New York: Riverhead Books, 2021. First printing. Paperback. 324pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Orange and blue illustrated wraps. An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. More
Penguin Classics, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 389pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. "Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with..... More
Vintage Classics, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 194pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. More
New York: Hogarth, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 388pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 211pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice. It’s Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he’s unemployed, with no..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 350pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 344pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 red paper over blue boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine and gilt stamped illustration on front board. "How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, 'Gold Diggers' skewers the..... More
New York: One World, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 259pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Ivory boards with title stamped in metallic red on spine. "Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets."..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 446pp., 503pp., 507pp., 574pp., 590pp. Large octavo [24cm]. Scarlet cloth over boards with decorations stamped in black ink and gold. Orange-yellow endpapers. Volume one has a previous owners stamp on the front free endpaper with a small pencil mark on the fore..... More
New York: Viking, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. 288pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. 1/4 orange paper over blue boards. Title stamped in teal on spine. "Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells..... More
New York: Knopf, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Printed paper over boards. Pictorial dust jacket. "The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball..... More
New York: Random House, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 209pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards, with light edge-wear to the spine and boards. In a dust jacket, with mild toning to the spine and rear panel, and moderate rubbing to the edges. Eight short stories. A first edition of..... More
New York: Vintage, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 239pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. An existential masterpiece that is a cornerstone of modern Japanese fiction, and the basis for a provocative film of the same title. More
New York: Vintage, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 243pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now an acclaimed Netflix series." More
London: The Folio Society, 2015. Later printing. Hardcover. 128pp. Octavo [22.8cm]. White illustrated cloth over boards with copper metallic stamped lettering on boards and spine. Stamp and signature of former owner on the front free endpaper in ink as well as some black ink pen markings on the top fore-edge..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. 239pp. Octavo [23.1cm] Blue cloth over boards with metallic decoration and lettering on spine. One small stain on the front board. Front free end paper has a previous owners stamp and signature in ink as well as some small ink markings on..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. David Hughes. First edition thus. Hardcover. 330pp. Octavo [24cm]. Bound in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the illustrator. Introduction is sporadically underlined in red pencil. Edge of textblock is mildly soiled. Enclosed in publisher's red slipcase. More
Simon & Schuster, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. 858pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Pictorial wraps with orange spine. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the..... More
Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1965. Reprint. Paperback. 351pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]. Illustrated wraps. A classic in American West literature and the inspiration for Robert Redford's portrayal in the classic film Jeremiah Johnson. Vardis Fisher has captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with..... More
New York: Charles Winthrope and Sons, 2010. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 15 volume set includes Tom Sawyer Abroad, The Celebrated Jumping Frog, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrim's Progress, The American Claimant, Personal Recollections of Joan..... More
Charles Winthrope and Sons, ca 2010. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 11 Volume set includes The Patchwork Girl of Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Scarecrow of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Lost Princess of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Rinki-Tink in Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Ozma..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. 311pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/4 turquoise cloth with gray paper covered boards. The spine ends are marginally bumped, and there is a previous owner's name along the top edge of the front free endpaper. In the pictorial dust jacket ($16.95 price..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2021. Later printing. Hardcover. 477pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 white paper with orange paper over boards. Title gilt stamped on spine and front cover. From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life..... More
New York: Little, Brown, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. 345pp. Octavo [24cm]. Tan boards with title stamped in black on spine. "A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, 'Homeland Elegies' blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and..... More
