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: Riverhead Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called “rapturous” (The New York Times Book Review), “revelatory” (Vogue), and “wholly innovative” (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards..... More
London: Sceptre, 2016. First UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave—the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told “with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion…a powerful portrait of war’s effects on those who fight and those left behind”..... 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
New York: Signet Books, 1953. Stanley Zukerberg (cover art). First Printing. Paperback. A Signet Giant. # S1023. In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine..... More
New York: Ballantine Books/A Del Rey Gold Seal Selection, 1981. First Trade Paperback Edition (stated). Paperback. Originally published under the title, The Dragon in the Sea. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett Crest, 1947. Reprint. Mass-market Paperback. More
London: Vintage, 2019. 50th Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried..... 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: Signet Books, 1954. Second Printing. Paperback. # D2624. Racing through London, Rome, Singapore, to a garish bar in the Down Under country, here's a sinister story by a hypnotic master of the spy thriller. 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
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1957. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (cloth). More
London: Pan Books, 1978. First Edition. 18th Printing. Mass-market Paperback. More
New York: Fontana Books, 1968. First Fontana Books Edition. Eighteenth Printing. Paperback. 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
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