Search Results: Biography from Orpheus Books

New York: Little Brown, 2021. Signed on the title page and dated 23 Aug 2022 by Rebecca Donner. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Mildred Fish Harnack was an American citizen who was part of the resistance underground in Germany during WWII. She was executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler in early 1943. Winner of the 2022 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Biography. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2021. Rebecca Donner is the Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. The publisher seriously underestimated the demand for this book and it was out of print within days of publication. With the supply chain issues during the pandemic, it took weeks to get a second printing to stores and warehouses. Also due to the pandemic, all author publicity for hardcover publication was Virtual, meaning that few signed copies of the first exist. This is… Read More

New York: Donald I. FIne, 1991. First edition / First printing. Erratum slip laid in. Beige paper spine, slate blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1986. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth spine, ivory boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: First Second, 2017. Signed on the front-free endpaper with a large drawing of Cass Elliott by Penelope Bagieu. Additionally inscribed: For Jen! Thank you very much! First edition / First printing. Laminated illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2018 Harvey Award for Best European Comic. Bagieu also won a 2019 Eisner Award.

Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown and Company, 1999. 1989. Careless Love is Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Careless Love is very fine in very fine dust jacket. Last Train to Memphis is fine in a fine dust jacket. Both of Guralnick's superb biographies of Elvis Presley. Careless love is signed, Last Train to Memphis is not signed.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1994. First edition / First printing. Ochre paper-covered boards. Slight darkening to page edges, typical to British books, else fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 1992. First U.S. edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York Ungar, 1984. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1974. First U.S. edition / First printing. Russet cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight fading to spine. A lovely large format book.

New York: Crown, 1993. First U.S. edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1991. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket with rubbing to the back panel.

Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press, 1980. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Ecco Press, 1995. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, gold paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Baseball's "Iron Man." Hall of Famer first ballot inductee. Ripken holds the all time record for consecutive games played at 2,632. 19 time All-Star. Two time American League MVP. Winner of two Gold Glove Awards.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965. First edition / First printing. Red cloth. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Spine darkened, else very good plus to near fine without dust jacket.

New York: A. S. Barnes / A Perpetua Book, P4032, 1961. First U.S. edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Bright and fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. Signed by Mark Morris. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. Biography of the famed modern choreographer.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First U. S. Edition / First Printing. Red cloth spine, black cloth boards. Near fine. No jacket. Vintage original Art Deco style owner bookplate to the back of the front-free endpaper. A memoir by an American volunteer, (later a deserter), with the Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbes. Magnus committed suicide in 1920, D. H. Lawrence championed the unpublished manuscript and contributed the substantial introduction.