Search Results: Authors starting with R from Armadillo Alley Books

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1991. Collector's Edition. Near Fine. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Bound in brown leather with raised bands to spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine, and sewn-in satin bookmark and printed on archival paper. A few faint dings to side fore-edges, else gold gilt to page edges is Fine. 315 pages. Color portrait frontispiece. Ten black & white caricatures. Introduction by James Everett Seaver and Collector's note about Seaver included.

NY: The Dial Press, 2014. SIGNED. Brand New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending with 1. Signed by Tom Rachman on the title page. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Opened only for photos. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a bookseller who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.

NY: Hill & Wang, 2014. SIGNED. Brand New. 1st/1st. First edition, first printing with complete number line ending with 1. Signed by Rall with a black Sharpie on the half-title page. The book is unread, tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped and pristine. Protected in a Brodart cover. Includes photos and many color reproductions of Ted Rall's comic journals. Purchased after a book signing appearance at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon.An unflinching account—in words and pictures—of America's longest war by our most outspoken graphic journalist. Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding himself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating himself with flak jackets and armored SUVs—where no one else would go (except, of course, Afghans). He made two long trips: the first in the wake of 9/11, and the next ten years… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1992. Near Fine. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, and clean boards. Light rubbing to corners. The textblock has a faint small indentation on the half-title, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Frontispiece plus full-color plates by Sarah Raphael. The dark blue card slipcase is near fine with light wear. 174 pages. 7½ " X 11" tall. This book contains six very different writings by Frederic Raphael."Oedipus and Jocasta" — a one-page poem; "Of Gods and Men: A Film" — a tale of greed, corruption, torture, infanticide, cannibalism, and almost every other sin conceived; "Narcissus and Echo" — a nine-page poem that retells the myth; "The Story of Daedalus" — a 30-page story of Daedalus now set in the 20th century; "The Labors of Herakles" — starts with a scene of Herakles killing family followed by a 20-page poem describing the labors forced upon Herakles in penance for his sins; and… Read More

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2023. Signed. New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight 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. Many color illustrations by Billy Renkl. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 269 pages. 5¾ x 8½"
Margaret Renkl's love letter to the world: the story of what we've lost and what we can save and the abundance of wonder in our own backyard. Fifty-two chapters follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over a year. What develops is a portrait of joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. NF. This edition is Near Fine. Signed by Resnick on the special edition page. Book is tight, square with solid hinges, good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no bookplate, writing, stamps or markings. Book opens naturally to the copyright page (see photos). Bound in full turquoise-blue leather with 22k gold gilt spine titles and decorations, hubbed spine bands, silk moire endpapers with satin ribbon bookmark bound-in. All edges gilt with one nick to the top pages, else gilt is fine. Introduction by James Gunn, Illustrated by Debbie Hughs.

New York: Dutton, 2018. SIGNED. New. NF/NF. Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition. Includes exclusive deleted scenes. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Ransom Riggs on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and black cloth boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95) with faint wear to the spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 498 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
In "A Map of Days," Ransom Riggs continues the story of Jacob Portman, hollowgast hunter extraordinaire. Now back home in Needle Key, Florida, Jacob must deal with his parents who believe he is insane, his fractured relationship with the normal world, and his future as a peculiar.

New York: Dutton, 2022. Signed. First Edition. Stated First printing. Signed by Ransom Riggs on the publisher's bound-in page. This 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. Drawings and photos throughout. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. $24.99 on the back panel. 240 pages. 6 x 9" tall. Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders illuminates everything you need to know about the peculiar world, written by Miss Peregrine herself. It covers everything from how to blend in with suspicious normals to the most popular time loops to visit — ideal for anyone curious about Miss Peregrine's strange history, curious practices, fascinating places, most famous (and infamous) names, and much more. With hundreds of never-before-seen vintage found photographs and select illustrations.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. New. In shrinkwrap. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 12 to November 27, 2016. The unread oversized 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. No dust jacket, as issued. Over 100 Illustrations. 272 pages. 9½ x 11¼" tall. Publisher images are included in the photo display.
This book is the definitive study of Arbus's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive. A remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence. An essential contribution to understanding one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century.
PLEASE NOTE: Extra shipping charges may apply due to the weight of the book. First Class… Read More

