Prima Donna At Large
New York: Signet Books, 1987. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. More
Literature-Fiction
Graphic Novels, Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction, etc.
The Sweet Dove Died
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1978. First U.K. Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a...... More
Voyagers II: The Alien Within
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1987. Mass Market Edition. Paperback. More
Ben's Jonson's Plays and Masques (Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson On His Work, Contemporary Readers on Jonson, Criticism)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
Poetry and Literature: An Introduction to its Criticism and History
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. Richard Neal (book design). First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Translated with an Introduction by Giovanni Gullace Benedetto Croce KOCI, COSML (Italian: [beneˈdetto ˈkroːtʃe]; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including..... More
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore: A Novel
New York: Twelve/ Hachette, 2011. Anne Twomey (cover design). First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia..... More
The Tao of Pooh
London: Methuen/Magnet Books, 1984. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrations). First Paperback Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other that..... More
The Epic of Gilgamesh
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. “This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages..... More
The Natural
New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. Karl W. Stucklen (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Roger Angell The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually..... More
The Natural
London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. A baseball player struggling with a god-given gift and human passions is given a second chance to become what he always dreamed he could be: the best there ever was. This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an..... More
A New Life
Farrar, Strauss, 1961. Hardcover. 1st ptg. More
Saint Joan
Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. Penguin Books PL 3. Preface with extensive notes and the Play. More
Madame Sousatzka
New York: Warner Books, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Movie tie-in edition Madame Sousatzka is a gifted piano teacher who specializes in child prodigies and hosts her lessons in the dilapidated London home she shares with three other eccentrics: a 'countess' in retirement, a gay osteopath, and a 'woman-of-the-evening'. Madame Sousatzka's..... More
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2006. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
Massage
Melbourne, Australia: Viking, 2014. Paperback. Originally published in Chinese as Tui Na by People's Literature Publishing House. Wang Daifu is blind and works as a practitioner of tuina, a traditional form of pressure-point massage, in the burgeoning metropolis of Shenzhen. His is a uniquely coveted skill, yet it..... More
Three Sisters: A Novel
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed bu author on a Man Asian Literary Prize bookplate. In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy; three of the sisters emerge as the lead characters in this remarkable..... More
The Carving of Insects
Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks/The Chinese University Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. Edited by Mary M.Y. Fung Translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde Bian Zhilin (1910-2000), one of the most original voices in 20th-century Chinese poetry, was known for his modern sensibility and intense lyrical appeal. His style combines..... More
You'd Better Believe It
Woodstock, Vermont: A Foul Play Press Book/The Countryman Press, 1991. Bob Korn (cover illustration). First Printing. Paperback. The first mystery in the popular police procedural series introduces the long-suffering detective Colin Harpur. Nominated for England's Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1986, You'd Better Believe It introduced Detective..... More
The Raven Steals the Light
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
Matter: Poems by Bim Ramke
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. More
Theory of Mind: New & Selected Poems
Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. More
'Views' a.k.a. 'The Quintessence of Dust'
Hong Kong: 2018. Digital Print. Medium: Graphite pencil on drawing paper. Following the successful launch of Hong Kong Noir (Blacksmith Books 2018), a collection of dark fictional stories set in various places in Hong Kong, Bleak House Books asked some local artists to pick their favorite stories from the book..... More
Secrets: A Collection of Short Stories
Boston/Hong Kong: Cheng & Tsui Company/Joint Publishing Co., 1985. Luk Chi Cheong (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. Translated from the Chinese by David Deterding A collection of ten short stories by the Taiwanese poet, essayist, historian and activist. More
