Search Results: Authors starting with I from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Abrams, 2017. New. In shrinkwrap. The unread, oversized book is tight with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean pictorial boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white and color illustrations and photos. 255 pages. 10¼ x 12" tall. Publisher's images are included in the photo display.An evocative por­trait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work captured many facets of the 20th century. Using photography, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contemporaries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and other writ­ings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a way that no previous book has been able to do.Her book is organized around the circles of Beaton's daily life: the people who inspired and influenced him, his colorful friends, his fellow photographers, his Hollywood conquests, his wartime service, and his English roots. This cavalcade offers a shimmering… Read More

London: Laurence King Publishing, 2019. New. 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, not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrations by Andrew Rae. No dust jacket, as issued. 80 pages. Pages. 6¾ x 9" tall. Salvador Dalí is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his lavish lifestyle, gravity-defying mustache, and bizarre art. This book tells the story of Dalí's life and explores the meaning of his Surrealist paintings. It goes beyond his fine art practice and discusses his venture into the commercial world from his extravagant jewelry to his cheeky design for the Chupa Chups lollipops. Surrealism is revealed as a way of life; illustrations bring to life the extraordinary Dream Ball at the Coq Rouge, his fabulous home at Port Lligat, and his underwater fantasy at the World Fair's Surrealist pavilion. Fun, provoking, and endlessly frustrating, Dalí is… Read More

London: Laurence King Publishing, 2019. New. 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, not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white photographs. Specially commissioned illustrations by Andrew Rae. No dust jacket, as issued. 80 pages. Pages. 6¾ x 9" tall. Andy Warhol said, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates that surface and explores Warhol's art from his beginnings as a commercial artist to his apotheosis as a society portrait painter. Vivid illustrations reveal the sphere of Warhol: his childhood in Pittsburgh, his chaotic Manhattan mansion, and the famous Factory.

New York: Sterling Signature, 2011. Like New. F/F. This scarce copy comes with two different dust jackets. First Edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Filled with color and black and white illustrations. Patterned endpapers. Both dust jackets are fine. $45.00 price on the outer dust jacket. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 512 pages. 9¼ x 10¼ " tall.
Long out of print, this carefully abridged and lavishly illustrated edition of Forster's influential three-volume biography is now accessible to a new generation of Dickens enthusiasts. It is a heavy, oversized book that contains a splendid feast of supplemental texts and images, including extracts from Forster's work and as well as recent criticism. The rich selection of images ranges from original artwork to rare photographs and portraits of… Read More

NY: Summit Books, 1988. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. First edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Clifford Irving on the title page. Unread book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Faint foxing to top edges and small gap from backstrap to text. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped with very light shelf wear (see photos) otherwise Fine. 516 pp. B&W photos. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Best known for an "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. In this true-crime investigation, Clifford Irving tells the shocking story of one of Texas's most complex murders--the story of a tortured and bitter woman driven to kill her own parents In 1982, a successful lawyer and his wife were found brutally shot to death in their own bed.

New York: Random House, 1954. 1st/1st. VG/G. First American edition, Stated First Printing. The book has clearly been read and the initial pages fit looser to the spine than the later pages. Some soiling to the exterior but the lettering remains bright. Aging to paste-downs and a previous owner's name in ink (hidden by the dust jacket flap.) The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.50) with chipping, primarily along the spine ends. Some closed tears and the back has discolored a bit. The photos should indicate the condition of the book better than words. It is a decent copy of a book that is over 60 years old. Protected in a Brodart cover.
ABOUT THE WORLD IN THE EVENING
Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair with a younger man… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1990. Folio First Edition. 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. Frontispiece and 7 color, full-page illustrations by Beryl Cook. Introduction by Samuel Hynes. The slipcase is Near Fine with faint shelf wear. 174 pages. 7½ x 11" tall. First published in 1935. Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood's most enduring novels.On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni.… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First Edition, stated First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean and unmarred turquoise cloth boards. There is a thin blue stain on the bottom side fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with mild soiling and light wear to the spine. 254 pages. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
Exhumations is a collection of Isherwood's stories, book reviews, articles, and verses written over a period of almost forty years; 'fragments', as the author himself called them, 'of an autobiography which tells itself indirectly, by means of exhibits'. From those delightful lines which begin: The common cormorant (or shag)/ Lays eggs inside a paper bag ... to the reflections of this Quaker writer on the Bhagavad-Gita's seeming approval of war; from a hilarious preparatory-school story to solid comment on Baudelaire, Wells,… Read More

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. The First American Edition with no additional printings listed. The book has a hint of lean but is tightly bound with light wear to corners and in original blue cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Spine ends pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages lightly age-tanned. The dust jacket has original $3.00 price. Chipping to the spine ends and corners. Light creases and chips to the top of the front panel and browning to spine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 312 pages. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4" tall. First published in the U.K. by Hogarth Press in 1938.
Blending autobiography and fiction, Lions and Shadowsevokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as Isherwood knew it and describes his life as a tutor, a medical student, and a struggling writer. Above all, Lions and Shadows is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the… Read More