Search Results: Authors starting with N from Last Exit Books

E-303. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1978. 269 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. In 'Striper', this well-known editor, author and conservationist presents both a moving personal story and detailed natural history--reminiscent of William W. Warner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Beautiful Swimmers'--of the striped bass whose strength and grace have challenged and inspired American fishermen for centuries. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-065: Roli Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Lustre Press. 2005. 143 pgs. Illustrated with Color Plates. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in paper-covered 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. Transporting the reader to the spiritual realm of lamas - most of it sequestered within the forbidding territory of the high Himalayas - Himalayan Buddhist Monasteries gives us a glimpse of the mystical, vibrant and serene world of Buddhist monasteries, locally known as gompas. Buddhist ceremonies, funeral and reincarnation rites, prayer rituals, festivals and dances re-enacting sacred historical events are captured in scintillating detail in this book with exquisite photographs and a vivid text. The historical evolution of the gompas in Tibetan art, architecture, education and their socio-religious functions in the life of the people are… Read More

E-036: Eisenbrauns. Very Good. 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana. 2006. 432 pgs. 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. Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na’aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the history of ancient Israel and the land of Canaan during the second and first millenniums B. C. E. Many of his studies have been published as journal articles or notes and yet, together, they constitute one of the most important bodies of literature on the subject in recent years, particularly because of the careful attention to methodology that… Read More

E-093. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Duckworth and Co, London, UK. 1921. 320 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-lib item with typical marks (library bookplate present to the front pastedown, library stamps present and numbers present to the spine). 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. Author was Vladimir Nabokov's uncle (father's brother) , charge d'affaires at Russian Embassy in London. Konstantin Nabokov (also spelled Constantine Nabokoff) was born in Rostov sul Don, Russia. He was an uncle of writer Vladimir Nabokov who called him "my father's Englished brother". He was one of the two secretaries to Count Witte, the Russian Secretary of State, during the Portsmouth, New Hampshire peace treaty talks (1905) , mediated by Theodore Roosevelt, which ended the Russo-Japanese war.… Read More

E-179: Paris. Editions Du Seuil.1945. Text in French.. Very Good. 1945. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Editions du Seuil, Paris, France. 1945. 358 pgs. Illustrated with and black and white illustrations in the text. Text in French. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's name present to the front wrapper. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "I believe," André Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surréalité." The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of… Read More

E-289. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Upaginated. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (offsetting and wear present to the edges of the wrappers; offsetting present throughout the text). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The graduation year for such notables as Ralph Nader, Carl Hovde, Charles Coker and Peter Lewis. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

A-8: University of Minnesota Press. Good+. 1993. Hardcover. No DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. Photos sent upon request. A-8; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB: Spiess. Very Good. 1982. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Verlag Volker Spiess, Berlin, Germany. 1982. 209 pages. Illustrated. Maps. Text in German. 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. Ninus and Semiramis in legend and history: Iranian states and equestrian nomads before Darius. Ninus, according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was the founder of Nineveh , ancient capital of Assyria. The figure or figures with which he corresponds in Assyrian records is uncertain; an association or identification with Ninurta has been proposed. [citation needed] An identification with Shamshi-Adad I, Shamshi-Adad V, and/or a conflation of the two have also been suggested. EB; Berliner Beitrage zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 209 pages .

E-158: Hudson Hills. Very Good. 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Hudson Hills, New York. 1998. 288 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the state's major cultural repository, this beautiful book presents 200 of the finest works of art from an encyclopaedic collection in colour plates and essays by a distinguished group of curators and scholars. EB; 8.34 X 1.08 X 11.76 inches; 288 pages .

E-063: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. 2002. 524 pgs. Signed and dated by V. S. Naipaul on the title page. 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. V. S. Naipaul is our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In these pages, he trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challenges of modernity and the seductions of both the real and mythical past. Whether he is writing about a string of racial murders in Trinidad; the mad, corrupt reign of Mobutu in Zaire; Argentina under the generals; or Dallas during… Read More

E-274: Northwestern University Press. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL. 1972. 324 pgs. Maps. Illustrated. 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 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. This book, which began life as a very competent doctoral thesis, forms a useful addition to the series of monographs on Southern Nigerian coastal communities. The title is misleading; it is not a study of politics and social organization in South Eastern Nigeria, but a history of the Efik state of Old Calabar insofar as this can be deduced from the records, which for all practical purposes begin with the arrival of the Scottish Mission in 1841. They consist mainly of mission and Foreign Office correspondence, reports and journals which,… Read More

