Search Results: Titles starting with E from Veery Books

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1999. First Printing, March 1999. 'When I finished, we kicked back in with the head, Senor Ramirez and I doing our sixteenth-note duet with a precision and somehow instinctive knowledge of the significance of each other, our harmonies not the sound of two trumpets playing but instead of one musical unit, and not even that: of one musician playing one song and that song a song we'd created instead of played.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, N.Y.: Colfranc, 1961. Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. 56 pp. Previous owner's signature on title page, else fine. For bass voice (or unison male chorus), brass, organ, percussion and theremins (revised for ondes-martenots in 1961).Text from the Popul-Vuh, translation from Spanish to English in front matter. "O Builders, O Moulders! You see. You hear. Do not abandon us, Spirit of the Sky, Spirit of the Earth. Give us our descendants, our posterity as long as there are days, as long as there are dawns. May green roads be many, the green roads you give us. Peaceful, very peaceful may the tribes be. Perfect, very perfect may life be, the existence you give us. . . ." "I conceived the music as having something of the same elemental rude intensity of those strange primitive works. The execution should be dramatic and incantatory, guided by the imploring fervor of the text."

Aylesbury, UK: Elgar Society, 2003. 61 pp. Articles: Early Performances of Elgar's Music in Belfast--Wesley McCann; Composer as Librettist: Elgar's Notes on the Apostles--Nicholas Hawker; Alfred Edward Rosewald--John Kelly; 'Watchmen'--But What of the Knight? Elgar and the Musical Press--Geoffrey Hodgkins; Reports; Book Reviews; CD Reviews; Letters; 100 Years Ago. Front cover: 'All aboard the 'Shover' as Elgar takes the wheel beside Alfred Rodewald whose sudden death one hundred years ago proved such a shock for the composer. This issue marks the anniversary with an article celebrating Rodewald's life.'. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dover, 1995 x, 337 pp. Light wear to extremities, interior clean. Oratorio for solo voices, double quartet (SSAATTBB), chorus (SATB), and orchestra. Originally published: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel; London: Novello. (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe ; Ser. 13, Nr. 86).. Wraps. Very Good. 9'' X 12''.

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1961. 71 pp. 618 items. Illustrated by frontis. (Title Page of P. Cramer, Papillons Exotiques, Amsterdam and utrecht, 1779-1791). Bumping to corners, rubbing, and discoloration near extremities of wraps. Inside clean. Highlights include Costumes (various countries): items 40-48; Ornithology (including Baron Cuvier's copy of Edwards-A Natural History of Uncommon Birds): items 119-134; Sporting: items 177-195; English Literature, Art, Bibliographies, Books about books, Reproductions of Illuminated Mss., Miniatures, Catalogues of Collections, Oriental, Biography, Clement Shorter (items 551-569) privately printed pieces; Ten items printed for private circulation only and in the original wrapper for A. C. Swinburne.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Christie's, London, 1992. 101 pp. 548 lots. Pages lightly tanned toward top edge, otherwise fine. English Literature: The John Bowden Collection of 18th Century books and bindings in remarkably fine condition; Shakepeare's Henry IV part I 1639; an unrecorded variant of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey 1818, and an important Samuel Mearne Binding with an original fore-edge painting. Children's books: from the Collection of Eric Quayle, Esq. Including: The first English edition of Pinocchio 1892; Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare 1809, Travels of Tom Thumb 1746.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Kalmus. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 128 pp. Sewn with wraps into library-style stiff covers with cloth spine lettered in white. P. O. stamp, some cues marked in red and blue pencil.

New York: George Braziller, 1967. Very Clean, Only a few slight signs of wear. Dahlberg's letters to Theodore Drieser, Robert M. Hutchins, Michael Sands, Steven Sands, Mrs. Michael Sands, Herbert Read, Lewis Mumford, James Laughlin, Robert McAlmon, Josephine Herbst, William Carlos Williams, Isabella Gardner, Allen Tate, Frank MacShane, Stanley Burnshaw. 'Try sometimes, when you require new aliments, the elder Pliny or Theophrastus. I think that will not only be real viaticum for your head, but will give your prose a certain wild, rustic texture which we must acquire. Most of our modern writing is very metropolitan and that is a weakness. I find great pleasure in rereading Skeat on Chaucer or in Captain John Smith's Travels, which is which is full of strong idioms, and not vulgar like our own street-gamin patois.'--December 11, 1952, to Lewis Mumford.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1948. iv, 161 pp. Good, no dust jacket, a red crayon mark on the back board. Contents: Preface; Courteous Reader; The Great Diarist, and Some Others; Samuel Johnson: 1. Literary Monarch, 2. The Unaccountable Companion; Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus; Shelley Once More; The Poetry of the Brontes; William Morris as Poet; The Amusing Pre-Raphaelites; Meredith's Poetry; The Poetry of A. E. Housman; Trollope; Hand and Soul; Sitter and Portrait; The Quality of Mercy; Ancester Worship, with Some Remarks About the Sea Worm; Index. "[Morris's] tales do not beset our attention, but rise before it like some warm mirage. They seem to come from some lotos-land, in which it is always afternoon. As the poet himself asserts, they are sung 'To those who in the sleepy region stay, / Lulled by the singer of an empty day.' "--from Morris as Poet. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.