Twenty-two Modern 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 Works, Roslund, Anders & Hellstrom, Borge, Three Seconds. Silveroak, 2010, first printing hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Roy, David Tod (Translator), The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei Vol. V. Princeton University Press, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Roy, David Tod (Translator, author Anonymous), The Plum in the Golden Vase; Or, Chin P'ing Mei. The Gathering Vol I; The Rivals Vol II; The Aphrodisiac Vol III. Princeton University Press, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Said, Edward W., Orientalism. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, first edition hardcover, first printing, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Said, Edward W., Orientalism. Pantheon, 1978, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Salter, James, All That Is. Picador, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Santayana, George, The Last Puritan. Scribner, 1936, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Saramago, Jose, Raised from the Ground. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Saramago, Jose, The Double. Harcourt, 2004, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Saramago, Jose, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Saramago, Jos? (Translator), Blindness. Harcourt Brace, 1997, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Saunders, George, Illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal,
  Congratulations, By the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness. Random House, 2014, first edition signed hardcover, limited first print, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Schulz, Bruno, Translated by Celina Wieniewska, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Walker & Co., 1978, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Schuman, Michael, Confucius and the World He Created. Basic Books, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Seale, William, The Imperial Season: America's Capital in the Time of the First Ambassadors, 1893-1918. Smithsonian Books, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Sebald, W.G., Translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz. Random House, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Sebald, W.G., Translated by Anthea Bell, On the Natural History of Destruction. Random House, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Sebald, W.G., Translated by Michael Hulse, The Rings of Saturn. New Directions, the Harvill Press, 1998, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Sebald, W.G., Translated by Michael Hulse, Vertigo. New Directions, 2000, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); See, Lisa, Shanghai Girls. Random House, 2009, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Seghers, Anna, The Seventh Cross. Little, Brown & Co., 1942, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Servadio, Gaia, To a Different World: In the Land of the Mafia. Hamish Hamilton, 1979, first publication GB hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine).
  

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