Search Results: Authors starting with B from Quadrant Book Mart

Prague, Czech Republic: Shalom Neuman. Hardcover. Near Fine+/None. 2018 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Clean and bright pictorial boards. Otherwise, like new. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. Ships from US. Larger size may require extra postage; any increase will be submitted to customer for prior approval. BOOK INFO: Text by Enrico Baj, Donald Kuspit, Robert Morgan, and Lester Strong. Glossy, clean & bright full-color reproductions throughout, with photos of live events at the end. 'To enter the universe created by New York-based artist Shalom Neuman is to enter a realm of glitzy brilliance, artistic virtuosity, and technological sophistication, tempered by an underlying vision of the world that is anything but upbeat. Neuman calls his work *fusion art,* and it's art with a message. Combining color, motion, and sound into a multidisciplinary, multisensory extravaganza aimed at appealing to more than just the visual sense, it reflects and comments on a contemporary world… Read More

New York: E. Laub publishing co., 1943. Paperback. Good/Poor+. Signed & Inscribed. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by author with location and date in 1944. Red velvet softcover with red gilt titling on front; spine is uncreased. Dustjacket is tattered: darkened and stained; the spine is all but missing; and edges are chipped. DJ and FFEP is stamped in red block letters, 'Review Copy'. Interior is clean and unmarked. Small 8vo. (5.5 x 8.5 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Frontispiece is a B&W photo of the author. 'For this is a unique book, quite sui generis, the likes of which has never been seen anywhere in modern times, or, for all I know and remember, in the memorable literature of all times. We have here a book of poems in five living languages--not translations but all original poems--each of which sprang out full-bodied and fully clothed in its individual glowing… Read More

Providence, RI: Deduction of the Innocents Pamphlets, 1975. Paperback. Very Good/None. Diana's Bimonthly Scarce stapled pamphlet poetry chapbook, small 8vo., limited edition number 119 of 120. Light edgewear and lightly rubbed at spine heel. Back cover coffee stained. Ball is a graduate of the Sorbonne and retired Smith College Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature. Cover illustration by Keith Waldrop. Keith Waldrop

Easton, PA: Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine-/None. Pictorial softcover with light edgewear at extremities. Spine is uncreased. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Foreword by Michiko Okaya; Preface, Adrian Plant; Acknowledgments, Brandon Ballengée; Introduction: Seasons in Hell, Roel Arkesteijn and Peter Fransman; 1 Darwin?s Pigeons: Rediscovering a Collection of Evolutionary Icons, Joanne H. Cooper 2 Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons, James A. Secord 3 The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings, KuyDelair 4 A Habit of Deciding Influence: Pigeons from Charles Darwin's Breeding Experiments, Ballengée 5 Mapping Purgatory: Brandon Ballengée in Conversation with Roel Arkesteijn, Arkesteijn and Ballengée 6 Brandon Ballengée: Art/Science/Activism, Robert S. Mattison 7 Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon, Ballengée 8… Read More

Nisa Traders, Quetta: Khair-un-Nisa, 1984. Hardcover. Fair/None. Blue boards illustrated in white and with white titling. Large octavo. Sewn binding tight and square. FFEP stamped in purple ""Saeed Book Bank"" with address in Pakistan. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: The Baluchi people, living mainly in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, number between 10-15 million worldwide. ""Perhaps no Country or race equal in size and number to the Baluch territories and race has received so scant attention even to the present day as have Baluchistan and the Baluchi speaking people."" (from the preface)

1949. Paperback. Good+/None. Signed. Signed with author's initials in a dedication on the front cover. Staplebound gray paper booklet, toned along edges. One leaf of pages is partially uncut at upper edges. Text is unmarked. 8vo., 6 x 9.25"". Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Reprinted from The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLVI, No. 11, (pp. 313-342). 'My conjectures will relate primarily to the distinctions between potentiality and possibility, the existential and non-existential and related distinctions.... The present conjecture, then, is that in some sense possibilities may be a sub-class of potentialities or even of inquiry-potentialities.... I also hope that this letter concerning John Dewey's Doctrine of the Possibles may have the good fortune of giving you some amusement during an idle hour.' (~from the text of Balz' letter). Printed by Lancaster Press,… Read More

Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. Very Good+/None. Dark brown textbook boards with copper titling on front and spine. Binding is tight, and interior is unmarked. Last two pages lightly creased at upper corner. 8vo. Laid in are a letter from American Anthropologist to Dr. David Holmberg of Cornell University requesting his review of the book, a one-sheet 'Information for Reviewers', and a bi-fold 'Style Guide and Information for Authors.' BOOK INFO: The first two paragraphs of the introduction capture the compelling nature of 'the ancient belief and medical system called shamanism, and the complex nature of Soviet approaches to shamanism.' Contents include the introduction by Balzer, and the following chapters: Chosen by the Spirits by V. N. Basilov; Shamanism among the Turkic Peoples of Siberia by N. A. Alekseev; Buryat Shamanism: History, Structure, and Social Functions by T. M. Mikhailov; Ritual and Folklore in Siberian Shamanism: Experiment in a Comparison… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: John C Winston, 1906. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Light green boards illustrated in color, 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 ins., edges rubbed with wear at corners and spine ends, loss at bottom front corner. Front board loose, intact but starting at bottom half of hinge. Rear board is starting an inch down from top, but holding and not as loose. Fair thus. Sewn binding. Pencil numbers on rear fep. Interior otherwise unmarked. Some light marks like fingerprints to a few pages and one has 1/4 in. closed tear along bottom edge, but overall nice inside. FFEP has a 5 in. closed tear diagonally from bottom at hinge. NOT a reprint or print-on-demand. BOOK INFO: The marvelous adventures of a boy whose fireplace andirons come to life. Fantastical illustrations by Clare Victor Dwiggins in color and B&W, along the lines of The Little Prince. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and syndicates, including his best-known strip, the long-run School… Read More

New York: International Journal on World Peace, 1989. Paperback. Good/None. Cream-colored softcover with black titling, toned along uncreased spine and corners softened. Spine heel bumped. Page edges also toned. Interior unmarked. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Steps Toward a Democratic World Order; The Liberal Democratic World Order and the Traditions of 'Suboecumenae'; General Systems Theory and Sociogenesis--A Personal View; and book reviews. Global politics; international relations; middle east crisis; political journal

New York: Duffield & company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+/None. ORIGINAL publication, not a reprint. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Faded green-grey paper boards with black titling on front; boards are toned, edgeworn and moderately soiled. Backstrip is absent. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Rough-cut page edges toned. 12mo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'The Frozen Grail, which Commander Peary carried with him to the North Pole, was originally pubished in the New York Times, on the day when he started for the Arctic.' (-from a terminal note). 126 p. 20 cm. Elsa Barker (1869?1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became known for three books: Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914), War Letters from the Living Dead Man (1915), and Last Letters From the Living Dead Man (1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing. Barker was born in 1869 in Leicester, Vermont. Her parents… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1955. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair-. Signed. Faded red cloth boards, bottom corners are bumped; front one creased. Extremities faded, but overall still good. DJ is rubbed and chipped, with fading to spine. Inscribed on ffep in bold blue ink. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Dr. Barker explains how to improve your life condition by changing his subconscious pattern through the spiritual technique called treatment. Barker was a minister at the First Church of Religious Science in New York and president of its international association. First Church of Religious Science; Unity Churches; International Association of Religious Science Churches

Bethlehem, PA: Moravian College Conservation Assoc, 1965. Paperback. Good+/None. Signed. Inscribed by the author on title page, a charming and spirited inscription, dated 1967. With newspaper clipping of author's obit taped to inside front cover. Cream colored staplebound softcover with brown titling, toned at edges. Binding sound. Owner's name, address and inscription on rear end paper. Interior otherwise unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Introduction and incidence table of composite Bethlehem records by Robert P. Snyder. The author, a retired schoolteacher, identified 210 bird species within the city limits on her daily walks along Monacacy Creek, on Nisky Hill and elsewhere. Moravian College; Monocacy Creek; Robert P. Snyder

