Search Results: Authors starting with U from Last Exit Books

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, MA. 1852. 384 pgs. Illustrated with 1900 engravings. First Edition/First Printing. Rebound in 3/4 leather and red 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 FFEP, number present to the verso page. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Both an artist and physician, Richard Upton Piper as born in Stratham New Hampshire 1816. Educated at Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Piper authored & illustrated "Operative Surgery" (Boston 1852) and Maclise's Surgical Anatomy. Trees of America was originally published in soft cover installments. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-305. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Albert Jacobi & Co, Aachen, Germany. 1894. 55 pgs. Text in German (translated form the French). First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine (stamped in Englih on 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. Jules Poulain was the a ballistics expert and the proof master of Liege, Belgium. This pamphlet is a compilation of data on gunpowder that he published in 1894 (at the time this caused quite the stir as he claimed that British powder would cause more strain at the end of the barrel then at the breech). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-190: Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society. Very Good. 1997. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Kalihi-Palama Culure & Arts Society, Inc, Honolulu, HI. 1997. 120 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (tape present to edges). Ex-Lib item with typical marks present (call number to spine, bookplate to title page, card pocket to FFEP, tape stains and wear present to the reverse of the boards). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This second volume contains 57 first-person narratives from hula resources who share a common vision of preserving and perpetuating the art of hula. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

A-13: Ashgate Pub Ltd. Very Good. 2004. Hardcover. No DJ as issued. Bound in cloth boards with 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-13; 8.7 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 369 pages .

E-104: Forlaget Reportasje. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Forlaget Reportasje, Lesja Norway. 2005. 164 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Text in Norwegian and English.. 2nd Edition. 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 book consists of photographs taken by Norwegian soldiers at the East Front in the years 1941-1945. The pictures and the text give an insight into how their lives as soldiers were during this period. E-104; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 164 pages .

E-357: Brentano's. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Brentano's, New York, 1928. 269 pgs. Illustrated throughout with black and white linoleum cuts. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chipping and wear present to the DJ extremities). Bound in yellow cloth boards with black titles and design present to the spine and 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. A rather odd story of the journeys of a Siamese cat with many illustrations. Leon Underwood (1890-1975) , wrote several books, including a collection of verse, ANIMALIA (1926) , a pamphlet on aesthetic theory in refutation of Herbert Read, and several monographs on primitive art. This, his only novel, is far and away his best work: an enchanting tale stunningly illustrated with complexly styled… Read More

E-308: Walker and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Walker and Company, New York. 1962. 188 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. It is set in the chequer-board of roads in the cornfields of Michigan. A pair of professional criminals hold up a supermarket and get away in a car. Police Supt. Franklin, an ex-Navy strategist, tries to use theoretical methods to do with game theory and probability rather than traditional policing methods to catch them. The basis for the movie Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is a 1974 American road crime drama film based on the 1963 Richard Unekis novel titled The Chase (later retitled Pursuit).… Read More

E-286: Rhinoceros Press. Good. 1969. Portfolio. Portfolio. Small Folio. Rhinoceros Press. 1969. 4 pgs + 61 loose Black and White lithograph Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Slipcase box is chipped and worn with heaviest wear present to the edges (top of box starting to fray and chip, bottom of the box in the same condition. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Light foxing present, with the heaviest foxing present to one of the graph paper plates. Plates are free of marks (save for the forementioned foxing). Most of the plates on heavy card stock, a few are on thinner paper with a greenish linear background. Introduction by John Hollander for this series of 61 plates caricaturing the love mechanized by industrial society which is reminiscent of the theme of the dehumanization of human relationships dear to post-war science fiction authors. Rhinoceros Press founded by Tomi Ungerer and Richard Kasac publishes books and posters. Many preparatory works are known,… Read More

E-056: MacMillan. Very Good. 1958. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1958. 211 pgs. Illustrated. 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 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. Five-year-old Pelle turned from a good little Swedish boy into a very naughty one, as a result of his mother's long stay in hospital. His father sends him to stay with his grandmother on her farm and soon Pelle is diverted from his loneliness. Winner of the 'Nils Holgersson Prize' for 1957. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 211 pages .

E-219: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. 44 pages. Illustrated with beautiful decorated initial letters to each sonnet. Number 536 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo on the colophon page. 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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Illustrator .

E-233, E-288: Twin Palms. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, NM. 1994. Unpaginated. 144 pgs. Illustrated in black and white. 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. A former model, Ellen Von Unwerth has since become one of the foremost fashion photographers, shooting the Guess jeans campaign for years. This volume reproduces her gritty fashion, portraiture, and nudes with photos of Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Isabella Rossellini, and Madonna, among many others. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

E-72: Alfred A Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf. 1959. 185 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed by John Updike on the FFEP. Laid in with the complimentary slip from John Updike present. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelfwear present. The Poorhouse Fair, John Updike’s first novel, was written in 1957 and published in January of 1959. The Poorhouse Fair centers on a New Jersey poor farm's annual fundraiser and the resulting insurrection of the farm's inmates against the institution's establishment. Hailed at the time of its publication as “a rare and beautiful achievement” and “a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. E-72; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages; Signed by Author .

E-052: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. 242 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (scuff present to the front panel; chip presen to the heel of the spine). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Lighting toning present to the text block. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelfwear present. The title of John Updike’s first short story collection, published when the author was twenty-seven, alludes to the old superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door. Thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story here, is also the narrator of the last. E-52; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-311: Doubleday & Co., Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday Crime Club, Garden City, NY. 1962. 216 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. It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called "The Stranger" - that another stranger is found... Dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony that both the locals and the Aboriginals are guarding a secret - untill the will of the Tribe breaks their silence... EB; 8vo 8" -… Read More

E-271. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Gruppe C Motorsport-Verlag, 1992. 100+ pgs. Illustrated throughout. Text in German and English. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (damp stain present to the bottom edge of the DJ). 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 bottom edge of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Reports on the Sportscar World Championship in detail, from Monza to Suzuka, Le Mans, Daytona, Sebring, and Magny Cours plus the IMSA GT Championship and the All-Japan Sports-Prototype Championship, and the Interserie, with entires from Nissan, Toyota, Peugeot, Chevrolet, Mazda, Jaguar, Acura, Lola, and BRM. E-271; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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-220: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company, New York. 1964. 632 pgs. Signed by Leon Uris on a bookplate. 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. At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions… Read More

E-073: Fondo Cultural Villar Mir. Very Good. 2012. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Fondo Cultural Villar Mir, Madrid, Spain. 2012. 166 pgs. Illustrated with color plates. Text in Spanish. Bound in illustrated paper covered cloth boards 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. Antonio Francesco Lodovico Joli (13 March 1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of vedute and capricci. Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Panini, and in the studios of the Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters. He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and Perugia. In 1732 he moved to Venice, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro San Samuele of the Grimani family. In 1742 he went to Dresden, and then to London… Read More

E-050. Very Good. Leather. Leather. 8vo. Published by Jonathan Elliot, Washington, DC. 1817. 378 pgs. Bound in full brown leather with title label present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate (Francis Lewis Berkeley) present to the FFEP. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This is book is in reference to the apportionment of land that was acquired through the Louisiana purchase and the conquest of Indian territory as well as the competing colonial land claims made by various states to each other's territory (for example Connecticut's Western Reserve). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-116. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY. 1958. 360 pgs. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 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 United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the United States Armed Forces and the transportation industry. Midshipmen are trained in different fields such as marine engineering, navigation, ship's administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .