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Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2009. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim’s prowess as a storyteller chronicling a society in transit, where multiethnic characters struggle with their identities as the past and the present intersect, mingle and..... More
New York: Sarah Crichton Books/ FSG, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Gabrielle Bordwin (cover design). Trade Paperback. With a Foreword by Isabel Allende Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988. Paperback. Rumors of fraud, forgeries, and murder at the Werner-Bok, one of the world's greatest rare-book libraries attract an illiterate cop and three extra-literate librarians and scholars, who test their wits against some very unprofessional adversaries. More
New York: Pennant Books, 1954. First Pennant Books Edition. Paperback. Pennant Books no. P40 Collection of 9 stories. "Captain Kidd buried golden, jeweled loot, and so did Henry Morgan, Lafitte added his share in the Louisiana swamps. Then there are the drowned galleons, holding the salty, coral-grown treasures..... More
New York: Ecco/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. Abel Debritto (ed.), Sara Wood (cover art and design). Reprint. Paperback. A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers. “The cat is the beautiful devil.” Felines touched a vulnerable spot..... More
London: Vintage Classics, 2012. Peter de Seve (cover illustration), Megan Wilson (cover design). First Vintage Classics Edition. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Fred Kaplan (ed.). Fourth Edition. Paperback. “An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” —John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvère Monod’s..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Abby Weintraub and Barbara de Wilde (jacket design), Luke Fildes and Charles Collins (illustrations). Everyman's Library Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s new edition of A Tale of Two Cities sets the reader down in the midst of Dickens’s vibrant life and times. Douglas-Fairhurst, a gifted biographer of Dickens, has created an edition rich in biographical and..... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1953. Phil Marini (cover art). First Edition. Paperback. Alternative title: While the City Sleeps Dell First Edition book no. 5. More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2012. Paperback. More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011. First Paperback Edition. More
New York: Random House, 2012. Trade Paperback. More
New York: Permabooks, 1949. Hardcover. More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1963. Jerome Martin (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Dr. Selden D. Bacon The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, No date. Mass Market Paperback. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1999. Tullio Pericoli (jacket design). First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Robert B Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson (eds). First Edition. Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Werner Sollors (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s..... More
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