Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More
London: Penguin Classics, 2011. Coralie Bickford-Smith (cover design). Hardcover. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola..... More
Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Katya Mezhibovskaya (jacket design). First U.S. Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor” (The New York Times). I...... 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
2018. Digital Print. Medium: Watercolor, acrylic, marker. 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 and create cover art..... More
Torino, Italy: Einaudi, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. This is a bilingual, Italian/English edition. With a preface in the Italian by Fernanda Pivano Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, and he grew up in the small towns of Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. The author of 40 books of..... More
London: Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. More
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1962. John Heseltine (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Ian Stuart also known as Alistair MacLean. The Satan Bug tells the story of a super-virus developed by the British military that falls into the hands of some unscrupulous individuals who use it to..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Agnes Pinder Davis (cover illustration). First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by author. Tucked away in the City of London, lies a dingy, almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement. Here can be found the headquarters of Twigg & Dersingham..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co. (HK), 1987. Shi Guaoliang (illustrations); Li Suk Han (cover design). Paperback. This is the original English translation which was first published in the United States in 1952. A Chinese version of the novel was published in 1980 but was itself a translation from the English..... More
London: Bogle L'Ouverture Publications, 1988. Linda Jones (cover illustration), Mervyn Weir (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Inscribed and signed by the author. With an introduction by Valerie Bloom A collection of 61 poems by the poet and performer; his second. More
1969. Saloua Raouda Choucair (illustrations). Softcover. Very very rare. With a foreword by Dr. A/R Yaghi from the University of Jordan. English translation by Frances Fuller, with the original version in Arabic to follow. From our Instragram post on this book, dated 3 April 2019: This is..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. Irene von Treskow (jacket illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Handwritten inscription and signed by author. More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Paperback/Softcover. Staple-bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong between between 1959 and 1960. There are three parts to the series, and this is part two of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books. See..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Pushed to breaking point, Cara Burrows abandons her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can’t afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Gail Doobinin (jacket design). First U.S. Edition (stated), Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Book 1 of 4 in the Twilight Series Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she..... 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: 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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