Search Results: Authors starting with N from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1959. VG/G. First American Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. The book is tight with solid hinges and clean black boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.50) with a price tag shadow to the upper front panel, chipping to extremities and mid-spine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 214 pages. 5½ x 8¼". Author's first book.
In colonial Trinidad, a frustrated writer of Indian descent rises from an impoverished background to become a successful politician on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur — a masseur who can cure illnesses.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Collector's Edition. Fine. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on Easton's signature page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings. Bound in full leather, with 22 kt inlaid embellishments and gilded page edges, a satin page marker, and silk moire endpapers. Includes Certificate of Authenticity and publisher notes about book and author.
When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-dependent state.

New York: Atheneum, 1979. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. Signed by Phyllis Naylor on the first free endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($8.95) with a half-inch closed tear to top back panel and very mild shelf wear, else, bright and fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.Phyllis Naylor is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor's children's novel, Shiloh, won a 1992 Newbery Medal. In Small Doses is a collection of humorous reflections for parents on the ups, downs, delights, and frustrations of family life.

New York: Penguin Press, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Signed by Celeste Ng on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and blue cloth boards. Light creases to the spine head and a small section of the top back board. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with faint wear to the upper back panel. "Reese's Book Club" printed on the front panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 335 Pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. Author of "Little Fires Everywhere".Bird is a Chinese American boy growing up in a dystopian society, where lives are governed by laws to preserve "American culture" and authorities have the power to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin. Books thought to contain unpatriotic content have been removed, including the poems of Bird's mother, who left the family when he was nine… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2018. SIGNED. NEW. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Nick Nolte on the half-title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Good corners with faint crease to the front bottom corner. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and 16 pages of photos. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
The untold story of one of Hollywood's all-time "Bad Boys" and is filled with many never-before-published personal photos. Nothing is left out of this true wide-open memoir, including awards and Nick Nolte's honest description of the downward spiral of his career and his love life.