Search Results: Authors starting with O from Last Exit Books

E-308. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G. O. Shields, New York. 1901. 6 Issues. Illustrated. Ex-library item from the US Fish and Wildlife Service library. Bound in library 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 Official Organ of the League of American Sportsmen". With advertising on guns, fishing tackle, and other sporting goods throughout. EB; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-099: Basic Books. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Basic Books, New York. 1962. 333 pages. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ has a rear chip present to the bottom edge of the rear panel). 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. Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. "Rationalism in politics," says Oakeshott, "involves a… Read More

E-183: Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press, New York. 1967. 440 pgs. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. 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 very lightly rubbed and worn. Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother’s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer,… Read More

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, MA. 1884. Xxii, 732 pgs. Illustrated with 190 black and white illustrations and fold out color map. Bound in Victorian decorated cloth with titles present to the spine and black decoration present to the spine and the front board. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Divided into 3 parts: I. Yucatan, II. Central and Southern Mexico, III. The Border States. Frederick Albion Ober (February 13, 1849 - May 31, 1913) was an American naturalist and writer. Ober was born February 13, 1849 in Beverly, Massachusetts. He received a common school education. While yet a boy, he evinced a fondness for natural history: he collected nearly all the birds of New England and noted their habits. In 1881, moved by a desire to see the vestiges of early American civilization, he journeyed through Mexico, and during that and two… Read More

E-181: Princeton University Press. Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 2015. 464 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. Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. EB; The Princeton History Of The Ancient World, 1; 9.5 X 6.1 X 1.5 inches;… Read More

E-291: McGraw-Hill. Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002. X, 354 pgs. Signed and inscribed by James Oberg on the FFEP. 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. A relevatory behind-the-scenes glimpse - part memoir, part investigative journalism - into the U. S. - Russian space program details the problems, misunderstandings, suspicion, high-level trickery, and betrayals that lurked beneath the surface of this alliance. Oberg (Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost) , a former NASA contract employee, believes that Russia (and before it the Soviet Union) has cooperated with the United States on space missions not to promote international goodwill or… Read More

E-220: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very Good. 1959. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, New York. 1959. 191 pgs. Illustrated throughout. 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 and bookplate present to the front pastedown (Bill Brinley's Copy). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Heinrich Oberjohann was a German animal collector who set out in the 1930s to capture young elephants for zoos in the Lake Chad region. In this book, Oberjohann studied the language of chimpanzees for years and finally mastered the ability to communicate with them. How true these words were. With chunks of wood, cheese-boxes and a jackknife in hand, young Bill immediately began crafting a three-quarter inch scale model of his own tiny circus, creating miniature… Read More

E-091: University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1984. 648 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. Pattini—goddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon—has been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship… Read More

A-13: Howard University Press. Very Good. 1990. 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; 9.7 X 6.4 X 0.9 inches; 249 pages .

E-056: MacGibbon & Kee. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Walker & Co, New York. 1968. 400 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. Though best known for his fine novels, Irish writer O'Brien also wrote under the name Myles na Gopaleen a newspaper column in the Irish Times called "Cruiskeen Lawn" for more than 30 years. This 1968 volume collects the best of those pieces. O'Brien leans on many Irish cliches (poverty, boozing, etc. ) but uses them often with great humor. EB; 8.9 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 400 pages .

E-009: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Jonathan Cape. 1978. 338 pgs. First UK Edition/First UK Printing. Signed on the title page with an inscription from Tim O'Brien. DJ in excellent shape, unclipped and with no tears present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. E-009; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages .

E-021: Oxford University Press. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Oxford University Press, New York. 2000. 208 pages. Illustrated. 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. This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O'Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theater was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular biblical theater that from a modern perspective would seem ideally suited to advance the Reformation project. The Idolatrous Eye provides a wide perspective on iconoclasm in the sixteenth century, and in so doing, helps us to… Read More

C6b: Harcourt, Brace. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952. 232 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped with pieces missing to the top edge of the front panel and a smaller chip present to the rear DJ panel) . 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. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and… Read More

C4c: VIZ Media LLC. Very Good. 2005. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Published by Viz Media. 2001. 107 pgs. Illustrated. Text in English. First Edition/First Printing. 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. EB; The Art Of Shonen Jump; 8.25 X 0.5 X 11.75 inches; 110 pages .

E-181: The Viking Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Viking Press, New York, 1951. 124 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Clifford Odets "With Love to Harvey" and dated on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine sunned, piece missing from the front panel of the DJ). Bound in yellow cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (dampstaining present to the edges of the board). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption. Basis for the George Seaton film with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and William Holden. It was one of Bing's… Read More

E-202: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY. 1918. 354, 415 pgs. 2 Volumes. Illustrated with 865 black & white images. No. 69 of 500 numbered sets. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs showing hand-crafted fine Italian furniture such as chests, cupboards, tables, chairs, cabinets, beds, benches, commodes, sofas, etc. Volume one addresses the Gothic and Renaissance styles. Volume two addresses the Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassic, and Empire styles. E-202 .

E-013: Mysterious Pr. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Mysterious Press, New York. 1985. 256 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn (bit of a scuff present to the heel of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Modesty's latest adventure takes place in the jungles of South America, where she and her loyal henchman, Willie Garvin, take on the evil Mistress of Limbo. The Mistress has enslaved the people of Limbo, including Modesty's friend Danny. After a failed kidnapping, Modesty learns of her friend's enslavement and sets out to rescue him and set Limbo free. In an adventure that spans London, Switzerland, and New York City, Modesty ends up in Guatemala, where the Mistress of Limbo has commanded that Modesty be sacrificed to… Read More

E-013: Mysterious Pr. Very Good. 1985. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Mysterious Press, New York. 1985. 256 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn (bit of a scuff present to the heel of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Modesty's latest adventure takes place in the jungles of South America, where she and her loyal henchman, Willie Garvin, take on the evil Mistress of Limbo. The Mistress has enslaved the people of Limbo, including Modesty's friend Danny. After a failed kidnapping, Modesty learns of her friend's enslavement and sets out to rescue him and set Limbo free. In an adventure that spans London, Switzerland, and New York City, Modesty ends up in Guatemala, where the Mistress of Limbo has commanded that Modesty be sacrificed to the gods. With Willie at her side, Modesty must fight a… Read More

E-042: Bearmanor Media. Very Good. 2007. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by BearManor Media, Albany, Georga, 2007. 480 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. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story is the heartbreaking saga of the wild and free-spirited actress who hit Hollywood in the late 1940s, equipped with little more than a suitcase full of dreams, a ravenous hunger for fame and a devastating beauty---only to see each one of her dreams destroyed by a disastrous private life that led her straight through the gates of Hell. Gutsy, vulnerable--and doomed--Barbara Payton blazed across the motion picture stratosphere in record-time, only to collapse in a catastrophic free-fall from which she would never recover. EB; 8.8 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 480 pages .

E-363. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Stanley Ray, Harrisburg, PA. 1916. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is lightly faded and worn). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is an independent state agency responsible for the regulation of all fishing and boating in the state of Pennsylvania within the United States of America. Unlike many U. S. States, Pennsylvania has a separate Game Commission. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .