Search Results: Authors starting with M from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Grove Press, 2020. SIGNED. Purchased New. 1st/1st. NF/NF. First U. S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Helen MacDonald on the publisher's special bound-in signature page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) with faint creases to spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 261 pages. 5 ½ x 8 ½ tall.Helen MacDonald's essays use nature to bring hope and optimism during times of upheaval. NPR calls it "a stunning book that urges us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world, and fight to preserve it."
Macdonald describes her book as a "Wunderkammer", or "Cabinet of Curiosities". She writes, "It is full of strange things and it is concerned with the quality of wonder." It's an apt… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st/1st. VG/NF. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Book has a slight lean else tight with solid hinges, good corners, and clean, unmarred red and white boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($15.95) and date 3/85 on back flap. Very mild shelf-wear and light toning to flaps. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The last in the acclaimed Travis McGee series.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1925. 1st/1st. G/F. First Edition with Facsimile Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. The book is Good. It is tight and square with solid hinges. Spine lettering is faded and some soiling to brown boards. Corners gently bumped and wear to spine ends. Textblock has the previous owner's small cursive name stamped on the front and back endpapers, otherwise clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Gutter separation at half-title page, but pages are still bound. The pages are age-toned. There is a small closed tear to the edge of page 250. The dust jacket is Fine. Stated Facsimile Dust Jackets, LLC on the bottom of the front flap. Otherwise, it is an exact reproduction of the original dust jacket with a $2.00 price. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
"Robert Ellison was rich and young, with a hobby for collecting pieces of art. So when his Italian agent cabled him that he had discovered a… Read More

New York: Bantam, 1983. VG/VG-. Eighth printing with number line ending with 8. Signed "Love & Light Shirley MacLaine" on the front endpaper. 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 ($15.95) with chips, closed tears, and creases (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 372 pages. 6¼ x 9¼.
An intimate, powerful journey into Shirley MacLaine's personal life and inner self. From Stockholm to Hawaii to the mountain vastness of Peru, from disbelief to radiant affirmation, she at last discovers the roots of her very existence and the infinite possibilities of life. Her courage and candor provide new insights, revelations, and a luminous new world she invites us all to share.

Dublin: Poolbeg Press Ltd., 1994. SIGNED, 1st/1st. VG+/VG+. First Edition, Stated "Published in 1994" with no other printings or publications listed. SIGNED on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Small smudge on the side that carries over lightly onto the first few pages (4-18). Small, light tea-colored spot on first free endpaper that bleeds slightly onto the exterior side of the first few pages. Small stain at the top of the last free endpaper (see photos where we've tried to capture these light stains with little luck). No writing, bookplate, highlighting, or stamp and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The book opens naturally to the title page. The dust jacket is unclipped (£15.99). Some of the gold ink that forms the box around the title on the cover has rubbed off on the right-hand side and bottom. Very mild crinkle to the bottom of the spine. Otherwise, no discernible rips, tears, or creases. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar… Read More

NY: PUTNAM, 2013. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New, unread book. First edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed on the title page. Opened only for signature and photos. Tight and square with sharp corners. Tiny bump to bottom front 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 ($26.95) and pristine. Protected in a Brodart cover. Introducing Troy Pearce.Troy Pearce is the CEO of Pearce Systems, a private security firm that is the best in the world at drone technologies. A former CIA SOG operative, Pearce used his intelligence and combat skills to hunt down America's sworn enemies in the War on Terror. But after a decade of clandestine special ops, Pearce opted out. Too many of his friends had been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Now, Pearce and his team chose which battles he will take on by deploying his land, sea and air drones with surgical… Read More

NY: Vanguard Press, New York, 1963. VG/VG. First American edition, first printing with no other printings listed. The book is square with tightly bound pages, decent corners, and clean unmarred boards. Crescent gap between cloth backstrip and text. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Tiny stain to top fore-edges and pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($ 6.50) with mild soiling, chipping to spine ends, and a small hole to back flap fold. Introduction by Graham Greene. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.This masterful performance of historical fiction centers on Katharine Howard--clever, beautiful, and outspoken--who catches the jaded eye of Henry VIII and becomes his fifth Queen. Corruption and fear pervade the King's court, and the dimly lit corridors vibrate with the intrigues of unscrupulous courtiers hungry for power. Soon Katharine is locked in a vicious battle with Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal, as she fights for… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, New York, 2017. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine ends gently pushed. 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 shelf wear, else Fine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 298 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. By the author of Wicked. The magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade.
Hiddensee imagines the backstory of the Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a Christmas Eve. At the heart of Hoffmann's mysterious tale hovers Godfather Drosselmeier-- the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made immortal by Petipa… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2015. SIGNED. NEW. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the Limited Signed Edition bound-in page. Two tiny pen marks at bottom edge of signature page. Unread book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred illustrated boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Translucent dust jacket is unclipped ($26.99) and Fine. Protected in a removable new Mylar cover. 273 pages. 6 x 8½" tall. Purchased new at Barnes & Noble.
Down the rabbit-hole, where adventures await . . .When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? In this brilliant new work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds,… Read More

