Search Results: Titles starting with J from Veery Books

Louisville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art Museum, 1960. unpag. 123 items. Some bumping at corners. Damp discoloration at bottom of spine affecting only the wraps. Contents: Index of objects other than paintings, index of Donors. Each item has a black and white photograph and extensive description. Items include 75 American pieces, 6 Asiatic Pieces, and 42 European pieces. Objects other than paintings include Arms, Ceramics, Costumes, Drawings, Furniture, Jewelry, Photographs, Prints, Sculpture, Silver and Brass, and Textiles.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Normal, Illiinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. 158 pp. Wear to edges, a black mark on back wrap. ''Let's suppose that the memory is like a jade cabinet, but a cabinet belonging to an infinitely resolute collector. Each time we look inside, the jade appears to be the same, yet the mind is forever replacing one chimera for another that resembles it. Let's suppose that the memory is a cabinet of chameleons and the mind as unstable as the moon.'' 'The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge.'--from the jacket. ''Our father, Angus Sperry, once described how certain butterflies risk their lives sailing the infinite airs above the seas to flock together at the resonant place (as he called it): an obscure tree, a ragged expanse of beach, a certain… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, Stich und Druck von Breitkopf und Hartel, 1949 xxv, 151; xvii, 190 pp. Facsimile of V. 12 of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Red cloth, some rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's stamp. A few professional conductor's markings in blue and red pencil. Passionsmusik nach dem Evengelisten Johannes (BWV 245) Kirchencantaten. Bd.6. No.51-60 (BWV 51-60). Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X 11''.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, 1947. xx, 192 pp. Red Cloth. Full score. Previously owned by professional conductor with his stamp. Some useful and professional marks in blue and red pencil. Top and bottom of spine reinforced with red library tape. Full score. Concert in F-Dur fur zwei Horner, drei Oboen, Fagott, concertirende Quart-Geige, zwei Violinen, Viola, Violoncell und Continuo Concert in F-Dur fur concertirende Trompete, Flote, Oboe und Violine mit Begleitung von zwei Violinen, Viola und Continuo; Concert in G-Dur fur drei Violinen, drei Violen, Drei Violoncelle und Continuo Concert in G-Dur fur concertirende Violine mit Begleitung von zwei Floten (flutes a bec), zwei Violinen, Viola, Violoncell und Continuo; Concert in D-Dur fur Clavier, Flote und Violine mit Begleitung von Violine, Viola, Violoncell und Continuo; Concert in B-Dur fur zwei Violen, zwei Gamben, Violoncell und Contino. A facsimile of the Bach Gesellschaft edition. . Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, 1947. lxi, 362 pp. Ann Arbor, 1947, Facsimile of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Red Cloth, Folio, Rubbing to extremities. Serenata. Durchlauchster Leopold [BWV 173a]; Cantata. Schwingt freudig euch empor [BWV 36]; Cantata. Die Freude reget sich [BWV 36b]; Dramma per musica. Lasst uns forgen, lasst uns wachen [BWV 213]; Dramma per musica. Tonet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten [BWV 214]; Cantata gratulatoria in adventum regis. Preise dein Blucke, gesegnetes Sachsen [BWV 215]; Anhang: I. Dramma per musica. Angenehmes Wiederau [BWV 30a] ; II. Dramma per musica. Auf, schmetternde Tone der muntern Trompeten [BWV 207a]. . Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X 11''.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, Stich und Druck von Breitkopf und Hartel, 1949 xxxvi, 290 pp. Red cloth, Folio. Facsimile of V. 4 of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Wear at edges. Spine faded, Previous owner's stamp, some light pencil markings of a professional conductor. Passionsmusik nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus (BWV 244). Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X 11''.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, Stich und Druck von Breitkopf und Hartel, 1947. xxxii, 222 pp. Red cloth, Folio. Some rubbing to extremities, Previous owner's stamp. Facsimile reproduction of V. 33 of the Bach Gesellschaft edition. Contents: Cantatas 161. Komm, du susse Todesstunde; 162. Ach, ich sehe, itzt da ich zur Hochzeit gehe; 163. Nur Jedem das Seine; 164. Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet; 165. O heil'ges Geist- und Wasserbad; 166. Wo gehest du hin; 167. Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe; 168. Thue Rechnung! Donnerwort; 169. Gott soll allein mein Herze haben; 170. Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust. . Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X 11''.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bach Gesellschaft, Edwards, 1947. xxviii, 251 pp. Facsimile reproduction Bach Gesellschaft V. 29. Red cloth, rubbing to extremities, Previous owner's stamp. Cantate. Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd [BWV 208a]; Cantate. Non sa che sia dolore [BWV 209]; Hochzeits-Cantate. O holder Tag, erwunschte Zeit [BWV 194]; Cantate. Schweight stille plaudert nicht [BWV 211]; Cantate. Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet [BWV 212]; Anhang: I. Gratulations-Cantate. Mit Gnaben bekrone der Himmel die Zeiten. II. Cantate. O, angenehme melodei [BWV 210a]; III. Instrumentalsatz fur Violine, Oboe und Continuo.. Cloth. Very Good. Folio 14.25'' X 11''.

