Search Results: Titles starting with P from Veery Books

Middle Village, New York: Pirandello Society of America, 1999. 111 pp. + index of all previous volumes. Contents: Mary Ann Frese Witt--Pirandello's Woman Writer and the Birth Metaphor, Problems in Translation; Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte--'Comedy' in One Act by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo; Kathryn Wylie Marques--Pirandello and His Portuguese Contemporaries: Playwrights Raul Brandao and Jose Regio; James J. Troiano--The Influence of Pirandello in Latin America; Awards, Book reviews, Conferences and announcements, Rosanna Vitale--Enrico IV: Pirandello's Cusbist Quadro.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

260 pp. Plate number 1876. Cream-colored wraps with red titles, quarto, 9 x 12 in. A bit of wear, some creases in spine, else fine. Paint Your Wagon: A Musical Play. Music by Frederick Loewe, Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Dances and Musical Ensembles by Agnes de Mille. First performance at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New YorkNovember 12, 1951.

Geneve: editions Orient-Realites, 1995. 78 p.Light bumping to corners.Traduction Krystyna Nehring-Kryczkowska, Illustrations Adil Duran. An Introduction and twelve stories, each with an illustration. Le bouc irreducitlbe; Avdo le feroce; La sagesse d'une fille; Qui est le plus jeune?; Le vieux paysan et le roi; La source de la sagesse; Le renard et la vielle; Pourqoui la chauve-souris vit dans le noir; Le brebis du mollah; Le secret de la gazelle; Le chein poltron de Hassne; Le vieux mollah. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 1996. 215 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTERVIEW: Richard Ford, The Art of Fiction No. 147, Amos Oz, The Art of Fiction No. 148 , FEATURE: Bernard Cooper, Labyrinthine, FICTION: Laurel Anne Berger, The Storks, Rhidian Brook, A Real Disaster, Robert Olen Butler, "Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover", Patricia Eakins, The Garden of Fishes, Richard Stern, Audit, POETRY: Sarah Arvio, Visits from the Seventh, Frank Bidart, The Return, Scott Cairns, Two Poems, Alfred Corn, Philosophy, Irving Feldman, Lives of the Poets, Joseph Harrison, The Cretonnes of Penelope, John Kinsella, Two Poems, Campbell McGrath, Two Poems, Joyce Carol Oates, Immobility Defense, Sharon Olds, 71 B.C.E., Kathleen Peirce, Three Poems, J.S. Renau, Night Out, Pattiann Rogers, The Art of Raising Gibbons and Flowers, Ira Sadoff, Language, Robyn Selman, 1945-1995, Patricia Storace, A Grecian Sword, c.348 B.C., Adriana Szymanska, Two Poems, ART: Louise Bourgeois, The… Read More

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 2004. 273 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. Black mark over American Price, beginning crease in spine. TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTERVIEW: Richard Howard, The Art of Poetry No. 86, Paul Muldoon, The Art of Poetry No. 87, FEATURE: Paul Ferris, Ink Is Wanted by Raving Brother: Dylan Thomas's Swansea Years, FICTION: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Manhattan Reverie, Rick Moody, Savasana, Melanie Rae Thon, Heavenly Creatures, POETRY: David Baker, Melancholy Man, Maureen Bloomfield, Two Poems, Betsy Bonner, Three Poems, David Bottoms, Andalusia Visit, Douglas Browne, Two Poems, Cassandra Cleghorn, Three Poems, Martha Collins, Two Poems, Robert Cording, Much Laughter, Steven Cramer, Two Poems, Cynthia Cruz, Two Poems, Fred Dings, The Migrant Couple, Margaret Funkhouser, Two Poems, David Goldstein, Two Poems, Debora Greger, Sleeping Beauty in Florida, Daniel Groves, Portrait, Jared Hayley, Two Poems, Paul Kane, Two Poems, Lance Larsen, Two Poems, Richard Lyons, Two Poems, Cynthia… Read More

