Search Results: European History from Last Exit Books

E-151: University of Notre Dame Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1972. Xvii, 238 pgs. Illustrated with blak and white plates. Second Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light scuffing and rubbing present to the DJ panels). 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. "This is the reconstruction of the infamous Second World War annihilation of fifteen thousand prisoners of war, historically the larges assassination of prisoner-solders since Ghenghis Khan. Risponsibility for this mass execution became a point of international controversy and intrigue. Both the governments of the Soviet Union and Germany accused each other of the crime." List of Chapters;… Read More

E-337: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Harry N Abrams, New York. 1981. 212 pgs. Illustrated with color plates. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Rien Poorvliet was a Dutch artist and writer of incomparable talent. He was rightly considered a national treasure in the Netherlands, and his death was a national tragedy. Most of his books are free-ranging collections of his superior drawings and paintings interspersed with cursive text narrative about the subject at hand. This book happens to be an account of his life, family, pets, love of animals, culture and country as he experienced it - past, and (at the time) present in the Netherlands. His artwork is extremely expressive and entertaining - he was a… Read More

EB: H. S. Nichols. Good. 1925. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by H. S. Nichols, London, UK. No Date (c.1925). Three volumes: 508 pgs, 360 pgs, 347 pgs. Bound in blue fluer-de-lis illustrated cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are scuffed and worn to the extremities). No ownership marks present. Text is free of notes and marks. Binding tight and solid. The 'Memoirs' are the work of Courtilz De Sandra, an extremely prolific and imaginative writer. Born at Montargis in 1644, he became a captain in the Regiment de Champagne, and later in life was a prisoner in the Bastille for 9 years. Nearly all his works claim to be authentic memoirs of some well known character of his day. The 'Memoirs' are a masterpiece. Alexandre Dumas recognized it as such, and from these pages come the material and inspiration for his immortal 'Three Musketeers'. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

A-2: Berghahn Books. Very Good. 1999. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Berghahn Books. 1999. 183 pgs. No DJ as issued/Pictoral boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. A-2; History; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 183 pages .