Search Results: Titles starting with H from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. VG/G. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and dark blue boards. Sunning to top-stain. The textblock has a previous owner's name on the front pastedown and the pages are lightly age-toned. No writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is price clipped with chipping and creases (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 222 pages with Index. 6 x 8½" tall.
"In music a man can let himself go. In words he always remains a bit stiff and unconvincing," writes Mencken in an excerpt from a letter that Cheslock has used as a preface to this collection of inimitable, authentic, affectionate, and outrageous articles that reveal all Mencken's abiding magic, gusto, overwhelming vitality, and even some of his delightful wrongheadedness. To these Cheslock has added a warm record of Mencken's youth and early exposure to music together with a history of the famous Saturday Night Club, which… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2011. New. In original shrinkwrap. Three-inch thin slit to shrinkwrap on lower side fore-edges. Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft's groundbreaking fiction: "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Shadow out of Time", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", the full-length novels "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath", and many others. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Bound in bonded leather with decorated endpapers and a sewn-in satin bookmark. 1112 pages. 6½ x 9¼" tall. Pictures from an opened book in the photo display.
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Ashland, Oregon: Blackstone Publishing, 2022. New. F/F. Stated First Edition, Version 1. Signed by Alex Temblador on the half-title page with Everyone has a little "half outlaw" in them - 7/12/22, The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 249 pages. 6¼ x 9" tall.
Looking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her and gets more than she bargained for.
After the tragic death of her parents, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge's all-white, 1 percenter motorcycle club.
Alternating between Raqi's childhood and a present '90s setting, and accented by moments of magical realism, Half Outlaw is the story of Raqi's quest to find… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. Purchased New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Dominic Dromgoole on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean boards. Spine ends faintly creased. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black pin-head size dot on top fore-edges. B&W and color photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of the Globe, had an insanely ambitious idea: to take Hamlet to every country on the planet. Over two years, Dromgoole and the Globe players toured all seven continents performing Hamlet in sweltering deserts, grand palaces, and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine. They would fly in,… Read More

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1997. NF/NF. Book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Light bumps to bottom corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped (no price as issued) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 358 Pages. 8 x 10¼" tall. Based on the exhibition at The New York Public Library, this edition presents a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented, from Muriel Rukeyser, Wallace Stevens, Henry David Thoreau, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Julia Alverez, E. E. Cummings, Emily Bronte, Jack Kerouac, D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, and many more. Writers better known for their prose are included here as well-- Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov, among others.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. New. Deluxe Edition. Softcover. Leatherette cover with gilt edging and ribbon marker. The small unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Removable vertical paper sleeve to back panel. No dust jacket as issued. 311 pages. 5 ¾ x 8½" tall.
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its image and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force.

New York: Scribner, 2023. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition. First printing with number line starting in 1. Signed by Jeannette Walls on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine head edge. 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 a faint small crease to the spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 349 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
The story of a young woman navigating a world where legal and illegal don't always match right and wrong. Sallie Kincaid is the fiercely independent and impulsive daughter of Duke Kincaid, the most powerful man in Claiborne County. When the Duke dies unexpectedly, Sallie is suddenly in charge of the family business. In 1920s Virginia, that's bootlegging, but there is more involved than Sallie ever suspected.

London: Arcturus, 2019. New. In shrinkwrap. Deluxe slipcase edition with thirty-five of his best-known tales. First Edition/First Printing with number line ending in 1. 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 and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white illustrations by Heath Robinson. The slipcase is Fine. 384 pages. 7¾ X 9 ½" tall. Images from an opened book in the photo display.
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen are renowned the world over, entertaining children and adults since he began publishing them in 1835. This classic collection includes some of his most famous stories, such as 'The Ugly Duckling', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Emperor's New Suit', and 'The Princess and the Pea'. Filled with a cavalcade of wonderful characters and enchanted objects - from elves to talking animals to bewitched shoes and toys - these magical stories contain… Read More

New York: Hogarth, 2023. SIGNED. New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Angie Kim on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 387 pages. 6¼ x 9½ " tall. A "Good Morning America Book Club" selection.
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband disappears.
What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of love, language, and… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. NF/VG-. Stated First Edition. 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 dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with chipping to the spine and corners and lightly sunned spine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 466 pages. 6 x 8½" tall.
West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke out a meager existence by fishing the Gulf waters. Such is the fate of Al Landry and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie. The Hard Blue Sky is Grau's debut novel, establishing her as a chronicler of bayou life and the complexities of the Deep South's most impoverished corners. Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House.

