Search Results: Fiction from Last Exit Books

E-033: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon and Schuster. 1953. 278 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Alongside his career as a prolific novelist, Wodehouse was also highly productive in theatrical circles, providing lyrics for some thirty plays and collaborating on the book a further fifteen. Many of those plays were created in collaboration with Guy Bolton and this book tells the story of that relationship through a patchwork of light-hearted anecdotes and star-studded stories. E-33; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages .

E-051: The Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press. 1934. 303 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ernst Reichl DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with paper label titles present to the spine and the front board. No ownership marks present. Foxing present to the fore-edge. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Vignettes of the South Side of Chicago. Raw, shocking, and overpowering, the sixteen short stories set in sleazy hotels, ramshackle flats, reeking taverns, smoky poolrooms, busy streets, and garbage-strewn alleyways, tells it as it is in the nation's second largest city. ? Includes: Helen, I Love You. --The Scarecrow. --Looking 'Em Over. --The Buddies. --A Front-page Story, --Just Boys. --Honey, We'll Be Brave. --A Casual Incident. --Clyde. --Jim O'Neill. --Twenty-five Bucks. --Mary… Read More

E-230: Alfred A Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1986. 320 pgs. Map endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best. Flashman and the Dragon is a 1985 novel by George MacDonald… Read More

E-018: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1979. 412 pgs. First edition/First printing (full numberline present). DJ has shelfwear present (previous owner taped down to the edges of the flaps and the exremities of the DJ). Remainder mark present to the top edge of the text block. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden - blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives....They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly… Read More

E-341: Arthur A. Levine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, New York. 1999. 352 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (in first state DJ, lacking #2 on the DJ spine) . DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in purple cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Dursleys were so mean that hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .

E-306: Little, Brown. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1962. 344 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in blue cloth boards with titles pressent to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own… Read More

E-285, E-260: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, NY. 1967. 322 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Although unfinished prior to C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis introduces Hornblower to the makings of a spy. Through fortuitous circumstances and quick wittedness, Hornblower, in action with a man who replaced him and then who immediately sunk the ship Hornblower had commanded for two years in the same waters, fought a ship battle and obtained a very special French secret document. These orders from Napoleon form the basis of the following actions by the British Admiralty which Hornblower must… Read More

E-289: George, Allen, & Unwin. Good+. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George, Allen, & Unwin, London, UK. 1932. 309 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is sunned and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Murasaki Shikibu, or Lady Murasaki as she is sometimes known in English was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous novels in human history. "Murasaki Shikibu" was not her real name; her actual name is unknown, though some scholars have postulated that her given name might have been Takako (for Fujiwara Takako). Her diary states that she was nicknamed "Murasaki"… Read More

E-097: Harper & Brothers. Good+. 1901. Later Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers. 1901. 268 pgs. Illustrated with Black & White Plates. Later Printing. Signed and inscribed by Owen Wister on the FFEP. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards in Good shape with shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. From the bestselling author of The Virginian comes Lin McLean, Wister's first novel, about a young cowboy from the Wind River country in Wyoming who tires of the dust and hard life and heads east to Boston to seek his fortune. In this novel after the young hero's first adventure with his elder brother and the bishop, a plot begins with the entrance of the biscuit-shooter, and steadily proceeds through climax and catastrophe to resolution. E-132; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; Signed by Author .