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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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Baldwin, Alec

Alec Baldwin Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of American actor Alec Baldwin. Duodecimo, one page, black and white photograph of Alec Baldwin by Albert Sanchez, boldly signed by him in blue felt tip, “Health & Happiness! Alec Baldwin.” In fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-146564
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Aberconway, Christabel

The Story of Mr Korah.

London : Michael Joseph, 1954.

First edition of this delightful children’s story. Royal octavo, original half cloth, price clipped, illustrated by Rex Whistler. Whistler was a British artist, illustrator, and stage designer known for his elegant and whimsical style. The book includes three color illustrations with the sketches he had drawn when Lady Aberconway first told him ‘The Story ofContinue reading "The Story of Mr Korah."

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Item Number: RRB-147945
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Kennedy, William

The Ink Truck.

New York : Viking, 1985.

First printing of the re-issue of the author’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Kennedy on the title page, “For Joel, William Kennedy.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.

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Item Number: RRB-149751
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[Rackham, Arthur]

Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.

London : Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.

Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issues of July 5, August 30, September 6, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 15, and November 29. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and ownership stamp.

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Item Number: RRB-142537
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Greenfeld, Howard. [Puccini]

Puccini.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.

First edition of Greenfeld’s authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To James Canner, With gratitude, admiration, and friendship. Howard Greenfeld Jan 23, 1981.” In fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-115708
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Newley, Alexander

Divining the Human: The Art of Alexander Newley.

London : Unicorn, 2022.

First edition of this illustrated memoir by a master of portraiture. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-151275
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Stewart, Rory

The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.

New York : Harcourt, 2006.

First edition of Stewart’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Rory Stewart on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman.

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Item Number: RRB-3491
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Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

The Silkworm.

London : Sphere, 2014.

First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.

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Item Number: RRB-137033
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Kipling, Rudyard

The Fringes of the Fleet.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.

First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.

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Item Number: RRB-122463
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Ford, Richard

The Sportswriter.

London : Collins Harvill, 1986.

First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-146257
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Duggan, Alfred

Three’s Company.

London : Faber and Faber LTD, 1958.

First edition of this historical novel following Lepidus as he mediates between Antony and Octavius after Caesar’s murder. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton. Inscription to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-151752
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Southern, Terry

Texas Summer: A Novel by Terry Southern.

New York : Arcade Publishing/Little Brown And Company, 1991.

First edition of Southern’s powerful critique of cultural and economic forces that shaped America. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor. Author photograph by William Claxton.

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Item Number: RRB-148446
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Wells, H.G

Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.

Early Scribner’s reprint of one of Wells’ first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. Surplus deaccession stamp from the Library of Congress.

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Item Number: RRB-141534
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Loti, Pierre. Introduction by Henry James

Impressions.

Westminster : Archibald Constable and Co, 1898.

First edition of Pierre Loti’s Impressions. Octavo, original green pictorial buckram, woodcut pictorial title page, woodcut initials. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-109487
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Kipling, Rudyard

Thy Servant A Dog.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.

First British edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-121847
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Wells, H.G

The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel.

London : Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919.

First British edition of Wells’ philosophical reimagining of the Book of Job set against the moral and scientific crises of the modern world. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth. In very good condition, signature to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-151168
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Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman

Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.

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Item Number: RRB-546
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Sondheim, Stephen

The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-146134
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The Caxton Club

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

First edition of this work which compiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Neil Harris.

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Item Number: RRB-140239
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Slosson, Edwin E. [Albert Einstein]

Easy Lessons in Einstein: A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of the Theory of Relativity.

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921.

First edition of this popular science book that made Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity accessible to general readers. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In very good condition, name to the title page.

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Item Number: RRB-148232
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Cheever, Susan

The Cage.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

First edition of the author’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows For Whom my affection will never be remaindered Love Susan.” The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989.Continue reading "The Cage."

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Item Number: RRB-142682
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Darwin, Bernard

Dickens.

London : Duckworth, 1933.

First edition of Bernard Darwin’s concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-117034
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Aeschylus; E.D.A Morshead [Translator]

The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, and The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921.

First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Translated into English verse by E.D.A Morshead. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-151787
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Hutchinson, John

The Families of Flowering Plants. Arranged According to a New System Based on Their Probable Phylogeny.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

First edition of Hutchinson’s classic work on the classification of flowering plants. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, with illustrations by W.E. Trevithick and the author. In very good condition. Small ownership name to each volume.

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Item Number: RRB-137296
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