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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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Kipling, Rudyard

Without Benefit of Clergy.

New York : Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.

First separate edition of Kipling’s Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition.

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$100.00
Item Number: RRB-121504
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Stone, Robert

Outerbridge Reach.

London : Andre Deutsch, 1992.

First edition of Stone’s fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Sally recalling a lovely, morning in London – wishing all the best. Bob Stone London May 19, 1992.” The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and wasContinue reading "Outerbridge Reach."

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$275.00
Item Number: RRB-123971
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Woolley, C. Leonard and T. E. Lawrence

The Wilderness of Zin.

London : Stacey International, 2003.

Revised edition of the authors comprehensive account of their daring 1914 military mapping expedition in southern Palestine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Preface by Jonathan Tubb. Introduction by T. Sam N. Moorehead. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-124354
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Lawrence, T. E

Revolt in the Desert.

Garden City : Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.

Early American printing of Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. In very good condition.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-123444
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Henty, George A. [G.A.]

Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion.

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by W. Parkinson. In very good condition.

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-122962
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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee.

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1900.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. In very good condition.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-122099
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Sassoon, Siegfried

Vigils.

London : William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935.

First trade edition of Sassoon’s classic collection of poems. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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$200.00
Item Number: RRB-123749
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Burnet, W. Hodgson

Quite So Stories.

London : Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918.

First edition of Burnet’s comedic parody of Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection of children’s tales, Just So Stories. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wrappers, illustrated by E. T. Reed. In very good condition.

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$50.00
Item Number: RRB-125407
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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

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$150.00
Item Number: RRB-125313
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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peacock. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-122688
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Durand, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling]

A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.

First edition of Durand’s definitive handbook to Kipling’s poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-126349
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Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.

First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookplate.

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$150.00
Item Number: RRB-126444
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Arnold, Matthew

The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.

First edition of this collection of two of Arnold’s most notable works. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt, with illustrations by E. H. New including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.

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$100.00
Item Number: RRB-124356
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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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$25.00
Item Number: RRB-126709
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Pamuk, Orhan

Other Colors: Essays and A Story.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by ChipContinue reading "Other Colors: Essays and A Story."

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$300.00
Item Number: RRB-123428
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Updike, John

Terrorist.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by ChipContinue reading "Terrorist."

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$225.00
Item Number: RRB-123402
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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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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-123411
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O'Hara, John

Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.

New York : Random House, 1969.

First edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nassar.

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$20.00
Item Number: RRB-126114
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[Channing, Carol]

Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.

New York : Life Magazine, 1964.

April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, “XXX Carol Channing.” In very good condition.

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$100.00
Item Number: RRB-124841
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Kipling, Rudyard

Under the Deodars.

New York : John W. Lovell Company, 1890.

First authorized Lovell edition of Kipling’s Under the Deodars. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

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$275.00
Item Number: RRB-123799
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Pritchett, V. S

A Careless Widow and Other Stories.

New York : Random House, 1989.

First American edition, second printing of Pritchett’s classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, “For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993.” The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968Continue reading "A Careless Widow and Other Stories."

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$75.00
Item Number: RRB-124590
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Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.

First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author’s note noting Dodge’s previously unauthorized edition “issued without my knowledge or sanction”. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth.

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-122341
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Kipling, Rudyard. Introduction by Irving Howe

The Portable Kipling.

New York : The Viking Press, 1982.

Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher’s date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.

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$50.00
Item Number: RRB-124503
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Hamsun, Knut

Mysteries.

London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First American edition of Hamsun’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by Arthur G. Chater. In very good condition. Rare.

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$175.00
Item Number: RRB-123741
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