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
New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. Andrea Cardenas (cover design). Reissue. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by M.F.K. Fisher Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. Olga Grlic (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Softcover. Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like people in the West? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else? This classic presentation..... More
New York/ New Haven: The Jewish Museum/ Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Foreword by Maurice Sendak. With contributions by Robert Cottingham, Edward Sorel, Jeanne Steig and Maggie Steig. The definitive work on the career of the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Known..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. Trade Paperback. Edited with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperback, 2019. Lauren Peters-Collaer (cover design). First Simon & Schuster paperback edition. Paperback. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. David Mann (cover design). New UK Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson and a foreword by Sheila McGrath Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Capt. A.C. Neilson RHKR(V) (cover design). Republished Edition. Hardcover. On the same day as the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Among the colony’s garrison were regiments from Britain, Canada and India as well as men..... More
New York: One World, 2018. Shyama Golden (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative..... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2020. Max Dalton (Illustrations), Danielle Deschenes (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An official Mister Rogers guided journal that helps families connect with their community, featuring playful prompts that encourage everyone to be the best neighbor they can be! From everyone’s favorite television host..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2011. First Penguin Classics Edition. Tenth Printing. Paperback. A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published in Penguin Modern Classics. Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism..... 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
London: Penguin Books, 2016. Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing: a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2010. Joe McLaren and David Pearson (cover artwork). Paperback. Part of the Penguin Great Ideas series In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and..... More
UK: Watermark Publications, 2014. New and expanded edition. Outsize hardcover with paper slipcase. Very heavy book, additional HKD$30 shipping. After several failed attempts, Kowloon Walled City was finally demolished 20 years ago, leaving behind a legacy of fascination that continues to grow, fuelled in part by the extraordinary communitys many..... 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
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. Helge Dascher (tr.), Rob Aspinall (tr.). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. And the award for worst dad ever still goes to . . . The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is the bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle’s final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations..... More
London: Vintage, 2013. Paperback. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2017. Paperback. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. The book you are holding contains secrets and stories about Hong Kong that have never before been published. Prepare to have your preconceived notions of this bustling Asian financial hub butchered as you journey through crevices, enter hidden portals, clamber..... More
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