Search Results: Authors starting with I from Last Exit Books

E-159. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. C I Enciso, Guadalajara, Mexico. 1901. 151 pgs + errata. #52 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author on the veso page. Bound in 1/2 leather with matching cloth paper covered biards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Bookstore label present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Cenobio I. Enciso was born in Tequila, Jalisco, in 1848 and died in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1903. He graduated as a lawyer in this city in 1877. He held various public positions, federal judge, director of the public library and professor of Roman Law. He published legal, historical and literary studies. Member of the Mexican Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence. He founded the newspaper El Litigante, where he published Camelias rojas in 1894. E-185; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-347: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Very Good. 2005. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Wauconda, IL. 2005. 56 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Five selections in Latin from Peter Martyr of Angleria's De Orbe Novo are presented with vocabulary help on the facing page. After each Latin selection, background notes including information from other primary sources (Columbus' own 1493 letter, the abstraction of Columbus' journal by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, and Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies) are included along with the pertinent Latin selection from Peter Martyr. When Peter Martyr was writing in the fifteenth century, it was agreed upon by scholars and men of literature at the time that the proper Latin to use was that of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Hence Martyr's… Read More

C1c: Volo Edition. Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Volo Edition, London, UK. 1990. 192 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Ysart Glass was made by a family of Spanish immigrants to Scotland, led by their father, Salvador Ysart, between 1924 and 1979 (when Paul Ysart retired). There are three types of Ysart glass, namely Monart, Vasart, and the Ysart paperweights. Monart glass (1924-61) was made by the whole family at the Moncreiff Glassworks, Perth in Scotland. The Ysart family founded Vasart Glass in 1946, when Salvador Ysart and two of his sons left Moncrieff Glassworks and set up their own works in Perth. This now-famous immigrant Spanish family had designed and made the very… Read More

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. H. E. Howard, Lynchburg VA, 1989. 110 pages. #502 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed by Robert J Driver on the limitation page. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in grey cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text has some light highlighting present. Binding tight and solid. Approximately the first half of the book is narrative history of the units and movements of the regiment during the course of the conflict. The second half is the stuff of which dreams are made (at least for a historian or a novelist) : muster rolls, casualty figures, desertion figures, deaths from disease, photographs, entries about each individual, and an extensive bibliography. The Danville Eighth Star New Market & Dixie Artillery was an artillery battery raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly… Read More

E-304: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. 1960. 184 pgs. Tom Swift, Jr. Adventure #16. 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. A solution to the prohibitive cost of producing vehicles for further space explorations is Tom Swift Jr.' s new goal. But the success of the young scientist-inventor's project is threatened by the wily Li Ching, a renegade scientist. Banished from his native land because of rebellious acts, Li Ching is now the leader of a ruthless group intent on pirating scientific secrets. But Li Ching and his nefarious confederates are only partially responsible for Tom's troubles. Olin Whaley, an unscrupulous international criminal,… Read More

E-369. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Paddington Press, New York, 1977. 175 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Contains interesting interviews with Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, and Brett Weston. The interviews deal more with ideas than technical details of each photographer's work. 25 plates - a few photographs for each photographer interviewed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB: Limited Editions Club. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited Editions Club, New York. 1946. Xx, 550 pgs. Illustrated with 24 full-page plates plus a double-page plate of Arthur Szyk's brilliantly colored portraits-in-miniature. #1417 of 1500. Signed by Arthur Szyk on the limitation page. Slipcased in decorated illustated paper covered boards. Slipcase lightly rubbed and worn. Bound in patterned paper covered cloth board with paper label 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. When a group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral meet on the road, they agree to tell stories to pass the time. Each story reflects a different segment of society, from the pious to the bawdy, and has given countless readers a look into fourteenth-century English life. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-142: Vanguard. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Vanguard Press, New York. 1959. 222 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bart Forbes DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (spine lightly sunned, light chipping present to the crown and heel of the spine; price intact but scribbled on). Bound in yellow cloth boards with titles present to the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. “A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum! ’ because he could see no more. ” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name. ” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his… Read More

E-031: The Connoisseur. Very Good. 1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. The Connoisseur. 1955. 238 pgs. Illustrated with over 360 black & white plates, with a few in color. #5 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Bound in 3/4 vellum and grey paper covered boards. Boards have 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. A standard reference work on the furniture of the 17th and 18th centuries. English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country. E-31; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 238 pages .

