Search Results: Titles starting with I from Quadrant Book Mart

Kerrymen's P. & B. Association, 1956. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Dark green cloth boards with white and gold titling and decorations on front: edgeworn, corners bumpedand with a smattering of small faded spots along the bottom edge. Pictorial map endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Interior is unmarked. Text and illustrations are printed in dark green. Lacking dustjacket. Quarto. 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: 'One way of describing Kerry is to say that it is part of the Province of Munster in Ireland; that it lies south of the estuary of the river Shannon; that it is bordered by the counties of Cork and Limerick on the east and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south. But Kerry is much more... The passing centuries have brought their changes but Kerry remains as a living symbol of the dauntless spirit of her people. In her crags and heathery hills, her bogs and… Read More

Milano: Jaca Book, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Clean black cloth boards, Quarto, lower front and upper rear corners pushed. Dustjacket unpriceclipped with light edgewear at heel of spine and 1/4 in closed tear to head. Binding is tight. Heavy pages are clean and unmarked. BOOK INFO: Exploring Cistercian abbeys and the reform movement of Benedictine order in the 11th and 12th centuries, as well as lesser-known monasteries. Edited by Claudio Stercal. Translated by Laura Majocchi. Original title of this scarce book, The Cistercian Europe. Additional charges apply for extra weight and if shipped internationally. Ships from US. Cistercian Europe; translator Laura Majocchi; editor Claudio Stercal

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Signed Presentation Copy. One of 100 limited edition SIGNED presentation copies published. Red cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine and front; Upper board edge is lightened where protective cover didn't reach. Upper gilt page edges. Pages are lightly toned with age; pastedowns are darkened. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. 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 Table of Contents. Illustrated in a separate section of 16 B&W photographs and a frontispiece portrait. 'The story of Katharine Cornell needs no impresario. Any foreword to her magnificent legend can be serviceable only as a way of sharing, with theatre-lovers wherever scattered, a few of the felicities of a happy collaborator.' (-from the Introduction). Includes… Read More

[New York]: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers : Distributed in cooperation with Wiley-Interscience, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair+. 1978 Dark gray cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine and front, lightly rubbed at tips of spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Four pages were bumped on long edge, 2 are wrinkled from that injury, one is wrinkled, the other has a 1-in. closed tear. Dustjacket is rubbed along edges and spine; rear upper edge has a 1/2-in. chip. Small 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 tables, graphs, charts and formulas. 'IEEE Std 4-1978 establishes standard methods of measurement of high-voltage and basic testing techniques for application to all types of apparatus for alternating voltages, direct voltages, lightning impulse voltages, switching impulse voltages, and impulse… Read More

New York: Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, 2009. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Pictorial staplebound softcover, clean and only lightly worn at corners. Interior is clean and binding firm, though there is a barely noticeable rippling effect to the pages' long edge. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Provides color photographs and the history of the Ice House Cover-at one point stolen and lost for decades-in an article by Michael Laurence and Scott R. Trepel. It is the only known cover bearing the 1869 90-cent stamp. Michael Laurence and Scott R. Trepel; 1869 stamp; 90 cent stamp

Paris: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Illustrated boards are edgeworn and repaired with Scotch tape at spine. Binding intact but beginning to separate an inch at front bottom. Pages are unmarked and tanned, the pastedowns especially so, with foxing to title page but none apparent elsewhere. I write my heart in the dust of the road. This first book of poems by Forestier earned high praise, including the claim of Forestier as the German Rimbaud.

Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1979. Ex-Library. Paperback. Good-/None. Cream-colored staplebound pamphlet with green titling on front cover, with adhesive residue to 4 ins. of spine head, front and back. Toned page edges stamped incompletely in black with library name. Edges slightly worn. Interior unmarked. Slender, small quarto, (7x10 ins.) Ships from US. BOOK INFO: 'In this paper we present a systematic study of ideals over uncountable sets. We are particularly interested in the role that varous properties of ideals play in the investigations of arithmetic of cardinal numbers. We show that there is a deep relationship between saturation of ideals and the cardinal function; we study consequences of existence of a certain kind of ideals for the generalized continuum hypothesis and the singular cardinals problem.' (-from the introduction) Contents include: Ideals over uncountable sets; Generic ultrapowers; Saturation of ideals and the G.C.H.; The singular cardinals problem;… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Sales copy with typewritten note tipped in to ffep. Light green boards, toned at edges, with dark green illustration and titling on front; backstrip is off and worn at extremities. Binding is sound. Text is unmarked. Pages are darkened with age and front end papers through preface page are lightly foxed. 5 x 7.5 ins. BOOK INFO: London edition (T. W. Laurie ltd.) has title: If summer don't. A parody of the novel If winter comes by A. S. M. Hutchinson. Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth), 1880-1971. If winter comes

US: Bellaria Verlag. Hardcover. Fair/None. Boards yellowed with age; front free end paper torn out; Head and head of spine on front rubbed and worn, with top paper covering chipped off, only a quarter inch. 4 in by 5 3/4 in\nYou girls are like gardens \n\n You girls are like gardens \n evening in April: \n Spring on many tracks, \n but still nowhere a goal.

