London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. Noma Bar (cover illustration). First Edition. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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..... More
New York: New Directions Book, 2019. First New Directions Clothbound Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz. Edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser. Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Anaïs Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics. Anaïs Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality. Each of the 13 stories captures a moment..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2017. Reissued Edition. Reprint. Paperback. Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In "Delta of Venus", Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. Paul Murray (ed. and intro.). First Penguin Classics Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong’s novel The Sweetest Fruits In this collection..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2019. Haruki Murakami (introduction). First Penguin Classics Edition. Fifth Printing. Paperback. A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Robert Anthony (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. Helge Dascher (tr.), Rob Aspinall (tr.). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. And the award for worst dad ever still goes to . . . The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is the bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle’s final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations..... More
New York: New Directions Books, 2016. Seosoo (cover painting), Peter Mendelsund (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. NDP 1438. "In late August a baby was born, or, as it seemed to me, a puma moved into my apartment, a near-mute force…. I had imagined that I was..... More
New South Wales: (Self-published), 2019. Don Mak (cover illustration). Volume 5, Number 1. Loose-bound. Mekong Review is a literary magazine from Southeast Asia. Every quarter, it publishes book reviews, essays, interviews, profiles, poetry and fiction from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and beyond. Our..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1993. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. In this first volume of the "Oxford Amnesty Lectures" series, seven leading literary scholars, including Frank Kermode, Edward Said and Julia Kristeva, explore the relationship between political freedom and modern conceptions of the self. More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Cover art: The dreaded Japanese Kempei (Military Police) patrolling Zhabei by Xiao Jianqing. Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret..... More
New York: Viking, 1987. Neil Stuart (jacket design). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car..... More
New York: Compass Books, 1960. Robert Hallock (cover desgin). Third Printing. Paperback. Signed by author. Much of The Adventures of Augie March takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow’s string of masterpieces testifies to the explosive richness of..... More
New York: Random House, 1990. Milton Glaser (jacket design). Facsimile of the First Edition. Hardcover. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. Michael Harvey (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From the book jacket: This volume contains all the essays which Mr Greene wishes to preserve in book form. Many of them were included in The Lost Childhood, published in 1951; some of..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. gray318 (cover design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. Ned Hoste/2H (cover design), 'Mediterranean Shore' by John Maclauchlan (cover painting). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Rare. From Kirkus (May 25, 1989): Here, Pritchett is sightseer, cultural psychoanalyst, and social critic in 14 travel essays that explore people and places..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. 'Double Self-Portrait' (jacket painting by Komar & Melamid). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A new, fully annotated translation of the Russian classic. Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. More
London: Heinemann, 1955. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign..... More
New York: Back Bay Books, 1999. Rymn Massand (cover design), Bill Brown (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Back Bay Books, 1999. Rymn Massand (cover design), Bill Brown (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Back Bay Books, 2000. Rymn Massand (cover design), Bill Brown (illustration). Reprint. Paperback. More
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