Search Results: Titles starting with B from Veery Books

New York: Barrow Street Inc., 2001. 100 pp. Poetry. Contributors include: Will Alexander, Renee Ashley, Joseph Bathanti, Stephen Burt, Jefferson Carter, Liza Charlesworth, Sharon Chmielarz, Diane di Prima, Ron Drummond, Valerie Egar, Eric Elshtain, Jocelyn Emerson, Jeffrey Encke, Justine Fitzgerald, Peggy Garrison, Edvidge Giunta, Rachel Hadas, Scott Hightower, Jane Hirshfield, Walter Holland, Phoebe Hoss, Janet Kaplan, David Keller . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Barrow Street Inc., 2003. 112 pp. Poetry, Works in progress, Barrow Street books prize winner Joshua Corey. Contributors include: Nin Andrews, Christopher Arigo, Helen Barnard, Karen Brennan, Julian Parke Billups, Forrest C. Buchly, Kimberly Burwick, Reid Bush, Jeffrey S. Chapman, Peter Danbury, Amanda Deutch, Jennifer K Dick, Carrie Etter, Ryan Flaherty, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Frank Giampietro, Susan Goslee, Eve Grubin, Robert Krut, David Lehman, Richard Lehnert, Lesle Lewis, Timothy Liu, Sabrina Orah Mark, Sandy McIntosh, Abby Millager, Ben Miller, Deborah Owen Moore, Julie Paegle, Joyce Peseroff, Derek Pollard, Larry Rapant, Elizabeth Ring, William Rushton, Art Schwartz, Shane Seely, Hilary Sideris, Alex Silberman, Richard Sime, Sandra Simonds, Frances Sjoberg, Ed Skoog, Virgil Suarez, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Camille-Yvette Welsch, Mike White, Scott Withiam. . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

New York: Kalmus 280 pp. Folio, Full score. Complete Works v. XIX/XX. Beatrice and Benedict: Comic Opera in two acts after Shakespeare. Composed between 1860 and 1862, loosely based on Much ado about nothing.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - 13'' X 10.5''.

Geneve, Suisse: Slatkine unpag. About 80 pp. 100 items. Profusely and beautifully illustrated in black and white. One color plate and one fold-out plate. Tables des matieres, Provenances, et Relieurs. Rubbing to edges and a bump at bottom of spine. Subjects include Almanach, Angleterre, Architecture, Art Militaire, Atlas, Cavalerie, Cazin et petits formats, Contes de fees, Cuivres, Curiosa, Droit, Editions originales et illustres romantiques, Fables et Contes, Feminisme et Aniti-feminisme, Femmes Bibliophiles, Fleurs, Heraldique, Histoire, Illustres en couleurs, Italie, Joaillerie, Livre avec dessins, Livres de petes, Manuscrits, Medicine, Musique, Notariat, Opera, Optique-Lunetterie, Poetes, Protestantisme, Reliures armoriees et chiffrees, Reliures emblematique ou parlantes, Reliures mosaiquees, Russie, Science Politique, Sport-natation, Suisse, Techiques, Theatre, Voltairiana, and Voyages. Bindings include Badiejous, Bisiaux, Bozerian, Derome le Jeune, Devers-Mailly, Galette, Lalande, Lefebvre,… Read More

