World Masters Texts Library: The Federalist Papers (Chinese REVIEW illustrated edition) (Set of 2 Volumes)
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
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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
The Rover Boys at College or The Right Road and the Wrong (The Rover Boys' Series for Young Americans)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with B&W plates. The Rover Boys, or The Rover Boys' Series for Young Americans, was a popular juvenile series written by Arthur M. Winfield, a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer. Thirty titles were published between 1899 and 1926 and the books..... More
Stuff I Saw Yesterday...
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
City Gate, Open Up
New York: New Directions Books, 2017. Jeffrey Yang (tr.). Paperback. In 2001, to visit his sick father, China’s legendary poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over eleven years. The city of his birth, however, had totally changed. “Everything was difficult to recognize, nothing familiar,”..... More
Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee
Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Oversized. Please note additional handling charge. Chen Chong Swee was an important early Singapore artist and educator who made significant contributions to the development of the Singapore and Malaya art scenes. He was amongst the first artists in Singapore to incorporate..... More
The Gist of Origin 1951-1971: An Anthology
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. Ilona Sochynsky (jacket design). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Origin was an American poetry magazine that was founded in 1951 by Cid Corman.The magazine provided an early platform for the work of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Theodore Enslin and other important, ground-breaking..... More
The Geography
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991. Paul E. Kennedy (cover design). Reprint. Softcover. A reprint of Ptolemy's classic text Guide to Geography first published by the New York Public Library in 1932. Translated and edited by Edward Luther Stevenson. With an introduction by Prof. Joseph Fischer. More
Girl
London: Faber and Faber, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. ** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 ** Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and..... More
Rawhide Range
New York: Popular Library, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Popular Library book no. 460 Collection of 10 stories originally published in Collier's Magazine. More
Elmet
London: JM Originals, 2017. Vanessa Lubach (cover illustration). First Edition, Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE ‘A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite..... More
Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book/M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. More
Killing Commendatore: A Novel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2018. Chip Kidd (cover art). First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko..... More
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed..... More
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New York: Viking, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Rare. A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is..... More
The Other Hong Kong Report 1997
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. More
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the CLOUD that fell from the sky
Las Vegas: Tigrefou Editions, 2018. Francis George (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author and photographer. ** Please note additional shipping charges for this over-sized, heavy item. **. In 2015, Judy Choi discovered in a journal the poems of her 15-year old niece, Phoenix. When she first read her..... More
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Seattle, Washington: little bigfoot, 2017. Third Printing. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated and told by debut author Julie Kim, this picture book in a graphic-novel style follows a young Korean girl and boy whose search for their missing grandmother leads them into a world inspired by Korean folklore, complete with mischievous goblins..... More
Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Rochester, New York: BOA Editions, 2000. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Lucille Clifton, one of America's most important and distinguished poets, employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images, and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate..... More
Night of the Moonjellies (25th Anniversary Edition)
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 2017. Hardcover. 25th Anniversary Edition. Young Mark spends a busy, noisy day helping out at Gram’s seaside hot dog stand. After the last customer is served and the grill is scrubbed to a silvery shine, Mark sails off with Gram for a promised surprise..... More
The Forbidden City: The Great Within
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1995. Hu Chui (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
The White Riders (A Romney Marsh Story)
Wendover, Buckinghamshire: John Goodchild Publishers, 1984. Gordon King (cover art). Revised Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1950, then updated and revised by the author for this 1984 edition. More
Dear Hong Kong: Volume 1
Hong Kong: Global Hongkongers, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Dear Hong Kong is a photo book about diversity and identity. This first volume is a snapshot of inspiring people from 80 parts of the world who live in Hong Kong and have contributed to our society. It is a tribute to..... More
