A View of Venice
Olivetti, 1972. Lord Snowdon (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Color photographs by Lord Snowdon. Introduction in Italian and English by Bruno Visentini. Text in Italian and English by Derek Hart. More
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A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman’s masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman..... More
'Views' a.k.a. 'The Quintessence of Dust'
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
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
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
A Brush With Hong Kong 1997 (An Artist's Street-Life Journal)
Hong Kong: AT ONE Productions Limited, 1997. Limited Edition. Softcover. Oversize. Please note additional charges for heavy/oversize item. This is a signed, limited edition (no. 537). More
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt..... More
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
Portland Street at Night (砵蘭街之夜)
2018. Digital Print. Medium: Watercolor, acrylic, marker. 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 art..... More
From Shelter to Home: 45 Years of Public Housing Development in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Housing Authority, 1999. First Edition (presumed). Softcover with slipcase. 2 volume set. More
95 poems
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1958. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Rare. Number 96 of a limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. A very fine copy of the last book of new poems published during Cummings' lifetime. Preliminary page reads: "The first edition of 95 poems is..... More
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
The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
Washington DC: Island Press, 2014. Cover art and design by Grady Klein. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Climate change is no laughing matter-but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The..... More
King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain, and She (Three Volume Set)
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
My House Has Two Doors
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First U.S. Edition (stated). Hardcover. Signed by author. Very rare. Includes both parts of Han Suyin's autobiography: My House Has Two Doors (1949-1965) and Phoenix Moon (1966-1979). More
The Adventures of Tintin: The Shooting Star
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More
Les Aventures de Tintin: Coke En Stock
Paris: Casterman, 1958. First French Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. More
Picasso Intime - Collection Maya Ruiz-Picasso The Centenary of the Birth of Picasso - Hong Kong Museum of Art (18.12.82 - 19.1.83) (Catalog of the Exhibition)
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized). More
The Other Hong Kong Report 1997
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. More
Out of Africa
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
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
Breakfast of Champions
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
A Place of One's Own: Stories of Self in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. Robert Stone (cover illustration). First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This unique collection of translations of Chinese stories explores the manifestations of "self" and the impact of place upon Chinese identity, found both on the mainland and in other Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong..... More
Fables of Dawn: Selected Poems
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. More
A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
