Search Results: Authors starting with S from Quadrant Book Mart

Boston, MA: Thomas B. Noonan & Co.. Hardcover. Good/None. Catholic Boys & Girls Library Undated; ca. late 19th century; (preface dated 1854). Not a 'brand new book' or reprint/POD; Rather, this is an original edition. Our photos depict actual book for sale. Green cloth boards with embossed gilt decoration on front and spine, and crest blindstamped on back cover. Edgeworn at extremities. Floral decorated endpapers. Half title page has been torn out. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. No dustjacket. 16mo. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. Unpaginated. BOOK INFO: 'There is little need of a preface to a work like this, which bears its moral on every page, and is, moreover, so very simple and unpretending that it requires not the formality of an introduction. Still I have a few words of explanation to give with regard to the former edition. Alice Riordan's 'first appearance on any stage' was in the columns of the Boston Pilot, and when issued in book form, it was… Read More

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1969. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good+/None. International series of monographs in pure and applied mathematics, v. 100 Black cloth boards with gilt titling on blue field on spine; 1/4-in. tears at head of spine. Corners shelfworn. Indications of ex-library include remnants of adhesive on rear pastedown, partial black stamp on long page edges, red number stamped on copyright page, and blue scribbling on rear fep. Otherwise unmarked. Binding is sound. Shorter 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: More restricted models for information processing. This book deals with mathematical aspects of automata theory, rather than applications. No advanced mathematical background is assumed on the part of the reader...[other than] very basic notions in set theory, algebra and probability theory. (-from the preface). Contents include: Finite deterministic automata; Finite non-deterministic and probabilistic automata; Algebra of regular expressions; Formal languages and generalized automata.… Read More

Paris: Charpentier, 1845. Hardcover. Good/None. Signed. A rare early edition, four volumes in two books. Quarter leather, marbled paper boards and marbled end papers, 12 mo. Gilt titling on spine. A little edgewear, mostly to heads of spine. Bindings square and tight. Pages evenly toned with moderate foxing throughout, otherwise unmarked. Owner's label to rear pastedown, ""Attn Bronson,"" in black cursive. Book 1: 374 and 380pp; Book 2: 331 and 308pp. BOOK INFO: Consuelo was first published serially in 1842-1843 in La Revue Independante, a periodical founded by Sand, Pierre Leroux, and Louis Viardot. The title character is said to be inspired by Viardot's wife, the soprano Pauline Viardot, a good friend of both Sand's and of her love Frederic Chopin.

Arnhem, Netherlands: J. W. Swaan, 1857. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Black quarter cloth with blue and black marbled boards, badly shelfworn. Rear top corner rubbed down, along with page corners. A few instances of foxing, mostly in margins. One page wrinkled at top corner, as publisher's error. The front and rear end papers are neatly trimmed an in inch in from gutter, appears to also be a publisher's creation. Binding is sound and text unmarked. 5x8.25 ins. BOOK INFO: Here's a clunky translation of the title: Christians suffering a drinking cup by Father God's love in Christ: Learn speech, held in the great Church in Arnhem in the evening turn, about Johannes XVIII. Organized into sections of earlier works, including: De Waarheid in Jezus Christus, de Geest der Eeuw, en de Hervorming, Leerrede over Joh. XVII 17, (1824); De Bekeering van Paulus, Leerrede over Hand. IX, vs. 1-9, door Thomas Van Schuylenburgh, (1834); De Eerste Zonde, Leerrede over Genesis 3, vers 16, door C. Van Schaick… Read More

New York, NY: The Literary Guild of America, Inc.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dustjacket tanned with age and chipped at head and heel of spine, but wonderfully intact; pages similarly tanned at edges and some yellowing inside; Owners bookplate to front pastedown; Less than 1/2 inch closed tear at top of front pastedown paper, does not affect integrity of hinge. From endflap: ""Siegfried Sassoon is known as one of England's greatest poets, and the author of three remarkable and best-selling books, issued at the author's direction as novels. Sassoon himself explained, when Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man was first published anonymously, 'This is fiction, but with a difference--for the author, who wishes at present to remain anonymous, has himself lived the life of his hero.'""

2001. Paperback. Good-/None. White softcover with pictorial front cover. Covers edgeworn and lightly soiled. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Visual poetry illustrated in B&W.

New York: Random House, 1969. Ex-Library. Paperback. Good+/None. Random House studies in philosophy, SPH 22 1969 White softcover with green and red graphics and titling; spine is uncreased. (No DJ). Only indications of ex-library are stamps to copyright page and three tiny holes drilled in binding. Sparse instances of tidy underlining. 5.25 x 8 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: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography.'My interest in writing this book has been to advance my own understanding of human consciousness. The book accordingly is an essay in the philosophy of mind. I do not conceive it as an essay in automata theory. I remain convinced, however, that an appropriate way to test and to extend one's understanding of a mental function is to attempt to describe in unequivocal terms how that function might possibly be approximated in… Read More

Bethlehem, PA: Moravian College Center for Music and Art, 1987. Paperback. Good+/None. Tan/gold pictorial staplebound softcover, rubbed on front, resulting in white swoosh mostly at edges. Edges square. Interior is unmarked. Small quarto. Book Info: Contents include: Acknowledgements by Les Reker, Director/Curator, Payne Gallery; M. C. Escher: Artist Extraordinary by C. V. S. Roosevelt; A Mathematician Views Escher by Doris Schattschneider; For More Information; Catalogue of the Exhibition. And the following 14 B& W illustrations: Hand with Reflecting Sphere; Day and Night; Verbum; Reptiles; Convex and Concave; Puddle; Swans; Smaller and Smaller; Circle Limit IV; Waterfall; Penrose Tribar; Tower Illustrations; Moebius Strip II (Ants); Double Planetoid. Les Reker; Payne Gallery; Hand with Reflecting Sphere; Day and Night; Verbum; Reptiles; Convex and Concave; Puddle; Swans; Smaller and Smaller; Circle Limit IV; Waterfall; Penrose Tribar; Tower Illustrations; Moebius Strip II (Ants); Double Planetoid

US: Pergamon Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good/None. International series of monographs in natural philosophy Blue cloth boards, spine is a bit toned with age. Upper page edges foxed. Edges also stamped with library name. Tidy book plate on front pastedown; adhesive residue on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Slender 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Non-relatiavistic quantum mechanics. Bibliography p. 196-202. Plus index. Quantum theory; non-relatiavistic quantum mechanics; Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation

Paperback. Good-/None. No. 138/41 Full-color, full-page pictorial stapled softcovers, softened and worn at edges, and lightly soiled and toned. Interior unmarked. (7 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins.) BOOK INFO: Each is 8 pp., but text begins on inside front cover and extends to inside back cover, with 4 pp. of full-page color illustration, and 2 pp. of B&W, almost full-pg., illustration. No publication information, other than 'No. 138/41' on back cover. Paintings are signed by, Willy [Wilhelmina] Schermele, (1904-1995), the artist and cartoonist from the Netherlands of Winkie fame. ca. 1930.

Bridgeport, CT: Conference on British Studies at the University of Bridgeport, CT, 1968. Hardcover. Good/None. Studies in British History and Culture, Vol. 1 Yellow cloth boards, 8vo., lightly soiled at edges and darkened along spine. Interior unmarked and clean. BOOK INFO: The first manuscript to be published as the result of a competition conceived by the Conference to produce works of virgorous research, original interpretation, and which would 'challenge traditional viewpoints...Professor Schlight's, [USAF Academy], volume admirably fulfills this last ideal.'-from the Preface by editors Stephen Graubard and Leland Miles. Contents include: Mercenaries and Historians; Who Were the Mercenaries?; William I and His Sons; King Stephen; Henry Plantagenet; and Conclusion. Includes appendices, (among them Annual Expenditures for Castle Soldiers and Castle Construction, 1158-1189), notes, bibliography and index. Stephen Graubard; Leland Miles

New York: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1959. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair-. 1958 Red cloth boards sunfaded along edges and bumped both spine ends. Binding is sound. FFEP bears former owner's inscription; Interior is otherwise unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Dustjacket edgeworn with five large chips/loss and very light soiling on back. 8vo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 95 stunning half-tone (B&W) photo illustrations. Peter schmid, widely travelled writer and photographer, and one of the very few independent observers to have visited China in recent years...describes the contemporary scene in Peking, Shanghai, and Canton, three cities which reflect the tremendous changes that are taking place in this little-known country.... Development on so many fronts is not being accomplished without colossal expenditure, mistakes, and untold sacrifices from the… Read More

Bad Kreuznach. Good/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. These are two grey-green portfolio folders, undated, with title labels on front, encasing individual heavy paper boards to which individual photographic plates are adhered, each with its own caption in German. The folders are worn at edges, chipped and rubbed, and with former owner's name and address penned on the back. The usual toning due to age and some light foxing to the pages listing the plates. Interiors are unmarked. 19.5 x 23.5 cm. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Pictures of Meisenheim by Nelli Schmithals, German photographer, (6/23/1880-6/12/1975). See photos for lists of plates. Two sets of portfolio folders, each containing 6 plates of B&W photography. Meisenheim is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a state-recognized recreational resort and is set out as a middle centre in state planning. (-from Wikipedia)

Cologne, Germany: Taschen. Paperback. Very Good/None. Glossy, full-color softcover. Spine uncreased. Small chip to head of spine. Interior unmarked. Copiously illustrated throughout with color reproductions on every glossy page, interspersed with B&W--gorgeous. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Portraiture, Major works of European art of the portrait. Text in German with an index of works and artists, and a bibliography. Ships from US. European portraiture; Mona Lisa

New York: David White, 1969. Paperback. Good/None. Signed. Offprint**INSCRIBED**on front end flap of DJ. 12mo, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. Dustjacket edgeworn with crinkling at head of spine, lightly soiled. Pages are staple bound but not attached to any cover or to DJ/wrap. Contents, preface, first chapter through page 12 and one illustration. Unmarked interior. BOOK INFO: Schoenstein's biography of President Johnson's dogs was approved by his publisher but declared ""awful"" by Johnson's press secretary. ""In this hilarious political memoir, Schoenstein tells the ludicrous and sometimes melancholy story of his year in the White House doghouse."" Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973--Humor, Dogs--Humor

London: Duckworth, 1975. Ex-Library, Apparent 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Barnes, Jonathan Black cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, lightly worn at extremities, but tidy and handsome. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked. Front pastedown has scar where bookplate removed. Paperclip indentation on contents page. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Includes bibliography, index of Aristotelian passages and general index.

Berlin: Springer, 1961. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Moderately soiled yellow cloth boards, marred where sticker removed on front near spine head. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Library stamps-one embossed, one inked-on title page and verso. Interior otherwise unmarked. Page edges toned. Binding sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Principles of mathematical logic. Includes bibliography and index. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Basel: B. Schwabe, 1961. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good-/None. Light tan cloth boards with black titling on front and black band with gilt titlting on spine. Dewey decimal numbers on spine heel in black. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Boards lightly soiled and edges worn. Numbers inked and stamped on contents page. Interior otherwise unmarked. Binding sound. Ships from US. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The universal mathematics: Essays on philosophy as a strict science. Includes bibliography and index. Philosophy, Mathematics--Philosophy

New York: Guilford Press, 1993. Paperback. Good/None. Blue paper wraps with contents on cover, lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Spine uncreased. Contents clean and unmarked. Laid in is a one-sheet sales piece from Guilford Journal. 8vo. BOOK INFO: An American journal of psychoanalytic psychology devoted to the understanding of behavior and culture; Founded 1913. This issue compiles four articles plus discussion on A Symposium--The Game of Hide-and-Seek: Origins, Meanings, and Enactments; and five other articles: From Hallucination to Dream: From Evacuation to the Tolerability of Pain in the Analysis of a Preadolescent; Homoerotic Body Language in Dostoevsky; Psychoanalysis in Czechoslovakia; Freud and Doestoevsky; On the Therapist's Disability: Opportunities for Resolution of Obstructed Mourning in the Transference. Dostoevsky; peek-a-boo; hide and seek; preadolescent; Rita V. Frankiel; Michelle Ascher Dunn; Anni Bergman; Antonio Ferro; Steven J. Rosen; Michael Sebek; Jean-Paul C. J. Selten; Leon Anisfield

US: Springer, 1977. Ex-Lib. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften Series Yellow cloth boards, toned and lightly soiled from fingerprints. Page edges stamped by university library. End papers similarly stamped. Text is unmarked. Rear pastedown has adhesive residue, and rear ffep has scar where pocket removed. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. This book was originally intended to be the second edition of the book Beweistheorie (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Band 103, Springer 1960), but in fact has been completely rewritten. As well as classical predicate logic we also treat intuitionistic predicate logic. The sentential calculus properties of classical formal and semiformal systems are treated using positive and negative parts of formulas as in the book Beweistheorie. In a similar way we use right and left parts of formulas for intuitionistic predicate logic. We introduce the theory of functionals of finite types… Read More