New York: New American Library, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. Signet Modern Classic CY98C. Translated by Ralph Parker. With an Introduction by Marvin L. Kalb. Foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky. More about One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Bartholomew House Ltd, 1971. Len Williams Associates (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The complete Old and New Testaments retold by the author in seventy-two 'story-sections'. More about The Story Bible
London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. 1st U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner’s grade at the American Night Preparatory School for..... More about The Return of Hyman Kaplan
London: Victor Gollancz, 1967. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. From Kirkus (March 1, 1967): Everybody's f*a*v*o*r*i*t*e dialectician here provides an espionage entertainment, ""a knot of silk and smoke."" The hero is Peter Galton, Princeton gentleman, bachelor--but not Bonded. Galton's bent on saving a damsel whom he left in Soviet distress..... More about A Most Private Intrigue
Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. More about Death in Venice, Tristan, Tonio Kroger
New York: New American Library, 1985. Edward Gorey (cover illustration). Second Edition. First Signet Classic Printing. Paperback. With an introduction by Frederick R. Karl. More about The Woman In White
London: Flamingo, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one... More about If I Die in a Combat Zone
London: Penguin Group, 2011. Kristian Hammerstad (cover art). A Penguin Essentials Edition. Ninth Printing. Paperback. A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we were... More about A Clockwork Orange
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. Steven Schroeder (cover art). Softcover. In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (May 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural... More about Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 47 (May 2019
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1962. John Heseltine (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Ian Stuart also known as Alistair MacLean. The Satan Bug tells the story of a super-virus developed by the British military that falls into the hands of some unscrupulous individuals who use it to... More about The Satan Bug
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Harry Brockway (wood engravings). Folio Society Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. With an introduction by Stephen Tumim. Based on the translation by David McDuff. More about Crime and Punishment
London: Barrie & Jenkins Limited, 1975. Michael Harvey (jacket design). Hardcover. A collection of stories featuring Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge -- and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on... More about The World of Ukridge
London: Heinemann, 1978. Ivor Claydon (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Investigative journalist and aviatrix Teddy, who narrates Gore Vidal’s metaphysical thriller, has moulded herself on flying ace Amelia Earhart. Although she’s aware that’s a bit anachronistic, it qualifies her to pilot Kalki, Vietnam vet and incarnate of Vishnu, round..... More about Kalki
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Craig Dodd (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Rare. The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux. In South London terrorists plot. . . Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions... More about The Family Arsenal
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Mon Mohan (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. A novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse. More about Mantissa
London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. Lucian Freud (cover illustration, detail of 'Interior with plant, reflection listening (self portrait)'. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Spanning fifty years and three continents – from pre-war Suffolk, to the Far East in the 1940s, to Oxford and America in the present day – Forgotten Life is..... More about Forgotten Life
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Ralph Parker In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account... More about One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Vancouver/Toronto, Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre/University of Washington Press, 1996. Bill Reid (illustrations). Second Paperback Edition. Paperback. An elegant reissue of a timeless collection of Haida myths, with a new preface by Claude Levi-Strauss. Ten masterful, complex drawings by Bill Reid are accompanied by ten episodes from Haida mythology told... More about The Raven Steals the Light
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1979. Reg Boorer (cover design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. At what point a foetus takes on the properties of a human individual is a knotty problem, but whether the answer be medical or metaphysical, it is unlikely to be precise. No... More about Passenger
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Nigel Snell (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Rare. When a mother and her two little girls are brutally murdered on Florida's steamy west coast, soft-hearted attorney Matthew Hope decides to defend the only person confessing to the crime, the only person without a motive. More about Goldilocks
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