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Raptis Rare Books maintains an extensive collection of rare and first-edition books from a variety of authors and publishers. Navigate through our full selection of first-editions below to find a particular item you're looking for, ask a question, or order online today!

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Shaw, George Bernard

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.

London : Constable and Company, 1930.

First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-138394
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Blake, Michael

Airman Mortensen.

Los Angeles, California : Seven Wolves Publishing, 1991.

Advanced reading copy of the first edition of Michael Blake’s second novel. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-150744
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National Gallery

National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrations to the Catalogue Volume III: British, French, & Spanish Schools.

London : Printed for the Trustees, 1926.

First edition of the last volume in the Official Catalogue of the National Gallery, this volume featuring illustrations comprising the British, French, and Spanish Schools of art. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with nearly four hundred reproductions. In very good condition with some toning and light rubbing to the extremities. Accompanied by original dry mounted platesContinue reading "National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrations to the Catalogue Volume III: British, French, & Spanish Schools."

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$25.00
Item Number: RRB-146552
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Miller, Arthur

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.

New York : Penguin Books, 1992.

First American edition of this incredibly entertaining play. Octavo, original black half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Inge Morath.

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Item Number: RRB-145186
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Rushdie, Salman

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.

New York : Random House, 2015.

First edition of this New York Times best selling magical realism novel. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Kelly Blair.

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Item Number: RRB-151136
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Fido, Martin. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hamlyn, 1974.

First edition of the great biographer’s lively and absorbing study of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Quarto, original cloth, marbled endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-126709
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Green, Roger Lancelyn. [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling: The Critical Heritage.

New York : Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1971.

First edition of Green’s critical history of the great British author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-126889
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Cornell, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling In India.

London : Macmillan, 1966.

First edition of Cornell’s study of Kipling’s apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-135841
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Danielson, Richard E

Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories.

New York : The Derrydale Press, 1938.

First edition of Danielson’s collection of sporting memories. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Edwin Megargee. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 775. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-116031
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Boisnard, Magali

Le Roman de La Kahena: d’Après Les Anciens Textes Arabes.

Paris : Édition d'Art, 1925.

Later edition of this work by the French poet and novelist. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ornamentation by Paul Zenker, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-145217
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Keneally, Thomas

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles.

New York : Doubleday, 2002.

First edition of this historical biography on Dan Sickles, a contentious figure in Civil War history. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on a Random House Australia bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jean Traina.

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Item Number: RRB-150641
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Walliams, David

The Boy in the Dress.

London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.

First edition of the award-winning sketch actor’s first children’s book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-145190
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Cohen, Morton

Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.

London : Hutchinson, 1965.

First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-135911
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Nabokov, Vladimir

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.

New York : Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. In fine condition. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.

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Item Number: RRB-116901
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Buffett, Jimmy

A Salty Piece of Land.

New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.

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Item Number: RRB-145150
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Block, Herbert

Herblock Special Report.

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of this work by the cartoonist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Jeff Cohen with best wishes of Herb Block.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Antler.

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Item Number: RRB-88110
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Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead.

New York : Signet, 1971.

Signet edition, later printing of Rands’ breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Duodecimo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, all edges stained yellow. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-151408
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Wilhelm, Peter

The Nobel Prize.

Stockholm : Teknowledge, 1983.

First edition of Wilhelm’s work on the history of the Nobel Prize. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-123152
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le Carre, John

A Delicate Truth.

New York : Viking, 2013.

First American edition of this New York Times bestselling spy thriller. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Buckley and Kulick.

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Item Number: RRB-151135
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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling in New England.

Brattleboro : The Book Cellar, 1951.

Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-123411
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Scott, Paul

The Corrida at San Feliu.

London : Secker & Warburg, 1964.

First edition of Paul Scott’s rich, multi-layered novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.

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Item Number: RRB-138733
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Jacobs, Jane

Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.

New York : Random House, 1984.

First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-146415
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Macmunn, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling’s Women.

London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..

First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society’s study of the women portrayed in Kipling’s song and story. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-135257
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Taylor, Telford

Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1955.

First edition, second printing of this landmark legal and historical analysis of the investigative powers of the United States Congress. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top stain orange. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-152134
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