January Winter Estate Finds
Lot 239:
Group of 10 books, all first or early editions. George Orwell, 1984, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949, first American edition; Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1954, first edition; James Thurber, The Wonderful O, Simon and Schuster, 1957, first edition; Louis Adamic, The Native’s Return, Harper & Brothers, 1934, first edition; Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943, first edition, later printing; Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh, Random House, 1946, first edition; Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Yale University Press, 1956, first edition, fourth printing; H.G. Wells, The Croquet Player, Viking Press, 1937, first American edition; H.G. Wells, Crux Ansata, Agora, 1944, early American edition; Ernest Hemmingway, Death in the Afternoon, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932, first edition, later printing. Seven Years in Tibet, Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey and Crux Ansata all with dust jackets, others all no dust jackets. Death in the Afternoon 9 3/8" x 6 5/8". All in read condition and as is, with bumped corners, tears to dust jackets, foxing and discoloration to pages, Ex Libris bookplates monogrammed SR, some with writing on pastedowns or endpapers.
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