mail@raptisrarebooks.com

New Arrivals

Filters

Price

$

to

$

Only Signed Copies

Only First Edition

New Arrivals

Showing items 96-120 of 659

Avidom, Menachem.[Albert Einstein].

Symphony No. 2 “David” Dedicated to Albert Einstein.

Tel-Aviv: Israeli Music Publications, 1951.

First edition of the published facsimile score of Menachem Avidom’s Symphony No. 2, “David,” together with the painted calligraphic broadside dedicating the symphony to Albert Einstein. Folio, the manuscript orchestral score reproduced in facsimile, spiral bound in plain black boards, published by Israeli Music Publications of Tel-Aviv. Accompanied by an elaborate painted calligraphic presentation broadsideContinue reading "Symphony No. 2 “David” Dedicated to Albert Einstein."

$36,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153420

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Gibran, Kahlil.

The Madman: His Parables and Poems.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918.

First edition of The Madman, the first of Kahlil Gibran’s books written in English, a collection of parables and poems that first sounded the mystical, aphoristic voice of his beloved The Prophet. Octavo, publisher’s blue quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, the spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top stain black, illustrated with aContinue reading "The Madman: His Parables and Poems."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-153430

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Steinbeck, John.

East of Eden.

London: William Heinemann LTD, 1952.

First British edition of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "East of Eden."

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-153428

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Knopfler, Mark. [Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes] [William Goldman].

The Princess Bride Original Soundtrack Album Signed by Rob Reiner and Cary Elwes.

Burbank, California: Warner Bros. Records, 1987.

The original soundtrack album for the 1987 film The Princess Bride, with music composed, arranged, and produced by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, released by Warner Bros Records. Boldly signed on the front cover by the film’s director Rob Reiner in blue ink and by its star Cary Elwes in gold ink, Elwes adding Westley’sContinue reading "The Princess Bride Original Soundtrack Album Signed by Rob Reiner and Cary Elwes."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153427

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Carson, Anne.

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Respectfully AC.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-153915

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Brunhoff, Jean de. [Maurice Sendak].

Le Roi Babar.

Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1933.

First edition of this excellent children’s story; from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Folio, original half cloth over pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. In very god condition with some rubbing to the boards and very light toning throughout. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, is often hailed as “theContinue reading "Le Roi Babar."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-147155

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Stevens, John Paul.

Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

First edition of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s unprecedented proposal to amend the Constitution in six specific ways. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lauren Harms.

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-153357

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Stoppard, Tom.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

New York: Grove Press, 1967.

First American edition of the playwright’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153356

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Obama, Barack.

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

New York: Times Books, Random House, 1995.

First edition of this memoir by the 44th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “To David – Best wishes! Barack Obama 9.20.95.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Schiff. Jacket artContinue reading "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153353

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Lawrence, T.E. [A. W. Lawrence].

Oriental Assembly.

London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1939.

First edition of T.E. Lawrence’s miscellaneous writings, compiled and edited posthumously by his younger brother A. W. Lawrence. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top stain black, illustrated with photographs by the author and a frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A very sharp example.

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-153441

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Card, Orson Scott. [Harrison Ford].

Ender’s Game.

New York: Tor Books, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of this Nebula and Hugo award-winning novel, basis for the film directed by Gavin Hood, starring Harrison Ford. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by Orson Scott CardContinue reading "Ender’s Game."

$3,200.00

Item Number: RRB-152964

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Kandel, Eric R.

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s argument that the abstract painters of the New York School and the neuroscientists of his own laboratory arrived, by different roads, at the same method of reducing a complex whole to its essential elements. Octavo, original red boards, with color illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on theContinue reading "Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-153334

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Howells, William Dean.

Miss Bellard’s Inspiration.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905.

First edition of William Dean Howells’s gently comic late novel of courtship and marriage. Octavo, original green cloth, the front board and spine handsomely decorated in an Art Nouveau design of light green foliage and white and yellow daisies, lettered in gilt. In very good condition, bookplate on the front pastedown.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-153447

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Lawrence, D.H.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger.

