Search Results: Titles starting with F from Veery Books

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

Frankfurt/M.: Ullstein, 1985. Paper. Good. Octavo. 250 pp. trade paper, octavo. Wear to extremities, good. Hrsg. u. mit e. Nachwort vers. von Eva Weissweiler. Content: Kindheit in Hamburg und Berlin (1805–1820). Die Briefe an den Bruder I. Nach Weimar, Paris und Neustadt-Eberswalde (1821–1828); II. Nach Grossbritannien (1829); III. Nach Leipzig, München und Düsseldorf (1830–1835); IV. Nach Leipzig, Frankfurt und Berlin (1835–1845). Im Kommentar verwendete Abkürzungen. Literaturverzeichnis. Chronologisches Verzeichnis der veröffentlichten Werke Fanny Mendelssohns. Quellen- und Bildnachweis. Nachwort. Personenregister. Series: Die Frau in der Literatur.

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985 xxvi, 542 pp., illustrations. Light wear at edges of dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by Kay Dreyfus to Saul Novak, chairman, School of Music, Queens College and his wife. ''To give way to human feelings, to overflow & swim in human feelings, is human enough, but the farthest north of humanness is, for me, to be a lightning conductor of such feelings in such a way that they are particularly fitted to fill niches in coming men's minds & sit itchingly and inflamingly like small fishhooks in men's consciousness throughout changing customs and different rules for playing cricket.''--Grainger, 1907, in a letter to his mother.. Inscribed By Editor. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

31 pp. Folio, 13'' X 10'', full score. In plain paper wraps with hand lettered title. Score clean and unmarked. Text and titles in Russian. Facsimile of early or first edition with identity of original publication information (probably Belaieff, Leipzig, 1913, plate 2959) effaced by Kalmus. De Lerma F2.

1 leaf, verso blank. Publish'd. by W. Curtis, Botanic Garden, Lambeth Marsh. No 42. A hand-colored engraving of Calceolaria pinnata L., known as Feather Calceolaria in English.

Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1987. 1st Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 43 pp., quarto, full score. Coleccion Musica Sinfonica Mexicana. Holograph reproduction of the composer's score. Dedicated to Juan Vicente Melo (Mayo-Junio/1980). For large orchestra with piano and percussion battery. Printed January 10, 1987, one of 1,300 copies. . Lavista was born in 1948 in Mexico City.

Portland, Oregon: Powell's Books, 1996. 35 pp. Some creases in wraps, else fine. Contents: A Brief and Informal Narrative History of Powell's Books; Twenty Good Questions and Twenty Matching Answers; The Store's Services and Departments; Room by Room: A Walking Tour of the City of Books; A Final Note. ''Q: How many square feet do you have in this store? A: 43,000 retail--give or take an odd sqaure foot or two.''. Fifth Edition. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Durham, North Carolina: Duke School of Medicine Library, 1956. 34 pp. 50 items. Bumping to top and bottom of spine, with short (less than 1/4-inch) spilits. Sewn wraps illustrated by a portrait of Thomas Gale from his Certain Workes of Chirurgerie, 1563 [No. 19]. From the Josiah C. Trent collection in the history of medicine, an annotated catalogue of the exhibition. Compiled by Henry Schuman and Martha Alexander. . Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sotheby's, 2001. 378 pp., 418 lots, Addendum, 8 pp. Some tiny imperfections, some creasing and soiling to fore edge of addendum. Includes 8 pp. insert Addendum lot 223A, the letters of J. D. Salinger to his Daughter Peggy, estimated at $250-350,000, which did not sell. The letters are described at length with several illustrations. Some highlights: lot 60, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896, one of 425 copies on paper, $46,750; lot 107, Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. By a Lady. London: T. Egerton, 1811, Jerome Kern's copy, $81,250; lot 159, Hemingway, Ernest, Typescript of The Dangerous Summer, 1960, $52,500; lot 385, M'Kenney, Thomas L., and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., 1837, 1842-44, $58,250; letters from Jack Kerouac to Neal Cassidy, Carl Solomon, and Lois Sorrells, nicely reproduced here.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Sotheby's New York, 1999. 392 pp. 462 lots. Light bumping to corners, otherwise fine. Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana (lots 1-162 including a letter to Rhode Island Governor William Greene dated 2 June 1781, signed by George Washington, which sold for $34,500); Modern Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings (lots 163-196 including Longus Daphnis & Chloe. Paris: Teriade, 1961, with 42 colored plates by Marc Chagall, binding by Paul Bonet.); A Selection of Fruit Books from the Library of Robert A. Nitschke (197-206 including a rare example of a ''tree peddler's'' specimen book, typical of those produced in Rochester, New York during the second half of the nineteenth century, which sold for $5,462); Property from the Botanical Library of Earl L. Murphy, M.D. (lots 247-267 including first edition of one of the earlist lithographed botanical books, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, which sold for $17,250.); Property of a Long Island Nurseryman (268-287 including John Parkinson Paradisi… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Book Auction, 1995. 29 pp. 586 items. A postcard-size print of Hirschfield's Harlem as Seen by Hirschfield (1940) tipped onto front cover. Light wear to wraps, PO has written a lot number on TP, else fine. Over 80 illustrations in black and white, including 20 of Japanese woodblocks. Contents include Art and Architecture, Books/Miscellaneous, Leather bindings, John Fletcher Hurst, Literature, Judaica, Erotica, Prints, Original Art, Maxfield Parrish, Ephemera, Maps and Atlases, Americana, Travel and Exploration, Science and Technology, Colorplate Books, Japanese Woodblock, Photography, Autographs and Manuscripts.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Christie Manson & Woods, 1978. 51 pp. + 58 plates, including 5 in colour. The properties of the late Gladys Marie, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough; Countess Pauline Kalling; Mrs. G. St. G M. Gompertz; and formerly of the late Baron Auguste Delbeke. Notations on cover in ink, a few circles, checkmarks inside. A crease in the front wrap. Arita and Imari, Kakiemon, Satsuma and Kyoto, Arakawa Toyozo, Kitaoji Rosanjin, Kawai Kanjiro, Hamada Shoji, Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Uragami Zeniji of Bizen, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, and more. Many lots illustrated.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Christie Manson & Woods, 1975. 75 pp. + 22 plates in black and white . The properties of the Earl of Radnor, Lord Barnard, Sir Adrian Beecham, Bt. Notations on covers in ink, Some estimated prices transfered inside. A crease in the front wrap. Estimated prices included.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Christie's Kensington, 2005. 104 pp. 465 lots. Including the collection of Lady Hilda Ingram (56 lots), The property of a collector (20 lots), The Property of Pusey House, Oxford(184 lots), 15th-17th century books (97 lots), 18th-20th century books (36 ), Cookery (8 lots), Manuscripts (24 lots).. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Christie's, New York, 2005. 311 pp. 482 lots. Many excellent illustrations in color including full page reproductions of both Alexander Wilson's and Audubon's Carolina Parrot or Parakeet. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

