Description:
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963. First edition of Pynchon's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "Aug. 1963. To Bob & Ginny, with affection, Tom." The recipient was his Boeing colleague and close friend Bob Hillock and his wife Ginny. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed. "V may well stand as one of the very best works of the century" (Atlantic Review). It went on to win The Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel of the Year.
Search Results: Titles starting with V from Raptis Rare Books
You searched for:
- Bookseller inventory: Raptis Rare Books (titles starting with V)
- Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books
Results 1 - 20 of 77
V.
by Pynchon, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$64,189.60FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$64,189.60
FREE shipping to USA
V.
by Pynchon, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,125.02FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963. First edition of Pynchon's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Item Price
NZ$3,125.02
FREE shipping to USA
V.
by Pynchon, Thomas
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$59,122.00FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963.
Item Price
NZ$59,122.00
FREE shipping to USA
Vagabonds.
by Hamsun, Knut
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$9,290.60FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1931. Vagabonds' first chapter is "a masterpiece" in evoking the loss of innocence and the perils of modernity (Ferguson, 290). It also introduces the trilogy's protagonist, August, one of Hamsun's most enduring figures. "What makes Hamsun more than just a good storyteller and a superb stylist are his insights into the 'almost imperceptible movements of the soul' and his sense of the mystery of life" (Wintle, New Makers). Yet controversy continues over Hamsun's role in the Nazi occupation of Norway and his meetings with Hitler and Goebbels. To his biographer, "what can be safely said of him is that he was a great writer, and his contribution to the art of writing has been enormous" (Ferguson, 422). First edition, first issue: copyright page with no statement of edition or printings; copies found with colophon or without colophon (this copy), no priority established. Copyright date of "Oct. 29, 1930" (Catalogue of Copyright Entries.…
Read More Item Price
NZ$9,290.60
FREE shipping to USA
The Valley of Bones.
by Powell, Anthony
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,097.98FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1964. The Valley of Bones, named for the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel, depicts the coming together of very disparate individuals for the massive undertaking of Great Britain preparing for World War II. Unlike in Ezekiel, "The hand and spirit of God are absent; instead, there are men -- never very strong, often ineffective, seldom secure, always troubled.... Powell's narrative pictures the partial breakdown of an infantry company: the personal ossification of some men, the cracking of the mold in others, the failure (and even death) of still others" (Robert Morris).
Item Price
NZ$1,097.98
FREE shipping to USA
Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. By the Author of ‘Frankenstein’.
by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$15,540.64FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823.
Item Price
NZ$15,540.64
FREE shipping to USA
Value And Capital.
by Hicks, J.R. [John]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$42,230.00FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. First edition of the economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Signed by John R. Hicks on the front free endpaper. An excellent example in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. Upon publication, Value and Capital was hailed as a classic work. In it, J.R. Hicks introduced Walrasian general equilibrium theory to an English-speaking audience. This was the first publication to attempt a rigorous statement of stability conditions for general equilibrium. In doing so, Hicks formalised comparative statics. The book synthesises dynamic-adjustment elements from Walras and Wicksell and from Marshall and Keynes. It distinguishes temporary, intermediate, and long-run equilibrium with expectations as to future market conditions affecting behavior in current markets (Bliss, 1987, pp. 64243). "In this book Professor Hicks has essayed…
Read More Item Price
NZ$42,230.00
FREE shipping to USA
Value, Capital and Growth: Papers In Honour of Sir John Hicks.
by Hicks, John R. [Robert M. Solow]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,646.97FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968. First edition of this work in honor of John Hicks. Octavo, original cloth. Signed twice by Robert Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Edited by J.N. Wolfe.
Item Price
NZ$1,646.97
FREE shipping to USA
Values of Non-Atomic Games.
by Aumann, Robert J. and Lloyd S. Shapley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$802.37FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974. First edition of this "first class contribution to the field of game theory" (Oskar Morgenstern). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Robert Aumann on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The "Shapley value" of a finite multi- person game associates to each player the amount he should be willing to pay to participate. This book extends the value concept to certain classes of non-atomic games, which are infinite-person games in which no individual player has significance. It is primarily a book of mathematics--a study of non-additive set functions and associated linear operators.
