Search Results: Authors starting with L from Armadillo Alley Books

NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition July 2017 with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Richard Lange on the title page during an appearance/book signing in New York City. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. The front top corner is mildly bumped and creases to the spine bottom. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 352 numbered pages.Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by both Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases 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 ($24.00) with light rubbing, including two small faded circular spots on the front panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 444 pages.
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floydtraces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's… Read More

New York: Crown, 2003. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Thirty-fifth printing with number line ending in 35. Signed by Erik Larson on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean boards. Bottom corners lightly creased. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pictorial map endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.00) with faint shelf wear, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 447 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller and true story about the architect who led the construction of the great Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and the prolific serial killer who used the fair as a lure. Just blocks from the fairgrounds, the killer built a hotel of horrors equipped with an acid vat, dissection table and crematorium. The book won an Edgar Award for best fact-crime writing and was a finalist for a National Book Award.

NY: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1983. NF/NF. Stated First Edition (American). First printing with no other printings listed. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean maroon cloth boards, silver titles on the spine with the author's name stamped in silver on the front board. Light bottom side-edge soiling. The textblock has light toning to front pastedown and front endpaper else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($15.95) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 430 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall. Charlie is an unsuccessful English actress in her twenties. Intrigued by a handsome, solitary stranger, she finds herself lured into the "theatre of the real." For the mysterious man is Kurtz, an Israeli intelligence officer out to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. Forced to play her most challenging role, Charlie is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1991. SIGNED/DATED VG/NF. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. SIGNED by the author (Heat-Moon) on the half-title page, and dated 2016. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, and clean boards. Three corners bumped and light crease to the spine tail. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Maps and endpapers by author. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95) with light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 624 pages. 6¼ x 9½. Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase County, Kansas--to unearth some of the mysteries of nature.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed on the title page by both William Least Heat-Moon and his wife, travel partner "Q". Carefully read book is tight with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with mild shelf wear, else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. This the third book in William Least Heat Moon's travel trilogy of back-roads America is the search for "quoz", an 18th-century term for something "strange, incongruous, peculiar".

New York: Harper, 2011. New. Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition. In original shrinkwrap. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, and sharp corners. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded leather with decorated endpapers and sewn-in satin bookmark. 323 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
A modern American classic that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and served as the basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Gregory Peck, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has never been out of print in more than half-century since it was first published.
We realize the availability of titles at Barnes & Noble comes and goes. We regularly list a variety of their books – most in pristine condition.

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. SIGNED. Near Fine. Softcover. Uncorrected advanced proofs in glossy pictorial wraps. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. SIGNED by Burke on the title page. Tightly bound, square and bright. Slight rubbing, pages lightly tanned and two marks on side fore-edges. Otherwise clean. No writing, bookplate or markings and not ex-library or remaindered. Protected in a Brodart softcover book slip-case. The third Dave Robicheaux novel and winner of the Edgar Award.Haunted by the memory of his wife's murder and his father's untimely death, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux spends his days in a fish-and-tackle business. But when an old friend makes a surprise appearance, Robicheaux finds himself thrust back into the violent world of Mafia goons and wily federal agents. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands, Robicheaux is running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer and the demons of his past.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Crease to back front tip. Faint dusting/soiling to top fore-edges. 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 spine head edge, else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
In Burke's ninth Dave Robicheaux novel, we meet Aaron Crown. Aaron comes from a long line of shady Cajun characters and rumors of Klan ties swirl around his family. When Crown is arrested for the murder of a black civil rights leader, it appears to be an open and shut case. Only Robicheaux, to whom Crown proclaims his innocence, worries that Crown had been made a scapegoat for the collective guilt of a generation.When Buford LaRose,… Read More

NY: Delacorte, 1998. SIGNED. Like New. 1st/2nd. First edition second printing with number line ending in 2. SIGNED by Leonard on the title page. Unread book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. NF/VG. Limited, Signed First Edition. Copy Number 88 of 125. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed on the limitation 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 slipcase is Very Good with light soiling and chip to bottom. 442 pages. 6½ x 9½.
A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library, 1992. F/NF Exact facsimile first edition as published by Harcourt in 1922. The only new additions are on the copyright page and bottom of the rear flap (FEL). First Edition Library facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish, and texture as the originals. The book appears unread, 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. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket has some light rubbing, else bright and fine. Slipcase is Fine.
Sinclair Lewis's novel is set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. Babbitt basks in his pedestrian success and the popularity it has brought him. He demands high moral standards from those around… Read More

