Search Results: Titles starting with O from Quadrant Book Mart

London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1957. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Blue cloth boards with gilt shield on front and gilt titling on spine. Rear board scratched, especially at the bottom corner. There's an adhesive mark on the spine heel. Pastedowns have scars where bookplates had been removed. Also a purple text stamp on rear pastedown. Title page blindstamped 'Oberlin College Library'. Six numbers stamped in blue on verso of title page. Binding is firm. Interior unmarked. Upper and side page edges foxed. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium of the Colston Research Society held in the University of Bristol April 1-4, 1957. The contributions are concerned with questions belonging to the philosophy of physics--for the most part to the philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. Sir Charles Darwin's paper alone, unlike the others, was delivered before an audience in which philosophers and physicists were a small minority. (--from the preface) Darwin's paper… Read More

Paris: Garnier Freres. Hardcover. Good+/None. Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Litterature Francaise 33 Beautiful. Green cloth boards with banded spines and gilt crest on front of Lycee Louis le Grand, Universite de France, and with gilt titling and decoration on spine and front cover. Light rubbing to extremities and covers. Brown and green marbled pastedown. End papers toned with age. Green ribbon bookmarks intact. Bindings are firm. Undated, ca. late 1800s. Laid in are cards awarding prizes-apparently these books-from the Lycee Louis le Grand dated Aug. 1885. 368, 309 pp. 8vo. With literary history, life of the author, notes and commentary and bibliography by Moland. Stunning B&W illustrations, some with protective tissue intact, including a frontispiece of Jean de la Fontaine, vol. 1, and Madame de la Sabliere, vol. 2.

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.

Greenwich, CT: Charles E. Thorp for San Francisco Citizens' Committee for the RNC, 1964. Paperback. Good+/None. Red, white and blue pictorial softcover with black titling, edgeworn and rubbed, with chip on front long edge and wear/tears along spine near head. Rear cover has large patch of scarring. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. 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. Full of B&W illustrations and ads with many advertisements in color.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: American Spice Trade Assn, 1986. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/None. Black plastic 1-inch, 6-ring binder with 5.5 x 8.5 in. pages, unmarked and crisp. Gilt titling on front and spine. No apparent wear. 7 1/8 x 9 ins. BOOK INFO: Loose leaf binder includes all previous existing ASTA methods, revised and updated, as well new methods. References and statistical data are inserted. See included photo for Table of Contents: General Methods: Preparation of Sample; Moisture, Distillation Method; Moisture, Vacuum Oven Metho; Total Ash; Acid Insoluble Ash; Steam Volatile Oil, Modified Clevenger Method; Steam Volatile Oil, Lee and Ogg Method; Crude Fiber; Starch, Direct Acid Hydrolysis; Alcohol Extract; Sieve Analysis; Non-volatile Methylene Chloride Extract. Methods for Specific Spices: Piperine Content of Black and White Pepper; Light Berries nd Extraneous Matter in Pepper; Volatile Oil in Mustard Seed and Flour (with Alternate Method); Steam Volatile Oil in Cassia; Cinnamic… Read More

Bronx, NY: Farlag, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED?** Possibly inscribed and dated by author on front free endpaper, but I don't speak Hebrew. Gray cloth boards with dark blue lettering on front and spine. Portrait affixed across from title page and errata sheet to the rear pastedown.

Easton, PA: Northampton County Historical Genealogical Society, 1964. Paperback. Good+/None. Glossy white staplebound wraps with light soiling and a crease at upper front corner. Interior clean and unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Contents, Papers Read Before the Northampton County Genealogical Society: 1. The Old County Court House by A. D. Chidsey, Jr.; 2. Presentation of the Marker at the Site of the Old Court House by David B. Skillman; 3. Easton Flag by Henry F. Marx; 4. Northampton County's Part in the Revolution by Marx; and 5. The Newcomers to Easton One Hundred Fifty Years Ago by Skillman. With a B&W frontispiece photo of the old courthouse. David B. Skillman; Henry F. Marx; Northampton County Genealogical Society; Easton Center Square; The Circle in Easton

