Australia: Penguin Books, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author. Long before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalization. The Ruta de la Plata or "Silver Way" catalyzed economic and cultural... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. Milton Glaser (cover design). First Trade Paperback Edition. Twelfth Printing. Paperback. Book no. N303. First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is a landmark in American literature―a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1965. Crowley (cover art). First Paperback Edition. Third Dell Printing. Paperback. Dell book no. 1921. More
New York: Signet Books, 1959. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signet Books no. D1727. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. Gun Kessle (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. A photographic essay containing 172 photos. Beacon Paperback No. 262. More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Rare. Concerns the historical development of the Korean peninsula up to the introduction of Buddhism in the Fourth centry A.D. More
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The Cultural Revolution in China produced thousands of powerful social and political posters exhorting the Chinese people in a sweeping transformation of Chinese society. These brilliantly colorful images of cultural celebration, industrial development, agricultural production, and revolutionary heroes were displayed... More
New York: The Seabury Press, 1976. First U.S. Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Barbara de Wilde (jacket design). Book Club Edition (see annotation). Hardcover. This is a stated first edition but there is no price indicated on jacket's front flap which seems to suggest it is a book club version of some kind. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. Lawrence Ratzkin (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The seventh Matthew Hope novel. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Paul Galdone (illustrations). First Bantam Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Rare Bantam Little Rooster edition. More
New York: Anchor Books, 1975. First Anchor Press Edition. Paperback. This edition is the first time Sunflower Splendor was published in book form. A hardcover edition was separately published by Indiana University Press, and a Chinese version was published in Hong Kong under the title K'uei Yeh Chi. Sunflower Splendor... More
London: Vintage Books, 2010. Reading Guide Edition. Paperback. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Chip Kidd (book design). First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the... More
New York: Vintage International, 2005. First Vintage International Mas Market Edition. Paperback. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly... More
New York: Vintage International, 2018. First Vintage International Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball... More
New York: Vintage International, 1994. First Vintage International Edition. Fourth Printing. Paperback. When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2014. Chip Kidd (book design). First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names... More
New York: Vintage International, 2017. First Vintage International Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely... More
London: Vintage Books, 2008. Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's... More
London: Vintage Books, 2003. Twenty-Third Printing. Paperback. The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation. The man receives a letter from a friend, enclosing a seemingly innocent photograph of sheep, and... More
London: Vintage Books, 2010. Paperback. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex... More
London: Vintage, 2005. First Vintage Edition. Paperback. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As... More
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