New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its..... 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
New York: Pantheon Graphic Library, 1993. Paperback with slipcase. Stock photo. he paperback boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume format, re-released to include a sixteen-page booklet designed by the artist. Acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall..... More
Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1960. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018. Softcover. Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality—not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular..... More
Canada: DC Comics, 2010. Neal Adams (art). First printing. Hardcover. Two legendary figures meet for the first time in this spectacular adventure, as an alien race called the Scrubb demand that Earth's greatest champion battle their world's own greatest fighter. Both Superman and Muhammad Ali step forward -- and to..... More
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
Kentucky: Purple House Press, 2002. Reissue. Hardcover. Why did Miss Twiggley live in a tree? Why did she send her dog, Puss, out to do the shopping? Why did she always run away and hide when people came to visit? And it was rumored that Miss Twiggley had even more..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: The Golden Pond Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 1988 Olympic Games Commemorative Edition. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. ** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 ** Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and..... More
London: Viking, 2019. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Rare. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...' For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat..... 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
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Paul Galdone (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
London: The Folio Society, 1993. Beryl Cook (illustrations). First Folio Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Contains an extract from 'Evelyn Waugh: A Biography' by Christopher Sykes. “A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done” (New Yorker), The Loved One is..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2021. Curated by Benjamin Salmon. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local shipping. Imagine an illegally built mini-city formed of multiple 12-storey blocks, taking up only the area of a sports stadium but home to 60,000 people. What was it like living..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Will Stone (tr.). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Feeling in moments of death-like existence: all humans are worthy of love. Awakening you sense the world's bitterness, in which resides all resolved guilt; your poem an imperfect atonement." --- George Trakl, autumn 1914... More
New York: Harper Design, 2013. Clement Hurd (illustrations). First Printing. Hardcover. Published to commemorate its 75th anniversary, The World Is Round brings back into print the classic story created by Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd. Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round chronicles the..... More
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Juvenile Publishing Company, 1922. Leslie Wilcox. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. 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: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. More
Cleveland: The Cleveland Musuem of Art, 2015. With contributions from Anita Chung. First Edition (presumed). Outsize Hardcover. Heavy item, extra handling fee for local shipping. This handsome volume offers a fresh, comprehensive look at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings. With in-depth study of more than..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co. (HK), 1986. Ding Cong (illustrations); Eugene Yau (cover design). Second Edition. Paperback. This is a revised translation of the original English translation which was first published in England by J.M. Dent in 1957. Both the original and revised translations were prepared by the same individual..... 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
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