Search Results: Authors starting with G from Veery Books

Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Trade paperback. Very Good. Octavo. xix, 314 pp. Contents: Interviews; Music and/versus society; Musical politics; Aesthetics; Reflections of books, figures, and events; Concert reviews; Passings.

New York: P & Q Press Publishers, 2003. 113 pp. + adv. Poems and illustrations about the subway in New York City. Contributors include: Jeanette Adams, Abdallah akhdi, Jack Anderson, David Baker, Jean Balderston, Lenore Balliro, Stanley H. Barkan, Joe Benevento, Adam Berlin, Linda Bosson, David Breitkopf, Josephine Bridges, W. E. Butts, Charlotte Butzin, Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, S. Robert Crockett, Enid Dame, Kathryn Daniels, Robin Dann, Nina Drooker, Lonnie Hull DuPont, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Adrian Robert Ford, Cynthia Gallaher, Ryn Gargulinski, Peggy Garrison, John Gilgun, Robin M. Glassman, Tony Gloeggler, Eve Goodman, Piotr Gwiazda, Steven Hartman, George Held, Corrie Herman, Jillhoffman, Pud Houston, Walida Imarisha, Jacqueline Jules, Stephen Kaplan, Kit Kennedy, Thomas Krampf, Joyce Kravets, Otis Kriegel, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Donald Lev, Lyn Lifshin, Susan Mahan, D. H. Melhem, Jose Luis Mojica, Gertrude Morris, Lillian Morrison, Shin Yu Pai, Brent Pallas, Lance Peterson, David Quintavalle,… Read More

New York: Sunset Publishing Corp, 1918. [1], 2-3, [1] pp. Some wear at edges. As sung by Madame Schumann-Heink for our boys of the Army and Navy. Byron Gay wrote the music for the L. Frank Baum song "Susan Doozan." Madame Schumann-Heink was an operatic contralto, most highly respected at the time, associated with the Bayreuth festival and the Metropolitan Opera, and a familiar of Struass and Mahler. During WWI she toured the United States raising money for the war effort even though she had sons in both the German and the U.S. Navy. ''There's an angel over there An angel from I know not where Smiling sweetly through her tears She drove my fears away. Little Girl who nursed me through, I owe my life to you Oh Come back, love that I found and lost My Angel of the Flaming Cross.''. Wraps. Very Good. 9'' X 12''.

198 pp. Plate number 107-198. Vocal score, quarto, 9 x 12 in. Gray wraps with brown titling, wear to covers and a slight tilt to spine, #4 in marker to front cover, else fine. Sam H. Harris presents music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, staged by George S. Kaufman, musical director Charles Previn. "The country thinks it's got depression, Just wait until we get in session. The people want a lot of action, We're here to give them satisfaction. Today is really full of laughter, Compare to what will follow after."-- from Act II, "The Senator from Minnesota." Later printing.

[i-vi,1]-111,[112-121] pp. Octavo, fine/near fine; though the dj appears to be price clipped, the price stamp of the National Theatre Bookshop in London appears just there. Carefully annotated theater programs, annotated by Gielgud from the age of 13 to 21, were saved by his mother and donated to the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection. Gielgud adds comments 70 years later. Generously illustrated throughout with photos of the programs and of the productions, perhaps more than 150 photos. Produced to celebrate his 90th birthday. Inscribed by Gielgud in May, 1994, and shortly after by Dave & Matt to Dr. T. (composer Millard Thomson).

London: Eyre Methuen Limited, 1978. unpag. The slightest wear to wraps of an otherwise fine example. ''Warning: If you are of an artistic disposition and didn't know that animators do it for the money this book may shock you! If you always believed that cartoon films were put together from hundreds of thousands of painstaking drawings this book may disturb you!! If you have always thought of Angelo Bronzino as no more than a respected master of Tuscan Mannerism this book may confound you!!! If you don't like to see large pneumatic ladies exploding this book may disgust you!!!! In Animations of Mortality Terry Gilliam, aging animator of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, And Now for Something Completely Differenct and the Monty Python TV series; and creator of the film Jabberwocky lays bare for the first time the twisted and sordid little secrets of the Wonderful World of Animation.''. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Terry Gilliam. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harry Von Tilzer, 1917. 3 pp. 10.5 X 13 inches. Light bumps to corners, some short tears. Very good. ''We'll build a nest and fill it just full of love, Where we can coo like doves pretty doves turtle doves lovey doves. Give me the right to drive all your sorrows away.''. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by G. Britter[?] N.Y.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. vii, 84 pp. Some negligible shelfwear to the dj. Winner of the 1991 Walt Whitman Award, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Selected by Charles Wright, with the circular, gold Award sticker on the dust jacket. Contents: Part One: New Stars; Listening for Nothing as a Boy; Fishing: The Late Wish; A Seine; The Valley; All morning, wind is less than numbness in the fences; At the north window, instead of a lament; The Animal Intelligences; Obstructed View; Walking Two Landscapes; Part Two: A Rural Anatomy of the Soul; Red Tide, a Beach of Salvage; October Homecoming; Santa Fe; Leaving the Vigil Studio; Summer Elegy in Santa Fe; After the Rains in Chimayo; The Constant Upward Spiraling, the Cost; Sweeping the Bare Floors of the Ruins; The Metaphysician's weekend: THE BLOWOUT; THE WRITHING VOLUME OF 6 A.M.; CONCENTRATING ON PHOTOGRAPHS: THE VATICAN; THE REVELATION; IN PRAISE OF MOTIVATED BLINDNESS; A LATER HOUR; Lines Toward a Late Reckoning; Trash Assemblage at… Read More

