Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Literature-Non Fiction
The Bombard Story
Penguin (Orange Spine), 1956. Paperback. More
The Consolations of Philosophy : Essays
London: Penguin Books, 2007. Paperback. From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. Solace for the broken heart can be..... More
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
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
Made in Malaysia: Stories of Hometown Heroes and Hidden Gems
Malaysia: MPH Group Publishing, 2014. Arif Rafhan Othman (illustrations). First Edition. Paperback. A writer's collection of published articles and other stories recounting her experiences of travelling around Malaysia. Her cheery style almost tempts the reader to get up and follow in her footsteps. 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
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
Eleven Blue Men and other Narratives of Medical Detection
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965. First New Berkley Medallion Edition (12th printing). Paperback. Berkley Medallion book # F1016. An award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in..... 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. Trade 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..... More
The Law and The Profits
London: John Murray, 1963. Oscar Lancaster (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
The Pilgram's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism
Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974. Reprint. Paperback. The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis's own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually led him to Christianity. Here is the story..... 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
