Twenty-four 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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  Twenty-four Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Gay, Peter, Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud, The: Education of the Senses. Oxford University Press, 1984, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Gay, Peter, Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914. W.W. Norton, 2002, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gessen, Masha, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Riverhead Books, 2017, first edition, first printing signed hardcover; Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol III. AMS Press, 1974, first edition reprint from 1909 version hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet. Heinemann, 1971, reprint from 1926 edition, illustrated by the author hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Signature of All Things. Viking, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gilbert, Elizabeth, The Signature of All Things. Viking, 2013, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gioia, Ted, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press, 2012, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Glass, Julia, A House Among the Trees. Pantheon, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Gogol, Nikolai, Illustrated by Cassens, Dead Souls. First Modern Library, 1936, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Gompertz, Will, What are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art. Dutton, 2012, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Grabar, Oleg, The Alhambra. Harvard University Press, 1978, hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Grass, G?nter, Translated by Ralph Manheim, The Tin Drum. Pantheon Books, 1962, first edition, first printing U.S. hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Green, Karen, Bough Down. Siglio, 2013, second printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Green, Peter, The Greco-Persian Wars. University of California Press, 1996, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Greenblatt, Stephen, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. W.W. Norton, 2011, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Greengrass, Mark, Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648. Allen Lane Penguin Press, 2014, first published, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Guerrieri, Matthew, The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth & the Human Imagination. Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: as new); Guerrieri, Matthew, The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth & the Human Imagination. Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gunther, John, Inside Europe. Harper & Brothers, 1938, revised edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Random House, 2003, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Hajari, Nisid, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition. Amberly, 2015, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Hale, Edward Everett, Ten Times One is Ten and Other Stories. Little Brown, 1899, hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Hale, John R., Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. Viking, 2009, first edition, first published, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine).
  
  

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