Club Des Libraires De France, 1954. 279 pp. Spine a bit faded, bottom corners rubbed. Sticker ghost on FEP. Stamped black cloth. Edition limited to 3,500. This is number 3075. 'Recit, traduit de l'Allemand par Pierre Bertaux Suivi de trois nouvelles inedites traduites par Marie-Louise Ponty. Contents: One short novel, Jusqu'à l'Aube and three novellas: Vendredi Saint 1945; Rencontre en Hongrie; Soleil Arrête-toi.. Limited/Numbered. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Parke, Daniels & Friedman, 1916. 5 pp. + 2 pp. samples. Art by Einson. 10.5 X 13 inches. Photo of May[?] Gordon. Voice and piano. ''We'll meet in the land of the sky, We'll meet in the sweet bye and bye, . . .''. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Einson. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

15 black line print (diazotype) leaves [22⅜ x 11³⁄₁₆ inches], folded in half to form four parts (I Violin, 1–6 pp.; II Violin [1], 2–7; Viola [1], 2–7; Violoncello [1], 2–6, [7]). The parts are in very good condition, with little discoloration or soiling. A couple of creases, signs of paper clip rust.
Randall Thompson is probably best-known among choristers. His "Alleluia" for a cappella chorus has extraordinary popularity and is performed often. Unlike Handel's Hallelujah, Thompson's is quiet and expansive, evoking solemn contemplation.
"The Wind in the Willows" for string quartet was composed in the second year of Thompson's residence at the American Academy in Rome. The three movements were written in February and March and the quartet was premiered by the Quartetto Veneziano on March 15, 1925.
The string quartet is complete in three movements: I = River bank, 2 = Toad, Esq., 3 = The Wild Wood. In notes for a performance at the Boston Public Library by the Musical Arts… Read More

New York: Tundra Books, Lower East SIde Tenement Museum, 2001. 55 pp. From the back cover: 'The Gumpertz, the Confinos, the Rogarshevskys, the Baldizzis: four of the hundreds of families whose first home in the New Wolrd was a dar, crowded tenement on New York's Lower East Side at 97 Orchard Street. Linda Granfield brings to life conditions that were familiar to millions of immigrants in many of North America's big cities. Her text and archival materials are beautifully complemented by Arlene Alda's sensitive photographs, which evoke the hardship, the dignity, and the hope encompassed on 97 Orchard Street. This book is a valuable resource for those interested in understanding our own histories in North America, and the experiences of new immigrants who came here. Linda Granfield's titles include In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae, Pier 21: Gateway of Hope, and Amazing Grace: The Story of the Hymn. Arlene Alda is an award-winning photographer whose children's books include Sheep,… Read More

New York: Covici Friede, 1930. 65 pp. Severe rubbing to corners and edges, spine darkened and missing pieces at top and bottom. A contemporary review by Eda Lou Walton laid in at rear with attendant darkening of end papers. Nicely printed at the Stratford Press in New York on unidentified laid paper, now with slight tanning to edges. Pages clean but for three small coffeelike stains on pp. 26-27, not affecting text. Contents: CHELSEA ROOMING HOUSE: The Sailor; The Young Wife; A Boy of Twenty; Hagen; Prisoner's Song; Rachel; Dilemma on Twenty-Third Street; Husbandry; The Medium; Love Song: Twenty-Third Street. O METAPHYSICAL HEAD: O Metaphysical Head; Dempsey, Dempsey; Longface Mahoney Discusses Heaven; Bridgewater Jones: Impromptu in a Speakeasy; Advice; Time and Isidore Lefkowitz; Jesse James, The Preacher's Son; McAlpin Garfinkel, Poet; Columbo Dominico; No Cock Crows at Morning; Epithalamium 1930; Interior: The Suburbs; Hellbabies. PRONOUN ''I'': I.; II.; III.; IV. O Mors… Read More

442 pp. Large 8vo, (2 lbs, 3 oz), first edition, first printing. Very good book in very good dj with only slight wear. Signed by PO with date: June 27, 1968. "Each nation liberated is a step for the liberation of one's own country."