Search Results: Authors starting with J from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Howard Fertig, 1979. 1st/1st. VG/G. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. The book is tight and square with solid hinges. Bottom corners bumped and wear to spine tail, 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 ($35.00) with chips to corners and spine ends and light soiling. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Includes publisher's Review Copy card. Introduction by Leon Edel, the biographer whose writing on Henry James won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
Henry James destroyed the manuscripts of most of his novels. Of the three that survive, The Europeans has been the most inaccessible because sections of it are held by four separate owners and institutions. This fact was unknown until discovered by Henry James' biographer, Leon Edel. Reassembled for the first time in this facsimile edition, here is the complete manuscript of The Europeans as James… Read More

London: The Folio Society, London, 1982. Near Fine. First Edition thus. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, green and white striped cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. 9 duo-tone lithographs by Robin Jacques. Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. The slipcase is near fine with light wear. 188 pages. 6" x 9" tall. Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is being urged to divorce her in favor of a state marriage. She and her artist brother, Felix, travel to Boston to meet their distant cousins' relatives, partially in hopes of making a wealthy marriage.Its wit, gaiety, and charm have made this masterly short novel one of the most popular of James's novels.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Marlon James on the title page with a silver Sharpie. Unread book is Near Fine. Tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Light bumps to top corners and crease to spine tail. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Near Fine. Faint rubbing and a tiny bump to the bottom of the back panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover. 620 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. Book one in the Dark Star trilogy.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2008. New. In Publisher's shrinkwrap. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, with red illustrated cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Frontispiece plus six full-color plates by Jonathan Burton. The dark blue card slipcase is Fine. 216 pages. 6 " X 9" tall. Publisher's image in the photo display.
Cover Her Face is P. D. James' debut crime novel, originally published in 1962. It details the investigations by her poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family that has reasons to want her gone — or dead.

New York: Jimmy Patterson Books, 2018. DOUBLE SIGNED. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean illustrated boards. One-inch friction mar to top fore-edges. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W illustrations by Beverly Johnson. The dust jacket is unclipped ($14.99) with wear to the spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 338 pages. 5½ x 8" tall. The world's #1 bestselling author has teamed up with the world's most famous genius to entertain, educate and inspire a generation of kids – with the first and only kids' book series officially approved by the Albert Einstein Archives.Twelve-year-old orphan Max Einstein (like Albert Einstein himself) is not your typical genius. Max hacks the computer system at NYU in order to attend college courses (even… Read More

London: Amber Books, 2022. Purchased NEW. Explore the world of divination and learn about the wisdom and self-discovery that comes with Tarot. The illustrated unread 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 book is Chinese-bound, which refers to a publishing method that folds the page with writing on the front and back. Holes are created along the sides and the pages are then stitched together. No dust jacket, as issued. 159 pages. 7½ x 10½ tall.
Perfect for both beginners and seasoned readers with its detailed explanations of card meanings and spreads.

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

New York: Viking, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Craig Johnson on the title page during an appearance/book signing in Dallas, Texas. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine head. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 14th Walt Longmire mystery.
Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. An international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to his worst enemies, of which there are many. The American government is of limited help and the Mexican one even less. Walt heads into the 110-degree heat of the Northern Mexican desert alone, one man against an army.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. First edition, first printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. SIGNED by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston 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. Dust jacket is unclipped ($17.99) and fine. Protected in a new Brodart cover.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. Galley Proof. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Uncommon format. 11-inch tall ring-bound galley proofs, generally produced in this format for in-house use and early press publicity. The mustard-colored wrappers have light soiling, slight wrinkling near the binder head and mild foxing to fore-edges (see photos) but otherwise in very good shape. Interesting and amusing disclaimer on the first page from Crane Duplication Service, on Cape Cod. From the author of From Here To Eternity and The Thin Red Line.
The Merry Month Of May is author James Jones's 1971 novel concerning the events of the 1968 student revolutions in Paris. It is centered on a rich American family, the Gallaghers, living as expatriates in Paris. The real subject of the novel is the sexual revolution and sexual maladjustment of Americans.
Reviews of the book were typically uneven, though never in Jones's career would the gulf between the most favorable and the least favorable reviews be so wide. At… Read More

New York: St. Martins, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Jong on the title page. The book is unread, 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 pristine. Opened only for signature and photos. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 273 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote, "the only two things worth writing about are sex and death," and in Fear of Dying, Jong takes on both. Along the way, she also tells the story of a marriage that grows happier despite all. This wise book, written in prose gorgeous enough to make one swoon, will delight and enrich the lives of everyone who reads it. Fear of Dying is a big, bawdy, beautifully-written romp through online hookups, female friendships, children grappling with adulthood and parents negotiating with death. Fear… Read More

NY: A Marian Wood Book/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. First edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. SIGNED by Karen Joy Fowler on the title page in black ink. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips. Faint small pen mark on mid front board otherwise boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, embossed seal or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust Jacket is unclipped ($23.95) and fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. This book became a breakout hit and went through multiple printings almost immediately.In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2022. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Signed by Karen Joy Fowler 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with faint wear to the spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 470 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. An epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. Signed by Qian Julie Wang on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head. Tiny black dot and faint half-inch friction scratch to top of side fore-edges. 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. 305 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear. In China, Qian's parents were professors; in America, her family is "illegal" and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.
When Qian's headstrong mother collapses,… Read More