Hong Kong: Orientations Magazine, 1996. Softcover (Outsized). Contributors include: Wang Shixiang, Sarah Handler, Craig Clunas, Tseng Yuho Ecke, Grace Wu Bruce, Klaas Ruitenbeek, Lark Mason, Tian Jiaqing, Curtis Evarts, Christopher Cooke, Robert Piccus and Ronald Longsdorf. More
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. 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
London: Penguin Books, 2003. Softcover. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION: The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the..... More
Hong Kong: (Self-published), 2019. Austin Tang (Photographs). First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman’s masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. 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: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. More
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
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Walt & Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, and Book One is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. This is a collection of George Orwell's nonfiction works. It includes three full length novels -- The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in Paris and London, and Homage to Catalonia -- and two collections of his essays and articles. More
Taipei, Taiwan: Office of the Military Historian, 1969. Revised Edition. Hardcover. More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, Ltd, 1994. Maki Sasaki (jacket illustration). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is a signed, first U.S. edition. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A...... More
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
London: Wellsweep Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Rare. Translated from the Chinese by Robert Chard. The first English translation of this classic martial arts/fantasy novel. The first volume of the trilogy entitled The Swordsmen's Haven at Willow Lake. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang Through the Song is a study of emerging kinship structures in a central coastal Fujian province from the 9th..... More
Aberdeen, Hong Kong: South China Photo-Process Printing Co., 1969. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Appears to be self-published without a publication date. Handwritten dedication to the previous owners dated 1969, possibly by author. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of government recruitment. More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. 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
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. 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
Norwich: Galley Beggar Press, 2019. Limited Edition (500 copy print run). Softcover. Signed, 500-copy limited edition. Very rare. Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Winner of the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent..... More
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