Twenty-six 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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• Lot Description
  Twenty-six Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Baxter, Greg, Munich Airport: A Novel. Twelve, 2015, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beard, Mary, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. W.W. Norton & Co., 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bedford, Sybille, A Legacy: A Novel. Simon & Schuster, 1957, first printing hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Beerbohm, Max, Zuleika Dobson. Or an Oxford Love Story. The Folio Society, 1966, hardcover bound by Bayntun-Rivi?re, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Berman, Lawrence M. The Priest, The Prince, and the Pasha: The Life & Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture. MFA Boston, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bernstein, William J., Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet. Grove Press, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Billany, Dan, The Trap. Faber & Faber, 1950, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Blanchard, Jean-Vincent, Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France. Walker & Co., 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); B÷ll, Heinrich, Translated by Patrick Bowles, Billiards at Half Past Nine. Marion Boyars, 1987, softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); B÷ll, Heinrich*, translated by Leila Vennewitz, The Clown. McGraw Hill Book Co, 1965, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); B÷ll, Heinrich*, translated by Leila Vennewitz, The Safety Net. Alfred A. Knopf, 1982, first American trade edition, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Bosc, Adrien, translated by Willard Wood, Constellation. Other Press, 2014, softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Bront?, Charlotte, Illustrated by Barnett Freedman, Jane Eyre. Collins, 1955, first Freedman U.K. leatherbound edition, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Brook, Daniel, A History of Future Cities. W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Brownworth, Lars, Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization. Crown Publishers, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Buck, Pearl, Dragon Seed. John Day Co., 1942, first edition soft label/ rear uncorrected proof, (condition: near fine, no dust jacket); Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. John Day Co., 1931, first printed U.S. hardcover, reproduction jacket, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Bulgakov, Mikhail, Translated by Marian Schwartz, White Guard. Yale University Press, 2008, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Burckhardt, Jacob, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Phaidon Press, 1944, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Burns, Cherie, The Great Hurricane: 1938. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Buruma, Ian & Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. Penguin Press, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Byatt, A.S., Possession: A Romance. Chatto & Windus, 1990, signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Byatt, A.S., Possession: A Romance. Random House, 1990, first U.S. edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Byatt, A.S., Possession: A Romance. Random House, 1990, first U.S. edition signed hardcover, ( condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Cabell, James Branch, Between Dawn and Sunrise. Robert M. McBride, 1930, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: good); Caldwell, Erskine, Illustrated by Harry Schaare, God's Little Acre. The Franklin Library, 1979, limited edition signed leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket).

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