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
London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. Noma Bar (cover illustration). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing (Exclusive Signed Edition). Hardcover. Signed by author. With his brand of keenly intelligent humor that ranges from world history to historical politics, sexual politics, mad ancient kings, and chickens with guns, Eddie Izzard has built an extraordinary fan base that transcends..... 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
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1980. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. “My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees all his works available in paperback and is scared more of their content then their price. The appearance of difficulty is part..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his preeminence not only as a discerning judge, but also as one of fiction's most ardent appreciators. In..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1976. First U.S. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. A powerful, stimulating testament, To Jerusalem and Back is a rigorous attempt to come to grips with Israel’s history and future. Immersing himself in the landscape and culture of this “small state in perpetual crisis,” Bellow records..... More
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2011. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Signed by author. Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Lester M. Peterson (jacket drawing). Early Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Rare, early U.S. book club edition. More
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010. First Paperback Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot..... More
New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020. Grant Snider (illustrations). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. It’s no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
London: Harvill Secker, 2018. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by author. Luck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer’s career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a ‘twin-track career’ as novelist and academic but the balancing act was increasingly difficult, and he became..... More
London: Vintage, 2018. Philip Gabriel (tr), Ted Goossen (tr). Eleventh 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: Metropolitan Books, 2012. First US Edition. Sixth Printing. Softcover. Over the past decade, Joe Sacco has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from conflict zones around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one of the..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2007. Edith Grossman (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. Florentino Ariza is a hopeless..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2013. Robin Buss (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. With an Afterword by Tony Judt. The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death..... More
London: Bogle L'Ouverture Publications, 1988. Linda Jones (cover illustration), Mervyn Weir (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Inscribed and signed by the author. With an introduction by Valerie Bloom A collection of 61 poems by the poet and performer; his second. More
Hong Kong: Small Tune Press, 2020. Jeffrey Yeung (illustrations). First Edition. Paperback. In a series of forceful, introspective essays, eleven young journalists examine a city trans- formed beyond recognition: With all-new writing from Holmes Chan, Karen Cheung, Elaine Yu, Sum Lok-kei, Rachel Cheung, Frances Sit, Hsiuwen Liu, Ezra Cheung..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. Sam Houston (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Rare. No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and..... More
London: Profile Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The First Emperor gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying..... More
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