Search Results: Titles starting with K from Last Exit Books

E-185: Holt, 1963.. Very Good. 1963. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. 1963. 206 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. 'The amazing story of Britain's steam submarines'. Churchill authorised them; their crews called themselves the suicide club. The story of the jinxed K class submarines of the First World War, in one incident the Commander was heard to cry out 'I say Number One my end is diving: what the hell is your end doing? '. EB .

E-189. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cape Times Limited, Parow, KP. 1949-51. 3 Volumes. Text in Dutch/Afrikaans and English. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (save for Volume IV which is scuffed, worn and stained). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A clear timeline of the founding and establishment of the Colony of South Africa for the periods described above. E-189; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-212: Reynal & Hitchcock. Very Good. 1941. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, NY, 1941. 339 pgs. Decorated endpapers, illustrated with a color frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chipping present to the spine ends). 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 this classic of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening, de Poncins is a French nobleman who spent fifteen months in 1938 and 1939 living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others' wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as his odyssey continues, he is transformed from an uncomprehending outsider to someone who finds himself living as Inuk: a man,… Read More

E-066: City Lights Books. Very Good. 1961. Paperback. Trade PB. 32mo. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1961. 100 pgs. Number Fourteen in The Pocket Poets Series, First Edition/Second Issue. (second issue by seven line statement and price of $1.50 on rear wrapper as well as the lack of an imprint for Villiers on page 100). 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. In this 1961 collection of Ginsberg's poetry, Kaddish is published for the first time. His second most famous poem after Howl and regarded as one of his finest, Kaddish was Ginsberg's attempt to mourn his mother, Naomi, but also reflects his sense of loss at his estrangement from his born religion. EB; 5 X 0.25 X 6.5 inches; 104 pages .

E-184: Herring Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Herring Press, Houston, TX. 2001. 143 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. Kaempfer Company, was a diversified real estate development, management and construction firm specializing in first-class office buildings. In 2002, Kaempfer merged the Kaempfer Company, which he founded in 1977, with the New York-based Vornado Realty Trust. Vornado is one of the U. S.' s largest property-owning companies, with a pedigree in quality office buildings, trade marts and other large real estate ventures. Over the last 30 years Kaempfer's firms have worked with many of the world's outstanding modern architects including I. M. Pei, Harry Cobb,… Read More

E-049: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1928. 320 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear with pieces missing from the front and rear panel of the DJ and chipping present to the extremities. Bound in paper-covered boards. Light offsetting present to the FFEP. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. "Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat", like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth… Read More

E-114: New Issues Press, Western Michigan University. Very Good. 2002. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. 2002. 544 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. The year is 1891 and Kalamazoo inventor J. B. Rhodes is tinkering with his most impressive creation yet an operable steam wagon that could be propelled down the streets of Kalamazoo, Michigan without the aid of horses. Steam-powered vehicles had traveled the roads in other towns as early as 1805, but Rhodes? Wagon holds a special place in history as Kalamazoo's first "horseless carriage," marking the very beginning of a frenzy that some called "horseless-carriageitis." By the turn of the century, new vehicles began… Read More

E-270: The Author. Very Good. 1881. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Author, Boston, MA. 1881. 415 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and front board and black illustrated scene present to the 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. Charles Martin Newell (1823-1909) US doctor, sailor and author, who began publishing non-fantastic sea-stories as by Captain Robert Barnacle, though Leaves from an Old Log: Pehe Nu-e, or The Tiger Whale of the Pacific (1877) is of some interest for its reworkings of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) ; several works under his own name were set in or around the Hawaii Archipelago, including Kalani of Oahu: An Historical Romance of Hawaii (1881) , a Fantasy whose eponymous Hero betrays the goddess Pele; she takes revenge in various ways, while either causing or riding… Read More

E-026: Yale University Press. Very Good. 1982. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1982. 247 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. This book is resourceful for a number of reasons. One reason is that it affords, to my mind, a clear exposition of a central problem attendant on Kant’s Kategorientheorie – that is, the problem of accounting for the way in which the generality of concepts has purchase on the particulars they conceive. This problem is the fault line between Kant and Hegel. Accordingly, the clarity Pippin affords in exposing this problem can contribute not only towards our understanding of Kant, but also towards our understanding of Hegel’s critique of Kant, and, in consequence, towards… Read More

