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: Popular Library, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Popular Library book no. 460 Collection of 10 stories originally published in Collier's Magazine. More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, Ltd, 1994. Maki Sasaki (jacket illustration). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is a signed, first U.S. edition. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A...... More
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, 1952. Barye Phillips, L.R. Summers (cover art). Softcover. Rare. First ever issue of this magazine. First issue of this long-lived magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Front cover art by Barye Phillips and L. R. Summers; rear cover color photograph by Frank Lerner. Includes "Six and Ten..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Chip Kidd (jacket design). First U.S. Edition, Second Printing (stated). Hardcover. Here is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at..... 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
London: The Folio Society, 1999 (Vol. 1); 2002 (Vol. 2). Simon Noyes (illustrations - vol. 1); John Vernon Lord (illustrations - vol. 2). Vol 1. - First Folio Society Edition, Second Printing; Vol. 2 - First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Rare. Please note additional handling charge for this heavy item..... 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
Wendover, Buckinghamshire: John Goodchild Publishers, 1984. Gordon King (cover art). Revised Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1950, then updated and revised by the author for this 1984 edition. More
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Kay Nielsen (illustrations). First Printing. Hardcover. The classic collection of 15 Norse fairy tales with illustrations by legendary children's book illustrator, Kay Nielsen. Text of this edition is based on the 1914 Hodder & Stoughton edition. 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
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
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