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
St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Douglas Lancashire and Peter Hu Kuo-chen, S.J. Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610) pioneered the modern cultural and religious encounter between China and Europe. Jonathan Spence in his latest book The Memory Palace..... 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
New York: Pocket Books, 1965. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Very rare. No. 75070 Translated by Naomi Walford. More
Apex, North Carolina: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group, 2018. Frances Alvarez (illustrations). First Printing. Hardcover. Based on a story written by the Philippine Eagle Foundation, award winning author Minfong Ho weaves a lovely tale of hope for the critically endangered majestic Philippine Eagle, the national bird of the Philippines. Frances..... 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
New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2018. Paperback. The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A masterpiece of..... 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. Shorter Ninth Edition. Paperback. A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the market-leading anthology The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Ninth Edition, features a cover-to-cover revision. General Editor..... 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
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can’t afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find..... More
London: Paddleless Press, 1995. Comic Company (cover design). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Powerful, beautiful and not yet deaf to a catchy melody, Victoria Init - the consort of a middling Philippine politician - should be entering the prime of life as sleek and satiated as..... More
Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies / University of Hawaii, 2005. Santos Barbasa Jr. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. A review of the book from the Japan Times by Donald Richie: Relations between Japan and China may be troubled right now, but then they often have..... More
New York: Random House, 1990. Milton Glaser (jacket design). Facsimile of the First Edition. Hardcover. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal..... More
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