Search Results: Authors starting with H from Quadrant Book Mart

Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany: Schneider, 1974. Hardcover. Good/None. Munchner Veroffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte ; Bd. 22 Light blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and on faded spine, lightly toned along edges. Boards are slightly bowed and upper corners a little bumped. Bindings are sound. Former owner's name penned on ffep; Interior is otherwise unmarked. Lacking dustjackets. 8vo. 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: See photos for Tables of Contents. Volume II especially has many musical scores. Vol. I includes index. Text in German. Beginnings of the continuo bass movement. 281pp and 93pp

Chester, PA, 1947. Paperback. Fair-/None. 1946 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Beige paper staplebound booklet with black titling on front; spine is repaired with tape and front cover is heavily chipped and with a long closed tear in the center; rear cover is dampstained, (in other words, forget the cover). Top page corners are bent and some chipped. All text is readable, and interior is unmarked. 15.5 x 23 cm. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'The records of our lineage date back some three hundred years to Johann Michael Haas of Roth (Rot), Oberamt Mergentheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany. The projected book, The House of Haas, is to be the history of his descendents but will require many more years of research before it is completed; so it has seemed best to the author to release this story in installments, of which this is the first. The genealogy which you are now reading is a complete register of the lineal descendents of Johann… Read More

Corry, PA: First Methodist Episcopal Church. Paperback. Fair+/None. Light blue stapled softcover with darker blue titling, stained on front. Vertical crease where pamphlet was folded in half. One tiny scribble of marginalia, otherwise unmarked. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Three lectures given the first three Sundays of December 1938, to the congregation of the First Methodist Episcopal Church: In Relation to the Bible or Word of God, Economic & Commercial World, and Return of Israel's Messiah. The lectures were not for or against the Jewish persecution in Austria and Germany, but rather stated it was a sign of something portended in the bible. The lectures were so well attended, the church published this pamphlet. Undated. Not a reprint or print-on-demand.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/None. Signed. Not ex-library. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Gray cloth over spine and blue-grey boards with gilt titling on front; spine is toned and rear board has white-stippled staining. Corners are bumped and worn. Binding is sound. SIGNED with short inscription on FFEP with author's first name. End papers have foxing. Interior is unmarked. Rough cut page edges are toned and darkened along the top. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Includes a note on sources and index. 274 p. 22 cm. At the end of 1894 the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, (a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and a Jew of Alsatian origin), was accused of handing secret documents to the Imperial German military. After a closed trial, he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. His trial and conviction became one of the most controversial and polarizing… Read More

US: HarperCollins Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Signed. **SIGNED**by the author on ffep. Inscribed on verso to then Princeton University President William G. Bowen, (1988-2006), ""To a sincere friend of Princeton Rowing,"" from Princeton heavyweight rowing coach Larry Gluckman. Black and grey cloth boards with silver titling on spine, small 8vo. Unclipped DJ, endflaps toned and edges crisp, except tiny crinkling at head of spine. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Halberstam delves into the world of amateur rowing, focusing on the 1984 single sculls trials in Princeton. The man who wins will represent the United States in the '84 Olympiad. What drives these men to endure a physical pain known to no other sport? Rowers--United States--Biography, Olympics, Princeton University,

New York: Happy Hour Library. Paperback. Fair-/None. Blue textured paper wraps covering a stapled binding; Cover is tattered, soiled and loose from the book. All pages present and together. Interior is unmarked. Not a print on demand. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Includes three stories: My Double: And How He Undid Me; The Man Without a Country, by Hale; and The Philosophy of Furniture, by Edgar Allan Poe.

New York: The Happy Hour Library. Paperback. Fair-/None. Light blue marbled-texture softcover is soiled and chipped along edges, with 2-in. waterstain along head of spine. Pages are square and bound tightly. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. Ca. late 1800s. 16mo. Covers overhang the text block. Book Info: Includes Miss Lucinda by Rose Terry. Lucretia Peabody Hale (Sept. 2, 1820 ? June 12, 1900) was an American journalist and author. 'The next book in this series is Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, a delightful tale in Hawthorne's inimitable style that has to do with certain peculiar circumstances quite unexplainable.'-from terminal page.

