Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2017. Agnes Shuk-mei Ku (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). "This book begins with personal experience and points to our common future. Through images and words, it expresses my care and love for my mother and allows me to share my observations, feelings and ideas about... More about Where Time Turns Black
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More about Cry, the Beloved Country
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 about A View of Venice
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965. First New Berkley Medallion Edition (12th printing). Paperback. Berkley Medallion book # F1016. An award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in... More about Eleven Blue Men and other Narratives of Medical Detection
London: Eskenazi, 2016. Wang Yan (photos). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). Catalog of paintings by the artist. Text in Chinese and English. More about Recent Paintings by Zeng Xiaojun
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Book Centre Ltd, 1997. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). Includes a free standing insert about a T.C. Lai exhibition. The second collection of the artist's paintings, reproduced in color. More about Hong Kong Rhapsody: The Art of T.C. Lai
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this second 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, upwardly... More about The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Two: The Rivals
Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. More about Studies in Greek and Roman History
New York: The Mysterious Press (Warner Books), 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. More about The Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction (Special Golden Anniversary Edition with a new...
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Paul Galdone (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More about Anatole and the Poodle (An Anatole the Mouse Magnifique Book
云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More about A Study in Naxi Pictography (纳西象形文字谱
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition. Hardback. "Gasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning." -Time.com Walt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924. King was the first cartoonist... More about Walt & Skeezix: Book Two - 1923 & 1924
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Trade Paperback. This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives... More about Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Outsized. More about Turner's Colour Sketches, 1820-34
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2014. Chip Kidd (book design). First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names..... More about Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the... More about Men Without Women
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
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More about The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Seventh Impression. Hardcover. More about Milly-Molly-Mandy Again (Milly-Molly-Mandy Series No. 51
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 about the CLOUD that fell from the sky
New York: New Directions Books. Wango Weng (deocrative calligraphy). First Edition (presumed), Third Printing (stated). Hardcover. No year of publication indicated. Includes poetry by Tu Fu, Mei Yao Ch'en, Ou Yang Hsiu, Su Tung P'o, The Poetess Li Ch'ing Chao, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, The Poetess Chu Shu... More about One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
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
France: Les Cahiers Forces Vives, 1956. Le Corbusier. Second Edition. Softcover. Contains a folded, two page insert. Text is in French. More about Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut a Ronchamp
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed... More about Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. More about Delivering Justice in Qing China: Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court
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