Search Results: Titles starting with M from Last Exit Books

E-157. Good+. 1758. Hardcover. Leather. 4to. Published by Apud Fratres Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland. 1758. 685 pgs. Third Edition. Bound in full leather boards with titles and raised bands present to the spine . Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Collection of Cicero's letters. E-157; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-373: Concord Publications Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Concord Publication Company Hong Kong, 1990. 61 pgs. Illustrated with b/w photographs, plus full page colour drawings. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Previous owner's blindstamp present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Part of the Concord Military Series, this volume provides the history of the M113, a long mainstay of US & allied armored forces. Includes photos from the author, official, and other sources. ; Firepower Pictorials 1000 Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-55: American Book Exchange. Good. 1881. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. American Book Exchange. 1881. 322 pgs. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine faded and worn to the extremities). No ownership marks present. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This pro-Whig poem is a comprehensive review of the actions of the British leaders throughout t he Revolution; M'Fingal was accepted after the war as an important contribution to belles-lettres. Reprinted more than 30 times between 1782 and 1840, it was the most popular American poem of its length. E-55; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

E-295. Very Good. Paperback. Trade. 4to. Published by Casterman, Paris, France. 2002. 64 pages. Text in French. 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. When I was a kid, I had a poster of Siné pinned to my bedroom wall. It must come from there. Since that time, I haven't stopped devouring it wherever I find it. In Bizarre, Siné Massacre, Lui, L'Express and Charlie Hebdo, on the covers of the Livre de Poche, record covers, posters and postcards with cats (yes! ). I was always speechless at the strength of his words and the violence of his humor. If I knew his work like the back of my hand, I knew nothing about the man. But one day, when my second book came out, I received a letter from him, overflowing with warmth and friendship. I went, trembling with emotion, to the appointment that my idol had fixed for me: "Could it be that behind… Read More

E-381. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, New York & London, UK. No Date (1912). Unpaginated [104] pages. Color pictorial title page and 24 full-page color illustrations. Bound in illustrated paper covered cloth and tartan illustrated paper covered spine with titles present to the front board. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are scuffed, chipped and worn along the edges). No ownership marks present. Text is free of marks. Tear present to one page toward the fore-edge (see photo). Binding tight and solid. The trials and tribulations of Mac, a white West Highland Terrier, who narrates in a Scottish dialect. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935) , was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and… Read More

E-357: Motorbooks Intl. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Windrow & Greene, London, UK. 1998. 128 pgs. Illustrated. 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. Seven classic World War I weapons are illustrated in 250 colour photographs, showing them in close-up, during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and firing. Gunners wearing period uniforms then put these weapons through live firing trials. Covering the Maxim Maschinengewehr 08, Maxim Maschinengewehr 08/15, Maschinenpistole MP 18/1, Vickers Mk 1, Lewis Mk 1, Hotchkiss Mle 1914 and the Chauchat Mle 1915, this books shows what the guns looked like, sounded like and felt like fire on the battlefields of the Western Front in 1914-18. With concise accounts of each weapon's… Read More

E-381: Bureau of Ordnance. Department of the Navy. Very Good. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Bureau of Ordnance, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC. 1951. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Xxiv, 688 pgs. Illustrated. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue 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 authoritative study of the machine gun covering the history, evolution, and development of manual automatic, and airborne repeating weapons. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-106: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Oxford University Press, New York, 1964. 392 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Leo Marx on the FFEP. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in patterend green cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Light soil present to the front pastedown. Text has some pencil work present to the margins and the text. Binding tight and solid. For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference… Read More

E-049: Simon and Shuster. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York. 1964. 255 pages. 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. In this book you will meet... A Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes alarmingly lifelike. A boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar -- until the mushrooms begin to raise him. A corpse who supports his wife and family. A circus fat lady whose midget husband has tattooed every inch of her mammoth body with fantastically intricate designs. Plus seventeen other amazing tales by the author of The Illustrated Man and the Martian Chronicles. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1… Read More

E-139. Very Good. Hardcover. Issued in a ring binder. 4to. Machlett Electron Tubes, 1961. Unpaginated (300+) pgs. Bound in flexible ring binder 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. Machlett Laboratories was a Northeastern United States-based company that manufactured X-ray and high-power vacuum tubes. Machlett was a large producer of the tubes and developed accessories to be used with them as well. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

