The Bang Bang Birds
London: Pan Books Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Very rare edition. A Philip McAlpine spy story. More about The Bang Bang Birds
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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 about World Masters Texts Library: The Federalist Papers (Chinese REVIEW illustrated edition) (Set of 2...
Chinese Days
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1988. First English language edition. Softcover. Translated from the Italian by Kirsten Marnane Romano. More about Chinese Days
Spain: A History in Art
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). More about Spain: A History in Art
Skinny Dip
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author. Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he’s done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. When..... More about Skinny Dip
Light and Bold
New York: Catalan Communications, 1990. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Translated from the Spanish by David Rosenthal. She is light. The most beautiful woman in the world. An ice-maiden conditioned to feel nothing. He is bold. A beast, a hulk, a killer. A poetic soul trapped in... More about Light and Bold
Beneath the Banyan Tree: My Family Chronicles
Hong Kong: CBL Fung (self published), 2009. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Signed by author (Nelly Fung). Beneath the Banyan Tree is a daughter's personal account of her family's story through four generations and a turbulent era. The tale begins during the Spanish colonial period, and continues through the Philippine Revolution... More about Beneath the Banyan Tree: My Family Chronicles
Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture... More about Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
The Edge
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed/signed by author. A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone..... More about The Edge
For Whom the Bell Tolls
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Front jacket flap indicates a cover price of $2.75. C/R page indicates "A", first printing. More about For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walt & Skeezix: Book One - 1921 & 1922
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Walt & Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, and Book One is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited... More about Walt & Skeezix: Book One - 1921 & 1922
Turner's Early Sketchbooks: Drawings in England, Wales and Scotland from 1789 to 1802
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Turner's Early Sketchbooks: Drawings in England, Wales and Scotland from 1789 to 1802
Our Man in Havana
London: Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. More about Our Man in Havana
The Emperor's New Clothes
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 about The Emperor's New Clothes
A Photographer in Old Peking
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. With a foreword by Wang Gungwu. This rare collection of photographs taken in Peking between 1933 and 1945 provides a fascinating insight into life in Peking in the years preceding the Communist revolution of 1949. The photographer, Hedda... More about A Photographer in Old Peking
The Adventures of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1963. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More about The Adventures of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald
Hong Kong and Macao: A Record of Good Fellowship
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 about Hong Kong and Macao: A Record of Good Fellowship
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1964. Ben Feder, Inc. (jacket design). First American Edition, 3rd ptg. Hardcover. Rare. More about The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Christmas Mystery
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Rosemary Wells. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in Norwegian under the title Julemysteriet. More about The Christmas Mystery
A View To Die For
2018. Digital Print. Medium: Acrylic on watercolour 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 and create cover... More about A View To Die For
Delivering Justice in Qing China: Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court
Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. More about Delivering Justice in Qing China: Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court
One Is Good But Two Are Better
The Vanguard Press, 1956. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Very rare. More about One Is Good But Two Are Better
Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (The d'Antin Manuscript)
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 about Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (The d'Antin Manuscript
The Icelandic Sagas (Complete Two Volume Set)
London: The Folio Society, 1999 (Vol. 1); 2002 (Vol. 2). Simon Noyes (illustrations - vol. 1); John Vernon Lord (illustrations - vol. 2). Vol 1. - First Folio Society Edition, Second Printing; Vol. 2 - First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Rare. Please note additional handling charge for this heavy item... More about The Icelandic Sagas (Complete Two Volume Set
In-Sights: Malaysian Poems
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. An anthology of poems by Malaysian poets and writers, including Muhammad Haji Salleh, Shirley Lim, Wong Phui Nam, Fadzilah Amin, Ee Tiang Hong, A. Ghafar Ibrahim, and others. More about In-Sights: Malaysian Poems
