Search Results: Authors starting with N from Veery Books

New York: Beer & Schirmer, 1865. 4 pp. [cover, 2 p. score, catalog no. 2] Folio. Some foxing and offsetting, wear at extremities, disbound. Cover title: Choix de Romances Francaises favorite. For voice and piano. Text in French, with English translation. ''Il est un air a la fois vif et tendre, dont j'ai garde le touchant souvenir. J'aimais jadis; J'aime encore a l'entendre: il m'annoncait qu'elle devait venir.'' Nadaud is known for his political chansons in the tradition of Piere-Jean de Beranger. This, of course, is not a political song. Catalog on last page of vocal music offered by G. Schirmer, 701 Broadway (1866-1880), including Songs, Secular vocal ensemble music, and Sacred vocal ensemble music. Compositions by American composer Dudley Buck in the catalog indicate that this was probably a later printing from the same plates much later than 1865, yet WorldCat only finds two copies of this imprint.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - 13'' X 10.5''.

Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962 xiv, 496 pp. [Including a selection from the works of Dan Emmett and others. With illustrations, including portraits and musical illustrations, and with a bibliography.] Small chips and tears to the edges, sunning to the dust jacket, book very good or better. Inscribed to Saul Novack, musicologist, by the author. From the jacket copy--''The blackface theater that flourished in nineteenth-century America had roots had roots extending across the Atlantic to the England of the late seventeenth century, when writers, poets, dramatists, and musicians were composing a literature of sympathy and protest against the perversity of the slave trade. In America the initial and tentative stages of Negro impersonation and song came between 1815 and 1830 with the creation of two 'Negro stage characters'--one, the southern plantation hand, the other, the ludicrous black replica of the white dandy of Main Street. // By the late thirties Daniel Decatur… Read More

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelistvo Khudozhestvennoy Literaturi, 1959. v. 1: 359 pp., v. 2: 463 pp. v. 3: 321. In Russian. Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878): editor and publisher of A Physiology of Petersburg, and A Petersburg Miscellany, 1845. Editor of The Contemporary, a journal founded by Pushkin in 1836, where he published Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and others. THIS EDITION - The works of N. A. Nekrasov in three volumes - contains verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems. This Publication is based on The Complete Works and Letters of N. A. Nekrasov, Goslitizdat, 1948-1953, with the additional collation text of the lifetime publications that made it possible, in a number of cases, to refine texts and dating of separate works. The works are printed in chronological order. First Volume - Verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems 1845-1863. SECOND VOLUME - Verse (stikhotvoreniia) and poems 1864-1877. Humorous poems and poems not included by N. A. Nekrasov into 'The Meetings of His Compositions'… Read More

Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1985 103 pp., illustrations. Perhaps some sunning to spine.. French Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Christie's, 1999. 93 pp + ads. 183 lots. P.O. has made short notes about condition on a few lots. Wraps nicely illustrated with a plate from Jan van der Straet's Nova Reperta showing a 16th-century printing establishment, the front wraps showing a dramatic view of the press, the back compositors, proofreaders and collators. The frontispiece shows the TP of Thomas Geminus's Compendiosa totius anatomiae dlineatio, aere exarata, 1545. Other notable illustrations include the first engraved view of Niagara Falls as it appeared in Louis Hennepin, Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique, entre le nouveau Mexique et la mer glaciale. Utrecht, 1697; TPs of Kepler's Dioptrice . . . and Huygens's Traite de la Lumiere. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Persea Books, 1997. 87 pp. Author's first book. Nobles published Bluestone Walk in 2000. His poetry has appeared in Agni, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburgh Review, Paris Review, Pequod, and Volt. On the jacket Paul Klee's The Idea of Firs (Der Idee der Tannen) 1917. 'Edward Nobles poetry is distinguished by its astonishing precision, its careful concentration of the eye on the object, and the tautness of the rhythms.'--Marjorie Perloff. 'Here, / I can know no thing and be / pure longing, a fish, thrashing stopped, for it is dead. Or I will be // transformed, a god of fish, / and each shall before me lie / outstretched on a golden plate, / surrounded by springs of plastic / (perfect through time) and a slice / of lemon, for its bitterness.'--from ''The God of Fish.''. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Four East Thirty Nine, New York: Ernest Dressel North Book Shop 121 pp. procedes onto back flap. 8 signatures stapled. No date, c. 1920s. ''Catalogue of an Exhibition of Famous Authors in First Editions Ancient and Modern, December 10th to 20th.'' A large triangle missing from soiled wraps, with some splitting at top of spine, else fine. Alphabetic, at least one hundred items. An interesting selection ranging from Bacon and Sterne to Stevenson. Generous long and pithy descriptions. From the description of a presentation copy of Keats's Poems, C. & J. Ollier, London, 1817: ''The brothers Ollier wrote to George Keats saying 'We regret that your brother ever requested us to publish this book, or that our opinion of its talent should have led us to acquiesce in undertaking it. We are, however, much obliged to you for relieving us of the unpleasant necessity of declining any furthur connection with it, which we must have done, as we think the curiosity is satisfied, and… Read More

New York: Knopf, 2008. 112 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. "So the voice engulfed us, / whirling us to the past; / when silence claimed us // we waited in that endless line / to grace our crisp new books / with the fissure of his name. // As we inched forward / we touched each other / on the thigh, the cheek, / almost by accident, / as if to remind ourselves / how it had been to be alive-- / pure fire."--from "Autopoiesis". Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.