Search Results: Titles starting with E from Last Exit Books

E-305. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Jim Hess Printer, Borger Texas, 1969. 382 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed on the FFEP by the author. 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. Bio of a long-time soldier who fought in the Black Hawk War, the Mexican War, the western frontier and, who was the oldest field commander to serve in the Civil War. Edwin Vose Sumner (January 30, 1797 – March 21, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War. His nicknames "Bull" or "Bull Head" came both from his great booming voice and a legend that a musket ball once… Read More

A-2: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Very Good. 1994. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994. 1246 pgs. No DJ as issued. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. This major work is a comprehensive analysis of EEC competition rules. It examines the pertinent case law and regulations under Articles 85 and 86 of the EEC Treaty based principally on the EEC Commission's enforcement policies. It includes an extensive table of cases. The authors use a civil law commentary style that is made understandable by collaborations between lawyers from civil law and common law backgrounds. Many new developments from the last 1-2 years are covered, including new regulations on know-how licensing, franchise agreements and the merger control regulation. Up-to-date appendices cover all pertinent regulations, notices and announcements in the field of competition law. Photos sent upon request. A-2; 8vo 8"… Read More

E-187: Voyageur Press. Very Good. 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by MBI Publications, St Paul, MN. 2006. 304 pgs. Illustrated throughout. 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. In February 2005, General Motors announced its decision to sell its Electro-Motive Division (EMD) , thus ending its 75-year association with one of the most renowned brands in railroading. Looking at the heritage of the venerable EMD in light of this momentous development, this monumental volume offers an overview of the great locomotive maker unprecedented in its scope and unparalleled in the spectacular quality of its photographs. Leading railroad author and photographer Brian Solomon provides an authoritative, comprehensive account of EMD’s history, from its genesis in… Read More

E-333: Irving-Swain Press,. Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Irving Swain Press, Raleith, NC, 1964. 187 pgs. Illustrated. Signed by Hugh V Brown on the FFEP. 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. This work was designed to show in a progressive manner, the gradual strides toward equality in the past and the efforts to attain superior quality of the present among educators and their products. The exploits of the pioneers who blazed the educational trails of Reconstruction as well as those many dedicated professionals of the author's era needed to be saved for future generations. The author noted that "Without the legislative acts of the State and the statesmanship of many consecrated individuals of the dominant race, it would have been impossible to make… Read More

C2b: DOUBLEDAY. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1958. 625 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. Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. "Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel" EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-243. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover & Paperback. JA Carruth, Printer, Las Vegas, New Mexico/Unknown. 1891 & Unknown. 36 pgs, 111 pgs. Bound in 3/4 leather and matching cloth boards with titles present to the front board. Paperback issued in stapeled wraps. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Lengthy note from William Eads present to the in memoriam text discussing the life of his wife to his son. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William Eads was born in Cynthia, Kentucky and died in Carrolltton, MO was the first President of the Las Vegs Savings bank - 1890-91. This eminently prominent banker, also having served as president of the San Miguel National Bank, helped to organize both institutions. Mr Eads moved to Las Vegas in 1884 and was a teacher, then a lawyer before embarking on his successful career as a banker. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-304: Cumberland House Publishing. Very Good. 2005. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cumberland House Publishing, Nashville, TN. 2005. 293 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Earl Hamner on the half-title page and inscribed on the title page by James Person. 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. Earl Hamner, one of America’s best-loved storytellers, has never been the subject of a full-length study. Earl Hamner: From Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow fills that gap. A native Virginian, Hamner once said, “Even though families are said to be shattered these days, and God is said to be dead, if people can revisit the scenes and places where these values did exist, possibly they can come to believe in them again, or . . . To adapt some kind… Read More

E-352: The Century Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Century Company, New York & London, UK. 1924. 389 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. Previous owner's bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "In a search for radium which results in the discovery by one of them of two far more miraculous and hitherto unknown mineral elements on being united reveal the property of weightlessness" EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-359: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Peabody Museum, Harvard University Printing Office, Cambridge, MA. 1971. Xiv,199 pages Illustrated with 152 illustrations and maps in b&w. Harvard University Bulletin No. 28. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (light foxing present to the edges of the wrappers). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The significants of helmets . May be judged by their rarity in comparison with swords, spears, and axes. This suggests that helmets, like other pieces of armor, must have been limited to the ruling class and thus may have been symbols of rank." EB; Peabody Museum, Harvard University Bulletin No. 28; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-014: Book Sales. Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1996. 144 pgs. Illustrated with color & black and white photos. Conway's History of the Ship. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with 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. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with 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 EB; Conway's History Of The Ship; 11.7 X 10.0 X 0.7 inches; 144 pages .

