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The Spirit of the Place.

Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.

First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Present...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-142111

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Pinter, Harold

Original The Caretaker Playbill.

London: Proscenium Publications, 1991.

Original Playbill from the May 1991 performance of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker performed at the Alhambra Theatre. Small octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Rehearsal photographs by Ivan Kyn...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-88116

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Montgomery, L.M

Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Windy Poplars).

London: George G. Harrap, 1936.

First British edition of this novel in Montgomery’s acclaimed Anne series. Octavo, original blue cloth. Light wear, else fine in the original dust jacket with some chips. Uncommon in the origina...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-892

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McIntosh, Elizabeth P

Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

First edition, early printing of this historical work documenting the 4,000 women who served in America’s WWII intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services. Octavo, original publisher...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-151639

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Naipaul, Shiva

North of South: An African Journey.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-915

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Ewan, Stuart

PR!: A Social History of Spin.

New York: Basic Books, 1996.

First edition of this thorough history of public relations. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For John: For the greater good to pre...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-74789

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Johnson, Samuel

The Works of Samuel Johnson.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.

Finely bound edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and too...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-141081

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Faulkner, William

Intruder In The Dust.

New York: Random House, 1948.

First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremit...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-118002

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Styron, William

The Confessions of Nat Turner.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Gene Barnett best wishes William Styron....

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-127426

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

The Balance of Payments of the United States.

London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1946.

First edition, separate and reprinted from the June 1946 issue of “The Economic Journal” containing Keynes’ posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150688

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Shaara, Jeff

Rise to Rebellion.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

First edition of this classic historical novel about the American Revolution. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Jeff Shaara on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust ja...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150143

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Wolfe, Tom

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.

First edition of this “hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel” (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-143989

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Coetzee, J.M

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.

First edition of this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “J.M. Coetzee Cape Town, 1999.” Fine in...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-132418

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Snyder, Gary

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2009.

First edition, second printing of the 50th anniversary edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Bul...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-151645

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Keneally, Thomas

Gossip from the Forest.

London: Collins, 1975.

First edition of this historical novel depicting the armistice negotiations that ended World War I. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas Keneally on the title page. Fine i...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150661

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Clowes, W. Laird

The Great Peril and How It Was Averted.

London: Offices of "Black and White", 1893.

First edition of this scarce science fiction novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with twelve black and white plates. In very good co...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-148069

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Mills, John

Stable Secrets; and Puffy Doddles, His Saying and Sympathies.

London: Ward and Lock, 1863.

First edition of Mills’ humorous work on horse racing. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignette to the front panel, frontispiece and two additional plates...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-124083

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Kamara-Umunna, Agnes Fallah; Emily Holland [Madeleine K. Albright]

And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation.

New York: Hyperion, 2011.

First edition of this memoir about the devastation of the Liberia civil war and its rise out of the ashes. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147576

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Powys, John Cowper

The Inmates.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1952.

First edition of the author’s astonishing tale, set in a madhouse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Sanford.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-128106

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Breyer, Stephen

Stephen Breyer Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Boldly signed by him in silver felt tip to the bottom right corner of the photograph. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches b...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-151396

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Jones, James

Some Came Running.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957.

First edition of the author’s major second novel about an aspiring Army veteran writer. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Jacket design by Greta Franzen. Near fine in a near fine du...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147568

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Kadare, Ismail

The General of the Dead Army.

New York: Grossman, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s classic first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth, top stain black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by McKean, K...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-152111

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Luthuli, Albert

Let My People Go. An Autobiography.

Johannesburg and London: Collins, 1962.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Laureate. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate. Introduction by Charles Hooper. A nice example.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-114241

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Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

First edition of Brzezinski’s memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ross Becker- with best wishes, Zbigniew B...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-144069

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