Search Results: Authors starting with P from Last Exit Books

E-178. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Norman Military Publications/A S Barnes, New York. 1961-67. 5 volumes. Xvi, 213 pgs; xvi, 276 pgs; 264 pgs; x, 202 pgs; viii, 184 pgs. Illustrated with color frontispieces and black and white illustrations. 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. A five volume series about the British Army from the end of the English Civil War to the Napoleonic Wars. The amount of detail is brilliant and covers all sort of little details as well as the main uniform ones. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Museum Restoration Service, Ottawa, Canada. 1967. 108 pgs. Illustrated. Historical Arms Series, No. 7. Text in French and English. 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. This handbook is intended to provide a guide to French Colonial Marine operations as they might have been practiced in mid-eighteenth century America, and modified for use by reenactors. As such, it consists of a combination of material extracted from the Ordonnance du Roi de 6 Mai 1755 (as reprinted in Edward P. Hamilton's The French Army in America, and in J. A. Houlding's French Arms Drill of the 18th Century) , ; and earlier French manual exercises; and this researcher's experience of working with similar tactical doctrine from Britain and Prussia. E-268; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB. Good+. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Theosophical Publishing Society, London, UK. 1914. Xiv, 260 pgs. Third And Revised Edition. 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, theosophy bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Theosophic Society attracted popular interest for its esoteric and unusual nature; theosophy unites numerous mystical, spiritual and occult principles with the stated mission of finding the hidden truths of existence. This was accomplished through investigating ancient societies and writings, together with Medieval and Renaissance era authors, occultists and other mystics. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-55: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1967. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present (some close tears present to the crown and heel of the DJ spine). 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. In a breathtaking sci-fi shocker, L. P. Davies brings together three men from the farthest regions of space and time, spinning a web of excitement and intrigue which turns a peaceful, sleepy village into a nightmare of violence, horror and death. There was Murchison, the long haired youth in a black leather jacket, a wanderer who stood at the side of a lonely country road thumbing a lift...in any direction. There was Edward Garvey, who cowered in his room, afraid to sleep because of the fantastic dreams that sleep would bring. And a million… Read More

E-299. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA. 1960. 175 pgs. Second 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. Scribble present to the reverse of the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 29 August 1990) was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). E-299; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. H. E. Howard, Lynchburg VA, 1989. 142 pages. #354 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed by Thomas Nanzig 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 14th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern… Read More

A-21: Wiley-Blackwell. Very Good. 2001. 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. A-21; 9.0 X 5.9 X 0.5 inches; 154 pages .

E-188: Lyons Press. Very Good. 1997. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Conway Maritime Press/Lyons & Burford Press, New York. 1997. 328 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. Captain H. Paasch was the first to recognize the complexity and variety in marine vocabulary and technical terminology and the inherent need for a cohesive codification of nautical terms. Equipped with over 35 years of sea faring experience, including commands and a role as a Surveyor to Lloyd's Register, Paasch sets out, chapter by chapter, an exhaustive explanation of all the principal parts of a ship's structure and equipment. He describes the main types of steam and sailing vessels; wooden and iron hulls; propulsion machinery; anchors and related… Read More

A-19: Springer Verlag. Very Good. 1993. Hardcover. Bound in 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-19. ; Algorithms & Combinatorics; 9.8 X 6.5 X 1.0 inches .

E-011: University Press of Florida. Very Good. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1997. 112 pgs. Signed by Ferdie Pacheco 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. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Ferdie Pacheco has done it again. In Ybor City Chronicles (UPF, 1994) he brought to life the immigrant utopia that was Tampa’s Ybor City in his childhood. In The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook (UPF, 1995) , he and coauthor Adela Hernandez Gonzmart created something more than a cookbook, highlighting the recipes, history, and personalities behind of one of America’s most famous Spanish restaurants. Now, in Pacheco’s Art of Ybor City, the Renaissance man and… Read More

A-9: Routledge. Very Good. 1999. 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; 9.8 X 7.2 X 1.4 inches; 664 pages .

E-186. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Mars Hill Camp, Union, ME. 1929. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black and white plates. List of expenses laid in. Wrappers worn. Damp stain present to the top edge of the front wrapper. Date and name present to the top edge of the front wrapper. . Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mars Hill Camp, Crawford Lake, Union, opened for the first season in 1916, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Marcus assisted by the Misses Littlehales. It offers an opportunity for good music, both vocal and instrumental. E-186; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-270: Allan. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1972. 146 pages. Illustrated with maps and reproduced photographs. 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. The battle of Matapan was fought on 28-29 March 1941 between the British and Italian fleets in the seas to the south and west of Crete. It was the first main fleet action in which carrier-borne aircraft played a vital and indespensible role in search, attack and defence. And it was the first time that radar equipped ships tracked down the unsuspectiing enemy. EB; Sea Battles In Close-Up, 2; 7.0 X 4.4 X 0.7 inches .

E-023: The MacMillan Company. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan, New York, 1961. 183 pgs. Photo, maps. 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 March 1941 Britain faced the Axis powers alone. Her army was still in disarray after Dunkerque, her fleet was stretched to the uttermost. It was in this context that, 100 miles off Cape Matapan in Greece, there was fought an action in which the Italian fleet was so signally defeated that it never voluntarily offered battle again so long as the war lasted. The engagement, the first major fleet action since Jutland a quarter of a century earlier, was of historical significance for two reasons; it was the first time carrier-borne aircraft had played a vital role, and the… Read More

E-005: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. 2000. 405 pgs. Signed and inscribed by George Packer 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 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. George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century-an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely-and ultimately fatally-tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the… Read More

E-041: Scholastic. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Scholastic. 2004. 192 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by 6 of the illustrators Barbara McClintock, Diane Dillon/Leo Dillon, Chesley Mclaren, Jon J. Muth, Mary GrandPre. Included are: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet 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. Mix the intricacies of Shakespeare's plots and his poetic language with illustrations by award-winning artists and the result is a treasure trove of well-told tales. In these adaptations, Packer captures the essence of the playwright's words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories. A nine-page introductory essay presents basic… Read More

E-300: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, UK. 1966. 317 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. 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. Percy Scott rendered his greatest service to the British Navy in the field of naval gunnery, which differs materially from artillery practice on land. The battery commander on land can aim and fire his pieces by means of the clinometer with almost mathematical accuracy, even when the target is invisible. The gunnery officer on ship board cannot use the clinometer because his gun platform, the ship, is not steady or exactly level. These considerations and others have led to the… Read More

E-211. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by St Martin's Press, New York, 1974. 320 pgs. Illustrated. Text in double column. 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. The fusing of guns and sailing ships allowed sea supremacy in the Renaissance; this book traces the development of guns and ships from that time to the mid twentieth century. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

C3a: Gnome Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Gnome Press, Inc. , New York. 1953. 210 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Rik Binkley DJ has shelf-wear present (light shelfwear present to the crown of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (light sunning present to the spine, light stain present to the bottom edge of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born. Their difference was not at first noticeable. But eventually, they became known as "Baldies," with another new and terrifying difference: the Baldies were telepathic! From then… Read More

E-354: Gnome Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Gnome Press, Inc. , New York. 1953. 210 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Rik Binkley DJ has shelf-wear present (light shelfwear present to the crown of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (light sunning present to the spine, light stain present to the bottom edge of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born. Their difference was not at first noticeable. But eventually, they became known as "Baldies," with another new and terrifying difference: the Baldies were telepathic! From then… Read More