E-265: Barnes & Noble. Very Good. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Barnes and Noble Press, Totowa, NJ. 1981. 238 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. The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published in 1981, examines the Abbasid Caliphs from their coming to power in 750 AD, to the death of the Caliph al-Ma’mun in 833 AD, when the period of Turkish domination began. It looks at the political history of the period, and also… 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

C1c: USGOV. Very Good. 2003. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Office of the Historian of the National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, DC. 2003 . Two volume set. Volume I, xix, 371 pgs; iii, 373-654 pgs. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps, charts, footnotes, appendixes. 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. Addresses the United States and British overflight efforts over "denied territories" in the Soviet Union and China between 1950 and 1956 EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-300: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cambrdige University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2007. 312 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. Remainder mark present to the top edge of the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. Often seen as the beginning of the Western tradition in portraiture, this historical period is here subjected to a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis. Using a variety of methodologies from a wide range of fields - anthropology, numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology, history, and literary criticism - an international team of experts investigates the problems of origins, patronage, setting, and… Read More

E-248. Very Good. 1887. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Weed, Parsons, and Company, Albany, NY. 1887. 473 pgs. Black and white illustrations. Second Edition. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards are rubbed, scuffed with wear present to the extremities. FFEP is torn (see photo). Name stamped and present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Southampton, officially the Town of Southampton, is a town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, partly on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town had a population of 56,790. Southampton is included in the stretch of shoreline prominently known as The Hamptons. EB .

E-248. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Francis P. Harper, New York. 1897. Xi, 282 pgs. #197 of a limited edition of 340 copies. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards are rubbed, scuffed with wear present to the extremities. FFEP is torn (see photo). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Early Long Island wills of Suffolk county, 1691-1703. An unabridged copy of the manuscript volume known as "The Lester will book; " being the record of the Prerogative court of the county of Suffolk, New York, with genealogical and historical notes E-248; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-083: University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA. 2000. 403 pgs. Illustrated. 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. An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a concern with the visual technologies that underlie the representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire. E-083; New Cultural Studies; 10.0 X 7.3 X 1.0 inches; 403 pages .

E-256: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1997. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 1997. 330 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Annabel Patterson on the FFEP. 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. While the term "liberalism" was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until the late eighteenth century, the author argues that its central ideas were formulated by seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. In this study Annabel Patterson is particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission, and with those who sought to ensure that the liberal canon would be preserved, dispersed and republished. EB;… Read More

E-72, E-89: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Faber and Faber. 1974. 432 pgs. Illustrated with 499 black and white illustrations and 8 color plates. 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 clean with no wear present. Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign of Louis XVI (1774–1793) , just before the French Revolution. It saw the final phase of the baroque style as well as the birth of French neoclassicism. The style was a reaction against the elaborate ornament of the preceding baroque period. It was inspired in part by the discoveries of ancient Roman paintings, sculpture and architecture in Herculaneum and Pompeii. Its features included the straight column, the… Read More

EB: Harvard University Press. Good. 1964. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1958. Volume I is text with 573 pgs and 66 illustrations on 28 plates. Volume II consists of 496 illustrations on 334 plates. Second Printing. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn to the extremities. If you are seriously interested in Northern Renaissance art - work by Van Eyck, Rogier, Campin, Memling, etc. - you must read Panofsky. Although many of Panofsky's theories have since been challenged, he laid the groundwork for all subsequent studies of the work of this era. He is surprisingly readable and accessible even to the lay reader. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 573 pages .