Read Ebook: 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 Madison James Editor

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PEGASUS BOOK SHOP 144 East 61 St. New York, N. Y.

HISTORY OF THE BOOK COMBINATION OFFER

DAWSON'S BOOK SHOP 627 So. Grand Avenue LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Catalog of early printing sent free on request.

Mail Bidders Wanted Catalogues Free

ALBERT SAIFER Book Auctions Correspondence Address: 142 S. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Consignments Solicited--Rates on Request

A list of old magazines and newspapers that are worth real money, in the February issue of THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE.

HOW TO TELL FIRST EDITIONS

When the date of the publication is not in brackets, it means that the same will be found on title page. When, however, it is in brackets, thus, , it indicates that said date is printed either on the reverse side of title page, or in some other part of the book. Or, possibly, the date does not appear at all, in which case the brackets are merely authoritative information supplied by the bibliographer. Furthermore, our endeavor has been to list only authors and books for which there is a reasonably active present-day demand, and which have a speculative future.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

THE STORY OF BAD BOY. Generally regarded as the story of his own boyhood. Has "scattered" for "scatter" on page 14, line 20, and "abroad" for "Aboard" on page 197, line 10. Green cloth binding. Boston, 1870.

HERVEY ALLEN

ANTHONY ADVERSE, New York, 1933. 105 copies de luxe edition, 3 vols. signed. Trade edition is in one volume, with publisher's monogram on copyright page. On page 352, line 6, Xaxier for Xavier. On page 397, line 22, the word found is repeated. On page 1086, line 18, ship for shop.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

WINESBURG, OHIO. New York, 1919. First printing said to have both unstained and orange stained tops.

T. S. ARTHUR

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

IRVING BACHELLER

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

RAY STANNARD BAKER

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

EDWARD BELLAMY

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.

AMBROSE BIERCE

TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. Issued in green cloth and probably also other colors. White end-papers. E. L. G. Steele, San Francisco, 1891.

BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER. Has imprint of Western Authors Publishing Co. Cloth and wrappers. San Francisco and New York, 1892.

General Stock of Americana, sea books, local New London, and Conn. material, first editions, prints, autographs, etc.

Write me your wants on your special subjects.

TRACY'S BOOKSTORE 60 Meridian St. New London, Conn.

CITY BOOK AUCTION. Sales of Books, Autographs, etc., held every Saturday at 1.30 P.M. Catalogues free. Consignments solicited. Rates on request.

Stick 'Em Up

As a preface to "Books on Western Gunmen," by Guy J. Giffen, in the Quarterly NEWS-LETTER of the Book Club of California, an editorial note states that not the least interesting subdivision of Americana is that relating to the bandits and gunmen of the Old West. The extensive literature on the subject offers a tempting field to collectors with a taste for the history and legend surrounding this phase of the Winning of the West. Mr. Giffen's extensive library of books on Western outlaws is the result of a hobby of years' standing.

Mr. Giffen's article maintains that any well-rounded collection of Western Americana should have a division of books on gunmen, and mentions a number of men and titles that will serve as a general guide to their selection. Of particular interest are the books on Murrieta. "Joaquin Murrieta, the Brigand Chief of California" was published by the CALIFORNIA POLICE GAZETTE in 1854, and is now very rare, only two copies being known, both in private collections. According to Franklin Walker as set forth in "San Francisco's Literary Frontier," John Rollin Ridge, partly of Indian blood, who came to San Francisco in 1850, furnished the GAZETTE with much of its source material when he wrote "The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, the Celebrated California Bandit." In 1859, the GAZETTE reprinted the story with additions but also in this instance, only two copies are known to have survived. Of the many later treatments of Murrieta, one of the best is "The Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joaquin Murrieta," translated from the Spanish of Ireno Paz, by Frances P. Belle. .

