Search Results: Authors starting with A from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by A. E. Hotchner on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, sharp tips, and black cloth boards. Faint creases to spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W matte photos. Endpapers are decorated with the script of a letter from Hemingway to Hotchner. The dust jacket is unclipped ($19.99) Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 172 pages. 5¼ x 7¾" tall.
A. E. Hotchner was Hemingway's close friend, editor, traveling companion, and close confidant from 1948 until the novelist's death in 1961. Hotchner died at age 102 in 2020. In 2015 he published "Hemingway in Love," a book that divulges Hemingway's thoughts and truths about the women in his life. Hotchner writes of the affair that destroyed Hemingway's first marriage, the truth of his romantic life in… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1986. Fine. No additional printings listed. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, sharp tips, and clean, unmarred cloth boards. The black ink on the front of the book and along the spine is bright and fine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Six color plates by Patrick Procktor. The slipcase is near fine with faint wear. 101 pages. 6" x 9" tall. Originally published in 1896.A Shropshire Lad is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. Set in the semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse ponders the helplessness of man, the fragility of life, and the terrible effects of war, all against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside.Throughout the years, the strong combination of emotional feeling, lyricism, and folk qualities contributed to the popularity of "A Shropshire Lad" with composers. The sweeping themes of youth and love have found… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2016. Brand new. Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition. In publisher shrinkwrap. This illustrious collection holds all the Pooh stories from Winnie the Pooh, and The House on Pooh Corner, with gorgeous watercolor illustrations from Ernest H. Shepard. This unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather with distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark. Gold gilt to page edges is bright and fine. Purchased new at Barnes & Noble. 344 pages. 8 x 10" tall. Images from an opened book in the photo display.We realize the availability of titles at Barnes & Noble comes and goes. We regularly offer a large variety of their books for your consideration — most in pristine condition.

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Very Good. Selected, edited and introduced by A. L. Rowse. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and quarter bound in black cloth stamped in gilt with sides of tan cloth boards stamped in gilt on the upper panel. Light fading/wear to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The flimsy original slipcase is Good. Faded with edge-wear to opening and corners. 127 pages. 6½ x 10" tall. First published in 1860.Originally published in 1626 under the title, "The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes." This slim book contains "A Life of Sir Thomas More" and "A Selection of More's Letters." The letters are addressed to Joyce Lee, Cardinal Wolsey, More's wife, Alice, the "Nun of Kent," Thomas Cromwell, and More's daughter, Margaret.

London: Talmy, Franklin Limited, 1972. NF/NF. 1st/1st. First UK edition 1st printing of the late author's fifth book and his personal favorite. Titled Black Sun in the U.S. Book is Near Fine. Unread. One tip bumped otherwise tight and straight with even pages and clean. No writing, bookplate, embossed seal or marks and nor BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped (£2.10) and Near Fine. Very mild rubbing to back panel and minute edgewear to spine base (see photos.) Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Scarce in the UK edition and a beautiful copy.
A beautiful, bittersweet love story, is about a forest ranger (loner, iconoclast, lover of the rugged life) who falls for an utterly beguiling freckle-faced princess half his age.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition July 2018. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Megan Abbott on the title page during a book signing in New York City. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover.

New York: Liberty - Time, Inc., 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the half-title page. The unread book has solid hinges and binding, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Best-selling author, basketball legend, and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts and authentic experience in essays on the country's seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide--both racial and political, parenthood, and his own experiences as an athlete, African American, and a Muslim. The book is not just a collection of expositions; he also offers keen assessments of and solutions to problems such as racism in… Read More

United Kingdom: Orbit, 2022. SIGNED. Fine/Fine. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Daniel Abraham on a bound-in limitation page and is numbered 1939 of 2000. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Red page block with a decorated side fore-edge. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped no price) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 432 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
The first of an epic fantasy trilogy that unfolds within the walls of a single great city where every story matters — and the fate of the city is woven from them all.
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold.
This is Alys's.
When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him,… Read More

