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
London: Arrow Books, 2004. Paperback. More
Hoboken: Melville House, 2003. James X. Mitchell (tr.). First Edition. Hardcover. In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist’s eye with riveting investigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s most esteemed writers, retraces Pearl’s final steps through a murky Islamic underworld, suffused by “an odour of the apocalypse.” The..... More
New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. An unorthodox pilgrimage along India's rivers Flowing by Himalayan glaciers, dusty mofussil towns, impenetrable forests and hundreds of tiny villages, India's sacred rivers harbour legend, foster myth and exert a powerful spiritual attraction. Drawn by their irresistible mystique, Bill Aitkin set out..... More
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. September 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/ 第49期 No. 49..... More
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2019. November 2019. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/ 第50期 No..... More
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. Mathura (cover image). January 2020. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/... More
Hong Kong: Musical Stones Publishing Ltd, 2020. 洋小漫 (封面畫作). March 2020. Softcover. Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine is a Hong Kong-based print poetry publication. In each issue, we publish Chinese-language poems and critique pieces on poetry. We also have a section of English-language poems. 本刊為雙月刊，創作園地包括詩作、評論、專欄。全年公開徵稿；風格、字數不拘。 https://vvpoetry.com/ 《聲韻詩刊..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. This revision of the acclaimed and widely assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’s great autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself includes key examples of..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Henry Schmidt (tr.), Matthew Wilson Smith (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt’s translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton’s Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck. The Georg Büchner Prize is..... More
New York: Grove Press / Grove Atlantic, 2003. Paperback. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan “freedom fighters” who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. The congressman became passionate about their cause..... More
New York: Permabooks, 1959. First Permabook Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Permabooks no. M 4151. More
London: Vintage Books, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Jacqueline Goldsby (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-Colored Man,” the protagonist in Johnson’s novel is forced to choose between celebrating his..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. Ronni Solbert (illustrations). 50th Anniversary Edition. 5th Printing. Paperback. 50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains..... More
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Paperback. ABOUT DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor — and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war... More
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. Softcover. More
London: Progress Publishers, 1977. Reprint. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2015. Third Printing. Paperback. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they..... More
New York: Scribner, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The journalist widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, discusses their family's commitment to responsible journalism, her own role a a negotiator between the FBI and Pakistani police, terrorism in today's world, and her efforts..... More
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1965. Reprint. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. First published in 1936 by same publisher. The career of Samuel White of Bath, who became an official of the court in the Kingdom of Siam. More
Anchor Books, 2006. More
London: Futura Publications Ltd, 1980. Osbert Lancaster. First Futura Publications Edition. Paperback. A collections of essays by: Alan C. Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix', Christopher Sykes, John Betjeman. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren’s lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico..... More
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