US: Longmans, Green and Co. Hardcover. Very good. Unmarked pages darkened a little. Edges faded but overall shows little sign of wear. Owner's name inked on front free end paper; Volume Two has owners address label on FFEP. Handsome two-volume set bound in red cloth with gilt title lettering; Lovely illustrations throughout; Vol One 175 pages & Vol Two 206 pages

CO: McClure, Jennifer, 1998. Paperback. Fair/None. Illustrated white paperback with black titling, 12mo, crease on bottom front and stain on back cover, else very good. Binding sound. Interior clean and unmarked. Poetry and arts anthology Fort Lewis College

New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1975. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Bright blue cloth boards with gilt titling on toned spine, which also bears white Dewey numbers near heel. Page edges toned. Corners bumped except top front corner. Both pastedowns scarred where bookplates and a price sticker were removed. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Ships from US. Small 8vo. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 ins. BOOK INFO: See photos for table of contents.\n'A theme permeating contemporary philosophical thought is that of developing a logic of imperatives. From the late 1920's onwards the question of how to structure imperatives into an exact logic, and thus set forth a formal foundation for value theory, has engaged the efforts of linguistic analysts, both in Europe and in the United States. However, one characteristic of these ateempts is the inability to find agreement upon even the elementary properties of imperatives. This difficulty seems to stem largely from the… Read More

Mountmellick, Laois, Ireland: Self-published, 1979. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Signed. **SIGNED**on verso of title page, one of 1,000 signed copies. Light sage green pictorial softcover, small 8vo., worn at stapled spine. Interior clean and unmarked. BOOK INFO: Drawings by D.W. The poems cover themes from relationships to areas of concern in today's world....His poetry is influenced by musicians singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Don Maclean, and Adrian Snell and other Christian singer-songwriters.

Publication Board of the Reformed Church, 1902. Paperback. Fair/None. Black soiled softcover 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins. wormhole to bottom corner of front cover, dog ear back top corner has 1/4 in. closed tear. Page 17 has a small closed tear to the page edge. Holes to end papers. Stapled, covered binding is strong, and interior unmarked. The face reveals the heart, and her face was always bright. Small memorial pamphlet printed on the first anniversary of the death of Christine E Vollmer Faust. Born 1877 in Lancaster, PA, she died in 1901, shortly after marrying Rev. Allen K. Faust and travelling to Japan as a missionary. Japan Mission Field of the Reformed Church. Zion's Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA, Japan Mission Field of the Reformed Church

New York: 1963, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Dark forest green cloth boards with gilt titling spine and front, also a gilt illustration on front; Spine has a small (1/4-in.) hole in the cloth. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. Small quarto. BOOK INFO: The author's journey with a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre and adjacent Holy Shrines. Illus. with B&W photographs.

US: Gori, George, 1986. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/None. Signed. **INSCRIBED**and dated 'To Howard and Reba, Fondly, George, October 3, 1986' on ffep. Red cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Binding sound. Interior clean and unmarked. BOOK INFO: Gorin authored several books, Homeless, Intermezzo, Echoes and Shadows, and The Burning Bush, also in Hebrew translation.

Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University, 1965. Pamphlet. Good+/None. Cream-colored staplebound softcover, toned along the edges, with light brown stains on upper front cover. Similar tea stains on inside front cover through page 3. Otherwise, interior is unmarked and clean. Binding is sound. Small quarto. BOOK INFO: The inauguration at Eugene Gifford Grace Hall: The Academic Procession; Order of Exercises; Honorary Degrees; and lists of Delegates from Colleges and Universities and Delegates from Learned Societies and Professional and Cultural Associations; an explanation of Academic Costumes (history and symbolism); names in the Presidential Party; The National Anthem; and Lehigh's Alma Mater.

Bisbee, AZ: Tortilla Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Good/None. Eppele, David L. Off white and tan pictorial trade softcover lightly soiled and waterstained, mostly on back, 8vo. Interior clean except for a few light pencil marks, dashes, on key of publications only, otherwise clean and unmarked interior. BOOK INFO: This compilation of information will help both the amateur and the knowledgeable cactophile find an illustration more easily. Index of international publications cross referenced with plants, classified by their latin names.

Wien: Springer-Verlag, 1959. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Light blue cloth boards, toned/soiled along spine and front edges, light stains on back board, with Dewey decimal numbers in black at spine heel, and corners bumped and worn. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed; Former owner's bookplate covers that patch on front pastedown. Front hinge is loose, showing threads of sewn binding. Binding otherwise is sound. Notations on title page. Library numbers and dates marked on copyright and foreword pages. Interior otherwise unmarked. Page edges toned. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Inductive logic and probability. Includes bibliography and index.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. Paperback. Like New/None. Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture 2010 Our photos depict actual book for sale. In original shrink wrap. 8vo. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: In Inessential Solidarity, Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theory's basic presumptions. Rather than focus on the arguments and symbolic exchanges through which social relations are defined, Davis exposes an underivable rhetorical imperative, an obligation to respond that is as undeniable as the obligation to age. Situating this response-ability as the condition for, rather than the effect of, symbolic interaction, Davis both dissolves contemporary concerns about linguistic overdetermination and calls into question long-held presumptions about rhetoric's relationship with identification, figuration, hermeneutics, agency, and judgment.… Read More