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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!
    Easy Rider.

    Fonda, Peter; Dennis Hopper; Terry Southern

    Easy Rider.

    New York: Signet, 1969.

    First edition of the complete script, with a selection of black white and color stills, interviews and articles. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by Dennis Hopper...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151735
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    The Rose Tattoo.

    Williams, Tennessee

    The Rose Tattoo.

    New York: New Directions, 1951.

    First edition of one of Williams’ most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket desi...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143108
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    Tyranny of the Status Quo.

    Friedman, Milton & Rose

    Tyranny of the Status Quo.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

    First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-19097
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    My Autobiography.

    Chaplin, Charles. [Charlie]

    My Autobiography.

    London: The Bodley Head, 1964.

    First edition, early printing of Charlie Chaplin’s extraordinarily vivid autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the f...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145221
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    The Structure of Matter.

    Teller, Edward O.; Francis Owen Rice

    The Structure of Matter.

    New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1949.

    First edition, second printing of this introductory volume on the properties of matter and their systematic interpretation by quantum mechanics. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated w...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146896
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    I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.

    Kline, Fred; [Jack Kerouac]

    I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.

    San Francisco: Double-H Press, 1968.

    First edition of this charming book of poetry; from the library of ‘On the Road’ author Jack Kerouac. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. The first printing of 2000 copies. Association copy, i...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146634
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    Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

    Warhol, Andy

    Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

    New York: Andy Warhol Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.

    First edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a large sketch of a he...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148762
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    The Honorary Consul.

    Greene, Graham

    The Honorary Consul.

    London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

    First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Philip with love, from Graham...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137548
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    La Hojarasca.

    Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

    La Hojarasca.

    Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970.

    First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-60052
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    The Night of the Iguana.

    Williams, Tennessee

    The Night of the Iguana.

    New York: New Directions, 1962.

    First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruli...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149896
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    Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

    Warhol, Andy

    Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

    London: Hutchinson, 1979.

    First British edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a large sketch...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149403
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    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

    Sacks, Oliver

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

    New York: Summit Books, 1985.

    First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Roger, With kind regars Oliver Sacks 1/15....
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130831
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    The Reivers: A Reminiscence.

    Faulkner, William

    The Reivers: A Reminiscence.

    New York: Random House, 1962.

    Signed limited first edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, original acetate. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 407. Fine in the original a...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151601
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    Iron Horse.

    Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

    Iron Horse.

    Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

    First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567
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    Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.

    Seale, Bobby

    Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.

    New York: Random House, 1970.

    First edition of this classic work by the co-founder of the Black Panthers. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “2-28-01 To Joe...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148354
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    Petals of Blood.

    wa Thiong'o, Ngugi [Ngugi, James]

    Petals of Blood.

    New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

    First American edition of “the definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120878
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    The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals.

    Simpson, George Gaylord

    The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals.

    New York: Published by the Order of the Trustees, 1945.

    Rare first edition of Simpson’s classic work on mammalian taxonomy. Quarto, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the paleontologist on the front panel. Ownership inscriptions. With a note of p...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129508
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    RUpTure.

    [Kerouac, Jack; Jean-Pierre Lemaire]

    RUpTure.

    Paris, France: Printed at 21 Rue de Saintonge, 1965.

    Rare vintage January 1965 issue of RUpTure, a left-leaning French-language literary magazine, gifted to and personally owned by Beatnik writer Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo, written in French, original...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150642
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    The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

    McCarthy, Cormac [Chip Kidd]

    The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

    Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.

    First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Additionally si...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151995
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    Make New History.

    Rusha, Ed

    Make New History.

    Los Angeles: MOCA, 2009.

    Signed limited edition of this rare artist’s book, or “art object” published on the occasion of the Gala of the 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Obl...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143401
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    Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

    Mitchell, Margaret

    Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

    :, 1941-42.

    Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the othe...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-21082
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    Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

    Paton, Alan

    Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.

    First American edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Alan Paton Johannesburg May...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-43091
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    Scoop.

    Waugh, Evelyn

    Scoop.

    London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.

    First revised edition of Waugh’s satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Patrick, with regar...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95271
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