The Search for Modern China
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1999. Reprint, Second Edition. Softcover.
New Arrivals
Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to "take responsibility for all under heaven,” to argue the question "What can we do with China?" In this “utterly absorbing gem.....
China Pop: How Soap Opera, Tabloids, and Best Sellers Are Transforming a Culture
New York: The New Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. From her contact with a group of young novelists, film-makers and artists in China, Zha examines a wide range of developments largely unknown to Western readers: the planning of soap operas to placate popular unrest after Tiananmen; the growth of the...
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman (from the story told her by Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai)
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt―a bicultural social worker...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Cambridge: The Belknapp Press, 2014. First English Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the British...
Song Without Music: Chinese Tz'u Poetry
Hong Kong: A Renditions Book/The Chinese University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The approach of the present volume of essays and translations of tz'u is an intimate rather than a pedantic one, for its purpose is to take the poetry-loving reader, as it were, by the hand, and welcome...
A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about...
Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: A Spectrum Book/Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Stanley Wyatt (cover design). Seventh Printing. Softcover. A collection of essays on Keats and his works, including Keats by T.S. Eliot; Keats by Douglas Bush; The Ode on a Grecian Urn by Earl Wasserman; and Lamia by David Perkins.
The Pastons and Their England: Studies in the Age of Transition (Canto)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. Bennett's classic study recreates beautifully their historical context and offers the additional perspectives provided by the...
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - Volume One (The Pelican Marx Library)
London: Penguin Books, 1988. Reprint. Paperback.
The Literary Speech Act
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. In this bold yet subtle meditation on promising, Shosana Felman contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Translated by Catherine Porter.
Hong Kong Metamorphosis
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. From the South China Morning Post (Nov. 24, 2003): Denis Bray, 77, is a true son of Hong Kong. The former Secretary for Home Affairs, director of the Community Chest, chairman of the English Schools Foundation and occasionally...
The Iliad
London: Collins Harvill, 1985. Hardcover. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, a professor of rhetoric and oratory emeritus at Harvard University.
Jane Eyre
New York: The Heritage Press, 1942 (Reprint). Barnett Freedman (lithographs). Hardcover in slipcase. Edition and date of printing not stated.
Heart of Darkness
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1988. Third Edition. Softcover. This is an 'Instructor's Desk Copy' as per the publisher's stamp on the back cover. A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Robert Kimbrough. Contains the full text of Heart of Darkness, followed by numerous essays.
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
New York: The Heritage Press, 191940 (Reprint). First Edition thus. Hardcover with Slip Case. Illustrated with Two Hundred Dawings Made by the Author for the First Edition. With a note upon the text by John T. Winterich and a note upon the drawings by John Sloan.
Pressure Points: A Social Critique by the Hong Kong Observers
Hong Kong: Summerson Eastern Publishers Ltd., 1981. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Very rare. Collection of essays by the Hong Kong Observers, a group of lawyers, educators, journalists, academics, doctors and business persons. Topics addressed included the government, police, education, law, Urban Council, transport, medical and health and housing.
Dombey and Son
New York: The Heritage Press, 1957. Henry C. Pitz. First Edition thus. Hardcover in Slipcase. Slipcase.
Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1971. First Edition (presumed), Fourth Printing. Softcover. Topics addressed include the economy of Hong Kong, it's legal system, housing for the poor, and industrial relations. Contributors include: E.H. Phelps Brown, David Podmore, John Rear, Nicholas Owen, Joe England, D.C. Chaney, and Keith Hopkins.
Travels in Mongolia, 1902 (A Journey by C.W. Campbell, The British Consul in China) (Uncovered Editions)
Norwich: Uncovered Editions, The Stationery Office, 2000. Reprint. Paperback.
European Voices (Modern Poetry in Translation No. 18)
London: King's College London, 2001. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. European Voices makes no attempt to represent the poetries of Europe today—how could it?—but gathers material that has come to us over a period of a year or so. Some 17 languages are represented, of Eastern, Central, Western, Southern and Northern.....
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Volume 1)
London: Panther/Granada Publishing, 1978. David Bergen (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful...
The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
London: Penguin Books, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangtze River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people...
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
New York: Bantam Books, 1978. Sixth Printing. Paperback. From Kirkus (August 18, 1976): . . . and a very different undertaking from anything else by Le Guin. In his own words and colloquial style, it's the story of an intellectual seventeen-year-old loner--""I was a kind of person that just...
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500 - 1800
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1979. Abridged Edition. Reprint. Paperback. Studies the evolution of English attitudes regarding marriage and sexuality in relation to the accompanying social, political, religious, and economic trends.
