Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press, 2011. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. What do we think we desire? What do we truly desire? These are the two competing forces underlying Xu Xi’s latest fiction collection Access. These thirteen tales are at once acerbic and heartbreaking, directing our gaze at the incongruities of..... More
Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press, 2019. Manuela de Gioia (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Gathered in this book are nineteen tales of queer lives in Asia: stories of humour and heartbreak; magic and murder; love, lust and living happily ever after. Meet an altar boy in Davao City, a...... More
Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press, 2012. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. We now know that people are trying to reproduce online much of what they do offline. So why is it that mediation is only a very small part of Buddhist Internet activity? How can this be so when the Internet..... More
Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press, 2012. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited to a party in Beijing but had to make up a brand-new identity for..... More
Hong Kong: Signel 8 Press (Lightning Originals), 2014. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. An action-packed spy thriller in the tradition of Robert Ludlum, Jason Bourne, Len Deighton, and Barry Eisler, Smokescreen is a compelling read filled with espionage activities and deception. At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran..... More
Worcester: 3DTotal Publishing, 2016. Reprint. Softcover. Concepts are where all great ideas begin. Whether scribbled in a sketch pad or on a napkin, concepts are a way for artists to develop their skills and discover interesting shapes and forms that can be developed into their next masterpiece... More
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books, 2018. Diana Schutz (tr.). First Edition. First Printing. Outsize Hardcover. Working closely with Moebius Production in France, Dark Horse presents the final part of Moebius's Inside Moebius series. In this third and most surreal volume, Jean "Moebius" Giraud exists in an expansive, magical desert locale..... More
Venice: Knock Knock, 2007. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for the masses, but this revolutionary book is dedicated entirely to the hypochondriac's unique perspective on health. With over 300 deadly diseases profiled, conveniently organized by symptom (real..... More
Paris: Les Editions d'Indochine/ ASA Editions. Thomas Renaut (photographs). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Preface by Yang Baoyun and Alan Gallop. Hong Kong has metamorphosed from a minor trading port into the focal point of South-east Asia. The city is in turn fascinating and irritating, but it can never leave..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and..... More
Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. This is a spooky adventure story with a reassuring ending. An eerie old house gives Jim and Arthur the creeps, but somehow they just can't resist going back, even when a mysterious white face appears at the window. This is a first 'proper..... More
New York: Harper, 2007. Reprint. Mass-market Paperback. Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy, the "dirty little coward"..... More
Hong Kong: Islanders, 2020. UUendy Lau (illustrator). Autumn 2020. Foldout enclosed in opaque envelope. Issue #02 Peng Chau 坪洲 Nourishing Land 豐饒之地 Walk past the main street, a soft cloak covers the island with a verdant character. In this homogeneous setting, shiny mature fruits attract our..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. The summation of more than 2,000 years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of 300 years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs..... More
Taipei: Government Information Office, 1993. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. A collection of interviews, addresses and administrative reports by the former premier of Taiwan, Hau Pei-Tsun (1919-2020). More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. Third Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1989. More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1984. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Additional handling charge for heavy item. The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Second Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended..... More
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: Gallery 13, 2017. Bernie Wrightson (art), Jack Kamen (cover art). Seventh Printing. Softcover. The graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King’s Creepshow, based on the 1982 horror anthology and cult classic film directed by George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead)—and featuring stunning illustrations by..... More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a1960 Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1959-1960. More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1957-1959. More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1957-1959. More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With photographs by Robert Capa During the spring of 1938, a flood of Chinese refugees displaced by the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) converged on the central Yangzi valley tricity complex of Wuhan. For ten remarkable months, in a...... More
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