Item Price
NZ$802.37
FREE shipping to USA
Values of Non-Atomic Games.
by Aumann, Robert J. and Lloyd S. Shapley [Kenneth J. Arrow]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$4,223.00FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974. First edition of this "first class contribution to the field of game theory" (Oskar Morgenstern). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Aumann on the title page to fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow, "For Ken Bob Aumann." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. From the library of Kenneth Arrow. The "Shapley value" of a finite multi- person game associates to each player the amount he should be willing to pay to participate. This book extends the value concept to certain classes of non-atomic games, which are infinite-person games in which no individual player has significance. It is primarily a book of mathematics--a study of non-additive set functions and associated linear operators.
Item Price
NZ$4,223.00
FREE shipping to USA
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. [Cosway].
by Thackeray, William Makepeace [Cosway]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$9,797.36FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first issue of Thackeray's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Cosway-style binding with a miniature portrait of Thackeray inset into the front panel, engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title, and 38 engraved plates, spine in gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ivory silk doublures. The first issue, with the headline on page one in rustic type; "Mr. Pitt" on page 453; and the suppressed woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336. Van Duzer 231. In fine condition. An exceptional example. Vanity Fair was Thackeray's first major work and established his continued high standing among Victorian novelists. "After that book [Vanity Fair] there could be no doubt about the greatness of its writer... at last the novel of real life on the great scale has been discovered" (Saintsbury, in Groiler, English Prose Fiction, 102). "As Thackeray's masterpiece this novel has outlasted the great majority of his…
Read More Item Price
NZ$9,797.36
FREE shipping to USA
Vanity of Duluoz.
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$802.37FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968. First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition. Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel.
Item Price
NZ$802.37
FREE shipping to USA
Vanity of Duluoz.
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$591.22FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968. First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel.
Item Price
NZ$591.22
FREE shipping to USA
The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency.
by Johnson, Lyndon Baines
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$5,912.20FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971. In The Vantage Point, one of the most complex and fascinating men to occupy the Presidency of the United States describes his years in the White House. In the books preface, Johnson states: "I make no pretense of having written a complete and definitive history of my Presidency. I have tried, rather, to review that period from a President's personal and political philosophy, a President's experience and knowledge...and a President's response to the demands that were made of him." The book was published in the same year that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum opened on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.
Item Price
NZ$5,912.20
FREE shipping to USA
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.
by Darwin, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,435.82FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868. First edition of Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. Preface by Asa Gray. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Item Price
NZ$1,435.82
FREE shipping to USA
The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats.
by Yeats, W.B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,800.70FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Signed limited edition, one of 825 numbered copies signed by W.B. Yeats, this is number 231 of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth, original slipcase. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell Alspach. Additionally inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To Bob Steele high regards Russell Alspach." Fine in the original slipcase, which is in near fine condition. W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honored for what the Nobel Committee described as…
Read More Item Price
NZ$3,800.70
FREE shipping to USA
The Vassall Affair.
by West, Rebecca
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,604.74FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Sunday Telegraph, 1963. First edition of this work by the author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "My love to Bruce and Beatrice Rebecca West 1963." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined to the home" and led by "Beatrice's sure feeling for the emancipated women's tastes, it invited its readers to plunge up to the elbows not only in bread dough but in life." The magazine pushed for "purity in politics as well as in maternity wards" and fought against venereal disease and child abuse. Attention-getting articles and addressing feminine health problems…
Read More Item Price
NZ$1,604.74
FREE shipping to USA
Vega and other Poems.
by Durrell, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$42.23FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. First edition of the author's later collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Vega and other poems contains a selection of Durrell's later poems, many of which were published at the end of The Red Limbo Lingo: A Poetry Notebook, and others which are published here for the first time in book form. In its entirety, the volume brilliantly displays the breadth and variety of Durrell's temperament and realization.
Item Price
NZ$42.23
FREE shipping to USA
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,013.52FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Item Price
NZ$1,013.52
FREE shipping to USA
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$10,979.80FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. A nice example.
Item Price
NZ$10,979.80
FREE shipping to USA