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, Shalamov, Varlam, Kolyma Tales. Norton, 1980, hardcover (public library), (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Shaw, David W., Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her. William Morrow (Harpers Collins), 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Shaw, George Bernard, Nine Plays. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1935, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Shipman, Pat, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction. Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2015, first printed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Shishkin, Mikhail, Translated by Andrew Bromfield, The Light and the Dark. Quercus, 2013, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Shorto, Russell, Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City. Doubleday, 2013, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Shorto, Russell, Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason. Doubleday, 2008, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Shorto, Russell, The Island at the Center of the World. Random House, New York, 2005, reprint softcover, (condition: fine, dust cover condition: fine); Simenon, Georges, Translated by Robert Baldick, Pedigree. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1962, first edition U.K. hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Sinclair, Upton, The Cup of Fury. The Channel Press, 1956, first edition hardcover, first print, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Smith, Dean, Arizona Nuggets. Historic Arizona Press, 2009, second edition softcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Smith, Martin Cruz, Polar Star. Collins Harvill, 1989, first publication U.K. signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Solomon, Susan, The Coldest March. Yale University Press, 2001, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Solomon, Susan, The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition. Yale University Press, 2001, first edition, first print hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, In the First Circle. Harper Perennial, 2009, first edition softcover, uncensored, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Spark, Muriel, The Girls of Slender Means. MacMillan, 1963, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); St John, Robert, The Man Who Played God. Doubleday, 1962, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Stallings, Laurence, Plumes. Harcourt Brace, 1924, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Steele, Shelby, Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country. Basic Books, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Steinbeck, John, Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937. The Library of America, 1994, fifth printing hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Steinbeck, John, The Pastures of Heaven. Viking, 1963, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Stendhal, Translated by CK Scott-Moncrieff, Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni, The Red and the Black. The Heritage Press, 1947, hardcover with slipcase, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Stone, Robert, Damascus Gate. Houghton Mifflin, 1998, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine).

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