Hong Kong: 2018. Digital Print. Medium: Graphite pencil on drawing paper. Following the successful launch of Hong Kong Noir (Blacksmith Books 2018), a collection of dark fictional stories set in various places in Hong Kong, Bleak House Books asked some local artists to pick their favorite stories from the book..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed/signed by author. A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption—and he plans to take everyone..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1958. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Rare. Number 96 of a limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. A very fine copy of the last book of new poems published during Cummings' lifetime. Preliminary page reads: "The first edition of 95 poems is..... More
New York: Scribner, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,"..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1930. E. McKnight Kauffer (jacket design). Rockwell Kent (illustrations). Hardcover. Modern Library Giant. #G064.1. G4 binding style. Front jacket flap indicates original cover price of $1.75. Last ML Giant title listed inside dust jacket is G68, The Selected Works of Tom Paine. Ad on back..... More
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973. Kurt Vonnegut. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire..... More
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1999. Robert Stone (cover illustration). First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This unique collection of translations of Chinese stories explores the manifestations of "self" and the impact of place upon Chinese identity, found both on the mainland and in other Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong..... More
Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Rare. Translation by Salleh Ben Joned. Latiff Modidin is one of Malyasia's best poets, besides being one of the country's best painters. This is the first book of Latiff's poetry in English translation. 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
Northridge CA: Lord John Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 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: The Folio Society, 2000. Tom Phillips (illustrations). Second Edition. Hardcover. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years..... More
New York: Signet Books, 1959. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signet Books no. D1727. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. From Wikipedia: Mr. Crewe's Career is a 1908 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. The novel tells the story of a railroad lobby's attempts to control the New Hampshire state government using all possible tactics. Churchill's prior..... More
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