Search Results: Authors starting with R from Veery Books

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. 213 pp. Split to webbing before TP, else very good or better. Robert Lowell has translated Racine's Phedre, and Jacques Barzun has Translated Beaumarchais's Figaro's Marriage. ''Hippolytus: What now? His anger turns my blood to ice. / Will Phaedra, always uncertain, sacrifice / herself? What will she tell the King? How hot / the air's becoming here! I feel the rot / of love seeping like poison through this house.'' ''Figaro: I mean, English is a wonderful language--it takes but a few words to cover a lot of ground. With 'God damn,' in English, a man need lack for nothing. Do you want to sink your teeth into a nice juicy fowl? Go into a tavern and make this gesture (turning a spit) and say 'God damn!' The waiter brings you a joint of salt beef with no bread--it's marvelous! Do you want a good glass of burgundy or claret--just do this (drawing a cork) 'God damn!' and they bring you a a foaming… Read More

Randall Thompson, Book and Music. Solomon and Balkis (The Butterfly That Stamped) Opera in One Act. Boston, Mass.: E. C. Schirmer Music Co., c. 1942. Plate Number E.C.S. No. 1320. Wraps, Quarto 12 x 9 in., 87 pp. + ads. Very Good, (a bit of sunning on the edges of the wraps, else fine). Vocal Score. Errata slip tipped in. Libretto adapted from "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling. "The first performance of the music of Solomon and Balkis was given under the auspices of the Columbia Workshop, James H, Fassett, Musical Director, over WABC and affiliated stations, . . . on Sunday, March 29, 1942, Howard Barlow conducted the Columbia Concert Orchestra." Eileen Farrell sang the role of the Egyptian Queen. "The Butterfly, when he stamps, causing Solomon's own castle to crumble at the sound, makes a noise like a small darning needle."

Fort Bragg, California, U.S.A.: Edgework Books, 2002. 102 pp. . First Edition. Quarter Cloth Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

37 pp. Very good, octavo. Wraps. 9 × 6.5 inches. Spine discolored. Study Score.

Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1969. Zweite Auflage. Hard Cover. Good/none. Octavo. 828 pp. [6] leaves plates. Soiling to spine of book, else very good, no dust jacket. With decorative music-manuscript facsimile end papers. Contents: die Geschichte des Lebens und der Werke, der Musiker und seine Werke, das Instrumentale schaffen. Klavierwerke. Symphonien und Ouvertüren, Konzerte und Konzertstücke für Streich- und Blasinstrumente. Kammermusik. das Vokale schaffen. Lieder, Gesänge und Melodramen für eine Stimme. Duette. Die drie- und mehrstimmigen Gesänge. Chorwerke für Männergesange. Werke für gemischten Chor a cappella. Kleinere Chorwerke mit Orchester. Die geistlichen Chorwerke. Grosse Werke für Soli, Chor und Orchester: “Das Paradies und die Peri”, “Genoveva”, “Manfred”, “Szenen aus Goethes ‘Faust’” Schlussbetrachtung. Lebenschronik. Aus Robert Schumanns Schriften. Über berühmte Musiker. Aus den musikalischen Haus- and Lebensregeln. Charakteristik der Tonarten. Über… Read More

Torino: Editioni di Torino EDT/Musica, 1988. xii, 315 pp. Bumping to corners and some rubbing and soiling, else very good. In Italian. Contents: Presentatzione; Prefazione; Nota dell'editore; Parte Prima: Un'autobiografia dell'autore racconta da Enzo Restagno; Parte Secunda--Le Opera: Xenakis, ''profeta dell'insensibilita'' (Milan Kundera); L'ellenismo di Xenakis (Francois-Bernard Mache); Costruzione come informazione cifrata. Sulla musica di Iannis Xenakis (Rudolf Frisius); Il teatro di Xenakis (Maurice Fleuret); Musica est exercitum arithmeticae . . . (Ernesto Napolitano); Da ''Cendrées'' a ''Warg'': quindici anni di creatività (Harry Halbreich); Sul tempo (Iannis Xenakis); Appendice (a cura di Giorgio Pugliaro); Catalogo delle opere; Nota Bibliografica; Nota Discografica; Indice dei nomi. . Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

198 pp. Vocal score, quarto, 9 x 12 in., red covers with blue ink. Very good, with only the slightest wear at top of spine. A musical play: The King and I, music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. First performance at the St. James Theatre, New York March 29, 1951.

