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The Fine Books and Manuscripts Department, with specialists on both the East and West coasts, are leaders in the auctions of collectible printed and manuscript material. We hold four general auctions a year - two simulcast between Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as two in our New York offices.

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Property From Serendipity Books, Part I - Works from Peter Howard's legendary bookstore on offer at Bonhams

Peter Howard [1939-2011] of the landmark Bay Area Serendipity Books has been eulogized as "one of the most imaginative booksellers of his generation." Howard stocked not only individual titles but entire collections.

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Masterpieces of Victorian literature were issued in monthly parts. Or, as Wilkie Collins put it, "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait". John Sutherland explains how and why it happened

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Property From Serendipity Books
February 12, 2012
Los Angeles and San Francisco


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John Steinbeck
"The Pearl of the World."
Typed Manuscript, 47 pp, with emendations, original version of The Pearl
as published in Women's Home Companion in 1945.
Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000


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