Search Results: Authors starting with J from Veery Books

Chicago: Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son (The Bond Shop, 1916. 4 pp. Piano solo. Some insect damage near top of spine. Leaves are fragile although not darkening. First published in 1910. Her second-most popular song after ''I Love You Truly.'' Apparently first thus published as a waltz for solo piano. See the Lillly Library collection. ''For mem'ry has painted this /Perfect day /With colors that never fade, /And we find at the end of a perfect day /The soul of a friend we've made.'' Bond's most-requested song whilst performing for the soldiers of WWI. Performed by 15 artists on Victor alone.. Fair. 10.25'' X 14'' .

192 pp. Vocal score, quarto 12 x 9 in., Fine. Plate Number 939. Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Show Boat. New York, N.Y.: T. B. Harms Company, c. 1927. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Ol' Man River." Based on a novel by Edna Ferber.

Hauer delin. et Sculpsit [Johann Thomas Hauer, 1748-1820]. Optical view, 1 leaf.Prospect in Hamburg / Vue de la Ville Hambourg. Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comun de L'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avc Privilege de Sa Mageste Imperiale et avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies. Augsburg: [Kaiserliche Franziskische Akademie], [1775-1779]. Series: Collections des Prospects. Copperplate engraving, hand colored. Single leaf, plate size: 400 x 300mm [15.75 x 11.8 inches], paper size: 455 x 340mm [17.9 x 13.4 inches]. Condition: a very good impression with bright coloring, with little darkening of paper. Outside of the impression there are generous margins that were in contact with an acidic matte. These margins are darkened by the acid of the matte board but are still supple. The print was attached to the matte with paper tape, a 0.25 inch is attached around the edge of the back of the print (see photo). This print is an exemplar of the "Optical Print/Vue d'Optique." These… Read More

291 pp. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.) Light wear to wraps with a crease to top fore-edge corner of wraps. Signed by Walter Mosley at his story "Open House." With a letter from the publisher laid in. Foreword: Lift-off, laurel wreaths, and the power of "yes" by Allan Gurganus, With stories by Sue Miller, Ethan Canin, Ann Patchett, Brad Owens, Harriet Doerr, Mark Dewey, Emily Hammond, A.M. Homes, Jonathan Ames, Suzanne Juergensen, Lauren Belfer, David Lipshy, Daniel Mueller, Michael Drinkard, Chris Spain, Steven Barthelme, Mona Simpson, Jennifer Coke, M.T. Sharif, Pinckney Benedict, Fenton Johnson, and Molly Giles.

Methuen, 1981. 256 pp. Some bumping to corners. No marking to pages or creases in spine. Edited by David Cook. Includes Introduction: Jonson's life; Jonson's Comedy; VOlpone; The Structure of Volpone; Sources; The Text; The Notes; Acknowledgements; VOLPONE; Notes: Person of the Play; Dedication; The Argument; Prologue; The Text. A fine edition with useful apparati. . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Philharmonic, 1994. Unpag., illus. Very good quarto. A program companion, edited by Joseph Horowitz, for a weekend festival exploring the folk roots of early Stravinsky. Presented by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 6, 7, and 8, 1994. Also containing English translations of the libretti for Renard and Les Noces.

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 15 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'The embryo was orange and see-through. It had eyes like a shrimp, two black beads stuck to the outside of its head. Its hands were like patties, the rest of it like a legume, that's what Big thought, it looks like a legume, though he's never in his life seen a legume.' 'Julavits is the author of The Mineral Palace, a novel.. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Elizabeth Kairys. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.