E-380: University of Michigan Museum of Art. Very Good. 2002. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by University of Michigan Museum of Art in Association with D. A. P. , Ann Arbor/New York. 2003. 100 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. Arguably the most controversial young African-American artist working today, Kara Walker creates vivid and shocking evocations, rooted in stereotypes, of an antebellum world that comments on the system of slavery and its continuing legacy in the American consciousness. In her choice of black cut-paper silhouettes, Walker takes a medium that was extremely fashionable in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as part of the neoclassical revival, when the silhouetted images on ancient Greek and Roman vases were… Read More

E-374. Very Good. Leather. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig (Brunswick) , Germany. 1878. Xii, 301 pgs. Bound in 3/4 leather 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 front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (28 February [O. S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November [O. S. 16 November] 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-037: Anthony Brahams. Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by A. Brahams, United Kingdom. 1995. 81 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper 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. Describes Brahams' close-up magic tricks and routines as performed at the Forks Hotel, Buffalo, New York. This is an excellent cross-section of some of Karl Norman's best routines. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-267. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937. 92 pgs. Limited and numbered copy, this is #536 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo on the colophon page. Illustrated. Slipcased. Slipcase is rubbed, worn and chipped. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blindstamped designed boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is lightly sunned and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This scarce, beautiful poem, asserts that Happiness and Misery are equally divided and that Self-cultivation with due regard to others is the sole and sufficient object of human life. Written by Sir Richard Burton under the pseudonym of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî after his return from Mecca in 1854. The Kasîdah contains many references to 19th Century scientific and philosophical concepts, most notably the… Read More

E-124: Haynes Manuals N. America, Inc.. Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. J H Haynes & Co, Yeovil, Somerville, UK. 2001. 288 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in illustrated paper boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Fore-edge of the text block is lightly soiled. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Complete coverage for your 1994 thru 2001 Ducati 748, 916 & 996 V-Twins (excluding 748R and 996R models) : --Routine Maintenance and servicing--Tune-up procedures--Engine, clutch and transmission repair--Cooling system--Fuel and exhaust--Ignition and electrical systems--Brakes, wheels and tires--Steering, suspension and final drive--Frame and bodywork--Wiring diagrams--Reference Section EB; 90 - 97; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 264 pages .

C2c: University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 1999. Xiv, 230 pgs. Lllustrated. 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 present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The kea, a crow-sized parrot that lives in the rugged mountains of New Zealand, is considered by some a playful comic and by others a vicious killer. Its true character is a mystery that biologists have debated for more than a century. Judy Diamond and Alan Bond have written a comprehensive account of the kea's contradictory nature, and their conclusions cast new light on the origins of behavioral flexibility and the problem of species survival in… Read More

E-142: Doubleday, Doran and Co. , Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Crime Club. 1941. 271 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and heavy tape repairs present to the reverse of the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP, bookstore stamp present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Six months after the death of Sir Hubert Spain his son, Roger, who has been exploring in Tibet, becomes convinced that his father was murdered and he sets out to find the man who did it. He has only a tenuous clue to the man's identity and no idea as to the motive for the crime, but his determination makes up for his lack of definite information. Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989) was a British author, whose father was the mystery/detective… Read More

E-070: Hastings House. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hastings House. , New York. 1974. 256 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is lightly sunned). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Written by a NYC Senior Vice President that describes his life working for the NYC, There is also a good discussion of the railroad problems as they developed and existed in 1970. EB; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages .

E-258. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, UK. No Date (c1906). Xvi, 267 pgs. Illustrated with 24 color plates (including a frontispiece). Bound in leather by Leary with gilt titles, double gilt rule to the boards and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (corners and extremities bumped and rubbed). Marbled endpapers. All edge gilt. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-250: F. Warne & Co. Very Good. 1920. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Frederick Warne, New York, 1920. 327 pgs. Illustrated with frontispiece and 15 full-page monochrome archive photographs throughout. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (tear present to the front board, scuffing present to the boards). Bookstore stamp present to the front pastedown. Tape residue present to the endpapers and pastedowns. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, KCB, DSO, SGM (28 October 1880 - 20 August 1957) was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer. Evans was seconded from the Navy to the Discovery expedition to Antarctica in 1901-1904, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered… Read More

E-010. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Monacelli Press, Princeton, NJ. 2005. 288 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. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Interior decorator Keith Irvine steamed into New York Harbor in 1957 and immediately embarked on designing the unique, inspired interiors that have ensured him a place at the pinnacle of his field. His designs are characterized by feeling-wit, grandeur, comfort, drama-as well as by exquisite use of color, pattern, lighting, furniture, and accessories. Born in Scotland and trained in his profession in London-notably by the decorating legend John Fowler-Irving combines old-world wisdom and new-world enthusiasm in his mostly traditional rooms and houses. The first book on his work, Keith… Read More