Search Results: Titles starting with R from Armadillo Alley Books

New York: Knopf, 2022. Purchased New. F/F. First Edition. Fifth printing. Signed by Tess Gunty on the title page. 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 ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 338 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Blandine is a beautiful and formidably intelligent young woman who shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands. They have all aged out of the state foster care system that repeatedly failed them, and all are searching for meaning in their lives. Their story is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment, and, ultimately, freedom. Winner of the 2022 National Book Award.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company. 1963. VG/VG. This is a First edition, third state with dedication page tipped-in between the title-page and half-title, across from the copyright page. Has "Seymore" for Seymour on page 173. Book has slight lean but pages are tight to spine. Few small stains on top fore-edges and one on bottom. Spine is faded. Good corners and unmarred boards. Textblock has previous owner's name and 1963 date on inside cover hidden by dust jacket. No other writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($4.00). Minor chipping at spine ends and mild soiling and shelf-wear. Protected in a Brodart cover. Copyrights of 1955 & 1959. Published for the first time in book form in 1963. Salinger's fourth and last book.

New York: William Morrow, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Nick Nolte on the half-title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Good corners with faint crease to the front bottom corner. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and 16 pages of photos. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
The untold story of one of Hollywood's all-time "Bad Boys" and is filled with many never-before-published personal photos. Nothing is left out of this true wide-open memoir, including awards and Nick Nolte's honest description of the downward spiral of his career and his love life.

NY: Doubleday, 1994. SIGNED. Like New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition, first printing with number line starting with 1. SIGNED by Walker on the title page. Unread book, tight, straight 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. Includes publisher's review material for book stores. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Author's second book, and the first featuring Molly Cates. Winner of the 1994 Edgar Award for best novel.

Easton Press, 2003. Like New. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. SIGNED on a special limitation page by John Varley; this is book number 560 of 1,000 copies. Bound in red leather with 22 kt accents, gilded page edges, silk moire endpapers, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. The book is straight and tight with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, embossed seal or marks. The gilding along the page edges is fine except for a tiny, 1/2" impression on the top fore-edges, otherwise pristine (see photos). Includes a Certificate of Authenticity, also signed by Varley, and bibliographic notes laid in. Frontispiece by Michael Dashow. Great looking copy.

New York: Atheneum, 1966. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing. Book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Light bumps to top front corners. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Page corner creases to pages 108-110. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.95) with light wear to corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Garson Kanin was a copious note-taker — much to Maugham's delight — of conversations, impressions, and ideas imparted when the two were together. Although his junior by about 40 years, Kanin became Maugham's perfect audience, recognizing his creative genius yet also aware of Maugham's peculiar quirks and habits. Written as a non-linear journal, the book becomes "…a treasury of Somerset Maugham's candid opinions, attitudes, and tastes, this book abounds in off-the-cuff recollections of the past and the circumstances under which he wrote his best-known stories and novels. His… Read More

New York: Harper, 2014. SIGNED. New-Unread. 1st/1st. Unread copy is Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed on the half-title page by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey). The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean, unmarked boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. LORIEN LEGACIES printed on side fore-edges. Unclipped dust jacket is pristine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The fifth book in the Lorien Legacies series.
The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.

NY: The Dial Press, 2014. SIGNED. Brand New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line ending with 1. Signed by Tom Rachman 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. Opened only for photos. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a bookseller who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. SIGNED. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed on the title page. 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. Map endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 446 pages. 6¼ x 9¼ " tall.
In The Road Home, Harrison picks up where he left off in his previous novel, Dalva. Five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, to reconcile with demons of the past, to live in accordance with the land and to die with grace.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed on the title page by both William Least Heat-Moon and his wife, travel partner "Q". Carefully read book is tight with good 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 ($27.99) with mild shelf wear, else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. This the third book in William Least Heat Moon's travel trilogy of back-roads America is the search for "quoz", an 18th-century term for something "strange, incongruous, peculiar".

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2021. SIGNED. New. F/F. Stated First Edition. Second printing with number line ending in 2. Signed by Jon Klassen on the title 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 ($18.99 on the back panel) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 96 pages. 8 x 10½" tall.
The Rock from the Sky is a humorous meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there's something just a little bit not right somewhere, but you can't put your finger on it. Merging broad visual suspense with wry wit, celebrated picture book creator Jon Klassen provides a wholly original comedy for the ages.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Twenty-second printing with number line ending with 22. Signed "Aim High! Homer Hickam" on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 368 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr. shares the story of his youth and an extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia - a hard-scrabble little mining company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football and where the future was regarded with more fear than hope. In 1957 a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik shoot across the Appalachian sky and soon found his future in the stars. 'Sonny' and a… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First Printing with E-Z code. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and black cloth boards with bright stamping. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Moderate page tanning with heavier tanning to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.75) with mild soiling, chipping and some tape repair on the back side (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 410 pages including index and bibliography. 5½ x 8½" tall. John Gunther was one of the best known and most admired journalists of his day, and his series of "Inside" books, were immensely popular profiles of the major world powers. This work about FDR, written in 1950 just 5 years after the great man's death, still stands as one of the best overviews of the subject. It was the first overall and objective appraisal of Roosevelt as… Read More

New York: Viking/Penguin Group, 2002. SIGNED. Like New. Unread copy is a first edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. SIGNED on the title page by William Kennedy. Tight and straight with even pages, solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing. No writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95) and pristine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past -- to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.

New York: Viking, 1995. Like New. F/F. First edition. First printing with "First published in 1995 by Viking Penguin" and number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on copyright page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, sharp tips and black cloth with embossed red rose. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Burnt orange endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 420 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Rosie Daniels flees her nightmare marriage to find refuge in a strange city, far from her brutal husband, Norman, whose relentless savagery and mad obsessions follow her to her sanctuary and drive her to transform herself to survive.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014. SIGNED. New. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed by Graeme Simsion on the title page. Purchased new and unread, the book is tight and square with 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 ($25.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. If you were swept away by Graeme Simsion's international smash hit The Rosie Project, you will love The Rosie Effect. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge. Rosie is pregnant.

New York: Stein & Day, 1965. 1st/1st/ VG/VG. First American edition. First printing. The book is lightly cocked but pages tightly bound. Bottom corners bumped, light wear to boards and spine ends gently pushed. Textblock has small brown smudges to pages 8 and 9, else book is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Pages tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with fading to spine, light soiling and crinkle to spine head. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Introduction by the author. 84 pages.
The Royal Hunt of the Sun recreates the story of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca empire in Peru, with a group of only 167 men, in 1532. The play is an incisive and visually dazzling exposition of colonization in which cultural and religious clashes, driven by the promise of immense wealth, lead to betrayal, death and destruction. It is also a deeply moving exploration of personal honor and frailty as the aging peasant from Trujillo, Pizarro, encounters the… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1998. Fine. Featuring ten classic stories selected and introduced by their author, John Mortimer. Stated Sixth printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and sharp tips. Illustration on front board and silver gilt on grey boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white illustrations by Paul Cox. The grey paper slipcase is near fine with minor wear and a few faint smudges. 362 pages. 6½ x 9½ tall.
This volume includes "Rumpole and the Younger Generation," "Rumpole and the Show Folk," Rumpole and the Old Boy Net," "Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim," "Rumpole and the Tap End," "Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation," "Rumpole a la Carte," "Rumpole and the Children of the Devil," "Rumpole and the Family Pride, and "Rumpole on Trial."