Search Results: Authors starting with L from Quadrant Book Mart

Washington, DC: Govt. Print. Off. Hardcover. Near Fine-/None. Reprint in modern binding, dark navy blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Front board slightly bowed. 1/2-in. white mark on rear board. Binding is tight. Owner wrote name and page number in large black marker on ffep. Interior is otherwise clean and text unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, director. Includes the text of the first census act. 'The schedules of 1790 form a unique inheritance for the Nation, since they represent for each of the states concerned a complete list of the heads of families in the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. The framers were the statesmen and leaders of thought, but those whose names appear upon the schedules of the First Census were in general the plain citizens who by their conduct in war and peace made the Constitution possible and by their intelligence and… Read More

Washington, DC: Cistercian Publications, Incorporated, 1972. Hardcover. Good/None. Cistercian Studies Series: Number 8 Linen colored cloth boards with light red pencil mark on front. Octavo. Binding square and tight. BOOK INFO: Exploring the ""contemporary milieu and monastic developments""-not just the Citeaux Founders-in order to understand how the Cistercians began and grew. Includes bibliography and index. Abbaye de Cîteaux, Cistercians, Monasticism and religious orders--France--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Paperback. Very Good-/None. Signed. SIGNED by the illustrator, this staplebound pictorial softcover (front and rear) was printed in a limited edition of 4,000 copies. Only lightly soiled and edgeworn. Interior clean and unmarked. The text is the reproduced handwriting-presumably of Larimer-in brown, with hand painting and sketches of Venetian characters, buildings, and scenes by Robert Doney, also in brown. A paean to the lively, vibrant city, sinking or not. 'It's with no grand purpose then that we prepared this little book. If we have an aesthetic principle, it's simply to put things down the way we saw them in the late spring of 1974. The children of these two collaborators recently took a pilgrimage to Venice to recreate their fathers' travels. Robert Doney

Portland, Or.: North Pacific Publishers, 1964. Ex-Library/2nd Prtg. Hardcover. Good-/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Red cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine, faded along edges; Spine heel bears catalog numbers in black. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Rear end paper has remnants of card envelope. Binding is sound. Library numbers/date to preface page. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. 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 two basic diagrams. 'In my previous publication The Structure of the Physical Universe, I found it necessary to discuss a very wide range of phenomena in order to get a broad enough coverage to establish the validity of the fundamental postulates on which the work is based. ... I have had in mind...to follow the original work with some supplementary discussions that would carry… Read More

Fairfield, IA: Conestoga Zen Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Signed. **SIGNED**by Larson on title page. Blue stapled softcover, small 8vo., top front corner lightly bent. Interior clean and unmarked. BOOK INFO: Thirteen poems including title poem and some previously published titles, including: Librarians, Libraries, Shelves, Clocks, Balconies; Crazy Star; The Wine-Dark House; Night and Spinach; An Oridinary Drinking Glass.

US: Edwin Mellen Pr, 1996. Paperback. Very Good/None. Interior clean and bright. Spine uncreased and corners square. Two tiny closed tears midway along spine, eighth inch long, and three spots lightly rubbed on wraps, else near fine. A graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Rustin Larson's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker and The Iowa Review among others. He has won several prizes in poetry and been nominated for the Pushcart seven times. English poetry, United States, Dewey: 811.54

Fairfield, IA: Conestoga Zen Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **INSCRIBED**and dated 8/10/99 by Larson on title page to poet Moira Bailis ""with good wishes."" Cream stapled softcover, small 8vo., tiny light smudge on bottom front edge, corners square. Interior clean and unmarked. BOOK INFO: 20 poems by Larson, including title poem and some previously unpublished. Here are a sampling of titles: Trying to Survive Death's Little Weather; The Des Moines Rising at Bentonsport; Imitations; Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, after Van Gogh; Swallows. Unpaginated. Ships from US.

