Search Results: Titles starting with I from Last Exit Books

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Saint Germain Press, Chicago, IL. 2011. 361 pgs. Illustrated. Volume 3 of the I AM Discourses. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing present to the endpapers. Text has notes and marks present throughout the text. Binding tight and solid. The “I AM” Discourses are a series of discourses dictated over a Visible Light and Sound Ray in the home of Guy and Edna Ballard by the Ascended Master Saint Germain and other Great Cosmic Beings. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-349: Doubleday & Company. Very Good. 1948. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York. 1948. 255 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has light chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine nad 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 essays on life in general. It was written in the late 40's, so most of the references are not still germaine but the substance of most of it still is. Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915, in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965, in London, England) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and "big game" hunter. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-277: Harper and Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper and Brothers, New York. 1935. 211 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 the autobiography of a young man, born into a Christian family, nurtured in the church, educated in an American university, for seven years national secretary of the student Y. M. C. A. , who finally sailed for China in 1898 fired with the conviction that his religion was both true and right, while that of any other people was false and wrong, and that it was his God-given commission to proclaim a gospel which was to correct the false and right the wrong. EB; 7.6 X 5.3 X 1.4 inches .

E-264: Harper Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper Collins and Company, New York. 1991. 333 pgs. Illustrated. Signed by Hank Aaron on the title page. 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. I Had a Hammer is much more than the intimate autobiography of one of the greatest names in pro sports—it is a fascinating social history of twentieth-century America. With courage and candor, Aaron recalls his struggles and triumphs in an atmosphere of virulent racism. He relives the breathtaking moment when, in the heat of hatred and controversy, he hit his 715th home run to break Ruth's cherished record—an accomplishment for which Aaron received more… Read More

E-268: CASTERMAN. Very Good. 2006. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Casterman, Paris, France. 2006. 336 pgs. 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. I. L: behind these curious initials hides perhaps a goddess, a chimera or a simple doll, who can know... I. L is a chameleon woman, who takes on the face of the absent, the dead, or the loved one. The young filmmaker Daisaku meets her in the home of Count Alucard - a name which, read backwards, is very familiar to us - where she rests, locked in a coffin. Angel of beauty, I. L becomes, through her gift of metamorphosis, the actress Daisaku has always dreamed of to stage... Reality. She thus fulfills, at the request, the last request of a condemned man, takes on the appearance of the lover of yesteryear for a patient, plays a trick on the husband who is more interested in butterflies than in his wife, or becomes a former… Read More

E-093: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1961. 240 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Signed with a nice inscription by Connie Clausen on the FFEP. 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 lightly rubbed and worn. Connie Clausen (born Constance Clausen on June 11, 1923, in Menasha, Wisconsin, and died September 7, 1997, in New York City) was an actress, author, and literary agent. Connie Clausen's career began in 1942 at the age of 19 when she was approached by John Ringling North on Main Street in Sarasota, Florida (then the winter quarters for Ringling Brothers Circus) , who told her that her long hair would make her a perfect "Alice in Wonderland" in the following season's "fairy tale" themed grand finale. She joined the Ringling… Read More

E-227: Friends of the Trent-Severn Waterway. 1984. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Friends of the Trent-Severn Waterway, Peterborough, Ontario. , 1984. Viii, 110 pgs. 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. The Trent–Severn Waterway is a 386-kilometre-long (240 mi) canal route connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Port Severn. Its major natural waterways include the Trent River, Otonabee River, Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching and Severn River. Its scenic, meandering route has been called "one of the finest interconnected systems of navigation in the world". EB ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .

E-268. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Coward-McCann, New York. 1966. 192 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. Nine stories of revenge, compassion, love, and loathing in a collection “to be cherished” from an Edgar Award–winning author (Dorothy B. Hughes). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

C4c: Fantagraphics. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Trade PB. 4to. Published by Fantagraphics, Seattle, WA. 2007. 120 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution from 1939-1941...and then mysteriously vanished. His obscure and hard to find stories are finally collected here. Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters, his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary. At the time, comic books were in their infancy. The rules governing their form and content had not been… Read More

E-176: International Universities Press. Very Good. 1948. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Yale Garber, Tamarac, FL. 1987. 178 pgs. Reprint. 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. Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as… Read More

E-189: Rigby. Very Good. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Rigby Limited, Adelaide, Australia. 1963. 240 pp. Signed by Douglas Lockwood. 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. Small bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aid only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds. This is the first great classic of Aboriginal autobiography, as told to renowned writer, Douglas Lockwood. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; Signed by Author .

