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Welcome to our web site, and thank you for visiting Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC. We maintain a large inventory of used and rare books, most of which are in Fine or Near Fine condition, many of which are signed or inscribed by the author, and a number of which are scarce or rare.  We focus on Victorian Literature, Modern Literature, Uncommon Books, Mysteries, Crime, Autobiography, Poets and Poetry, African-American and Black authors, topics, and history, and Ephemera of various sorts (such as photographs, letters, broadsides, and the like). Authors represented include, but are not limited to: Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, G. A. Henty, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, J. M. Barrie, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Harper Lee, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Patrick Hamilton, Agatha Christie, Julie Smith, Nevada Barr, Dick Francis, Lawrence Block, Mary Oliver, John Ashbery, Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, John Barth, David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Peter Carey, John Updike, John Cheever, E. L. Doctorow, John Le Carre, Tom Clancy, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Larry McMurtry, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Terry McMillan, and many others.

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Featured Items

A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY KATE BRAVERMAN on the title page. A Beautiful copy of Kate Braverman's debut collection of short stories, a twelve-story cycle centered on the lives of several women in Los Angeles. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY KATE BRAVERMAN. Squandering the Blue
Braverman, Kate
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY KATE BRAVERMAN on the title page. A Beautiful copy of.. more
Price: $40.00
A Fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof (tiny corner pushing) in the Publisher's original wrappers, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON on the half-title; a collection of twelve tales about Slavery. (The book itself was published in wrappers only.) Signed copies of the book are scarce, the Uncorrected Proof is scarcer than is the book, and signed copies of the Uncorrected Proof (offered here) are scarce indeed. A Fine copy, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON. SCARCE. Soulcatcher and Other Stories: Twelve Powerful Tales About Slavery [Signed Uncorrected Proof]
Johnson, Charles
San Diego / New York: Harcourt, Inc. (Harvest), 2001. A Fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof (tiny corner pushing) in the Publisher's original wrappers, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON on.. more
Price: $75.00
A Near Fine copy (one small impression to bottom of the rear board, a touch of roughness at the spine head, spine tail mildly pushed) in a virtually Fine dust jacket (mild age toning, tiny pushing at the spine panel ends), SIGNED BY DON DELILLO on the title page; Don Delillo's eighth novel, winner of the 1985 National Book Award for Fiction, and his breakthrough book. Prior to publishing "White Noise", Delillo had received only minor critical notice. "White Noise", however, won great critical acclaim and, according to author Richard Rayner, influenced the work of numerous prominent writers such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Richard Powers. In Time Magazine named the novel as one of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Signed copies of the book are quite scarce. A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY DON DELILLO. White Noise [Signed]
Delillo, Don
New York: Viking, 1985. A Near Fine copy (one small impression to bottom of the rear board, a touch of roughness at the spine.. more
Price: $450.00
A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (spine ends a touch pushed), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ALICE ADAMS and KATRINA KENISON on the title page, and SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, JOYCE CAROL OATES, AMY BLOOM, RICK BASS, CHARLES BAXTER, and LORRIE MOORE on the half-title, and SIGNED BY KATE BRAVERMAN, HARIET DOERR, and LEONARD MICHAELS at their respective contributions; the Best Short Stories of the prior year, selected by Alice Adams and SIGNED BY SERIES EDITOR KATRINA KENISON AND BY 10 MAJOR AUTHORS. The book was issued both in paperback and in hardcover, with the hardcover copies being by far the scarcer of the two. Hardcover copies are surprisingly scarce, especially when in a condition this nice. Signed copies are scarcer still, and copies signed by this many remarkable authors are rarely seen. A Fine copy SIGNED BY SERIES EDITOR KATRINA KENISON AND BY 10 MAJOR AUTHORS. A remarkable collection of stories with a remarkable collection of signatures. The Best American Short Stories 1991 [Signed by 11]
Adams, Alice [Editor]; Kenison, Katrina [Series Editor]; Bass, Rick; Baxter, Charles; Bloom, Amy; Braverman, Kate; Butler, Robert Olen; Doerr, Harriet; Eisenberg, Deborah; Michaels, Leonard; Moore, Lorrie; Munro, Alice; Oates, Joyce Carol; Updike, John
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (spine ends a touch pushed), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED.. more
Price: $225.00
A Very Good copy (fading at board and spine extremities, tiny foxing spots to edges of page block), in an about Near Fine dust jacket (touch of soil and wrinkling to front flap, vertical crease to rear flap), INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ROBERT NATHAN TO SHANA ALEXANDER on the front free endpaper as follows: "For Shana Alexander / on her first date / (a speaking date, of / course - ) with / great admiration / Robert Nathan". A nice association between a prominent author and a prominent American journalist. A nice copy, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ROBERT NATHAN TO SHANA ALEXANDER. The Mallot Diaries
Nathan, Robert
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. A Very Good copy (fading at board and spine extremities, tiny foxing spots to edges of page block), in an.. more
Price: $45.00
A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED by John Barth on the title page. A Memoir in the form of a novel. The book is not common when both signed and in a condition this nice. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN BARTH. Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera [Signed]
Barth, John
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED by John Barth on the title page. A Memoir in the.. more
Price: $45.00
A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY DAVID MAMET on the title page. Three David Mamet essays on the essentialness of Drama and the human being's tendency to dramatize. This Mamet title is extremely scarce when signed. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY DAVID MAMET. Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama [Signed]
Mamet, David
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY DAVID MAMET on the title page. Three David Mamet essays.. more
Price: $165.00
A Near Fine copy (light fading at upper extremities, tiny spots near top of ffep, only a light touch of shelf wear to bottom of board tips), in a Fine dust jacket (lower front corner clipped by the Publisher, as usual, but not price-clipped), SIGNED BY RON HANSEN and illustrated by the appropriately-named Margot Tomes. "The Shadowmaker" is Ron Hansen's third book, and his debut work for children. A little girl rescues her town from the bedlam caused by a wizard who makes new shadows for people. The book is quite scarce signed. A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY RON HANSEN. The Shadowmaker [Signed]
Hansen, Ron
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. A Near Fine copy (light fading at upper extremities, tiny spots near top of ffep, only a light touch of.. more
Price: $95.00
A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. The fourth novel from this Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the better novels which have been written on the Vietnam conflict. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. On Distant Ground [Signed]
Butler, Robert Olen
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. The fourth novel from this Pulitzer Prize-winning.. more
Price: $50.00
A Very Near Fine copy (spine ends pushed, light rubbing to bottoms of board tips), in a Fine dust jacket (edge wrinkling), SIGNED BY DIANE JOHNSON on the title page. The best copy we've seen of Diane Johnson's debut novel. The first edition itself is quite scarce, copies in this condition more so, and signed copies in a condition this nice are quite scarce indeed. A Very Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY DIANE JOHNSON. Fair Game [Signed]
Johnson, Diane
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. A Very Near Fine copy (spine ends pushed, light rubbing to bottoms of board tips), in a Fine dust jacket.. more
Price: $250.00

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