Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Stephen Case (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Syd Goldsmith’s first taste of China’s Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It’s 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots and strikes, crippled transport, punishing water-rationing, takeover threats from Beijing and roadside bombs..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Lee Po Ng (illustrations). First Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Hong Kong is a mixed bag of a city. It is where Mercedes outnumber taxi cabs, partygoers count down to Christmas every December 24, and larger-than-life billboards of fortune tellers and cram school tutors compete with..... More
New York: Back Bay Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Two Roads, 2019. First UK Edition. Paperback (oversized). In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage and enjoyment, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career. When he first started out in the late Sixties, Billy played the banjo in the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. Instructor's Desk Copy indicated on back cover. This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting..... More
London: Atlantic Books, 2018. Keenan (cover design). First UK Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived..... More
New York: Plume, 2013. Lucv Kim (cover design). First Plume Printing. Paperback. Confederates in the Attic meets The Year of Living Biblically in a funny and original memoir In Arkansas, there is a full-scale Roman fort with catapults and ramparts. In Colorado, nearly a hundred men don Nazi uniforms..... More
New York: The Norton Library / W.W. Norton and Company, 1970. Second Printing. Paperback. No. N539. In this volume, Robert C. Tucker looks critically at the later writings of Marx and Engels, not only as political theory but as the ideology for political revolution. More
New York: Broadway Books, 2007. First Trade Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author. Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2006. First Trade Papberback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author. Part memoir, part remedy for the state we're in, with liberal sprinklings of common sense, Chris Patten's Not Quite the Diplomat is a frank and funny book from a very outspoken politician. After spending..... More
London: Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1983. September 1983, Number 95. Softcover. Includes: Treaty, Grant, Usage or Sufferance? Some Legal Aspects of the Status of Hong Kong - Anthony Dicks; The International Position of Hong Kong - Lucian W Pye; Life in the Cities: The Emergences..... More
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. Second Printing. Paperback. More
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconson Press, 1972. A.C. Scott (illustrations). Second Printing. Softcover. Translated, described, annotated and illustrated by A.C. Scott. Includes the plays: Longing for Worldly Pleasures by Ssu Fan Fifteen Strings of Cash by Shih Wu Kuan. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Rare. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is a book of political theory and comparative history by Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988) published by Yale University Press in 1957. The book offers an explanation for the despotic governments..... More
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