Search Results: Titles starting with M from Quadrant Book Mart

Middle Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/None. Off-white paper softcover with black block titling. Binding firm. Spine uncreased. Interior clean and unmarked. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Brian Turner, managing editor; John Stolle-McAllister, Regina Root, and Ivani Vassoler, associate editors. Selected papers included from those presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the MACLAS held at American University, Washington, DC, Mar. 22-24, 2012; at the 34th Annual Conference of the MACLAS held at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, Mar. 8-9, 2013; and other papers submitted for review to the Editorial Board. \nVOL. 26 ARTICLES: Baron of Rio Branco and the Construction of the Brazilian International Identity; The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) as a Metaphor for the Decline of United States Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere; Education and the Poor in Mexico after the Washington Consensus; From Sharecroppers to Lancheros: Afro-Peruvians in Tambo… Read More

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

Weimar, Germany: R Wagner Sohn, 1924. Paperback. Fair+/None. A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Once gray paper softcover, now toned with age, half of spine cover chipped off, and waterstained on front. 'With the compliments of the author' penned on front, though no signature. Quarter in. indentation on back cover. Interior is clean and binding firm. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. Popular and medical conceptions of madness and its representation in Greek and Roman literature. Includes a table depicting various expressions of mantic inspiration in each of 6 characters in literature-from hair rises and face contorts to leaps wildly and babbles.

Dublin: Obelisk Books, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED** on title page. Bright white and green wrappers, 8 vo. Some light marks to front cover. Uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. O'Flynn presents the reader with a comprehensive selection from the work of the group of 18th Century Irish language poets who used to gather in the village of Croom in County Limerick, in the tavern owned by one of their number, Sean O Tuama. (from the back cover)

Paperback. Good/None. Staplebound softcovers, discolored with age. All but one with address labels and postmarks on the back. Seven issues: Winter 1974-1975; Spring 1975; Fall 1975; Spring/Summer 1976; Fall/Winter 1976; Spring/Summer 1977; Fall/Winter 1977. Entr'acte Recording Society, is an independent record label, which is also known as Entr'acte Records. It was founded in Chicago in 1974 by John Steven Lasher. The label's first release, which featured music composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann for the Brian De Palma film Sisters, was initially available by mail-order, but later on independently distributed in North America and abroad. Other recordings of film music by Bernard Herrmann, including Battle of Neretva and The Kentuckian soon followed. Entr'acte's releases also included re-recordings of the 1933 original motion picture score from King Kong by Max Steiner, The Best Years of Our Lives by Hugo Friedhofer and Time After Time by Miklós Rózsa, among… Read More

Charlotte, MI: Home Shop Books, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Signed & Inscribed. Handsome brown cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Binding is sound. Quarto, 9 x 11 ins. Interior is clean and unmarked, except for 4 words pencilled on rear end page. Glossy dustjacket softened at edges. Our 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. SIGNED by author on half title page and inscribed on title page. Copiously illustrated in color photography and B&W drawings. 'The dozen projects in this book represent tools you can make.... They are the legacy of the 18th- and 19th-century craftsmen that are being rediscovered by woodworkers today.... So why make your own tools? Some do it to save money. Others for the challenge to learn how. I would add that a tool is more than itself, it is a mindset. This makes tool making an enlightening experience, and a… Read More

New York: J. P. Lippincott/A. L. Burt, 1922. First American Edition?. Hardcover. Good/None. Green cloth boards, gilt titling on front cover, lightly soiled, 12mo. Corners and ends of spine lightly rubbed, and bottom back corner bumped. Sewn binding is sound. Former bookseller's heavy pencil number on ffep; Small owner's address label on bottom of front pastedown. Interior clean and unmarked, though pages toned with age. Frontispiece photo from the MGM production of Glyn's screenplay. BOOK INFO: A man must choose between two women. British novelist and scriptwriter Glyn is usually credited with the creation of the ""It Girl"" premise, the beautiful, stylish young woman who doesn't flaunt her sexuality. In her time, Glyn's romance writing was considered quite scandalous; she had tremendous influence on early 20th century popular culture and the careers of Hollywood stars like Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dark blue boards, 8vo., sunned along upper edge, else very good. DJ chipped at head of spine and 1 in open tear rear bottom edge and 1/2 in closed tear at top. Binding square and tight. Interior clean and unmarked. A contemporary European intellectual inquires into the moral and psychological nature of modern man on subjects ranging from the Kennedy assassination to the defection of Milovan Djilas from the Communist party in Yugoslovia. History, Modern--20th century; Trans. by Joachim Neugroschel

