Search Results: Authors starting with A from Veery Books

[i], 2-5, [vi (blank)] 12.5 x 9.75 inches. Still supple, general foxing and chipping and tearing. A travesty of "La Marseillaise" in that the position of Blackmar's name on the first page indicates that Blackmar is the composer. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed "La Marseillaise," originally called "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin," in 1792. Perhaps the title page, which indicates that the music in hand is an arrangement by Ferdinand Beyer of the French song, serves to cover up the interior title, "The Southern Marseillaise." After all, "The Bonnie Blue Flag" a Blackmur publication, was so popular that after New Orleans was captured by Butler in 1862 "he threatened to fine every man, woman or child who sang, whistled, or played it on any instrument, $25.00. He arrested and jailed A. E. Blackmar, fined him $500.00, and had his troops destroy the plates and printed music."—Powell. A travesty? Lyrics such as "With needy, starving mobs surrounded / The jealous, blind fanatics dare / To offer… Read More

16 pp. Small octavo. VG/VG. Book is fine, but for a 1-inch stain/abrasion on the front board. DJ has two small tears repaired at top of spine and a tiny (1 mm) chip at bottom of back panel. All over, a very nice impression. Inscribed by Copland in 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Millard Thomson, a composer and professor at Brown. Thomson's bookplate opposite inscription. The book preserves the six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in May 1952 substantially as they were given. The first three lectures treat the musical mind as listener, interpreter, or creator; the remaining three discuss "the imaginative mind in the music of Europe and America."

New York: Leo Feist, 1920. 6 pp. 9.25 X 12 inches. Spine split, else fine. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1948 85 pp. glossy b&w frontis of Anderson. Light wear to edges of wraps, PO sig., some light pencil marks throughout, mostly circled page numbers, but a few breath marks, and ritardandi. Songs: Ahle: Brunstiges Verlangen; Bach: Jesu schlaft, was soll Ich hoffen?; Hande Te Deum; Haydn: Das Leben ist ein Traum; Hook: Bright Phoebus; Mozart: Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetruen Liebhabers verbrannte; Beethoven: Vom Tode; Schubert: Ave Maria, Suleika, Der Jungling und der Tod; Schumann: Stille Tranen; Franck: Recitative and Aria of the Archangel, from the Poeme-Symphonie ''Redemption''; Brahms: Auf dem See; Faure: Automne; Wolf: In dem Schatten miener Locken; Griffes: Night on ways unknown has fallen; Payne (arr.Spiritual): Crucifixion; Boatner (arr.Spiritual): Oh, What a beautiful City; Johnson (arr.Spirituals): Fix me Jesus, Roll, Jerd'n, Roll!. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1974. 52 pp. 192 items. Bibliography, price list. A two-inch crease at top of spine extending through pamphlet, with a short tear at top of spine, else very good. Wofsy's first catalog. Most items are illustrated. Small (approx. 2- X 3-inch), but wonderful, illustrations.. Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 367 pp. A half-inch tear and another small half-inch piece missing in dj, associated rubbing on one corner of book, approx. 3/8 inch, visible in photo. Otherwise fine. 'He inserted the letter into the beggar's brass pencil cup. The last enveliope in the deck was made of sawtooth-edged crepe paper, a pleasing shade of violet. The person who had sent the letter apparently answered to a romance novel cognomen. Aboe the return address she had written the name Desdemona Dauphin. Sylvia had released her silly roman a clef The Bell Jar under an arch pseudonym as well. Victoria something. Desdemona Dauphin lived in nearby Saint James. He couldn't help but be curious. He stopped in a little auberge. Ted was out of breath and wanted to rest or possibly sleep for a few hours. His room had a small bed, a table and a chair, and a full-length mirror that he attempted to take down from the wall while avoiding looking into the glass. The mirror was… Read More

Six volumes unpag. (about 28 pp. per book, most pages with illus.) Square 8vo (8.25 x 7.5 in.) The 6 volumes, near fine, with vg to fine djs. Pirates and Mikado are price clipped. Bindings are sturdy and illustrated like the dust jackets. Printed in Great Britain. "Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone are twin siters and live and work in London, near Royal Albert Hall and Kensington Gardens. . . . They work very closely together. Both plan the general scheme of a book, then Anne puts in the figures and Janet draws backgrounds, animals and birds (she has a special fondness for warthogs, 'most decorative animals')."

