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
Ediciones Arcos. Softcover. No other publication information. In Spanish. English title is The Fountainhead. More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
Hong Kong: 2018. Digital Print. Medium: Graphite pencil on drawing 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..... More
New York/ New Haven: The Jewish Museum/ Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Foreword by Maurice Sendak. With contributions by Robert Cottingham, Edward Sorel, Jeanne Steig and Maggie Steig. The definitive work on the career of the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Known..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed/signed by author. A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone..... 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
New York: The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, 2018. With contributions from Ned Blackhawk and Sylvia Yount. First Printing. Hardcover. Heavy item, extra handling fee for local delivery. A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history This landmark..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. Softcover editions with hardback slipcase. Stock photo. Heavy item; please note additional handling charge. Stories included in the set: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in America Cigars of the Pharaoh The Blue Lotus The Broken Ear The Black Island King Ottokar’s Sceptre..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Jason Cockroft (cover illustration). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Very rare in this edition. The last and final installment in the famed Harry Potter series. This is a Special/Deluxe U.K. Edition with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Thinkers in Ming China turned to syncretism in their restlessness for new religious forms. A leader in this new trend was Lin Chao-en, a religious teacher of the sixteenth century, whose syncretic doctrine of the true Way was..... More
Las Vegas: Tigrefou Editions, 2018. Francis George (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author and photographer. ** Please note additional shipping charges for this over-sized, heavy item. **. In 2015, Judy Choi discovered in a journal the poems of her 15-year old niece, Phoenix. When she first read her..... More
Hong Kong: Pacific Century Publishers/Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Oversized, heavy item; please note additional handling cost. 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
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets..... More
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 1995. Second Edition. Softcover. RARE. You can't have a perfect society without perfect people, and the only perfect people are the ones you can manufacture. The governing body of Olympus is about to bring utopia crashing down around their ears as they seek to regulate the..... More
London: Seagull Books, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Contains a DVD featuring scenes from the author's plays. Since premiering his pioneering linguistic experiment I Love XXX in Beijing nearly twenty-five years ago, Meng Jinghui has been credited with revitalizing Chinese theater by popularizing the avant-garde. Mixing high culture with mass..... More
London: Vintage, 1999. Illustrated by the author. Reprint. Paperback. A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. Aude Van Ryne (cover illustration). Howard Goldblatt (translation). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (April 1, 2000): You may think you're watching Twin Peaks on Chinese television halfway through this rumbustious melodramatic satire by the internationally acclaimed author (1993’s Red Sorghum, the source..... More
Paris: Editions Grasset, 2008. Dorj Tsedevdamba (cover painting). First English Edition. Trade Paperback. "The Green-Eyed Lama" (2008) is an award-winning and best-selling novel written by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Jeff Falt. Originally published in Mongolian, the book chronicles the romance between Sendmaa, a young belle in the countryside, and Baasan, a...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Paul Bacon (jacket design). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed. Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders' commitment..... More
London: William Heinemann, 2018. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Very rare. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Ninth Edition. Paperback. A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the market-leading anthology of American literature. The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The Ninth Edition introduces..... More
London: National Gallery Company, 2019. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. The National Gallery houses a notable collection of pictures associated with the Barbizon School, including works by Courbet, Daubigny, Millet and Rousseau and a significant and representative collection of pictures by Corot, ranging from an..... More
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