E-207: Ross & Haines. Very Good. 1963. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Ross & Haines, Minneapolis, MN. 1963. V, 238 pp. 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 First Volunteers takes an in-depth look at the Minnesota's famed First Volunteer Regiment from 1861 to 1865 with a brief look at the local militia that spawned it. This is a good reference for those who want to get a beneath the surface of the Regiment that went on to become one of the most heroic in U. S. Military history. By 'heroic' I mean just that because on July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg the roughly 262 members of the unit conducted a bayonet charge against 1,500 fired up rebels. They paid dearly and the Company rosters you'll find in the book will show you their… Read More

E-015: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press. 1994. Xxxi,1026 pgs. Maps. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. This book provides a richly detailed account of the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, one of the major empires of modern times. In so doing it spans seven centuries, from the origins of the Empire around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War I. In four chronological sections the contributors provide the reader with valuable information on land tenure systems, population, trade and commerce and the industrial economy. This is an essential book for understanding contemporary developments in both the Middle East and the post-Soviet Balkan world. E-15; 9.21 X 6.22 X 2.52 inches; 1066 pages .

E-308. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by The Truth Seeker Company, New York. 1885. 320 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blindstamped decorated boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine label removed; unknown when). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Joshua King Ingalls (July 16, 1816 – Mar 3, 1899) was an American inventor, Christian minister, writer and land reformer who influenced contemporary individualist anarchists, despite never self-identifying as one. Ingalls was an associate of Benjamin Tucker and the Boston anarchists. He believed that government protection of idle land was the foundational source of all limitations on individual liberty. This was in disagreement with Tucker who, while also opposing protection of idle land, believed that government protection of the "banking monopoly" was the greatest evil. Like… Read More

E-196. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, MN. 1940. 48 pgs. Illustrated in color (some full page) and black & white by Ingerman. 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. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Words and music to a multitude of children's ditties. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-258. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, UK. 1909. 2 volumes. Vol. 1: lviii, 468 pgs. Vol 2: xvi, 481-1020 pgs. Illustrated with photogravure illustrations. De luxe edition. Number 20 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Bound in 3/4 green prebbled morocco leather with matching cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the rear pastedown of Volume II. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An important reference collection of Shelley's letters. Ingpen included every Shelly letter that he was able to locate, regardelss of their literary or biographical value so that collectively they have great importance of a self-revelation of his personality. Ingpen's notes are an important resource on the events and people mentioned in the letters. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-281: Page Co. Good+. 1915. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Page Company, Boston, MA. 1915. 140 pgs. Illustrated with duotone 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. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First edition of this scarce title in the Little Cousin series by Innes. Tells the story of a young South African boy and his adventures on the farms, on safaris, watching Zulu dances and more. EB; Little Cousin Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .

A-20: Routledge. Very Good. 1998. 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-20; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 454 pages .

E-212. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Oblong. Published by Published by the Navy Department, Washington, DC. 1943. 104 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Book shows photographs and descriptions of warships. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-321a. Very Good. Hardcover. Issued in a ring binder. 8vo. Published by Military Intelligence Division US War Department, Washington, DC. 1932. X, 372 pgs. Illustrated With 9 full-page colour plates depicting German military uniforms num. B/w illusts. Some full-page and tables of which 5 folding plates. Bound in cloth board binder 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 .

E-218: Washington: GPO. Very Good. 1933. Hardcover. Trade PB. 8vo. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1932. 30 guidebooks. Issued in paper covered slipcase. 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. The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology. E-218; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-339: Greenberg. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1948. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Greenberg, New York. 1948. 288 pgs. Second 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. The inside story of the US treasuries war with America’s political and underworld hoodlums. By Elmer L. Irey, former chief, enforcement branch, United States treasury and filled with some of the largest, most notorious cases IRS criminal investigation worked in the beginning years of the agency. Would recommend for anybody wanting to learn more about white collar crime. Elmer Lincoln Irey (March 10, 1888 – July 19, 1948) was a Postal Inspector, United States Treasury Department official and the first Chief of the Internal Revenue Service… Read More