211 pp. Wraps, Vocal score, Quarto, 12 x 9 in. Very good, slightest wear at edges. Plate number 5603-207. Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart. The Boys from Syracuse. New York: Chappell & Co., 609 5th Ave., c. 1965. First performance in November, 1938, at the Alvin Theatre, New York. Revived in 1965.

172 pp. Plate number 757-. Vocal score, blue wraps with dark-blue type. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Very Good with little wear to covers. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Tales of the South Pacific." First performed at the Majestic Theater, New York, April 7, 1949. Laid in, a program booklet (9 x 12, b&w photos) featuring the performance by Mary Martin and Ray Middleton, so an exemplar from between June 1950 and July 1951. Also laid in, from the May 1950 Cosmopolitan, an article by John Bartlow Martin.

134 pp. Wraps, quarto, 9 x 12 in., Near Fine. Vocal Score. Rick Besoyan (Book, Music and Lyrics). Little Mary Sunshine. New York: Charles Hansen, 1965. (L.A.: Sunbeam Music, 1965) Plate 8075. A parody of classic Broadway shows. Opened at the Orpheum Nov, 18, 1959, moved to the Player's Theatre, and closed at Cherry Lane Theatre, Sept. 2, 1962 for a total of 1,143 performances. Parodies and allusions from Herbert, Friml, and Romberg to Gilbert and Sullivan, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Noel Coward, and Rogers and Hammerstein.

Dusseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 2003. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Inscribed by Author. Fine, fine, octavo. 444 pp. Inscribed by author, also with postcard of a song by Fanny Hensel illuminated by her husband, Wilhelm Hensel, with signed note from author, also with a postcard of a song by Fanny Hensel illuminated by her husband, Wilhelm Hensel, with signed note from Rieger. Contents:Einleitung: "Ohne sie fehlte ihm die Luft zum Atmen"; Ch. 1 "Ich bin ihr Despot geworden" Von der Liebe zur Ehe; Ch. 2 "des Muttergluckes verlustig" Riga, London, Paris 1836–1842; Ch. 3 "Meine Heimath aber, das bist Du" Dresden 1842–1847; "Meine Knubeltopf von Mann" Die Revolution und die Folgen 1848–1850; "Diese dumme Liebensintrigue" Die Jessie-Laussot-Affare 1850–1851; "Die gute, narrische Mann" Das Zurcher exile 1852–1854; "Ich dumme, arme Frau, dass ich Dich nur fortgelassen hab" Zurich, London 1854–1856; "Ich habe schon manches nicht bemerken wollen" Der Wesendonck-Eklat 1857–1858; Das bittere Ende… Read More

21 pp. Vittorio Rieti (January 28, 1898 - February 19, 1994) Decorative wraps. Very good, quarto. 1. Allegro con moto, 2. Andante Moderato, 3. Rondo (Perpetuum Mobile).

