Search Results: Authors starting with O from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Forty O. Henry short story classics. First edition thus. Includes "Sandglass," a four-page pamphlet discussing the author and the importance of the book. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings. Faint rubbing to corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated throughout by John Groth with half-page black and white sketches and full-color plates. Illustrated endpapers. Introduction and selection by Harry Hansen. The slipcase is very good with light scuffs/smudges and wear to opened corners. 366 pages. 7 x 11¾" tall.Includes: "The Furnished Room," "The Man Higher Up," "Tobin's Palm," "The Last Leaf," "The Skylight Room," "The Gift of the Magi," "The Roads We Take," "The Fifth Wheel," "The Trimmed Lamp," "The Memento," "The Clarion Call," "The Pendulum," "Friends in San Rosario," "Whistling Dick," "Brickdust Row," and others.

New York: Random House, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Tea Obreht on the title page. 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 cover.
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home, and a seventeen year old maid named Josie, her husband's cousin who… Read More

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Tim O'Brien on the title page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges. Creases to the spine ends. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Color photo frontispiece and back page and B&W matte photographs. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with a faint crinkle to the spine tail edge, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 381 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award-winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen… Read More

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Cloth slipcase. Stated First U.S. Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Lisa O'Donnell on the title page. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good 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 ($25.99) and Fine. Custom pictorial slipcase is fine. The author's first book, published originally in London in 2012.

New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Olaf Olafsson on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and sharp tips. Mild crease to spine head, else boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($25.99) with faint crinkle to spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his life: an overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment, an elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate to untangle, and a mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. Magnus, a New York neurologist—son to one, lover to another, and doctor to a third—is the thread that… Read More

Knopf, NY, 2000. SIGNED. New-Unread. 1st/1st. First US edition, Stated First Edition with no other printings. Signed by Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, on the title page. Unread copy in Mint condition. Tight and straight with sharp tips and clean unmarked boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and pristine. Only opened by the author at the signing event at Booksmith in San Francisco and for photos. Protected in a Brodart cover. Winner of the Giller Prize, Governor General's Award, Kiriyama Prize, Prix Medicis, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015: SIGNED. 1st/st. New - Unread. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed with a doodle on the title page. An unread book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped with opaque cut-outs and pristine. Illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. This affecting middle-grade psychological thriller has been hailed by critics.
For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it's just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp's nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to "fix" the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered.All he has to do is… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. SIGNED. Near Fine. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Susan Orlean on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and sharp tips. Boards have faint shelf wear and spine ends gently pushed, else fine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white matte photos. Photographic endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. $28.00 on the back panel. 317 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Orlean chronicles the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath to showcase the large, crucial role that libraries play in our lives in a highly entertaining and interesting narrative. She delves into the evolution and often peculiar history of libraries - and occasionally librarians - across the country and around the world.

New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Avid Reader hardcover edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Susan Orlean on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread 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. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with faint crease to spine head, else Fine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 227 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Since the age of six, when she wrote and illustrated a book called "Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon," Susan Orlean has been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they take to us. Now, in "On Animals," she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career in a… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. DOUBLE SIGNED. F/NF. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana on the title page. The book is tight and square 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with very faint shelf wear (see photos). Map endpapers. The dust jacket is protected in a Mylar cover. You can remove it to match the true translucent dust jacket as seen in the pictures. 478 Pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors—two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history, but legend.

New York: Prestel, 2017. Brand New. Published to coincide with the 2017 exhibition "Magritte: The Treachery of Images" in Paris and Frankfurt. The unread large 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. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Wrap-around paper sleeve. 208 pages. 9½ x 11½" tall. This major new book on René Magritte offers fresh interpretations of the artist's use of symbols and imagery to articulate his particular brand of surrealism. In this beautiful monograph, a collection of revelatory essays focuses on five common images in Rene Magritte's work--fire, shadows, curtains, words, and the fragmented body. Featuring vibrant reproductions of more than 100 works, this book helps readers understand how the artist employed these images in ways both deceptive and realistic. The book explores how he distorted accepted… Read More

Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2006. Like New. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed Terrell Owens 81 on the front endpaper. The 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. Color illustrations by Todd Harris. The dust jacket is unclipped ($18.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 24 Pages. 8¼" x 8¼" Little T is a boy who doesn't want to share his new football; he is afraid that his friends might mess it up. But when he tries to play by himself he realizes that football isn't any fun alone. Thanks to his mother's good advice, he wins back his friends and learns the virtue of sharing and the importance of being fair.

New York: Riverhead Press, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Helen Oyeyemi on the title page at a book signing at Strand Bookstore in New York. Unread 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.