Search Results: Authors starting with K from Veery Books

London: Universal Edition, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. Folio. Score. UE 14686. Previous owner's signature, wraps with some soiling, else fine. All participants carry a walking stick or perhaps an umbrella. The performers walk along lanes constructed to form a regular pentagon.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 224 pp. Blue Cloth with silver embossing is fine, some foxing to endpapers, and top of pages a bit dull. DJ missing two pieces with spine darkening. Dust jacket art and decorations by Edward Shenton. 'Although Jumper was harnessed almost daily that winter, the chores assigned to him were so light that he considered them as recreation rather than labor. The loads of hay, straw, and wood that he was required to pull were no burden at all. In this and other ways he was shown special favors. Even the stable hands regarded him as one set apart from his companions by certain qualities commanding their affectionate respect. They gave him the simplest tasks, and saved for him the chiocest foods. / After the adventure with the wolves his fame spread. Complete strangers asked to have him pointed out to them, and vied with each other in congratulating the master on possessing such a remarkable horse. The story of his exploit passed from mouth to mouth among the… Read More

Stimmen. Wien, New York: Universal Edition A.-G., 1923. Nr. 7132a–d. Parts (8, 8, 8, 8 pp.) 12 x 9 inches, 31 x 23 cm; 6 oz. Fair only, wrapsand pages brittle. Reference copy only. Music text not aff ected by edge chipping. First published in Berlin by J. H. Jatho in 1922. Composed in 1913. Worldcat finds no copies of the parts, though available for sale and licensing from Universal.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 74 pp. A small black mark on the dj, visible in picture. The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series, edited by Richard Howard. 'Paul Kane was born in the village of Cobbleskill, in upstate New York. He received degress from Yale University and the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was a Fulbright scholar. Kane has published a previous collection of poems, The Farther Shore; an edition of Emerson's collected poems; an anthology of nineteenth-century American poetry; a critical study of Australian poetry; and in collaboration with the photographer William Clift, A Hudson Landscape.' Contents: A note on Paul Kane by Richard Howard; I: TIME WAS: The Mood of Glass; Cross Lots; Acceptance; An Old Flame in Savonarola's Cell; Framing; By the Hudson; Just after the Holidays; Shadows; The Cipher; A Bouquet for Eilzabeth; Driving East; Cats at the Protestant Cemetary; Epicurean; Mona; Intimations; Prelude; Under the… Read More

248 pp. Quarter cloth, illus. paper-covered boards. Little wear to exterior, pages starting to tan near edges, but still quite flexible. PO inscription in Lithuanian on the FFEP. On the Road—in Lithuanian. Worldcat finds a copy in France and one in Germany. A short essay in Lithuanian on Kerouac and his novel. A Paaiškinimai [appendix, literally, explanations, but most like a glossary]. Greihaundas, Houboukenas, Belvju, Bronksas et cetera. Along with On the Road, Signet, 25th anniversary edition, 30th printing, or so, included as a guide on the road.

Moskva: Izd-vo "Muzyk", 1982 262 p. Quarto. Very good, with modest wear to the red cloth black- and gold-stamped binding. Sobranie Sochineniia v Dvadtsati Chetyrekh Tomakh [Collected Works in 24 volumes]. Collected works Volume 15 only. Concerto I. Allegro ma non troppo e maestoso; II. Andante con anima; III. Allegro Brillante (1936); Concerto-Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra (1968). ''The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D-flat major was written in the autumn of 1936 when the composer was completing his post-graduate studies at the Moscow Consevatoire under the guidance of Nikolai Myaskovsky. . . . The score of Aram Khachaturyan's Piano Concerto was first published by the Muzgiz, Moscow, in 1946, and the two-piano score, in 1940. . . . The present publication is based on the last edition of the score which appeared in the composer's lifetime (Moscow, Muzgiz, 1957).'' The Concert-Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra in D-flat major was completed in 1967 as part of the second of two trilogies of… Read More