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and good tips. Spine ends gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($17.99) and Very Good. Wear to spine ends, corners, and back panel. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
An imaginative modern fairytale set in 1907 Tsarist Russia about two young girls (one rich and one poor) who swap identities.
Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a… Read More

New York: Viking, 2023. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated 1st Printing. Signed by Rebecca Makkai on the publisher's bound-in page. This unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint 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) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 438 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. Is the real killer still out there?

New York: Knopf, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed by Emily St. John Mandel 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 tail. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 253 numbered pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
This is a special edition that was released for sale by independent bookstores, and it includes an addition to Marienbad, the novel written by Olive Llewellyn, one of Mandel's characters in the novel. A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. It is a story of time travel and metaphysics that is as human… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2020. SIGNED. Like New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed by Emily St. John Mandel on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) and Fine. Removable SIGNED FIRST EDITION sticker. Protected in a new Mylar cover. 301 pages. 6 x 8½" tall.
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his… Read More

London: Constable & Co, 1930. G/G. First UK edition and first printing, one of 750 printed. Brown cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Wear to boards that are slightly bowed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Sales tag from J.W. Robinson Department Store in Los Angeles on back paste-down. The dust jacket is unclipped (15/- net) with chips and creases and tape repair on the front corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 162 pages. 6 x 9" tall. Introduction by John Middleton Murry
The Aloe is Katherine Mansfield's only novel, which she did not publish. She wrote it to crystallize the memories of her childhood and then reworked it to create her short story, "Prelude". After Mansfield's death, her husband, John Middleton Murry, edited and published The Aloe and restored its original length, detail, and texture.

New York: Macmillan, 1991. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Near Fine. Stated First edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Daniel Pinkwater with self-portrait doodle on the title 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 ($12.95) with faint age-toning to edges, else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Written and illustrated by Daniel Pinkwater."One day, Kevin Spoon was sitting on the fence.Someone came down the alley.It was Mason Mintz.A weird kid.Mason Mintz lived up the street.He wore cheap sneakers.He had a plaid hat.He always wore it."And his parents grew pumpkins in their backyard. But Mason also owned a doodle flute."Kevin Spoon, a wealthy kid who gets everything he wants, learns a lesson about the value of ownership when he is given a doodle flute by Mason Mintz, but is not… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2018. New. Barnes & Noble Classic Edition. In publisher's shrinkwrap. The unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in bonded-leather, distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers, and a colorful ribbon bookmark. Gilt to page edges is bright, unmarried, and Fine. Pictures from an opened book included in the photo display.
This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War–era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.PLEASE NOTE: Extra shipping charges may apply due to the weight of the book. First Class International Shipping is not available for this item.

New York, William Morrow, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Joyce Maynard on the title page with a cartoon drawing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine heel gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($25.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart cover.
The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a provocative, complex and relentlessly gripping novel about emotional seduction and betrayal. Where do the boundaries of friendship lie? And at what point does generosity become a form of deadly manipulation?

NY: Random House, 2021. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. F/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Imbolo Mbue 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. 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 crinkle to the spine head front edge (see photos), else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made — and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Book has a slight slant, else, tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred black and red boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.50) and with rubbing to front and back panels and light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover.
A sniper is holding the city of Isola hostage, dropping anonymous victims one by one. At the 87th Precinct, detectives face their greatest challenge as they seek to find a killer whose actions are unpredictable and his killings random.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by James McBride on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and sharp tips. Small publisher irregularity on mid front cover next to the red backstrip (see photos), else covers are clean and unmarred. 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.
National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth. His surprising journey illuminates not only our understanding of this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown's legacy.
Through McBride's lens, James Brown's rough-and-tumble life can be… Read More