Search Results: Biography from Veery Books

Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962 xiv, 496 pp. [Including a selection from the works of Dan Emmett and others. With illustrations, including portraits and musical illustrations, and with a bibliography.] Small chips and tears to the edges, sunning to the dust jacket, book very good or better. Inscribed to Saul Novack, musicologist, by the author. From the jacket copy--''The blackface theater that flourished in nineteenth-century America had roots had roots extending across the Atlantic to the England of the late seventeenth century, when writers, poets, dramatists, and musicians were composing a literature of sympathy and protest against the perversity of the slave trade. In America the initial and tentative stages of Negro impersonation and song came between 1815 and 1830 with the creation of two 'Negro stage characters'--one, the southern plantation hand, the other, the ludicrous black replica of the white dandy of Main Street. // By the late thirties Daniel Decatur… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1985. 460 pp. Almost no wear to book and dj. and no significant faults. P.O. signature (copy editor and professor). || Reviews from Vogue and The New Yorker and Knopf's Pulitzer announcement, presumably from the New York Times, included. ||'By temperment she was not a euphoric character and in her life she had much to endure. What, aside from their technical excellence, is most impressive about her poems is the unflinching courage with which she faced her problems, her determination never to surrender to self-pity, but to wrest beauty and joy out of dark places . . . It was a privilege to have known her.'--Auden. ||'The poetry is there, too, and Frank's sensitive exegesis should prove a joy to admirers of Bogan's work. . . . But there is something more. Louise Bogan: A Portrait is a moving and intelligent tribute--it should chasten those of us whose heroes have gone down in flames rather than clinging, unsullied, to standards.--Tracy Young. ||Over thirty… Read More

Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1987. 380 pp. Jacket is complete but has rubbing, some small tears and a price sticker. Book nearly perfect but for a bit of dust atop the pages. Jacques Attali was the financial advisor to Mitterand. He is the author of Bruits : essai sur l’économie politique de la musique (Noise: The Political Economy of Music), perhaps the most valuable writing on the sociology of music since Adorno. . First American Edition. Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

New York, U.S.A.: Liveright, 1973. 426 pp. 36 illustrations. Introduction by Gilbert Harrison. The cloth is showing some fading, top edge speckled. Toning to top edge of a complete mostly uncreased dj. Toklas's letters, from 1946-1966. . Cloth. Very Good-/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New York University Press, 1978. Some tiny bumps on corner. 'DeFanti's portrait re-creates Dahlberg's picaresque journey, from his impoverished days in his mother's Kansas City barbershop, to his vagabond wanderings throughout America, his expatriate period during the 1920s, his complicated (often comic) involvement with American radicalism, and his subsequent rejection of his early style and the re-emergence, following a long literary silence, of his grand autobiographical works, most notably, Because I Was Flesh.'. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.