Search Results: Authors starting with V from Quadrant Book Mart

Ottawa, Canada: Le Cercle du Livre de France. Paperback. Good-/None. Cream softcover with red titling, darkened on spine and toned on front cover. Most pages uncut. Spine uncreased. Interior unmarked. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: This book was published later by the same company under Éditions Pierre Tisseyre. Others have that later edition for $271.

1980. Paperback. Good-/None. Faded green staplebound softcover, toned at edges with rust stains at staples. Interior clean and unmarked. Small quarto. BOOK INFO: Appears to be a semiannual, (1980/1981), newsletter/report of a convention, including a memoriam of Valdis Pakalnietis. Illustrated by B&W photos. Valdis Pakalnietis; Viktors H. Vaits;

Firenze/Florence, Italy: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 1998. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good-. Studi e testi per la storia della tolleranza in Europa nei secoli XVI-XVIII ; 2 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Cream-colored jacket protects and duplicates the cover of this paperback with burgundy and black titling on front and spine; jacket lightly soiled. Inside front cover bears owners bookplate and inked name stamp; ffep has inked notes (4 or 5 words) and owner's circular blindstamp. Title page has an inked word. Spare instances of underlining noted, perhaps fewer than 10. Binding is sound and uncreased. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-347) and index of names.\n'The two appendices to this book contain two texts on toleration written in the Netherlands during an episode in Dutch intellectual and religious history known as the 'Stinstra affair'. The first of these texts is the annex to a petition for religious… Read More

Fano, Italy: Typis Paulinis, 1966. Paperback. Good/None. Rar. Orange staplebound wraps, lightly soiled along edged. Owner's name and date on title page, along with owner's blindstamp; interior otherwise unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The letter to the Hebrews: Greek text with outline. The text from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, but doubt on Pauline authorship is reported already by Eusebius, and modern biblical scholarship considers its authorship unknown, perhaps written in deliberate imitation of the style of Paul. Presumably the same Vanhoye was appointed a cardinal in 2006. The letter to the Hebrews: Greek text with outline

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1915. Paperback. Fair-/None. Brown softcover, small 8vo., gilt titling on front indistinct. Front cover has diagonal crease to top corner, separated 4 ins. up from bottom at spine; ends of spine chipped with loss, especially at heel. Owner's name on cover, one page has pencil underlining. Page 151 closed tear in margin. Binding is sound. BOOK INFO: A quarterly publication that came out before and during WWI, which 'holds that the principal hope for humanity is in the progress in knowledge, intelligence and character of the less capable portion of mankind.' Contents: Singing Man with the Hoe, Rear-Rank Reflections, Nine Sons of Satan, What Is Nationality?, If I Were a College President, Efficient Democracy, The Way of the Translator, Your Blood and Mine, On the Distaff Side, Tinkering the Constitution, The Case for the Literacy Test, These Reformers, The Case for the Literacy Test, Patience Worth, En Casserole. With prelim pages of publisher's ads.

Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Institute. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Distinct gilt titling on covers with blindstamped decorative border. Gilt titling on spine. Front boards edges sunned. Ring stains on 1901-1902. Wonderful prelim, (17, 21, 21 pp.), internal, and terminal ads, (25, 23, 19 pp.), including an illustrated Ivory soap ad, 'Thus its purity attracts the rich; its economy attracts the poor.' The frontispiece in the 1908 volume pictures William C. Stimpson, faculty member and head of foundry work and forging at Pratt, along with his signature on the protective tissue, which appears to be in facsimile. Edgeworn, bumped and soiled to be sure, and a couple pages on the 1908-'09 spotted, but what a wealth inside. INSIDE: In addition to the regular trustees and alumni listings, articles on the Accuracy of Different Methods of Quantitative Analysis of Copper, Pneumatic Shop Appliances, Design of a Combined Pump and Air Compressor for Steam Vehicles, Efficiency Test of Rotary Converter, The Saw Mill… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1915. Paperback. Good-/None. Brown softcover with darkened, indistinct gilt titling on front and spine. Front cover bottom corner chipped off with chipping to ends of spine. Subscription renewal paper laid in. Binding is sound, and interior unmarked. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: A quarterly publication that came out before and during WWI, which 'holds that the principal hope for humanity is in the progress in knowledge, intelligence and character of the less capable portion of mankind.' Contents: Sentimentalism--Soft and Hard; Wayland the Feminist; Confessions of an Anti; The Real Cause of the War; How It Looked in Advance; National Prohibition and Representative Government; National Prohibition and the Church; On Reading a Play; Aesthetic Integrity; Vocational Guidance; The Conservation of the Private Purse; A New Essay in the Psychology of Advertising; Labor, Law, and Order; The Minimum Wage-Board and the Union, Some Heteromatic Writing; En Casserole. With prelim… Read More

New York: F. M. Lupton. Paperback. Poor/None. Covers tattered and toned. Top half the spine chipped and loose. A good candidate for rebinding. Interior is unmarked, and pages are toned. (Please see photo.) Small 8vo. (5.75 x 8 ins.) BOOK INFO: ca. 1900. 19th century English fiction, including two by Louisa M. Alcott: The Autobiography of an Omnibus, and Roses and Forget-Me-Nots; Charlote M. Braeme: Under the Holly Berries, My Revenge, and Squire Hylton's Daughter; Emma D. E. N. Southworth: The Spectre Lover; Mrs. Mary J. Holmes: Poor Bell Barclay, and Nellie Beekman's Party. People's handbook series no. 67.

Brusells: C. W. Froment, 1849. Hardcover. Good-/None. Darling little edition, dark blue quarter leather with gilt titling and borders with blue marbled boards and brown marbled end papers. Green ribbon bookmark attached. Fold-out, hand-tinted map of 'Croquis pour servir a l'intelligence de la Campagne de 1815' has 1/2-in. tear at fold. Owners' names in pencil on one end page and inked in pretty script on another. Title page is rough cut 1/4 in. perhaps by press. Wear to extremities. Light scattered foxing. (3 7/8 x 5 3/4 ins.) The campaign and battle of Waterloo according to new information and completely unedited documents by French journalist and politician de Vaulabelle. First published in 1845 by Perrotin. Four B&W engravings, including frontispiece, bust of Napoleon. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. Ships from US. Belgium; Napoleonic War; Hundred days exile; French history

New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good+/None. Green cloth boards with chipped gilt titling on cover and spine. Spine ends and edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Upper page edges dulled. Owner's name, location and year penciled on title page. Slightly cocked. Sound sewn binding. Interior unmarked, except for an errant crayon scribble on pg. 200; text still readable. Not ex-library. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'This book reveals America to herself by interpreting Europe. I stand in symbolic relation, so to speak, to both hemispheres,' -Viereck, from the preface. A poet and Germanophile, Viereck graduated college in New York; A lynch mob attacked his home in Mt. Vernon for his pacifism and support of Germany in the Great War. He was a Nazi apologist and interviewed Hitler in 1923. Contents include The Old World Lure, First Shocks, The State Idea, 'S. M.', The Philsophy of Militarism, Inspired Bureaucracy, The Morals of… Read More

London, England: Grant Richards, 1931. Apparent First. Hardcover. Good-/None. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, shelfworn with a 4-in. vertical mark on front. Noted 'First printed 1931'. Spine is sunfaded. Upper gilt page edges. Binding is firm. Heavy pages with rough cut page edges and at least one uncut page in index. Residue of 1/2-in. sticker on ffep. Interior unmarked. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Knight bachelor, Knight of the Netherland Order of Orange Nassau; late officer in charge of maps, British Museum; Governor, Bedford College for Women and the City of London College; member of council of the Hakluyt Society, honorary member of the Netherland Geographical Society, the Historical Society, Utrecht, the Society of Netherland Literature, Leiden, and Het Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen. Includes index and list of publications by the author and translations. With a B&W frontispiece photograph portrait of the author.

Allendale, NJ: Alleluia Press, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED** 14-pg. typewritten, original copy laid in of speech given by De Vinck on the occasion of the Fourth Conference on the Holocaust, 'Church and Synagogue After the Holocaust' at Kent State University, April 1985. Pistachio-green softcover with gilt decoration and black titling on front cover, large 8vo., (6 5/8 x 9 5/8 ins.), light soiling to back cover. Spine uncreased. Interior clean and unmarked. Not ex-library. BOOK INFO: One of 3,000 printed of this 'original edition.' In the enclosed speech, De Vinck describes her Christian faith and the writing of A Passion Play, 'It is both ironic and tragic that the crucifixion of this Jew who came forth to convey a message of love, peace and mercy was used by many of his followers to justify the persecution of those who are his blood-brothers and sisters. The violence and cruelty directed against the Jews throughout Christian history is a… Read More

Charleston, IL: Prairie Poet Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Purple cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Interior clean and unmarked. Sewn binding is sound. Dustjacket crisp and clean, minor crinkling at top back, and a rub along back edge has put a pin-size hole in the dj. Otherwise hard to find fault with this little number. Perhaps pages yellowing a tiny bit.

New York: Vantage Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED**on front pastedown. Burgundy boards with gilt titling on spine. Ends of spine and corners show wear. Adhesive residue on front from attempted tape repair by former owner to dustjacket. DJ marked in pen under author's name, ""classmate at Easton High."" Interior clean and unmarked. Binding is solid. From endflap: ""Here is a richly authentic picture of the lives of Pennsylcania Dutch families in the 1870s and 1880s, a work of fiction that vividly re-creates all the atmosphere and color and feeling of a way of life now vanished from the American scene.""