Brand New. Slipcase in publisher's shrink-wrap. Unread. New York: Winged Shoes Press, 1949. 1949 on the title page, actual publication date October 2013 Mulholland Press inside the back cover. Filled with fun and authentic-looking 22 loose-page inserts (see photos from an opened edition). The pages are purposely worn and yellowed with library stamps on the front and back covers plus stains on the pages to resemble a journal that ended up in a library. The front spine even has a library sticker. 472 pages. 6½ x 9¾" tall. $45.00 price on the back of the slipcase. A cult classic.
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
Conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader… Read More

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson on the half-title page. Book has a slight spine slant and spine head gently pushed, else good tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Black and white photographs. Dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95) with mild shelf wear. Store security tape-strip on back spine of the dust jacket. Protected in a Brodart mylar cover. A national best-seller and a National Book Award finalist investigates the Clarence Thomas hearings, charging that the Bush Administration waged a campaign of misinformation to discredit Anita Hill.

West Virginia: Westvaco, 1972. Fine/VG. Limited Edition Published Christmas 1972. Presentation slip signed by Jack Vincent laid in. The book is Fine. Tight and square with solid hinges and bindings and sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrations are ornamental designs from the 1924 Louis Henry Sullivan "A System of Architectural Ornament." Foreword by Jean A. Bradnick. The beige paper slipcase is very good with minor wear, a few smudges and light soiling to base. 171 pages. 6 x 9½" tall. First Published on 1906.
George Ade was perhaps America's first modern humorist. Originally published in 1899, Ade's Fables in Slang pursued a genial satire notable for its scrupulous objectivity. Ade followed in the footsteps of his idol Mark Twain by making expert use of the American language. His practice was to record the pragmatic efforts of the little man to get along in a world that is changing… Read More

New York: Dutton, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. First American Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Jussi Adler-Olsen on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head lightly creased. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 569 pages.
The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about.Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 1997. SIGNED by all Five. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by all five band members -- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer -- on the front free end page in black pen. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Spine ends gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W photos throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 513 pages with Index. 6½ x 9½.
Walk This Way is an almost day-by-day account of the high and low life of a true rock 'n' roll monster, in the words of the guys who made it happen: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer. Here is a quarter-century of rock godhood, told with no holds barred or punches pulled -- the life, the music, the legends, the truth, the hell; the lost weeks, and… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2020. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Gilt to the page edges is bright, unmarried, and Fine.
Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's redoubtable Belgian sleuth, returns to solve another three bedeviling murder mysteries.
In Death on the Nile, the tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc, 2017. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. This unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. The gilt on the page edges is bright and Fine. 624 pages. 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" tall. Publisher images are included in the photo display.
Hercule Poirot, the great Belgian sleuth who was the greatest creation of bestselling author Agatha Christie, brings his formidable skills of detection to bear on three bedeviling murder mysteries.Murder on the Orient Express—In his most famous case, Poirot must determine who of the passengers about the snowbound Orient Express is responsible for the brutal murder of millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett in his traveling compartment.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd—Generally regarded as one of the… Read More

New York: Crown, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New at Barnes & Noble. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. Signed by Ai Weiwei on publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean boards. Light creases to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black, white photos. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.00) with 1/4" closed tears to top and bottom of back spine edge, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 380 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Hailed as "an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process.
Ai Weiwei's sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and his architectural achievements… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. Near Fine. Collector's Edition. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. B&W photos and maps. Bound in brown leather with raised bands to spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine and sewn-in satin bookmark and printed on archival paper. Light specking and three faint scratches to gold gilt on side fore-edges, else gilt is fine. Includes Military History Collector's Notes.

New York: Flatiron Books, 2022. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Melissa Albert on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($18.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 340 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her boyfriend nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a road. It's only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, and a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in the safe of her parent's closet. Most unsettling of all, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother's past resurface, with the help of the boy next door.

Ashland, Oregon: Blackstone Publishing, 2022. New. F/F. Stated First Edition, Version 1. Signed by Alex Temblador on the half-title page with Everyone has a little "half outlaw" in them - 7/12/22, The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 249 pages. 6¼ x 9" tall.
Looking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her and gets more than she bargained for.
After the tragic death of her parents, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge's all-white, 1 percenter motorcycle club.
Alternating between Raqi's childhood and a present '90s setting, and accented by moments of magical realism, Half Outlaw is the story of Raqi's quest to find… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Alice Hoffman on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed and faint crease to top front corner. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with a faint crinkle to the spine head corners, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source. The story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of… Read More