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 1998. 304 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. TABLE OF CONTENTS: , INTERVIEW: Russell Banks, The Art of Fiction No. 152, Ismail Kadare, The Art of Fiction No. 153, FEATURE: Stephen Brook, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, William Dalrymple, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Nick Danziger, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Alex Frater, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Grey Gowrie, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, John Hatt, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Drue Heinz, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Edward Hoagland, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Howard Jacobsen, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Philip Marsden, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Harry Mathews, Oulipo Sampler, Cees Nooteboom, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Paul Theroux, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel… Read More

Boston: Ione Press, 1966. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 7 pp. First edition. Previous owner's signature, bumps to corners, else fine. "Parisonatina is like a cadenza; it must be played with great rhythmic freedom." Composed for Aldo Parisot in 1964. Edition bowed and fingered by Parisot. Plate E.C.S No. 2059. Suggested program note: Agitato [Motto sul nome Aldo Parisot: Con larghezza.]; Scherzevole; [Motto: agitato] Teneramente, Agitato, Teneramente; [Cadenza sul nome Aldo Parisot: Barbaro, Dolce, Feroce, Regale.]

Boston: Partisan Review, 1983. 154 pp. 486-640. Writers in Exile: Politics and Ideology--Boris Schragin, Stanislaw Baranczak, Erazim Kohak, Leszek Kolakowski; Encounters with the West--Sergei Dovlatov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Andrei Siniaski. Fiction: Italo Calvino--Park Bench Vacation, Saturday of Sun, Sand, and Sleep. Articles: William Phillips--Four Portraits; Pico Iyer--The World According to Beattie; Marjorie Welish--Flesh and the Devil in Figure Painting; David Remnick--An Interview with Charles Wright; Dan Jacobson--On Migratory Workers; Morris Dickstein, Peter Brooks, Williams Phillips, Edith Kurzweil, Steven Marcus, Leon Weiseltier, Dennis Wrong--Intellectuals and Politics.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Max Eschig, 1958. No Binding. Good. Quarto. 40 pp. One part of two, containing score for two pianos. Presumably the other part, with wraps, contained both parts. Wear to outer leaves, else very good. Paris, Imp. Mounot. Plate M.E. 6944. Grandjean Grav., Fountainebleau.

London: Methuen, 1990. 255 pp. No faults. Includes note by Pierre Chanel; The diaries: January 1, 1953--December 28, 1953; List of works by Cocteau, Index. Mentions: Kenneth Anger, Animal Crackers, Jean Anouilh, Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Georges Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Baudelaire, Beauvoir, Sarah Bernhardt, Hieronymous Bosch, Georges Braque, Bullfighting, Cannes Film Festival, Paul Cezanne, Clair-Obscure, Gabrielle Colette, Salvidor Dali, Edouard Dermit, Vittorio De Sica, Walt Disney, Madame Favini, Flamenco, Jean Genet, Francoise Filot, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Sacha Guitry, Gypsies, Mary Hoeck, Pastora Imperio, Max Jacob, Federico Garcia Lorca, Madame Maeterlinck, Andre Malraux, Jean Marais, Francois Mauriac, Michel de Montaigne, Edgar Neville, Charles Orengo, Pablo Picasso, Art of poetry, Alberto Puig, Aleksandr Pushkin, Erik Satie, Igor Strvinsky, Miguel de Unamuno, Paul Valery, Francine Weisweiller, Orson Welles among many others.. First British Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over… Read More

New York: E. T. Paull, 1905. 7 pp. Spine split, considerable losses to front wrap, the rest good. Sectrional composition with galloping, cry of alarm, patriots aroused, call to arms, minutemen assembling, battle of Lexington and Concord with shot and shell. enemy routed, enemy in full retreat, and cheers of the vicotrs. Inside the back wrap, an essay by Paull with the complete text of Longfellow's poem. ''A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!''. Wraps. Poor. 10.5 X 14.

New York: Dover, 1985. Wraps. Very Good. Folio - 13'' X 10.5''. 409 pp. Folio, Full score, reprint of the 1904 Fromont edition. Some wear to wraps. ''Il y a d'innombrables etoiles; je n'en ai jamais autant vu que ce soir; . . . mais la lune est encore sur la mer . . . Ne reste pas dans l'ombre, Melisande, pench-toi un peu, que je voie tes cheveux denoues''.

