Search Results: Titles starting with K from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Scribner, 1986. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and green cloth boards. Light wear to top stain. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with a quarter-inch closed tear to the bottom back flap and light wear to the tips. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 306 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic, and compelling as life itself. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her?

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

NY: Liveright Publishing Corp., 2014. SIGNED. Brand New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition with complete number line starting with 1. Signed by Feiffer on the title page. The book is tight and straight with clean, comically illustrated, unmarked boards. Textblock has no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped and pristine. The famed artist/illustrator's debut noir graphic novel and loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. 148 pages. 0ver 8" - 11" tall. Protected in a new Brodart cover.
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London: Michael Joseph, 2007. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by Nick Stone on the title page. The book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. There is a crescent gap between backstrip and text. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings and NOT BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Light toning to top fore-edges. The dust jacket is unclipped (£12.99) and pristine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Second book in the Max Mingus series.Nick Stone's first novel, Mr. Clarinet, took the crime fiction world by storm—winning enthusiastic raves as well as a Macavity and a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. In King of Swords, Stone brings back Detective Max Mingus in a chilling and mesmerizing "prequel" that combines murder, police corruption, and voodoo black magic. King of Swords blazes with Miami heat—and it earns Nick Stone a permanent spot in the winner's circle alongside the masters James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, James Lee… Read More

Naperville, Illinois: Bloom Books, 2021. SIGNED. New. F/F. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Scarlett St. Claire 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. Map endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 440 Pages. 5¼ x 8¼" tall. The first book in the Adrian X Isolde series.Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him.But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she most despises, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court.

New York: Celedon Books, 2022. Purchased New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by George Dawes Green on the title page. The unread book is tight and square 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. Savannah map endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 285 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
In the wake of a tragic death and kidnapping, a dysfunctional family at the center of Georgia high society discovers painful truths in the shadows just beyond Savannah's historic gas lamps and gazebos. Through masterful storytelling, Green turns the quaint and eclectic tourist town of Savannah into a character as conflicted and complex as the rest of the novel's ensemble.