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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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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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$30.00
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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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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Stephenson, Neal

Termination Shock.

New York : William Morrow, 2021.

First edition of this speculative science fiction novel by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Owen Corrigan. Author photograph by Brady Hall.

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Item Number: RRB-150689
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McGuane, Thomas

Keep the Change.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.

First edition of this sharply observed contemporary American novel of the modern West. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design and illustration by Fred Marcellino. Author photograph by Bruce Weber.

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Item Number: RRB-150724
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Kipling, Rudyard

Plain Tales From the Hills.

Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s first short story collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-126749
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Hare, Paul

Planning the British Economy.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985.

First edition of Hare’s treatise on economic investment in post-World War II Britain. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-127003
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Nabokov, Vladmir

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

Taipei City : Royal Books Co., Ltd, 1969.

First Taiwanese edition of what many consider to be Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Author photograph by Halsman.

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Item Number: RRB-152109
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Wells, H.G [Christopher Priest]

Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain.

London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1984.

First edition of the second volume of Wells’s expansive autobiographical work, in which he reflects on the experiences, intellectual influences, and philosophical conclusions that shaped his life and career as one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers and social thinkers. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher PriestContinue reading "Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain."

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Item Number: RRB-151634
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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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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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Wells, H.G

Bealby: A Holiday.

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1940.

Later edition of this classic children’s book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles to the spine and front panel stamped in black. In near fine condition.

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$25.00
Item Number: RRB-150682
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Brown, Hilton. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation by Hilton Brown.

London : Hamish Hamilton, 1945.

First edition of Brown’s candid work on the genius of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 5 portriats. Foreword by Frank Swinnerton. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

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$25.00
Item Number: RRB-123612
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Nooteboom, Cees

The Following Story.

New York : Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991.

First American edition of Nooteboom’s mysterious tale. Octavo, original half cloth. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Claude Verlinde. Jacket photograph by Simone Sassen.

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Item Number: RRB-117061
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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling.

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1975.

First edition of Amis’ study of great English author, Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling, with 114 illustrations. In near fine condition. Cover illustration by Avril Broadley.

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Item Number: RRB-126944
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Canetti, Elias

The Torch In My Ear.

New York : FSG, 1982.

First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the back panel. The second volume in the Nobel Prize winning author’s autobiography.

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Item Number: RRB-1737
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