Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More
New York: The Macmillan Company. Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. No date or year of publication indicated. First edition of this title was published in U.S. and U.K. in 1918. As an advance review copy, this edition mostly likely predates the 1918 publication year. 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
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: Arts and Culture Outreach, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. “A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a bat feasts on apples in a supermarket…to these underwhelming animals..... 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
Louisville, Kentucky: The Golden Pond Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 1988 Olympic Games Commemorative Edition. More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition. Hardback. "Gasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning." -Time.com Walt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924. King was the first cartoonist..... More
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book/M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. 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
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1982. Softcover (Outsized). More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions The study traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth centuries, looking at the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies..... 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
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. The origins of the Chan-kuo Ts’e (Intrigues of the warring states) as an entity can be traced to a palace librarian at the Han Court, Liu Hsiang (76–6 BCE), who compiled and edited the..... More
New York: Everyman's Library, 2019. First Everyman's Library Edition. Hardcover. “America was never innocent.” Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the great events of an incendiary era. It’s a tour..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. Laura Ng and John Minford (eds.), Wendy Chan, Jasmine Tong Man and David Morgan (trs.). First Edition. Hardcover. HONG KONG LITERATURE SERIES Series Editor: John Minford Leung Ping-kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the..... More
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed..... More
Hong Kong: Licht Ltd., 2017. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Hong Kong’s shop cats are the little emperors of their retail kingdoms. When photographer Marcel Heijnen moved to the city he was immediately drawn to these photogenic mouse-catchers, and this series is the charming result and has been taking the world by..... 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
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001. Charlotte Strick (jacket design). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare in this edition. Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic..... More
New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2015. Third Printing. Hardcover. Star Wars—the original trading card series from Topps first published in 1977 and 1978—is reprinted here in its entirety for the first time, featuring all five sets of collectible cards and stickers. This deluxe compilation includes the fronts and backs of all..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2018. Circle of Jacques-Louis David (jacket art). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. ’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent..... More
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