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. 638 pp. Used but still handsome. 'Had it not been for the absurdity of life and its unhappiness, this book would never have been written. . . . We don't shed books the way we shed hair or skin or strange ideas. . . . I must mention . . . first and foremost Gaetano Salvemini, one of the greatest men my country gave the world in the last century, a man hated by everyone who had something to hide, and then loved by these same people the moment they learned from him that lies are limited and the truth endless.' Tucci's first book in English. . First Edition, Second Printing. Quarter Cloth Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Beloit, Wisconsin: Beloit Poetry Journal, 1964. 39 pp. Light wear at edges with a small gouge at center of front. Contains: R. R. Cuscaden, Joan White, May Sarton, Conrad Hilberry, Henry Birnbaum, N. M. Willard, Charles Simic, James Lewisohn, Frances Hall, John L'Heureux, Lawrence P. Spingarn, Jack Lindeman. 'We ran down in triumph, / Down the jagged stairways / To brag to the bathers-- / But they rose up to meet us, / Mysterious strangers / With salt on their eyelids, All stupid and shining.'--May Sarton from 'At Lindos.'. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley Calif.: Frog, Ltd., 1996. xvi, 230 pp. Fine in a very good dj, a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. Contents: Forward; Akhenaton; The Book of Job; Psalm 104; Chu Chen-Po; Milton; Basho; Buson; Christopher Smart; William Cowper; Goethe; Blake; Robert Burns; Issa; John Clare; William Cullen Bryant; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Thomas Hardy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; W. B. Yeats; Francis Jammes; Robert Frost; Rainer Maria Rilke; William Carlos Williams; D. H. Lawrence; Robinson Jeffers; Marianne Moore; Eugenio Montale; Francis Ponge; Nicolai Zabolotsky; Pablo Neruda; Theodore Roethke; Elizabeth Bishop; Randall Jarrell; Philip Larkin; James Wright; A Note on the Translations; Acknowledgements. "to see you: tensed, as if each leg were a gun / loaded with leaps, but not fired while your neck / holds your head still, listening: as when, / / while swimming in some isolated place, / a girl hears leaves rustle, and turns to look: / the forest pool reflected in her… Read More

Paris: Georges Blaizot, 1967. 107 pp. 170 items. 18 plates in black and white. A smudge on front of wraps, else fine. Some pages unopened. First Part only. ''Precieux Livres Illustres des XIXe et XXe siecles, dont vingt ouvrages Romantiques imprimes sur papier des Chine, notamment: Gil Blas (1835), Moliere (1835-6), Don Quichotte (1836-7), Contes Drolatiques (1855), Les Francais peints par eux-memes (1840-42), Memorial de Saint-Helene (1842), etc. Histoires naturelles (Toulouse-Lautrec) avec suite a part des lithographies avant la lettre; Parallelement (Bonnard), un des 10 chine avec suite; Daphnis et Chloe (Bonnard) un des 10 japon avec suite en rose; La Chanson des Gueux (Steinlen) exemplaire unique de la Bibliotheque Louis Barthou; La famille Cardinal avec monotypes origineux de Degas, etc.; Quelque livres illustres du XVIII siecles: Corneille (1764), Dorat (1764-1776), La Fontaine (1765-1775), Moliere (1734), Ovide (1767-1771). Avant-propos de M.-F. Benoit-Cattin President de la Societe Le… Read More

Drouot Rive Gauche, 1977. unpag. About 70 pp. Twelve black and white plates, color frontis. Cream-white stiff wraps show some fingerprints and have some bumping to corners. Beautifully reproduced on tipped-in frontis is a leaf from Les Diaboliques of Barbey d'Aurevilly, the autograph manuscript of the five novels are offered here. Manuscript pages also shown in full-page plates are the poem ''Rolandseck'' by Apollinaire; Balzac's Premier Sonnet, La Paquerette, typeset with numerous corrections in the author's hand; Manuscript title page signed of Baudelaire's Amoenitates Belgicae Epigrammes; First leaf of Georges Courteline's novel Le Train de 8 H 47; A leaf from a letter of Flaubert to Laurent Pichat; autograph leaf of Huysmans, La-Bas; Mallarme, Le Guignon, showing a leaf of the 3-page manuscript; Nerval, showing a leaf of an ALS to Jules Janin; Proust, showing a leaf of an ALS to Robert Montesquiou; George Sand, showing a leaf of an ALS to Flaubert; P.J. Touly… Read More

