Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Last Exit Books

EB: Zinat Pr. Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Zinat Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995. Xxix, 403 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards lightly splayed at the corners. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Written by the 10 most prominent Russian archaeologist, edited for English readers and a Foreword by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Director of the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads. The only survey in English revealing through archaeology the lifestyles of the Scythians, Sauromatians, Sarmatians, and Saka, the earliest nomads in Eurasia. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 431 pages .

E-183: Franz Steiner Verlag. Very Good. 1999. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgartt, Germany. 1999. 251 pgs. Historia - Einzelschriften (Book 128). 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. A study of the political system in the late Republic, dealing with the various ways in which electoral support was mobilised and victory procured at the polls. It deals with the elections to both the tribal and centuriate assemblies which chose the lower and higher magistrates of the Republic; and with every kind of canvassing by aspiring candidates employed not only in elections, but in climbing the ladder of the Republic. The political system of the Republic is often described as narrowly oligarchic; all forms of popular participation had little real impact on how the Republic was run. E-183; Historia - Einzelschriften; 9.3 X 6.6 X 0.7 inches; 251 pages .

E-278: Brill. Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. E J Brill, Leiden, Netherlands. 2000. 468 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. 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 numerous ambitious expeditions Shalmaneser III of Assyria (859-824) lay the foundation of the subsequent remarkable military advance to the West of the Neo-Assyrian empire. While systematically scrutinizing and analyzing all accounts of these western campaigns, Shigeo Yamada not only discusses the historiographical problems encountered, together with their impact on the jigsaw of ninth century Ancient Near East history, but also offers new results, and an original historical reconstruction. Ample attention is given to the campaigns' economic and ideological aspects. The book will serve as a useful reference for all students interested in… Read More

E-002. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. 1994. 225 pgs. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. Text in Spanish. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. A study of land use in Puebla during the viceroyalty. E-002; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-019: Morning Sun Books. Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Morning Sun Books, Edison, NJ. 2008. 128 pgs. Illustrated with color photos and maps. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth 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. "Stations, towers, bridges and anything else 'without wheels on the PRR west end of its New York Division main line and the PA&W, Princeton, Amboy and Bel-Del branches." EB; 11.2 X 8.8 X 0.4 inches; 128 pages .

E-040: Lunwerg Editores. Very Good. 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Lunwerg Editores. 2002. 240 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Jazz Voyeur Festival is located at Palma in Mallorca. It takes place mainly during the autumn each year at venues throughout Palma (for example, Bellver Castle, the Auditórium, the Misericordia, the Teatre Principal, the Conservatory). Over the nine-year history, there have been many international figures that have passed through the Jazz Voyeur Festival. They were all captured on camera by Gerardo Cañellas, a passionate about jazz and photography who has traveled the world in search of small clubs that make up the history of the genre. E-40; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 240 pages .

E-306: Putnam. Very Good. 1945. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1945. 247 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Lester Kohs 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. Major Herbert O. Yardley led an exciting and amazing life. As the deviser of a new diplomatic cipher code for the Department of State; and as head of the U. S. Government’s cryptographic department—the so-called Black Chamber—from 1919-1929, he contributed enormously to the U. S. Efficiency in war and in peace. During World War II, he served as a Major, becoming chief of military intelligence No. 8 in 1917. Later he served on General Pershing’s staff as a military observer. He was in charge of military intelligence in C-17 at the peace conference, and on the… Read More

EB. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Phoenix House Ltd, London, UK. 1953. 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. Previous owner's written the work address of Dora Yates to the FFEP. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Dora Yates (1879-1974) , was an indefatigable scholar, fluent in every dialect of Romani, and de facto secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society from 1922 almost until her death. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-295: John Wetherhill,. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by John Wetherhill, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan. 1966. X, 75 pgs. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed by Yukio Mishima on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the spine). 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. 140 photographic studies of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men - Young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai. To quote from the accompanying essays, these studies do indeed "raise physique photography to the level of photographic art" and, for the first time, show the Japanese male physique "in all… Read More

E-342: Bantam Books. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Bantam Books, New York. 1988. 247 pgs. Signed by Gen. Chuck Yeager on the FFEP. 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. General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . . The World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . . The hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. An intriguing portrait of the life of a rugged individualist covers everything from flying stunts and tales of travel to fishing advice, family stories, and a live-for-the moment philosophy EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall;… Read More

E-208: Bantam. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Bantam Books, New York. 1985. 342 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. General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . . The World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . . The hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. E-208; 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.4 Inches; 342 pages .

