Search Results: Authors starting with W from Armadillo Alley Books

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: 1961. F/NF. 14 tales from one of the few masters of the ghost story. First Edition. First Printing. Limited to 2,070 copies. The small 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 ($4.00) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 186 pages. 5¼ x 7½" tall.
In 'Farewell to all Those', the introduction to his 1961 collection STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, H. R. Wakefield stated 'I've written my last ghost story,' continuing with the bleak sentence 'I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art.' However, he concluded his introduction on a more cheerful note, urging readers not to be too sure that 'none of the old magic endures'; and the fourteen stories collected in the original edition of the book show Wakefield to have been still very much at the top of his form. Indeed, STRAYERS… Read More

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2023. New. First Edition. Signed by Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker on the publisher's bound-in page. This 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 ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 319 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature—alongside his trademark wit and charm—Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining book, illustrated with vivid photographs and art, readers travel with him through space and time, starting with the Big Bang and voyaging to the far reaches of the universe and beyond.

New York: Scribner, 2023. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition. First printing with number line starting in 1. Signed by Jeannette Walls on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine head edge. 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 a faint small crease to the spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 349 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
The story of a young woman navigating a world where legal and illegal don't always match right and wrong. Sallie Kincaid is the fiercely independent and impulsive daughter of Duke Kincaid, the most powerful man in Claiborne County. When the Duke dies unexpectedly, Sallie is suddenly in charge of the family business. In 1920s Virginia, that's bootlegging, but there is more involved than Sallie ever suspected.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing. Signed "Barbara W" on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Creases to spine ends and a diagonal crease to page 215. Script endpapers. 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 ($29.95) with a pin-head-sized hole to the upper back, and a light crinkle to the spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 612 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures and celebrities, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination on herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life.

New York: Scribner, 2017. New. SIGNED & DATED. First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed and Dated Jesmyn by Ward 9-20-17 on the title 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 ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 289 pages. 5Âľ x 8Âľ" tall. Includes five photos from the signing event. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by John Waters on the title page with a misbehaving pen. 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. Black and white matte photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" tall. 370 pages.
No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin moustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1988. 1st/1st. F/NF. 1st/1st. First Edition stated w/no other printings. Unread book is tight and square with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamps or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($17.95) with mild toning to upper flaps and spine, otherwise Fine. Protected in a Brodart cover. Author's first book. "Daring and remarkably assured . . . provocative." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Certain to bring [Watkins] comparisons not only with Stephen Crane, but with Hemingway and Remarque for its parallels with his classic All Quiet on the Western Front...His virtuosic first novel won't be easily forgotten." -- John Blades, The Chicago Tribune

London: Gollancz, 1997. SIGNED. Like New. 1st/1st. The book is Fine. First edition, first printing with number line including 1. SIGNED by Watson 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. Dust jacket is unclipped (ÂŁ16.99) and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Watson, author of 50 books, received screen credit for the screen story of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg.
Tom Ryan begins his adventures by discovering a time-traveling Roman centurion marching along on a rainy night in modern Britain. The plot thickens when, after giving shelter to the Roman refugee, Tom and his sister, Mary, discover that the time-traveling is the result of a secret project called Oracle. The intent of the government security people involved in Oracle is to review the past and the future to prevent "threats to national security."

New York: Random House, 1977, VG/VG 1st/1st. Very Good. Stated First Edition with Random House complete number line ending in 2 (Random House's peculiar designation of a first printing). The book is tight and square with good corners. Mild foxing to top fore-edges and an abrasion to back cover. Textblock has No writing, bookplate, stamps or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. White smudges on the first free endpaper. Dust Jacket is unclipped ($10.00). Small chips to top spine and top and bottom flaps. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
A collection of Welty's rather infrequent non-fiction writings, including several essays on writing fiction, commentaries on writers ranging from Jane Austen to Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf, from E. M. Forster to William Faulkner, and on miscellaneous subjects like childhood reading and Mississippi cookery.

New York/Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2020. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed "Semper Fi Bing" by Bing West on the first free endpaper. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and 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 ($28.00 on the back panel) with a pin-head-sized hole to the back lower panel and faint creases to spine ends. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 383 pages. 6 x 9ÂĽ" tall.A small team of CIA operatives and Marines commanded by Captain Diego Cruz are protecting a tiny base in Helmand—the most violent province in Afghanistan. In a series of escalating fights, Cruz must prove he is a combat leader, despite the growing disapproval of the colonel in overall charge. At the same time, the president has ordered the CIA to capture a… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed by Bailey White on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Faint dust/soiling to upper fore-edges near spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm.
In her first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space… Read More

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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. SIGNED. NF/F. 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. Mild aging on top fore-edges. Dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a… Read More

New York: Abrams Image, 2018. New. First edition. First 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. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. No dust jacket, as issued. 160 pages. 7 x 8" tall. Cut-paper artist and writer Maude White presents an entirely new collection of sixty-five stunning cut-paper birds. Each bird is paired with an original message of kindness and strength associated with its particular traits to encourage bravery and perseverance. Inside, you'll find birds for experiencing Joy, Creativity, Patience, Kindness, Resilience, Communication, Strength, Awareness, Action, and Transformation, and each composition, beautifully photographed by Laura Glazer, reflects thousands of intricate cuts, lending an astounding level of texture to these delicate and ethereal creatures. Appealing to any bird lover or collector of bird art,… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Light creases to the spine head and top corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.95) with very faint wear to the spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 213 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Inspired by a Florida news story, the Pulitzer Prize-winner imagines two black boys fighting to survive a juvenile reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Like The Underground Railroad, the book draws from U.S. history to underscore the continued relevance of the characters' oppression.

New York: Doubleday, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Colson Whitehead 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. 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 ($28.95) and fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 318 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. Harlem Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

New York: Doubleday, 2016. SIGNED. NF/NF. Stated First Edition, 9th printing with number line starting with 9. Signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges. Spine head gently pushed and top front corner lightly bumped. The boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) with a faint crease to the spine head and front top corner. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 306 pages. 6ÂĽ x 9½" tall. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. 1113 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Jean Charolt. Book has light shelve wear to spine, else tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips and clean black leather and decorated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Frontispiece and 14 original color lithographs by Jean Charlot. Introduction by Granville Hicks. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcover is near fine with a few scuffs. 158 pages. 7 x 11ÂĽ" tall. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.The novel focuses on six characters who all perish in the collapse of a rope bridge in Peru; much of the book relates the lives of the individual characters as it explores the cosmic implications of these sudden, unnecessary deaths.

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.

New York: Crestline Books, 2020. New. Stated First Edition. First Printing with number line ending 1. 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. Fully Illustrated with more than 120 black and white and color images, including maps, sketches, and letters. No dust jacket, as issued. 159 pages. 8Âľ x 11" tall. This volume also features removable reproductions at the back of the book of Lincoln's original handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation and a broadside/poster offering rewards for the capture of Lincoln's assassination conspirators. A beautifully illustrated celebration of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his childhood, through his political career, historic presidency, and tragic assassination.