New York: Dell Publishing, 1978. Paperback. In a remote corner of the Russo-Chinese border, home to a frozen city called Yelingrad, satellite cameras pick up a suspicious new Soviet missile complex. Flying a defector's MiG-28D at treetop level, Quiller goes in to investigate. But it's a one-way ticket for the..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2003. H.T. Willetts (tr.). Twentieth Printing. Paperback. With a foreword by Alexis Klimoff. THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2003. First Edition thus. Paperback. "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First..... More
London: Slightly Foxed Ltd, 2019. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, each individually numbered. Hardcover. That night something happened to me on the mountain. The weight of the rice coupled with the awful cough which I had to try and repress broke something in me. It was not physical; it was..... More
Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett Crest, 1947. Reprint. Mass-market Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Richard Niland (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. “[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.” —The (London) Observer (1907) This Norton Critical Edition includes..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1992. Roger Coleman (cover illustration), Keith Bowen (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the..... More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1965. Jerome Martin (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Captain Edward L. Beach Delilah is a novel by Marcus Goodrich first published in 1941. It revolves around the activities of the fictional American destroyer, the USS Delilah, and her..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Swing A Cat (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao –..... More
New York: Fontana Books, 1968. First Fontana Books Edition. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. More
London: Penguin Books, 2018. Film Tie-in Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Set in post-war Germany, the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest loyalties and our deepest desires. In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 2014. First UK Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian..... More
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1962. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven months and..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Paperback/Softcover. Staple Bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong between between 1959 and 1961. There are three parts to the series, and this is part one of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1959. First Edition (presumed). Paperback/Softcover. Staple-bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong between between 1959 and 1960. There are three parts to the series, and this is part two of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books. See..... More
Hong Kong: 香港美麗術社出版, 1960. First Edition (presumed). Softcover/Paperback. Staple-bound. This is a boxed set of mini Water Margin comics, published in Hong Kong in 1960. There are three parts to the series, and this is part three of three. This box contains eight (8) comic books. See photos for more..... More
New York: Airmont Books, 1962. First Airmont Books Edition. Paperback. An Airmont Classic, book no. CL3. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. Lawrence Ratzkin (jacket design). First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government–a response that goes horribly..... More
New York: State University of New York Press, 1985. Letitia Splain (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. More
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