E-373. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan Company, New York. 1959. 479 pgs. Fourth printing. Definitive Edition, With Author's Final Revisions. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped along the edges 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. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet, W. B. Yeats began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described Yeats as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without… Read More

E-187. Very Good. 1916. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan and Co. , New York. 1916. 188 pgs. Signed by William Butler Yeats on the title page with notes from the previous owner describing how they acquired the signature. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in linen backed light gray boards with decoration by Sturge Moore present to the front board with paper spine label present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Various newsclippings about yeats present to the front pastedown and the FFEP. Previous owner's notes present to the table of contents and to the title page. Discoloration present to the reverse of the news clippings. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later… Read More

E-350: MacMillan. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by MacMillan Company, New York, NY, 1936. 200 pgs. First US 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. The first American edition, combining Dramatis Personae 1896-1902, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages .

E-050: McFarland. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. McFarland & Co. , Jefferson, N. C. 2007. V, 425 pgs. 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. Although Filipino cinema dates to the early silent era and shares many characteristics with Western film, it has been frequently ignored by Western critics and audiences. This book offers a rare study of cinema in the Philippines. The first half of the work presents the little-known history of Filipino cinema. Arranged chronologically, chapters cover lost pre-World War II films, the postwar cinema boom, the Philippines' unique relationship with the United States and its manifestation on film, and Filipino cinema's current decline. The second half of the book is the most comprehensive published filmography of Filipino cinema to date. EB; 10.1 X 7.0… Read More

C2c. Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hodges, Foster & Figgis, Dublin, Ireland/Longman's Greena and Company, London, UK. 1885-1904. 6 Volumes. Mixed edition Second/First Edition. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplates present to the front pastedown and the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Hinges repaired on a few volumes. Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully) , was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-158: Motorbooks Intl. Very Good. 2005. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Motorbooks, St Paul, MN. 2005. 160 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. Names for renowned entrpeneur James J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway, the incomparable Empire Builder was launched in 1929 by legendary CEO Ralph Budd. Powered by steam until 1947, the Empire Builder charged into the diesel era at full-bore with streamlined EMD E7As trailing Pullman cars from St. Paul to Spokane and generating millions for the railroad. This authoritative and richly illustrated history covers the Empire Builders through their 1970s demise. Included here are the trains, their various forms of motive power and rolling stock, and their services. A… Read More

A-13: Routledge. Very Good. 2003. 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; Routledge Studies On China In Transition; 9.2 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 272 pages .

E-308: Doubleday. Very Good. 1954. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Heinemann, London, UK, 1955. 219 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. Polly Knowles had always lived in the shadow of her sister. Kathy Knowles was a fiery, charming girl who thrived on the attentions of all men. Polly could only love one man - Ethan. But Ethan was an officer in General Washington's rebel army - the criminal rabble that threatened to destroy everything in Polly's life. And Ethan belonged to Kathy. As war exploded across the colonies and Polly faced the bloody ravages of hatred, frenzy and screaming death - she knew that she would do anything to win Ethan from her sister.... EB; Cavalcade Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages .

E-308: The Dial Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Dial Press, New York. 1947. 347 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Lynd Ward 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. America's latter-day secret societies are born in this sequel to The Foxes of Harrow: Defeated feudal lords of the South attempting to set back the clock of history. White Leaguers and Klansmen swoop down to terrorize recently liberated Blacks. Brawling, thieving northern carpetbaggers display no conscience other than the dollar sign. Mulatto half-breeds wander about with confused identities fall victim to there own confused behaviors. As creeping swamps and forests reclaim the once luxurious Southern… Read More