Search Results: Titles starting with S from Quadrant Book Mart

IMPRIMERIE UNION, 1981. Paperback. Good/None. Pictorial softcover, lightly edgeworn. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Profusely illustrated in B&W throughout, including an interior plan and details of its architecture and art. The history of the church and description of its various chapels, organ, and musical tradition. Laid in is a bi-fold leaflet giving the English translation of the text.

Indianapolis, IN: Youth Publications / The Saturday Evening Post Company, 1975. Periodical. Very Good/None. Full color pictorial, staplebound magazine; yellow background with red and gray titling on front. Lightly edgeworn. Bottom front corner creased. Inside rear cover has small bookstore sticker. Inside front cover is rubbed apparently with ink transferred from opposite contents page. Interior unmarked. Binding sound. Quarto. BOOK INFO: See accompanying photo for table of contents. Illustrated in B&W.

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1877. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Light brown to mauve cloth boards, 12mo., with gilt titling on front and spine, moderate edge and corner wear. Spine darkened. (See photo.) Rear hinge cracked but attached; pencil notations on rear pastedown and light pencil marginalia in preface, not found in rest of text. The second end page has light pencil writing across it that's been erased. Owner's address label to front pastedown. Binding sound. NOT a reprint or print-on-demand. The editor has believed that it would be useful for moral and religious culture if the sympathy of Religions could be more generally made known, and the converging testimonies of ages and races to great principles more widely appreciated. The reverence of races for their scriptures is sometimes ascribed to superstition. But the increasing interest of scholars in them attests deeper sources of that reverence. The fact that they have survived so long is a confirmation of their excellence.… Read More

Suffern, NY: Sacred Heart Church, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Light blue cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration on cover, small quarto, (8 x 11 in.) Heel of spine bumped and worn. Interior clean and unmarked Congratulatory letters from the Pope and the Archbishop of New York, among others, a proclamation from Suffern's mayor, a history of the parish, with color and B&W photos of the church and its parishioners.

Asheville, NC: Eye for an Iris, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine/None. Signed. Eye for an Iris 15 **SIGNED**by the author on title page. Navy blue single-stapled softcover with gilt illustration on front, 4 1/4 x 5 3/8 ins., white price sticker on back, else like new. BOOK INFO: Dolack is the author of Whittling a New Face in the Dark, (Black Ocean, 2013), as well as other chapbooks. He teaches writing at Baruch College and lives in Queens, NY. Unpaginated.

New York: Royal Publishers, 1952. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Good-/None. Rare early edition. Red-orange cloth boards, small 8vo., sunned at spine and one patch on front. Top front corner bumped. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Appears to be some kind of crease running vertically from center 3 ins. down the front cover; may be a production flaw, barely noticeable. Title page adhering to ffep along very inside margin. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Ironically mistitled on the title page 'The Scarlet Pansy.' Not a print-on-demand. BOOK INFO: First published in 1932 and considered a now-classic, early representation of gay male erotica, the tale follows the amorous escapades in post-WWI Europe of Fay Etrange, a character written as female but understood by readers to be male. The nom de plume Robert Scully purportedly belongs to Robert McAlmon, an assistant to James Joyce and first publisher to Ernest Hemingway. The twists and turns of how this novel came to be published are… Read More

Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1983. Paperback. Good+/None. Glossy, maroon softcover with white titling on front and yellow titling on spine; tiny bit of edgewear. Spine is uncreased. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Wright shows that Hume conceived of scepticism in the light of a fundamental opposition between reason on the one hand and our instinctive or natural judgments on the other--with neither of these protagonists vanquishing the other. Wright places [Hume's arguments] in an 18th-century context, devoting detailed attention to the ideas of his predecessors Bayle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Malebranche. Includes subject index. Hume, David, 1711-1776