New York: Doubleday, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Colson Whitehead 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. Creases to the spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.95) and fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 318 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. Harlem Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

London: Constable, 2004. SIGNED. Like New. 1st/1st. Unread. First edition, first printing. Book is tight, straight with even pages, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Faint toning to upper fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Signed on the title page. Dust jacket is unclipped and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. The first Gil Cunningham novel.
When the body of a young woman is found in the new building at Glasgow Cathedral recently qualified lawyer Gil Cunningham is asked to investigate. He identifies the corpse as the May Day harper's mistress and runaway wife of a cruel nobleman, John Semphill. Together with master-mason Maistre Pierre Gil begins asking questions and seeking a murder weapon in the lanes and yards of the city.

Vancouver/Berkeley: Greystone Books, 2021. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Translated from German by Jane Billinghurst. First printing in English with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Peter Wohlleben on the publisher's bound-in page that has a quote from the author. 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. Pictorial endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.95 CAN-$26.95 U.S.- £19.99 U.K.) with faint rubbing to flap creases, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 258 pages. 5 1/2" X 8 3/4" tall.
Here is "the language of the forest, the consciousness of plants, and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna," as explained by Peter Wohlleben, the nature writer who introduced us to The Hidden Life of Trees.
He speaks of current research that shows being out in nature… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1999. NF/F. First Edition. First printing with correct number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to top rear edge of spine head and back top corner is mildly bumped. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 523 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
A collection of five unsettling tales -- Low Men in Yellow Coats, Hearts in Atlantis, Blind Willie, Why We're in Vietnam and Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling -- that center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery.
The first selection, Low Men in Yellow Coats, is the story of a mysterious man who enlists the aid of eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield to save his life. This friendship with a mysterious stranger forever changes the way he sees the… Read More

Easton Press, 1994. SIGNED. Like New. First Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. The book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamps or marks. Gilding along page edges is intact and Fine except for a small scratch on the top (see photos). Bound in black leather with 22 kt embellishments, gilded pages, silk moire endpapers, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. Illustration by Kent Bash. Introduction by James Gunn.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986. Near Fine. Color and black and white illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The book is tight with solid hinges, and clean boards. Some faint scratches to gilt on the bottom and side fore-edges. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in red leather with raised bands to the spine, 22 kt accents, gilded pages, silk moiré endpapers, hubbed spine, and sewn-in satin bookmark and printed on archival paper. 349 pages. 7¼ x 9¼" tall. First published between 1880 and 1881.
The timeless classic tale of the orphan girl Heidi, who lives with her grandfather in the mountains of Switzerland and who brings cheer and comfort into the lives of all who know her.

New York: Viking, 2022. New York. SIGNED. Purchased New. Fine. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Craig Johnson on the title page. 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 336 pages. 6 x 9¼ " tall. Eighteenth book in the Walt Longmire Series.What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne… Read More

Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. SIGNED. NF/F. Limited Signed Edition. This is number 4 of 350 copies signed by George Pelecanos. Stated First Edition. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and original yellow Brillianta cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light creases to spine head and top front board near spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint abrasion marks to top fore-edges near the spine. The dust jacket is Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Slipcase has light crease to spine tail edge, else fine.
Washington, D.C. private investigators Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute - but then a senseless death shakes Derek Strange's existence.A victim shot down by bullets meant for another; a tragic accident that strikes just too close to home. Strange's… Read More

Easton Press, 1993. Unread. Like New. Collector's Edition. The book is unread, tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings. straight and clean. No writing or bookplate. Bound in red leather with gilt embellishments, gilded pages, hubbed spine and satin bookmark. Side edge gold gilt Gilt is unmarked. Collector's Notes laid in. Introduction by T.A. Shippey. Illustrated by David Deitrick. One of Easton's The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2023. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Katherine Center on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Light crease to spine tail. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 323 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Portrait artist Sadie Montgomery, 28, may finally get her big break when she's selected to enter a prestigious competition. Unfortunately, the contest coincides with a minor medical procedure that turns into emergency brain surgery, and the recovery process leaves her unable to make sense of human faces.