UK: Penguin Books, 2020. First Penguin Books Edition. First Printing. Paperback. “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre... More
Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2020. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Reissued Edition. 12th Printing. Paperback. The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are..... More
London: Fourth Estate, 2010. Andy Bridge (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first..... More
Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2018. Martin Chalmers (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother—a woman whose..... More
UK: Pelican Books, 2019. Matthew Young (cover design). Third Printing. Hardcover. 'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. Jamie Keenan (jacket design). First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. "Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. In December 1994, on the acceptance of only the second Nobel Prize awarded to a Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe gave a speech that was a message for mankind: one that pledged his own faith in tolerance and human decency; in the renunciation of..... More
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1946. First Printing. Paperback. # 383. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1958. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. An authorized abridgement of the original by Edmund Fuller. Translated from the French by Gilbert Cannan. Dell Laurel Edition # LC113. A biographical psychological novel. The hero, Jean Christophe, is a musical genius of heroic character..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1968. Tenth Printing. Paperback. # 75048. In this ambitious, ingenious narrative, celebrated historical novelist Mary Renault take legendary hero Theseus and spins his myth into a fast-paced and exciting story. Renault starts with Theseus' early years, showing how the mystery of his father's..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1986. Jacqueline Schuman (jacket design). First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. With an introductory note by Hazel Holt A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty..... More
London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the Aboriginals, and for centuries they have served not only as a shared..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Ianthe Brautigan was nine years old when her father, Californian beat writer Richard Brautigan, first told her he wanted to commit suicide. She was 24 years old when he finally took his own life with a shotgun. This memoir..... More
New York: Amereon House, 1975. Edition not specified, limited to 80 copies. Hardcover. The novel takes place in an apartment house on Chestnut Street in San Francisco. The principals are Constance and Bob, the couple upstairs who read the Greek Anthology and play the Story of O game, a strange..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First US Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1991. Paperback. Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions. Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories. Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Companyn/ Seymour Lawrence, 1995. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Three masterpieces by “the counterculture’s Mark Twain,” collected in one volume, including the “lost chapters” of Trout Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review). An author who began his career handing out his work on the streets..... More
New York: Mariner Books/ Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Randy Glass (drawings), Geoff Spear (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of The Official Preppy Handbook comes a new take on the old world that Lisa Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago. True Prep looks at how the old..... More
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. Trade Paperback. Harry Bosch is alone, without backup – and this time the case is personal. From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer. Features in Amazon Prime’s BOSCH TV series. The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA..... More
London: Picador, 2013. Trade Paperback. All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in..... More
London: Flamingo, 2001. Trade Paperback. A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’, ‘The Kitchen God’s Wife’ and ‘The Hundred Secret Senses’. LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the..... More
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