BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. See Proteus.
BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. London, 1892. One of 50 copies. $4,500. Regular edition. $200. Newtown, Wales: Gregynog Press, 1930. Translated from the Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and done into verse by W.S.B. Boards and leather. One of 275 copies. $1,000. One of 25 copies (of this edition) especially bound in morocco. $5,000.
BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus . . . with the LoveSonnets. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892. Woodcut borders and initials. Stiff vellum with ties. One of 300 copies. $2,500.
BLY, Robert. The Light Around the Body. New York (1967). $125.
BLY, Robert. The Lion’s Tail and Eyes. Madison, 1962. (Author’s first book with J. Wright and W. Duffy.) $150.
BLY, Robert. The Silence in the Snowy Fields. Middletown, 1962. Author’s first solely authored book. Cloth. $150. Wraps. $60.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron. London, 1620. 2 vols. $40,000. London: Ashendene Press, 1920. Folio, boards and linen. One of 105 copies on paper. $5,000. One of 6 copies on vellum. $7,500. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1930. Translated by Frances Winwar. 2 vols. In slipcase. $300. Another Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940. Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. One of 530 copies. In slipcase. $500.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Life of Dante. (Boston, 1904.) Translated by Philip Henry Wicksteed. Woodcut title portrait. Boards and vellum. One of 325 copies designed by Bruce Rogers. In slipcase. $250.
BOCKSTOCE, John R. American Whalers in the Western Arctic. Fairhave, 1983. One of 30 copies. 12 signed reproductions (extra suite laid in) and 2 original signed pencil sketches by artist, William Gilkerson. In portfolio and clamshell case. $2,000. One of 370 numbered copies. As above without 2 original sketches. $1,000.
BODENHEIM, Maxwell. See Hecht, Ben.
BODENHEIM, Maxwell. Minna and Myself. New York, 1918. Author’s first book. First issue, with “Master-Posner” for “Master-Poisoner” on page 67. $125.
BODENHEIM, Maxwell. The Sardonic Arm. Chicago, 1923. Issued without dust jacket. One of 575 copies. $100.
BODKIN, M. McDonnell. Paul Beck: The Rule of Thumb Detective. London, 1898. $2,500.
BODKIN, M. McDonnell. White Magic. London, 1897. Author’s first book. $1,500.
BOGAN, Louise. Body of This Death: Poems. New York, 1923. Author’s first book. $600.
BOGAN, Louise. Dark Summer. New York, 1929. $600.
BOGAN, Louise. The Sleeping Fury. New York, 1937. $375.
BOGDANOVICH, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. New York (1961). Wraps. $150.
BOGGS, Mae Helene Bacon (compiler). My Playhouse Was a Concord Coach. (Oakland, 1942.) Maps, illustrations. $550.
BOLDREWOOD [sic] Rolf (Bolderwood). Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia. London, 1888. (By Thomas A. Browne.) 3 vols. Decorated green cloth. $3,500.
BOLLER, Henry A. Among the Indians. Philadelphia, 1868. Folding map, cloth, paper label. $6,000.
BOLTON, Arthur T. The Architecture of Robert & James Adam. London, 1922. 2 vols. $850.
BOLTON, George G. A Specialist in Crime. London, 1904. Author’s only book. $175.
BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Anza’s California Expeditions. Berkeley, 1930. 5 vols. Folding map, illustrations. $1,000.
BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Athanase de Mezieres and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier. Cleveland, 1914. 2 vols. Map, 2 facsimiles. $750.
BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. The Rim of Christendom. New York, 1936. 12 plates, 3 facsimiles. $150.
BOLTON, Theodore. American Book Illustrators, Bibliographical Check Lists of 123 Artists. New York, 1938. $150.
BOND, J. Wesley. Minnesota and Its Resources. Chicago, 1856. Folding map, 6 plates, cloth. $150.
BOND, Michael. Bear Called Paddington. London, 1958. Author’s first book. $3,500. Boston, 1960. $1,250.
BOND, Nelson. Exiles of Time. Philadelphia, 1949. $75. One of 112 signed copies. In slipcase. $200.
BOND, Nelson. Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman. New York, 1950. $100. One of 4 signed copies specially bound in gray and black. $600.
BOND, Nelson. Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies and Other Fantastic Tales. New York (1946). Author’s first book. $75.
BOND, Nelson. Nightmares and Daydreams. Sauk City (1968). $100.
BOND, Nelson. The Thirty-first of February. New York (1949). $125. One of 112 signed copies. In slipcase. $300.
BONFILS, Winifred B. The Life and Personality of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. San Francisco, 1928. John Henry Nash printing. Vellum. One of 1,000 copies. In original tan flannel bag. $350.
BONNELL, George W. Topographical Description of Texas. Austin, 1840. $20,000.
BONNER, T. D. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer . . . New York, 1856. Frontispiece and plates. $850.
BONNEY, Edward. Banditti of the Prairies; or, The Murderer’s Doom! Chicago, 1850. Pictorial wraps. With imprint “Chicago, W.W. Dannenhauer 1850” on front cover. $17,500. Chicago, 1853. $12,500. Philadelphia (1855). $2,000. Chicago, 1856. “25th or 30th thousand.” $1,000. Chicago, 1858. 13 plates. Wraps. $3,500.
BONTEMPS, Arna. Black Thunder. New York, 1936. $950.
BONTEMPS, Arna. God Sends Sunday. New York, 1931. Author’s first book. $1,750.
BONTEMPS, Arna, and CONROY, Jack. Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Signer Painter. Boston, 1946. $750.
BOOK Collector ( The). London, 1947-84. Complete run from vol. 1, no.1, to vol. 33, no.1, and The Book Handbook, 9 issues bound in 1 vol. Wraps. $1,250.
BOOK-LORE, A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature. London, 1885-87. 6 vols. $250.
BOOK of Commandments (A), for the Government of the Church of Christ. Zion (Independence, MO.), 1833. (By Joseph Smith, Jr.) This title was destroyed by an angry anti-Mormon mob while the book was being printed. Pages were rescued by faithful Mormons and later crudely hand sewn into rawhide bindings, or none at all. The title page was never printed at the time and was supplied a few years later (there are two different versions of the title page). $1,500,000.
BOOK of Job (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946. Illustrated in color by Arthur Szyk. In slipcase. $450.
BOOK of Jonah (The). Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Illustrated by David Jones. Buckram. One of 175 copies. In dust jacket. $2,500.
BOOK of Princeton Verse 1916 (A). Princeton, 1916. Edited by Alfred Noyes. (Includes poems by Edmund Wilson, John Peale Bishop, and others.) $400.
BOOK of Princeton Verse II (A). Princeton (1919). (First book appearance of three poems by F. Scott Fitzgerald.) In dust jacket. $1,750. Without dust jacket. $200.
BOOK of Psalms (The). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1960. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. One of 1,500 copies. In slipcase. $225.
BOOK of Ruth (The). London: Nonesuch Press, 1923. One of 250 copies. In slipcase. $450. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1947. Introduction by Mary Ellen Chase. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. One of 1,950 copies. In slipcase. $450.
BOOK of the Law of the Lord (The). Saint James, A.R.I. (Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, 1851.) (By James Jesse Strang.) 3 copies known. $50,000. (Beaver Island, 1856.) Second issue, original sheets, lacking title page (some supplied, and with preface, in modern type, circa 1920). $8,000. For a later edition, see James J. Strang entry.
BOOK of the Poets’ Club (The). London, 1909. (Includes first printings of four Ezra Pound