Chicago: Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son (The Bond Shop, 1916. 4 pp. Piano solo. Some insect damage near top of spine. Leaves are fragile although not darkening. First published in 1910. Her second-most popular song after ''I Love You Truly.'' Apparently first thus published as a waltz for solo piano. See the Lillly Library collection. ''For mem'ry has painted this /Perfect day /With colors that never fade, /And we find at the end of a perfect day /The soul of a friend we've made.'' Bond's most-requested song whilst performing for the soldiers of WWI. Performed by 15 artists on Victor alone.. Fair. 10.25'' X 14'' .

172 pp. Folio, 10.5 X 13'', full score. Plate B & H 16236. Printed in England. Revised 1947 version. Copyright assigned in 1947 to Boosey, new version (c)1948. Errata list taped artlessly with masking tape to front pastedown. Marks in red and blue pencil by previous owner, a professional conductor. Brown linen with gilt-lettered spine, with some rubbing at edges and top and bottom of spine, gilt spine title a bit dull. A slight tilt to spine. De Lerma saw only the pocket score (P16).

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

McMinnville, Oregon: Phillip J. Purages unpag. About 100 pp. text and with 22 pp. black and white plates. Thumbnail illustrations in color on covers. Light bumping at extremeties. 19th and 20th century books.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Dover, 1995 viii, 197 pp. With insignificant rubs and bumps to corners, text block clean and white. Koechel verzeichnis 466, 467, and 482. ''Originally published separately: New York : G. Schirmer, 1901, in series: Schirmer's library of musical classics.'' Edited by Franz Kullak and Hans Bischoff. . Wraps. Near Fine. 9'' X 12''.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1969. Near fine, brown cloth, no dj. Some sticker shadows on ffep. Contents: Foreward; Introduction S. S. Hussey; Some Aspects of the Process of Revision in Piers Plowman, G. H. Russell; The Tearing of the Pardon, Rose Mary Woolf; Justice, Kingship and the Good Life in the Second Part of Piers Plowman, P. M. Kean; Words, Works and Will: Theme and Structure in Piers Plowman, J. A. Burrow; Conscience: The Frustration of Agony, Priscilla Jenkins; Piers and the Image of God in Man, Barbara Raw; The Role of the Dreamer in Piers Plowman, David Mills; Action and Contemplation in Piers Plowman, T. P. Dunning; The Langland Country, R. W. V. Elliott; Charity in Piers Plowman, W. O. Evans; Satire in Piers Plowman, S. T. Knight; Chaucer's Contemporary, J. A. W. Bennett; Notes; Index. . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

272 pp. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Illustrated wraps, near fine, only the slightest wear covers. Full score. New edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones. Official Premiere: December 31, 1879, Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, New York, USA; London Premiere: April 3, 1880, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Orchestra and Chorus Opera Comique, Arthur Sullivan, conductor.

225 pp. + ads. Octavo, 8.5 x 5.5 in. Fine wraps, with clear archival jacket. Signed by Tim O'Brien at his contribution. Contents: Introduction: Tim O'Brien, Mark Strand; Fiction & Nonfiction: Lee K. Abbot, A Creature Out of Palestine; Gina Berriault, Who is It Can Tell Me Who I am?; Robert Cohen, The Old Mistakes; Janet Desaulniers, After Rosa Parks; Edward Hardy, Bowling in the Future; Joyce Carol Oates, Easy Lay; Heather White, An Interview with James Merrill; Poetry: Nin Andrews, That Cold Summer; When a Woman Loves a Man; Jennifer Ashton, Still Life with Motion; An Elegy Is a Man; Judith Berke, Cave in the Ravine; Story; Teresa Cader, Wind, Horse, Snow; Laura Conklin, Black; Wyn Cooper, Talk; Kathy Fagan, Two Tragedies, With Preface; Letter from the Garden; James Finnegan, Running Lights; Louise Gluck, Circe's Grief; Penelope's Stubbornness; Jorie Graham, The Errancy; Davud Greenberg, Schoolyard with Boat; Common Will; The Hole in the Ocean; Color Comes to the Night; Linda Gregerson, Fish Dying… Read More