Search Results: Authors starting with C from Last Exit Books

E-381. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Scion, London, UK. 1954. 144 pgs. Cover art attributed to Ronald Turner. Wrappers worn. Previous owner's name stamped to the title page. Pages are toned but the text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Klaglan - the ancient, mysterious and forbidden city of Mars - Halmar the Guide, Lorna the dancer from Venus, and the man called Smith try to penetrate its crystal walls. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-187. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 16mo. Panther Books/Hamilton & Co, London, UK. 1952. 122 pgs. Wrappers worn with rubbing and wear present to the spine. Previous owner's name present to the half-title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Earth and its colonies on Mars and Venus are ruled by an authoritarian post-World War III world state which plans to take control of a new method of space travel when it has been perfected by a Martian scientist. When they fail to secure the invention, the world state's Coordinator decides to destroy the Mars colony with "radi-germ bombs. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-222: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good+. 1921. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1921. Ix, 334 pgs. Maps. Second Printing. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previou sowner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A very interesting study of Naval capabilities in the Pacific (principally US and Japanese) written in the 1920s. Perhaps most interesting is the material on the Japanese Navy, it's ships, construction, training, provisioning, number of personnel, number of ships, historical capabilities and probable future capabilities. It also covers the political issues in the USA with regards to the Japanese, including Japanese immigration to the USA. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-094. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1871. 584 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/FIrst Printing. Bound in brown cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Frederick II was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his re-organisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-285. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford at The Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. 1952. Xviii, 361 pgs. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spined. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn, stain present to the rear board, spine label present). No ownership marks present. Text has notes and marks present to the margins of the text. Binding tight and solid. For nearly 600 years North Africa had a vibrant, thriving church, until it was swept away by Islam. But at about that time of Constantine's putative conversion, the church split into two branches. The Catholic and the Donatist. Frend's book is a look at how that schism began, its course, and the final collapse of Donatism. Though often referred to as heresy, it was actually a schism. The Donatist were, at least most of them, orthodox. "Donatism and Catholicism represented opposite tendencies in Christian thought. The Churches were in fact two societies,… Read More

C4c: Phaidon Press. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Phaidon Press, London, UK. 2006. 102 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. Jean-Jacques Sempe's witty drawings and keen eye for the finer points of the human condition have delighted readers in France and beyond for over forty years. Now, his sharply observed and beautifully drawn cartoons are available in English for the first time. In 'Sunny Spells', originally published in France in 1999, Sempe explores a wide range of topics, from troubled relationships and office politics to doping scandals in the literary world. His cast of characters includes pious churchgoers, amateur painters and lovelorn palaeontologists, as well as… Read More

E-057: Robert Desilver. Very Good. 1823. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Robert Desilver, Philadelphia, PA. 1823. 108 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Rebound in 3/4 leather and paper covered cloth boards with titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the title page. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist, freemason and materialist philosopher. EB .

E-278: Brill. Very Good. 1986. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. E J Brill, Leiden, Netherlands. 1986. Xiii, 196 pgs. Frontispiece. 16 plates. Cincinnati Classical Studies, New Series, Volume VI. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (stain present to the front board). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. End of the Early Bronze Age on the mainland (c. 2200–2000) The comparative unity of incipient civilization in the Aegean area was eventually shattered by new movements of people into the Cyclades and the southern part of the mainland. EB; Cincinnati Classical Studies, New Series, Volume VI; 9.5 X 7.7 X 0.7 inches; 196 pages .

E-353: Prentice-Hall. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1968. 224 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Raymond Burns on the dedication page. Later 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. In 1911 William J. Burns solved the spectacular case of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building and the New York Times called him "the greatest detective certainly, and perhaps the only really great detective of genius this country has produced." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Signed by Author .

E-377: Doubleday. Good. 1901. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1901. Xv, 192 pgs. 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 (spine is darkened and stained). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A landmark at its time of publication, Caffin's book is still one of the most informative and authoritative appraisals of the American photographers who later became the Photo Secession. Singling out Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence H. White, Caffin was an important critic at the great turning point in American photography known as the Photo-Secession. He wrote for Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work and taught Paul Strand. "Articles by noted critics, such as Charles Caffin ... Raised the level of critical… Read More

E-227: Wesleyan University Press. Good+. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT, 1961. Xii, 276 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards lightly scuffed and worn). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .

E-023: Avon Books. Very Good. 1950. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Avon Mystery, New York, 1950 124 pgs. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #17. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (wrappers are lightly chipped and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Stain present to the bottom edge of the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vegas is a city of lovers, but in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how to pass the time—craps or roulette? Jane Delavan is a roulette woman, a stately beauty from back East who’s too classy for the motel where she’s shacked up. She’s come for a divorce, but her husband has other ideas. He wants an annulment, and in exchange offers to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on himself—just in case something happens to him before their paperwork goes through. Jane is cunning enough… Read More

E-099. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1878. 421 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with removed spine label and pocket present to the rear pastedown with withdrawal stamp present. Bound in red 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. John Elliott Cairnes (26 December 1823 – 8 July 1875) was an Irish-born political economist. He has been described as the "last of the classical economists".; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-110: G. Routledge & Sons. Very Good. 1889. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. George Routledge & Sons, London, UK. 1889. 83 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Bound in 1/2 green cloth and illustrated paper covered boards with titles 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. A collection of b&w drawings & sketches by Caldecott for the British publication, the Graphic, with commentary by him. Sections include "Sketches at Trouville", "A Meet on Exmoor", "American Facts & Fancies", and "Notes at the Royal Agricultural Show at Liverpool". EB .

EB. Good+. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 1973. Xxiii, 553 pgs. Single sided pages. Dissertation. 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. Although historians customarily work with imperfectlyrecorded data, imperfect at least for their own private purposes, the data which support this study have special qualities which require a preliminary statement of the ways in which they were collected and the techniques used to analyse them. Professor Jan Vansina has written a pioneering study of the use of certain kinds of orally transmitted information* but no similarly systematic statement examines the theoretical implications of combining diverse data drawn from ethnographic, linguistic, documentary, and orally transmitted 2 materials. Since knowledge of the Imbangala impact on the Mbundu… Read More

E-115: Duel. Sloan and Pierce. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, New York, 1941. 182 pgs. Richly illustrated with 86 photos in b/w. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is sunned and faded along the spine). Bound in illustrated paper covered 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 third collaboration between this husband and wife team with text by Caldwell and photographs by Bourke-White. While not as well received or appreciated as their book "You Have Seen Their Faces" this volume is still a powerful look at America. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches .

E-150. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA. 1924. Xiii, 361 pgs. Second Edition. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is sunned and worn). Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Contents: The Initiation of the Campaign; The Naval Attempt to Force the Dardanelles; The Organisation of the Military Expedition; The Military Problem Presented by the Dardanelles; The Landing; The Consolidation at Helles and Anzac; The General Strategical Situation Produced by the Landings; The First Three Months at Helles; The First Three Months at Anzac; Possibilities of Success; The Great Effort of Early August; The Close of the August Offensive; The Three Autumn Months; The Evauation of Anzac and Suvla; The Evacuation of Helles; Some Outstanding Lessons of the Campaign; Appendices. Series title:… Read More

E-55: Farrar, Srauss & Giroux. Very Good. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. 1968. 406 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. Offsetting from (now removed) laid in newspaper article present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events. Z was published in Greece in 1966, and banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The… Read More

C6a: Evening Reader. Very Good. 1965. Paperback. Mass Market PB. 12mo. Published by Evening Reader. 1965. 159 pgs. Evening Reader #ER 780. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Stamped Corinth Publications on the verso page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Skin Trade...in flickertown, once the aspiring stars discovered there weren't enough jobs to go around, they found themselves slipping...willing to do anything for enough cash to hold out until their inevitable Big Break arrived. Even to the point of signing up with Hilda's modeling agency...the degrading firm that supplied the innocent girls for a life of shame...posing in the nude EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .

E-260: Harcourt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. 1983. 130 pgs. Illustrated with Color Plates. First Printing/First Edition. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in 1/2 red cloth and matching paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. No ownership marks present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination. ” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things, ” he… Read More