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    Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.

    Bowden, Mark

    Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

    First edition, early printing of the award-winning journalist’s account of the U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, adapted into the 2001 Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth, ill...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146263
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    The Second Birth.

    Pasternak, Boris

    The Second Birth.

    Moscow: Federation, 1932.

    First edition of this collection of poems by one of the greatest Russian poets and novelists of the twentieth century. Octodecimo, in the original Russian, original pictorial boards. In good condition...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-149480
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    The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.

    Palgrave, Francis T

    The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.

    London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.

    Finely bound example of the Golden Treasury. Octavo, bound in full morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised spine bands, inner dentelles, moiré silk endleaves, all e...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-109328
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    A Search For The King.

    Vidal, Gore

    A Search For The King.

    New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.

    First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Marie from Gore- all best wishes 1...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-126014
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    A Philip Roth Reader.

    Roth, Philip

    A Philip Roth Reader.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

    First edition of this important compilation of Roth’s writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design b...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-130271
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    Desert.

    Le Clezio, J.M.G

    Desert.

    London: Atlantic Books, 2009.

    First British edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the wrap aroun...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-774
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    Le Proces-verbal.

    Le Clezio, J.M.G

    Le Proces-verbal.

    Paris: Gallimard, 1963.

    True first edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-145956
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    Traffics and Discoveries.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    Traffics and Discoveries.

    New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.

    First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-120541
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    The Wapshot Chronicle.

    Cheever, John

    The Wapshot Chronicle.

    New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.

    First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a good dust jacket.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-125758
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    The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.

    Robinson, Marilynne

    The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

    First edition of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-1002
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    The Caine Mutiny.

    Wouk, Herman

    The Caine Mutiny.

    Franklin, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977.

    Signed limited first edition of Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers,...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146370
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    Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses Together With Departmental Ditties.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses Together With Departmental Ditties.

    New York: United States Book Company, 1892.

    Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-119266
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    Boogie-Woogie.

    Moynihan, Danny; Damien Hirst

    Boogie-Woogie.

    London: Duckworth Literary Entertainments Ltd, 2000.

    First edition of Moynihan’s satirical debut novel set in the contemporary art world of 1990s New York. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the autho...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-124404
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    The End of the Affair.

    Greene, Graham

    The End of the Affair.

    London: William Heinemann, 1951.

    First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, “one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146288
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    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.

    Conrad, Joseph

    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.

    New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.

    The Heritage Press edition of what many consider to be Conrad’s masterpiece. Quarto, bound in three-quarter modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within rai...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-148681
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    La Voluntad y La Fortuna. [Destiny and Desire].

    Fuentes, Carlos

    La Voluntad y La Fortuna. [Destiny and Desire].

    Ciudad de México: Santillana Ediciones Generales (Alfaguara), 2008.

    First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to his close friend Sergio Munoz. Fuentes met...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-133440
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    Go.

    Holmes, John Clellon

    Go.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

    First edition of the novel that launched the Beat Generation’s literary legacy and describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady and “one of the best novels about t...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-138914
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    The Crock of Gold.

    Stephens, James

    The Crock of Gold.

    London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

    Signed limited edition of this whimsical and philosophical novel. Quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, printed on hand-made paper, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-148485
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    France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.

    First American edition of Kipling’s second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-120244
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    Exit Ghost.

    Roth, Philip [Milton Glaser]

    Exit Ghost.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

    First edition of the author’s final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page and additionally signed by legendary artist and...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-151729
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    Another Country.

    Baldwin, James

    Another Country.

    London: Michael Joseph, 1963.

    First edition of Baldwin’s classic work, nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-137599
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    Wake-Robin.

    Burroughs, John

    Wake-Robin.

    New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.

    First edition of the author’s first commercially published book in BAL’s binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-139475
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    The Human Mole.

    Collins, Colin

    The Human Mole.

    London: Greening & Co., Limited, 1909.

    Rare first edition of this early science fiction novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In near fine condition.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-148057
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    Hundejahre. [Dog Years].

    Grass, Gunter

    Hundejahre. [Dog Years].

    Munich: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1963.

    First German edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third and final novel in his acclaimed Danzig Trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by G...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-151918
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