Search Results: Authors starting with E from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Bob Eckstein on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. There is a slight bow to the back cover. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. No dust jacket as issued. $19.95 price on the back board. 8" X 8 3/4" tall. 144 pages.This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and critique the literary world through the work of thirty-three of the masters of cartoon art, including Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, and Michael Maslin.

Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot, 2018. SIGNED. Purchased New. F/F. First Edition. First printing. Signed by Bob Eckstein across from the title page plus an original drawing by the author. The unread book is tight and square 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. Over two hundred black and white and color illustrations and photos. Photographic endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 210 pages. 7¼ x 9¼" tall. A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2003. Like New. This is the 2003 printing with a new decorated binding and color frontispiece. Edited with an Introduction by Michael Edwardes. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, good tips, and clean, unmarred, illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. No dust jacket, as issued. The green slipcase is fine 177 pages. 5¾ x 9" tall.

London: The Folio Society, 1994. Eighth printing. The book is Like New. Tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, good tips, and clean dark grey and yellow boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white portraits throughout. Edited by Richard Barber. The slipcase is Near Fine with faint shelf wear. 324 pages. 6½ x 10" tall. The idea behind this collection of some of Aubrey's Brief Lives essays was to "Include only those lives for which a reasonably authentic contemporary portrait could be found … 'Brief Lives' is one of the strangest books — if indeed this collection of notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts can be called a book — to have achieved literary fame," writes Richard Barber, who goes on to write that "Their author was equally strange."

Fairfax, VA: Odysseus Editions, 1995. New - reluctantly removed from the original shrinkwrap to photograph the interior contents. Special Edition published for the Firearms Classics Library of the National Rifle Association and its National Firearms Museum; reprinted from the original 1961 edition. Filled with black and white Illustrations. The book is unread and pristine. Bound in red leather with hubbed spine, 22-K gold accents, silk moire endpapers, red satin bookmark, and bright unmarred gilt-edge pages. 306 pages. Measures 9 1/2" x 6 1/4".
Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel's Guns of the Old West is an exhaustively researched document that not only boasts a significant collection of antique Western guns but also categorizes the firearms into easy-to-reference sections. Starting with an introductory chapter on the origins of guns and their earliest uses on the frontier, Chapel covers everything from muskets to rifles, pistols to… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated Scribner hardcover edition November 2017, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Jennifer Egan on the publisher's bound-in page. 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 ($28.00) and Fine. Illustrated endpapers. Protected in a new Brodart cover. The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at… Read More

New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2014. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman with Electrify! and dated 2014 on the title page. 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 ($16.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.The first book in a brilliantly imagined and hilariously written trilogy that combines science, magic, intrigue, and just plain weirdness, about four kids who are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. VG/VG. U.S. Second Edition published 1936, original copyright 1935. This edition includes the new author's note from the second English and American editions (1936) in which Eliot explains how he substituted a speech by the Chorus for a dialogue for the three Priests so that the text conformed with the Mercury Theatre production of the play. The book is tight and square with solid hinges. Corners lightly bumped and wear to spine head, else boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($1.25) with chipping to spine ends and top front panel, mild soiling and tanning and sunning to spine. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover. 88 pages. A verse drama by T.S. Eliot, first performed in 1935, that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. VG/VG. U.S. Fourth Edition published March 1938, original copyright 1935. Book has a hint of lean, else tight and square with solid hinges and good tips. Mild wear to spine top, else boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned and light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($2.50) with chipping to spine ends and top front corner, mild soiling and sunning to spine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 88 pages. A verse drama by T.S. Eliot, first performed in 1935, that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170.

New York: Barnes & Noble Inc, 2018. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. The 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, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. The gilt on the page edges is bright and Fine. 848 pages. 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" tall. Publisher images are included in the photo display.Together for the first time in a single volume: two classics of the modern African-American experience.Invisible Man is a passionate and witty tour de force of style that won the National Book Award in 1953. Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison's second novel, published posthumously in 1999. It evokes the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the twentieth century. We realize the availability of titles at Barnes & Noble comes and goes. We regularly offer a large… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. SIGNED. NF/VG. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. Signed by Ellroy on the first free endpaper underneath some bold ravings. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Mild foxing to top fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($14.95) with minor rubbing and edge-wear. Protected in a Brodart cover. Author's third book and the first installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. The first Ellroy novel to be adapted to film. It is the basis for the 1988 movie Cop, starring James Woods.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First Printing with no other printings listed. Signed on an Alfred A. Knopf publisher bookplate on the half-title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint wear to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95) with a small crease to the spine head edge. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 137 pages. 6 x 8½ tall.
Nora Ephron, following the success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, writes with her signature humor about life in the past, the present, and the future. Here she bemoans the vicissitudes of modern life and recalls with clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet) forgotten.

New York: Harper, 2020. SIGNED. F/NF. Stated First Edition. Seventh printing with number line ending in 7. Signed by Louise Erdrich on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The fragile dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) with light shelf wear (see photos). Removable SIGNED COPY sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 451 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill, but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Based… Read More

New York: Harper Wave, 2023. SIGNED, New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Melissa Etheridge on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, 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 ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 214 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
With characteristic wit and courage, Melissa delves into how numerous tragedies served as a catalyst for growth, and what the past two decades have taught her about the value of music, love, family, and life in the face of death. It is her story: as raw, vulnerable, and electrifying as her acclaimed songs.

NY: Scribner. 1997, SIGNED. Near Fine. 1st/1st. Advance reading copy in pictorial paper wraps. Full number line starting with 1. SIGNED by Evanovich on the title page. Unread ARC is near fine. Pages lightly tanned and very mild wear to corners. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings. The third Stephanie Plum novel.

NY. Scribner, 1996. SIGNED. NF. Advance Reader's Copy (ARC) of the 2nd Stephanie Plum novel. First Edition with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Evanovich on the title page. Faint foxing to top and side fore-edges. Otherwise, straight, tightly bound and clean. No writing, bookplate or marks. Protected in sturdy Brodart removable softcover vinyl book protector.

New York: Doubleday, 2024. New. F/F. Signed. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Percival Everett on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, 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 ($28.00) and Fine. Removable "Signed First Edition" sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 303 pages. 5¾ x 8½.
An action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.