Science from Orpheus Books

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… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The third volume of Annals of the Former World. The combined volume won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. Signed and dated 5/96 by the author on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed: To Shirley -- with best wishes. First edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, gold paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for the best Natural History writing in a 5 year period. Selected by… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1970. Signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. First edition / First printing. Green paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket with the original owner's vintage bookplate on the back of the front free end-paper. The first of a generation of women in Africa, initially without scientific training, who revolutionized our view of nature, conservation and the… Read more about this item

New York: Atlas Books / W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Signed on an archival stationer's card, which is laid into the book. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, beige paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Washington, D. C.: The National Geographic Association, 1967. Signed by Jane Goodall on a bookplate attached to the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in near 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.… Read more about this item

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.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science and history… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed and dated 9/17/22 by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Signed on the title page by Cernan on a bookplate: "Dream - Then Reach For The Stars . . . Gene Cernan. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Fine, with bump to bottom of front board in fine dust jacket, with a tiny closed tear. One of only twelve men to… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Slate paper-covered spine, sienna paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Winner of the 2013 Science… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Signed by the author who has also added a small original drawing of the world contained within an eye. First edition / First printing. Green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A Caldecott Honor Book.

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: Free Press, 2009. 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: Pantheon Books, 1995. Signed on the title page by the author and dated January 25, 1995. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Signed by Stephen Jay Gould. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

New York: Workman Publishing, 2010. Signed by Allen Kurzweil on front of the "potato chip" bag. First edition / First printing. Book in illustrated wrappers, along with science kit in "potato chip" bag. Very fine. (Unopened). The author of a Case of Curiosities has created a science kit for children.