Hong Kong: Reel to Reel Institute, 2020. Rick Lo (illustrations). First Edition. Softcover. A storybook that introduces the origins and technological development of the cinema! There is a rich collection of historical examples from the East and the West, which provides a simple and vivid description on the early film..... 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
New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Very rare. Translated, with Notes, by Wing-tsit Chan. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Twelfth Printing. Trade Paperback. Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception—the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Ramon Myers, one of the authors. The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland..... 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
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. Hardcover with Slipcase. Stock photos shown. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2017. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. How does one survive when all hope is lost? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For..... 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: New Directions Publishing, 2000. Peter Mendelsund (cover design). Trade Paperback. Perfectly titled, Vertigo —W.G. Sebald’s marvelous first novel — is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys across Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1996. Peter Mendelsund (cover design). Trade Paperback. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 1998. Peter Mendelsund (cover design). Trade Paperback. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2004. Jan Peter Tripp (lithographs). Softcover. Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp were friends from their schooldays. Unrecounted combines 33 of what W.G. Sebald called his “micro-poems”—miniatures as unclassifiable as all his works—with 33 lithographs by the..... More
London: Picador, 2019. Trade Paperback. What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. Born at the famous Café Voltaire in Zurich in 1916 from the avant-garde Dada movement, Surrealism aimed to free the creative act from rational thought. Max Ernst, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. Softcover. Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the..... 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
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous work. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a “fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale..... More
London: Vintage Classics, 2012. Peter de Seve (cover illustration), Megan Wilson (cover design). Trade Paperback. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2018. Peter Mendelsund (cover design). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a...... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. Joe Maclaren (cover illustration). Paperback. A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American literature, filled with..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1992. Chip Kidd (cover design). Trade Paperback. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel’s evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia’s leaders to a newly elected president..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. Trade Paperback. Edited with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Trade Paperback. In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences..... More
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013. Christopher King (cover design and illustration). Trade Paperback. “There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.” —Hannah Arendt In these interviews—including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur..... More
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