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Lot 279

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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[LITERATURE -- INTERNATIONAL]. A group of 12 works, MANY FIRST EDITIONS, MANY SIGNED, comprising:

1) BALZAC, Honore de. Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. Original cloth. 

2) CLARKE, Terence. The King of Rumah Nadai. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY CLARKE.

3) COETZE, J.M. Life and Times of Michael K. New York: The Viking Press, 1984. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. SIGNED BY COETZE.

4) GHOSH, Amitav. Sea of Poppies. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY GHOSH.

5) HANKISS, Agnes. A Hungarian Romance. Columbia, LA: Readers International, 1988. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.  

6) HIJUELOS, Oscar. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1993. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY HIJUELOS. 

7) MO, Timothy. The Redundancy of Courage. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MO. 

8) MPHAHLELE, Es'kia. Renewal Time. Columbia, LA: Readers International, 1988. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

9) RABELAIS, Francois. Gargantua and Pantagruel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 5 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cloth; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 1165 of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY DESIGNER W.A. DWIGGINS on limitation page. 

10) SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST BRITISH EDITION.

11) TOLSTOY, Leo. Anna Karenina. Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1951. 2 volumes. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 1311 of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARNETT FREEDMAN on limitation page. 

12) TSUKIYAMA, Gail. Women of the Silk. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY TSUKIYAMA.

Together, 12 works in 17 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally fine. 

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