The Collector's Guide, No. 17, January 1940 / A monthly periodical devoted to first editions, Americana, autographs, old newspapers and magazines, sheet music, playbills, dime novels, current auction prices, etc.

by Various

RECENT AUCTION PRICES

Sometimes the author is given first, sometimes his book, etc.—whichever seems most pertinent at the moment.

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AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. 1900-3. 1908-36. Index 1916-22. 34 vols. ex-library. $95.

AMERICAN STATESMEN. Ed. by John T. Morse, Jr. 32 vols. Boston, 1898. $70.

THE MAN WITH THE HOE. By Edwin Markham. First edition in book form, in original envelope. San Francisco, 1899. $22.

JOHN L. STODDARD. Lectures. 12 vols. ¾ morocco. Boston, 1908. $15.

WALT WHITMAN, manuscript, 1 page, about 75 words, in pencil. $42.

THACKERAY, WILLIAM. Vanity Fair. The original 20 parts in 19. London, 1847-48. $275.

WHITMAN MASSACRE. By Matilda J. Sager Delaney, a survivor. Wrappers, autographed. Spokane (1920). $5.

DODGE CITY, THE COWBOY CAPITAL. By Robert M. Wright. (Wichita, Kan., 1913). $17.

CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 6 vols. New York, 1891. $6.

THE TERRITORY OF WYOMING. ITS HISTORY, SOIL, CLIMATE, RESOURCES, etc. Wrappers. Laramie City, 1874. $27.

HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF LARAMIE CITY. By J. H. Triggs. Wrappers. Worn. Laramie City, 1875. $27.

HISTORY OF CHEYENNE AND NORTHERN WYOMING. By J. H. Triggs. Wrappers. Omega, 1876. $42.

THE CHAP BOOK. 8 vols. Chicago, 1894-7. $12.

PUDD’NHEAD WILSON. By Samuel L. Clemens. 1st. Hartford, 1894. $13.

THE COLOPHON. 34 parts. New York, 1930-8. $47.

AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING. Bds. Name in ink inside front cover. 1st ed. Boston, 1918. $17.

CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL. By Francis Parkman. 1st ed. Defects. New York, 1849. $37.

THE YELLOW BOOK. 13 vols. 1st eds. with one exception. Covers discolored. London, 1894-7. $15.

FOUR YEARS IN THE ROCKIES. By James B. Marsh. Orig. cloth. Cover stained. New Castle, Pa., 1884. $42.

PENCIL SKETCHES OF COLORADO. By A. E. Mathews. 36 views on 23 plates, lithographed by J. Bien. Orig. cloth. Slight defects. (New York) 1866. $140.

THE BANDITTI OF THE PLAINS. By A. C. Mercer. Orig. ed. Slight defects. (Cheyenne: Privately printed, 1894). $45.

MISSOURI STATE GAZETEER, SHIPPERS’ GUIDE AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY, for 1865. Portrait, views and pictorial advertisements. Geo. W. Hawes & Co., Indianapolis, 1865. $50.

THE DARK SIDE OF NEW YORK LIFE AND ITS CRIMINAL CLASSES. 26 parts, orig. printed wrappers. Some defects. New York, 1873. $22.

THE PLAINS AND THE ROCKIES. By Henry R. Wagner. A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1860-1865. Revised and extended by Charles L. Camp. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1937. $10.

AMERICAN CHILDREN’S BOOK. (Mrs. Pinchard). The Blind Child. Original boards. Loose, lightly stained. Philadelphia, 1793. $7.

EBEN HOLDEN. By Irving Bacheller. 1st ed. First issue. Orig. cloth. Boston (1900). $27.

CATTLE TRADE. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade. By Joseph G. McCoy. Covers, spotted and foxed. Kansas City, 1874. $47.... Cattle Brands of Members of Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Chicago, 1882. $22.... Prose and Poetry of the Livestock Industry. By Jerome C. Smiley and James W. Freeman. Vol. 1 (all published). Denver (1905). $52.

OVERLAND ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. By (Andrew Child). Crude wrappers; title-page missing, lightly stained. (Milwaukee, 1852). $70.

THE INDIAN’S LAST FIGHT. By Dennis Collins. Orig. cloth, privately printed. (Girard, Kansas, about 1914). $37.

THE GOLD MINES OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO. By Samuel Cushman and J. P. Waterman. Orig. printed wrappers. Central City, 1876. $15.

HANDS UP; or, Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. By General D. J. Cook. Orig. cloth, worn, covers stained. 1st ed. Presentation copy. Denver, 1882. $35.

ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1850. By A. A. Enos. Wrappers. Privately printed for distribution to friends. Stanton, (n.d.). $25.

BRET HARTE. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches. Orig. cloth. Backstrip defects. 1st ed. 1st issue. Boston, 1870. $32.

THE STORY OF A COUNTRY TOWN. By E. W. Howe. Some defects. 1st ed. Atchison, 1883. $15.

STORIES OF THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL. By Col. Henry Inman. 1st ed. Orig. cloth, slightly rubbed. Kansas City, 1881. $9.

VIGILANTE DAYS AND WAYS. By NATHANIEL P. LANGFORD. 1st ed. 2 vols., orig. cloth. Boston, 1890. $20.

MEMOIRS OF A PIONEER. By George Lathrop. Orig. printed wrappers. Lusk Herald, Wyoming, circa 1917. $22.

HIGH SPOTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Merle Johnson. New York, 1929. $15.

THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER’S NECK. By James Branch Cabell. 1st ed. New York. 1915. $16. JURGEN. By the same author. 1st issue, inscribed. New York, 1919. $32.

FARM BALLADS. By Will Carleton. Back cover spots. New York, 1875. $6.

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, AND OTHER SKETCHES. By Mark Twain. Immaculate copy of the first issue of the first edition of the author’s first book. Original blue cloth. New York, 1867. $610.

TOM SAWYER. By Samuel L. Clemens. 1st issue. Rubbed. Hartford, 1876. $475.

MAGGIE. By Johnston Smith (Stephen Crane). Yellow wrappers. Privately printed. 1st ed. Small defects and tears. (New York, 1893). $90.

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. By Stephen Crane. Orig. cloth, with dust jacket. 1st issue of 1st ed. of author’s second novel. Very slight end-paper blemishes. New York, 1895. $150.

EMILY DICKINSON. Poems. 1st ed. Covers soiled. Boston, 1890. $52.... Letters. 2 vols. 1st ed. backstrip discolorations. Boston, 1894. $15.... The Single Hound. Bds. 1st ed. Boston, 1914. $55.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. The Scarlet Letter. 1st ed., 1st issue. Presentation copy by author. One of finest copies in existence. Boston, 1850. $2000.

THE COVERED WAGON. By Emerson Hough. 1st ed. with dust jacket. Immaculate copy. New York, 1922. $40.

G. A. Baker & Co.

NOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA VIA CAPE HORN. By (S. C.) Upham. 1st ed. Philadelphia, 1878. $7.