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/None. The Addison-Wesley series in the engineering sciences: mechanics and thermodynamics Dark gray cloth boards with red band and gilt titling on spine, light wear to corners. Upper page edges foxed. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. No indication of ex-library. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Includes bibliography, appendices, and subject index. Dynamics

Philadelphia [etc.] Hall-Mack Co.: c1911-1929.. Paperback. Fair+/None. 1911 Plain grey softcover with black titling, toned and worn along edges; black spine is worn. There is the ghost of a black ink stamp on the bottom front cover. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding is sound though cracked at Index page. (7 x 10.25 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: This volume copyright 1911. See photos for list of songs. The musical scores to 36 songs of devotion, including A Rose Brightly Glowing, Nearer My God to Thee, River of Life, and The Son of God Goes Forth to War by composers Adam Geibel, Harry Hale Pike, C. Austin Miles, Caleb Simper, Wilfred Robertson, J. Lincoln Hall, William T. Meyer, R. Frank Lehman, Lida Shivers Leech, T. Edwin Solly, Carl Jean Tolman, Joseph D. Little, Arthur Berridge, E. L. Ashford, Alfred Judson, Charles H. Gabriel, Herbert J. Lacey, F.… Read More

Lund: Gleerup, 1973. Ex-Library. Paperback. Good+/None. Tan softcover with spine reinforced by green tape. Columbia University stamped on inside front cover in tiny caps, only indication of ex-library. Text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Hintikka, J. Knowing how, knowing that, and knowing what: observations on their relation in Plato and other Greek philosophers.--Hedenius, I. The concept of punishment.--Marc-Wogau, K. On the concept of dialectial development in Marxism.--Ekelof, P. O. Definitions and concept formation in the law.--Hermeren, G. The existence of aesthetic qualities.--Regnell, H. Explanation in analytical philosophy.--Furberg, M. On questions and pseudo-problems.--Moritz, M. Imperative implication and conditional imperatives.--Sosa, E. Standard conditions.--Danielsson, S. On the strength of commitments.--Aqvist, L. The emotive theory of ethics in the light of recent developments in formal semantics and pragmatics.--Von Wright, G. H. Truth as modality. A contribution… Read More

US: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Light green paper boards, slight fading to spine corners. Pictorial dustjacket shows only the slightest edgewear. Inscribed by the author on front fly to previous owner. (Business card laid in may provide clue to whom.) Unmarked otherwise. Binding is firm and tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The story behind the Major Motion Picture The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale: boxer Micky Ward's unlikely road to becoming a world champion. 'Irish' Micky Ward was always the underdog, one able to stage a stunning comeback late in a fight. After a fifteen-year pro career followed by a string of defeats and three years of retirement, the Lowell, Massachusetts, native defeated Arturo Gatti in 2002, capturing the world light welterweight title. The grueling comeback battle made Ward famous. In Irish Thunder, Halloran recounts Ward's rise to hero status, his rivalry with his imprisoned brother, and the… Read More

US: [London] Methuen, 1970. Hardcover. Good/None. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on red band on spine; barely noticeable adhesive residue to spine heel. Top front corner bumped. Binding is sound. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates were removed. Title page previously excised. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated with a few diagrams. 'There is hardly a subject that dies harder or has changed so little over the years. After two millennia of active study of logic and, in particular, after over half of that most iconoclastic of centuries, the twentieth A.D., we still find fallacies classified, presented and studied in much the same old way.... Strangely, in a certain sense, there has never yet been a book on fallacies; never, that is, a book-length study of the subject as a… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+/Poor. Light gray cloth boards with orange decoration and black titling are lightly soiled and suntanned. Priceclipped DJ split at spine with loss at head of spine, bottom front edge, and upper third of rear; sunfaded and generally edgeworn. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Red upper page edges are fading. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'You will enjoy this story of a London pub and its romance of two romantically bewildered people.... Though a complete story in itself, this novel follows The Midnight Bell and The Siege of Pleasure as the final book of a trilogy. Begun as far back as 1931, the delay in its appearance is due to the fact that the author was knocked down by a car in January, 1932, and put completely out of action for practically two years.'-from the publisher. English playwright and novelist, Hamilton, was well-regarded by his peers, though underappreciated during his time. Study of his novels is reviving recently… Read More

