Search Results: Memoir from Orpheus Books

New York: Crown, 2021. Signed by Ai Weiwei. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Includes 8.5" x 18.125" 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Letterpress Broadside. Requires additional shipping charge to ship book and print in the same box.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Burgundy paper spine, blue-gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Blue printed wrappers. Very fine.

New Yorkm Riverhead Books, 2008. Signed on the title page by Kathleen Norris. First edition / First printing. Red orange cloth spine, red-orange paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Signed on the title page by Jane Goodall. Second printing. Black paper spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. The first of a generation of women in Africa, initially without scientific training, who revolutionized our view of nature, conservation and the appropriate treatment of wild animals. Mentored by Louis Leakey, she began studying chimpanzees in Gombe in 1960. Her close studies of the Chimpanzees in the wild led to several major breakthroughs. Winner of the Kyoto Award 1n 1990, The Hubbard Medal in 1995, The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1997, Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2004, and The Templeton Prize in 2021. She studied at Cambridge in the mid 1960's and received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1966. She has been a vocal environmentalist since the beginning, and founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and Roots and Shoots for the environmental education of children in 1991.

New York: Crown Archetype, 2018. Signed on a blank page following the endpaper by Eric Idle. First U.S. edition / First printing. Pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Creator of the Rutles. Creator of Spamalot. Comedy legend Eric Idle looks back on a career of looniness.

New York: HarperCollins / Ecco Press, 2015. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2010. First edition / First printing. 7,500 copies in the first printing. Black cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Signed on the title page by James D. Watson, the Winner of the Nobel Prize and the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA. First edition / First printing. Green paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Crown, 2019 Signed by Michelle Obama. Limited First Edition / First Printing. Blue cloth in gray cloth box. Very fine in very fine box still in original shrink wrap. Includes two prints and a photograph of the former First Lady. [This copy is still sealed. Interior photos are from another copy, which has been opened].

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. Signed by Richard Thompson on the title page. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2017. Signed by Richard Ford on a specially printed bound-in page. First edition / First printing. Special signed edition: One of an unknown number of copies signed by the author on a specially printed bound-in page. Blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Signed by former President Clinton on the title page. First edition / First printing. First issue with "failure of my life" in last sentence of the acknowledgments. Navy paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Fall 1994. Signed by Barry Lopez at the excerpt from: Field Notes; Signed by Tobias Wolff at the excerpt from: In Pharoah's Army. First edition / First printing. Red, black, and white printed wrappers. Very fine.

New York: Viking, 1997. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, white paper-covered boards. Front board is longer than the rear board, else very fine in very fine dust jacket. Chosen as number 17 in The New York Times 50 Best Memoirs of the last 50 years.

New York: Viking, 1997. First U.S. edition / First printing. Advance uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine. Chosen as number 17 in The New York Times 50 Best Memoirs of the last 50 years.

New York: Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science 2015. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1997. Signed by James Salter. First edition / First printing. Ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket, with a light crease to the top of the front jacket flap.