London: Serpent's Tail, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. First published as Verre Casse, translated by Helen Stevenson. Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed..... More
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, 1980. Darrell K. Sweet (cover art). First Edition, Fourth Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Could even the remarkable Flinx stop the deadly drug that was sweeping the galaxy? It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. Michael Whelan (cover art). First Edition (stated). Paperback. From bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, an exciting early Pip and Flinx novel that shows the origins of a certain boy with special powers—and the mini-dragon that becomes his devoted sidekick. . . . Flinx was..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Darrell Sweet (cover art). Third Printing. Paperback. One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinx’s past–and that man is trying to kill him! It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff..... More
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Paperback. More
London: Collins Armada Lions, 1973. Paperback. More
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
London: Picador, 2017. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
New York: William Morrow, 1995. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores..... More
London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2009. Paperback. An epic account of the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943 from peerless war correspondent Alan Moorehead CBE, published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battles for El Alamein in July and October 1942. Moorehead's classic trilogy on the North Africa..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More
New York: Scribner, 2003. Jonathan Bush (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. “The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —The New Republic “A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and..... More
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. More
London: Star Books, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. A portrait of individual and communal struggles to maintain authenticity and revolutionary fervor in 1960s England from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The final installment of the William Posters Trilogy revolves around the plights and foibles of the Handley family commune, which set..... More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1967. Nicholas Thirkell (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus, Aug. 9, 1968: This is a continuation of The Death of William Posters (1965) in what will ultimately be a trilogy extending Mr. Sillitoe's angry view of darkness visible on the..... More
New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include : Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of..... More
New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, 1993. Paperback. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. David Pearson (cover design). Paperback. Introduction by Tony Judt Translated by Robin Buss 'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a...... More
New York: Modern Library, 1994. Alan Lightman (intro), Sonja Bargmann (tr.). Reprint. Hardback. A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The selections range from Einstein's earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such..... More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1964. Paperback. More
Warner Books, 1992. Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very rare. From Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, The Gift of Doubt, 24 June 2013: Hirschman published his first important book, “The Strategy of Economic Development,” in 1958. He had returned from Colombia by then and..... More
Geneva: Skira, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Stock image shown. More
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