The Bombard Story
Penguin (Orange Spine), 1956. Paperback. More
Literature-Non Fiction
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of..... More
The Rebel
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Olivier Todd Translated by Anthony Bower A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the..... More
The Devils of Loudun
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Val Biro (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an..... More
Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in..... More
Pencil Speakings from Peking
New York: The Macmillan Company. Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. No date or year of publication indicated. First edition of this title was published in U.S. and U.K. in 1918. As an advance review copy, this edition mostly likely predates the 1918 publication year. More
A Muslim on The Bridge : On being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the twenty-first century
Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013. Softcover. A memoir and meditation on faith, A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-first Century tells a story of transformation and reflection as the author thoughtfully but pointedly deconstructs the widespread misconceptions about Islam, arguably the world's most-misunderstood..... 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
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
Henry and June
UK: Penguin Classics, 2017. Reissued Edition. Reprint. Paperback. Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage. The question of the outcome of June..... More
The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance
New York: Verso, 2020. Trade Paperback. New Updated 2020 Edition With a preface by Tariq Ali Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their..... More
Mary Queen of Scots
New York: Dell Publishing, 1971. Fifth Dell Printing. Paperback. More
The Age of Jackson
Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention..... More
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
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
Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Unexpectedly appointed magistrate in a country district in Hongkong, the author found himself plunged into a Chinese world about which he knew next to nothing and had to learn as fast as possible. This he does, taking the reader with him through..... More
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
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
Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas For Millions
London: Arrow Books, 2004. Paperback. 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
Rambles in Java and the Straits in 1852
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987. Reissue. Trade Paperback. When 'Bengal Civilian' visited Penang, Singapore and Java in 1852 his tracks had already been well beaten by European explorers, adventurers, colonizers and traders. 'Bengal Civilian' travelled for no other purposes than to recuperate from illness and he must therefore have been..... More
Autobiography
London: Routledge, 2000. Paperback. Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and..... More
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings 1973 - 1994
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook..... More
All My Cats
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Paperback. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson 'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip Roth In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly..... More
The Law and The Profits
London: John Murray, 1963. Oscar Lancaster (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
Imprint 17: The Annual Anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2018. Paperback. Since its inception in 2001, IMPRINT has provided a showcase for WiPS members' work. While many contributors are established authors, illustrators and photographers, for others, IMPRINT provides the opportunity to see their work in print for the first time..... More
Imprint 18: The Annual Anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2019. Paperback. Featuring the work of 53 writers and artists with a connection to Hong Kong, as well as the winning entry to our Short Story Competition for Young Writers. Each year, WiPS invites its members to submit examples of..... More
