Mark Twain – The Family

This is a jumbo-sized collection of famous novels by Twain (Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, etc.) along with short stories and essays. Various copyright dates are given for the publishing history, dating back to 1874, with 1935 being the most recent date. This is a hardcover edition published by Harper & Brothers in the USA. Dustcover has some tears but the book is in fair to good condition overall. Price: 590 baht

 

 

James Michener – Caribbean

This is a First Edition hardcover copy of one of Michener’s famous novels. This was published in 1989 by Random House in New York. The dustcover is slightly faded, but the book is in good condition. Price: 490 baht

 

 

Brett Halliday – She Woke to Darkness

This is one of the author’s Mike Shayne mysteries. This 191-page novel thrusts Mike Shayne into “a tense, violent, deadly game” in which he “tries to out-guess a sinister combo and plays hide-and-seek with murder. Features a classic cover from the period; this paperback edition was published in 1962. Price: 90 baht

 

 

Bernard Llewellyn – With my Back to the East

The subject of this book is a journey from Asia to the Mediterranean that the author, an England native, took in 1957. Among the countries he visited are Japan, Hong Kong, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India, and Ceylon. This is a hardcover edition published in 1958 by Allen & Unwin. Very good condition. Price: 490 baht

 

 

Jack Reynolds – A Woman of Bangkok

It’s back again! This is one of the rarest novels in the genre known as “Bangkok Fiction.” First published in 1956, this famous novel stayed in print via UK, US, and Thailand editions until the late 1980s, at which time it virtually vanished from bookshop shelves. This is a paperback copy in fair condition, published by D.K. Book House in Bangkok in 1985. Copies are selling online for over $100. Our Price: 990 baht

 

 

 

Woody Guthrie – Seeds of Man

This was the last prose work that Guthrie wrote before he passed away in 1967. Guthrie, of course, was one of America’s greatest folk singers and songwriters, penning “This Land is Your Land” and other classic songs. This book is based on a trip that Guthrie took with his father and two relatives in the early 1930s. This “stirring narrative” of a search for a silver mine, is described as “lusty, poetic, funny and captivating, partly true, partly imagined and fictionalized.” This is a hardcover edition published in 1976 by Dutton in the USA. Fair condition. Price: 490 baht

 

 

Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol

This is a first edition paperback version of this famous novel, published in 1939 by Pocket Books in the USA. This is a complete and unabridged edition with illustrations by Julian Brazelton. The book is in good condition for its age, with some tearing on the cover. Price: 190 baht

 

 

Ludwig Koch-Isenburg – Through the Jungle Very Softly

This book details the author’s travels and “quest for wild animals” in the Far West. Originally written in German in 1959, this English language translation was published in 1963.  During his travels, the author visited several regions in Thailand, as well as Burma and Ceylon. This hardcover edition was published in 1963 by Hodder and Staughton in Great Britain. Price: 390 baht

 

Jean-Baptiste Mondino – Déjà vu

Mondino first gained fame as the art director at a record label, which led him to the advertising world. Mondino’s photographs, computer images and video clips have been admired by millions of people around the world. This oversized paperback book spans 368 pages with 327 full-color illustrations, offering an overview of the brilliant creativity Mondino’s advertising artistry. Price: 1,500 baht

 

W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood – On the Frontier

The famous poet and the famous novelist team up for this “Melodrama in Three Acts.” This was the third, and last, play that the two writers collaborated on. This is a hardcover copy published in 1938 by Faber & Faber. The book is in fair condition with some tears on the dust jacket. Price: 1,900 baht

 

 

Manly P. Hall – Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

This book is described by the publisher as one “for those who desire to live intelligent and effective lives. He who would understand these laws, by which the wise of every age have regulated their lives to the ends of happiness and integrity, will find in this book a clean and concise presentation of this Ancient Wisdom. This is the hardcover Second Edition published in 1947 by the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. Note: the cover pictured is not the same as the copy that we currently have in stock. Price: 390 baht

 

 

  

Myra Waldo’s Travel Guide to the Orient and the Pacific

This bulky little hardcover edition was published in 1965. The author had previously written a Travel Guide to Europe, as well as several best-selling cookbooks. For this guidebook, she travels to nearly every country in Asia and the Pacific, including stops in Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. She even spends some island time in Fiji, Tahiti, and Samoa. Much of the information in this book is now obsolete (she advises not to pay more than 3 or 4 baht for taxi rides in Bangkok!), but it’s a lot of fun reading about what the tourist scene was like over forty years ago in these countries. This was a library copy, but it’s in good condition. Price: 390 baht

 

 

John Le Carre – A Small Town in Germany

John Le Carre is the pen name of David Cornwell, who was working at the British embassy in Bonn, Germany when he wrote this now classic novel of espionage. This was his fifth of many novels. This is a hardcover copy, published in 1968 by William Henemann in Great Britain. Fair condition with some torn edges of the dust jacket. Price: 290 baht

 

 

Alex Moore – Ballroom Dancing

The inside cover says: “The new edition of this well-known and popular book embodies all the latest developments in the technique of ballroom dancing.” Originally published in 1936, this book has remained the bible for students of ballroom dancing all over the world. This hardcover copy is the Sixth Edition, published in 1955 by Pitman Press in Great Britain.  Includes black & white photos and diagrams of steps. Fair condition with browning on some pages. Price: 390 baht

 

  

Gavin Maxwell – A Reed Shaken by the Wind

Maxwell accompanied noted travel writer Wilfred Thesiger to the marshes of Iraq. This book is the story of that “journey through an almost unknown land.” The text includes Black & White photos, maps, and illustrations. This is a small hardcover copy Readers Union edition, published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1959. Fair condition. Price: 290 baht

 

 

 

Lee Mortimer – Around the World Confidential

The author, a nationally known newspaper columnist of the New York Daily Mirror is described as “an expert on underworld and café society life and political malfeasance.” As part of his series of “Confidential” books that expose the “uncensored and unafraid truth” about what is happening in the world, Mortimer delivers a “staggering story of sin, corruption, degradation, perversion, subversion, vice and international monkey business on a global scale.” His “investigations” take him to various European destinations, as well as Asian haunts such as Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, and Tokyo. This is a hardcover edition, published in 1956 by Putnam in New York. Price: 490 baht

 

 

 

Alan Kemp – The Hornbills

This book, published in 1995 by Oxford University Press as part of their “Bird Families of the World” series, is apparently a rare bird indeed (pun intended) nowadays. Used copies are selling online from around US$400 up to $1,700! This is a hardcover title, 300 pages, with illustrations by Martin Woodcock. Our Price: 3,900 baht

 

 

Clarence R. Wyatt – Paper Soldiers

This book, subtitled “The American Press and the Vietnam War,” shatters the idea that the American press vehemently opposed the war. In fact, the book argues, a detailed analysis of twenty years’ worth of US newspaper, magazine, and television coverage of the war --- along with previously unused government and military documents --- reveals that the US government successfully manipulated the press to its own ends. And not for the last time! This is a First Edition hardcover copy, published by W.W. Norton in 1993. Price: 590 baht