Arlington, TX. Summit Publishing, 1995. Like New. Third printing. Signed by Cal Ripken on page after the front endpaper. The oversized 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. Over 100 color photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($39.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 120 pages. 10¼ x 12¼ ". Edited by Mark Vancil.
Here is the Cal Ripken story in photos and in his own words, modest but forthright like the man himself. Cal Ripken, Jr. was a shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles for his entire career (1981-2001). Nicknamed "The Iron Man" for his relentless work ethic and reliability on the field, Ripken is most remembered for playing a record 2,632 straight games over 17 seasons. He was a 19-time All-Star and is considered to be one of the best shortstops professional baseball has ever seen. In 2007 he was inducted into the National… Read More

NY: Knopf, 2015. SIGNED. New-Unread. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition without any other printings. Signed by Garth Risk Hallberg on the title page during an appearance at Strand's Books in New York City. Unread book is tight and square with sharp 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 and Fine. Opened only for signature and photos. B&W illustrations. Protected in a Brodart cover.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Includes cloth Patch. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Mary Roach on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to top front corner. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white matte illustrations. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Cloth patch laid in. Pages 308. 5¾ x 8½" tall. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. The answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2003. Near Fine. Fourth printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, sharp tips, and clean sparkled silver boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint quarter-inch indentations on the top of pages 193-207 (see photos). Black and white illustrations throughout. The slipcase is near fine with faint wear. 256 pages. 5¾" x 9" tall.
Michael J. Rosen selects and introduces some of Thurber's finest and funniest works. Contents include "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "The Pet Department" "Preface to a Life," "The Night the Bed Fell," "The Car We Had to Push," "The Day the Dam Broke," "The Night the Ghost Got In" and much more.

New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Veronica Roth 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 and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Sequel to CARVE THE MARK.

New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2019. SIGNED. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Veronica Roth on the publisher's bound-in page. The book has a faint lean, but 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. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie. The dust jacket is unclipped ($18.99 on the back panel) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 256 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. Includes a promotional cardboard illustration. No world is like the other. Within Roth's six novella-length stories, each setting is stranger and more wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems.

New York: Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Books, 2017. SIGNED. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. Signed by Veronica Roth on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Kabbalistic wheel embossed on front cover. Spine ends gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Charcoal endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95 on the lower back panel) with faint wear to the spine ends (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 468 Pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. The characters of "Carve the Mark" live among nine planets. Each planet has different rules, governments, people, and language, although each planet lives in accordance with general, interplanetary rules each has agreed to. This general order is kept by the Assembly, the Assembly is on a large ship that carries the Assembly leader and all Assembly… Read More

London - New York: Nobrow, 2017. SIGNED, New. Graphic novel. First edition. Stated second printing. Signed by illustrator Jérémie Royer on the title page. 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. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Price on back panel. 184 pages. 8 1/4" X 11" tall.
At the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist' s materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds... This beautiful volume tells the story of an incredible artist and adventurer: one who encapsulates the spirit of early America when the wilderness felt limitless and was still greatly unexplored. Based on Audubon's own retelling, this graphic novel version of his travels captures the wild and adventurous spirit of a truly exceptional naturalist and… Read More

London: Quartet Books, 1984. Double Signed- Norman Mailer/Paul Theroux. NF/VG+. 1st/1st. The first British edition of this collection of interviews by Ruas with a number of famous writers. SIGNED on the pages where their profile begins: Norman Mailer (page 18) and Paul Theroux (page 244.) Book is Near Fine. Tight and straight with solid hinges. A corner mildly bumped, otherwise boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, marks or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. There is an abrasion spot where an apparent price sticker has been removed on the first free endpaper - about the size of a nickel. Dust jacket is unclipped (£14.95) with light wear to spine head and mild rubbing to black background on back cover. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Included is a bookmark from Chapters Bookstore in Washington, DC with author page signing info on the back. ABOUT CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN WRITERS
Here are 14 conversational interviews with contemporary writers who… Read More

New York: Random House, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending with 1. SIGNED by Rushdie on the title page at his September 2015 appearance/book signing at A Capella Books in Atlanta. A pristine unread copy. 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 and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. A lush, richly layered magical novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason. Set in New York in the near future. It deals with wanton creatures known as the jinn, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offspring during the "strangenesses". All will play a role in the epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights—or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights.

New York: Knopf, 2016. SIGNED. Unread-New. Stated First Edition with no other listed printings. Signed by Russo on the title page during an appearance/book signing in Atlanta. The book is tight and square with sharp 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 and pristine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.