UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Amalia Gladhart (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A kind of magical realism for science fiction ... Quite, quite brilliant' Tor Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee..... More
New York: Harper, 2017. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five..... More
New York: Verso, 2017. Trade Paperback. More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas grenades at the German enemy. Designed to force people out from cover, tear gas causes tearing and gagging, burning the eyes and skin. Its use has ended in miscarriages, permanent injuries..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers/Collins Crime Club, 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. First Paperback Edition. The collected edition of the international cult comic series “Charming and weird.”–Paste Anouk Ricard’s bold and colorful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly realistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2012. Barnbrook (design). Paperback. Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. Barry Trengrove (jacket design). Fifth Printing. A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions. A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2003. Softcover. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION: The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the..... More
New York: Scribner, 2019. Jim Tierney (cover design). Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Michael Scammell A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. Olga Grlic (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. Megan Backus (tr.). New Paperback Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When..... More
New York: Random House, 2020. First Edition (stated). Trade Paperback. Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
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
Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1988. Softcover. With a foreword by Charles M. Schulz Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury..... More
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
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
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Softcover. Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like people in the West? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else? This classic presentation..... More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1957-1959. More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a1960 Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1959-1960. More
London: Titan Comics, 2015. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Trade Paperback. A facsimile reprint of a Peanuts collection of comic strips from 1957-1959. More
London: Penguin Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2017. Reprint. Trade Paperback. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the..... More
London: Scribner, 2020. Jamie Chang (tr.). First UK Edition. Paperback. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed..... More
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