Search Results: Titles starting with V from Armadillo Alley Books

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. 1st/1st. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Crinkle to spine head. Textblock is clean with no writing bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) and good. Chipping to spine and upper back panel, lightly scuffed and an inch and half-closed rear to top front panel see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
A varied and colorful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, W. Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

New York: Random House, 2009. VG/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Yiyun Li on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Bump to the back bottom board and crease to mid-front spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 337 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
The Vagrants is a novel set in China during the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement — the era that was a forebear of the Tiananmen Square uprising. In the provincial city of Muddy River, a young woman, Gu Shan, has boldly renounced her faith in Communism and is now a political prisoner set to be executed for her dissent. Her distraught mother is about to make another bold decision and her father, Teacher Gu, begins to retreat into memories — neither parent realizing that their daughter's… Read More

New York: Viking, 2016. SIGNED. New - Unread. First edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. SIGNED by the author on the title-page at a signing/appearance at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. 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. Dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and pristine. Illustrated endpapers. Protected in a Brodart cover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Astrid Scholte on the title page. 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. Dust jacket is unclipped ($18.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A thrilling adventure in which the dead can be revived...for a price. By the author of Four Dead Queens.Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great Waves destroyed her planet five hundred years ago, its people had to learn to survive living on the water, but the ruins of the cities below still called. Tempe dives daily, scavenging the ruins of a bygone era, searching for anything of value to trade for Notes. It isn't food or clothing that she wants to buy, but her dead sister's life. For a price, the research facility on the island of… Read More

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

London: Folio Society, 1999. Near Fine. The book would be like new except for a tiny nick to the bottom of the front board, else tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Eleanor Bron. No dust jacket, as issued. The slipcase is near fine with some faint scuffs. 352 pages. 6¾ x 9¾" tall. First published in 1915.Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and brings her back to the island. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love… Read More

London: Rodale Press, 1954. VG/VG. 1st UK edition, 1st printing with "First published 1954 by Rodale Books, Emmaus, PA and London, England" on copyright page. Book is tight and square good corners and solid hinges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly tanned. Dust jacket is unclipped (4s. 6d.) with some soiling, wear to tips and extremities, and three tears to the top edge (see photos). Sun fading to spine. Illustrated by Clauss and translated by Roland Grant. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. ABOUT Charles PerraultWhile the Brothers Grimm are widely credited with creating the fairy tale as we know it, Perrault actually wrote stories called Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, La Belle au Bois Dormant and Cendrillon a full 200 years before. In 1695, aged 67, he wrote Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, a series of moral tales designed to prompt the reader to reflect on the dilemmas presented to the protagonist, which were… Read More

New York: Hogarth, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Anne Tyler the title page. An Autograph Book Collector's Club June 2016 Selection by Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. The book appears unread and 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, off-beat and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018. Signed Limited Edition. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. Signed by John Scalzi on the publisher's Special Signed Edition page. This is 563 of 1000. The 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 ($40.00) with faint crinkles to spine ends, else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 6" X 8 1/4" tall. 429 pages.
"'Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other." -- John ScalziFor twenty years now—yes, twenty—John Scalzi has been writing on his blog Whatever, writing about, well, whatever: politics, writing, cats, the internet and the great social and cultural events of our times.… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. SIGNED. Like New. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy of this historic novel. Signed by Andrea Barrett on the title page. The book is unread, tight and square with clean unmarred covers. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Very light rubbing to illustrated wrappers. Barrett won the National Book Award for her previous book "Ship Fever." A major novel by the author of "Ship Fever", winner of the 1996 National Book Award for fiction. Part adventure, part love story, this unforgettable novel captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration. Combining fact and fiction, the story focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a 19th-century scholar/naturalist and his expedition to search for an open polar sea. NPR feature.