The Life of Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Michael O'Mara Books, 2004. Softcover. More
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Dhirubhai Ambani Against All Odds: A Story of Courage, Perseverance and Hope
New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008. Paperback. More
Slight Exaggeration
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski—one of Poland’s great poets—the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as..... More
Dance to the Piper: The Life Story of America's Greatest Creative Dancer
New York: Bantam Books, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More
Where Time Turns Black
Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2017. Agnes Shuk-mei Ku (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). "This book begins with personal experience and points to our common future. Through images and words, it expresses my care and love for my mother and allows me to share my observations, feelings and ideas about..... More
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in..... More
Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its..... More
Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story
Victoria: TouchWood, 2016. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and interior design, with a new foreword by Alexandra Morton. Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC..... More
Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)—the classes of 1940 and 1971—McCoy uncovers fundamental..... More
A Muslim on The Bridge : On being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the twenty-first century
Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013. Softcover. A memoir and meditation on faith, A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-first Century tells a story of transformation and reflection as the author thoughtfully but pointedly deconstructs the widespread misconceptions about Islam, arguably the world's most-misunderstood..... More
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Paperback. Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks..... More
Perfect Strangers (Issue One)
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture, Images and Stories from a Photography Legend
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2019. First Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. Heavy item, extra handling charge for local delivery. Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture is a collection of work by photographer Jim Marshall, who created iconic images of rock 'n' roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. This..... More
Gandhi (A Photographic Story of a Life)
DK Publishing, 2006. Softcover. More
The Portable Anais Nin
San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
Townie: A Memoir
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a...... More
Anton Chekhov and His Times
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995. First U.S. Edition. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Russian by Cynthia Carlile (Reminisces) and Sharon McKee (Letters) Now available for the first time in English in America, these sixty-eight letters and ten essay-length reminiscences trace the development of Chekhov's personality and talent, creating..... More
My War
New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by Tom Brokaw My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney’s World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion..... More
Chinese Days
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1988. First English language edition. Softcover. Translated from the Italian by Kirsten Marnane Romano. More
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Angelica Garnett (cover illustration). Paperback. More
Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1922-1928
New York: Signet Books, 1973. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More
