New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2002. First Norton paperback edition. Paperback. A National Book Award recipient. Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review... More about Book Business: Publishing, Past, Present and Future
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Council of Social Service, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More about A 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, 1947-1997
Singapore: The Design Society, 2012. Design by H55. First edition (stated). Softcover. Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho, and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book documenting the history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s. The cover features a black flag... More about Independence: The History of Graphic Design In Singapore Since the 1960s
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1972. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Includes separate supplementary indexes pamphlet. Heavy item; please note additional handling charges. More about Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover. More about Elementary Musicianship
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. More about How to Learn Anything Quickly
New York/Hong Kong: Columbia University Press/Chinese University Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Inscription to prior owner by editor. With a foreword by Cyril Birch. The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements... More about Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations (Volume I: From Antiquity to the Tang...
London: Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 2006. Reprint. Hardcover. More about The Secret
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: (Self-published), 1998. New edition. Softcover. - Over 6000 most commonly used head-words - Dozens of examples on every page show how words and phrases are used in typical situations and just what the meaning - Pronunciation in clear symbols is given for every headword - Ideal for home... More about Mongolian English Dictionary
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1958. Dorothy Marino (illustrations). Ninth Printing. Hardcover. More about Miss Hattie and the Monkey
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1970. First printing. Paperback. Norton N584. Professor Jones discusses the career of Augustus in the context of the turbulent times of the breakdown of the Roman Republic into civil war. He shows how dependent Augustus' rise to power was upon his adoption... More about Augustus
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Puffin Books, 1976. Reprint. Softcover. More about In the Forest
New York: Scholastic Inc., 1991. Reprint, Sixteenth Printing. Softcover. A what might help a mouse. But what can a mouse do to help a whale? More about Amos & Boris
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2006. First Printing. Softcover. More about The Illustrated Timeline of the Universe: A Crash Course in Words and Pictures
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1989. James Strachey (tr. and ed.). Reprint. Paperback. More about Civilization And Its Discontents
New York: Anchor Books, 1971. Cover photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reprint. Paperback. Anchor A 381. During his service with the American Embassy in China in the late 1940s, John Melby recorded his experiences in notes that may well stand among the most remarkable political diaries of our times. The... More about The Mandate of Heaven: Record of a Civil War, China 1945-49
London: Picador, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael... More about The South
New York: Vintage International, 1990. First Vintage International edition, First Printing. More about Guerrillas
New York: Vintage Books, 1998. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Second edition. Paperback. More about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First open market edition. Paperback. Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to... More about This Is How You Lose Her
Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, 1981. Reprint. Paperback. Being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the autumn of the year 1933. More about English Journey
Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, 1982. Cover painting by David Remfry. Reprint. Paperback. More about The Great Gatsby
New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. 71st Printing. Mass-market paperback. More about The Return of The King: Being Part Three of The Lord of The Rings
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. 77th Printing. Mass-market paperback. More about The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of The Rings
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. First Printing. Mass-market paperback. More about The Fellowship of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of The Rings
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