Paris: Galeri du Genie, 1990. Paperback. Good/None. Illustrated softcover, 8 x 8 1/4 ins, lightly rubbed along edges. 19 B&W and color illus. 2 pp essay by Lascault. The artist's fascination with walls and graffiti are represented through these works. With a list of works, chronology of artist's life, and 4 pp list of exhibitions. Ships from US. Turkish painting

New York: Morrow, 1960. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. No indication of ex-library. Light blue cloth boards with black titling on spine and embossed picture of a girl on the front; Edgeworn, toned along edges, and with a small white spot on front. Binding is sound. End papers are decorated with a blue line drawing of the village. Illustrated with adorable B&W drawings throughout. Interior is unmarked. Lacking DJ. Small 8vo. 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: A little Chinese girl, who lives with her adopted American missionary parents in China, has many adventures such as being lost in a dust storm, getting a new baby sister, going to school with other Chinese girls, and meeting her real parents. 125 p. illus. 21 cm.

Tel Aviv, Israel: Massada-PEC Press. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Fair-/Poor. Black cloth boards, corners bumped and lower front hinge starting and also, curiously, bumped. Front board is a tiny bit bowed. DJ chipped, rubbed, and edgeworn. Bottom page edges have light markings. Half title page has 'with Compliments Ch. Lazar' in blue ink, crossed out in pencil. ? FFEP stamped by a library, otherwise no indications of ex-library, except perhaps a paperclip rust stain/indentation on last page with commensurate stain on pastedown. Interior otherwise unmarked. Three pages dogeared. Title page has small black scuff mark on bottom corner. 8vo. BOOK INFO: B&W photo section. Eyewitness to the atrocities committed by the Nazis and to the heroism of Jewish people, the author lived through the fiendish torments of the Vilno Ghetto and led a partisan band that waged guerilla warfare in the forests of Lithuania and White Russia. (from the preface.) Chaim Lazar-Litai; Holocaust; Warsaw Ghetto uprising

New York: Tamiment Institute, 1977. Paperback. Good+/None. White pictorial softcover with black titling on front and spine. Binding sound and spine uncreased. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Articles include: Cowboy Strikes and Unions; Class and Ethnic Conflict in San Francisco Political History: The Reform Charter of 1898; Social Motivation of the Anthracite Mine Workers: 1901-1920; White Supremacy and Black Workers: Georgia's 'Black Shirts' Combat the Great Depression; Letters to Daniel De Leon: The Intra-party Constituency for his Policy of Strict Party Discipline, 1896-1904. Notes and Documents include: Conrad's Anarchist Professor: An Undiscovered Source; 'Who Are Wanted in Minnesota: Workers as Described in Antebellum 'Booster Literature'; Review Essay: American Labor in Recent Soviet Historiography; And Books Reviewed. Plus terminal ads. Cowboy Strikes and Unions; Class and Ethnic Conflict in San Francisco; Reform Charter of 1898; Anthracite Mine Workers; White… Read More

Amsterdam and London: North-Holland, 1973. Hardcover. Good-/Good-. Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics, v. 68 Yellow cloth boards with back border on front with gilt titling on the spine on a black band, a little soiled at bottom corners. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. DJ is shelf worn with closed tears, especially at spine ends, and corners worn. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Of the fifteen papers in this volume, eleven were read at a Conference on Alternative Semantics held at Temple University the 29th and 30th of December, 1970. The rest are included because they bear on the main objectives of the Conference: to supply interpretations for some recent logics (among them the relevance and entailment logics of Anderson and Belnap), to supply for others (first-order logic, the theory of types, modal logic, etc.) interpretations that treat quantifiers substitutionally and so may dispense with models, and in general to better reconnoiter points at which syntax and semantics intersect.… Read More

Manchester, UK: Manchester University, 1975. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Green cloth boards with gilt titling on spine with light edgewear. Bottom corners of boards are lightly bumped. Page edges darkened at bottom corner. Scar to front pastedown and library stamp are covered with white label. Rear pastedown bears black ink date stamp and long scar where bookplate was removed. Contents page has white sticker near gutter, probably covering some library markings. Text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'At a time when the study of Ockham's thought in its different facets is becoming more intensive, an attempt to present his outlook as a whole may not be inappropriate. Over a thinker as distinctive as Ockham there are bound to be varying, if not conflicting, judgements. But I hope I have at least presented the issues which engaged his thought and the manner in which he responded to them.' (-from the preface by the author) William of Ockham (c. 1287 ? 1347) was an… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Chemical Publishing Co, 1947. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. Signed. **INSCRIBED**Mar 1947 by author on ffep to fellow magic and puzzles author Joseph Leeming. Burgundy cloth boards, 12mo., with gilt titling, fading on top and bottom front boards corresponding with DJ loss, else good. Unpriceclipped DJ soiled and chipped but intact. Binding sound. Interior unmarked. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: The manufacture of wool from its beginnings as a household art to its peak as one of the top-ranking industries; Undoubtedly, a deeper understanding of the habits and culture of ancient craftsmen may prove an incentive for individual textile artistry in this modern machine age. (abridged from the endflap)