133 pp. Ads on back leaf. Slight wear to edges and top and bottom of spine, else fine. Quarto, 8.5 x 11 in., The "1999" on the lower left is not a date. Other longer digits appear there in other exemplars; this seems to me to be the original 1946/7 issue, but I am unable to verify. Book by E.Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy. Crawford Music Corporation, c1947. Made in England. Vocal Score. Pictorial wraps, illus, Don Freeman. Laid in a program from November 14-18, 1956, for a production at Brown University by "Sock and Buskin," a student theater group, at the Faunce House Theater. The musical was performed on several campuses in 1956, having been revived on Broadway in 1955. Also laid in, an article by E. Y. Harburg, "The Bridge That Spans the Galaxy," clipped from an unidentified source. There Harburg says, "The merry, light-hearted handling of all these problems by the dancing, singing leprechauns and pixie people, make us long wistfully for a Congress of just such characters in Washington, D.C."

New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1951. Quarto. 1 score (34 p.) + part (11 p.) Until he was 12, Martinu (1890-1959) lived in the bell tower of a church. The flute sonata was composed for George Laurent, principal flautist of the BSO. Mvts: Allegro, Adagio, Allegro poco moderato.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Parts, quarto, 12 pp.; 12 pp.; 10 pp.; 9 pp. Four parts, very good in very good wrapper. (S.P.A.M. 53) Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1946. The string quartet was written in 1942. The composer of The Wife of Martin Guerre (1956) and The Murder of Comrade Sharik (1973) the latter based on Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog.. Wraps. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel 26 pp. Folio, Full score. Edges of wraps fading. Previous owner's stamp. Professional conductor's marks in blue and red pencil. 1950s. Breitkopf & Hartels Partitur Bibliothek Nr. 514. Originally in C major for oboe and orchestra; arranged by the composer for flute and orchestra and transposed to D major.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - 13'' X 10.5''.

Wien: Universal Edition, 1956. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 13 pp. Score, for Soprano voice, clarinet, and bass clarinet. Universal Edition, Nr. 9522. The previous owner has neatly copied and taped in a transposed A clarinet or transposed bass clarinet part into the nontransposing score. Much more useful for the performer than the part that comes from the publisher. Texts for the canons are I. Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem . . . II. (Aus: “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) Dormi Jesus, mater ridet, / Quae tam dulcem somnem videt, / Dormi Jesus blandule. / Si non dormis, mater plorat, / Inter fila cantans orat: / Blande veni somnule. III. Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis: / nulla silva talem profert, fronde, flore, germine. / Dulce lignam, dulce clavos, dulce pondus sustinet. IV. Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor: / lavabis me, et super nivem dealbador. / Miserere mei, Deus, / secundum magnam misericordiam tuam. V. Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine: / et sanctam… Read More