EB. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Gesualdi Editore, Roma, Italy. 1974. 341 pgs. Illustrated. Color frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by Michele Santantonio on the FFEP. 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. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

EB: Londra. Very Good. 1757. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Londra (ma Parigi; possibly printed by Prault in Paris). 1757. 5 volumes. Xi, 292, 271, 195, 261, 247 pages. Engraved title pages. Illustrated with tailpieces plates by Gravelot and Lemperer. Text in Italian. Slipcased in red cloth with spine label present to the top of the slipcase. Bound in 3/4 red leather with marble paper covered cloth with gilt and black band titles and gilt decoration present to the spines. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Several pages throughout the text are torn at the margins and repaired. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Boccaccio is Gravelot's masterpiece so much he excels in gallant subjects and animated scenes. As for his spiritual cul-de-lamp, they are in the hands of a master ornamentalist. The figures in first tests, of a much higher rendering, are the peculiarity of the edition in Italian; two of them have been replaced… Read More

E-176: Londra. Very Good. 1757. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Londra (ma Parigi; possibly printed by Prault in Paris). 1757. 5 volumes. Xi, 292, 271, 195, 261, 247 pages. Engraved title pages. Illustrated with tailpieces plates by Gravelot and Lemperer. Text in Italian. Slipcased in red cloth with spine label present to the top of the slipcase. Bound in 3/4 red leather with marble paper covered cloth with gilt and black band titles and gilt decoration present to the spines. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Small m inked to the last page of the last volume. Several pages throughout the text are torn at the margins and repaired. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Boccaccio is Gravelot's masterpiece so much he excels in gallant subjects and animated scenes. As for his spiritual cul-de-lamp, they are in the hands of a master ornamentalist. The figures in first tests, of a much higher rendering, are the peculiarity of the edition in Italian; two… Read More

E-101. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York. 1973. 192 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. The 1972 NFL Player of the Year discusses his ghetto youth in Pittsburgh, college days, and success with the Washington Redskins E-101; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-054: IM International Publishing. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. Trade PB with ring binding. 4to. IM International Publishing, Inc. 1984. 124 pgs. Illustrated with Color & Black and White Plates and designs. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Bound in ring binding. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The trends for the mid 80s were the "Grace Kelly", "Lido (nurse inspired) ", Carmen/Calypso, Mod and Country. I. M. International was a New York based fashion forecasting firm that regulary projects trens 18 months inadvance. The 1500 subscribers to IM's publications are an interesting combination of the fine speciality stores and top designers, like Calvin Klein right down to the K-Marts of the world. E-54; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-230: Paycock Pr. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Paycock Press, Bethesda MD, 1979. 41 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. 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. "Most of Peabody's poems are wryly humorous. He's not a mean-spirited poet, even when attacking those he doesn't care for. In an age when the cruel lampoon has taken a firm hold, Peabody's compassion for human frailty is especially endearing." Richard Peabody is well-known as a poet, teacher, and editor. He was born in Washington, DC, and has published four books of poems and two books of stories. He currently teaches in the Johns Hopkins University Part-time graduate Writing Program and at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Peabody is the founding editor of Gargoyle Magazine, and co-editor of the Mondo series (Mondo Barbie, et al. ) for St,… Read More

E-105: T. Fisher Unwin. Good+. 1883. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. T. Fisher Unwin. 1885. Xii, 355 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Second, Popular Edition. Signed and inscribed by George Smith on the half-title page. Bound in illustrated cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's book stamp present to the reverse of the front board and the reverse of the first illustration. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. George Smith (1831–1895) , of Coalville, philanthropist, born at Clayhills, Tunstall, Staffordshire, on 16 Feb. 1831, was the son of William Smith (1807–1872) , brickmaker, by his wife, Hannah Hollins (Grosart, Hanani, or Memories of William Smith, 1874, with portrait). At nine years of age George commenced working at his father's trade, carrying about forty pounds weight of clay or bricks on his head. The labour lasted thirteen hours daily, and to it was sometimes added… Read More

EB: Frank Cass. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Frank Cass, London, UK. 1982. Xv, 176 pgs. Arabic Thought and Culture. 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. Since its publication 1981, this book has established itself as the major new interpretation of the historical thought of this great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall, a figure generally thought to be on a par with Vico, Herder, Thucydides and others of similar stature. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldun has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models of Islamic thought. Starting… Read More

E-177: UNKNO. Very Good. 1994. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA. 1994. 169 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. Ibonia: Epic of Madagascar is a discovery: the first English translation of the major work of Malagasy oral literature, recorded in 1877 from an anonymous bard by a Norwegian missionary and translated by Lee Haring, who was called "the pre-eminent American scholar of Malagasy verbal art" by Research in African Literatures. Ibonia is the epic tale of the birth and exploits of a royal hero. His mother, a queen of heroic caliber, is barren until she consults a diviner, who brings about the hero's conception. An unusual birth and precocious strength prepare the hero to go in… Read More