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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. First published in 1592, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-Yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. More
Fontana Books, 1979. Reprint. Paprback. More
Fontana Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. More
New York: Everyman's Library, 1992. Hardcover. No. 57 in the Everyman's Library series. With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2016. Jaya Miceli (jacket design). Hardcover. From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation. Joan Fortier..... More
Amherst: Verse Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by poet. Much anticipated in poetry circles, this debut poetry collection by the well-known younger poet and critic rises to the occasion, at once bold and tender, experimental and clear. Jean Valentine writes: "New consciousnesses shine here in delicate, angry, ecstatic, funny..... More
London: Orion Books, 2016. Adam Roberts (intro), Andrew Bromfield (tr.), James Womack (tr.). Paperback. When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, where research into magic..... More
Melbourne: Penguin (Orange Spine), 1954. First Penguin Books Edition. Paperback. 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
Penguin (Orange Spine), 1957. More
Penguin (Orange Spine), 1956. More
New York: Plume, 2006. Paperback. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor The Ministry of Utmost Happiness..... More
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. Wayne P. Lammers (tr.). Paperback. Meet Hiro. She’s tall, lanky and awkward—a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher. Meet Dung. She’s shy, beautiful, and tough—a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a...... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world (Time). Originally produced in 1982, Master Harold and the Boys is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of..... More
Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2019. Introduction by Jonathan Kaplan. Paperback. Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But when he captures a woman one night in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees..... More
Hong Kong: Arts and Culture Outreach, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. “A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a bat feasts on apples in a supermarket…to these underwhelming animals..... More
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Anchor A54. More
London: Pushkin Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Translated by Sondra Silverston. In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from..... More
Ediciones Arcos. Softcover. No other publication information. In Spanish. English title is The Fountainhead. More
New York: Signet Books, 1994. Paperback. What motivates a creative thinker? Is it a selfless desire to benefit mankind? A hunger for fame, fortune, and accolades? The need to prove superiority? Or is it a self-sufficient drive to pursue a creative vision, independent of others’ needs or opinions... More
Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks/Ivan R. Dee, 1994. Diego Rivera (cover illustration reprinted). Reprint. Softcover. A bit rare in this new, reprint edition. From Kirkus (March 1, 1967): B. Traven is the mysterious (American?) author who has been hiding in Mexico for thirty years and is the author of The Treasure..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. More
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