London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1956. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 135 mm), 284, [2] pages in red cloth, titles to spine. Large bookplate to front paste down, small tear in paste down, signature stamped on front free end paper, internally... More about The Great World and Timothy Colt
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by John Ball on the title page to legendary crime-novel reviewer and bibliographer Allen Hubin: "For / Allen Hubin - / 5 pieces to add to / the 25,000 he already has / [Chinese characters] // Most Cordially /... More about Five Pieces of Jade
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes, it's not bad... More about All My Enemies
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition Thus. 8vo (8 1/2 / 215 mm tall), 22 pages, in sewn, decorated wrappers. Light sunning to edges. A Near Fine copy. A fragment of an unfinished novel, written ca.1955, featuring the musings of a neurotic man. Beckett told his bibliographers that the fragment... More about From an Abandoned Work
First Edition. Octavo, 440 pages. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with some rubbing. A bit of creasing at top of jacket spine. More about That Distant Land
New York: Grossman Publishers (Viking Press), 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Advance review copy of David Bradley's highly regarded debut novel about black street life in Philadelphia, with the publisher's review card laid in. 8vo., 340 pages. A Very Good copy, with upper boards faded and spine edges tapped, in... More about South Street
Random House, 1990. SIGNED by A.S. Byatt on the title page. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, with a couple of very small tears at the bottom of both flaps where they join the covers. Some evidence of slight damp staining along upper edge of rear jacket and flap. More about Possession
The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Three Capote stories (Miriam; Among the Paths to Eden; and A Christmas Memory) that became three television specials and then a single film. Octavo, 276 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Front board lightly bumped and head of spine... More about Trilogy: An Experiment in Multimedia
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches (130 x 192 mm), [6], 3-203, [3] and errata leaf in pink wrappers covered with an old tissue guard. Offsetting to flyleaf and to pages 26-27 from a bookmark. Spine a bit darkened and with... More about Le Grand Écart
Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. First Edition Thus. Small 8vo (7 1/2 inches / 190 mm tall), 433 pages. Publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine in red. A bit of rubbing to the unclipped dust jacket, very light toning to top edge of jacket. A.... More about The Cubical City
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First American Edition, 1st Printing. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the half title. A review copy of the first American edition of this novel. Small stain on bottom edge; else Fine in a Fine dust jacket with photo and promotional material laid in. SCARCE signed. This..... More about A Guest of Honor
London: Bloomsbury, 1990. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Octavo, 277 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy. More about My Son's Story
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First American Edition, 1st Printing. INSCRIBED by Nadine Gordimer on the front free end paper. Octavo, 244 pages. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to the spine, a tear to the front flap fold, a tiny chip... More about The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First American Edition, 1st Printing. The amazing adventures of Henry Pulling, a quiet, retired bank manager, and his Aunt Augusta. 8vo., 244 pages. A Near Fine copy with slight sunning to the spine in a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket whose spine is also... More about Travels With My Aunt
London: Chatto & Windus, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Xiaolu Guo on the title page and dated 14 Jan. 08. The story of Fenfang, who travels 1,800 miles to seek her fortune as a film extra. The novel draws on the author's own film-making experiences and is illustrated... More about 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
London: Chatto & Windus, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Xiaolu Guo on the title page. A Chinese girl adrift in London. An English man adrift in life. A whole dictionary of possible misunderstandings. Xiaolu Guo's first novel in deliberately bad English, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for... More about A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
London: Chatto & Windus, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Xiaolu Guo on the title page. Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sees an alien space craft. The author tells Kwok Yun's... More about UFO in Her Eyes
London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Xiaolu Guo on the title page; this is her first book to be published outside China. The author was born in a fishing village in south China and studied film at the Beijing Film Academy. She published six books... More about Village of Stone
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. First Edition. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the front free end paper. A Fine copy of the Advance Reading Copy in a Fine slip case. A collection of 12 stories by the celebrated Chinese-American author, Ha Jin. More about The Bridegroom
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The third novel by the Chinese-born author Ha Jin. More about The Crazed
Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches / 140 x 218 mm), [13], 2-207, [5] pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the title page. A collection of 12 stories on life in a.... More about Under the Red Flag: Stories by Ha Jin
New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Ha Jin on the title page. Ha Jin's novel about Chinese prisoners-of-war held by American forces during the Korean war. It's fiction but it's based on true historical accounts, which explains the presence of a bibliography. Winner of the... More about War Trash
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 193 x 130 mm), 254 pages in green cloth in a pictorial dust jacket. Hemingway's novel about an American colonel obsessed with an Italian countess. This is the true first edition, published in London several... More about Across the River and Into the Trees
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small 4to (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 160 mm), 346 pages, in burgundy cloth, all edges gilt. In the publisher's original tissue dust jacket and housed in the original burgundy cloth slipcase. Tissue jacket and slipcase slightly... More about Immortality
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Milan Kundera's second novel, a comedy featuring a self-deluded poet named Jaromil. Like much of Kundera's early work, the action takes place in Communist-era Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. 8vo., [9], 289 pages. Near Fine, with... More about Life Is Elsewhere