E-073: Nihon No Kokoro. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Nihon No Kokoro. 1981. 133 pgs. Illustrated with mostly color plates with a small amount of black and white photos. First Edition/First Printing. Text in Japanese. Slipcased in a illustrated paper covered slipcase. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. Masaya Nakamura (Nakamura Masaya, 1926–2001) was a Japanese photographer particularly known for nude photography. Nakamura was born in Yokohama on 29 March 1926. After graduating in 1948 from the precursor of Chiba University, he moved through a series of employers photographing actors and doing still photography for films. He went freelance in 1951 and in 1954 joined with Yuji Hayata in setting up Hayata's studio. He was also doing work for the magazine Chuo Koron. From the… Read More

E-132: Halton. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Halton and Truscott Smith, , London, UK, 1924. Viii, 80 pgs. Illustrated with 22 drawings, plus 124 b/w plates with 139 illustrations (9 of the plates with tissue guard). Frontispiece in colour of a Flemish Carrack (circa 1450). #154 of 1750 copies. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt 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. Loving tribute to the often startlingly beautiful sailing vessels of a bygone age, charmingly depicted in over 120 handsome photographs and 28 drawings. Flemish Carrack, c. 1450; the Norske Löve, 1634; the 90-gun Albemarle, 1680; a Venetian trading Galeass, 1726; a Dutch East Indiaman, c. 1740; and the Great Republic, an American clipper, 1853. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches .

E-056: Dutton Books for Young Readers. Very Good. 2006. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Dutton Children's Books, New York, 2006. 224 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Donna Jo Napoli on the title page. Second 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. After escaping a Nazi labor camp, Roberto returns home to Italy where he discovers that the Allies are forcing the Nazis north, which is dangerous for the Italians, and joins a small band of resistance fighters who carry secret messages and smuggle guns--acts that are punishable by death. EB; 8.4 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .

E-129: Kyuryu-Do. Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Kyuryu-Do, Tokyo, Japan. 1969. Two Volumes. 300 pgs, 48 pgs. Illustrated with Numerous Black & White plates printed in gravure. First Edition/First Printing. Text in Japanese and English. Supplemental softbound volume with matching wrappers and illustrated endpapers contains Narahara's essay titled, "The Promised Journey" Signed by Ikko Narahara on the FFEP. Slipcased. Slipcase lightly rubbed and worn. Bound in printed paper covered illustrated boards and matching wraps. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Narahara's ode to Spain printed in gravure. Split into 3 sections: the bull fight, the urban landscape, and the countryside. Along with Eikoh Hosoe, Shomoei Tomatsu, Kikuji Kawada, Akira Tanno, and Akira Sato, Ikko Narahara was a founding member of the famed VIVO agency. This book is divided into… Read More

E-119: Powerhouse Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Powerhouse Books. 1999. 256 pgs. Illustrated with 241 color photographs and 3 double gatefolds. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light soil soil present to the edges of the DJ) present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. World renowned makeup artist Francois Nars started photographing just two years ago. Deciding to art direct his own marketing campaign, Nars started casting and shooting models. The results were smashing: soon ads appeared in W, Harpers Bazaar, and Allure, featuring stunning full-frame images of strikingly elegant women, in very untraditional casting, showcasing his new, blazing hot NARS line of cosmetics. The famed designer decided to expand his vision: create an enormous art book with over two hundred richly stylized presentations of… Read More

E-236: Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. 461 pgs. Illustrated with black and white photos. 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 Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr. , from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. As a young professor at… Read More

E-032: Steidl. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Steidl, Munich, Germany. 2004. 192 pgs. Illustrated with 150 photographs by rock musician Graham Nash. 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. Eye to Eye gathers for the first time more than 150 photographs by rock musician Graham Nash. While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Shot between 1969 and 2003, Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, and a unique… Read More

EB: Thomas McLean. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Leather. Leather. Folio. Thomas McLean, London, UK. 1839-49. 4 Volumes. 104 lithographed plates printed by Hullmandel after Nash. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and pebbled brown cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are scuffed and worn at the extremities). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Joseph Nash, watercolour painter and lithographer, studied architecture under Augustus Pugin, whom he accompanied to France, and for whose work Paris and its Environs (1830) he supplied some of the drawings. He "earned celebrity by his picturesque views of late Gothic buildings, English and foreign, which he enlivened with figures grouped to illustrate the habits of their owners in bygone days, somewhat in the manner of Cattermole." EB; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

A-14: The University of North Carolina Press. Good+. 1997. Hardcover. No DJ as issued. Bound in cloth boards with 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-14; 9.8 X 6.5 X 0.8 inches; 256 pages .