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The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

First edition of the author’s sequel to The Short-Timers, basis for the film Full Metal Jacket. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-109631

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Drexler, Rosalyn

To Smithereens.

New York: The New American Library, 1972.

First edition of this “extraordinarily good book, but then so is everything Rosalyn Drexler ever wrote” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the au...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150537

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McCullough, David

Truman.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Early printing of the historian’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Robert...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-117749

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Swinnerton, Frank. [Raymond Chandler]

The Cats and Rosemary.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950.

First edition of Swinnerton’s keen observation to present a nuanced portrayal of human nature, delving into emotional complexities, personal growth, and societal expectations. Octavo, original p...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149026

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1886.

Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and el...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145246

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Yalom, Irvin D

Existential Psychotherapy.

New York: Basic Books, 1980.

First edition, early printing of the definitive account of existential psychotherapy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Marie Irvin...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145763

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Gluck, Louise

Poems 1962-2012.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146120

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Kellor, Frances; Collaborator Antonia Hatvany

Security Against War: Volume I International Controversies; Volume II Arbitration, Disarmament, Outlawry.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.

First editions of this work by social reformer Frances Kellor. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets, which are in very good condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-129399

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Rackham, Arthur. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures.

New York: The Century Co, n.d.

First edition of this collection Rackham’s favorite illustrations, compiled by him. Quarto, bound in full morocco, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 44 tipped-in color plates with captioned tis...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-132858

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Webber, Andrew Lloyd and Tim Rice

Evita: The Legend of Eva Peron 1919-1952.

London: Elm Tree Books, 1978.

First edition of this illustrated companion to the 1979 Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Tim Rice...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-135264

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Kelly, George [Raymond Chandler]

Behold The Bridegroom.

New York: Samuel French, 1927.

First French Standard Library Edition of this three-act play written by George Kelly in 1927. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Raymond Chandler ownership stamp on the front cover page. In...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149063

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Dunning, John

Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime.

New York: Scribner, 2001.

The Binder’s Copy of the author’s manuscript signed limited edition of John Dunning’s classic work, with two pages of the original typed manuscript tipped in and inscribed by the aut...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142781

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McClellan, George B

McClellan’s Own Story. The War for the Union.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of the Civil War memoir of Lincoln’s controversial commander of the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, steel-engraved f...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150709

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Schmookler, Paul and Ingrid V. Sils

Forgotten Flies.

Millis, MA: The Complete Sportsman, 1999.

First edition of this tribute to the humble craft of American fly tying. Folio, original black cloth, illustrated with full color paintings and photographs taken by the authors throughout. Boldly sign...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147042

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Owens, Bill

Suburbia.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Press, 1973.

First Edition. Oblong quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. Inscribed by Bill Owens on the front free endpaper, “For Dave Bill Owens Can you avoid Suburbia.” In very good con...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-948

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Powell, Anthony

Temporary Kings.

London: Heinemann, 1973.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom half mo...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142957

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Smollett, Tobias

The Novels of Tobias Smollett.

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926.

The Large Paper edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in three quarter morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within r...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-144984

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Murakami, Haruki

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this “piercing and compact story about friendship and loneliness” (St. Louis Dispatch). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and three times...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-123828

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Ellis, Bret Easton

Imperial Bedrooms.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of the sequel to Easton’s bestselling literary debut, Less Than Zero. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Megh...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151202

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Tyranny of the Status Quo.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147053

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Updike, John

More Matter: Essays and Criticism.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with 46 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and golfing partner in the year...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-3569

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Hitchens, Christopher

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

New York: Twelve/ Hatchette Book Group, 2007.

First edition, early printing of this polemic by Hitchens. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Christopher Hitchens on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147326

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Gluck, Louise

The Triumph of Achilles.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Louise Glück on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137436

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Maugham, W. Somerset

For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts.

London: William Heinamann Ltd, 1932.

First edition of Maugham’s popular play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “by W. Somerset Maugham for Elsie Tritton.” The re...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-133055

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