Sixteen Modern Fiction 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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  Sixteen Modern Fiction Works, Price, Reynolds, Kate Vaiden. Atheneum, 1986, first edition signed hardcover, first printing, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Price, Reynolds, Noble Norfleet. Scribner, 2002, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Proust, Marcel, Translated by Lydia Davis, Swann's Way. Penguin Books, 2013, first published U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Proust, Marcel, Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Remembrance of Things Past. Random House, 1934, hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Pynchon, Thomas, V. The Modern Library, 1966, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Qutb, Sayyid, Milestones. American Trust Publications, 1990, softcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Randall, David K., The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise. W.W. Norton, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Rawlinson, George (Translator), The History of Herodotus. The Dial Press, 1928, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: good); Remarque, Erich Maria, Trans. A.W. Wheen, All Quiet on the Western Front. Little, Brown & Co., 1929, first printing hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: poor); Rieseberg, Lt. Harry E., I Dive for Treasure. Robert M. McBride, 1942, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Rihani, Ameen Fares, The Book of Khalid. Benediction Classics, 2011, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Rixford, Emmet Hawkins, The Wine Press and the Cellar. Robert Mondavi Institution, University of California, Davis, 2008, reprint of 1883 edition, hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Roberts, Andrew, A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Harper Collins, 2007, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1980, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Romm, James, Herodotus. Yale University Press, 1998, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: near fine); Romm, James, The Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, first edition hardcover, first printing, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new).

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