.
BURGESS, Anthony. See Kell, Joseph.
BURGESS, Anthony. Beds in the East. London (1959). $250.
BURGESS, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. London (1962). In dust jacket with price of 16 shillings. $10,000. New York (1963). $850.
BURGESS, Anthony. The Doctor Is Sick. London (1960). $400. New York (1960). $200.
BURGESS, Anthony. The Enemy in the Blanket. London (1958). $350.
BURGESS, Anthony. Honey for the Bears. London (1963). $250. New York (1964). $150.
BURGESS, Anthony. The Right to an Answer. London (1960). $250. New York (1961). $150.
BURGESS, Anthony. Time for a Tiger. London, 1956. Author’s first book. $1,000.
BURGESS, Anthony. The Worm and the Ring. London, 1961. (Suppressed.) $1,150. A revised edition was issued in 1970.
BURGESS, Gelett. The Nonsense Almanack for 1900. New York (1899). Wraps. $200.
BURGESS, Gelett. The Purple Cow! (San Francisco, 1895.) Author’s first publication. Illustrated. 8 leaves. First state of first printing (printed on both sides of leaf) on rough China paper. $350. Second state (printed on one side of leaf only). $125.
BURGESS, Gelett. Vivette, or the Memoirs of the Romance Association. Boston, 1897. Author’s first book, aside from The Purple Cow leaflet. $150.
BURGESS, Thornton Waldo. Old Mother West Wind. Boston (1910). Author’s first book for children. Pictorial tan cloth. $450.
BURGOYNE, Lieut. Gen. John. A State of the Expedition from Canada . . . London, 1780. Large folding map, 5 folding plans. $10,000. Octavo. $4,500.
BURK, John. The History of Virginia. Petersburg, 1804-16. 4 vols. $3,000.
BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution
