Voyagers II: The Alien Within
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1987. Mass Market Edition. Paperback. More
Literature-Fiction
Graphic Novels, Literature, Mystery, Science Fiction, etc.
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
You Don't Have to Live Like This
London: Faber and Faber, 2015. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Signed by author. A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps..... 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 Pagan Lord
London: Harper, 2014. Paperback. At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward, his son, reigns as king. Wessex survives, but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will not..... 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
Girl, Woman, Other
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2019. Ali Campbell (cover artwork). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Very rare. Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she..... 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
In Praise of Love and Children
Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2007. Second Reprint. Paperback. After false starts in teaching and social work, Melda Hayley finds her mission in fostering the damaged children of the first generation of black settlers in a deeply racist Britain. But though Melda finds daily uplift in her work, her inner..... 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
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
100 Songs
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. Trade Paperback. A new collection of Bob Dylan’s most essential lyrics—one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate’s incredible range through the entirety of his career so far. Bob Dylan is one of the most important cultural figures of our time, and the..... More
Plus Shipping: Poems by Bob Hicok
Rochester: Boa Editions, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. More
Closely Watched Trains
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the..... More
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
New York: New York Review of Books, 2015. Joshua Cohen (intro), James Naughton (tr.). Paperback. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in..... More
She Who Was No More
London: Pushkin Vertigo, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne, an ambitious doctor, and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan. Drugging..... More
