Hong Kong: 2018. Digital Print. Medium: Graphite pencil on drawing paper. Following the successful launch of Hong Kong Noir (Blacksmith Books 2018), a collection of dark fictional stories set in various places in Hong Kong, Bleak House Books asked some local artists to pick their favorite stories from the book..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2011. Coralie Bickford-Smith (cover design). Hardcover. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola..... More
Berlin/Hong Kong: Sternberg Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. This is A Journal of the Plague Year, published by Sternberg Press in 2015 in conjunction with a 2013 traveling art exhibition of the same name held at Para Site art gallery in Hong Kong, among other places. Through a...... More
Torino, Italy: Einaudi, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. This is a bilingual, Italian/English edition. With a preface in the Italian by Fernanda Pivano Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, and he grew up in the small towns of Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. The author of 40 books of..... More
New York: Popular Library, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Popular Library book no. 460 Collection of 10 stories originally published in Collier's Magazine. More
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. This is a collection of George Orwell's nonfiction works. It includes three full length novels -- The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in Paris and London, and Homage to Catalonia -- and two collections of his essays and articles. More
London: The Folio Society, 1995. David Eccles (illustrations). First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. With an introduction by Frank Delaney and illustrations by David Eccles. Text for King Solomon's Mines is based on the 1905 edition; that of Allan Quatermain on the 1887 first edition; and that of She on the 1896..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, Ltd, 1994. Maki Sasaki (jacket illustration). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is a signed, first U.S. edition. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A...... More
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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Lynd Ward (illustrations). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. From our Instagram post on this title: These beautiful illustrations come from what appears to be a 1942 first edition copy of the classic children’s book, The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1985. Hiroji Kubota (photographs). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. From Publisher's Weekly: The China framed by Kubota's camera lens is neither a collectivist utopia lurching toward a high-tech future nor a consumer society adopting capitalist ways, trends overplayed recently in the Western press..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized). More
London: Wellsweep Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Rare. Translated from the Chinese by Robert Chard. The first English translation of this classic martial arts/fantasy novel. The first volume of the trilogy entitled The Swordsmen's Haven at Willow Lake. More
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2005. John Berger (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. More
New York: A Doubleday Anchor Original/Anchor Books, 1968. Robert Leydenfrost (cover design). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Rare edition. No. A605 Edited by George Dalton Contains some of the most significant essay by the Late Karl Polanyi, an economist whose writings are one of the influential factors in the..... More
Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Comics, 1996. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. Out of print, rare edition. This is a collection of books 1, 2 and 3 of the Dark Horse comic book series Domu: A Child's Dream. A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, silently holds..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First U.K. Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. This is an extremely rare first U.K. edition of the Nobel laureate's debut novel. In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co. (HK), 1987. Shi Guaoliang (illustrations); Li Suk Han (cover design). Paperback. This is the original English translation which was first published in the United States in 1952. A Chinese version of the novel was published in 1980 but was itself a translation from the English..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Gary Jones (photography). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong’s traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face threading and letter..... 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
New York: Square Fish, 2012. Taeeun Yoo (cover illustration). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fifty years ago, Madeleine L'Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time and the wonderful and unforgettable characters Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe. Now their first three adventures are together in one..... More
1969. Saloua Raouda Choucair (illustrations). Softcover. Very very rare. With a foreword by Dr. A/R Yaghi from the University of Jordan. English translation by Frances Fuller, with the original version in Arabic to follow. From our Instragram post on this book, dated 3 April 2019: This is..... More
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 1995. Masamune Shirow. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. Rare. Genre: Cyberpunk manga. Ghost in the Shell, known in Japan as Mobile Armored Riot Police (Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 Hepburn: Kōkaku Kidōtai), is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow, which spawned the media franchise..... More
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