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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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Kovic, Ron [Oliver Stone]

Born on the Fourth of July.

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.

First edition of this classic book, basis for the 1989 film directed by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Elena, Love, Thanks Respect Ron.” Additionally signed by the director of the film Oliver Stone on the title page. Very goodContinue reading "Born on the Fourth of July."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-146813

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Kelland, Clarence Budington; Music by Frank R. Denke; [Herbert Hoover]

The Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play.

San Francisco : Bohemian Club, 1949.

First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Budington Kelland, on the dedication page. Additionally signed by another member of the Bohemian Club. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning.

$800.00

Item Number: RRB-146694

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Rosenquist, James

Art in America: James Rosenquist.

February 2004.

Original magazine of Art in America, featuring the work of James Rosenquist, signed by him on page 96. In near fine condition.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-146718

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Kahneman, Daniel; Olivier Sibony; Cass R. Sunstein

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.

New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—”a tour de force” (New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Daniel Kahneman on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fineContinue reading "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-146715

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Caro, Robert A

The Power Broker.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Richard from Robert A. Caro.” Also laid in is a signed card from Robert A. Caro from the East Rockaway Library Board and the Cultural ArtsContinue reading "The Power Broker."

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146799

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Nelson, Byron; Arnold Palmer

How I Played the Game.

Dallas, TX : Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.

First special 1993 Sponsor edition of Nelson’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s full forest green leatherette with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and photographic plates. One of one thousand one hundred copies signed by Byron Nelson on the semi-transparent flyleaf, this is number 58. In near fine condition, bookplateContinue reading "How I Played the Game."

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-146678

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Kennerly, David Hume [Colin Powell]

Photo Op.

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 1995.

First edition of this collection of photographs which capture, firsthand, groundbreaking events in modern history. Quarto, original cloth, generously illustrated with photographs throughout. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half title page, “To Gen. Colin Powell, Who has been at the center of many of the eventsContinue reading "Photo Op."

$1,400.00

Item Number: RRB-146674

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Nelson, Byron

Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.

Dallas : Taylor Publishing, 1988.

First edition of the re-issue of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Buck Ray Good Golfing Byron Nelson.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-146821

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Fleming, Ian

Moonraker.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition, first issue with “shoo” for “shoot” on page 10 of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Henry Blofeld on front free endpaper. Blofeld is the son of Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld (1903-1986) who attended Eton with Fleming andContinue reading "Moonraker."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-107324

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Taft, William Howard; Theodore Marburg; Horace E. Flack

Taft Papers on League of Nations.

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1920.

First edition of this collection of speeches and articles by President William Howard Taft from May 1915 to the adoption of the revised Paris Covenant on April 28, 1919. Octavo, original publisher’s tan cloth, red leather spine label. Signed by Taft on the front free endpaper. In very good condition with light toning to theContinue reading "Taft Papers on League of Nations."

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146671

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Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet On The Western Front.

London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.

First edition in English of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Mr. E.O. Bird, With the Author’s compliments and thanks Erich Maria Remarque 1.4.29.” Fine in a fine dust jacket with the original publishers tissue wrap laid over the dustContinue reading "All Quiet On The Western Front."

$45,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146802

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Brown, Hallie Q

Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce.

Xenia, OH : The Aldine Publishing Company, 1937.

First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs and etchings. Boldly signed by Hallie Q. Brown on the front pastedown. In near fine condition. Accompanied by two advertisements for this and one ofContinue reading "Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146641

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Dobson, Austin; [Theodore Low De Vinne]

Horace Walpole: A Memoir with an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press.

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890.

Signed limited edition of the biography of the 4th Earl of Orford. Royal octavo, original half vellum, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with several tissue-guarded engravings and tailpieces by Percy and Leon Moran. One of four hundred and twenty-five numbered copies printed on Dickinson paper and signed by American printer and typographer Theodore Low De Vinne onContinue reading "Horace Walpole: A Memoir with an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-146607

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Balfour, Arthur James

Arthur James Balfour Collection of Autograph Letters Signed.

1892-1911.

Rare collection of four letters signed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. The collection includes: Duodecimo, four pages, embossed with the House of Commons insignia and signed by Balfour to “Dear Duchess,” which reads in part “I am very glad indeed to hear of yr. success in finding aContinue reading "Arthur James Balfour Collection of Autograph Letters Signed."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146657

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Brickell, Paul

Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader.

London : Collins, 1954.

First edition, early printing of the biography of one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by Douglas Bader on the frontispiece in the year of publication, “Douglas Bader 27/6/54.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirableContinue reading "Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-146974

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Povich, Shirley [Eddie Yost, Bob Porterfield, Jim Busby, Chuck Stobbs and Calvin Griffith'

The Washington Senators.

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954.

First edition of this informal history of one of the oldest baseball teams in the United States. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To John Howard Shirley Povich.” Additionally signed by members of the 1954 and 1955 Senators Eddie Yost,Continue reading "The Washington Senators."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-146647

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West, Cornel

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.

New York : The Penguin Press, 2004.

First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Sis’ Elizabeth, Stay Strong! Love, Cornel West.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.

$225.00

Item Number: RRB-146863

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Moore, Thomas

Irish Melodies. [Double Fore-Edge Painting].

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1854.

Finely bound selection of lyrics set to Irish tunes. Duodecimo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, slightContinue reading "Irish Melodies. [Double Fore-Edge Painting]."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146642

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Groves, Leslie R. [Tom Ferebee]

Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1962.

First edition of this work by the director of the Manhattan Project. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project and by Tom Ferebee, the bombardier of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Fine in a very good dustContinue reading "Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-146227

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Santoli, Al

Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It.

New York : Random House, 1981.

First edition of this reminder of the Vietnam War in thirty-three reports from ordinary American soldiers. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Wishing our country strength, wisdom and liberty – Al Santoli.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. JacketContinue reading "Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-146639

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Roth, Philip [Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Larry Peerce]

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed Philip Roth on the title page and additionally by the director of the film Larry Peerce and by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, who starred in the 1969 film. Near fine in a near fineContinue reading "Goodbye, Columbus."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-146869

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Choate, Joseph Hodges [William Tecumseh Sherman]

The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate.

New York : Privately Printed, 1917.

First edition of this autobiographical recollection of a lawyer and American ambassador to the United Kingdom, privately printed by Caroline Sterling Choate; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original half cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Joseph Hodges Choate at the age of seventeen, illustrated throughout with several tissue-guarded photographs, “With the Compliments ofContinue reading "The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-145989

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Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

London : Bloomsbury, 1999.

First deluxe edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original original cloth, all edges gilt, cover illustration by Thomas Taylor. Signed by the illustrator Thomas Taylor with an original drawing of Harry Potter on the dedicationContinue reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-144093

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York, Alvin C

Sergeant York: The Story of His Life.

New York : Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928.

Alvin C. York’s first edition copy of his autobiography, basis for the 1941 film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper. Octavo, original yellow cloth, frontispiece of a portrait of Alvin C. York, illustrated with eleven plates of black and white photographs. York’s personal corrections penciled in throughout, including several notations on the front freeContinue reading "Sergeant York: The Story of His Life."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-145328

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