Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Mega-Tokyo, 2031. The Great Kanto earthquake six years earlier has left scars the city won't soon forget. Even as its glorious Genom tower rises higher with repairs, in its shadow creeps a new wave of crime, a sign that beneath..... More
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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Val Biro (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an..... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2017. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden..... More
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Oversized. Please note additional handling charge. Chen Chong Swee was an important early Singapore artist and educator who made significant contributions to the development of the Singapore and Malaya art scenes. He was amongst the first artists in Singapore to incorporate..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1985. Zhang Tingquan (tr.), Hu Genkang (tr.). First Edition (stated). Paperback. A leading Chinese geographer and his colleagues discuss the country's physiognomy with special reference to farm production. 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
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
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, 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 Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... More
New York: Aperture Foundation, 1972. Softcover. When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence—even a legend—among serious photographers, although only a small number of her pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972, and the..... 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: The Mysterious Press (Warner Books), 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 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: Serpent's Tail, 2018. Joe Wilson/Debut Art (illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune ● NPR..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 2002. Hardcover. With an introduction by Anita Silvey Ezra Jack Keats is widely acknowledged as one of the first people to feature realistic, friendly, multi-ethnic urban settings in his picture books-forever changing the landscape of children’s literature in the process. Now this beautiful collection..... More
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
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
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1961. First UK Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: The Modern Library, 1930. E. McKnight Kauffer (jacket design). Rockwell Kent (illustrations). Hardcover. Modern Library Giant. #G064.1. G4 binding style. Front jacket flap indicates original cover price of $1.75. Last ML Giant title listed inside dust jacket is G68, The Selected Works of Tom Paine. Ad on back..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized). More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The Ili Crisis provides historical perspective for understanding Sino-Russian tensions in the border areas. Dr. Hsu investigates the reasons for Russian occupation of Ili (Kuldja) in Sinkiang, in the light of the intensified Russian advance into Central Asia in the mid-19th..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Jason Cockroft (cover illustration). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Very rare in this edition. The last and final installment in the famed Harry Potter series. This is a Special/Deluxe U.K. Edition with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page. More
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
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. More
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