New Archaeological Finds in China (Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution)
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. More
Art & Architecture
Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings of Zhang Xiaogang
Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen
Hong Kong: Vetch & Lee Limited, 1970. Second Edition. Hardcover. As per c/r page: this is a re-issued edition, limited to 1,050 copies. Original edition printed in China by the North China Daily News. Contains a preliminary note on the 'A D Brankston Collection of Chinese Porcelain in..... More
Creating Your Home With Style
Vienna, Austria: Metroverlag, 2013. First English Edition. Hardcover. Adolf Loos was an eloquent voice against the squandering of fine materials, ornamentation and unnecessary embellishments. The rational underpinnings of his later assertion that ornament is crime first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of the Viennese secessionists. Few..... More
New York Drawings
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2012. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the..... More
Where Time Turns Black
Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2017. Agnes Shuk-mei Ku (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). "This book begins with personal experience and points to our common future. Through images and words, it expresses my care and love for my mother and allows me to share my observations, feelings and ideas about..... More
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
Painting of Central Asia (Treasures of Asia series)
Geneva: Skira, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Stock image shown. More
The Landscape of Waste
Milan: Skira Editore SpA, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. The first book ever published to survey waste as a building material. Focusing on the projects, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the language and forms of a new architectural language and offers scientific and non-biased overviews to..... More
Perfect Strangers (Issue One)
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
AWW Issue No.3: Ready, Get Set, Go!
Hong Kong: Readymade Group, 2020. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover with booklet. 2 Books in 1, Featuring 64 Illustrators and over 200 Illustrations! Feature Artists: Paul Thurlby / Junaida / Tatsuro Kiuchi / Tokuhiro Kanoh / Lieke van der Vorst AWW Magazine latest sporty issue “Ready..... More
Japan: The Art of Living (A Sourcebook of Japanese Style for the Western Home)
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991. Shin Kimura (photos). First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours
London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback (Outsized). More
The Andy Warhol Diaries
London: Penguin Classics, 2010. Pat Hackett (ed.). First Penguin Classics Edition. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party..... More
The Beginner's Guide - Oil Painting: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials
St Helens: The Book People, 1997. Paperback (Outsized). More
A Guide To Buying Antiques, Arts & Crafts in Singapore
Singapore: Times Books International, 1988. Softcover. More
Disasters of War: Callot, Goya, Dix
London: The South Bank Centre, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. series of etchings from three artists are the subject of this dramatic book. Jacques Callot's Miseries of War, published in 1633; Goya's The Disasters of War, rendered between 1810 and 1820; and Otto Dix's War, last issued in 1924, are..... More
Buying and Understanding New Oriental Rugs
Philadelphia: Running Press, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. More
Dreams of a Toad (蟾蜍夢多)
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
Acoustics and Noise Control
Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. Second Edition. Softcover. Acoustics and Noise Control provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of acoustics and noise control. Fully revised and updated throughout, the second edition assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and requires only a basic knowledge of..... More
Creative Planning of Educational Facilities
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Beyond East & West: Memoirs, Portraits & Essays
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Urban Portraits, New York 1986 - 1992
Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1992. Paperback (Outsized). Signed by the artist. Includes a large color slide (20 x 25 cm) of Jacklin's painting, Sun and Rain Over Sixth Avenue, in a clear plastic protective folder that is affixed to the binding between front cover and first page. Published..... 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
American Masters: The Voice and the Myth
New York: Ridge Press / Random House, 1973. Hans Namuth (photos). First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). Photographic essays on Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Joseph Cornell. More
