Twenty-seven Modern Fiction Works

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Modern Firsts

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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-seven Modern Fiction Works, Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong? Western Impact & Middle Eastern Response. Oxford University Press, 2002, fourth printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Lewis, Sinclair, Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives. Random House, 1945, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Leys, Simon (Translator), The Analects of Confucius. W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Leys, Simon, Chinese Shadows. Viking, 1977, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Leys, Simon, Translated by Patricia Clancy, The Death of Napoleon: A Novel. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1991, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Li, Yiyun, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Random House, 2005, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Li, Yiyun, The Vagrants. Random House, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Lightman, Alan, Einstein's Dream. Pantheon Books, 1993, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Lippmann, Walter, US Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic. Little, Brown, & Co., 1943, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Lispector, Clarice, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero, The Hour of the Star. Carcanet Press, 1986, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Llosa, Mario Vargas, Conversation in the Cathedral. Harper & Row, 1975, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Llosa, Mario Vargas, Translated by Gregory Rabassa, Conversation in the Cathedral. Harper & Row, 1975, first edition hardcover, signed ôMLV & GR,ö (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Llosa, Mario Vargas, Translated by Gregory Rabassa, The Green House. Harper & Row, 1968, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Lovell, Julia, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China. The Overlook Press, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ludlum, Robert, The Bourne Identity. Richard Marek, 1980, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Ludwig, Emil, Translated by Mary H. Lindsay, The Nile: The Life-Story of a River. Viking, 1937, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Luke, Peter, Hadrian VII. Andr? Deutsch, 1968, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Macintyre, Ben, Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche. MacMillan, 1992, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Mahfouz, Naguib, The Beginning and the End. Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1989, first edition soft cover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Mahfouz, Naguib, The Cairo Trilogy: Palace of Desire; Palace Walk; Sugar Street (3 Volumes). Doubleday, 1990, 1991, 1992, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good/fine); Malan, Rian, My Traitor's Heart: Blood & Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe, & Himself. The Bodley Head, 1990, first published G.B. signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Malan, Rian, The Lion Sleeps Tonight: and Other Stories of Africa. Grove Press Books, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Malaparte, Curzio, Translated by Cesare Foligno, Kaputt. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1946, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Malcolm, Noel, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Oxford University Press, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Malouf, David, An Imaginary Life: A Novel. George Braziller, 1978, first edition U.S. signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Malraux, Andr?, Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, Man's Fate. The Modern Library/Random House, 1934, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Mandel, Emily St. John, Station Eleven. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new).

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