Twenty-two Modern Fiction and Non-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-two Modern Fiction and Non-fiction Works, Allen, Charles, Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Ruyard Kipling, Pegasus Books, 2009, first edition hardcover; Allen, Danielle, Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Liveright, Publishing, 2017, first edition hardcover; Baatz, Simon, Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Mulholland Books, 2018, first edition hardcover; Bate, Jonathan, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, Fourth Estate, 2015, first published U.K. hardcover; Berenson, Bernard, Rumor and Reflection, Simon & Schuster, 1952, first printing hardcover, ex library book; Bernhard, Thomas, My Prizes: An Accounting, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, first edition hardcover; Bradlee, Ben Jr., The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams, Little, Brown, & Co, 2013, first edition, first printing, signed hardcover; Burns, Cherie, Searching for Beauty: The Life of Milicent Rogers, St. Martin's Press, 2011, first edition hardcover; Chamberlain, Samuel E., Introduction by Roger Butterfield, My Confession, Harper, 1956, first edition hardcover; Chang, Jung, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, first edition U.S. hardcover; Cheng, Nien, Life and Death in Shanghai, Grove Press, 1987, first edition signed hardcover; Chernow, Ron, Grant, Penguin Press, 2017, first edition signed hardcover; Chernow, Ron, The Warburgs: The 20th-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, Random House, 1993, first edition, first print, signed hardcover; Chuev, Felix, Albert Resis (Ed.), Molotov Remembers Inside Kremlin Politics: Conversations with Felix Chuev, Ivan R. Dee, 1993, first edition, first printing hardcover; Conradi, Peter J., Iris Murdoch: A Life, Norton, 2001, first U.S. edition hardcover; Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey into Adulthood, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, eighth printing hardcover; Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey into Adulthood, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, second printing hardcover; Conway, Jill Ker, The Road from Coorain: Recollections of a Harsh and Beautiful Journey into Adulthood, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, first edition softcover; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, first edition signed hardcover; Domoslawski, Artur, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Ryzard Kapuscinski: A Life, Verso, 2012, first published hardcover; Dorsey, John (Ed.) Ed's. William Manchester, et al., On Mencken: Eight New Essays in Honor of the Centenary of the Birth of HL Mencken, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, first edition hardcover, signed seven times; Egremont, Max, Siegfried Sassoon, A Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005, first American edition.

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