Search Results: Titles starting with W from Armadillo Alley Books

London: The Folio Society, 1985. Very Good/Very Good Slipcase. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, and clean boards. Light fading to lettering on spine. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Frontispiece plus 11 black and white plates by Christopher Brown. The grey card slipcase is very good with light wear and soiling. 340 pages. 6" X 9 1/4" tall. Selected and introduced by Sue Bradbury.
Somerset Maugham, in addition to being a practitioner of the short story of almost unrivaled success and fame, was a pre-eminent controversialist on the art of the short story. He chose very deliberately to expound and ally himself with certain methods and views by discussing leading exponents of the short story including Edgar Allan Poe, Maupassant, Chekhov, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and Rudyard Kipling.
Stories included in this volume are:
Rain * The Hairless Mexican * Mr. Know-All * The Letter * The Outstation… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 1997. SIGNED by all Five. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by all five band members -- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer -- on the front free end page in black pen. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Spine ends gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W photos throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 513 pages with Index. 6½ x 9½.
Walk This Way is an almost day-by-day account of the high and low life of a true rock 'n' roll monster, in the words of the guys who made it happen: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer. Here is a quarter-century of rock godhood, told with no holds barred or punches pulled -- the life, the music, the legends, the truth, the hell; the lost weeks, and… Read More

Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan, 2002. SIGNED in slipcase. Like New. True first edition 1st printing of Phillips' second book, lettered/limited edition. Signed and lettered by Scott Phillips on the limitation page. This is copy D of 104 copies bound in quarter morocco and marbled boards. The book is unread, 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 Fine with some mild rippling to the spine (see photos). The book is protected in a Mylar Brodart cover. Slipcase is pristine. The sequel to the award-winning The Ice Harvest, this novel concerns Gunther Fahnstiel's escape from the Lake Vista Nursing Home, confused, frail and desperate for a haircut. His stepson Sidney posts a $12,000 reward for Gunther's safe return, unaware that Gunther has just run into the daughter of an old flame.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Meg Howrey on the title 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 ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. VG/G. 1st/1st. The book is Very Good. Stated First Edition. Tightly bound and straight. Some soiling to toned top edges and staple perforations to upper FFEP. Otherwise, the book is clean with no writing, bookplate, and not a BC, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is Good. The $5.00 price is intact. There is wear, including small chips and tears to edges and creases of the dust jacket. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. The basis for the 1962 film starring Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Marie Lu on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint creases to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($18.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 353 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game—it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the… Read More

New York: Dutton, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. First American Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Jussi Adler-Olsen on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head lightly creased. 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. 569 pages.
The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about.Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Collector's Edition. Fine. Frontispiece and 11 full-color plates and green and white illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The book is tight with solid hinges, good corners, and illustrated 24kt gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. Bound in dark green leather with raised bands to the spine, gilded pages, silk moiré end papers and a sewn-in satin bookmark. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. 240 pages. 7½ x 10" tall.
Shamed by his grimy appearance in the presence of an immaculate little girl, ten-year-old Tom — an ill-treated London chimney-sweep — promptly runs away. Diving into a river, he enters a magical underwater world of fairies and other whimsical creatures who teach him about truth, mercy, justice, courage, and other virtues. Although Charles Kingsley's fable can be read as simply a charming morality tale, it also blends elements of a scientific satire and a political tract. Kingsley not only parodied… Read More

New York: One World/Random House, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the publisher's bound-in 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2009. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Frederick Barthelme on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. Indentation/bump to spine crown. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 5 1/2" X 8 3/4" tall. 229 pages.
According to the New York Times, "Waveland is either a funny novel about a sad middle-aged man or a sad novel about a funny middle-aged man."
Set amidst the tatters of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Mississippi, partially retired architect Vaughn Williams does what he can to remain "viable". Battling the doldrums of midlife, he teaches an occasional class, reads the newspapers, scours the Internet, and thinks obsessively about his late father. When his ex-wife seeks refuge from her hotheaded… Read More

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Barry Moser on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Black and white illustrations. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men.
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/5th. New. Written and illustrated by R.J. Palacio. Stated First Edition. Fifth printing with complete 10 number line ending with 5. Signed by R.J. Palacio on the title page. Unread tall 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 ($18.99 on back panel) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover. Ages 4-8. Author of the bestseller "Wonder". 9¼ x 12¼" tall
Now parents can introduce the importance of choosing kind to younger readers with this gorgeous picture book, featuring Auggie and Daisy on an original adventure, written and illustrated by R. J. Palacio. Now younger readers can meet Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, and his beloved dog, Daisy. Palacio shows readers what it's like to live in Auggie's world—a world in which he feels like any other kid, but he's… Read More

London: Simon & Schuster, 1990. SIGNED. UK 1st/1st. NF/NF. First edition, first printing with "First published in Great Britain by Simon Schuster Ltd in 1990" on the title page. Signed by Brian Stableford 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. Pages moderately tanned with age. Dust jacket is unclipped (£14.95) with mild rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. First in a trilogy - followed by The Angel of Pain and The Carnival of Destruction.

New York: Random House, 1999. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition with 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 number line which then was Random House's designation of the first printing. SIGNED by Michael Chabon on the title page. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners and clean unmarred green boards with black spine lettered in gilt. Spine head gently pushed. Textblock has a very faint crease to title page (under signature) else fine and clean with no markings, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($22.95) with very mild crinkles to spine ends else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar removable cover. The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are caught in events that will crystallize and define their lives forever, and with each, Michael Chabon brings his unique vision… Read More

New York: Riverhead Books, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Signed by Randal Munroe on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, 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 ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 354 pages. 7¼ x 9¼" tall.
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness Randall Munroe is here to help.
Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. Rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult. What If? 2 is designed to answer readers'… Read More

NY: Razor Bill/Penguin Group, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. First edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed by Jay Asher on a special page bound in by the publisher just after the free front end-paper. Unread 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 and Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover. From the author of THIRTEEN REASONS WHY.

New York: Harper, 2023. SIGNED. New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Jacqueline Winspear on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and red and white boards. Spine ends gently pushed The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and with faint wear to spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 321 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
In 1947, Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbors, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer, and former intelligence agent.
Yet Elinor's private and seemingly tranquil existence conceals a past trauma that comes to the fore when she is drawn into the predicament of a local man entangled with one of the most dangerous crime families in London.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st/1st. VG/VG-. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips and clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Light scuff to front paste-down. Fragile dust jacket is unclipped ($6.95 and I/65 to bottom front flap) with closed half inch tear to bottom front and chipping to spine ends and corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Hersey's dystopian novel on race relations - turned on its head. After China wins the "Great War" white Americans had become enslaved by the Chinese and are the subservient race. The story follows a young Arizona girl renamed White Lotus. As she ages, she evolves from "a bewildered, terrified slave to a conscious and intelligent revolutionary." Her orchestrated, yet simple act of standing before her captors on one leg, head bowed like a sleeping… Read More

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2015. SIGNED. Brand New. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. Signed by Richard Price on the title page. Unread book is tight and straight withs harp 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. Protected in a Brodart cover. Purchased new after a book signing at Powell's in Portland, Oregon. The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.

New York: Harper, 2012. VG/NF. Stated First Edition. Third printing with number line ending in 3. Signed by Pete Townsend on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. Quarter-inch tear and creases to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color and black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.50) with light wear to the spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 544 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his own career as an artist and performer, and his restless life in and out of the public eye in this candid autobiography, Who I Am.With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Townshend has written a deeply personal book that also stands as a primary source for popular… Read More