11-12-201711-12-2017
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
3040BBoston
November 12, 2017 11:00 AMCalender
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Literature, 20th Century, Six Titles.

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$1,046$850
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3040BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 12, 2017 11:00AM

Description:

Literature, 20th Century, Six Titles. Including: Maugham's Of Human Bondage, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936, one of 751 copies signed by the author and illustrator Rudolph Schwabe, in the publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase (jacket tattered); E.M. Forster's Howard's End, London: Arnold, 1910, publisher's red cloth; [and] A Passage to India, London: Arnold, 1924, publisher's red cloth; Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Howe, 1920, in publisher's cloth, bumped; Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York: Scribner's, 1940, no dust jacket; and Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV, New York: Viking, 1957, in the dust jacket. (6)
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

Rudolph Schwabe, Sinclair Lewis, London, India