Americana, State and Local History, Exploration, Overland Narratives, Confederate Imprints

All Scarce or Interesting Items, Relating to California, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, the Middle and Far West, the Early and Confederate South

CATALOGUES ISSUED REGULARLY

Stories of two California bandits of a much later date, Evans and Sontag, are related in "The 25th Man", published in 1924. The author, Ed Morrell, gives a readable account of his experiences with these outlaws, bearing however a bit heavily on the first person. The exploits of Evans and Sontag were also offered to the public in dramatic form, at the National Theatre, San Francisco, in the early nineties, some of the bandit's children having been engaged as a sort of "added attraction."

C. B. Glasscock's "Bandits and the Southern Pacific" is also an interesting narrative. "Old Waybills", by Alvin F. Harlow while primarily concerned with the pioneer express companies, gives entertaining accounts of Black Bart, Jesse and Frank James, Sam Bass and the Daltons, and indicates a sincere effort to gather the facts. The books of Owen P. White have added much to present-day popular knowledge of the outstanding killers and peace officers of the Old West. His "Them Was the Days" , "Trigger Fingers" , and "Lead and Likker" make exciting reading and present a true picture so far as the truth can now be known. "Triggernometry" by Eugene Cunningham is another sincere endeavor to treat the gunmen as human beings rather than supermen.

Of nineteen volumes dealing with the James gang, "The Rise and Fall of Jesse James," by Robertus Love seems the most thorough and unbiased biography. An important and scarce James item is "The Trial of Frank James for Murder," by George Miller, Jr., privately printed in Missouri in 1898. It gives in detail information not to be found elsewhere. The list could go on indefinitely, for the period of the gunmen extended from the Civil War to the middle 90's, and the literature on the subject is limitless. Much of it, of course, is lurid, sensational material, written solely for entertainment and with no claim to historical accuracy. But there are also many more pretentious works: good, bad and indifferent. Many otherwise excellent biographies of Western gunmen are marred by the fact that the author's treatment is colored by his admiration or contempt for his subject. But, perhaps, that is a failing of biographers in general.

Everything relative to

North Carolina Literature

Old books, letters, pamphlets and newspapers bought and sold.

S. W. WORTHINGTON Wilson North Carolina

INCUNABULA

Mr. Brooks further declared that while a common objection to collecting incunabula is that they are incomprehensible, being printed in dead languages that nobody reads nowadays, it is nevertheless a fact that before the end of the century, books were being published freely in the vernacular, and Caxton and his successors were making valuable contributions to English literature in their native tongue.

Since the middle of the seventeenth century, when the output of the fifteenth century first began to attract notice as collectible objects, they have been subject to such intensive scrutiny that they are now the most thoroughly bibliographed books in the world. From Panzer and Hain , who described 16,300 titles, the scientific study evolved through the brilliant work of Bradshaw and Proctor until its culmination in the British Museum catalogue.

B. LOGIN & SON, Inc.

Quote Chemical, Medical, Biological, Technical, Agricultural, Natural Sciences & All Kinds of Scientific Magazines, Biographies of Medical & Chemical Men

It is generally admitted that there are in existence some 40,000 separate editions of books published during the fifteenth century. No one has yet had the hardihood to attempt to count all the known copies of these editions. One of the best modern efforts to gauge their extent was that of K. W. Hiersemann in his "Verlagskatalog", Leipzig, 1924. He estimated that there were at least 450,000 pieces of incunabula around, or an average of more than eleven copies of each known edition.

In undertaking to investigate the present-day holdings of incunabula in all countries, Fremont Rider, librarian of the Olin Library at Wesleyan University, reported that Germany, the birthplace of printing and native home of most incunabula, is still, according to the latest available records, the largest holder of such books. With 105 libraries owning a hundred volumes or more, it registers a total of 115,927 volumes. Italy ranks second with 70,721. France makes a poor third with 35,278, just nosing out Great Britain's 34,045. Austria comes next, outranking the United States, which can muster 22,166 volumes. Poland, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Spain, Holland and Russia follow next in order. In the 25 countries listed with libraries of a hundred or more volumes, Mr. Rider has located 380,750 titles.

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