Posts from Raptis Rare Books

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Those words were spoken by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, otherwise known as Winston Churchill, one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century.  A British politician, an officer in the British army, a historian, a writer, and an artist; Winston Churchill was a man who saw every failure as an opportunity to do more and do it better. Churchill was born in 1874 into aristocratic.... read more

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the  Lord of the Rings trilogy are some of the most iconic and sought after first editions books on the market today. We could wax long about Tolkien’s imaginative style or the ways in which the books have affected our culture or children’s fantasy writers after him, but much has been written on this topic. Since we are a rare book firm, what we want to do today is to explain some of the first edition issue points.... read more

We’ve recently been featured twice in the Fine Books and Collections blog and I thought I would also include one of these posts here. The first is a nice review of our recent catalogue and the second is an interview with us for the series  Bright Young Things, which focuses on the next generation of booksellers. Catalogue Review: Raptis Rare Books, #1 By Rebecca Rego Barry Matthew Raptis is a congenial young bookseller in Brattleboro,.... read more