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983 58 pp.; 22 pp. Two Pamphlets offered together. Light wear and soiling to the program, the catalog, fine. The festival program includes lists of the artists and lecturers, times and programs for all lectures and concerts, song texts in German and English translation for those songs that were performed. Bios of the festival artists and participants and lecturers. The catalog of autograph mss. and letters was prepared by George S. Bozarth with the assistance of Elizabeth H. Auman and William C. Parsons.This catalog includes items acquired by the Whittall foundation since the publication of their catalog in 1951 and items from additional sources in the Library of Congress. Each item is accompanied by a short description.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

[i-vi,1]-111,[112-121] pp. Octavo, fine/near fine; though the dj appears to be price clipped, the price stamp of the National Theatre Bookshop in London appears just there. Carefully annotated theater programs, annotated by Gielgud from the age of 13 to 21, were saved by his mother and donated to the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection. Gielgud adds comments 70 years later. Generously illustrated throughout with photos of the programs and of the productions, perhaps more than 150 photos. Produced to celebrate his 90th birthday. Inscribed by Gielgud in May, 1994, and shortly after by Dave & Matt to Dr. T. (composer Millard Thomson).

Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1886. 47 pp. Frontis, photographic print (heliotype) of the early home of John Harvard's mother. Wraps discolored with chipping all around, split at top of spine. Some pages unopened, generally very good within. John Harvard emigrated to New England in May 1637. In Charlestown, Mass. he was appointed minister, but in September 1638 he died of tuberculosis. Harvard bequeathed his library of 400 volumes and a considerable sum of money to the New College, Cambridge, which was subsequently named Harvard College in 1639. Much is unknown of the early history of Harvard College because it, and John Harvard's books, were destroyed by fire in 1674. Nevertheless the University bears his name. Considerable fascinating detail herein, including a probate of the will of Thomas Rogers of Stratford upon Avon, alleged to have known a playwright named Shakespeare. The heliotype frontis illustrates his wife Katherine's house. Katherine was Harvard's… Read More

London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1970. 312 pp. Price-clipped dj w/ 3-inch tear and other wear at top. Sticker ghosts on FEP of otherwise fine volume. Medieval Authors Series. Three photographic plates of illustrations from manuscripts in the British Museum. Contents: General Preface; Author's Note; John Lydgate: The Critical Approach; The Monastic Background; Chaucer and Literary Background; The Courtly Poems; Troy and Thebes; Laureate Lydgate; Fables and Didactic Poems; The Fall of Princes; Lydgate's Religious Poetry; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1993 The Unknown Florestan: The 1805 Version of ''In des Lebens Fruhlingstagen''--Michael C. Tusa; A Musical Time Capsule from Java--Benjamin Brinner; Alban Berg and Peter Altenberg: Intimate Art and the Aesthetics of Life--David P. Schroeder.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1988 On the Nature of Transmission and Change in Trope Repertories--Alejandro Enrique Planchart; The Stemma of the Aquitanian Versaria--James Grier; Thematic Form and the Genesis of Schoenberg's D-Minor Quartet, Opus 7--Walter Frisch; New Approaches to the Linear Analysis of Music--Allen Forte.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1992 The Marriage of Edward III and the Transmission of French Motets to England--Andrew Wathey; Beethoven's ''Mozart'' Quartet--Jeremy Yudkin; ''Commerce and Poetry Hand in Hand''" Music in American Department Stores, 1800-1930--Linda L. Tyler.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1995 Sexual Discourse in the Parisian Chanson: A Libidinous Aviary--Kate van Orden; Revisiting Fletcher Henderson's ''Copenhagen''--Jeffrey McGee; Of Modell-Typen and Reihenformen: Berg, Schoenberg, F. H. Klein, and the Concept of Row Derivation--Arved Ashby.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1994 The Divine Truth of Scripture: Chant in the Roman de Fauvel--Susan Rankin; Newly Identified Manuscripts of Operas and Related Works from Mannheim--Paul Corneilson and Eugene K. Wolf; Mein Weg geht jetzt voruber'': The Vocal Origins of Webern's Twelve-Tone Compositions--Anne C. Shreffler.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1992 The Eighth-Century Frankish-Roman Communion Cycle--James McKinnon; The Counterpoint of Allusion in Fifteenth-Century Masses--Christopher A. Reynolds; Claudio Monteverdi's Ordine Novo, Bello et Gustevole: The Canzonetta as Dramatic Model and Formal Archetype--Massimo Ossi; A Theoretical Work of Late Seventeenth-Century Muscovy: Nikolai Diletskii's Grammatika and the Earliest Circle of Fifths--Claudia R. Jensen.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1993 The Early Career of Guillaume Du Fay--Alejandro Enrique Planchart; On the Origins of the Sonate auf Concertenart--Jeanne R. Swack; Nadia Boulanger and the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac--Jeanice Brooks.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1991 The Hapsburg Court of Ferdinand II and the Messa, Magnificat et Jubilate Deo a Sette Chori Concertati con le Trombe (1621) of Giovanni Valentini--Steven Sauders; Aprroaching the Sketches for Beethoven's ''Hammerklavier'' Sonata--Nicholas Marston; Music and Class Structure in Antebellum Boston--Michael Broyles.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.