Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2003. Jason Lutes. New Edition. Paperback. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide, and he's hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. When Simon Kuznets was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971, his citation read, in part, "...his empirically based scholarly work has led to a new and more profound insight into the economic and social structure and the... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1966. Miklos Pinther (endpaper map), La Liberte (design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Alta Ann Parkins. Reprint. Paperback. More than 500 recipes from the subtle, spicy, varied cuisines of the Middle East, ranging from inexpensive but tasty peasant fare to elaborate banquet dishes. V-948. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. "An Essay on the Principle of Population; or A View of its past and present Effects on Human Happiness; With an Inquiry into our Prospects respecting the future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it occasions." Cambridge Texts in the History... More
New York: The Mysterious Press (Warner Books), 1996. First US Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1978. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Undated. Not specified. Hardcover. Richard Hannay is tasked to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and takes off on a hair-raising journey through German-occupied Europe to meet up with his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot in Constantinople, where they must thwart the... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Undated. Not specified. Hardcover. The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and... More
New York: Anchor Books, 1991. First U.S. Trade Paperback Edition, Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. Originally published in 1956 in Arabic under the title Bayn al-Qasrayn. Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered... More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China - The Ch'ing Dynasty held from Dec. 16, 1980 to Aug. 30, 1981. More
Taipei, Taiwan: Linking Publishing, Co., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Collection of essays by Professor Ch'en Chieh-hsien of National Taiwan University concerning the study of Ch'ing archival material. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1964. Griffith Foxley (cover art). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Contains an ad on last page for Slogum House by Mari Sandoz. # D117. More
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, Ltd, 1984. T. Miyashita (jacket design). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. This is Volume 1 of a 2 volume set issued by Kodansha, which contains Parts I and II of the original text, which was published in Japanese as Nireke no hitobito. Translated by Dennis Keene... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. First Trade Paperback Edition (presumed), Fifth Printing. Paperback. Rare edition. The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. Chuang Tzu... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. First Hardcover Edition (presumed), Third Printing. Hardcover. This edition is revised and expanded from the one that was used as part of the Columbia College Oriental Humanities program. The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand... More
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents an account of the Chinese diaspora since the sixteenth century, discussing why the Chinese people left their country, their experiences of exploitation and discrimination, and their ambitions and successes. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Stanford Studies in the Civilization of Eastern Asia. More
New York: Anchor Books, 1992. First Anchor Books Edition. Trade Paperback. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a.... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico... More
New York: Berkley Publishing Corp. 1964. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1965. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction... More
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