Forty-Two Modern Fiction Works

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Modern Firsts

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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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  Forty-Two Modern Fiction Works, Gracißn, Balthasar, The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Shambala, 1993, collection paperback, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Simons, D. Brenton, Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. University Press of New England, 2008, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: good); Osbourne, Katharine D., Robert Louis Stevenson in California. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911, first edition hardcover, (no dust jacket, condition: fine); Le Carr?, John, A Legacy of Spies. Viking, 2017, official signed copy, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Pamuk, Orhan, The Red Haired Woman. Penguin, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Goodall, Jane, In the Shadow of Man. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971, paperback, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Egan, Jennifer, Manhattan Beach. Corsair, 2017, UK edition paperback, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Goodall, Jane, Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters - The Later Years. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, signed first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Bull, Hedley, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics 4th Edition. Columbia University Press, 2012, fourth edition hardcover, no dust jacket, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Milton, Giles, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat. Picador, 2016, first US edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Bach, Steven, Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, third printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Budiansky, Stephen, Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. The Free Press, 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilmers, Mary-Kay, The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story. Faber and Faber, 2009, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Mead, Walter Russell, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. Knopf, 2007, 2008, second printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Mead, Walter Russell, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk. Knopf, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Trimborn, J?rgen, Leni Riefenstahl: A Life. Faber and Faber, 2007, first US edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Bascomb, Neal, The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Mead, Walter Russell, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. Knopf, 2001, fourth printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. Random House, 1987, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Putnam, Robert D., Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Simon & Schuster, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Freeman, Paul, Ten Restaurants That Changed America. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: as new); Lagercrantz, David, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" Series. MacLehose Press, 2017, first UK edition, first printing, signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Prum, Richard O., The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us. Doubleday, 2017, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Von Tunzelmann, Alex, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Era. Henry Holt and Company, 2007, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Vance, J. D., Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Harper, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Godfrey-Smith, Peter, Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Hawking, Stephen, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Bantam Books, 2018, first US edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Colby, Virginia Reed & Atkinson, James B., Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & The Cornish Colony. Society, 1996, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bront?, Emily, Wuthering Heights. The Easton Press, 1980, collectorÆs edition, leather bound hardcover with no dust jacket, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar. Harper & Row, 1971, hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Wilson, Edward O., Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Lessing, Doris, The Sweetest Dream. Flamingo, 2001, first edition, first printing signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kandel, Eric R., The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain - From Vienna 1900 to the Present. Random House, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); McCully, Kilmer S., The Homocysteine Revolution: Medicine for the New Millennium. Keats, 1997, paperback, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Barr, Luke, Ritz & Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef & The Rise of the Leisure Class. Clarkson Potter, 2018, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Haas, Richard, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. Penguin Press, 2017, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Doolittle, General James H. "Jimmy," & Glines, Carroll V., I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography. Schiffer Military History, 1991, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Winchester, Simon, The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Harper, 2008, first edition signed copy, specially bound by publisher hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey into Adulthood. G.K. Hall & Co., 1989, withdrawn library copy, large print hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Pinker, Steven, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. Allen Lane, 2018, U.K. edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Helprin, Mark, Paris in the Present Tense. The Overlook Press, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil. Bloomsbury, 2014, first edition, signed hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: good).
  
  

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