Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1995. Hu Chui (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). Signed by one of the authors, Caroline Courtauld. Subject to additional handling charge for heavy item. More about The Forbidden City: The Great Within
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This book illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government during the first century BC, the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conservative, idealist and harking back to the past. For the first time an historian of... More about Crisis and Conflict in Han China
Taipei, Taiwan: The National Palace Museum, 1966. Second Edition. Paperback (Outsized). More about Chinese Cultural Art Treasures: National Palace Museum Illustrated Handbook
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 about Sabrina
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Series: Critical Asian Scholarship This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of... More about China Unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author. 18 true stories of those went to live in Shanghai in history. More about Destination Shanghai
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. More about My Life as a Man
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 about The Annotated Big Sleep
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Handwritten inscription and signed by author. More about The Vaudeville Marriage (Poems
London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Published on behalf of the European Science Foundation. More about Foundations and Limits of State Power in China
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1981. Hardcover. Outsized. Extra handling cost for heavy item. In Chinese and English. Contains biographical data of artists whose works are featured in the book. More about Hong Kong Art 1970-80 (Hong Kong Museum of Art 31.7.81 - 18.10.81
San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1973. First Edition. First Printing (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. Published for an exhibition held at the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 16- Sept. 3, 1973. More about The Art of Andrew Wyeth
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1994. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A symposium of essays presented in honor of T. T. Ch'en and F. W. Mote on the occasion of their retirement from the East Asian Studies Department of Princeton University. The participants and contributors are all renowned scholars in... More about The Power of Culture: Studies in Chinese Cultural History
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 about The Sound and the Fury (The Collected Works of William Faulkner
Hong Kong: Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Item descriptions are in Chinese and English. An exhibition of Chinese archaic jades drawn from the collection of Dr Simon Kwan. More about Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection
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