Twenty-one 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-one Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Elisberg, Edward, Commander, Hell on Ice: The Saga of the "Jeanette". Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1938, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fair); Elston, Roy, Off the Beaten Track in Southern France. National Travel Club, 1929, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: poor); Eng, Tan Twan, The Garden of Evening Mists. Myrmidon, 2012, first edition hardcover, slipcover, and signed insert, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Enquist, Per Olov, The Story of Blanche and Marie. Harvill Secker, 2006, first published U.K. softcover, free uncorrected proof, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Erdrich, Louis, The Round House. Harper Collins, 2012, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Essad-Bey, Translated Elsa Talmey, Blood and Oil in the Orient. Nash & Grayson, 1931, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Evanier, David, Red Love. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1991, hardcover signed to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to U.N.; Evans, Richard J., The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 û 1914. Allen Lane, 2016, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition as new); Farzad, Roben, Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. New American Library, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Fast, Howard, Spartacus. Published by author, 1951, first edition hardcover, signed by author and Kirk Douglas, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong. Hutchinson, 1993, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ferguson, Niall, Civilization: The West and the Rest. Penguin, 2011, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ferguson, Robert, The Vikings: A History. Viking Press, 2009, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ferrante, Elena, Translated by Ann Goldstein, The Story of the Lost Child, Book 4/Neapolitan Novel Series. Europa, 2015, first published softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Ferrante, Elena, Translated by Ann Goldstein, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Book 3/Neapolitan Novel Series. Europa, 2015, fifth printing softcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Ferrante, Elena, Translated by Ann Goldstein, My Brilliant Friend. The Cuckoo Press, 2012, first edition, numbers 43/100, first published signed hardcover and slipcase, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Fin, Peter and Petra Couv?e, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book. Pantheon, 2014, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Oxford University Press, 1989, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Fischer, David Hackett, Fairness & Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies New Zealand and the United States. Oxford University Press, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Fischer, David Hackett & James C. Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia & the Westward Movement. University Press of Virginia, 2000, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust cover condition: as new); Fischer, David Hackett, Washington's Crossing. Oxford University Press, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good).
  

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