Ohioana Collection Builders Project:
Books Funded and Acquired
View a selection of books Ohioana needs that are
currently available in the used/antiquarian market
The complete list of purchases funded by the Project to date:
Beggars Abroad
By Jim Tully
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1930
1st edition. Both the book and jacket are in “Near Fine”
condition
Exceptional copy of an extremely scarce Tully title
$250
The Man in the Tricorn Hat
By Delano Ames
London: Methuen, 1960
“Near Fine” condition (no inscriptions) in like dust jacket
$42
Irrational Numbers
By George Alec Effinger
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976
1st edition. “Fine” condition in “Fine” dust jacket
Signed by the author
$45
Chris’mus is a Comin’ & Other Poems
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1907
“Very Good Plus” condition
Scarce volume by renowned African-American poet
$280
Kek Huuygens, Smuggler
By Robert L. Fish
NY: Mysterious, 1976
Limited to 1,250 1st edition copies of which 250 were
numbered and signed by the author
This boxed copy is in “Very Good” condition, and is number 110
$75
Funky Winkerbean, I Never Promised You
A Rose Parade
By Tom Batiuk
Oskalossa, IA: NLP Marketing, 1990
1st edition. “Near Fine” condition for this scarce title
$100
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
By John Jakes
NY: Award Books, 1974
“Fine” condition
Cover photo the from 20th Century film starring Roddy
McDowall.
$15
Kristie At College
By Mildred Wirt Benson
London: Children’s Press [1950s].
1st edition. Extremely clean tight copy in a beautiful dust jacket
Last book published by the author of the original Nancy Drew
series
$189
Three For Tomorrow:
Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction
Meredith Press: New York, 1969
1st edition hardcover in “fine” condition
Hugo and Nubula Awards winner Ohioan Roger Zelazny’s
The Eve of Rumoko is one of the original novellas in this
thematic collection.
$30
The Lone Star Ranger
By Zane Grey
1915
1st edition, excellent condition;
Adapted to film four times, including one in 1923 featuring
Tom Mix and Billie Dove
$150
Idle Pleasures
By George Alec Effinger
NY: Berkley Books, 1983
First edition. Paperback. “Near Fine” condition. Signed and
inscribed by Effinger
$25
The Big Fisherman
By Lloyd C. Douglas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948
1st edition. Signed by the author
Basis for the 1959 film
$225
Black Judgement
By Nikki Giovanni
1968
1st edition. Paperback. Signed by the author. “Fine” condition
$150
Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today
By Henry W. Lanier with photographs by Berenice Abbott
1949
1st edition collector’s copy of this beautifully photographed
documentation of New York City’s famed neighborhood
$300
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