Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1971. Francis Braun (cover design). First Edition. First Printing of 1000 copies. Hardcover. In 1950, the Communist Party brought in a new marriage law in China. In this book the author, both a sinologist and lawyer, seeks to interpret the law and its impact..... 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
London: The Folio Society, 1999 (Vol. 1); 2002 (Vol. 2). Simon Noyes (illustrations - vol. 1); John Vernon Lord (illustrations - vol. 2). Vol 1. - First Folio Society Edition, Second Printing; Vol. 2 - First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Rare. Please note additional handling charge for this heavy item..... More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. An anthology of poems by Malaysian poets and writers, including Muhammad Haji Salleh, Shirley Lim, Wong Phui Nam, Fadzilah Amin, Ee Tiang Hong, A. Ghafar Ibrahim, and others. 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
London: Donald Moore Books/ Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965. Ian Graham (photos). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). With contributions in the text by: Mortimer Wheeler, Vera S Katrak, J. Burton-Page, Jacquetta Hawkes, D.L. Snellgrove, A.H. Christie, S.H. Hansford, John Figgess. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Yamamoto Shunsho (woodcut illustrations). First U.S. Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world’s first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era..... More
London: Heinemann (Afircan Writers Series), 1991. Angela J. Hogg (cover illustration). First Edition. Paperback. Set in Southern Africa, this powerful collection of short stories highlights Nadine Gordimer's outstanding ability to pierce the core of the human condition. Personal experiences are set against the turmoil of a violent world where the..... More
San Francisco, California: Viz Communications, Inc., 1990. Jiroh Taniguchi (art). First U.S. Edition. First Printing. Softcover. With an essay by Fred Burke. More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2018. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. As reviewed in the Guardian on June 2, 2018 by Chris Ware: The cartoonist Nick Drnaso has produced an extraordinary – and extraordinarily upsetting – novel. His first book, Beverly, a collection of interrelated short fiction published in 2016..... More
Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1984. Hardcover (Outsized). Extra handling charge for heavy item. Stock image shown. A collaboration among the following museums: Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Art Institute of Chicago / Reunion des Musees Nationaux Hardcover edition of this book limited to 7,500..... More
Tokyo: The Yoseido Gallery, 1969. Paperback. Staple-bound. A catalog of artistic works with images, some in color. More
New York: Signet Books, 1959. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signet Books no. D1727. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. John Woodcock (jacket design). Collected Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Very rare. A rare edition of William Faulkner’s crowning achievement, The Sound and the Fury, published by London-based Chatto & Windus in 1978. Starting in 1966 Chatto started to reissue Faulkner’s works as part of a...... More
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