Twenty Modern Biographical 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 Modern Biographical Works, Fay, Bernard, Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times. Little, Brown, & Co., 1929, first printing hardcover; Fenby, Jonathan, The General Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved. Simon & Schuster, 2010, first published G.B. hardcover; Fisher, Clive, Hart Crane: A Life. Yale University Press, 2002, hardcover; Frank, Joseph, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, 2010, abridged edition hardcover; French, Patrick, The World is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul. Picador, 2008, first published hardcover; Fried, Johannes, Translated by Peter Lewis, Charlemagne. Harvard University Press, 2016, first printing hardcover; Goldsmith, Barbara, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. Atlas Books Norton, 2005, first edition hardcover; Goodall, Jane, Edited by Dale Peterson, Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years, Vol I. Houghton Mifflin, 2000, first edition signed hardcover; Gordkhova, Elena, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster, 2009, first edition hardcover; Hill, Michael, War Poet: The Life of Alan Seeger & His Rendezvous with Death. Michael Hill (printed on demand), 2017, soft cover; Howell, Georgina, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006, first edition hardcover; Johnson, Captain & Mrs. Irving, Westward Bound in the Schooner Yankee. Norton, 1936, first edition signed hardcover; Johnson, Osa, I Married Adventure: The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson. JB Lippincott, 1940, first edition hardcover; Lucey, Donna M. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas. W.W. Norton & Co., 2017, first edition hardcover; MacNeil, Robert, Wordstruck: A Memoir. Viking, 1989, first edition, first printed, signed hardcover; Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932-1940. Little, Brown, & Co., 1988, first edition hardcover; Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932. Little, Brown, & Co., 1983, first edition hardcover; Mßrquez, Gabriel Garc?a, Translated by Edith Grossman, Living to Tell the Tale. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, first edition, first printing hardcover; Marshall, Megan, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017, first edition, first printing signed hardcover with authorÆs photos; Martin, Gerald, Gabriel Garc?a Mßrquez: A Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, first edition U.S. hardcover.

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