New York: Humanities Press [1969, 1968. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. International library of philosophy and scientific method Red cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, lightly soiled, and bottom corners lightly bumped. Adhesive and paper residue to both pastedowns where bookplates removed. Binding is sound. Some underlining and lines in margins. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'The present work attempts to give a concise account of sceptical philosophy in its most radical and important form. In it will be found attempts to remedy certain weaknesses in the traditional ways of describing this philosophy, and answers offered to certain arguments that have been brought against it.' -from the foreword. Bibliography: p. 158-161. Includes subject index. Skepticism

American Sunday School Union. Hardcover. Fair/None. Red embossed boards with gilt titling and decoration on spine, darkened and moderately worn. Missing title page. Gilt page edges. Owner's name in tidy script on ffep. Pages are heavily foxed. Math equations pencilled on rear pastedown. Pg. 11 has a closed 1-in. tear to bottom edge near gutter. 16mo. BOOK INFO: Terminal lists of new books and other publications.

Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms, 1975. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good-/None. Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte der Philosophie Ser. In good reading condition, but not pretty. Light gray boards toned on front and spine, with a strip of staining on the back along spine; upper corners and one spot on long front edge are bumped, and bottom corners are worn. The end papers are toned. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Some library numbers erased from copyright page. Text is clean. Binding is sound and square. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for complete table of contents. Topics include: Aristotle's Teleology; Male and Female: refutation of pangenesis; Does semen have soul?; Variations among related parts in different species, i.e. eyes, ears, tongues; Aristotle's Natural Necessity; Nature uses katachresis, parachresis, parakatachresis. Includes indices of concepts, proper names, and passages in Aristotle. 'Aristotle's interest in biology probably influenced the development of… Read More

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

Sanford, NC, 1962. Paperback. Good-/None. Signed. Off-white staplebound softcovers, with black titling and some with poet's photo on front. Interiors unmarked and all bindings sound. Generally edgeworn and lightly rubbed, some with light water staining. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Issues included: Oct 1962; Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul 1963; Apr/May, Oct, Nov 1964; Mar, Jul/Aug, Oct, Dec 1965. Handwritten note from Feb. 24, 1963-presumably a draft letter-laid in, written by McNair, the editor, to a poet about inclusion in the journal and touting the magazine and its readership; A sample page with the editor's note that this publication was in existence for 25 years, at the time. 24-36 pp. each. Jonesboro Heights Station, Sanford, NC; North Carolina Poetry

New York: Scott Publications, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Poor+. White boards worn at extremities. Vol 1 binding is sound. Vol 2 is cracked at both hinges, and bottom corner of rear board is bumped. Water stains on pastedowns and endpapers don't extend into printed pages. Interiors unmarked. Page edges are toned/foxed with age and lightly stained here and there. DJs are waterstained and moderately worn and chipped at extremities; Vol 2's DJ is ripped and taped across front and also split at the back endflap edge. Small quarto. Larger size may require additional postage charge. 924 and 1488 pp., respectively, plus terminal ads. BOOK INFO: Two-volume set of the 102nd year of the American 'Stamp Collector's Bible'. For stamps of the world, it gives the date of issue, design, denomination, color, surcharge or overprint, perforation and watermark. The stamp designs are illustrated or described, and most of the stamps are priced. (--from the endflap)

New York and London: J M Dent & E P Dutton, 1899. Hardcover. Fair-/None. Interesting and unusual. Blue cloth boards with white titling and illustration on front, oblong 8vo.,(10 x 6 3/4 ins.), spine heel dampstained, spine ends worn with small hole in cover an inch from top. Top front and bottom back corners chewed up. Front and back board separating. Binding is intact. Owner's name on ffep, with chip and 1 in. closed tear. Page bottoms are edgeworn, one dog-eared, and with some fingerprints. The saturated deep burgundy coloring of the art has bled to facing pages and protective tissues in beet-colored patches. 24 illustrations tell the story of Jack and Jill, as created by a sickly mother when separated from her son and mailed home to him.\nSilhouettes created in a process never used before, which looks like cameos or woodcuts. Charming, busy scenes. '[The book] is essentially meant for the children's hour; but if I am not mistaken there is enough interest and imagination in it to… Read More

Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1970. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good+/None. Scandinavian university books Fenstad, Jens Erik Black leather-feel boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Top corners bumped, and top front edge a hair pushed in one spot (barely noticeable). Tiny chips along bottom edges. Library stamp on top page edge, handwritten numbers and stamp on ffep, and both pastedowns scarred vertically where book cover was removed. Side page edges foxed. Interior unmarked. Binding tight. Heavy 8vo. May require extra postage. BOOK INFO: Edited by Jens Erik Fenstad, Professor in Mathematics, University of Oslo. Two-thirds of the papers of Professor Skolem (1887-1963) are published here, including some of his most important contributions to logic, algebra, and number theory. (-from the preface by Fenstad). Includes a short biographic sketch. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; University of Oslo; algebra, and number theory.

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good+/None. SMU studies in composition and rhetoric Glossy blue pictorial softcover with white titling. Spine is uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. Bottom front cover corner is a little bent. 8vo. 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: Edward P. J. Corbett, as editor Robert J. Connors asserts in his informative introduction to this volume, is among the most important of the scholar-teachers whose efforts 'revived rhetoric' within composition studies. With the 1965 publication of his Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, Corbett revolutionized the teaching of writing. That pioneering work inaugurated twenty years of intense activity in the field of composition and rhetoric, years which saw the birth of nearly a dozen journals, the beginnings of many doctoral programs, the growth of professional organizations--in… Read More

US: Springer Netherlands, 1978. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Cohen, Robert S. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine; lightly toned and with two rubbed-out spots along spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned and stamped with Princeton University Library. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates were removed. No other apparent indications of ex-library. Lacking dustjacket. Thick 8vo. 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 a few B&W photographs, including a frontis of 4 photos of Rosenfeld. 'The decision to undertake this volume was made in 1971 at Lake Como during the Varenna summer school of the Italian Physical Society, where Professor Leon Rosenfeld was lecturing on the history of quantum theory. We had long been struck by the unique blend… Read More

US: Springer, 1979. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Vienna Circle Collection Mulder, Henk L. Handsome, trim and clean navy boards with gilt titling on the spine; the Reidel crest at the heel is faded from a removed sticker. Very nice despite ex-library. Binding is sound. Text is unmarked. Pastedowns are scarred where bookplate/pocket removed. Closed 1-in. tear to edge of page 323 doesn't affect text. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: This volume brings together those papers of mine which may be of interest not only to various specialists but also to philosophers. Many of my writings in mathematics were motivated by epistemological considerations; some papers originated in the critique of certain views that at one time dominated the discussions of the Vienna Cirele; others grew out of problems in teaching fundamental ideas of mathematics; sti II others were occasioned by personal relations with economists. Hence a wide range of subjects will be discussed: epistemology, logic, basic concepts… Read More

Boston, NY, Chicago: Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Students' Series of English Classics Light brown cloth boards with dark brown titling on front and spine. Vertical crease on front cover near spine, and darkened along edges. Owner's name and date penned neatly on ffep. Upper page edges darkened. Not ex-library. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. (4.5 x 7.5 ins.) BOOK INFO: Selected and arranged, and with prefaces by Isaac Thomas. Table of contents includes: Capture of New Amsterdam by the English; Rip Van Winkle; Christmas Sketches; Stratford-on-Avon; The Stout Gentleman; Dolph Heyliger; Columbus's Discovery of Land, 1492; Surrender of Granada; Palace of the Alhambra; Legend of the Two Discreet Statues; Oliver Goldsmith; Washington at Princeton.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought Orange cloth boards with white titling on spine; 3-in yellow streak on back appears to be a manufacturing or fabric flaw. Corners a tiny bit bumped. DJ is edgeworn but nice. Interior unmarked. Binding sound. Ships from US. 8vo. BOOK INFO: This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their significance for our philosophical understanding of self-knowledge and human agency. The analysis challenges traditional models of theoretical self-knowledge and practical self-relation and elaborates an account of rationally grounded responsibility that jointly fulfills the demands of autonomy and authenticity. Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the contemporary Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. It brings the methods of linguistic analysis to bear on such… Read More