Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee Limited, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. As per c/r page: this is a re-issued edition, limited to 1,050 copies. Original edition printed in China by the North China Daily News. Contains a preliminary note on the 'A D Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in..... 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
San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
London: Faber and Faber/Liberty London, 2019. Duncan Grant (fabric illustration). Hardcover. This is a gift edition re-issue of the modern classic by Anna Burns featuring specially designed fabric-bound boards by Liberty London. From Faber: In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is..... More
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
Hong Kong: Information Services Department, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
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
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
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
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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. Although Tu Fu has been translated often, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’s classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese..... 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
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Housing Authority, 1999. First Edition (presumed). Softcover with slipcase. 2 volume set. More
London: The Folio Society, 1990. Anne Scott (lithographs; Collins); Michael Ayrton (monotypes; Poe). Folio Society Reissue Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Reissue of 1957 Folio Society edition 2 volume set Tales of Mystery and Imagination edited by Herbert van Thal Contains 21 stories, including "William..... More
New York: The Library of America, 2007. First Printing (stated). Hardcover. With this inaugural volume of what will be a series devoted to Edmund Wilson’s work, The Library of America pays tribute to the writer who first conceived the idea of a publishing series dedicated to “bringing out in a...... More
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
Hong Kong: Grace Wu Bruce Co. Ltd, 1995. First Edition (presumed). Paperback (Outsized). More
Taipei, Taiwan: Office of the Military Historian, 1969. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 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
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Softcover. In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by translators on pre-title page. This is the first complete translation into a Western language of Sou-shen Chi, a fourth-century Chinese collection of 464 extraordinary, fantastic, or bizarre items. The subjects of these brief anecdotes and narratives include..... More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Rare. Translation by Salleh Ben Joned. Latiff Modidin is one of Malyasia's best poets, besides being one of the country's best painters. This is the first book of Latiff's poetry in English translation. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2018. Emily Carroll (illustrations). First Edition. Hardcover. The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Gary Jones (photography). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong’s traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face threading and letter..... More
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