Search Results: Authors starting with H from Last Exit Books

C6b. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, UK. 1909. Vii, 396 pages. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn). Previous owner's name present to the title page and to the reverse of the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Thomas Henry Tizard CB FRS (1839 – 17 February 1924) was an English oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and navigator. He was born in Weymouth, Dorset and educated at the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, at that time noted for its advanced mathematical training. He entered the Royal Navy by competitive examination as master's assistant in 1854 and served in the Baltic during the Crimean war. In 1860 he was promoted second master and commenced surveying in the Rifleman Reed, during which time he… Read More

E-369. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. New Directions, New York. 1928 (1948). 103 pgs. New Directions Classic #18. 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. The Man Who Died, originally published in Paris as "The Escaped Cock" and later retitled and revised, has as its main character Christ, who does not die on the cross but escapes to wander through the country seeking the meaning of human existence, which he finally discovers in a temple of Isis by the waters of Lebanon. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-349. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover.. 8vo. Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK. 1874. Viii, 439 pgs+143 pgs appendices. Bound in 3/4 cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-015: J.H. Borneman. Very Good. 1881. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. J. H. Borneman. 1881. 114 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP and to the verso page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. E-15; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-298: British Book Centre. Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by British Book Centre, New York, 1956. 228 pages. First US 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. The story of the capture of German submarine U-570 by the British in August 1941. The U-Boat was later changed to the HMS Graph and re-entered the war on the Allied side. Sailing on three combat patrols before being turned over to the Royal Navy s Training Command. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-118. Very Good. Paperback. Pb. Folio. 4to. Boston: Geo P Reed& Co; Firth, Pond & Co. 1854. 5 pgs. Illustrated with an illustration of a piscatory young girl lithographed by S W Chandler & Bros within a pictorial border. Wrappers worn (spine repaired).. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Text is in quasi limerick form and as such it was an early American example of a limerick (Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense was 1st published in 1863 in the US). Pb. Folio. 4to. Boston: Geo P Reed& Co; Firth, Pond & Co. 1854. 5 pgs. Illustrated with an illustration of a piscatory young girl lithographed by S W Chandler & Bros within a pictorial border. Wrappers worn (spine repaired).. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Text is in quasi limerick form and as such it was an early American example of a limerick (Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense was 1st published… Read More

C6a. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by D. Appleton and Co, New York. 1930. Xiii, 313 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Robert H Davis on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. 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. Bookplate of Alice Vincent Massey (wife of the future Governor General of Canada) present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Robert Davis started his life-long and illustrious journalism career as an 18-year-old compositor for the Carson City Appeal in 1887. The acclaimed writer eventually went on a tour of the world as a columnist for the old New York Sun. For an interview with Mussolini in Rome in 1926, Davis was made an honorary life member of the staff of The Associated Press. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-221: Gene Ha. Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to Published by Gene Ha. 2015. 104 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in illustrated paper covered 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. Best known for drawing superhero comics, there’s another side to Gene Ha. Oddities and Apocrypha, the first Gene Ha art book, collects works outside the books of Marvel and DC Comics. Within you’ll find his stories set in the worlds of David Petersen (Mouse Guard) , Bill Willinghma (Fables, Back Roads) and Lowell Francis. Also we’ve gathered the finest of his legendary marker sketches from the last 15 years. EB; 11.2 X 8.7 X 0.6 inches; 104 pages .

A-13: Stanford University Press. Very Good. 1989. Hardcover. 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 lightly rubbed and worn. a-13; 8.6 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 196 pages .

E-347. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, UK. 1920. Xix,316 pgs. Illustrated with 50 plates and illustrations, index. 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. The islands of Lifu and Uvea in the Loyalty Group, with a large section on legends and proverbs. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-110: Behring Educational Inst Pr. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Behring Educational Institute Press, Blackhawk, CA. 1988. 324 pgs. Illustrated in color. Deluxe Limited edition #572 of 3000 copies. Bound in green padded leather boards with gilt design present to the 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. This magnificent oversize volume illustrating & describing some of the most fascinating cars in this important collection. The beautiful Behring collection features only classic cars as strictly defined by the Antique Automobile Club of America. Many are one of a kind, "one-off", cars that were made for royalty or custom made automobiles for movie stars like Rudolph Valentino. Visitors will enjoy such beautiful cars as a 1908 American Underslung Model 50, a 1910 Mercer Model 30 Speedster, a 1920 Pierce Arrow Model 66-A-4 Touring specially… Read More

E-230: ARA Press. Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. ARA Press, Livermore, CA. 2001. 540 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper covered 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. Spaceship Handbook's subject is the historical development of the Spaceship during the 20th Century. Arranged in three Sections, "The Theoreticians," "The Entertainers," and "The Real Stuff," it presents an amazing collection of 75 designs and their stories - from Tsiolkovsky and Oberth's engineering papers, through the golden age of movie science fiction, up to the present day's Lockheed "VentureStar" and Rotary Rocket "Roton." Spaceflight historian Hagerty delves into the background story behind each design, examining the motivations of the designers in… Read More

E-207: Louisiana State Univ Pr. Very Good. 1997. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 2007. Xviii, 357 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 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. Led by the enthralling and controversial colonel Charles H. T. Collis, the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry was in many ways unique among the regiments serving in the Union Army. In Collis' Zouaves, Edward J. Hagerty reconstructs the Civil War experiences of this unusual group of soldiers who embraced the flamboyant uniform style made famous by the French army's Zouaves. Recruited in the summer of 1862 from Philadelphia and surrounding counties, the regiment battled Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and went on to… Read More

E-198: University of California Press. Very Good. 1747. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 2000. 317 pgs. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Volume 31. 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. The two centuries between a. D. 250 and a. D. 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period. The essays show how literary genres focusing on individual lives help to reveal this historical process. The contributors are leading scholars who bring several disciplines to bear on these texts: they are… Read More

E-375. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1944. Ix, 405 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn to the 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. Hailey was embedded with the U. S. Navy from the Solomons to the Aleutians. Foster Hailey, New York Times war correspondent in the Pacific, here describes the first two hard years when our forces in that region were fighting odds every time they went to sea or joined the issue ashore or in the air. His account is the history of our whole Pacific naval campaign as it developed step by step. Mr. Hailey was in the front line from the Solomons to the Aleutians; yet he was not out to have adventures himself but to get the facts,… Read More

E-287: Pruett Pub. Co. Very Good. 1980. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder, Colorado. 1981. 259 pgs. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of Andean railways, numerous maps, and bibliography. 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. Fascinating and well-written story of the engineers who brought tremendous skill and tenacity to the task of building railways across the Andes in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The book discusses 96 railroads and branches that were built despite overwhelming engineering and technical problems, daunting grades, curves, tunnels, zig-zags as well as serious difficulties with manpower and logistics. EB; 10.9 X 8.5 X 0.9 inches; 259 pages .

EB: Taplinger. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1972. 222 pgs. Illustrated. Book Club Edition. 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. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages .

A-06: Springer. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. 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. A-25; Springer Series In Synergetics; 0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches; 263 pages .

E-223: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. St Martin's Press, New York, 1974. 236 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. Winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Locus award. In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home. Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William… Read More

E-101: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, UK. 1975. 236 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Joe Haldeman on the title page. First UK 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. In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home. Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit… Read More