London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. This is a collection of George Orwell's nonfiction works. It includes three full length novels -- The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in Paris and London, and Homage to Catalonia -- and two collections of his essays and articles. More
London: Pushkin Press, 2021. Jonny Hannah (cover art). First Printing. Softcover. This new collection brings together four of Orwell’s short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society. They range from an expedition down a coal mine to a chastening experience of colonial rule in..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2021. Jonny Hannah (cover art). First Printing. Softcover. Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon, George Orwell..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2010. Tenth Printing. Trade Paperback. Edited by Peter Davison George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. 'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass..... More
New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Chinese Trotskyism was the most creative and influential opposition to emerge within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between its founding and its taking power in 1949. It included Chen Duxiu, founder and early leader of the CCP, whose ideas inspired generations of..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2019. Reprinted with new material. Fifth Printing. Paperback. The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation 'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2005. Paperback. Part of the Penguin Great Ideas series Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2006. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Jonathan Schell A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations..... More
Taipei: Government Information Office, 1993. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. A collection of interviews, addresses and administrative reports by the former premier of Taiwan, Hau Pei-Tsun (1919-2020). More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. Katy Homans (cover design). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Edited by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke, with an afterword by Rachel Seiffert, a new translation from the German by Shelley Frisch. An NYRB Classics Original Tegel..... More
New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1986. The Library of America Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. One of the greatest histories ever written in English, Henry Adams’s History of the United States is remarkable for its fullness of detail, its penetrating insight, and above all its strong, lively, and..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as..... More
Toronto: Canada Mirror Books, 1993. First Edition (presumed). Trade Papaerback. Translated by Allyson Lee An inquiry into the 'Party of Princes' using firsthand material. More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated by Jay Oh Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Softcover. More
London: Pluto Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With a Foreword by Paul Routledge 'A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.' --Martin Luther King Riot! covers, with a reporter's eye, almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain, and gives a voice to..... More
London: Private Eye Productions Ltd, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
London: Private Eye Productions Ltd, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). Presents the best of "Private Eye" magazine's blend of humour and wit. More
London: Profile Books Ltd, 2010. Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. This long-awaited work reconstructs the ways in which the meanings and uses of sex changed during that important moment of political and social configuration viewed as the birth of modernity. Isabel V. Hull analyzes the shift in..... More
See annotation, 1968. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of contents. From the front cover: A startling report on the impact of American Industry, Technology and Culture on Europe and the World. Translated from the..... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1966. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. More
London: William Heinemann, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. More
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