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Lot 223
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Lot Description
[LITERATURE - INTERNATIONAL]. A group of 22 works, primarily British, MOST FIRST EDITION OR FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, comprising:
1) CALVINO, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
2) BARNES, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
3) BROOKNER, Anita. Hotel Du Lac. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
4) DAVIES, Robertson. Murther & Walking Spirits. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991. FIRST EDITION.
5) DAVIES, Robertson. The Cunning Man. New York: Viking, 1994. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY DAVIES on a mounted Viking Press bookplate.
6) DAVIES, Robertson. The Merry Heart. New York: Viking, 1997. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing.
7) DOUGHTIE, Charles. Gabriel Wrinkles the Bloodhound Who Couldn't Smell. Charles Saxon, illustrator. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. INSCRIBED BY DOUGHTIE: "To Ann -- from a great admirer of your mother. Charlie Doughtie." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY SAXON WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF GABRIEL AND A TREE: "Love to Ann from Gabriel Wrinkles and Charles Saxon."
8) DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1962. FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION.
9) FORSTER, E.M. The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. (Lacking dust jacket.) FIRST EDITION.
10) FORSTER, E.M. A Room with a View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Second American edition.
11) FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924. (Lacking dust jacket). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
12) GRASS, Gunter. The Rat. San Diego et al: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. FIRST EDITION.
13) KAFKA, Franz. The Great Wall of China. New York: Schocken Books, 1946. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
14) KUNDERA, Milan. Immortality. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
15) MANN, Thomas. Joseph in Egypt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 2 volumes. In slipcase. FIRST EDITION.
16) MITCHELL, David. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. New York: Random House, 2010. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED AND DATED BY MITCHELL, 21 July 2010.
17) NAIPAUL, V.S. A Bend in the River. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
18) SALTEN, Felix. Bambi's Children the Story of a Forest Family. Indianapolis et al: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. FIRST EDITION.
19) SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Existentialism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
20) THOMAS, Dylan. Quite Early One Morning. New York: New Directions, 1954. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
21) WAUGH, Eveyln. When the Going Was Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
22) [WAUGH, Evelyn]. CARPENTER, Humphrey. The Brideshead Generation Evelyn Waugh and His Friends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Together, 22 works in 23 volumes, all 8vo, all in original bindings and in dust jackets (except where noted), condition generally very good.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
This lot is located in Chicago.