Search Results: Authors starting with E from Veery Books

133 pp. Ads on back leaf. Slight wear to edges and top and bottom of spine, else fine. Quarto, 8.5 x 11 in., The "1999" on the lower left is not a date. Other longer digits appear there in other exemplars; this seems to me to be the original 1946/7 issue, but I am unable to verify. Book by E.Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy. Crawford Music Corporation, c1947. Made in England. Vocal Score. Pictorial wraps, illus, Don Freeman. Laid in a program from November 14-18, 1956, for a production at Brown University by "Sock and Buskin," a student theater group, at the Faunce House Theater. The musical was performed on several campuses in 1956, having been revived on Broadway in 1955. Also laid in, an article by E. Y. Harburg, "The Bridge That Spans the Galaxy," clipped from an unidentified source. There Harburg says, "The merry, light-hearted handling of all these problems by the dancing, singing leprechauns and pixie people, make us long wistfully for a Congress of just such characters in Washington, D.C."

New York: Christie's, 1998. 49 pp. 221 lots. Illustrated in BW. Excellent full-page frontis reproduction of engraved frontis of Sir Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, London, Innys, 1726. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

224 pp. Vocal score. Wraps, beige covers with brown lettering, no title on spine, quarto, 9 x 12 in. Very Good, perhaps slightly tilted spine. Edvard Grieg, Robert Wright, and George Forrest. Song of Norway: An operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg. Musical adaptation and Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Book by Milton Lazurus from a play by Homer Curran. Orchestral and Choral Arrangements and Musical Direction by Arthur Kay. Choreography and Sing Ensembles sated by George Balanchine. Produced by Edwin Lester. New York, N.Y., RKO Building – Rockefeller Center: Chappell & Co., Inc., c.1951. Plate 40549. Made in England. First performed in the Imperial Theatre, New York, August 21st, 1944, by The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1964. 215 pp. Book with corner bump, sticker ghosts. DJ with rubbing, chipping, tears, but generally complete. 'In the mid-nineteenth century, whan Frederic Mistral gathered round him at Avignon the brilliant group that formed the Felibrige with a view to stimulating interest in the Provencal language, he had little idea of the scope of the movement that then begann. The seven 'gaid felibres provencaux; brought about a revival of letters that was to go hand and hand with the rehabilitation of the old language and make the people of the south of France conscious of their race and heritage. As the principal poet of the group, Mistral was to produce his epic-romance Mireio, a story of frustrated lave in shich Moeric grandeur and the charm and simplicity of Theocritus are situated in the fair land of the valley of the Rhone. In his verse the pagan, sensual world of romance is colored with a delicate Christian mysticism and filled out with the loftier and more… Read More

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. 74 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'So at first, I thought I'd call Maxine as soon as I got home and tell her about this guy who took me bowling on our blind date, even though there was really no comparison. I mean, Joel wasn't a CPA, and I wasn't stuck out in the sticks, I could always leave if I needed to.'. Illustrated Wraps. Fine. Illus. by Katherine Streeter. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Novello, 1985. Cloth. Very Good. Folio. Very good, tall folio (17 inches), viii, 170 pp., [facsimile]. Red morrocco-colored cloth. Elgar Complete Edition, Vol. 30.

London: Boosey & Hawkes 70 pp. Full Score. Fraying to spine, PO sig, light tanning to pages, some marks in blue and red crayon by previous owner, a professional conductor, else very good. Boosey & Hawkes. c. 1901. Plate H. 3239. ''But if you say that Elgar's Cockaigne overture combines every classic quality of a concert overture with every lyrical and dramatic quality of the overture to Die Meistersinger, you are either uttering a platitude as safe as a compliment to Handel on the majesty of the 'Hallelujah' Chorus, or else damning yourself to all critical posterity by uttering a gaffe that will make your grandson blush for you. Personally, I am prepared to take the risk. What do I care for my grandson? Give me Cockaigne.''--G.B. Shaw.. Wraps. Very Good. Folio 14'' X 10''.

London: Novello, 1984. Cloth. Very Good. Folio. xxxvi, 184 pp. Tall folio, red morocco. Elgar Complete Edition Vol. 31. Dedicated to the memory of his late Majesty King Edward VII.

London: Novello, 1905. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. Very Good. Quarto. 56 pp. PN 12130. Conductor's score, paper covered boards. Unmarked.

London: Novello, 1988. Wraps. Very Good. Folio. xxviii, 206 pp. [+Facsimiles] Full score, tall folio (17 inches), stiff red wraps, decorative end papers. Edited principally from the 1st eds. published in 1912 and 1921 respectively.

London: Novello, 1936. Paper-covered Boards. Very Good. Folio. 82 pp. Full score, folio, paper-covered boards. Unmarked. Overture; Serenade; Minuet (Old style); Sun Dance; Fairy Pipers; Slumber Scene; Fairies and Giants.

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: The Grolier Club, 1972. 56 pp. Soiling and wear to wraps, inside fine. Four illustrations of pencil drawings of The Apochrypha by Burnes-Jones. Self-charicatures of Beerbohm on front and rear wraps. Contents: Editor's Note; Max Beerbohm by Robert Taylor; An Analysis of Queen Victoria by Robert F. Metzdorf; American Literature and Americana: A Checklist of the Exhibition from the Collection of Henry Bradley Martin; The Burnes-Jonesiness of Burnes-Jones: A Collector's Discovery of an Artist's Life and Works by Kenneth A. Lohf; Closing Notes. . Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boosey and Hawkes 12 pp. A few stains to wraps, P.O. has made a few pencil notations in piano part, mostly circling dynamics, else fine. Piano/Flute score, Flute part not included. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Enoch & Co. 30 pp. Plate No. E & C 6060. Previous owner's. stamp. Previous owner, a conductor, has made marks in blue and red pencil. The wraps, on which the title Trois Rhapsodies Roumaine appears, are trimmed and mounted on card, which is sewn with the score into stiff wraps. Rhapsody No. 2 in D major only. An early exemplar. As is.. Wraps. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Blue Hen Books, 2002. 469 pp. Bibliography. A 1/2 inch remainder mark on bottom of pages. Not price-clipped. Two black marks on DJ. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. This is his first novel. Gregor Samsa's adventures in America after he is swept into the dustbin. For those who have forgotten, 'Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous cockroach.' Gregor runs into interesting folks: Musil, Wittgenstein, Spengler, Einstein, Rilke, Charles Ives, FDR and ends up in . . . well, you've got to read it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Book Design By Marysarah Quinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.