London, Boston, Melbourne & Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Light, bright blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Binding is sound. Green DJ is toned along spine. Top page edge is dust dulled. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Perception; Learning and genetic issues; The self and interpersonal understanding; Includes index. Gibson's theory of perception; conceptual development; human learning; love and hate

Teaneck, NJ: Sub Rosa Pr, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED**Stapled binding with yellow wraps. Interior clean and unmarked. Laid in are two typewritten poems by Hammer, one dated 9/91 and inscribed to poet Moira Bailis. Hammer is a self-described ""writer, poet, vagabond."" Ireland--Poetry

US: British Museum, 1972. Paperback. Good+/None. Bright green softcover with lime green titling; spine is uncreased and extremities lightly worn. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Slender 8vo. (6 x 8.25 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for List of Illustrations, subject index and index of structures. Illustrated in B&W photography and maps. 'In spite of the interest in the Maya and the concurrent British possession of a territory where Classic Maya sites might be found, archaeological investigation on more than a personal level was long delayed. From the eighteen-nineties until the mid-nineteen-twenties almost the only fieldwork in the Colony was that carried out by Dr. Thomas Gann, the Medical Officer in Belize. His enthusiasm was not matched by his expertise in either excavation or observation, and in many cases he could only record that another 'burial… Read More

Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press, 1970. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titling on a toned spine. Spine also has white Dewey numbers and adhesive residue at heel. Boards are lightly soiled and toned along bottom front edge. Yellow stain on side page edges. Both pastedowns are scarred where bookplate/pocket removed. Binding is sound. Erased pencil marks on copyright page, and black ink library notation on dedication page. Text is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'This book is intended as a study of the relations between science and philosophy during the Enlightenment as seen through the activities of one of its most prominent spokesmen, Jean d'Alembert. Thus I have not written a thoroughgoing biography or a detailed analysis of d'Alembert's scientific writings, but rather I have attempted to place him in the scientific, social, and 'philosophical' communities of the eighteenth century, and to show how one important philosophe lived (sometimes… Read More

Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing, 1973. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Synthese library Jr., Willard C. Humphreys Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, bearing white Dewey numbers. Light edge wear and upper page edge has light foxing. Scars to both pastedowns where bookplate/envelope removed. Binding is sound and interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Illustrated in B&W. Delineating the interplay between the two currents of thought of Copernicus and Ptolemy within the history of planetary theory is a primary purpose of this book. Including analytical discussions of concepts like cosmology and astronomy,the scientific system, clean mathematical ideas, hypothesis-discovering and extrapolation. -(abridged from the preface). Includes publisher's catalog. Planetary theory, Astronomy--History; Mars backward loop

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Poor/None. Ex-library, hand titled in white on spine with library sticker. Brown buckram boards worn at extremities with black ink stain over black titling on front board. Rear board bent at top corner and almost broken. Inside, loose boards have been repaired with tape, front and rear. One 3-pg. section dogeared. Page edges yellowed and pages toned with age. Usual library markings. Text otherwise unmarked. This is a rare original, not a reprint or print-on-demand; Nor is it pretty, though the photos are fascinating. Reading copy. BOOK INFO: Illustrated with 20 B&W photos. Includes 9-pg. index. Alfred Emanuel 'Al' Smith was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Signed. Inscribed and signed on ffep, apparently to artist Charley (Charles) Kaeselau. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; lightly rubbed at extremities and edges faded. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Rough-trimmed side edges. Dustjacket is very worn with detached but present rear flap. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography. 'Hutchins Hapgood in his day was more famous than Lincoln Steffens and most of his other contemporaries. He has been called the noblest Roman of them all because, by and large, he was the only one of a celebrated group of world-shakers who frankly and consciously felt himself to be a Victorian. Unlike Mabel Dodge and Lincoln Steffens and John Reed and the rest,… Read More