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

T. S. ARTHUR (1809-1885)

TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM. Philadelphia, 1854. This holds priority over an edition the same year published in Boston.

IRVING BACHELLER (1859- )

EBEN HOLDEN. There is a pine-cone design on backstrip with rounded top. In later editions, a flat top was substituted. Boston (1900).

RAY STANNARD BAKER (1870- )

ADVENTURES IN CONTENTMENT. By David Grayson (pseudonym). New York, 1907. Green pictorial cloth, about 1-3/16 inches thick. Illustration on page 110, shows cows grazing. Second state is bound in dark green, olive cloth, without illustration on page 110, of man plowing.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
(1862-1922)

A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX. New York, 1896.

EDWARD BELLAMY
(1850-1898)

LOOKING BACKWARD, 2000-1887. Comes in gray, green, yellowish and perhaps other colors of cloth; also in paper wrappers. Cloth-bound copies hold priority. They are said to have been issued in the Spring, whereas those in wrappers didn’t appear until Fall. The first state has printer’s imprint on copyright page. Boston, 1888.