Hong Kong: Arts and Culture Outreach, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. “A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a bat feasts on apples in a supermarket…to these underwhelming animals..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1992. Paperback (Outsized). Signed by the artist. Includes a large color slide (20 x 25 cm) of Jacklin's painting, Sun and Rain Over Sixth Avenue, in a clear plastic protective folder that is affixed to the binding between front cover and first page. Published..... More
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Jeff Cosloy (jacket design). First Edition (presumed), Fifth Printing. Hardcover. The British opium trade along China’s seacoast has come to symbolize China’s century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered..... More
Hong Kong: Victionary, 2020. Miss Black Cat 黑貓小姐 (words), Don Mak 麥震東 (story, concept, illustrations). First Edition. Hardcover. A visual memoir like no other, Once Upon A Hong Kong is a stirring collection of personal work by local artist-illustrator Don Mak which captures everyday life in an ever-changing metropolis. Each..... 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
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Paul Galdone (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
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
London: Penguin Classics, 2007. Paperback. "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama." This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom..... More
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 1964. Tom Vroman (illustrations). Reissue. Hardcover. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris’s bed. They talked of Chris’s friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. “Alexander was a pretty bad horse today,” Chris said. “He wouldn’t eat..... 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 Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The first English language biography ever published on We Cheng (580-643), chief adviser to T'ang T'ai-tsung, reputed founder of the T'ang dynasty. More
New York: Everyman's Library, 2019. First Everyman's Library Edition. Hardcover. “America was never innocent.” Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the great events of an incendiary era. It’s a tour..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Eighteenth Impression. Hardcover. More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Seventh Impression. Hardcover. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Thinkers in Ming China turned to syncretism in their restlessness for new religious forms. A leader in this new trend was Lin Chao-en, a religious teacher of the sixteenth century, whose syncretic doctrine of the true Way was..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1980. Peter Pendrey (lino-cuts). First Folio Society Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. From our Instagram post for this book, dated 11 April 2019: Karen Blixen in ‘Out of Africa’: >>>The ideas of justice of Europe and Africa are not the same and those of the..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The book is a study on the administration of the Tung regime including Tung Chee-hwa's leadership and various branches of his government as well as the bureaucracy. It focuses on how Hong Kong has been governed since 1997 in..... More
Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Licht Ltd, 2020. Stephen Case (illustrations), Aki Leung (Cantonese text). First Edition. Hardcover. Meet Spot, the cheeky cartoon cat. The ginger moggy leaps from page to page as he recounts daily life in a traditional Chinese shop. This delightful book spans Stephen Case’s cracking illustrations alongside Marcel..... More
Hong Kong: Chinese Whiskers / Licht Ltd, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. Grittier than Shop Cats and Market Cats, Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen explores another quirky aspect of Hong Kong's culture in Garage Dogs. The dogs' gruffer yang to his cats' fluffier yin reveal and unapologetically masculine world of car parts..... More
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. Second Revised Edition. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. More
St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-chen, S.J. Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610) pioneered the modern cultural and religious encounter between China and Europe. Jonathan Spence in his latest book The Memory Palace..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Contains a complete English translation of Pan Chao's Lessons for Women 女誡. More
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