Hong Kong: Rock Lion, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy item, an additional HKD30 handling fee will be charged for local delivery. For the entirety of the protests — from the early vast marches to the violent police arrests to the vandalism and the eventual ballot box victory — some of..... More
Hong Kong: A Renditions Book/The Chinese University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The song lyric (ci), which began as a form of minor divertissement in the urban pleasure quarters of eighth and ninth century China, evolved into a major, and then dominant, poetic form over the four centuries that..... More
Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1988. First English language edition. Softcover. Translated from the Italian by Kirsten Marnane Romano. More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. First Paperback Edition. The collected edition of the international cult comic series “Charming and weird.”–Paste Anouk Ricard’s bold and colorful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly realistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna..... More
Ediciones Arcos. Softcover. No other publication information. In Spanish. English title is The Fountainhead. More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma. “It is more than..... 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
Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. More
Louisville, Kentucky: The Golden Pond Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 1988 Olympic Games Commemorative Edition. More
Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. Agha Ali (tr.). Paperback. Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of listeners..... More
Portland: Pomegranate Kids, 2011. Edward Gorey (drawings). Boxset, hardcover in slipcase. The Treehorn Trilogy contains three well-loved stories chronicling the trials of Treehorn, a young boy with a talent for getting into and out of (and sometimes right back into) unusual situations. The Shrinking of Treehorn finds him..... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2020. Max Dalton (Illustrations), Danielle Deschenes (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An official Mister Rogers guided journal that helps families connect with their community, featuring playful prompts that encourage everyone to be the best neighbor they can be! From everyone’s favorite television host..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Odyr (illustrations). First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. The first ever graphic novel version of Animal Farm - a Times Book of the Year Animal Farm is the story of what happens when the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, and how their revolution..... 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
London: Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. 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., 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
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: 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: 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
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First U.K. Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. This is an extremely rare first U.K. edition of the Nobel laureate's debut novel. In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England..... More
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
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 2000. Leonard Kessler (illustrations). Reissue. Hardcover. 50th Anniversary Edition. Mr. Pine lived on Vine Street in a little white house. “A white house is fine,” said Mr. Pine, “but there are FIFTY white houses all in a line on Vine Street. How can I tell which..... More
Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1989. Trade Paperback. Rare. Monograph Series No. 24 The Qianfulun 潛夫論 "Comments of a Recluse" is a philosophical and political tractate written by the Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE) scholar Wang Fu 王符. Wang did not want to climb..... More
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