Thirty-four Modern Fiction and Non-fiction Works

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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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  Thirty-four Modern Fiction and Non-fiction Works, Aciman, Andre, Eight White Nights. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: good); Aciman, Andre, Out of Egypt. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger*. Free Press, 2008, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Alexander, Caroline, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Allawi, Ali A. The Crisis of Islamic Civilization. Yale University Press, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Allen, Danielle S. The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Princeton University Press, 2000, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Allende, Isabel, The House of the Spirits. Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Ambler, Eric, A Coffin for Dimitrios. Franklin Library, 1990, leatherbound hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Ambler, Eric, The Levanter. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Ambler, Eric, The Light of the Day. Alfred A. Knopf, 1963, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Amis, Kingsley & Robert Conquest, The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, 1965, first edition, first impression hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Amis, Kingsley & Robert Conquest, The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, 1965, first published hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Amis, Kingsley & Robert Conquest, The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, 1965, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Amis, Kingsley and Robert Conquest (Editors), Spectrum II: a second Science Fiction Anthology. Victor Gollancz, 1962, first edition, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Amis, Kingsley and Robert Conquest (Editors), Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1965, first edition, first U.S. printing hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Amis, Martin, Money. A Suicide Note. Viking, 1985, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Andrews, Kevin, The Flight of Ikaros: A Journey into Greece. Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1959, hardcover, ex library book, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Appleby, Joyce, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Belknap Press, 2001, first edition softcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History. W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Arnim, Elizabeth von, Mr. Skeffington. Doubleday, 1940, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Asimov, Isaac, Foundation and Earth. Doubleday, 1986, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Aswany, Alaa Al, Chicago. Harper Collins, 2007, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Aswany, Alaa Al, The Yacoubian Building. Fourth Estate, 2007, first edition, first published U.K. signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Auchincloss, Louis, The Dark Lady. Houghton Mifflin, 1977, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Ayala, Francisco, Usurpers. Schocken Books, 1987, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Babel, Isaac, translated by Peter Constantine, Red Cavalry. W.W. Norton & Co., 2003, first published softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Bainbridge, Beryl, According to Queeney. Carroll & Graf, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Bainbridge, Beryl, Master Georgie. Duckworth, 1998, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bainbridge, Beryl, Master Georgie. Carroll & Graf, 1998, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bßnffy, Mikl?s, Translated by Patrick Thursfield & Katalin Bßnffy-Jelen, The Transylvanian Trilogy: They were Counted Vol I. EverymanÆs Library, 213, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Banville, John, The Sea. Picador, 2005, first edition, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Barnes, Julian, The Lemon Table. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Barnes, Julian, Levels of Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Barnes, Julian, The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape, 2011, first edition, first published, G.B. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new).

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