Search Results: Authors starting with A from Last Exit Books

EB. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by East African Pub. House, Nairobi, Kenya. 1976. Xix, 291 pgs. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In his introduction, Professor Ogot suveys the historiography of pre-colonial Kenya from its 'origins' with the appearance of the History of East Africa 15 years ago. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-209: Herbert Jenkins. Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, UK, 1964. 190 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. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Is he George Whitley, a twentieth-century writer of science fiction - or Peter Quinn, Second Officer of the interstellar liner Lode Maiden? An injection of lysergic acid and Whitley finds himself ... Where ... Who ... And in what age? He is inhabiting the body of Second Officer Quinn but his mind is still that of George Whitley. Aboard the Lode Maiden he can capture only fragments of Quinn's memory and consciousness, until a magnetic storm throws the ship off trajectory into the deep reaches of space. Then, somehow, enough knowledge comes to him to enable him to help land… Read More

E-333. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G P Putnam's and Sons, New York. 1919. Viii, 434 pgs, 4 ads. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is lightly sunned and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Dr. David Throckmartin's scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884–1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in 1919. The protagonist, Dr. Goodwin, would later appear in Merritt's second novel The Metal Monster (1920). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Fish and Game Commission, New Jersey, Trenton, NJ. 1896. 212 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in red ruled cloth boards with gil titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine scuffed and rubbed). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This Ornithology book is filled with wonderful black and white plates by Andrew Booth and others of mounted specimens from the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. Some of the specimens include Red Shouldered Hawk, Copper's Hawk, Barred Owl, Wood Thrush, Kingbird, Cardinal Bird, Screech Owl, Woodpeckers, and Kingfishers and many more! EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-320. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Wiley and Putnam, New York & London, 1844. 897 pgs. Illustrated. Second Edition. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn with a chip present to the crown of the spine; boards are sunned, soiled and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine (1846–52). Downing is considered to be a founder of American landscape architecture. His official writing career started when he began producing articles for various newspapers and horticultural journals in the 1830s. In 1841 his first book, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to… Read More

E-099. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1896. V, 297 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in tan cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is faded and sunned). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Walker published International Bimetallism in 1896 roundly critiquing the demonetization of silver out of political pressure and the impact of this change on prices and profits as well as worker employment and wages. Walker's reputation and position on the issue isolated him among public figures and made him a target in the press. The book was published in the midst of the 1896 presidential election pitting populist "silver" candidate William Jennings Bryan against the capitalist "gold" candidate William McKinley and the competing interpretations of the nation's leading economist's stance on the… Read More

E-099. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Co. London, UK. 1878. Iv, 339 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in red 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. In this widely influential series of lectures Walker addresses the money supply question, a topic of vital importance during an era of continued industrial expansion. Money, Walker argues, includes banknotes and anything else used as a medium of exchange. Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897) was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-302. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 4to. Published by Hurst and Blackett, Ltd, London, UK. 1907. xvi, 396 pgs; xii, 511.pgs. Illustrated with 160 half-tone reproductions of photographs and a map of the Route. First UK Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Landor was an English painter, writer and explorer who travelled the world. With an assignment to paint Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, Landor took the opportunity to make a trip across Africa. The journey took about a year and he covered eight thousand miles. Arnold Henry Savage Landor (2 June 1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer, and anthropologist. Landor wrote in an often witty style. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-274. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Brill, Ledien, Netherlands. 1977. 146 pages. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine label present to the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Seth, [a] in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, Sethianism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. According to Genesis 4: 25, Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-147: A. Jager. Very Good. 1870. Hardcover. Album. 12mo. A. Jager. No Date. (1870s). Illustrated with 12 individually mounted CDV-sized photographs with hand-tipped color details depicting various persons of the Netherlands in their native costume. Bound in green cloth decorated boards with gilt titles present to the front board. No ownership marks present. Foxing present to the reverse of the images. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn at the heel of the spine. The photographs are: 1. La Hollande Meridionale, Scheveningue (a man) ; 2. La Hollande Meridionale, Scheveningue, (a woman) ; 3. La Hollande du Nord, Marken, (a man) ; 4. La Hollande du Nord, Marken, (a woman) ; 5. La Zelande, Middelbourg, (a woman) ; 6. La Zelande, Walcheren, (a woman) ; 7. La Zelande, Goes, (a man and a woman) ; 8. La Zelande, Goes, (three women) ; 9. La Frise, Hindeloopen, (a woman) ; 10. Orpheline Bourgeoise d’Amsterdam; 11. La Hollande… Read More

