Search Results: Authors starting with C from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, SIGNED. Reprint circa 1945-1946 * of the 1933 edition. Signed on a publisher's bound in page "By Erskine Caldwell." Purchased at the Texas Booksellers Association Houston Vintage Book & Paper Festival. Straight with fairly tight, uncracked hinges, bumps and some soiling to boards. Text pages age-toned with minor soiling but unmarked with no writing, stickers, embossed seal or bookplate. Not ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket has chips to top and spine. No price but code 100100. Brown packing tape used on interior seams (see photos). 303 pages. Published by arrangement with Duell, Sloan and Pearce. This edition includes an "Appendix to the Fifth Printing" containing legal documents discussing the court case revolving around the publication of this book in which obscenity charges against Viking Press were dismissed. Protected in a Brodart cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. 1st/1st. VG/NF. First edition, stated First Printing. The book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Top dye stain intact. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Mild foxing to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with just mild shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Protected in a Brodart cover.

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library, 1990. New. Still in shrinkwrap. Exact facsimile first edition as published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1932. The only new additions are on the copyright page stating First Edition Library and bottom of the rear flap (FEL). FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish, and texture as the originals. Tight and square with solid hinges and bindings and good tips. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket and slipcase are fine. 5 1/2" X 7 3/4" tall.
The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression. Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome by the… Read More

New York: Berkley, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Includes a good luck coin. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line starting with 1. Signed by Patti Callahan on the title 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 414 numbered pages including Resources and Facts. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board. Through time, their fates were forgotten until the wreck was found. Now their story is finally being told.When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler… Read More

New York: Harper Muse, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Patti Callahan 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. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.99 on the back panel) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 293 pages. 5½ x 9" tall.
When college student Megs approaches author C. S. Lewis with her younger brother's request to find out if Narnia is real, Lewis instead takes her on a magical journey through the moments in his life that led to his greatest creation.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. SIGNED and DATED. NF/NF. Stated First American Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. Signed and dated "Peter Carey 4-28-10" on the title page. Carey has drawn a line through America and written Dallas above it. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean boards. Faint crease to spine and the top front corner. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) with faint wear to the spine head and a crinkle to the top front corner (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 380 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is an aristocrat born just after the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. Their lives intersect and join when Olivier sets sail for the New World to save himself from yet another revolution and Parrot is sent with… Read More

London: Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd, 2017. Purchased New. F/F. First printing of this edition with number line ending in 1. 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. Full-color illustrations by Miles Kelly throughout. Satin ribbon bookmark. The dust jacket is unclipped (£17.99/$24.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 160 pages. 8¾ x 11½ " tall.
Follow Alice on her journey through Lewis Carroll's brilliantly odd and highly inventive Wonderland - a world where (to Alice's great dismay) nothing happens as one might expect it to.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. SIGNED. Like New. F/F. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 465 pages. 6½ x 9½.
In his ambitious and rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South. Much of the fight for independence took place in the South — a struggle of both great and small battles of terrible brutality, with neighbor turned against neighbor, the Indians' support sought by both sides, and no compassion asked or given. The Hornet's Nest follows a cast of characters and their loved ones on both sides of this violent conflict.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition/First Printing. VG/G+. The book is tight and straight with good tips. Clean green cloth and paste-down labels on front and spine. Sunning to spine and orange top-stain is faded. Some light aging to pages but the text is solid and clean with no writing, highlights, bookplate, embossed seal, or marks. Stated First Edition. Not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Back cover BORZOI BOOKS blind stamp. Dust jacket is original with $2.50 on the front flap. First edition point: BORZOI BOOKS logo on the back flap. Medium age-toning to the spine, back, and flaps. Minor extremity wear and small chips to spine heal and bottom corner (see photos). Also included is a postcard/pre-order form sent from a Dallas bookstore to customers announcing the novel's arrival on December 7th, 1940. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A nice collectible copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Eleanor Catton on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. The top corners are 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) with faint creases to the top corners and rubbing to flap creases. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 424 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes criminal, sometimes philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. "Birnam Wood" is a brilliantly constructed… Read More

NY: Crown Publishers, 1984. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition with complete number line ending in 1. The unread book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Very mild soiling to top fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned. The dust jacket is unclipped ($14.95) with mild rubbing and light corner wear. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
Debut novel of William J. Caunitz, who was a New York City Police Department officer who used his own experiences to create his stories.
A nude corpse in a bathtub. Name: Sara Eisinger. Occupation: travel agent.
For Detective Lt. Dan Malone of New York's Fifth Precinct, it's all in a day's work. Until a little gold key in Sara's possession leads him to an after-hours sex club. Until two phone numbers in her address book connect to the CIA. Until he's neck-deep in a mystery involving the Israel Mossad, Muslim extremists, the U.S. Army, and the NYPD.… Read More

Chartwell Books, New York, 2014. New. First Edition. Twelfth printing. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean, unmarred, illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated with drawings and historic photos. The dust jacket is unpriced as issued and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 192 pages including sources and citations, index. 7½ x 10½" tall.
Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current technology. Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was Tesla's AC generators that illuminated the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago; the first time that… Read More

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.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Katherine Center with three lines and a heart drawing on the title page. The 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. Slight sunning/yellowing to bottom fore-edges. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated.
The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of… Read More

SIGNED. Stated First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. Signed by Casey Cep on the title page during an appearance/book signing at Alabama Booksmith. 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 ($26.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the… Read More

New York: Random House, 1999. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition with 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 number line which then was Random House's designation of the first printing. SIGNED by Michael Chabon on the title page. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners and clean unmarred green boards with black spine lettered in gilt. Spine head gently pushed. Textblock has a very faint crease to title page (under signature) else fine and clean with no markings, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95) with very mild crinkles to spine ends else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar removable cover. The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are caught in events that will crystallize and define their lives forever, and with each, Michael Chabon brings his unique vision… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991. SIGNED. F/NF. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition, first printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Chabon on the title page. Unread book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. In the first issue binding with white endpapers -- the lavender/blue endpapers were left off an unknown number of copies in the first printing. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped. Mild toning to upper flaps otherwise Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover

NY: Harper, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Michael Chabon on the title page during an appearance/signing at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. 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 end-papers. Dust jacket is unclipped and Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover.
Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1988. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. The book is very good. A hint of lean but pages tight with good 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 ($16.95) and very good with mild shelf wear, faint tanning to flap edges and a half-inch closed tear to lower front panel near corner. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. SIGNED. Stated First Edition, First Printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed on the title page by Michael Chabon. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and illustrated red and blue unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Signed on the title page. The dust jacket is unclipped in a pristine die-cut jacket. First major work of nonfiction from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Purchased after a book signing in San Mateo, CA.What does it mean to be a man today? Michael Chabon presents a shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, Chabon presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and… Read More