C5c. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 4to. Published by American Art Association/Park Bernet, New York. 1934-1939. 162 pgs, 88 pgs, 131 pgs. Very well illustrated. Bound in 3/4 green leather and matching cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate of William C Overstreet present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Frank Gair Macomber Collection of Arms and Armor, Tapestries, Paintings, Objects of Art has 712 items listed, with annotations, including many fine militaria items from Persia, Turkey, India, Burma, and other areas. Early Continental Arms & Armor, English, French & Italian XVII-XVIII century furniture; William Randolph Hearst collections, part VII, this was the final sale of Hearst's estate. Treasures of Carniola: The Unique Collection of Prehistoric Antiquities Excavated by H. H. The Late Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg is an essential and… Read More

E-250: Generic. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. Mass Market PB. 16mo. Published by Warner Books, New York, 1985. 224 pgs. Illustrated with four pages of photos from the film. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Based on the screenplay by Terry Hayes and George Miller this is the third in the Mad Max saga and the followup to the movie of the same name. Wandering the post-nuclear holocaust desert of the near future, Mad Max wanders into Bartertown, an outpost of civilization run by a resourceful and sensual woman, Auntie Entity, for whom he takes on a perilous mission .

E-163. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1965. 256 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn with pieces missing from the edge of the DJ). 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 Peking to Paris motor race was an automobile race, originally held in 1907, between Peking (now Beijing) , then Qing China and Paris, France, a distance of 9,317 miles or 14,994 km. The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, reading: "What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Peking to Paris by… Read More

E-343: Greenberg. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Greenberg Publisher, New York, 1956. 284 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the top edge of the front panel of the DJ). 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. Incredible but true are these early fo'c'sle adventures of the author, who ran away from his native Copenhagen for a life at sea at the turn of the century. They cover his ten years spent aboard square riggers--Danish, German, and Norwegian clipper ships. Three times he rounded Cape Horn, at one time being cast away for several tortured weeks before he was rescued. Life before the mast aboard a sailing ship around 1900 was hazardous, brutal… Read More

E-370. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Bibliothèque Charpentier, Paris, France. 1891. 468 pgs. Text in French. Bound in 1/2 blue cloth and marble paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the front board and name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Madame Bovary is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in Revue de Paris between 1 October and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. A seminal work of literary realism,… Read More

E-344: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. 2008. 171 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. While the classically inspired “Grecian” gown designed by Madame Alix Grès is widely recognized and admired, little else of the brilliant couturier’s life or work has received close attention. This book, by far the most detailed study yet published on this influential fashion designer, carefully analyzes Madame Grès’ innovative construction techniques and connects her designs to the art styles and movements… Read More

E-254: Ecco. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Ecco/HarperCollins, New York. 2017. 320 pgs. Signed by Alissa Nutting 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. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She’s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in… Read More

E-344. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. 1998. 244 pgs. Illustrated with 400 photographs and illustrations. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is faded and scuffed). 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. This "spectacular tribute to a designer of breathtaking grace and originality" (Threads) is the definitive volume on the legendary Madeleine Vionnet's life and work. Now back in print with a fresh new cover, this reissue marks the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the House of Vionnet and the revival of the Vionnet brand. Lavishly illustrated in over 400 photographs, sketches, and with complete patterns for 30 of the most influential designs of this architect among dressmakers, this exquisite volume… Read More

E-080: Jonathan Cape, Harrison Smith. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Jonathan Cape/Harrison Smith, New York. 1930. Unpaginated. First Edition / First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (spine darkened and lightly sunned). Bound in black cloth boards with paste-down label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present. Price present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of the finest American wood engravers of the twentieth century and an outstanding artist of any era, Lynd Ward (1905-85) created a series of fantastic visual novels. The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of his wordless works have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they have exercised an enormous influence over latter-day graphic novelists. Ward's tutelage included studying under the direction of… Read More

E-255: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Random House, New York. 1960. 148 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ (with $3.00 price present) has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (small chip present to the crown of the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP (author Richard Metzger) Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to “make it hot for people, ” Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of… Read More