Painting of Central Asia (Treasures of Asia series)
Geneva: Skira, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Stock image shown. More
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Six Plays of Strindberg (The Father, Miss Julie, The Stronger, Easter, A Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata)
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Anchor A54. More
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume One: The Gathering)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... More
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt..... More
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Two: The Rivals)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly..... More
Fu Qing-zhu's Gynecology
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More
Comrade Don Camillo
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1966. Brian Haynes (cover design). Paperback. More
The Ballad of Typhoid Mary
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
New York: Other Press, 2006. Jeremy Diamond (cover design). First English Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult." –Susan Sontag In the late 1990s..... More
Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo Series Book 2)
New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective..... More
The Cruel Stars of the Night
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. More
Pagoda, Skull & Samurai (Tuttle Classics)
Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing. Japanese literary history usually classifies Koda Rohan as an idealist writer, and the three stories included in this anthology belong to this genre. The Five-Storied Pagoda, one of Koda's best-known works, is the moving account of a misunderstood carpenter who has been inspired to undertake the..... More
Memoirs: Laughing and Dancing Our Way to the Precipice
London: The Harvill Press, 1999. First Printing. Trade paperback. More
Gustave Courbet
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1950. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
My Escapes from Japan
Tokyo: Doyosha, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. On December 11, 1922, Osugi Sakae snuck out of his house in Tokyo, ducking the watchful eyes of the police, to begin a journey to Europe to attend an international anarchist congress. This final work by Osugi, published in October 1923, is..... More
All Men Are Brothers (Shui Hu Chuan or 水滸傳) - Vol. II
See annotation, 1973. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition, sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of its contents. More
Bridge on the River Kwai
New York: Fontana Books, 1968. First Fontana Books Edition. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. More
The Flower Mat
Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group... More
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1996. First North Point Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. From a Japan Times review (July 4, 2015): “Palm-of-the-Hand Stories” is a collection of 70 very brief stories by Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata that were written between the early 1920s and 1970s. It..... More
Lou-lan and Other Stories
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1981. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
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