The Gentleman's Auction - Online Online
Description:
Modern Novels Adapted to Film, Eighteen Volumes, including: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ultimatum, New York: Random House, 1990, stated first edition, advance review copy in the dust jacket; Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, New York: Viking, [1972], dust jacket price clipped; James Grady's Six Days of the Condor, New York: Norton, [1974], book club edition; Ian Fleming's Octopussy [and] The Living Daylights, New York: The New American Library, [1966], price-clipped jacket; Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, New York: Macmillan, [1953], clipped jacket, later edition; Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice, New York: The New American Library, [1964], clipped jacket, later edition; Eric Hodgins's Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, illustrated by William Steig, New York: Simon & Schuster, [1946], in price-clipped jacket; Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park, New York: Random House, 1981, stated first edition in very good jacket; Peter Benchley's The Deep, New York: Doubleday, 1976, in the jacket; Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil, New York: Random House, [1976], in price-clipped jacket; Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre, illustrated by Milton Glaser, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1962], in the jacket; Alex Haley's Roots, New York: Doubleday, 1976, stated first edition, with dust jacket; Mario Puzo's The Godfather, New York: Putnam's, [1969], later edition in price-clipped jacket; Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, New York: Pantheon, [1962], no note of edition on copyright page, dust jacket dated "2/63" and priced $6.95; Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, New York: Pantheon, [1958], later edition, in price-clipped jacket; James Dickey's Deliverance, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1970], book club edition, with dust jacket; Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974], full number line on copyright page, illustrated, dust jacket; and Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, New York: McGraw-Hill, [1976], in dust jacket.
Provenance: The Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $150-250
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