BARR, Louise Farrow. Presses of Northern California and Their Books, 1900-1933. Berkeley, 1934. One of 400 copies. $250.
BARR, Nevada. Bittersweet. New York (1984). Author’s first book. $650.
BARR, Nevada. Track of the Cat. New York (1993). Author’s first mystery. $350.
BARR, Robert. The Triumph of Eugene Valmont. London, 1906. $500.
BARRETT, E. B. The Battle of Marathon: A Poem. London, 1820. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) (50 copies.) $100,000.
BARRETT, Elizabeth. Poems. London, 1844. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) 2 vols. With ads in vol. 1 dated June 1. $2,500. No ads. $750. London, 1850. 2 vols. Brown cloth. Second edition, first issue, with single address in imprint, called “New Edition.” (First appearance of “Sonnets from the Portuguese” in a book.) $1,500.
BARRETT, Elizabeth B. The Seraphim and Other Poems. London, 1838. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Original cloth. $500.
BARRETT, Elizabeth, and BROWNING, Robert. Two Poems. London, 1854. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Printed wraps. $650.
BARRETT, Ellen C. Baja California, 1535-1956: A Bibliography. Los Angeles, 1957. Blue cloth. One of 500 copies. $350. Also, one of 50 signed copies. $600.
BARRETT, Timothy. Nagashizuki: The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking. North Hills, 1979. One of 300 copies. $450.
BARRIE, Sir James M. See The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899.
BARRIE, Sir James M. The Admirable Crichton. London (1914). Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. $350. One of 500 copies signed by Thomson. $1,500.
BARRIE, Sir James M. Auld Licht Idylls. London, 1888. First issue, with black endpapers (VAB). (Bibliographies call for green end papers). $450.
BARRIE, Sir James M. Better Dead. London, 1888 (actually 1887). Author’s first book. Pictorial glazed yellow (or buff) wraps. $2,000.
BARRIE, Sir James M. An Edinburgh Eleven. London, 1889. (“Gavin Ogilvy” on front cover and “J. M. Barrie” on title page.) First issue in wraps. $150. Later issue same date; gray cloth. $75.
BARRIE, Sir James M. The Little Minister. London, 1891. 3 vols. Brown cloth. With 16 pages of ads in vol. 1. $900.
BARRIE, Sir James M. My Lady Nicotine. London, 1890. First issue, with 6 pages of ads at back. $300.
BARRIE, Sir James M. Peter and Wendy. London (1911). $3,500. New York (1911). $2,500.
BARRIE, Sir James M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906. Illustrated in color and black-and-white by Arthur Rackham. Vellum. One of 500 copies signed by Rackham. $13,000. Trade edition in cloth. $3,000. New York, 1906. $1,650.
BARRIE, Sir James M. Quality Street. (London, 1913.) Vellum with silk ties. One of 1,000 illustrated and signed by Hugh Thomson. $500. Trade issue. Cloth. $175.
BARROW, John. A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions. London, 1818. Illustrated, folding map. $1,200.
BARROW, John. Travels in China . . . London, 1804. Hand-colored frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (2 folding and 4 hand-colored). $2,500.
BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, 1792-1793. London, 1806. Double-page map, double-page chart, 19 colored aquatint plates. $6,500.
BARROWS, R. M. (compiler). The Kitbook for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines. Chicago (1942 - facing title page). Pictorial boards. In pictorial mailing box. (Contains J. D. Salinger’s story “The Hang of It,” his first book appearance.) $2,000. Without mailing box. $750. Chicago (1943). With box. $450. More common without box. $150.
BARROWS, Willard. Notes on Iowa Territory. Cincinnati, 1845. Folding map. 46 pages, cloth, printed front cover label. $4,000.
BARRY, T. A., and PATTEN, B. A. Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the “Spring of ‘50.” San Francisco, 1873. 2 plates. Flexible cloth. $250.
BARTELL, Edmund. Hints for Picturesque Improvements in Ornamented Cottages and Their Scenery . . . London, 1804. 6 plates. $1,000.
