Hong Kong: A Renditions Book/The Chinese University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The song lyric (ci), which began as a form of minor divertissement in the urban pleasure quarters of eighth and ninth century China, evolved into a major, and then dominant, poetic form over the four centuries that..... More
New York: New Directions Book, 2019. First New Directions Clothbound Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz. Edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser. Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition, Fourth Printing. Softcover. In this first of a planned five-volume set, 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 Hsi-men Ch'ing, a...... 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
London: Serpent's Tail, 2018. Joe Wilson/Debut Art (illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financial Times ● Minneapolis Star Tribune ● NPR..... 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: 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
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First U.K. Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. This is an extremely rare first U.K. edition of the Nobel laureate's debut novel. In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England..... 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
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2011. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award–winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self—and its “clear, unspeakable joy”—with memories both..... More
London: Titan Books, 2020. Paul Mann (cover painting), Robert Gale and Denna So'oteh (interior illustrations). First Hard Case Crime Edition. Hardcover. Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and..... 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, 2013. Ninth Edition. Paperback. The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than..... 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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. Gerald Grace (cover art). First Edition. Third Impression. Hardcover. More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2016. Trade Paperback. Sold as a set only. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three..... More
New York: Random House, 1990. Milton Glaser (jacket design). Facsimile of the First Edition. Hardcover. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. gray318 (cover design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses..... More
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