Thirty-one Modern Fiction and Biographical 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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  Thirty-one Modern Fiction and Biographical Works, Babbitt, Natalie, Tuck Everlasting. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2015, 40th Anniversary edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Allen & Unwin, 1967, First publication U.K. hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Dahl, Roald, James and the Giant Peach. Allen & Unwin, 1967, first publication U.K. hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); James, Will, Smoky The Cow Horse. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1929, scarce first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); James, Will, Sun Up. Charles ScribnerÆs, 1931, second edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, no dust jacket); Potter, Beatrix, Ginger & Pickles. Frederick Warne, 1909, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1938, first edition hardcover, first printing, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Saint-Exup?ry, Antoine de, Translated by Katherine Woods, The Little Prince. Harcourt Brace and World, 1943, hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Batuman, Elif, The Idiot. Penguin Press, 2017, review copy with publisher's promotional material laid-in, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Goodall, Jane, Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters - The Early Years. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: good); El-Erian, Mohamed A., The Only Game In Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse. Yale University Press, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Wade, Nicholas, A Troublesome Inheritance. Penguin Press, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Weigel, George, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God. Basic Books, 2005, signed first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); L?vy, Bernard-Henri & Houellebecq, Michel, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World. Random House, 2011, paperback, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Erdrich, Louise, The Round House. Harper, 2012, signed first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kyle, Chris, American Sniper. William Morrow, 2012, 2013, Memorial edition signed by wife of author, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Heller, Joseph, Catch-22. The Franklin Library, 1961, 1978, limited edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Herling, Gustav, A World Apart: The Journal of a Gulag Survivor. Arbor House, 1951, 1986, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Baker, S. Josephine (M.D.), Fighting for Life. MacMillan, 1939, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Herling, Gustav, Volcano and Miracle: A Selection of Fiction and Nonfiction from The Journal Written at Night. Viking, 1996, first edition in English hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Herling, Gustav, A World Apart. William Heinemann, 1951, first edition in English hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: good); Rabelais, Francois, The Works of Rabelais, Faithfully Translated from the French with Variorum Notes and Frontispiece. Chatto & Windus, 1884, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Ono, Ken & Aczel, Amir D., My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count. Springer, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Soltner, Andr? & Britchky, Seymour, The Lut?ce Cookbook. Knopf, 1995, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Kamman, Madeleine, When French Women Cook: A Gastronomic Memoir. Atheneum, 1976, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fair); Dunne, Finley Peter, Mr. Dooley: In Peace and in War. Small, Maynard & Company, 1899, hardcover third printing, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Dunne, Finley Peter, Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen. Small, Maynard & Company, 1899, hardcover third printing, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Thomas, Louisa, Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams. Penguin Press, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar. Harper & Row, 1971, first US edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Sobin, Gustaf, Wind Chrysalid's Rattle. The Montemora Foundation, 1980, first edition soft cover Special Supplement to the Montemora Magazine, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Silverado Squatters. Roberts Brothers, 1884, 1886 printing hardcover, leather bound spine, (condition: very good, no dust jacket).

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