London: B T Batsford, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Tan cloth boards with gilt, embossed titling and decoration on cover and spine, lightly soiled. Large octavo. Corners bumped. Gilt upper page edges. Ex-library, with large library bookplate on front pastedown and stamp on an end page. FFEP repaired with tape and marked in blue ink by former owner. Interior otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. Not a reprint. Pages have a nice, heavy hand, with lovely, sharp photographs. BOOK INFO: ""An Account of the Different Styles of Lace, Their History, Characteristics & Manufacture, with 163 examples on 95 plates from photographs""

Boston, Chicago: W. A. Wilde Co. Hardcover. Poor/None. Brown cloth pictorial boards with black titling on front and spine, faded along spine and edges, and edgeworn. Boards and backstrip in one piece, but detached from page block. This is an original edition; Not a reprint or POD. Bookplate of the Traveling Library of NJ on front pastedown. Light foxing throughout Bottom page corners mouse-nibbled from page 169 on. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Plus terminal ads. 5 B&W illustrated pages by Sears Gallagher. Sears Gallagher

Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine, Light wear at extremities; Small rubbed or stained spot on front cover near long edge. Sewn binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. 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: Illustrated in B&W photography. 'The only commercial square-rigged sailing ships still operating anywhere in the world, in the year 1953, were the Peruvian guano barques: the three-masters Tellus and Maipo, and the four-master Omega. It was in this last that I sailed. What follows in this little book is an account with many reflections, of the ships I came to know, of the men who sail them, and of the land they serve.' (-from the Introduction). Includes bibliography and index. 124 p. illus. 25 cm.

Iowa City, IA: Self-published. Paperback. Fair-/None. Green stapled softcover with black titling on front, 8vo., dampstained along spine and bottom corner, with crease mark on top corner. Owner's name in blue on top front cover. Dampstain continues (1/4 x 3/4 ins.) at lower inside corner throughout, diminishing front to back. BOOK INFO: Fun, tongue-in-cheek chapbook, illustrated by B&W cartoons. 'A reasonable replica of what was presented to the unsuspecting and in some cases nearly unstrung members of the American Clinical and Climatological Association and wives assembled at their annual retreat held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia-3 November 1953.' Undated. Ships from US.

Goteborg/Gothenburg, Sweden: Laromedels-forlaget, (Akademiska forlaget), 1972. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Studies in the theory of science Beige cloth boards with green titling on front and spine, lightly edgeworn and spine is toned. Adhesive residue to top front near spine. Bottom corner of rear board has blue stain permeating the cloth. Damp stain to bottom page edges, (now wrinkling or text affected.) Page edges are toned, top edges more so. Stamped Harvard University Library with date on copyright page, and embossed with same on title and first preface page. Interior text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Hakan Tornebohm, Editor. Contents include: Huygens' theory of research and Descartes' theory of knowledge; Aristotle's classification of 'mechanical' activity; The struggle between two great world systems and outlooks; The theory of impacts as scientific core of the mechanistic outlook; Conceptual foundations of Huygens' physics; Criticism,… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1946. Hardcover. Good+/None. Blue cloth boards with silver titling on spine. Back board stippled with whitish stain, and front board near the spine heel has a darkened stain. Pages toned with age. Owner's name penned on ffep; interior otherwise unmarked. Binding sound. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Reprinted 1946 edition. A small book that reads fresh today. Smith admits he is not a Shakespearean scholar, but nonetheless approaches his work with authority and poetry of his own, and places it in its historical and literary context. A book reviewers have called 'charming'. Contents include: On Not Reading Shakespeare; The Great Reward. Poetry; The Great Reward. Character; The Enigmas; The Touch Beyond. Includes an appendix of books on Shakespeare and an index. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation

Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1966. Ex-Lib. Hardcover. Good-/None. American lecture series, publication no. 642. American lectures in philosophy Textured tan boards, worn at extremities, with gilt block titling on spine. Page edges stamped with library name and upper edges heavily toned. Light adhesive residue spots on front pastedown. Binding is sound and interior unmarked. Very nice, serviceable reading copy. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'It was my object in the present book to investigate a possible transition from the phenomenological features of the nature of the human being as subject to some ethical and political consequences which can be derived from the phenomenology of man.' (-from the Preface by the author). Bibliographical footnotes. Name and subject indices. Ethics, Ethical relativism, Values, Philosophical anthropology

Lancaster: E H Thomas, Printer, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Scarce first edition of this Civil War history. Light brown cloth boards, blindstamped covers with gilt titling on sunned spine, 18mo. Corners bent in, with upper corners rubbed. Owner's name and date penned on ffep, and penciled again on second fep. Ffep toned from a NY newspaper article, (dated Jan 2, 1937), laid in containing a poem, 'The Captains, 1861-1865,' written or contributed by A. C. Nielsen, (the radio engineer?). Periodic foxing throughout. Pages unmarked except for light pencil notation, one word on pg 21 and a number on pg 32, correcting the text according to the publisher's errata on the page after 219. BOOK INFO: Covering the battles and enlistment of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, of which Kiner was Chaplain, this book was first published while the war was still on. It details the soldiers' capture and detention, elucidating conditions at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon, GA, and their treatment… Read More

Bethlehem, PA: Stephen Gould Rose, 1977. Periodical. Very Good/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Magazine format with stapled binding, pictorial cover in red and sepia tones, brown typeface throughout. Toned at edges. Front cover chipped at top corner and once along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in sepia-toned photography and graphics. With articles by local folk, topics including wood stoves, quilting, handcrafted play spaces and play sculptures for children, the waterless toilet, a Learning Exchange group, the Whitehall Environmental Group, architecture in Allentown, and a profile of artist Dick Boak: 'Dick dropped out of an art major at Gettysburg College because he felt his creativity was being impeded. Before he left, he erected a cage on campus in which he exhibited himself for three days as a living sculpture of the realities of student life.' Includes local art, photography… Read More

Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Light blue cloth boards with black titling and gilt decoration, darkened at edges and spine, with gilt titling worn off of spine, and three red stains on front. Front board and spine covering detached from binding and rear board detached. Dampstaining along 1/8-in. of top edges to pg. 197. Prelim pages chipped at edges. Despite all this, the pages are square and lovely, if a little toned in the margins only. Unmarked and binding is holding, though boards obviously need repair. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 21 chapters of escapades from tramp life in Chicago, hard luck in the Sierras and desert of California, to Mexico, South America, Australia, Japan and China, India, Jerusalem and Egypt. With B&W engraving and this spirited dedication: 'To you, Reader, who enjoy a simple straightforward story, this Book is dedicated. It will teach you nothing. It conceals no new theories. If it can help you to while away pleasantly a few idle hours, or… Read More

Leipzig, Germany: Fachbuchverlag, 1956. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Slim blue cloth boards with silver titling on spine and front, heavily edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Binding is sound. Pencil underlining noted on one page. Owner's mileage and service notes in tidy hand on rear pastedown, which are rather interesting, actually. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Translated by Ludwig Lampert. Full of B&W illustrations, some highlighted in red to accent details, as published. Two fold out diagrams at the end. See photos for complete table of contents.

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009. Paperback. Near Fine+/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Clean and bright pictorial softcover with sharp edges; like new. Spine is uncreased. Interior is unmarked. Small quarto. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W charts. 'Educators strive to create assessment cultures in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations. Bob Broad's 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM… Read More

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/None. A Garland Series NOT a print-on-demand or ex-library; this is a ""facsimile"" reproduction of the 1817 edition printed for R. Hunter, London. Denim blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Whitening at head of spine from very light wear but no fraying. Binding is tight. Interior clean and bright. Introduction by Robert Lee Wolff.