Twenty-one 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-one Modern Fiction Works, White, Patrick, Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, first publication, The Book Club, hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Whitman, Walt, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, Leaves of Grass. The Easton Press, 2008, CollectorÆs Edition leatherbound, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Wicker, Tom, Unto This Hour. The Viking Press, 1984, first edition hardcover, first published, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilde, Oscar, Illustrated by Frank Martin, Translated by Vyvyan Holland, Salom?. The Folio Society, 1957, hardcover, (condition: near fine, no dust jacket); Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Random House, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Williams, Joy, The Quick & the Dead. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilson, Edward O., Anthill: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, first edition hardcover, first printing, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Wilson, Edward O., Anthill: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, first edition hardcover, first printing, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilson, Edward O., Anthill: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, first editionÆs club, first edition signed hardcover, first printing, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilson, Edward O., The Future of Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Wilson, Edward O., The Meaning of Human Existence. Liveright Publishing, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Winchester, Simon, Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture. Prentice Hall Press, 1991, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Winner, Percy, Dario, 1925-1945. Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1947, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Wister, Owen, Illustrated by William Moyers, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. Plantin Press, 1951, Limited Editions Club, first edition hardcover with slipcover, signed by illustrator, (no. 953 of 1500), (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Wolfe, Jesse, Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy. Cambridge University Press, 2011, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition, very good); Xinran, Translated by Nicky Harman, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss & Love. Chatto & Windus, 2010, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Yalom, Marilyn, Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory. Basic Books, 1993, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Yergin, Daniel, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Penguin Press, 2011, first edition hardcover, first published, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Zinsser, William, Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. David R. Godine, 2001, first edition U.S. hardcover, first published, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Zweig, Arnold, Translated by Eric Sutton, Education Before Verdun. Viking Press, 1936, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Strategic Vision America and the Crisis of Global Power. Basic books, 2012, signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new).

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