Twenty-two 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-two Modern Fiction and Historical Works, Fitzgerald, Penelope, Offshore. Collins, 1979, first published hardcover, (condition: good); Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Blue Flower. Flamingo, 1995, signed hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Gate of Angels. Collins, 1990, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Flanagan, Richard, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. Picador, 2001, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Flaubert, Gustave, Translated by Lydia Davis, Madame Bovary. Viking, 2010, first edition hardcover, signed by translator, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ford, Ford Madox, The Good Soldier. The Franklin Library, 1980, limited first edition leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Fowles, John, The French Lieutenant's Woman. Jonathan Cape, 1969, first published signed hardcover with photo, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: very good); Fox, Paula, Desperate Characters. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1970, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Frank, Bruno, Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter, A Man Called Cervantes. Viking, 1935, first published hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Frankopan, Peter, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Bloomsbury, 2015, first published GB hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Franzen, Jonathan, Freedom: A Novel. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Franzen, Jonathan, Freedom: A Novel. Fourth Estate, 2010, numbered 1/2,000 signed first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001, first edition, first printing signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Frazier, Charles, Varina. Ecco Harper Collins, 2018, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Fromkin, David, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922. Henry Holt, 1989, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Fuentes, Carlos, The Old Gringo. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985, first edition hardcover, signed 1992, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Fuentes, Carlos, Destiny and Desire. Random House, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last of Man. Hamish Hamilton, 1992, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Fukuyama, Francis, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2011, printing of first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: as new);Fukuyama, Francis, Trust: The Social Virtues & the Creation of Prosperity. The Free Press, 1995, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gander, Forrest, As A Friend. New Directions, 2008, softcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Garnett, David, Lady Into Fox. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: good).

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