Twenty-three Modern Fiction and Historical 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-three Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Holmes, Kenneth & Karen, John Steinbeck: A Descriptive Bibliographical Catalogue of the Holmes Collection. Edward Brothers Malloy (privately published), 2013, hardcover and CD, signed and inscribed by Kenneth and Karen Homes to Jacqueline & George; Homer, Translated by Caroline Alexander, The Iliad. Harper Collins, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Houellebecq, Michel, Translated by Frank Wynne, The Elementary Particles. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, first U.S. edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Houellebecq, Michel, Translated by Frank Wynne, Platform: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Houellebecq, Michel, Translated by Gavin Bowd, The Possibility of an Island: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Hughes, Robert, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. Alfred A. Knopf, 1986, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon & Schuster, 1996, hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: good); Hutton, Edward, A Glimpse of Greece. MacMillan, 1928, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Irving, John, The Cider House Rules. Franklin Press, 1985, first edition signed, leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Irwin, Robert (Editor), The New Cambridge History of Islam: Vol 1V: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 2015, third printing, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: near fine); Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Buried Giant. Faber & Faber, 2015, first edition, first published signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ishiguro, Kazuo, When We Were Orphans. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, first edition U.S. signed, dedicated to Soshanah Gordon, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); James, E.L., Fifty Shades of Grey. The WriterÆs Coffee Shop, 2011, first edition paperback, condition: as new, no dust jacket; James, Henry, What Maisie Knew. Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); James, P.D., Cover Her Face. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1966, first edition signed U.S. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); James, Tania, The Tusk That Did the Damage. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); James, Tania, The Tusk That Did the Damage. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, first edition, fifth printing, signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Jasanoff, Maya, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Alfred A, Knopf, 2011, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Jasanoff, Maya, Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. Harper Press, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Jin, Ha, The Map of Betrayal. Pantheon, 2014, first edition, first printing signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Jin, Ha, Nanjing Requiem. Pantheon, 2011, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Jin, Ha, War Trash. Pantheon, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new).

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