Search Results: Titles starting with V from Last Exit Books

E-091: Vertigo. Very Good. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. DC Comics/Vertigo, New York. 2005. 296 pgs. Illustrated in color. 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 front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid) , complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back then! ) and a Fascist government has taken over the U. K. The only blot on… Read More

C2b: Hurst & Blackett. Good+. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Viking Press, New York. 1954. Xviii, 281 pages. Index. 16 pages of black and white photographic plates. Illustrated with actual wartime photos of the V-2 Rocket development station at Pennemunde, Germany. Given by Bureau of Aeronautics member Walter Diehl with card present to the FFEP and to fellow member Robert Freitag and signed by various other member of the Bureau of Aeronautics. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (scrape to rear board). No ownership marks present. Light foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other… Read More

EB: Early Ford V-8 Club of America. Very Good. 1985. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Early Ford V-8 Club of America, San Leandro, CA. 1985. 350 pgs. Illustrated throughout with some color but mostly black and white photos. Bound in cream cloth boards with color pastedown present to the front board 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 treasure trove of photos, etc. Of Ford vehicles produced between 1932 and 1953. The hardbound version is no longer available from the Early Ford V8 Club. Most of the information appears to be pulled from the Ford V-8 Club’s newsletters. Some great knowledge consolidated into one place. The photos are primarily reproductions of photos that were from earlier publications, so some of the images aren’t up to the most modern of standards but they are still an excellent reference for studying these great… Read More

E-158: Voyageur Press. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Motorbooks, St Paul, MN. 2007. 160 pgs. Illustrated. MBI Railroad Color HIstory. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in matching illustrated 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. Go VIA Rail and see Canada: Here is Canada’s national railway, covering 14,000 kilometers of track from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. This illustrated history tells the story of how, starting in the early 1970s, VIA Rail became a separate Crown corporation, once and for all relieving the old Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways of their beleaguered passenger operations. It is a story rich in history—and marked with failures and misfortunes right up to our… Read More

E-245: Assouline Publishing. Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Assouline Publishing, New York. 2014. 240 pgs. Illustrated throughout in color. 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. Valentino Garavani, often known simply as Valentino, is a legendary fashion designer and master couturier. He founded his eponymous fashion house in Rome in the late 1950s and has since established an illustrious career designing for the world’s most glamorous women, from royalty to Hollywood icons, including Jackie O, Elizabeth Taylor and modern-day muses like Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway. From his start designing dresses, Valentino and long-time business partner Giancarlo Giammetti built the Valentino brand into an international empire, now one of the most… Read More

EB: Constable. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Constable Publishers, London, UK. 1952. 192 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (label residue present to 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. Some of the naval engagements during WWII, involving the Royal Australian Navy. Fate of the HMAS Sydney, HMAS Stuart at the Battle of Matapan, the Battle of the Java Sea. Short stories of Naval Warfare during WW 2. Author was a Gunnery Officer on Destroyers, in the Australian Navy. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

E-341. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Macmillan Company, London, UK. 1947. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has heavy shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (large piece missing from the spine). Bound in illustrated 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. Who are the two strange pilots, and what is the secret treasure hidden in the lonely valley where the children land? Nothing could be more exciting than a daring night flight on Bill’s plane! EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-201: National Geographic Society. Very Good. 1922. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The National Geographic Society, Washington, DC. 1922. Xv, 341 pgs. Illustrated with large folding map tipped in, 8 maps, 16 colour plates, over 200 black & white photo illustrations. 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. The author was the Director of the National Geographic Expeditions to the Mt. Katmai region of Alaska from 1917-19. The Mt. Katmai region was the site of one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions. The dramatic effects of that eruptions are photographically and scientifically documented in the detailed report. The folding map shows the Katmai National Monument, Alaska, est. In 1919. The Katmai region is noted for its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown… Read More

E-003: US Naval Institute Press. Very Good. 1987. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1977. 259 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. Being the Adventures of the Continental Sloop "Providence", 1775-79, Formerly Flagship "Katy" of Rhode Island's Navy. Story of RI's first naval vessel in Revolutionary times. Illustrated by maps, photos, paintings, maritime ship plans/elevations. EB; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches .

