Search Results: Titles starting with B from Armadillo Alley Books

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library, 1992. F/NF Exact facsimile first edition as published by Harcourt in 1922. The only new additions are on the copyright page and bottom of the rear flap (FEL). First Edition Library facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish, and texture as the originals. The book appears unread, 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 endpapers. The dust jacket has some light rubbing, else bright and fine. Slipcase is Fine.
Sinclair Lewis's novel is set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. Babbitt basks in his pedestrian success and the popularity it has brought him. He demands high moral standards from those around… Read More

New York: Mariner Books, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Faint 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) with light wear to the spine base. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 342 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in Massachusetts reverberates throughout their lives, with striking consequences. An intimate portrait of family, resentment, and the bonds that shape our lives.

New York: Liveright, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. F/F. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Jack E. Davis on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and black cloth boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white and color illustrations and photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 417 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged it as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside the bald eagle peacefully when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed the bald eagle to the brink of extinction.
Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves — The Bald Eagle… Read More

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2006. SIGNED Bookplate. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Ina Garten on a Jessica's Biscuits Cookbooks bookplate on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, 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. Light corner crease to page 137. Color photos and recipes throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($35.00) with just a hint of shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 256 pages. 7½ x 10¼" tall.
Ina offers the tried-and-true recipes that she makes over and over again because they're easy, they work, and they're universally loved. For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozzarella, and Pesto Paninis and… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. SIGNED. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Madison Smartt Bell with a small drawing on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The spine ends are gently pushed. The textblock has a faint small sticker shadow on the front dark green endpaper, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($19.95) with faint rubbing to the back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 230 pages. 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" tall.
In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters.
From the meticulously imagined perspective of a monk-like Chinese mouse, who accepts the exigencies of caged life with courage and admirable intelligence ("Holding Together''), to the frustrations and sorrow of… 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

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016. SIGNED. New. First edition, second printing with complete number line ending with 2. Signed by Noah Hawley on the title page during a book signing/appearance at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover.

New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2014. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. Twenty-fourth printing with number line ending in 24. Signed by Atul Gawande on a publisher bookplate on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, sharp tips and clean boards. Light creases to spine ends. 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. 281 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1998. Near Fine, would be Like New but for two tiny scratches to the top fore-edges. The book is tight with solid hinges, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. Bound in black 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. 275 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. Includes, Great Books of the 20th Century Notes and new bookplate.
A portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio. Eighteen years have passed and she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Sethe's house is also troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2000. Collector's Edition. Fine. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on Easton's signature page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings. Bound in full leather, with 22 kt inlaid embellishments and gilded page edges, a satin page marker, and silk moire endpapers. Includes Certificate of Authenticity and publisher notes about book and author.
When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-dependent state.

Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 2005. SIGNED. NF. Collector's Edition. Signed by David Halberstam on publisher's limitation 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. Bound in genuine leather, with gold stamped boards, raised bands on spine, silk moire end-papers, and satin ribbon. Some wear on bottom fore-edge gold gilt, otherwise gilt is Fine. Includes Easton Press Notes card and COA/Certificate of Authenticity.
Considered an American classic, The Best and the Brightest is the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton Company, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Richard Powers 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 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 ($27.95) faint wear to spine tail, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 278 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.
Astrobiologist and widower Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin. Although Robin is a warm, kind boy who enjoys painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals, he's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. With the hope of treating his troubled son without the use of psychoactive drugs, Theo turns to an… Read More

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2004. Like New. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Limited to 900 Numbered Copies. This is # 677. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings. In full leather with gold etching on the cover, hubbed spine accented in 22 KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, and archival-quality, acid-neutral paper. Gilt has tiny scratches on top and side fore-edges but gilt still intact (see photos.) Certificate of Authenticity and Notes laid in. A very nice collectible copy.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Brand New - Unread. Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Signed by Kantor on the title page during an appearance at a Dallas area Barnes & Noble. Unread book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred illustrated boards. Textbock is pristine with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. No dust jacket as issued. 10.5 x 10; 200 pp.

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

United Kingdom: Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd, 2018. Illustrated Classic. 1st/1st Thus. New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred textured boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Satin ribbon bookmark. Original color illustrations throughout by Chiara Fedele. Abridged by Tig Thomas. Dust jacket is unclipped ( £17.99 / $24.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 8 1/4" X 11 1/4" tall.
"He has such a sweet, good-tempered face, and such a fine, intelligent eye."
Loved by both adults and children since it was first published in 1877, Anna Sewell's story follows the life and times of Black Beauty from when he leaves his first home as a colt. The hardships he encounters as a horse living in Victorian times are sensitively documented. Sewell wrote the story to help improve the treatment of horses, and it remains one… Read More

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. SIGNED. Near Fine. Softcover. Uncorrected advanced proofs in glossy pictorial wraps. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. SIGNED by Burke on the title page. Tightly bound, square and bright. Slight rubbing, pages lightly tanned and two marks on side fore-edges. Otherwise clean. No writing, bookplate or markings and not ex-library or remaindered. Protected in a Brodart softcover book slip-case. The third Dave Robicheaux novel and winner of the Edgar Award.Haunted by the memory of his wife's murder and his father's untimely death, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux spends his days in a fish-and-tackle business. But when an old friend makes a surprise appearance, Robicheaux finds himself thrust back into the violent world of Mafia goons and wily federal agents. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands, Robicheaux is running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer and the demons of his past.

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

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. SIGNED. NF/VG. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. Signed by Ellroy on the first free endpaper underneath some bold ravings. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean unmarred boards. Mild foxing to top fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($14.95) with minor rubbing and edge-wear. Protected in a Brodart cover. Author's third book and the first installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. The first Ellroy novel to be adapted to film. It is the basis for the 1988 movie Cop, starring James Woods.

New York: Doubleday, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Bill Bryson on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Light crease to spine head and bottom corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W and color photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) with faint wear to the spine head and front bottom corner, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 450 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
Bryson turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions, and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological selves. A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book… Read More