Search Results: Nature from Orpheus Books

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.

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: Random House, 1991. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, off-white paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Scribner, 2016. Signed by the author on the first page following the end-paper. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990. Includes: William Kittredge, "Doors to Our House." Signed by Kittredge. First edition / First printing. White paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Essays by Stewart Udall, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Charles F. Wilkinson, John M. Volkman and William Kittredge.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth spine, navy paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Artisan, 1997. First Edition / First Printing. Green cloth. Fine in a dust jacket with tiny chip to the center bottom of the back panel, else fine. Profiles with photographs of ten Garden designers: Dan Pearson, Nancy Gosler Power, Madison Cox, Patrick Chasse, Alain David Idoux, Steve Martino, Ron Lusko, Nancy McCabe, Piet Oudolf, and Louis Benech.

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 and history of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed and dated 2.5 weeks before publication. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the… Read More

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 of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed then. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. Spillover was Winner of the 2013 Science and… Read More

New York: Time-Life Books, 1973. First edition / First printing. Hourglass symbol is present on last page. Black cloth spine, pictorial laminated boards. Fine, issued without 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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, orange paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A superb copy!

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy. Edward Abbey's masterpiece. A memoir, nature writing that set a new standard, it became a significant touchstone for the Environmentalist Movement.

London: Thames Methuen, 1987. Signed by Paul Ehrlich. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1985. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Ochre boards. Fine with blue remainder line to top edge, in near fine dust jacket with short closed tears. Annie Proulx has refused to sign her early non-fiction and how-to books since the early 1990s.

Atlanta: The Coca-Cola Company, 1941. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine. A lovely copy. A paperbound original.

Santa Fe: Gerald peters Gallery, 2005. Signed and Inscribed by Tony Angell: For Buster and Nancy with sincere appreciation and great admiration from Tony Angell. Additionally stationer's card laid in inscribed: Dear ___: My sincere thanks for the lovely lunch and great times at the Ruin's. Here's one of the promised catalogues. The one with Ivan's essay will follow. Best Tony. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Stationer's card inscribed by Tony Angell laid in.

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: 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Signed by the author on the title page, additionally inscribed: To Andy, William Kittredge 9/21/92. First edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, gold paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket.