Search Results: Titles starting with H from Quadrant Book Mart

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. Signed. Signed on FFEP 'To Andy, with best wishes, Jack'. Tidy red cloth boards, front is slightly bowed. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked. DJ has pinhole on front near spine heel. A bit of light foxing on rear end paper and page edges. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969) was by common consent the most distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service in the twentieth century and one of the few raised to peerage (1936). Going out to Inida in 1894, he served as the first chief commissioner of Delhi (1912-18), as finance and then home member of the Viceroy's Council (1919-24), and then as governor of the Punjab (1924-28) and the United Provinces (1928-34). As adviser to five viceroys, he was one of the most intelligent developers of the British strategy in response to the challenge of Gandhi and the Indian National Congress. After leaving India he had what amounted to a second… Read More

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Zagier & Urruty Pubns, 2008. Paperback. Near Fine/None. Our photos depict actual book for sale. Glossy B&W pictorial softcover with slight wear at extremities/edges. Spine is uncreased, and interior is clean, bright and unmarked. Small quarto. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: This book is an account and interpretation of the Hain, the principal ceremony of the Selknam, a now extinct people who inhabited the southernmost region of Patagonia at the tip of South America. In this isolated, cold and inhospitable territory, the Selknam practised a surprising body painting related to this ceremony. The Selknam were a nomadic people organised in small family groups who lived from guanaco hunting. They met in large numbers on certain occasions, such as the initiation of adolescents or to take leave of the dead. The drama of their extinction, the result of White colonisation, began in 1880. Foreign diseases and the activities of guards or… Read More

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

Hammacher, Schemmer & Co.. Hardcover. Good/None. Olive cloth boards with black titling that has orange background on front and spine, worn at spine ends and scuffed at front bottom corner. Light, 1/2-in. dampstain to edge of last 125 pgs. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Rear end paper creased. Page edges dulled with age. Large 8vo. (9 x 11 1/4 ins.) Not ex-library. Undated, but an introductory note mentions an upcoming building addition in April 1926, (with an artist's rendering). BOOK INFO: A progenitor of the catalog business and self-proclaimed America's longest-running catalog, Hammacher, Schlemmer has been selling merchandise since 1848, with catalog operations beginning in 1881, touting the concept that they offer items which are the 'only ones that do what they do.' Here is an early, scarce hardbound catalog of their then-wares, with B&W photos of their 3 buildings in NYC and 8 officers and directors, and one full-pg. terminal ad for The Hoover, 'Dust… Read More

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed. INSCRIBED by the editor on FFEP. That page is also hand dated but perhaps by owner. DJ curled at edges, lightly rubbed, discolored on back, chipped at spine ends, and creased at top front corner. Interior unmarked. Binding tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Southern culture, history and the ways of family elucidated via the Hammond family's letters over four generations. Hammond family--Correspondence, Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864--Correspondence, Families--South Carolina--History--19th century--Sources, Slaveholders--South Carolina--Correspondence, Redcliffe (S.C, South Carolina--History--1775-1865--Sources

Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine-/None. Black and white pictorial softcover with only the lightest edgewear. Spine is uncreased. Glossy interior pages are unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: A bold and innovative photography book that offers a much-needed antidote to the dearth of elders' stories. It combines stirring visuals with eloquent text to explore and celebrate elders' most intimate loves, dreams, and memories. Unlike most portraiture, these photographs never reveal the faces of their subjects. Instead, the camera [homes] in on their immensely expressive hands, and on a single object that the person has selected to represent the essence of his or her journey.

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Brown cloth boards, with gilt titling on spine, shelfworn with fraying at extremities. Stamp on ffep in faint black ink, 'Development & Research Department Bethlehem Steel Company.' End papers are toned with age; pages less so. Binding sound. Interior unmarked. A heavy, substantial book. 8vo. This single volume is volume two of the handbooks edited by Donald M. Liddell; (the first being Principles and Processes.) Contents include: Aluminum; Magnesium and Beryllum; The Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals; Arsenic; Antimony; Bismuth; Lead; Treatment of Electrolytic Slime and Zinc Crust; Metallurgy of Copper; Refining of Gold and Silver Bullion; Hydrometallurgy of Gold and Silver; Hyrdrometallurgy of Copper; Electrolytic Refining of Lead; The Electrolytic Zinc Process; Pyrometallurgy of Zinc, and Cadmium; Mercury; The Role of Chlorine in Metallurgy; Chromium; Manganese; Cobalt; Nickel; Ferroalloy Metals;… Read More

New York: Boy Scouts Of America, 1942. 7th imprint. Hardcover. Good+/None. Pictorial tan cloth boards with image of a Scout on the front, which scene wraps around to back. Titling on front and spine. 12mo. Book Info: An informative guide for leaders, this volume includes Program Building, (planning a program, meetings, hiking and camping), Activities Features, (games, contests, ceremonies, and other activities like Camporees and Jamborees), Senior Scouting Activities, (Explorer patrol, sea Scouting and other activities), and Emergency Service/Air Scouting. With a foreword by James E. West, Chief Scout Executive and editor of Boys' Life magazine, in which he states, 'Scouting is a simple joyous game based on certain fundamentals.' Includes an epilogue and bibliography. Plus index. James West; Boy Scouts of America; Scouting

New York & London: Century Co., 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Signed. SIGNED by author on limitation page: 'This large-paper edition of Hangman's House is limited to 350 copies signed by the autho of which 345 are for sale.' Ivory-colored Vellum spine and tips with brown patterned paper boards and gilt titling on the spine, lightly toned with age and corners rubbed. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Rough cut page edges, along with untrimmed pages. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 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: Illustrated with 8 B&W ink drawings by John Richard Flanagan. 'An Irish novelist gets from the Irish people a certain reverence, a good measure of kindliness, considerable latitude in conduct and thought: in fine he gets his due from a God-fearing people. But he must not forget that his first duty is homeward.'… Read More

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1978. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Vienna Circle Collection Cohen, Robert S. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on spine and publisher's logo blindstamped on front. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates were removed. Binding is tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Frontispiece is a B&W photo of Reichenbach. Part in this volume are: Philosophy of physics; Probability and induction; Includes bibliography of Reichenbach's writings and an index of names to vols. 1 and 2.

London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1959. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Pink pictorial boards. Publisher's cellophane coating lifting along front spine hinge, as in a low, long bubble, but not torn. Sewn binding is sound. Interior is unmarked except for inscription page with dedication and note, 'From the Westminster Abby Bookshop London.' Kinda cool. All pages are clean, with square corners. 8vo. BOOK INFO: First published 1953. B&W cartoon illustrations throughout, decorated in pink. Calendar books; juvenilia;

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

US: Obelisk Books. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED** Inscribed to fellow poet Moira Bailis; Nearly new condition; Interior clean and unmarked. NOT ex-libris. Ireland --Social life and customs --Fiction Floinn

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1870. Hardcover. Good+/None. Green cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine and embossed borders; lightly rubbed at extremities and on both front and rear boards. 1.5 inch rubbed line on spine. Bottom corners bent. Binding is sound. Former owner's name and date on ffep. A light, dusty thumbprint on title page. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Page edges toned with age. Lacking dustjacket. Book has a pleasant heft. 8vo. (6 x 9.5 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: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W tables, charts and genealogic diagrams, one of them fold-out. 'The idea of investigating the subject of hereditary genius occurred to me during the course of a purely ethnological inquiry, into the mental peculiarities of different races; when the fact, that characteristics cling to families, was so frequently forced on… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Signed. Black boards with red titling on front and spine. 3-in. backstrip chip flapped off but holding along front. Binding is sound. Tape residue to ffep where signed card was taped in. Laid in is an inscription written and signed by Friedelind Wagner. Former owner's bookplates on half title page and weirdly on verso of list of illustrations page. 8vo. BOOK INFO: By Friedelind Wagner, Richard Wagner's granddaughter, and Page Cooper. 8 B&W illustrations. Daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner. Adolf Hitler was a great fan of Wagner's music and became very close to Winifred Wagner (there were even rumours that they would marry). Hitler also befriended her children and treated them as his own. In 1940, Verena Wagner (Winifred's youngest daughter) and Hitler were also rumoured to be romantically linked.\n'I feel very strongly about the frequently heard statement, totally untrue, that my… Read More

Bogota, Colombia: Quinta Galeria, 2001. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Exposicion No. 28 Glossy black pictorial softcover with white titling, corners softened. With gallery opening invitation (large bifold card) laid in; Both the book's title page and the card bear paper clip stains. Clean, bright and sound with no other markings. 8.5 x 10.75 ins. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: 'Lo mas bello es la perfecta justicia;/lo mejor la salud; pero lo mas deleitoso/es alcanzar lo que se ama.' Photographs of the artist's headless, sculpted bronze figures, with an introduction by Syro.

Boston, MA, and London: Sherman, French & Co, 1908. Paperback. Fair/None. Brown decorated softcover with contents on front, most of backstrip is chipped off. Bottom front corner chipped off, 1x1.5 ins. NOT a reprint or print-on-demand. Large 8vo. Book Info: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy. Principal Articles: The Distinctive Thing in Christian Experience; Religious Transition and Ethical Awakening in America; Knowledge an Faith; The World View of a Poet: Goethe's Philosophy; The Catholic Church: What Is It?; The Immortality of the Soul, Part II; An Agnostic's Consolation; The Dualism of Saint Augustine; Was Jesus a 'Divine Man' and Nothing More?; British Exponents of Pragmatism; 'Law'. This periodical was published from 1902 to 1968 and often included notable contributors, Knights and Lords, professors, senior clergy, philosophers and academics. Ethics; Immortality of the Soul; Saint Augustine; British Exponents of Pragmatism

Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1964. Ex-Library. Paperback. Good+/None. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, No. 51 Red, thick staplebound softcover with black titling on front, worn and toned at edges. Blindstamped on front cover, Oberlin College Library. Stamped in black with 6 numbers on inside front cover. Last pages from 89 on bear the impression from 2 paper clips apparently previously securing the bibliography pages. Interior unmarked, and binding sound. Small quarto. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: A dissertation at the Unniversity of Wisconsin. 'Much of the work here is in terms of the notion, originally due to Post, of degree of recursive unsolvability.' (-from the preface) Mathematics--Periodicals, Mathe?matiques--Collections, Mathematics, Einbettung (Mathematik), Konkordanz (Mathematik), Einbettung (Mathematik), Konkordanz (Mathematik); free variables; recursive unsolvability; recursiveness for finite types

Tech Hifi, 1982. Periodical. Good+/None. Pictorial softcover. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. Product catalog of branded speakers, record players, phono cartridges and accessories, with great period photos and descriptions of the technologies. Brands like Aiwa, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Thorens, Nikko, Kenwood, Stanton, Celestion, Ohm, Hitachi, JBL, EPI, Infinity are represented here.

Unknown: Unknown Publisher. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Scarce booklet of twelve staplebound postcards, covers toned with age. Blue ink notes on front cover, 'India 1944 Rowe'. Interior B&W photo cards clean and unmarked. Undated, ca. 1930. 3.5 x 6.5 ins. BOOK INFO: Postcards include: A Nepcha Belle; Nepalese Children; Body Guard of H.H. Maharajah of Sikkim; A Nepalese Porter; A Bhutia Girl; A Bhuddist Lama; Picking Tea; Sikkim Peasant Girl; Monastery Trumpets; Sikkim; A Bhutia Beggar; The Wandering Monk; A Darjeeling Shoe Maker A Nepcha Belle; Nepalese Children; Body Guard of H.H. Maharajah of Sikkim; A Nepalese Porter; A Bhutia Girl; A Bhuddist Lama; Picking Tea; Sikkim Peasant Girl; Monastery Trumpets; Sikkim; A Bhutia Beggar; The Wandering Monk; A Darjeeling Shoe Maker