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1929. 332 pp. Quarter green leather with gilt lettering on spine. TEG. Fresh bright-yellow bookmark. Boards covered with attractive green marbled paper. Almost 3/8 inch of leather gone at top of spine. Leather corners worn to boards. Inspite of wear to exterior the pages are tight and clean. Bookmark has never been moved from its shipping position. Letters to Auguste Rodin, Aurthur Holitscher, Clara Rilke, Otto Modersohn, Ellen Key, Lou Andreas-Salome, Karl von der Heydt. Paris, Rome, et c.. Quarter Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1912. 26 pp. + Inhalt + adv. Spine completely missing, beautiful paper-covered boards showing soiling and rubbing, ffep 4-inch rip at spine, repairable. Bookseller's sticker of Franz Leo & Comp, Vienna, on verso of ffep. Lovely p.o. inscription in German on 2nd free endpaper, dated 1916. A thirteen poem cycle set to music by Paul Hindemith in 1923. . Later Printing. Paper-covered Boards. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Davis, Calif.: Composer/Performer Edition, 1968. Very Good. 50, [51-52] pp. 28 × 35 cm. Includes vinyl recordings. Source Record One and Source Record Two, as issued in paper sleeves as pp. 3-4 and 23-24. PO Sig to cover, general wear to edges of covers and comb cutouts and surfaces of wraps. The slipcase for Record One has been neatly repaired with black library book tape, there welded to the paper. Disk One is in it's white paper sleeve and appears fine. Disk Two lacks the original white paper sleeve, but also appears unplayed. Record One, Side A has Robert Ashley—"The Wolfman." Side B is David Behrman's "Wave Train." Record Two, Side A is Larry Austin's Accidents, Side B, Allan Bryant's Pitch Off. Issue 4 is particularly prized among collector because it contains two recordings. Printed contents: 1. Robert Ashley's "Wolfman," instructions for performance. 2. Mario Bertoncini's a mio padre: Cifre, per pianoforti, uno piu esecutori, with a one page fold-out graphic score for one or more pianos.… Read More

Koln: Verlag Christoph Dohr, 2009. Hard Cover. Fine/none. Octavo. 517 pp. Fine, no dust jacket.Edited by Kristin R. M. Krahe, Katrin Reyersbach und Thomas Synofzik. With cloth ribbon bookmark. The correspondence of Robert and Clara Schumann with the Mendelssohn family, in German. Series II, of which the correspondence with the Mendelssohns is a part, represents correspondence with friends and artists.

172 pp. Plate number F126-168. Vocal score, beige wraps with red titles. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Very good, a slight tilt to spine and light bumps to corners. Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night. The music is based on themes by the composer Alexander Borodin and the play of Edward Knoblock. First presented at the Ziegfeld Theater, New York City, on December 3, 1953.

Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Theodore Presser Company, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. Folio. Four performance scores (4 x 39 pp.). Previous owner's stamp. Used for performance. All parts with some useful and informative annotations. Red paper wraps, stapled. Oblong Folio First edition. Plate number 114-40116.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Top edges lightly soiled, otherwise clean with no markings. Discusses and quotes A. Alvarez, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Robert Creely, Donald Davie, Denis Devlin, James Dickey, Robert Duncan, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Ramon Guthrie, Donald Hall, Ted Hughes, Randall Jarrell, LeRoi Jones, Patrick Kavenagh, Thomas Kinsella, Phillip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, George MacBeth, Vladimir Mayakovski, Christopher Middleton, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Howard Nemerov, Charles Olson, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Peter Redgrove, Theodore Toethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Anna Sexton, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Wallace Stevens, Charles Tomlinson, Michael Weaver, William Carlos Williams, James Wright, and W. B. Yeats among others. . Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

Akron, Ohio: Univ of Akron Press, 1997. 77 pp. 'A native of St. Paul, Clare Rossini is an assistant professor of English at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a member of the faculty at Vermont College's low-residency MFA program. She completed her BFA at the College of St. Benedict, before taking an MFA at the University of Iowa and a PhD at Columbia University, where she won the Bennett Cerf Award for Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize.' 'I know you want to know / What nights have meant to me, to get the facts. / Whose hand is raised toward whom? Was I really / Capable of all that implies? And what kiss is that, / That sears the last line? Don't ask. / That kiss has been paid for.'--from To the Curious Reader. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.