Search Results: Authors starting with V from Orpheus Books

New York: Ballantine Books S586, 1962 First U.S. edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. About fine, no creases or tears. A nice copy. Illustrated with hundreds of photos from the acclaimed film.

London & New York: High Risk Books / Serpents Tail, 1995. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Signed on the title page by Chris Van Allsburg. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Signed on the title page by the author/artist. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Signed on the half-title following the CIP page by the Chris Van Allsburg. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Signed by Chris Van Allsburg on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, navy paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1958. First edition / First printing. Full color illustrated wrappers. Fine. Includes plain vellum overwrap, darkened, near fine. Exhibition Catalogue: The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum.

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 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… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, teal paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author's first novel.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First U.S. edition / First printing. Brown cloth, teal paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. The Canadian author's well-received first novel.

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. 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: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1989. First edition / First printing. Rust cloth. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1989 exhibition.

Rob Hower Film / Connoisseur Art Collection / Image Entertainment 1975 1989. Signed by Director Paul Verhoeven on the cover. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in laminated pictorial sleeve. Very fine disc in very fine sleeve. The acclaimed Dutch director's third film.

Orion / Vestron / Image Entertainment 1985. Signed by Director Paul Verhoeven on the cover. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in gatefold laminated pictorial sleeve. Very fine disc in very fine sleeve. The acclaimed Dutch director's first film in English.

Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Arts, 1978. First Edition / First Printing. Illustrated wrappers. Near fine.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. First trade edition / First printing. Brown cloth, Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

New York: Putnam, 1990. First trade edition / First printing. White cloth spine, white paper-covered boards, Very fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. Signed by the author. 25th Anniversary edition / First printing with a new introduction by the author. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards, Very fine in fine dust jacket. The author's breakthrough masterpiece. After twenty years of struggling for critical and popular success, this book gave him the audience and recognition he had sought. The horrific firebombing of Dresden, which he witnessed as a POW, shocked Vonnegut into a lifelong distrust of the senseless and amoral violence of all war. Number 18 on Modern Library's Best 100 Novels. A classic of counter-culture literature.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. First trade edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Near fine, slight fading to top and bottom board edges, in fine dust jacket.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.