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Lot 282

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
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[LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY]. A group of 20 works, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:

1) CALDWELL, Erskine. Tobacco Road. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. Spurious signature not in Caldwell's hand on title page. 

2) COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile's Return. New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY COWLEY: "With the author's regards." 

3) DURRELL, Lawrence. Justine. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. 

4) DURRELL, Lawrence. Mountolive. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

5) DURRELL, Lawrence. Clea. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

6) HAILEY, Arthur. Airport. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket.  FIRST EDITION.

7) HUXLEY, Aldous. Eyeless in Gaza. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. 

8) INGE, William. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. New York: Random House, 1945. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

9) LEWIS, Janet. The Wife of Martin Guerre. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket.  FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LEWIS.

10) LEWIS, Sinclair. The Prodigal Parents. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, Inc., 1938. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

11) RUARK, Robert. Something of Value. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

12) SHULMAN, Max. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

13) WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1948. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket.  FIRST EDITION. 

14) WAUGH, Evelyn. Helena. London: Chapman & Hall, [1950]. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. 

15) WEST, Nathaniel. Miss Lonelyhearts. London: The Grey Walls Press, 1949. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST BRITISH EDITION.

16) WOLFE, Thomas. The Hills Beyond. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

17) WOLFE, Thomas. Mannerhouse. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

-And 3 others. Together, 20 works in 20 volumes, all 8vos, condition generally fine. 

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