Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee Limited, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. As per c/r page: this is a re-issued edition, limited to 1,050 copies. Original edition printed in China by the North China Daily News. Contains a preliminary note on the 'A D Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in..... More
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2017. John Jennings. First Edition. Hardcover. Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release..... More
Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Paul Galdone (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More
New York: Golden Press, 1966. Shiba Productions. First Edition. Hardcover. Board book. 3-D Holographic image insert on front cover. Color, photographic illustrations using posed dolls. Rare. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the..... More
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The first general account of Chinese society and history in the period before the country's unification in 221 BC. More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Juvenile Publishing Company, 1922. Leslie Wilcox. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Arthur Rackham (illustrations). First Folio Society Edtion. Hardcover. With an introduction by Henry Williamson. An immediate success when if was first published in 1653, Walton’s classic celebrtion of the joys of fishing continues to captivate anglers and nature lovers with its timeless advice and..... More
Hong Kong: Noticias de Macau, 1960. Revised Edition. Paperback. First edition of this title published in 1951. Appears to be a special supplement to the publication Noticias de Macau. Contents printed in the two column newspaper style. As stated on the title page: "A Tribute to the memory..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1968. Pauline Baynes (cover illustration). First U.K. Paperback Edition, Twelfth Printing. Softcover. Very rare. From our Instagram post for this book, dated 27 March 2019: This is the first time Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings series was collected into a single softcover volume..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Record of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu) is a travel journal written by Fan Chengda, the famous government official and writer of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). In it, Fan recounts his boat journey from Chengdu (Sichuan) to..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Contains 4 stand alone maps in pocket attached to inside of Vol. II; four sheets meant to be placed together to make a full, complete map. NOT ex-library. Very rare. Part of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph series, Volume VIII and..... More
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973. Kurt Vonnegut. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire..... More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Originally published in 1907, The Travels of Lao Ts'an is a novel about a traveling doctor and his journeys throughout China in which he meets new people, rights wrongs, and ponders about the future of China. The..... More
London: Angus & Robertson, 1983. Reprint of 1977 Edition. Hardcover. Nonsense poems in French, when pronounced, sound like English nursery rhymes "THE MOST ECCENTRIC, ENTERTAINING AND ENIGMATICALLY ESOTERIC BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF HUMOUR AND PUBLISHING! Years of scholarly study have been spent analysing these ancient French rhymes..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents an account of the Chinese diaspora since the sixteenth century, discussing why the Chinese people left their country, their experiences of exploitation and discrimination, and their ambitions and successes. More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets..... More
Hong Kong: Licht Ltd., 2017. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Hong Kong’s shop cats are the little emperors of their retail kingdoms. When photographer Marcel Heijnen moved to the city he was immediately drawn to these photogenic mouse-catchers, and this series is the charming result and has been taking the world by..... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1894. Frank M. Senior, Calvin H. Warren. First U.S. Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Contains a brief introductory "A Whisper to the Reader" and a "Final Remarks" by Mark Twain. Please note additional shipping costs for heavy item. Collection of two stories: "Pudd'nhead Wilson" starts..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This book illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government during the first century BC, the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conservative, idealist and harking back to the past. For the first time an historian of..... More
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