London: One/ Pushkin Press, 2021. First UK edition. Trade Paperback. On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother’s ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions..... 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: Andre Deutsch, 1987. Jenny Tylden-Wright (jacket illustration). First Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Penelope Lively won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An..... More
Hong Kong: Tayo Photo Group Limited Hong Kong, 2006. Daniel Groshong (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover. We have 40 copies of Daniel’s book, Timor-Leste: Land of Discovery (2006), for sale at the bookshop and on our website. 80% of the proceeds from the sale of each book will go to Menzi..... 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: Slightly Foxed, 2019. Quentin Blake (illustrations). Limited Edition. Hardcover. The classic memoir by one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived -- ‘Boy’ by Roald Dahl. Reissued by Slightly Foxed in a beautiful, limited edition (2,000 individually numbered copies) hardcover. Now at Bleak House Books while supplies last... 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: Sceptre, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. “Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2020. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories the very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. A knock on a door that forces a whole community to take flight, an aging womaniser..... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With photographs by Robert Capa During the spring of 1938, a flood of Chinese refugees displaced by the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) converged on the central Yangzi valley tricity complex of Wuhan. For ten remarkable months, in a...... 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
London: Fourth Estate, 2019. First UK Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told..... More
Oxford: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1911. Second Edition. Hardcover. With accompanying notes by C.B. Wheeler Includes essays by Francis Bacon, Abraham Bowley, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Alexander Poe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Charles Lamb William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Softcover/Paperback. This is a boxed set of mini Journey to the West comics, published in Hong Kong between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part one of three. This box contains nine (9) comic books. See..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Softcover/Papberback. This is a boxed set of mini Journey to the West comics, published in Hong Kong between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part three of three. The box contains six (6) comic books. See..... More
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