Rochester, NY: The Rochester Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Edges rubbed; spine tight and text clean and unmarked; Gilt titling sharp on spine and front cover; light foxing on front boards. The Veteran's Son who fought his own battles with the power of inspiration and courted the woman he loved in a locomotive cab and on the banks of the Wabash; the spirit of a boy's journey West and into manhood; with wonderful b&w illustrations.

Rockville Centre, NY: Freshet Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed. Signed by the author in tidy script on ffep. Green and beige cloth boards with gilt titling on spines. DJ edges wrinkled and chipped at spine heel. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: A charming memoir of his long education as a fly fisherman. Leonard is a dedicated and highly accomplished trout fisherman, an enthusiast of pan fishing, a fan of the underrated pickerel, a top notch bass fisherman, and a pioneer and expert in the art of taking stripers on the fly. Fly fishing, Saltwater fly fishing

US: Springer-Verlag, 1983. Ex-Lib. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Perspectives in Mathematical Logic Ser. Yellow cloth boards, toned and lightly soiled from fingerprints. Interior is clean, and text is unmarked. Pastedowns are scarred where bookplates removed. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'Degree theory, as it is studied today, traces its development back to the fundamental papers of...Kleene and Post [which] introduced algebraic structures which arise naturally from the classification of sets of natural numbers in terms of the amount of additional oracular information needed to compute these sets....The idea of comparing sets in terms of the amount of information needed to compute them has been extended to notions of computability or constructibility which are relevant to other areas of Mathematical Logic such as Set Theory, Descriptive Set Theory, and Computational Complexity as well as Recursion Theory. However, the most widely studied notion of degree is… Read More

New York: D Appleton and Co, 1888. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Dark red cloth boards, edgeworn, spine sunned, large 8vo. Front and back hinges loosening, webbing visible, but holding. Dampstain in lower gutter front, back, and a few middle pages. Light pencil marks/marginalia on perhaps 4 pages. Top right corner of 2 ffeps torn from over-vigorous pen which bled through in 2 brown dots to second title page. Also 2 heavily-pencilled words on ffep. Front pastedown has typed last name glued on, rear pastedown has tiny former bookstore 1 in. sticker at bottom. Not ex-library or reprint. French engineer and diplomat instrumental in developing the Suez Canal describes his experiences in Rome, Paris, Madrid, Algeria and Tunis, building the Suez Canal, the attempt at the Panama Canal, and Steam Power. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, French developer of the Suez Canal; Mediterranean and Red Seas

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1979. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Green softcover with white titling on front and spine. Page edges toned and stamped with ex-university library. Text is unmarked. Spine is uncreased. 8vo. BOOK INFO: This volume is the first major published survey of unsolvability results for the predicate calculus since Suranyi's treatment in 1959. Developments in the intervening years have drastically changed both the results and the proof techniques in this area. The book deals with the theoretical possibility of determining by mechanical means whether particular statements of mathematical logic can be true; this is the oldest problem in the theory of computability. The main goal is to classify cases in which computable decision procedures are demonstrably nonexistent. Logicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists will welcome this publication. Includes index of terms.

New York: Selected Academic Readings. TRADE PAPER. Good+/None. Tan wraps with black titling. Light shelfwear, light fingerprints on cover, and back bottom corner dogeared. Page edges lightly soiled. Pages hand-numbered; interior otherwise unmarked. BOOK INFO: Edited by Lichtenberg of Trenton State College. A book of readings designed for graduate students in the fields of guidance, special education, school nursing and regular classroom teachers. In 11 sections: Attitudes Toward Peoples and Problems; Intelligence and Learning; Counseling and People; Poverty and Minority Groups; Education for the Poor and Minorities; Language and Learning; Disturbed Children; Retarded Children; Love, Marriage and Related Problems; Adoption and Foster Homes; Attitudes Toward Deviance and Crime. Illustrated by B&W graphs and charts. Trenton State College; education; learning