London, England: Joseph Thomas, 1841. Hardcover. Good+/None. Green three-quarter leather with maroon, green and cream marbled paper boards, banded spine titled and filigreed in gilt. Extremities lightly worn and spine faded. Gilt remains bright. End papers marbled like cover. White ribbon marker intact. Binding cracked at pg. 347. Otherwise binding is firm. Previous owner or bookseller noted 'MacDonald binding.' Gilt upper page edges. 8vo. B&W illustrations-some with protective tissue intact-by Tony Johannot.

Linden, NJ: Mapes & Sprowl. Paperback. Good/None. Black covered spiralbound softcover with red and yellow lettering. Noticed one instance of marginalia, a single word in black pen with an arrow, otherwise appears unmarked and clean, except for last page which is yellowed and water damaged. Undated, ca. 1950. 8vo. Tabbed sections covering Alcoa Aluminum; Sheet & Plate; Wire, Rod & Bar; Shapes & Tubing; Stainless; Cold Finished Bars; Alloy Bars; Tool Steels; Tubing; Sheets, Carbon & Coated; Cold Rolled Strip Steel; Hot Rolled Bars; Hot Rolled Shapes; Hot Rolled Plate; Fabrication Services; Spring Steel; Brass Bars; Armco Electromagnet Iron; Expanded Metal; Data. Interestingly, the President's Message prefacing the catalog references the company's start of business in 1925, while the website says it was founded in 1927, '...employee-owned Mapes & Sprowl Steel is a leading service center specializing in enameling steel for porcelain-coating applications, silicon… Read More

Easton, PA: Pupils of the March Junior High School, 1937. Staplebound Paper. Fair/None. Black softcover, edgeworn, toned with age and lightly soiled. Students' names signed in pencil, some in pen, along with one apparently intentionally inked fingerprint. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Yearbook of the ninth-grade graduating class of March Junior High School, Easton, PA, including B&W photos, student poems and brief articles on school activities. 8 pp. terminal ads. March Junior High School; Easton, PA; Easton High School

Amsterdam: Artimo, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Full-color pictorial boards. Oval spot on the rear board (which bears some impression-type scratches) where the finish of the board is more glossy. Quarto. BOOK INFO: With an introduction by the photographer in which he contrasts the Mongolia of today to its history. These beautiful photographs are above all honest and unflinching. 'Marco van Duyvendijk was born in the Netherlands in 1974. He studied psychology in college and has applied his training to his work as a self-taught photographer and a striking portraitist. Over the past few years, he has concentrated on life in Central and Eastern Europe, but at the request of the Mongolian Consulate he recently spent a winter and a summer in Mongolia. This book is the result. Its 72 color prints present daily life in a society where a teenager might just as easily live like a nomad on the steppe as like a punk in the city. The images are both pretty (in the way of faded retro fabrics and pink… Read More

Boston: Ginn & Co, 1900. Hardcover. Good/None. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titling on spine, embossed border on boards, 12mo., edgeworn at spine ends and corners. Binding firm. Interior unmarked. Edited with German Comments, Notes and Questions. Preface in English explaining the editors intent to provide simple and direct comments in German; the use of English should be a handmaid only in the instruction of German classics like this one.

