Twenty-four 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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  Twenty-four Modern Fiction Works, Capote, Truman, Illustrated by Kenneth Dewey, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories. The Franklin Library, 1983, limited/first edition, leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Carson, Anne, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Castillo, Capt. Bernal Diaz del, Translated by Maurice Keatinge, The True History of the Conquest of Mexico. National Travel Club, 1938, U.S. reprint of 1568 text, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: fair); Catton, Eleanor, The Luminaries. Granta, 2013, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Chandler, Raymond, The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Chandler, Raymond, The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, the High Window, The Lady in the Lake. Hamish Hamilton, 1953, first published hardcover, (condition: good); Chevalier, Tracy, Girl with a Pearl Earring. Dutton, 2000, first published, first U.S. printing signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Christensen, Thomas J., The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power. W.W. Norton & Co., 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Clavell, James, Shogun: A Novel of Japan. Atheneum, 1975, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Clemmons, Zinzi, What We Lose. Viking Press, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Cobb, Humphrey, Paths of Glory. Viking Press, 1935, first edition, first published hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Colette, Translated by Jane Terry, Mitsou or How Girls Grow Wise. Albert & Charles Boni, 1930, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Connelly, Joan Breton, The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's most Iconic Building & the People Who Made It. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Connelly, Joan Breton, The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's most Iconic Building & the People Who Made It. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Conquest, Robert, The Dragons of Expectation: Reality & Delusion in the Course of History. W.W. Norton & Co., 2005, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Conrad, Joseph, Illustrated and Translated by Matt Kish, Heart of Darkness. Tin House Books, 2013, first edition U.S. hardcover, signed by illustrator, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim. The Limited EditionÆs Club, 1959, first edition hardcover and slip case, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Cozzens, Peter, The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Dana, Richard Henry Jr., Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. The Folio Society, 1986, hardcover and slipcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Davis, David Brion,
  Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford University Press, 2006, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Davis, Lydia, Almost No Memory. Farrar, Straus, & Gilroux, 1997, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Davis, Lydia, Sketches for a Life of Wassilly. Station Hill, 1981, signed softcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Daws, Gavan, Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawaii Press, 1974, first printing softcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Dell, Anthony, Isles of Greece. Frederick A. Stokes, 1924, hardcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket).

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