US: Xlibris, Corp.. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. Unmarked pages; Front wrapper creased at bottom right corner; Inscribed by author ""With appreciation to Moira Bailis"" and a copy laid in of poem by Bailis from 2002 NJPS, Inc. Spring Summer Contest publication. Book Description\n\nEditorial Reviews\n\nAbout the Author\nJames Stanley Barlow grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee. He and his wife Nell live in Leonia, N.J. and Bradenton FL. They have four children and eight grandchildren. A retired professor of philosophy (City U. of NY), he looks back on careers as air force navigator during WWII, Presbyterian minister, and college educator. His Ph. D. is from the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. His collection of poems Swimming Laps in August . . . was published In 2001. Besides poetry, his writings include The Fall into Consciousness: ""An Essay on Religion and Psychology.""

US: Modern Images, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED**to poet Moira Bailis on prelim page. Blue stapled wraps, 8 vo. Interior clean and unmarked; pages slightly toned with age, else near fine copy of this scarce book.

Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1987. Apparent First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Clean black cloth boards with sharp, bright gilt titling on spine. 8 vo. Binding is sound and square. Dustjacket has minor crinkling along upper back end flap. Interior clean and unmarked. Barry's second novel and his first to be published in Great Britain. Fiction in English 1945- Texts, Dewey: 823/.914

Dordrecht-Holland/Boston-US: Springer, 1974. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Synthese Historical Library Navy blue cloth boards with embossed border and publisher's logo on front, and gilt titling on spine. Front board edges are toned along bottom and side, and the bottom front corner is frayed. Page edges are stamped New School Library. Adhesive residue to front end papers. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of and interest in my pursuits. I take the liberty of doing so now, two and a half years later. (-from the preface by the author). Editorial Reviews: '...one of the most interesting contributions to the history of logic available today, boasting a rare combination of… Read More

Providence, RI: Assoc for Symbolic Logic, 1986. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Four off-white softcovers, toned along spine. Bindings are sound and interiors unmarked. 8vo. Edited by Jon Barwise, Stephen A. Cook, Michael Dunn, Herbert B. Enderton, Kit Fine, William Howard, Wilfrid Hodges, Akihiro Kanamori, Alexander Kechris, Angus Macintyre, Michael Makkai, Richard A. Shore, A. S. Troelstra, and Bas van Fraassen.

Providence, RI: Assoc for Symbolic Logic, 1988. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Four off-white softcovers, toned along spine. Bindings are sound and interiors unmarked. 8vo. Edited by Jon Barwise, George Boolox, Stephen A. Cook, Herbert B. Enderton, William A. Howard, Wilfrid Hodges, Akihiro Kanamori, Alexander Kechris, Angus Macintyre, Michael Makkai, Richard A. Shore, A. S. Troelstra, and Bas van Fraassen.

Providence, RI: Assoc for Symbolic Logic, 1987. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Four off-white softcovers, toned along spine. Bindings are sound and interiors unmarked. 8vo. Edited by Jon Barwise, Stephen A. Cook, Michael Dunn, Herbert B. Enderton, Kit Fine, William A. Howard, Wilfrid Hodges, Akihiro Kanamori, Alexander Kechris, Angus Macintyre, Michael Makkai, Richard A. Shore, A. S. Troelstra, and Bas van Fraassen.

Providence, RI: Assoc for Symbolic Logic, 1985. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Four off-white softcovers, toned along spine. Bindings are sound and interiors unmarked. 8vo. Edited by Jon Barwise, Stephen A. Cook, Michael Dunn, Paul Eklof, Herbert Enderton, Kit Fine, Wilfrid Hodges, Akihiro Kanamori, Alexander Kechris, Angus Macintyre, Richard A. Shore, A. S. Troelstra, and Bas van Fraassen.