New York: Viking Press, 1970. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Merlot-colored cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. Full-color pictorial DJ is edgeworn with tiny tears at head of spine. 8vo. BOOK INFO: When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years. Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared. The young queen found herself with a virtually nonexistent army at the head of a bankrupt and disaffected empire - an empire shortly to be set upon by half Europe...her only weapons were her charm, her unbreakable will, and her almost reckless courage. With these, and by her own immense exertions, she first held her powerful enemies at bay; then, choosing new advisers with astonishing skill, and discovering in herself a fund of commonsense amounting almost to genius, she instituted wide-reaching… Read More

New York: Regina Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Off-white paper boards with full-color pictorial cover, a glossy, cellophane-like coating is cracked along spine midway to heel, and a 1/4 in. at head. Binding sound. Interior unmarked. All edges gilt. White satin ribbon marker intact. 32mo. BOOK INFO: The right size to fit a child's hands, this little communion book has full-color illustrations throughout with red titling and illumination.

New York: Carleton, 1867. Hardcover. Fair-/None. Blue cloth boards, with gilt titling and decoration on spine, blindstamped border on front. Quite edgeworn, top front hinge starting, toned spine, and soiled. Moderately foxed. Front end papers marked with three owners' names and a booksellers/stationer's blindstamp; owner's name on first page of chapter 1. Hinge cracked at pg. 165. Binding is shaky. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Holmes wrote 39 novels with total sales of more than 2 million. (Source: the Nation, via muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v025/25.1.yarington.html). Her fiction addressed social issues including gender equality.

Berlin: New York, Springer, 1967. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good-/None. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einzeldarstellungen, Bd. 104 Yellow cloth boards soiled along spine and rear board, and front board toned along upper edge and also soiled. Front and rear pastedowns have scars where bookplate/pocket removed. Rear end paper has a tiny red ink drop stain. Copyright page is stamped with a blindstamp and a black Harvard University Library. Binding is sound. Text is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'The theory of Markov chains, although a special case of Markov processes, is here developed for its own sake and presented on its own merits. In general, the hypothesis of a denumerable state space, which is the defining hypothesis of what we call a 'chain' here, generates more clear-cut questions and demands more precise and definitive answers. For example, the principal limit theorem, still the object of research for general Markov processes, is here in its neat final form; and… Read More

New York, NY: Mark Borghi Fine Artl/Alexandre Gallery, 2003. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Burgundy softcover creased vertically near spine; lightly edgeworn. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. 9 x 12 ins. oblong. BOOK INFO: 'As Van Deren Coke has pointed out, New Mexico as a place--with its grandiose and forbidding terrain and ancient indigenous cultures--presented a challenge to both native and visiting artists. Among those drawn to the Southwest from the East Coast...many artists found the region too picturesque in both landscape and genre subjects...This was the challenge of New Mexico: to reach beyond the picturesque and the obvious. And the handful of artists who succeeded at it--Hartley, Georgia O'Keefe, Marin, among others--did so because when they went west, they were already individualists. And...Hartley helped to stimulate intellectual dialogue about the region's art and artists.' Painting; Watercolor

Adam Hochschild. Paperback. Fair/None. Scarce grey paper pamphlet with red sewn binding, 8vo., sunned at edges and lightly soiled. Foxing on random pages. Interior otherwise unmarked. Publisher, place and date of publication not given. BOOK INFO: Transcriptions of memorial talks given about Mary Marquand Hochschild, mother of author Adam Hochschild, and wife of Harold Hochschild, at memorial gatherings held in her honor months after her passing. One held at the Adirondack Museum, founded by Harold and where she created the gardens, and the other at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. Includes excerpts from letters about her. Cosmopolitan Club, Walter D. Binger, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Robert R. Worth, Hon. George F. Kennan, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, Dr. Oskar Morgenstern, Jane Carroll, George Bowditch

Latvijes PSR Zinatnu akademijas Vestures instituts. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Zinatniskas atskaites sesijas Two tan softcovers, worn at extrimities, with creases at bottom front corners; earlier book is chipped at spine ends. Spines uncreased, and bindings sound. Small amount of pencil underlining in earlier book; Moderate amount in later one, mostly on index pages.. 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 ins. BOOK INFO: natniskas atskaites sesijas materiali par arheologu un etnografu petijumu rezultatiem (natural reference sessions material about archaeologists and ethnographers the results of the petitions). 225 and 174 pp., respectively. With B&W illustrations.