BARTH, John. The End of the Road. Garden City, 1958. $500. London, 1962. $150.
BARTH, John. The Floating Opera. New York (1956). Author’s first book. $500. Garden City, 1967. Revised. $75. London (1968). $125.
BARTH, John. Giles Goat-Boy. Garden City, 1966. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $350. Trade. With “H18” on last page of text. $125. London (1967). $100.
BARTH, John. Lost in the Funhouse. Garden City, 1968. One of 250 signed copies. In slipcase. $175. Trade. $75. London (1969). $75.
BARTH, John. The Sot-Weed Factor. Garden City, 1960. $600. London, 1961. $150.
BARTHELME, Donald. Come Back, Dr. Caligari. Boston (1964). Author’s first regularly published book. $300. With tipped-in signed page. $600. In wraps. $75. London, 1966. $100.
BARTHELME, Donald. The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine… New York, 1971. $150.
BARTHELME, Donald. Snow White. New York, 1967. $200. London, 1968. $100.
BARTHELME, Donald. Two Stories From Dr. Caligari. (Boston) 1964. Author’s first book. Unbound sheets in box. (Promotional item). $650.
BARTLETT, Edward. A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds . . . (Maidstone, 1888-89.) Parts 1 to 5 in one volume. 31 plates. Ranges from $2,500 with some plates hand-colored to $6,000 with all hand-colored.
BARTLETT, Edward Everett. The Typographic Treasures in Europe and a Study of Contemporaneous Book Production . . . New York, 1925. One of 580 copies. $125.
BARTLETT, John. See A Collection of Familiar Quotations.
BARTLETT, John Russell. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California . . . New York, 1854. 2 vols. Folding map. 44 plates, pictorial cloth. $2,500. London, 1854. 2 vols. $1,000.
BARTON, James L. Commerce of the Lakes. Buffalo, 1847. Folding table. 80 pages. Wraps. $750.
BARTON, William P. C. Compendium Florae Philadelphicae . . . Philadelphia, 1818. 2 vols. $750.
BARTON, William P. C. A Flora of North America. Philadelphia, 1821-23. 3 vols. 106 hand-colored plates. $7,000.
BARTON, William P. C. The Vegetable Materia Medica Of The U.S.; Or Medical Botany . . . Philadelphia, 1817-1818. 2 vols. 50 hand-colored plates. $9,000.
BARTRAM, John. Observations on the Inhabitants… London, 1751. $9,500.
BARTRAM, William. Travels Through North & South Carolina. Philadelphia, 1791. Author’s first book. Folding map, 8 plates, including frontispiece. $14,000. London, 1792. $7,500. Dublin, 1793. $2,500.
BARZUN, Jacques Martin. Samplings and Chronicles. (Edited by J.M.B.) New York, 1927. (500 copies.) $125.
BASKIN, Leonard. Ars Anatomica, A Medical Fantasia, Thirteen Drawings. New York (1972). Contains two sets of 13 suites enclosed in portfolio. One of 300 signed sets. $475. One of 2,500 signed copies. $500.
BASKIN, Leonard. Demons, Imps & Friends. (Northampton, MA) 1976. 18 plates of illustrations. One of 450 signed copies by Baskin. $350.
BASKIN, Leonard. To Colour Thought. New Haven, 1967. One of 300 copies. In slipcase. $450.
BASKIN, Leonard. The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin, 1948-1959. Northampton, 1961. 168 signed engravings. Folio, loose in half-morocco case. One of 24 copies. $10,000.
BASS, Rick. The Deer Pasture. College Station, 1985. Author’s first book. $225.
BASS, W. W. (editor). Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado by Two of Its Earliest Explorers, James White and H. W. Hawkins. Grand Canyon, 1920. Frontispiece, plate, facsimiles. 38 pages, wraps. $600.
BATCHELOR, John Calvin. The Further Adventures of Haley’s Comet. New York, 1980. Author’s