E-316. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1917. Xxxviii, 620 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. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Benjamin Anderson, American Austrian, was among a handful of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises in his pioneering work The Theory of Money and Credit in 1912, who set out to integrate monetary theory into a general theory of value. Anderson devoted a major portion of his great book The Value of Money, published in 1917, to a refutation of the "mechanical" quantity theory of money. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-208: The Donning Company. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Donning Company, Norfolk, VA, 1984. 280 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. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S. P. Somtow's tale of a twelve-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside down in the 1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement. Vampire Junction has been voted one of the top forty horror books of all time. Timmy Valentine: "He'll steal your heart - and have it for breakfast!" 21st anniversary edition of this unforgettable classic of… Read More

E-281: John C. Winston. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1953. Xi, 213 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Alex Schomburg designed DJ is heavily chipped and worn with large pieces missing front the front panel of the DJ. Bound in red cloth boards with black 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. Fifteen-year-old Dick Murdoch leaves Venus to meet his father Paul on the Moon. On the voyage there, the captain stops to examine the wreckage of a sister spaceship. No one knows what attacked the ship—some say it's the Basilisk. Dick's adventures aboard spaceship and on the Moon start to pay off as he finds more and more clues. EB; A Science fiction novel; 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 Inches; 213 pages .

E-150: George H. Doran. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George H. Doran, New York, 1927. 347 pgs. First Edition/FIrst Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn 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. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Oddly light-hearted for Bennett, The Vanguard is a story of rivalry between the very rich, in which Mr. Sutherland is kidnapped on a competitor's luxury yacht. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) began writing full-time in 1900 after publishing his first novel, A Man from the North, in 1898. He is best known today for The Old Wives' Tale, published in 1908. Bennett served as the director of propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information during World War I. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-011: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York. 1983. Illustrated with 179 Black and White Plates. Third 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. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies… Read More

E-213. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. Published by West End Games, New York. 1985. 64 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 adventure contains three missions, in which the fearless (well, sort of) Troubleshooters are once again pitted against the forces of evil, suspicion, stupidity and ignorance as they attempt to carry out contradictory, incomprehensible, and usually lethal instructions from The Computer and the High Programmer. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-336. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Company, New York. 1987. Xxviii, 884 pgs. Hudson River 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. Essential and comprehensive poetry of Yeats published in his last years entirely revised, and includes revisions. Yeats writes poetry with the care of a magical incantation, and viewed his work holistically, culminating with this volume. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-354. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1889. Xvi, 300 pgs. Illustrated. Second Edition, Revised. Bound in red decorated with black and blind design to the boards. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. Light foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In this book Darwin explains the complex ecological connection of the worldwide coevolution between orchids and insects. He emphasizes the role of insects in plant pollination and thus opened up new fields of research for subsequent botanists. Although this book (first published in 1862) did not match the success of "On the Origin of Species" (1859) , it did cement Darwin's reputation as a botanist. Many of his studies of English orchids were made near where he lived , in Orchis bank", a place that is now a nature reserve and is still home to a large number of orchids, insects and birds. EB;… Read More

E-179: W W Norton & Co Inc. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. W W Norton & Co Inc, New York. 1972. 290 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. Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse; 22 December 1883 – 2 November 6 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognised as an influence by several major… Read More

C5c. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. Small 4to. Published by Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. 1911. 269 pgs + 40 advertisement pp. Bound in green cloth boards with titles and black and white photo present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is missing). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely following Elmira College. It became coeducational in 1969 and now has a gender ratio at the national average. The college is one of the historic Seven Sisters, the first elite women's colleges in the U. S. , and has a historic relationship with Yale University, which suggested a merger before they both became coeducational. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

E-267. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, New York. 1945. Xi, 135 pgs. Limited and numbered copy, this is #536 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo on the colophon page. Illustrated. Slipcased. Slipcase is rubbed, worn and chipped. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blindstamped designed boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is lightly sunned and faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated… Read More