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
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 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: 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: 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: 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
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
New York: Back Bay Books, 1999. Rymn Massand (cover design), Bill Brown (illustration). Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Ben Gibson (cover art and design). Reprint. Paperback. Edited by James R. Baker and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. More
London: Penguin Classics, 2014. New Translation First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Oliver Ready. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. R.E.C Houghton (ed.). Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: The Modern Library, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. Widely hailed as Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul’s greatest work, A Bend in the River takes us deeply into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in..... More
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