Search Results: Titles starting with R from Veery Books

267 pp. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in. First edition, first printing, a fine volume with no flaws in a fine dust jacket in an archival cover, signed by Mosley on the title page below his name. An attractive item. "He got back to his feet and hobbled to the new music, reeling and rocking on a rhythm of unsteady feet. Maybe he'd die before he got there."

Narbeth, Pennsylvania: Bruce McKittrick 48 pp. 64 items. 25 illustrations in color, . A well-produced rare book catalog. Including an 18-century book box; Hans Kreutzberger, a 16th-century tack catalog; Latomus, a needlework pattern book from 1606 and many more fascinating items.. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1957. 80 pp. 1601 items. Contents: I. Periodicals; II. General and Miscellaneous Works, Archaeology; III. The Ancient East: Egypt, Babylonia, etc. IV. Near East: Medieval and Modern Civilisations V. The Middle East: Persia, Afganistan, Caucasus, Western Turkestan, etc.; VI. India, Burma, Ceylon; VII. South-East Asia: Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Indo-China; VIII. China, Manchuria, Korea; IX. Central and N. E. Asia; X. Japan; XI. Africa; XII. Australasia, Melanesia, Oceania; XIII. Oriental Religions and Philosophy; XIV. Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Archaeology, Pre-History; XV. Oriental Languages and Literature; Addenda.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 20 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. The story Red Ant House only, published prior to the eponymous collection. 'The first time I saw this girl she was standing at the bottom of the coal pile. I thought she was a little wrinkled dwarf woman with her cheeks sucked in and pointed chin. She had narrow legs and yellow eyes. They had just moved into the old Perino house on West 2nd. This was the red ant house.' 'Ann Cummins divides her time between Oakland, California and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.'. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

284 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.5 in. A fine book, quarter cloth, with red and silver stamped spine, with a fine dust jacket in archival cover. A slight bump to front bottom fore edge, Nicely signed in black ink at the top of the title page. Red Death is Mosley's second Easy Rawlins novel. Nice, crisp item.

Mexico: Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica, 1993. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 4 parts consisting of one leaf, folded twice [2 vln, vla, vc]. Title page on verso of each leaf. All laid in a folded stiff leaf. "La noche juega con los ruidos copiandolos en su espejos de sonidas." ["The night plays with noises, copying them in its mirrors of sounds." Reflejos de la noche was the first of several quartets Lavista wrote for the Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Saul Bitrán, Arón Bitrán, Javier Montiel, and Álvaro Bitrán), with which he had a close collaboration.

New York: Parke-Bernet, 1939. 202 pp. 618 lots. Rubbing and soiling to stiff wraps, a pencil annotation to cover. Wraps with small tears, notably at top and bottom of spine. Inside fine. Spoor's bookplate mounted into stamped impression on cover. First editions of English XVIII-XIX century and American XIX Century Authors; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts including the Famous Emma Isola Album. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Mexico: Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica, 1991. 1st Edition. Wraps. Light wear to extremities, interior fine. Very Good. Quarto. Serie D (Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica), no. 64. Wraps with pocket. [i-iv stapled in: TP, instructions, placement of instruments, catalog]. 11 leaves, 1-11 loose in pocket of wraps. Folio, full score. For bassoon and percussion. One of 150 copies. Printed January 19, 1991. Wraps with instructions and catalog stapled within. 11 leaves in pocket of wrap. Lavista was born in 1948 in Mexico City. Responsorio in memoriam Rodolfo Halffter: para fagot, 2 Bombas, y 4 campanas tubular. For bassoon, 2 bass drums and 4 chimes. Rodolfo Halffter was a Spanish composer who taught at the National Conservatory and was director of Ediciones Mexicanas de Música. Lavista studied with Halffter and Carlos Chavez at the National Conservatory.