New York: Random House, 2009. VG/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Yiyun Li on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Bump to the back bottom board and crease to mid-front spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 337 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
The Vagrants is a novel set in China during the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement — the era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising. In the provincial city of Muddy River, a young woman, Gu Shan, has boldly renounced her faith in Communism and is now a political prisoner set to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother is about to make another bold decision and her father, Teacher Gu, begins to retreat into memories — neither parent realizing that their daughter's… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008. SIGNED. Near Fine. Includes CD. No dustjacket. Signed by John Lithgow on the half-title page. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. The oversized book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Bump to the front bottom corner. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. 32 pages. Illustrated by Robert Neubecker. 9 x 11" tall.John Lithgow's bouncy song - in the book and on the accompanying CD - is based on his own family's two dogs. And Robert Neubecker's eye-popping illustrations capture the joy of all things dog.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2017. New. Sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap. Barnes & Noble Classics Edition. First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is Jack London's masterpiece of adventure. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. Bound in bonded leather with sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Classic illustrations by Paul Bransom. Publisher's images are in the photo display.Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed down through tens of thousands of years of his kind's survival.

London: Folio Society, 2007. First Thus. The book is Fine. Tight and square with clean black cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Portrait frontispiece and black and white and color plates plus a large folding genealogical chart at rear. No dust jacket, as issued. The slipcase is Near Fine with some light scuffs. 626 pages with index. 6½ x 10 " tall. Introduction by Roy Strong.
Lady Elizabeth Longford, who is a recognized authority on Queen Victoria, regards the queen with undisguised affection and respect. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV. In 1840 she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. When Albert died in 1861 Victoria's grief caused her to almost withdraw from public life for several years. Coaxed back into the public eye by Disraeli, she resumed her political and constitutional interest with vigor until her death in 1901. Queen Victoria was first… Read More

New York: Harper, 2014. SIGNED. New-Unread. 1st/1st. Unread copy is Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed on the half-title page by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey). The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean, unmarked boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. LORIEN LEGACIES printed on side fore-edges. Unclipped dust jacket is pristine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The fifth book in the Lorien Legacies series.
The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.

London: The Folio Society, 1991. Book is Near Fine. The slipcase is Very Good. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, good tips, and clean, unmarred boards. The textblock has two faint horizontal creases to the edge of page 12, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Over 25 pages of black and white photos and illustrations. Map endpapers. Introduction by James Michie. The slipcase is very good with light wear and a few faint scuffs. 231 pages. 6¼"x 9½" tall.
"The Amateur Emigrant," an autobiographical account of Stevenson's voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism. It describes vividly how Stevenson mixed with 'steerage' passengers aboard an Atlantic steamship and experienced the indignities of a transcontinental emigrant train.
"The Silverado Squatters" is Stevenson's travel memoir of his honeymoon in California's Napa Valley in 1880.… Read More

New. Sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap. Barnes & Noble Collectible of a children's classic. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners and unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Bound in bonded leather with illustrated endpapers. Classic illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Publisher's pictures included in photo display.
When he attends a dying patron of his family's boarding house, young Jim Hawkins has no idea that the man was once a pirate, or that the man's possessions include a map that will lead whoever has it to the island where the notorious buccaneer, Captain Flint, buried his treasure. Jim and his guardians hire a boat to sail to the island, unaware that the crew they have hired includes many members of Flint's pirate band, among them former quartermaster Long John Silver, and that they hope to claim the treasure for their own. The ensuing action-packed adventure established the classic pirate story as it was written for more than a… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble/Sterling, 2016. Brand new. Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition. Sealed in publisher's fragile shrinkwrap. Small hole in the shrinkwrap at top front edge. 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 with distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers and a ribbon bookmark. Gold gilt to page edges is bright, unmarred and pristine. 6" X 9 1/4" tall. Also includes the COLLECTIBLE POSTER "Cthulhu Rising" by cover artist John Coulthart, which measures 16 x 20 inches and is suitable for framing. Publisher picture included in photo display.
This volume collects 23 of Lovecraft's greatest weird tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Colour out of Space", "The Dunwich Horror", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", and "The Shadow out of Time". It also features six collaborative "revisions" through which Lovecraft expanded the scope of his dark… Read More