Paris: Privately Printed [LeCram Press], 1929.

The unabridged popular edition was the second authorized edition of D.H. Lawrence’s most ambitious, significant, and explicit work on sex and romance. Octavo, handsomely bound in three-quarter navy blue leather over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the covers. In near fineContinue reading "Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-153425

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Joyce, James.

Ulysses.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937.

First British trade edition of Joyce’s epic masterpiece, one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the twentieth century, here in a custom full-leather art binding by the binder Karen McGuire. Octavo, bound in full green leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels withContinue reading "Ulysses."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153423

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

McCain, John and Mark Salter.

Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

First edition of Senator McCain’s tribute to ordinary American men and women in battle, “great and powerful stories that deserve to be retold” (Stars and Stripes). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by both John McCain and his co-author Mark Salter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by HeadsContinue reading "Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War."

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-153354

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Rand, Ayn.

Atlas Shrugged.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, later printing of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt, top stain black. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the Bicentennial of the United States on the half-title page, “To Ryan York and JohnContinue reading "Atlas Shrugged."

$12,800.00

Item Number: RRB-153419

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Algren, Nelson. [Jane Fonda].

A Walk on the Wild Side.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.

First edition of Algren’s “most critically acclaimed and best-known novel” (ANB), basis for the 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Anne Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nelson Algren and actress Jane Fonda on the front free endpaper. The 1962 film adaptation markedContinue reading "A Walk on the Wild Side."

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-153101

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Franklin, Benjamin.[Jonathan Williams].

Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers.

London: C. Dilly, 1787.

First edition of the final collection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings published in his lifetime, a rare presentation copy inscribed by Franklin to his grand-nephew. Octavo, bound in half calf over marbled boards with gilt stamping and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, advertisement leaf andContinue reading "Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers."

$200,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152822

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Hawkins, Jeff.

On Intelligence.

New York: Times Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

First edition of the influential account of how the brain works by Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the PalmPilot, proposing a unified theory of the neocortex and a new path to building truly intelligent machines. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Jeff Hawkins on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. WrittenContinue reading "On Intelligence."

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-153413

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Penn, William.

William Penn Signed Land Indenture.

London: December 22, 1681.

Original land indenture signed by William Penn. Dated the twenty-second day of December 1681, in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, granting five hundred acres of land in the newly chartered Province of Pennsylvania to John Hewse, collar maker, of the parish of St. Clement in the suburbs of theContinue reading "William Penn Signed Land Indenture."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153402

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Leaf, Munro; Robert Lawson.

The Story of Ferdinand.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

First edition, early printing of Munro Leaf’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, Ferdinand the bull smelling a flower gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt innerContinue reading "The Story of Ferdinand."

$1,400.00

Item Number: RRB-153294

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

[Y Bibl Sanctaidd].

Y Bibl Sanctaidd sef Yr Hen Destament a’r Newydd: gyda Nodau Eglurhaol, a Dosparthiadau ar Gynnwysiad y Pennodau.

Wrexham: J. Painter, 1813.

First edition of this scarce Welsh folio Bible. Folio, two parts bound into one volume in fully contemporary calf with six raised bands to the spine, blind-stamping and five brass studs mounted at the center and corners of each panel, printed in Welsh. With an early ownership inscription to the title-page. In fair condition, theContinue reading "Y Bibl Sanctaidd sef Yr Hen Destament a’r Newydd: gyda Nodau Eglurhaol, a Dosparthiadau ar Gynnwysiad y Pennodau."

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153142

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Shem, Samuel. [Annie Dillard].

The House of God.

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1978.

First edition of one of the most important medical novels ever written, reportedly one of only 500 copies printed. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow author Annie Dillard on the half-title page, “For Annie, A first edition of The House!! Worth mail!! Best wishes, Shem.” From the library ofContinue reading "The House of God."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153280

Add to Cart

Ask a Question Details

Previous 1 ... 3 4 5 6 7 ... 28 Next

Sign up for our Newsletter

Be the first to know about new arrivals and our latest catalogues.