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Raptis Rare Books carries a variety of rare and antique books including many signed or autographed books. If you’re looking for a particular piece of work with an authentic signature, you’ve come to the right place. Browse our collection of autographed books here & contact us for any questions!
    Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.

    Gehry, Frank

    Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.

    New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

    First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout.  Presentation copy, inscribed by Frank Gehry on the half-t...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-112371
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    Men From Earth.

    Aldrin, Buzz and Malcolm McConnell

    Men From Earth.

    New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

    First edition of Aldrin’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page, :To Bob Best Wishes Buzz Aldrin” and...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-144989
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    Return to Earth.

    Aldrin, Buzz

    Return to Earth.

    New York: Random House, 1973.

    First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the front free endpaper. Ne...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-146590
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    The Plays of J.B. Priestley: Volume III.

    Priestley, J.B. [Raymond Chandler]

    The Plays of J.B. Priestley: Volume III.

    London: William Heinemann, 1950.

    First edition of Priestley’s works on realism with elements of psychological insight and social critique. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-149027
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    Howard Stern: Miss America.

    Stern, Howard

    Howard Stern: Miss America.

    New York: Regan Books, 1995.

    First edition of Howard Stern’s second autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed and dated by Howard Stern in black...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-151170
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    Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War.

    Schofield, Victoria [Madeleine Albright]

    Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War.

    New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010.

    First printing of the revised edition of the comprehensive historical and political analysis of the Kashmir conflict. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by author on the...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-149093
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    Soul Mountain.

    Xingjian, Gao

    Soul Mountain.

    New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

    First edition in English of the author’s magnum opus, which led to him winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2000. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-138016
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    Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

    Kean, Thomas H. and Lee H. Hamilton [Alvin S. Felzenberg]

    Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

    Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006.

    Signed limited first edition of the Easton Press edition of this work by the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission. Octavo, original black leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-149779
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    Young Man with a Horn.

    Baker, Dorothy

    Young Man with a Horn.

    Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.

    First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernande...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-140685
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    Child of Change: An Autobiography.

    Kasparov, Garry

    Child of Change: An Autobiography.

    London: Hutchinson , 1987.

    First edition of this chess legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-5392
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    Blue Nights.

    Didion, Joan

    Blue Nights.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

    First edition of this intensely personal and moving account of Joan Didion’s thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly s...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-116868
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    Dow Theory for the 21st Century: Technical Indicators For Improving Your Investment Results.

    Schannep, Jack

    Dow Theory for the 21st Century: Technical Indicators For Improving Your Investment Results.

    Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

    First edition of the investor’s must-read on trading strategy. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, “Hope some of the ideas in this b...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-124830
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    A First Family of Tasajara.

    Harte, Bret

    A First Family of Tasajara.

    London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

    First edition of Harte’s classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “with the best New...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-96090
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    A New Life.

    Malamud, Bernard

    A New Life.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.

    First edition of Malamud’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousins, “For Min and Marshall, In appreciation...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-119682
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    Miracle On 34th Street.

    Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]

    Miracle On 34th Street.

    San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

    First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front p...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-149046
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    Why Capitalism?

    Meltzer, Allan H

    Why Capitalism?

    New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

    First edition of Meltzer’s Why Capitalism? Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Jack An old friend Best Wishes Allen Meltzer.” Additionally signed...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-43457
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    Warren E. Burger Signed Supreme Court Ruling Document.

    Burger, Warren E

    Warren E. Burger Signed Supreme Court Ruling Document.

    Washington, D.C.:, June 11, 1986.

    Rare typescript Supreme Court ruling document signed by the 15th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren E. Burger. Two pages, typescript, signed by Burger on the first page. Decided...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-122766
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    Most Likely to Succeed.

    Dos Passos, John

    Most Likely to Succeed.

    New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.

    Signed limited first edition of the author’s semi-autobiographical novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-127665
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    I Never Sang for My Father.

    Anderson, Robert [Alan Schneider]

    I Never Sang for My Father.

    New York: Random House, 1968.

    First edition of Robert Anderson’s autobiographical drama, later the basis for the Academy Award–nominated 1970 film. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top stain blue, illustrated with bl...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-152216
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    In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.

    Kaplan, Robert D. [Madeleine Albright]

    In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.

    New York : Random House , 2016.

    First edition of this travelogue that examines the complex history and politics of Eastern Europe. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, Association copy, inscribed by author on the front fre...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-149036
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    Stone Soup.

    Brown, Marcia

    Stone Soup.

    New York: Charles Scribner, 1947.

    First edition, early printing of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. With the author’s name and address in her hand laid in. In very good condition.
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-150822
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    More Die of Heartbreak.

    Bellow, Saul

    More Die of Heartbreak.

    New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987.

    First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s tenth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, “For Sidney and Fredda from an old friend Saul Bellow...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-3138
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    Bus Ride To Justice.

    Gray, Fred D

    Bus Ride To Justice.

    Montgomery, Al: Black Belt Press, 1995.

    First edition of this Civil Rights icon’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Fred D. Gray Schal...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-139681
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    Tarzan Clans of American: Official Guide.

    Burroughs, Edgar Rice

    Tarzan Clans of American: Official Guide.

    Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1939.

    First edition of this Official Guide for members of the Tarzan Clans of America, a special division of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan series. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, laid in is a memb...
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    $500.00 Item Number: RRB-90419
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