Search Results: Authors starting with J from Last Exit Books

EB. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by Ministry of Public Works, Zoological Service, Cairo, Egypt. 1919. 119 pgs. Illustrated with 31 colored plates on thick paper and large colored map. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the front board and paper titles present to the spine.. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (corners are bumped and worn). Previous owner's name Tom Lovejoy present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Intended to be as complete a list as possible of the birds of Egypt. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB: Promotional Reprint Co. for Fraser Stewart. Very Good. 1992. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Transport Publishing Company, Glossop, Derbyshire, UK. 1978, 440 pgs. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. Second Printing. Ex-library item with library bookplate present to the front pastedown. 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 history of the Leyland Bus Company and the development of its vehicles. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 524 pages .

E-021: Books for Libraries Press. Very Good. 1980. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Books for Libraries Press, New York. 1980. 49 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and musical notation. Series: Dance. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The basse danse, or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court. The word basse describes the nature of the dance, in which partners move quietly and gracefully in a slow gliding or walking motion without leaving the floor, while in livelier dances both feet left the floor in jumps or leaps. The basse danse was a precursor of the pavane as a dignified processional dance (Cole n. D. ). The term may apply to the dance or the music alone. E-021; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-303. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Viking Press, New York. 1928. Xi, 414 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Marion Frankfurter on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in black title with title label present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian- American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defied the verdict against them, maintaining their innocence to the end. Whether they were guilty continues to be the subject of debate today. First published in 1928, Sacco and Vanzetti's letters represent one of the great personal documents of the twentieth century: a volume of primary source material as famous for the splendor of its impassioned prose as for the brilliant light it sheds on the characters of the two dedicated anarchists who became the focus of worldwide attention.… Read More

C5b: Farrar, Straus. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus & Co, New York. 1948. 271 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (crown of the spine is chipped and worn). 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. Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road… Read More

A-3: Routledge. Very Good. 2001. Paperback. Trade Pb. 8vo. Routledge. 2001. 208 pgs. Wrappers in excellent shape, with no wear present. Binding tight and solid. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Photos sent upon request. A-3; 0.4 x 9.5 x 6.7 Inches; 208 pages .

E-026: John Lane Publishers. Good. 1903. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. John Lane Publisher. 1903. 304 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated cloth with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Glue residue present to the reverse of the boards. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A goodhearted thriller with a Candide-like hero (Richard Wayzgoose, bank clerk) dragged into action and wrongfully suspected. This appears to be Jackson's first book and his only mystery. He published a couple more novels and then settled into a steady career as a translator and general man-of-letters. E-026; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages .

A-14: The Building Centre Trust. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A-14; 152 pages .

E-258: Random House. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Random House/Modern Library, New York. 1969. 458 pgs. First Modern Library Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have lighjt 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 direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why… Read More

A-9: Dartmouth Pub Co. Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. No DJ as issued. Bound in pictoral cloth. 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-9; 8.7 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches; 124 pages .

A-2: UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. 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. Photos sent upon request. Drawing, once considered the most traditional of mediums, has undergone a dramatic renaissance over the past several decades. One of the most personal, immediate, and accessible forms of art, drawings offer insight into the ongoing preoccupations and concerns of the artist who puts his or her ideas onto paper. Today, more and more artists have begun to view drawing as an end in itself rather than as a preparatory phase in service of another medium. International Paper demonstrates that the medium of drawing continues to play a fresh and vital role in the practice of a younger generation of artists. It explores the broad range of techniques and approaches that one finds in drawings today—including the use of… Read More

E-245: Oxford University Press. Good+. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1944. 2 vols. Xiii, (1) , 242 pgs ; 279 plates. Chip to the top of the spine of Vol. 1. Bound in black cloth boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards of Volume 1 are faded and worn to the extremities. The papers chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles. This new body of international scholarship will give the reader a sense of the richness of the material and current debates. Artefacts of rich form and decoration, which we might call art, provide a most sensitive set of indicators of key areas of past societies, their power, politics and transformations. With its broad geographical scope, this volume offers a timely opportunity to re-assess contacts, context, transmission and… Read More

