Eighteen Modern Fiction and Historical Works

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Modern Firsts

By Bonhams Skinner

Nov 1, 2021 - Nov 10, 2021

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An intimate sale featuring a single-owner collection of mostly modern first edition books, many signed, including literature, fiction, and nonfiction works. This auction has something for everyone! Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com

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• Lot Description
  Eighteen Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Tuchman, Barbara W., Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. MacMillan, 1970, signed first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Tuck, Lily, The News from Paraguay. Harper Collins, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Turtledove, Harry, A Different Flesh. Congdon & Weed, 1988, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Vaill, Amanda, Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket: as new); Verne, Jules, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the Moon. Platt & Munk, 1965, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Wahei, Tatematsu, Okunohosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North). Kodansha, 2004, hardcover, written in Japanese, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Wakeman, Frederic, Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. University of California Press, 2003, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Walbert, Kate, A Short History of Women. Scribner, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest: A Novel. Little, Brown & Co., 1996, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Wallace, David Foster, The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel. Little, Brown & Co., 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Wallace, David Foster, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown & Co., 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel. Scribner, 2009, first edition signed hardcover, with photograph of author, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle. Scribner, 2005, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Ward, Jesmyn, Salvage the Bones. Bloomsbury, 2011, first edition, first printing, signed hardback, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Wassermann, Jakob, Translated by Michael Hofmann, My Marriage. NY Review Books, 2012, first edition U.S. softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Welles, Orson, Edited by Bridget Gellert Lyons, Chimes at Midnight. Rutgers University Press, 1988, hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Wells, H.G., Seven Famous Novels. Knopf, 1934, first edition hardcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket); White, Patrick, Riders in the Chariot. The Viking Press, 1961, first edition U.S. hardcover, first published, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine).

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