Recent Arrivals from Raptis Rare Books

New York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. McLean, 1788.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904. Finely bound example of the German scholar of Indiology's influential study on Buddhism based on the Pali texts. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco by the Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribners Sons with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, title page… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. "One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. 'A King's Story' surveys Edward's life up until his abdication in December 1936, from his upbringing as a prince to his decision to abdicate the throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson.

London: Collins, 1958. T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations. "This ambitious work will long remain a memorial to an author who is at once civilized, learned, witty and humane" (Times… Read more about this item

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. First edition of this classic collection of papers on capital theory. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with tables, graphs, and equations. Signed and dated by Michael C. Jensen and Joseph E. Stiglitz on the front free endpaper, "Michael C. Jensen 3/28/2014 Joseph E. Stiglitz." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed. 'Studies in… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1995. First edition of the companion book to Child's Cooking With Master Chefs. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated with more than 100 color photographs by Micheal McLaughlin. Boldly signed by the Julia Child on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Jacket photographs by Micheal P.… Read more about this item

London: George Bell and Sons, 1886. Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, decorated with botanical… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1945. First edition of Waugh's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Evelyn Waugh on the title page. Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially bound to distribute among friends for Christmas and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a… Read more about this item

New York: Times Books, 1992. First edition of this work by the former Federal Reserve chairman. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "6/18/92 To John Petty, Who shared in a lot of these changing fortunes and some of his own! Where have you been? I think… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's… Read more about this item

Black and white photograph of British naturalist Jane Goodall, boldly signed by her. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches. Celebrated naturalist David Attenborough and primatologist Jane Goodall's friendship was founded in their mutual passion for conservationism.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, second issue with the five line colophon on the last page. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Love Roald Dahl," with the word Love within the letter R in his name. Near fine in a near fine… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First edition of le Carre's spy thriller. Octavo, original navy blue boards, silk ribbon bound-in. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Christine Rodin. Author photograph by Simone Casetta. The Constant Gardener is a profoundly moving story of a man… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition of Steinbeck's only political satire. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his sister on the front free endpaper, "Mary avec l'aimite from John the XXII." The recipient, Mary Steinbeck Dekker was the eldest sister of John Steinbeck. The warmth of this inscription reflects their close and… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious". It has gone on to become of the best-loved classics of all time and has been translated into more than forty languages selling more than forty million copies worldwide.… Read more about this item

New York: Everyman's Library, 2008. First edition of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, "For Tom and Corinne All the best Your friend Cormac." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and… Read more about this item

New York: Everyman's Library, 2006. First edition of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard. Rare and desirable signed. "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion’s] sentences are better… Read more about this item