Collected Books: The Guide to Values: An up-to-date price handbook with over 15,000 first editions in all fields for collectors, dealers, and librarians by Ahearm, Allan & Patricia Ahearm - 1991

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. fifth printing. 636 pp., 6.25 X 9.25 inches. Case-bound in paper-wrapped boards with cloth spine and dust jacket. From the publisher: "The long-awaited successor to the classic Book Collector's Handbook of Values by Van Allen Bradley, this is the larges, most comprehensive and up-to-date single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in America. "Collected Books: The Guide to Values goes beyond the Bradley work to include books published before 1800, to present information that allows collectors to identify first editions of books in hand, and to provide prices that are current rather than projected. It is a compendium of more than 15,000 titles in various categories, including literature, poetry, Americana, detective and spy fiction, golf, fishing and hunting, westerns (both fiction and nonfiction), and books on books, printing, and more—all arranged alphabetically by author. "At a time when auction prices for classics seem to double annually, when even recent books in fine condition can bring in relatively high prices, this definitive handbook is nothing less than indispensable for any serious collector, dealer, or librarian."