E-153: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1982. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. The Limited Editions Club, New York. 1982. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Number 1602 out of 2000 signed limited copies. Slipcase with light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Eugene O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a seedy, skid row saloon in 1912, peopled by society's failures: worn-out anarchists, failed con artists, drifters, whores, pimps, and informers. The pipe-dreaming drunks of Harry Hope's bar numb themselves with rotgut gin and make grandiose plans, while waiting for the annual appearance of the big-spending, fast-talking salesman, Hickey. But this year's visit fails to bring the expected good times, as a changed Hickey tries to rouse the barflies from their soothing stupor with a proselytizing… Read More

E-216: Bantam Books. Very Good. Manuscript. Paperback. Paperback. 4to. Bantam Books, New York. 1985. Facsimile of the manuscript. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (wrappers are stained and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Cinderella story in search of a happy ending, this is a family drama where jealousy is stronger than love; duplicity reigns supreme; and seething hatred manipulates the truth. E-216; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-274: A. Hiersemann. Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart, Germany. 1991. 686 pgs. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters. Text in German. 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. Like modern Bavaria, historical Bavaria was also located in the geographical heart of Europe, at the intersection between "western" and "eastern", between northern Alpine and Italic-Italian cultures, states, and societies. The Bavarian ethnogenesis took place on this soil, characterized by its topography, on former Roman imperial soil in a historical tension between the Ostrogothic and the Frankish Empire, both of which were successor states to the Roman Empire. But not only the beginnings of Bavarian history, which the Bavarians themselves did not initially reflect on, but the… Read More

C6b. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 4to. Published by Cassell and Company, London, UK. No Date (1880). Xliv, 196 pgs. Illustrated with 30 chromolithographic coloured full-page plates with tissue guards including frontisp. B/w text-illusts. And illust. End-papers. Bound in 3/4 leather and matching paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Rear board is detached from the spine. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. James Britten (1846-1924) was an English botanist. He was associated with the Department of Botany, British Museum and he was the editor of the Journal of Botany for 45 years. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-307. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Thomas Reed and Co, Sunderland, United Kingdom. 1885. 167 pgs, 16 pp of ads. Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved. Ex-library item from Library of the Navy Department with Library of Congress stamp present to the FFEP and Navy Department stamp present to the title page. Bound in flexible red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Log book is blank. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-112. Very Good. Hardcover. Trade PB. 4to. 1976 Star Trek Convention at the New York Hilton. 1976. Illustrated throughout with 7 color portraits by Kelly Freas. Three of the portraits are signed and inscribed by the cast of the original series. James Doohan, George Takei and Walter Koenig have each signed and inscribed (to Brian) their portrait. Issued in stapled wraps. Wrappers 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. Complete 11x8 56 page book was only offered at the 1976 Star Trek Convention held at the New York Hilton that featured every living cast member of the original series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-130: Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1980. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 1980. 303 pgs. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine label present to the spine). 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. A collection of articles on Visgothic Spain. List of chapters: Popular Religion in Visigothic Spain / -- J. N. Hillgarth -- Literary Aspects of the Visigothic Liturgy / M. C. Diaz y Diaz -- The Conversion of the Spanish Suevi to Catholicism / E. A. Thompson -- King Sisebut's Vita Desiderii and the Political Function of Visigothic Hagiography / Jacques Fontaine -- King Chindasvind and the First Territorial Law-code of the Visigothic Kingdom / P. D. King -- Freedmen in the Visigothic Kingdom / Dietrich Claude -- Mérida and Toledo: 550-585 / Roger Collins -- Visigothic Spain… Read More

E-239. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1889. 226 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. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Enjoyed immensely the masterfully crafted collection of short stories by Maupassant. Each story left an unending mystery behind and a melancholic inquiry into the life. Stories included in this anthology are: Happiness; A Coward; The Wolf; The Necklace; The Piece of String; La Mère Sauvage; Moonlight; The Confession; On the Journey; The Beggar; A Ghost; Little Soldier; The Wreck. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .