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
Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1988. Steven Brower (cover design). Trade Paperback. Edited by Avram Yarmolinsky and Baroness Moura Budberg, with a new introduction by Frederick Ewen. Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the revolutionary Russia's greatest literary representative. His extraordinary genius, born of the people and having..... 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
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019. Sushan Chan (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. This is a fascinating, insightful collection of essays by some of the world’s most renowned China experts, who share personal recollections of their time in China—often beginning in the 1970s, when foreigners were..... More
Hong Kong: Small Tune Press, 2020. Stephen Cheng (preface). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. "Wondrous stories as told by the tender souls" https://freaksandgeekshk.com/. More
Hong Kong: Martin & Thomas Ltd, 1984. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Signed by author with a dedication to the previous owner. 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
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from 2CE..... 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
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Tenth Edition. Paperback. Exceptional selections. Abundant teaching resources. Unparalleled value. The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers, and new dynamic..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Tenth Edition. Paperback. A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author on half-title page. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery. Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. Lawrence Ratzkin (jacket design). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government–a response that goes horribly..... More
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Number 49 in the the Chinese Research Monograph series, published by the Institute of East Asian Studies of the University of California. More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2021. Translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Lovell. First Printing. Hardcover. One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest..... More
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