E-057: Elliott & Beezely. Very Good. 1889. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Elliott & Beezley. 1889. 124 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have rubbing and shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Author was the ex-Yardmaster for Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway, and the Grand Organizer of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America. Labor's side of the momentous joint strike of firemen and engineers on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. Eugene Debs, who was among the strike's supporters, would later cite its failure as an example of the ineffectiveness of craft unions, an argument which finally led to the organization of the industrial American Railway Union (with Debs as leader) in 1893. E-57; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-238: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.. Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Schiffer Publishing Company, Atglen, PA. 1997. 192 pgs. Illustrated with 250+ b/w photographs. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This two volume set originally appeared in 1919 in limited quantities original copies are now highly sought collectibles. 542 New England pilots who flew with the USAAC, USN, USMC and British and French air forces are given short biographical entries and most appear in World War I era photographs. New England Aviators is a superb, detailed reference for World War I and aviation historians, as well as uniform and insignia collectors. E-238; Schiffer Military History; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 472 pages .

E-340. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, UK. 1912. X, 333 pgs. Illustrated with 47 unnumbered leaves of plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly scuffed and worn). Bookplate present to the FFEP. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An interesting study into sporting habits across the world on five continents, looking into the games of hunting in places such as India, China, and Africa. The author hunted throughout the world, including Africa where he travelled to Somaliland in 1896 and collected lion. In 1900, he was in British East Africa hunting lion near Lucania Hill, hippopotamus on the Athi River and buffalo near the heights of the Donio Sabuk. He also includes a chapter on hunting and identifying various types of… Read More

E-068: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth. 1902. 298 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-Lib item with typical marks present (call number to spine, bookplate to reverse of the front board, card pocket to reverse of the rear board, deaccession stamps present to the text block). Bound in paper covered cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing Present. Text is free of notation. Binding tight and solid. Alexius Meinong Ritter von Handschuchsheim (17 July 1853 – 27 November 1920) was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology. He also made contributions to philosophy of mind and theory of value. E-68; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages .

E-161. Very Good. Leather. Leather. 12mo. Easton Press, Norwalk. 1985, Collector's Edition. Four Volumes. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Titles and cover illustrations stamped in gilt, ribbon page markers, all edges gilt, illustrated endpapers, illustrations. Printed on archival paper, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends—Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore—have endured as the unforgettable creations of A. A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. This box set contains four leather books: the two original Pooh novels, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, and Milne's two poetry collections, Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young, which features… Read More

E-183: London: Adam and Charles Black, 1952.. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Adam and Charles Black, London, UK. 1952. 196 pgs. Illustrated with 69 black and white plates on glossy paper. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Alexander Cozens (1717-1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolors, born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could be worked up from abstract blots on paper. His son was the artist John Robert Cozens. E-183; 8.6 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches .

E-302. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. 1930. Xiv, 272 pgs. Illustrated with two color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection is a book by Ronald Fisher which combines Mendelian genetics with Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, with Fisher being the first to argue that "Mendelism therefore validates Darwinism" and stating with regard to mutations that "The vast majority of large mutations are deleterious; small mutations are both far more frequent and more likely to be useful", thus refuting orthogenesis. First published in 1930 by The Clarendon Press, it is one of the most… Read More

C2a. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Century Co. , New York, 1904. Ix,356 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated blue cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn with wear present to the edges). No ownership marks present. Stain present ot the top right edge of the pages. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut stunned and delighted Paris, barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-014: Palgrave Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Palgrave Macmillan. 1999. 264 pages. Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. The DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelf wear present. Bacchus in Romantic England describes real drunkenness among writers and ordinary people in the Romantic age. It grounds this 'reality' in writings by doctors and philanthropists from 1780 onwards, who describe an epidemic of drunkenness. These commentators provide a context for the different ways that poets and novelists of the age represent drunkards. Wordsworth writes poems and essays evaluating the drunken career of his model Robert Burns. Charles Lamb's essays and letters reveal a real and metaphorical preoccupation with his own drinking as a way of disguising his personal suffering; his companion Coleridge writes… Read More

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover.12mo. Published by Sumptibus Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. 1902. Viii, 462 pgs. Ex-library (St Joseph's Seminary) item with pocket present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name and gift inscription present to the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Meditations on the Life of Christ (Latin: Meditationes Vitae Christi or Meditationes De Vita Christi; Italian Meditazione della vita di Cristo) is a fourteenth-century devotional work, later translated into Middle English by Nicholas Love as The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .