Search Results: First Edition from Armadillo Alley Books

Athens, GA: NewSouth Books, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Wayne Flynt on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 237 pages. 5¾ x 8" tall.
Afternoons with Harper Lee is based on stories that Lee told during multiple visits with Wayne Flynt, a longtime Southern historian. Flynt and his wife, Dartie, became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that Lee relocated to after her stroke. Flynt recalls the wide-ranging discussions they had about such subjects as history and folklore, American literature, and family genealogy. The conversation began — where it always begins with Southern storytellers — with an invitation to "Come in, sit down, and stay a while."

New York: Random House, 2022. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Patti Smith on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. Tiny bump to the spine tail edge. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Photos throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 400 pages. 5¼ x 7¼" tall.
With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful — and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process — A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist's life.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2020. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed on the title page by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred illustrated boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. The dust jacket is unclipped ($17.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 40 pages. 9" X 11" tall.
The courageous and true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats.
When war came to Syria, Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel decided to stay and work as an ambulance driver, assisting the civilians that couldn't leave. One day he hears hungry cats calling out to him on his way home. They are lonely and scared, just like him. He quickly realized that it wasn't just… Read More

New York: Hatchett Books, 2022. Doubled Signed. New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. Stated First printing. Signed by both authors on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Light crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Color photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 272 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.
The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you've ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro's "Rembrandts," "Caravaggios," "Miros," and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe. In 2019, it was revealed that Prince Charles received into his collection a Picasso, Dali, Monet, and Chagall, insuring them for over 200 million pounds, only to discover later that… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light crease 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 ($9.95) with faint rubbing to the back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 240 pages. 5½ x 8" tall.
Based largely on David Lindsay's nightmarish classic, A Voyage to Arcturus, The Flight to Lucifer is a fantasy novel set in a distant world where time and space shift back and forth and where the conflicts of first-century religion are still being played out.

New York: Scribner, 1999. Like New. F/F. First edition. First printing with complete number line starting with 1. The book is tight and square with sharp corners and black and gray cloth boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings and NOT BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 224 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for comfort. A huge fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her. Nature isn't her only adversary, though - something dangerous may be tracking Trisha through the dark woods.

New York: Viking, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Signed by Geraldine Brooks on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and orange cloth boards. Faint crease 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 ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 401 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: these strands are braided together into a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

New York: Doubleday, 2024. New. F/F. Signed. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Percival Everett on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread 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. Removable "Signed First Edition" sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 303 pages. 5¾ x 8½.
An action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

New York: Random House, 2023. SIGNED. New. F/F. Black Friday special from Barnes and Noble. Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Jordon Peele on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and black cloth boards. 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. 400 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall. Forward by Jordon Peele, the visionary writer and director of "Get Out," "Us" and "Nope."
A cop begins to see huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over; two freedom riders take a bus that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them; a young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are… Read More

New York: Balzer + Bray, 2018. SIGNED. Like New F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed "XO Julie" on the title page. The book is tight 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. The dust jacket is unclipped ($17.99 on the back) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 428 pages. 5¾ x 8½".
A companion novel to Dumplin' that follows supporting characters from the first book in the months after Willowdean's star turn in the Clover City pageant.
Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl. Not this year. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she's more frenemy than friend.

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: Random House, 2021. SIGNED. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line ending in 1. Signed by George Saunders with "Thanks!" on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Quarter-inch closed tear to spine head and light wear to top corners. The textblock is fine 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. 410 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us.
"I'm not a critic or a literary historian or an expert on Russian literature or any of that. The focus of my artistic life has been trying to learn to write emotionally moving stories that a reader feels compelled to finish…The aim of this book is… 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

UK First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and blue cloth boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock has no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Satin bookmark. Light friction abrasion to top fore-edges. Tiny foxing dot on side fore-edges. The dust jacket is unclipped (£14.99) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 247 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
In each of these stories, Margaret Atwood illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age.
The richly layered stories in "Wilderness Tips" map interior landscapes shaped by time, regret, and lost chances, endowing even the most unassuming of lives with a disquieting intensity.

Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2021. Like New. F/F. Exclusive Limited Signed Edition. This is 109 of 200 copies. Signed by Pat Barker on the limitation page. UK First Edition. First Printing. The book is tight 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. Decorated endpapers. The dust jacket is Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 306 pages. 6 ¼ x 9½.
A daring and timely feminist retelling of "The Iliad" from the perspective of the women of Troy who were forced to endure this tumultuous time. Barker's novel follows the story of Briseis and the other women who are taken as slaves when the Trojan Horse infiltrates the walls of Troy.