Search Results: Titles starting with O from Veery Books

New York, N.Y.: Colfranc, 1980. 26 pp. Very good, octavo, 10 × 7 inches, wraps. Previous owner's signature on cover. Octet for bassoon, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe, trombone, trumpet, double bass. Revised and edited by Chow Wen-Chung with respect to the Curwen edition of 1924, the 1956 Ricordi edition, and Varèse's reference copy of Curwen and ms.

198 pp. Plate number 107-198. Vocal score, quarto, 9 x 12 in. Gray wraps with brown titling, wear to covers and a slight tilt to spine, #4 in marker to front cover, else fine. Sam H. Harris presents music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, staged by George S. Kaufman, musical director Charles Previn. "The country thinks it's got depression, Just wait until we get in session. The people want a lot of action, We're here to give them satisfaction. Today is really full of laughter, Compare to what will follow after."-- from Act II, "The Senator from Minnesota." Later printing.

New York: Knopf, 1991. 64 pp. dj light crinkling at edges, tanning to edges of flaps, price sticker shadow in pastedown. Otherwise fine. 'When the Queen of Darkness heard his voice, / That mortal stranger, saw him lift the lyre / And watched the dull throng of dead rejoice / To hear him tell of earth and earth's desire, / Of pain, of longing, / she was not amused.'--from Noch Einmal, an Orpheus. [Once again, to Orpheus]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

 
[viii]-90 pp. Stiff illustrated wraps, Cover illustration, Gustave Moreau, Eve and the Mansion of Paradise (detail). Two-color printing on high quality paper throughout, with 3 illustrations, 2 in color.
~ The book is comprised of three sections--each evoking the workplace atmosphere of its time--Entrance to the City (New York City, 1970's), Pointing the Marble (Ne York City, 1980's-2001) and, Zola Color (Paris, 2006-2010). The poems are loosely arranged in a bright and intuitive order and each section closes with a perceptive end-of-year poem. French words, idioms and titles embellish and lend a novel spin to the text. We follow the keen observations of the poet as she describes everyday Iife, la vie quotidienne, like going to the gym or a poetry reading, accompanying a friend to the eye infirmary or attending a film during the summer at Bryant Park. ''Not in Service,'' a post-September 11, 2001, poem ends with the tough and memorable words ''. . . pure and full of dreams, my city and I… Read More

31 pp., wraps, very good, octavo, 10 × 7 inches. Previous owner's signature on cover. For soprano and chamber orchestra. Revised and edited Chow Wen-Chung ca. 1966. Texts by Vicente Huidobro and Jose Juan Tablada.

New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1920. 5 pp. Spine splitting, else very good. ''Floating on the bay at Tripoli, sweethearts, you and I Just a little paradise for two 'Neath Italian sky'' Performed by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Benson Orchestra of Chicago, and William Robyn and Louise Terrell.. Wraps. Very Good. 9'' X 12''.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. xiv, 235 pp. Dust soiling to top of pages, and a dull spot on otherwise unspoiled front board. Dust jacket all-present with a few small tears and one-two inch reparable tear, and some rubbing. Collectible. Contents: Islands for Sale; Islands of the Maritime Provinces; Islands of Ontario and Quebec; Coastal Islands of New England; Lake Islands of New England; The Thousand Islands and Others in New York State and Southeastern Ontario; Coastal Islands from Connecticut to Virginia; South Sea Islands--North Carolina to Texas; Lake Islands of the Mid-continent; West Coast Islands; Coastal Islands of British Columbia and Alaska; Appendices: Naming Your Island; Public Lands of the United States; United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Maps; Electric Power; Boat Prices; Boat Builders; Index. Waldron Island, Washington; The author is grateful for the help of, and thanks islanders, including Hon. John Foster Dulles, of Inner Green Island, Maine; Wallace Island, British… Read More

New York/London: John Lane The Bodley Head/Dodd Mead, 1928. 219 pp. Spine considerably darkened and beginning to wear at top and bottom. Boards are clean and bright with minimal wear. Pages clean and mostly uncut, however book opens to sewing in three places. Decorative endpapers. Two-color TP, graphics on TP and half-title. Init caps throughout. ' ''Yes,'' I answered, ''Heraclitus was probably the first to discover the malady of pessimism; and that is why Nietzsche hailed him as a master.''//''Clearly,'' answered France musingly, ''Only, whether our philosophic ideas sadden or console, it is, in either case, the result of a delusion. Yes, of a great delusion. We are wont, in fact, to imagine that, by a long process of thought and reflection, it is possible for us to unveil any secret we will. We deem that no department of knowledge is closed to us. Proud of his attributes as a thinking animal, man has rashly sought to build up, on the basis… Read More

New York: Dover, 1982 xi, 530 pp., [12] pp. of plates; illustrations, musical examples. Wear to corners, bow to front wrap. Pages clean and white. Reprint of the 2nd edition, London, Macmillan, 1935. With a new foreword by William Bolcom. Forsyth (1870-1914) was a composer and musicologist and a student of Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry. . Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1961. 80 pp. 1677 items. Contents: I. Periodicals and Books in Series. II. General and Miscellaneous Works; III. Near East: Ancient Civilisations; IV. Near and Middle East: Medieval and Modern Civilations; V. India, Pakistan, Burma Ceylon, Afganistan; VI. South-East Asia: Siam, Indo-China; Malaya, East Indies VII. China, Manchuria, Korea; VIII. Central and N. E. Asia; IX. Japan, Formosa; X. Africa and African languages; XI. Autralasia and Oceania; XII. Oriental Religions and Philosophy; XIII. Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Archaeology, Pre-History; XIV. Oriental Languages and Literature; Addenda to all sections.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. 51 pp. Some rubbing and small tears to price-clipped dj. 'The themes of the book range from Adam and Eve to ''Typists in the Pheonix Building'', from Hafiz to Shiraz to Shaw Neilson, to the city dawn to the legend of a dark-skinned Endymion of New Guinea; yet in spite of its diversity there is an underlying unity which is aptly summarized in the title, for almost all the poems are concerned, one way or another, with ''the other half''. It is a search for the reconcilement of seeming opposites, for singleness amongst the apparent duality of the universe, which is expressed at its deepest in poems as ''Prayer'', ''Naked Girl and Mirror'', and the title poem in which the apparently divided elements in the psyche ''meet at last . . . and turn into one truth in singleness.'' ' 'Poets are always writing about the sea: / poets are people who want the sea to be real. / Vanities,… Read More

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel 64 pp. Small black mark on wraps, Professional conductor's markings in blue and red pencil. B&H Partitur-Bibliothek Nr. 175. Full score.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio 13'' X 10''.