Twenty 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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• Lot Description
  Twenty Modern Fiction Works, Desai, Anita, Baumgartner's Bombay. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, first edition signed U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Desai, Anita, Diamond Dust. Houghton Mifflin, 2000, first printed U.S. softcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Desai, Anita, Fasting, Feasting. Chatto & Windus Lon, 1999, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Desai, Anita, Fasting, Feasting. Vamp & Tramp, 1999, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Desai, Anita, The Zigzag Way. Houghton Mifflin, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Desai, Kiran, The Inheritance of Loss. Penguin, Viking, 2006, first printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime. Random House, 1975, first/ limited edition (94/150) signed hardcover with slip cover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Doerr, Harriet, Stones for Ibarra. Viking, 1984, first published, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Translated by Constance Garnett, The Possessed Vol. I & 2. The Limited EditionÆs Club, 1959, limited edition hard back with slip case, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Dovey, Ceridwen, Only the Animals. Atlantic Books, 2015, first published Australian, first edition softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Dovey, Ceridwen, Only the Animals. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2014, published U.S. reprint hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Dumas, Alexandre, Illustrated by Lynd Ward, The Count of Monte Cristo. The Easton Press, 2003, first limited edition, first printing, leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Durant, Will, The Life of Greece. Simon & Schuster, 1939, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Durrell, Laurence, Clea. Faber & Faber, 1960, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Durrell, Laurence, The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea (four novels in one volume). Faber & Faber, 1962, first edition signed hardcover and slipcase, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Easton, Laird M. (Editor), Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket: as new); Ebershoff, David, The Danish Girl. Penguin, 2015, softcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Eco, Unberto, Baudolino. Harcourt, 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Eggers, Dave, The Circle. Alfred A. Knopf/ McSweeney, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Eggers, Dave, A Hologram for the King. McSweeneyÆs Books, 2012, first printing signed hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket).

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