Search Results: Authors starting with P from Veery Books

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. 199 pp. The bookplate of writer Helen Barolini on FFEP. Priced-clipped dj w/ short tears and rubbing. Treats the Background of the Modern Italian Novel; Alessandro Manzoni: The Historical Novel; Ippolito Nievo: History as Confessions; Emilio De Marchi: The Pathos of Existence; History as Novel: Federico De Roberto; The Tragic World of Verga's Primitives; Matilde Serao: The Chronicler of Memory; Between Mysticism and Science: Antonio Fogazzaro; Italo Svevo's Antiheroes, with a selected bibliography and index. . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E. T. Paull, 1905. 7 pp. Spine split, considerable losses to front wrap, the rest good. Sectrional composition with galloping, cry of alarm, patriots aroused, call to arms, minutemen assembling, battle of Lexington and Concord with shot and shell. enemy routed, enemy in full retreat, and cheers of the vicotrs. Inside the back wrap, an essay by Paull with the complete text of Longfellow's poem. ''A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!''. Wraps. Poor. 10.5 X 14.

London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1970. 312 pp. Price-clipped dj w/ 3-inch tear and other wear at top. Sticker ghosts on FEP of otherwise fine volume. Medieval Authors Series. Three photographic plates of illustrations from manuscripts in the British Museum. Contents: General Preface; Author's Note; John Lydgate: The Critical Approach; The Monastic Background; Chaucer and Literary Background; The Courtly Poems; Troy and Thebes; Laureate Lydgate; Fables and Didactic Poems; The Fall of Princes; Lydgate's Religious Poetry; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: J. Pearson & Co.: Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane 164 pp. Items 390-722. Circa 1900-1910. Pieces missing from edges of wraps, two pieces of petrified rubber band on rear wrap, with accompanying small holes in wraps. Inside fine, with but a one-inch light crease near spine extending through text block. Fine laid paper watermarked Chiswick Press, with the Lion, Dolphin, and anchor device. A fine impression. Not located in OCLC. Scarce. Foldout plate (10.5 X 7.5 inches): Tasso, an orignal Sonnet in the autograph of Tasso; Foldout plate (10.5 X 12.75 inches): Manuscript page of Trollope's America; Seven pages of description of Tackeray's ms. used for his Lectures on George the First and Lectures on George the Second; descriptions of four ALSs of Wordsworth; Newton, William Pitt, William Penn, Alexander Pope, and more.. Wraps. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Wien/Leipzig: Eigenthum des Verlegers auff uhrungs und Arrangements rechte Vorbehalten Adolf Robitschek, in die "Universal-Edition" Aufgenommen, [1901]. Parts, wraps. Good. Quarto (318 x 241mm; 12.5 x 9.5 inches), 11 oz.; (12, 12, 12, 12 pp.) Wraps are chipped and split. Parts very good, mostly supple with some stiffness at edges; unmarked. Usuable for performance. Universal Edition No 390. Plate A. R. 2630. Stich und Druck der Röder'schen Offi cin in Leipzig. Composed in 1887. Von Perger studied composition with Brahms.

Woodcut, in black ink, hand colored. [23 x 17½ inches] Moderately heavy matte stock. Very Good to fine. " 'Diagonal Man' goes to a sort of employment agency and is assigned to the job of a trash man."—Philadelphia Daily News. Some waviness. Bright white background. Little wear. Pleasant to the eye. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Woodcut, in black ink, hand colored. [23 x 17½ inches] Moderately heavy matte stock. Very Good. " 'Diagonal Man' goes to a sort of employment agency and is assigned to the job of a trash man."—Philadelphia Daily News. Some waviness. Evenly toned, with a little edgewear and pinholes. Still pleasant to the eye. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Facsimile of the composer's manuscript of the full conductor's score of the opera. Plate number 122941. Ricordi's blind stamp to the first pages indicates that the score was printed in October, 1933. Elegant paper-covered boards with recessed paper label. Previous owner's stamp on ffep. Light wear to extremities of binding. A beautiful and important manuscript facsimile difficult to find in the market at this time. In the middle of the night, witches swap children in their cribs. The witches replace the fat, healthy son of "the mother with the king's sickly child. The child taken as the king's and living in luxury struggles to find happiness and in the end escapes to the country where he is near his mother. "Devo esser creduta! Anche Dio non si vede e si crede! E chi ora ride certo non vide il mio bambino com'era.""I must be believed! Even God is not seen and believed! And whoever laughs now certainly did not see my baby as he was. "

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998. Jacket has minor soiliing and rubbing, Red Cloth of biding has 1 inch bubble, perhaps a manufacturing defect. Pages clean, tight and bright. Poets: Abbas Husain, Athar Tahir, Farida Faizullah, Ghulam Farduddin Riaz, Gulzar Bano, Mansoor Y. Sheikh, Masood Amjad Ali, Moeen Faruqi, Mona Hassan, Nishat Wasim, Perveen Pasha, Shahbano Bilgrami, Shahryar Rashed, Sheryar Singha, Soofia Ishaque, Zeba Hasan Hafeez. 'A rose does not smell,/as it once did, of love;'-Mona Hasan. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

16 pp.; Quarto, 12 x 9 inches, 31 x 23 cm; 3 oz. Wien: Universal-Edition, 1939. "Au Quator Desclin." Score/Partition/Partitur, wraps. Universal-Edition No. 11.108. A tear (2 inches) throughout, else very good.

140 pp. Plate 10858. Vocal score, quarto, 9 x 12 in. Salmon wraps with dark (violet?) titles. Near fine with a small spot on the front wrap and a slight bump on a rear corner. Saint Subber and Lemuel Ayers present, A Musical Comedy: Kiss Me, Kate. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam and Bella Spewack, choreography by Hanya Holm, orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. Based on Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. "So, kiss me, Kate, thou lovely loon, ere we start our honeymoon."

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. xvii,300 pp. b&w illus. Some rubbing to wraps, creasing to spine. 1) Creastive Process in the Arts and Sciences; 2) The Elements of Music; 3) Musical Values; 4) The Relationship of Music; 5) The Relationship of Music to Science; 6) The Practical Applications of Music; 7) Beliefs and Myths about Music; Glossary of Namesl Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index;. Trade Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Moskva: Muzyka, 1966. Stiff paper wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 81 pp. Full score, stiff paper wraps, quarto, 11.5 X 8.75 inches. Plate number 3400. All transposing instruments written in the key of C.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 384 pp. Spine and lettering darkened. Volume two only. Elegant black and silver papered boards rubbed. Paper begining to break up on foreedge of boards. Binding is sound and pages are clean. Printed on Aventuros paper. The blue and white patterned endpapers are intact and front pastedown is graced with the excellent bookplate of author, lawyer, and civil libertarian Osmond Kessler Fraenkel [1888-1983]. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Cities of the Plain is a translation of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe I' from the fourth part and and a portion of 'Sodome et Gomorrhe II' from the fifth part of Marcel Proust's continuous novel ' A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (Remembrance of Things Past). 'This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. A tomato exactly similar served as head to his twin brother. To the detached observer there is this attraction about these perfect… Read More