New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., 1919. 3 pp. 9 X 12 inches. A bump to one corner and a spot of foxing, very good. ''Once in a while there's a fragrance rare, Bringing a lingering vision fair, . . .'' Voice and piano.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Helsinki, Finland: Edition Fazer, 1951. Wraps. Very Good. Small Folio. 103 pp. Full conductor's score, small folio. Wear and creasing to wraps, tear at top of spine, else very good. Plate number F.M. 02716-9. Duration 27 minutes. The Kalevala Suite was first performed in Helsinki for the first time in 1933 under the baton of Georg Schnéevoigt, two years before the 100th anniversary of the first edition of the Finnish national epic. The Creation of the Earth, Agitato e misterioso; The Sprout of Spring, Andante, molto tranquillo; Terhenniemi, Allegro leggiero e scherzando; Cradle Song for Lemminkäinen, Andante mosso; The Forging of the Sampo, Allegro moderato.

New York: Elliott Klein unpag. (about 26 pp.) 486 items. Selected references. Several b/w illus in text and one on front and back of wraps.. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1924. Parts (19, 25, 26, 25 pp. + ads). Plate 31101. 13 x 10.5 inches, 33 x 27 cm; 1 lb., 4 oz. Dem Rosé-Quartett gewidmet. Composed 1922. Lacking outside wraps. Th ere are ads on all the parts. Th e ads on the back of the cello part, "Das Shaff en von E. W. Korngold," have opus numbers no higher than Op. 16. The Druckbücher des Verlags B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz indicates that 400 sets of parts were printed. Worldcat finds only about ten sets. This is a large paper copy, still flexible and supple for being almost 100 years old. Editorially, the parts contain generous cues, both within and above the staff, for the players.

New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Quarto. Score. 35 pp. (S.P.A.M. 52) Twenty-Fifth Season 1943-44. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1945. G, a bump to top with attendant creases. Discoloration at extremities. Koutzen (1901-1966) was born in Russia and studied composition with Gliere. Arriving in the United States in 1923, he became a violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski and taught at the Philadelphia Conservatory and at Vassar.. Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 1st ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. xv, 226 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. With 4 illustrations and 28 musical examples. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Contents: 1. Tropes and Windows: An Outline of Musical Hermeneutics; 2. Beethovens Two-Movement Piano Sonatas and the Utopia of Romantic Esthetics; 3. Impossible Objects: Apparitions, Reclining Nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A Minor; 4. Liszt, Goethe, and the Discourse of Gender; 5. Musical Form and Fin-De-Siècle Sexuality; 6. "As If a Voice Were in Them": Music, Narrative, and Deconstruction. Series: California studies in 19th century music, Vol. 8.

New York: H. P. Kraus iv, 30 pp. 52 items. Black and white illustrations. A light bend near spine with crease on front wrap. With an index of names of illustrators and engravers, and an index of binders. Art examples illustrated are Bertall, Paul et Virginie, 1845; Jean Gigoux, Le Sage de Gil Blas, 1835; Bertall, Paul et Virginie, 1845; Contes Drolatiques, Dore, 1855; Dore, Rabelais, 1857; Gavarni, Masques et Visages, 1852-53; Gavarni, Oeuvres choisies, 1845; Gavarni, Balzac, Le Peau de Chagrin, 1838; Le Jardin des Plantes; Perrault, Contes, Curmer, 1843. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Parts (10, 8, 8, 10 pp.) Wien/New York: Universal Edition A. G., 1922. Universal-Edition Nr. 7081a–d. Dem Lambinon Quartett in Berlin gewidmet. First edition. Ads on front of Vln 1 part and on back wraps. Very good. (12 x 9 inches, 31 x 23 cm; 6 oz.);

Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill, 1985 viii, 198 pp. : illustrations, portraits. . Inscribed By Author. Fine.

171 pp. Wraps, Vocal score, Quarto, 9 x 12 in., 171 pp. Fine. Knickerbocker Holiday. New York, NY: Crawford Music Corporation, c. 1938, 1951. Plate 40692. Scenes: Washington Irving;s Study, 1809. Act I: The Battery. A morning in 1647; Act II: Scene 1, Interior of the Jail. Evening of the same day, Scene 2, The Battery. The following day. "And these few precious days, I'd spend with you."