Paris: Hotel Drouot, Etude Tajan priseur, M. Pierre Meaudre, Expert, 1995. unpag. Items 202-364. A little bumping with creasing at corners. ''Manuscrits et editions originales du XXe siecle, R. Brasillach.'' Full-page frontis illustration in color of P.. Morand--Venises ''l'un des 65 exempaires de tete sur velin pur fil'' binding by C. and J.-P. Miguet.'' Two other large in-text color illustrations of Miguet bindings. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris unpag. lots 4603-5158; Index of authors, artists and illustrators; index of binders. Illustrations: Th. Banville, Ode Funambulesques and correspondance; Baudelaire, autograph poem to Banville; Bloy, ms. pages from Exegese de Lieux Communs; Flaubert, autograph letter to Poittevin; Merimee, Correspondance Autographe a la Comtess de Boigne; 5 leaves of drawings by Boit, Vigny for Merimee; signed ms. with drawing, Monnier; Rabbe, autograph documents signed; Saint-Pierre, autograph ms.; Samain, autograph ms. Polypheme; Sand autograph letters, Stendhal, autograph letters; Verlaine, autograph poems; Zola, autograph letter to Cezanne; and more.. Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

296 pp. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws, black textured paper-covered boards with metallic blue stamping and a Little Brown blind stamp. In a fine dust jacket, black, with iridescent blue ruling, in an archival cover, signed "To Tom" by Mosley on the title page below his name.

London: At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1913. Edited with an English rendering by Israel Gollancz. Neatly inscribed on FFEP by I. Gollancz to Dr Beeching: 'With all good messages' 21 XII 1915. Also on FFEP and pastedown, a poorly effaced ink description of Gollancz. A bibliographic notice on newsprint(?) affixed to pastedown. There is wear to the corners of the boards, spine ends frayed, and some (bleachlike) stains to the cloth backing material. There is a slight waviness to the bottom of the pages, but they don't seem to have been dampened. The pages are beautiful and the presentation is an apt medium for subject and author. Number 281 of 550. Facsimile of ms. on frontispiece. Letterpress on handmade Aldwych paper. Untrimmed. From the description on the pastedown: 'Rubricated text. 'Olympia' may be read side by side with 'Pearl.' In addition to the poem there are translations of Boccaccio's references to his little daughter, 'Olympia,' who died when five and a half years of age. The Angel… Read More

Greenwich, Connecticut: The Book Block 82 pp. 95 items. Over 40 Illustrations. 'Mostly Interesting new Books on a variety of Subjects frequently offered for reasons other than the Text, including Color Printing, Literature, Fine Binding, Illustrated Books, Sir William Nicholson, and (of course) The Dance of Death.'. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: William Doyle Galleries, 2006. 131 pp. 386 lots. Over 300 illustrations, about one-quarter of the 83 rare books and mss. lots are illustrated, the remaining lots, old master, modern and contemporary prints are all illustrated. All illustrations color. J.T. Arms, M. Avery, F.W. Benson, T. Benton, G. Braque, A. Briscoe, A. Calder, C. Capps, L. Carrington, M. Cassatt, M. Chagall, S. Chamberlain, A. Dehn, J. Dine, K. Eby, F.S. Haden, Y. Hamaguchi, C. Hassam, A. Hirschfeld, L. Icart, L. Kasimir, A. Katz, M. Lewis, M. Marini, R. Marsh, C. Meryon, J. Miro, T. Moran, R. Motherwell, J. Pennell, P. Picasso, R. Rauschenberg, Man Ray, P-A. Renoir, C. Rungius, J. Sloan, B.M. Spruance, S. Wengenroth, J.A.M. Whistler, G. Wood, H. Ziegler, H. Zille, F. Zuniga are each represented by more than one lot. Many more artists. Cover illustrated by Hoosier Garden by Gustave Baumann.. Wraps. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: James & Devon Gray Booksellers, 1995. unpag. about 100 pages. A smudge on the front cover, bumping to corners. ''Catalogue number fifteen . . . represents our first effort from the new shop at 12 Arrow Street in Harvard Square.'' Extensive descriptions of about a hundred items, with some line art. . Stapled wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Ursus Books, Ltd., Rare & Scholarly 32 pp. 292 items. A bump to bottom of spine, light wear to edges, otherwise fine. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Cover design by Ron Gordon, Abe Brewster, Oliphant Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.