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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!

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Goldman, William.

The Princess Bride. S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

First edition of Goldman’s classic novel, basis for the cult classic directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes. Octavo, original gray cloth. Boldly signed William Goldman on the title page at Yale University and additionally signed by director Rob Reiner and Cary Elwes on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.Continue reading "The Princess Bride. S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure."

$22,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150806

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King, Stephen [Ray Bradbury; Gerald Ford; Jim Harrison; Norman Mailer; Joyce Carol Oates; John Updike; Eudora Welty; et al].

Lord John Signatures.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991.

First deluxe limited edition of this collection of author photographs and signatures. Oblong octavo, original half cloth with faux navy morocco spine, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, facsimile signature endpapers, illustrated throughout with photographs. Signed by Stephen King at the conclusion of his introduction in addition toContinue reading "Lord John Signatures."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-150137

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Washingtoniana: Containing A Sketch of the Life and Death Of the Late

Collins, Max Allan; [Tom Hanks].

Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg.

New York: Dream Works, 1998.

First edition of this novel, based on the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning film, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150826

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de Beauvoir, Simone.

L’Amerique Au Jour Le Jour.

Paris : Editions Paul Morihien, 1948.

First edition of this travel narrative and cultural critique of the United States. Octavo, written in French, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed Simone de Beauvoir on the half-title page. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150076

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Wiesenthal, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg.

Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.

First edition of Simon Wiesenthal’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Simon Wiesenthal on the title page. Ticket to a Wiesenthal lecture attached to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Joseph Wechsberg. Jacket design by Leonard Leoni. Jacket photo by Lester Krauss.Continue reading "Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-150857

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Roth, Philip.

The Great American Novel.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$275.00

Item Number: RRB-151347

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Jones, Robert T. [Bobby].

Golf Is My Game.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1960.

First edition of this classic golfing technique manual. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs and drawings. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in full on the front free endpaper, “For Betty Jo Thompson with best wishes, Robert J. Jones. Jr.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder, Inc.

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150360

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Grimke, Sarah. Edited and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].

Sarah Grimké: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the editor on the title page, “For Justice Ginsburg – with deepest respect, admiration, & gratitude, In sisterhood, Elizabeth Ann Bartlett.” From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and juristContinue reading "Sarah Grimké: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays."

$4,200.00

Item Number: RRB-146438

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Yalom, Irvin D.

Existential Psychotherapy.

New York: Basic Books, 1980.

First edition, early printing of the definitive account of existential psychotherapy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Marie Irvin D. Yalom.” Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-145763

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Heaney, Seamus.

Saw Music Broadside.

Northfield, Massachusetts: Swamp Press, 2006.

Original broadside by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of 200 numbered examples, signed by Seamus Heaney, designed by Shawna Parker and Wyn Cooper of Green River Press and printed with Ed Rayher at Swamp Press. The poem, which first appeared in AGNI 61, was written in memory of Czeslaw Milosz. OCLC locates only four copiesContinue reading "Saw Music Broadside."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-150814

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Earhart, Amelia.

20 Hrs. and 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

First edition of Earhart’s classic dramatic chronicle. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 61 black-and-white photographic plates, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Amelia Earhart on the verso of the frontispiece, “For Earnestine Fishbaugh. Amelia Earhart.” The recipient, Earnestine Fishbaugh was the daughter of noted Hollywood physician, Dr. Ernest C. Fishbaugh. Accompanied by a laid in note fromContinue reading "20 Hrs. and 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story."

$11,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150335

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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.

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-150822

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Raban, Jonathan.

Passage to Juneau: A Sea & Its Meanings.

London: Picador, 1999.

First edition by the author described as ‘undoubtedly the finest writer afloat since Conrad’ (Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, with the Inside Passage North and South maps adhered to the front pastedown. Boldly signed by Jonathan Raban on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Marion Ettlinger.

$50.00

Item Number: RRB-151219

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Traver, Robert [John D. Voelker].

Anatomy of a Murder.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1959.

First book club edition of this classic work, basis for the film produced and directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart and Lee Remick. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes to Rick Bohy, a fellow writer. Robert Traver (John Volker) Ishpeming May 31, 1985. ”Continue reading "Anatomy of a Murder."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150824

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Brown, Marcia.

Stone Soup.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1947.

First edition [with the Scribner’s A] of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To John Rogers A handy recipe- May he never go hungry Bon Appetit! Best Wishes Marcia Brown 1-5-15.” Brown has also drawn an original drawing. Very good in a veryContinue reading "Stone Soup."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150801

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Wood, Gordon S.

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

First edition, second printing of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gordon Wood on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-150819

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Steinbeck, John.

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition of this pivotal Pulitzer prize-winning novel, with “First Published in April 1939” on the copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacketContinue reading "The Grapes of Wrath."

$25,000.00

Item Number: RRB-148747

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Rand, Ayn.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism.

New York: The New American Library, 1964.

First edition of this collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s, groundbreaking philosophy. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden. One of the most uncommon Rand books toContinue reading "The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150815

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Borges, Jorge Luis.

Ficciones.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,, 1962.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jorges Borges on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Rare and desirable signed.

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150811

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Scott-King's Modern Europe.

Waugh, Evelyn [Daphne Fielding].

Scott-King’s Modern Europe.

London: Chapman & Hal, 1947.

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Daphne with love from Evelyn Christmas 1947.” The recipient, Daphne Fielding was a fellow British author and dedicatee of Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and a closeContinue reading "Scott-King’s Modern Europe."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150292

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Landon, Margaret .

Anna and the King of Siam.

New York: The John Day Company, 1944.

Early printing of this classic work, basis for the famous musical and film The King and I, as well as other adaptations. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Margaret Ayer. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Autographed especially for Maxine F. Smith with sincere appreciation and warm personal regards. MargaretContinue reading "Anna and the King of Siam."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-150803

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Reagan, Ronald .

An American Life.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

First edition of the 40th President of the United States’ memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Winnie- With Best Wishes. Ronald Reagan Feb. 9- 1991” and signed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa. Lech Wałęsa is a Polish labor leader and statesman whoContinue reading "An American Life."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-144010

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Herbert, Frank.

The Worlds of Frank Herbert.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977.

Berkley Medallion edition of this collection of nine short stories by the author of Dune. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. In good condition.

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-150258

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Becker, Gary S.

Economic Theory.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

First edition, early printing of the economist’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, no dust jacket was issued. In near fine condition.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-151038

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