New York, Chicago: Park, Daniels & Friedman, 1915. 5 pp. with sample quartet of same song. Some chips from the art, transfer with hole in interior page. Good. 10.5 X 13 inches. ''Many times I have strolled through those gardens of old.''. Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper Bros., 1925 313 pp., frontis. K-2 on verso of TP. . Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamburg: J. Schuberth & Co., 1982. 175 pp. Cover worn, else very good octavo trade paperback.. Thematic index of all musical works appearing in print with indication of the year of their creation and appearance. Fifth extended revised edition. Contents: Vorwort, Abkürzungsverzeichnis, Thematische Verzeichnis: Veröffentlichte Werke mit Opuszahle, Veröffentlichte Werke ohne Opuszahle; Übersichten und Register: Verzeichnis der im Druck erschienenen musikalischen Werke Robert Schumanns nach Gattungen geordnet, Verzeichnis der Klavierwerke und einzelnen Klavierstucke nach Titeln, Verzeichnis der Vokalkompositionen nach Titeln und Textanfangen, Verleger der Erstausgaben.

Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1969. Zweite Auflage. Hard Cover. Good/none. Octavo. 828 pp. [6] leaves plates. Soiling to spine of book, else very good, no dust jacket. With decorative music-manuscript facsimile end papers. Contents: die Geschichte des Lebens und der Werke, der Musiker und seine Werke, das Instrumentale schaffen. Klavierwerke. Symphonien und Ouvertüren, Konzerte und Konzertstücke für Streich- und Blasinstrumente. Kammermusik. das Vokale schaffen. Lieder, Gesänge und Melodramen für eine Stimme. Duette. Die drie- und mehrstimmigen Gesänge. Chorwerke für Männergesange. Werke für gemischten Chor a cappella. Kleinere Chorwerke mit Orchester. Die geistlichen Chorwerke. Grosse Werke für Soli, Chor und Orchester: “Das Paradies und die Peri”, “Genoveva”, “Manfred”, “Szenen aus Goethes ‘Faust’” Schlussbetrachtung. Lebenschronik. Aus Robert Schumanns Schriften. Über berühmte Musiker. Aus den musikalischen Haus- and Lebensregeln. Charakteristik der Tonarten. Über… Read More

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel 44 pp. Small black mark on wraps, Spine reinforced with library tape. B&H Partitur-Bibliothek Nr. 1606. Full Score.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio -13'' X 10.5''.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991. 835 pp. 'Wiley Silenowicz is the hero, the narrator, and the controlling intelligence of Harold Brodkey's prodigious and enthralling novel. . . . Wiley's mind and imagination are lightning-quick, obsessively ruminative, alternately grandiose and self-doubting--one of the most sensitive registers of an individual's experience to be found in literature. We hear him meditating on his mother's overpowering nature and his father's seductiveness, on his sister's pathological jealousy and his own mystical yearning for oneness with the world. Later, in adolescence and young adulthood, we are with him as he test the various permutations of sexuality in ceaseless quest for love. Other people's voices resound in his head; ideas teem, converge, refract. Wiley is rash and shameless, tender and fearless, nothing human is alien to him in his search to unravel the nature of good and evil and its relation to himself and those he loves.'.… Read More

Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Philharmonic, 1994. Unpag., illus. Very good quarto. A program companion, edited by Joseph Horowitz, for a weekend festival exploring the folk roots of early Stravinsky. Presented by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 6, 7, and 8, 1994. Also containing English translations of the libretti for Renard and Les Noces.

1–175 pp. Quarto [10 x 7¾], about 100 illustrations including 16 color plates on unnumbered pages, frontis, DJ, and endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, decorative endpapers, Fine book in Fine DJ. Contents: Preface; 1. The 1920s and 1930s: an introduction; 2. Writers and Designers: new partnerships; 3. Medium and Message: design, technique and content; 4. Theatre: a revolution in design; 5. Utopian Ideas in Art and Architecture; Notes; Select bibliography; index of illustrations; and index. Beautifully illustrated.
"Of all Soviet plays which Meyerhold produced The Bed Bug [клоп, here shown] has been revived most often. The plot, which was based on a filmscript written by Mayakovsky in 1927, required two styles of design. The first, for scenes set in the present, was carried out by the young cartoonists, . . . who chose most of the costumes and props from what was on sale in Moscow shops. The second, for an imaginary future world, was carried out by Rodchenko in what today would be called… Read More