Search Results: Books from Orpheus Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. No restoration, a remarkable copy. Chandler's fourth book. $2.00 Net Price present on front jacket flap.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Boldly Signed by Rem Koolhaas on a large sheet (6" x 8") of archival Arches paper, laid into the book First edition / First printing. Pink paper-covered boards. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to the edges, an outstanding copy of a scarce title. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

New York: Delacorte, 1968. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on a bookplate. First edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine unfaded clean dust jacket, with a short closed tear, no chipping or loss. A remarkably fresh and attractive copy.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed page. First edition / First printing. Signed Edition. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed page, bound in by the publisher. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Richard Powers' remarkable novel, which went quickly into later printings. It is a novel about trees and the natural world. Trees are living things whose lives are measured in centuries, but can be wiped out in days. It is also the story of several people whose lives are linked to trees, and their attempts to stop the destruction of these natural wonders. The Overstory is the Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize. The Overstory is the 2020 Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1991. Signed by the Nobel laureate author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. White printed wrappers. Very fine. A beautiful copy and rare signed. Note: This is the uncorrected proof and should not be confused with the hardcover edition. Very few proofs were produced which makes this a highly desirable collector's item. Pamuk was the 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: Times Books, 1995. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Tiny spot offset to the inside back of the jacket near the spine from the black cloth, It is not visible on the outside of the jacket. Book does not appear to be affected. A sharp attractive copy. Chosen as number 10 in The New York Times 50 Best Memoirs of the last 50 years. Barack Obama's remarkable first book, a memoir. Published 9 years before his Keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention propelled him into the National spotlight and four years later into the Presidency. This is the correct First Edition. The book was reissued in 2004, in both paperback and hardcover, and became a bestseller.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed and Inscribed on the half-title page by the author: For Irving & Harriet / All the best / Your friend / Cormac. First trade edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Irving and Harriet Brown, former booksellers, owners of HI Books and members of McCarthy's inner circle in El Paso. Inscribed copies of McCarthy's work are rarely on the market.

Barcelona: El Croquis, 1998. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the title page. First edition thus / First printing. First hardcover edition. White paper covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

New York: Ecco Press, 1980. Signed by Louise Gluck on the title page. First edition / First printing. Purple cloth. Very fine in very fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A beautiful copy and rare signed. The author's third collection of poetry. Volume 20 in The American Poetry Series. Louise Gluck is the 2020 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition / First Printing. Black cloth spine, black and white printed boards, with a lenticular (hologram-like) black and silver illustration glued to the front board. Near fine. Issued without dust jacket, clear archival jacket supplied. Pop-ups, fold-outs, attached items and black-and-white photographs. Balloon has melted and fused two pages, also slightly coloring adjacent pages. Tear-out sheet is gone, all other objects are present and in fine condition: a pop-up castle, a fold-out accordion, a pop-up airplane, spring-mounted Chelsea Girls disc, a dodecahedron paper sculpture, Lou Reed flexi-disc is detached but is present, Rainbow nose with overlays, a pop-up Hunt's Tomato Paste can.

Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Signed and dated 6/12/94 with large drawing of a flower, a sun, the moon and a star across the title page and the facing page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Fine in near 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. 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: Monacelli Press, 1995. Signed on the title page by Rem Koolhaas. First edition / First printing. Black and yellow ink over metallic cloth. Light wear, near fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

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: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed Overstory bookplate which has been laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Richard Powers' remarkable novel, which went quickly into later printings. It is a novel about trees and the natural world. Trees are living things whose lives are measured in centuries, but can be wiped out in days. It is also the story of several people whose lives are linked to trees, and their attempts to stop the destruction of these natural wonders. The Overstory is the Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Overstory is the 2020 Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award. The Overstory was Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and… Read More

Milano: Bompiani, 1994. Signed and dated 4.12.96 on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy. The correct First Edition of The Island of the Day Before, in Italian. The US edition was selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for their 10 Best Books of 1995 List.

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: Boni and Liveright, 1924. Signed by Eugene O'Neill on the colophon of the first volume. Limited First Edition / First Printing. Number of 126 of 1200 copies. Blue cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Fine. Vintage original Art Deco style owner bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. Please note: The pages are unopened.. The title on the title page of the books is "The Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill." The title on the spine reads "Collected Plays of Eugene O'Neill.

New York: Aperture, 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.