164 pp. Elephant Folio (17.75 x 15 inches; 7 lbs, 12 oz) In the original box. Preliminary leaves show some waviness, perhaps from the mechanics of the connection to the endpapers. Else, a fine green cloth volume with gilt lettering in a fine dust jacket. The printing of this third edition was finished on April 25, 1991, in the workshops of Impresora Formal. José Sánchez Aguilar supervised the printing and Encaudernación Sauri bound the edition, which consists of 3,000 copies. With 114 illustrations including two foldout plates.

New York: Self, 1954 Contents: The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium -- Joh Mason Brown; The Acoustics of the New Auditorium -- Robert B. Newman; The Evolution of the Baroque Orchestra -- Emanuel Winternitz; A Processional Cross -- Glanville Downey. . Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montevideo: Comision Nacional de Homenaje a Artigas, 1952. 49 pp. 123 pp. photographic illus., facs. Contents: Address of the president of the commission; Descripcion de las Obras Expuestas: Iconografia de Artigas, Los historiadores de Artigas, Medallas, Documentos; Laminas: Iconografia de Artigas, Medallas, Bibliografia de Artigas, Los Historiadores de Artigas; Documentos graficos relacionados con la inauguracion de la Exposicion y diversos aspectos de la misma. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York, N.Y. (115 W. Broadway): Artists Poster Committee, 1984. With Union burst. Poster, lithography on clay paper. [22½ x 35 inches], VG or better. Light rippling throughout. On the left, one clean tear of ~3 inches, may be mended. Some light chipping to ink at edges and similar light edge wear. "On August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio address on National Public Radio. During a soundcheck he said, 'My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.' The audio was subsequently leaked. Despite making a joke about nuclear genocide, Reagan was reelected by a landslide a few months later."—Exhibition Annotation: Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Worldcat.org finds one copy at the University of Michigan and one at MoMA and none in trade. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

editions Joca Seria & Turtle Point Press, 2005. 163 pp. Edges with light gray stains. Rear of wraps with light wear. In English and French. 'Thirty-seven American poets and one British poet have answered out call for texts, many even composing works specifically for the occasion. The resulting collection, finally, is often strikingly polemic. The poets we contacted were sensitive to the political nature of the anthology's joint publication in two countries whose relationship has come under considerable strain as of late. It's been said, in so many words, that Leaves of Grass dresses American democracy in a moose-pasture of universality. It's true we can no longer harken to this and other of its utopian fictions with equal naivete. But our world needs beauty, ethics and ideals . . . ' John Ashbery, Guy Bennett, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Charles Borkhuls, Macgregor Card, Robert Creeley, Tom Devaney, Ray DiPalma, Brandon Downing, Marcella Durand, Chris Edgar, Clayton Eshleman, Mark Ford, Peter… Read More

Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1987. 380 pp. Jacket is complete but has rubbing, some small tears and a price sticker. Book nearly perfect but for a bit of dust atop the pages. Jacques Attali was the financial advisor to Mitterand. He is the author of Bruits : essai sur l’économie politique de la musique (Noise: The Political Economy of Music), perhaps the most valuable writing on the sociology of music since Adorno. . First American Edition. Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Max Eschig, 1958. No Binding. Good. Quarto. 40 pp. One part of two, containing score for two pianos. Presumably the other part, with wraps, contained both parts. Wear to outer leaves, else very good. Paris, Imp. Mounot. Plate M.E. 6944. Grandjean Grav., Fountainebleau.