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

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.