Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Armadillo Alley Books

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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed by Bailey White on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Faint dust/soiling to upper fore-edges near spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm.
In her first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space… Read More