Search Results: Titles starting with M from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Alice Hoffman on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed and faint crease to top front corner. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with a faint crinkle to the spine head corners, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source. The story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of… Read More

New York: Prestel, 2017. Brand New. Published to coincide with the 2017 exhibition "Magritte: The Treachery of Images" in Paris and Frankfurt. The unread large 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. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Wrap-around paper sleeve. 208 pages. 9½ x 11½" tall. This major new book on René Magritte offers fresh interpretations of the artist's use of symbols and imagery to articulate his particular brand of surrealism. In this beautiful monograph, a collection of revelatory essays focuses on five common images in Rene Magritte's work--fire, shadows, curtains, words, and the fragmented body. Featuring vibrant reproductions of more than 100 works, this book helps readers understand how the artist employed these images in ways both deceptive and realistic. The book explores how he distorted accepted… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2023. New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. Stated First printing Signed on publisher's bound-in 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 ($32.50) and Fine. Removable "Signed First Edition" sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 417 pages. 6 ¼ x 9 ¼" tall. Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story—all created by Tom Hanks himself—including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel's "major motion picture masterpiece."
A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.

New York: Harper and Row, 1980. SIGNED. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Erich Segal on the front brown endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Boards have a touch of soiling and 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 ($9.95) with crinkles to spine ends and corners and a vertical crease to back flap (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 244 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall. By the author of "Love Story".
Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage. But what Sheila didn't know was that Bob has once been unfaithful — only once — ten years ago during a business trip to France. What Bob didn't know was that his brief affair produced a son. Now a tragic accident and one fateful phone call will change Bob and Sheila's life forever.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1988. Near Fine. Collector's Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, embossed seal, or markings The book is bound in leather, with gilded page edges, a hubbed spine, satin page marker, and accents in 22 KT gold. The gilt has faint, tiny scratches to the top and side fore-edges. 239 pages. 6 ¼ x 9¼" tall. Introduction by Richard Curtis. Illustration by Richard Powers. Includes Collector's Notes and "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" unused bookplate.
Considered Philip K. Dick's greatest novel when first published in 1962. An alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the political intrigues between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany as they rule the partitioned United States.

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Very Good. Selected, edited and introduced by A. L. Rowse. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and quarter bound in black cloth stamped in gilt with sides of tan cloth boards stamped in gilt on the upper panel. Light fading/wear to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The flimsy original slipcase is Good. Faded with edge-wear to opening and corners. 127 pages. 6½ x 10" tall. First published in 1860.Originally published in 1626 under the title, "The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes." This slim book contains "A Life of Sir Thomas More" and "A Selection of More's Letters." The letters are addressed to Joyce Lee, Cardinal Wolsey, More's wife, Alice, the "Nun of Kent," Thomas Cromwell, and More's daughter, Margaret.

New York: Scribner, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated Scribner hardcover edition November 2017, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Jennifer Egan on the publisher's bound-in 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 ($28.00) and Fine. Illustrated endpapers. Protected in a new Brodart cover. The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at… Read More

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

New York: Dutton, 2018. SIGNED. New. NF/NF. Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition. Includes exclusive deleted scenes. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Ransom Riggs on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and black cloth boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95) with faint wear to the spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 498 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
In "A Map of Days," Ransom Riggs continues the story of Jacob Portman, hollowgast hunter extraordinaire. Now back home in Needle Key, Florida, Jacob must deal with his parents who believe he is insane, his fractured relationship with the normal world, and his future as a peculiar.

NY: Delacorte Press, 1974.VG/VG. 1st/1st. First Edition, Stated First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Mild fading to top red stain. Textblock is clean with No writing, bookplate, stamp or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($7.95) with chips at spine crown and small closed tears to lower front and back panels. (see photos). Lightening to spine and mild aging to flaps. Basis of the blockbuster film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Goldman wrote the screenplay and also the screenplay for his comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.

New York: William Morrow, 2006. Near Fine. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and deluxe red cloth with gilt. Two tiny bumps to the top of the front board. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. No dust jacket, as issued. $29.95 price on the back. 320 pages. 6¼ x 9" tall.
The unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. This beautiful, illustrated gift edition features a beautiful cloth cover with a unique dog leash bookmark ribbon, and full-color photos throughout. Lavishly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, this special edition includes a personal message from John Grogan as well as his original Philadelphia Inquirer column that inspired the book. A wonderful keepsake for those who love Marley and for those who have yet to meet him.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED. NF/NF. Stated First American Edition with no other listed printings. Signed by Edmund White on the title page. The 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. Unused book card pocket/sleeve on front paste-down. Dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with very mild shelf wear. Protected in a Brodart cover. Austin is an American furniture scholar living in Paris. He is pushing fifty, loveless, drifting. One day at the gym he meets Julien: French, an architect, much younger and married. Against every expectation, this chance acquaintance matures into profound romance. As the two men dash between bohemian suppers and sophisticated salons, their only impediments are the easily surmountable and comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Inevitably, however, Julien's past catches up with them. With increasing desperation, in a… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2018, Signed. Like New. Powell's Indiespensable edition in custom slipcase. First Edition. First printing with full number line starting with 1. Signed by Rachel Kushner on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips and 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 faint wear to the back corner, else Fine. 338 Pages. 6½ x 9½" tall. Does NOT include the booklet with the author interview.It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike;… Read More

New York: Viking, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Eric Metaxas on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips and clean unmarred boards. Spine tail gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. B&W and color photos and illustrations. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 480 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Martin… Read More

New York: HarperPrism, 1997. NF/NF. American First Edition. Stated First HarperPrism printing with full number line ending in 1. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine tail pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Light age-toning to pages. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) and with faint creases to upper back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 278 pages. 6¼ x 9¾" tall. Eighteenth book in the Discworld series and the fifth witches story.
The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts the Ankh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud… Read More

New York: Riverhead, 2021. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. Stated 1st Printing. Signed by Lauren Groff 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) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 257 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too big and too coarse for marriage or a life at court, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where the nuns are on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around.

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

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. 616 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator René Ben Sussan. This oversized book has light shelf wear with good tips and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white illustrations by Ben Sussman. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen and Selected by J. Rives Childs. No dust jacket, as issued. The slipcase is near fine with light wear and small damp stains on the back panel. 502 pages. 8½ x 12" tall.
Casanova was a Venetian adventurer and author (1725-1798). His Memoirs provide an intimate insight into the life of European society in the eighteenth century. These Memoirs are the history of a unique life, personality, and record of adventures. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom women were, indeed, the most important thing in the world, although there was nothing in the world to which he was… Read More

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: Random House, 1992. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 2 (back then that was the Random House designation of a first printing). The book would be like new except for the tiny previous owner's name on the top edge of the front map endpaper (see photos). The book is tight with solid hinges, 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 ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 625 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
The story of an American journalist who travels to Mexico to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, but who is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his Mexican ancestors.