Search Results: Titles starting with G from Veery Books

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.

Detroit: UMI, 1979. Hard Cover. Good. Octavo. xvi, 208 pp.: illustrations, music. Binding somewhat soiled, no dust jacket. Series: Studies in Musicology 12. Contents: Chapter I: Preliminary Considerations. Schumann's Liederjahr. Heine's Buch der Lieder. Schumann and Heine. Chapter II. The Sources for the Study of Dichterliebe. Terminology. Description of the Sources. Schumann's Song-Composing Procedure. III. The Genesis of Dichterliebe. The Composition of Individual Songs. [16 individual songs] A Song Cycle from Lyrisches Intermezzo. Publication History. Chapter IV. Analytic Observations. Declamation and Tempo. Inner Form. Tonal Plan. Chapter V. Conclusions.

Boston, Wien: Haydn Society, 1950 xii, 343 pp. Red cloth, folio, full scores. Previous owner's stamp, else clean and unmarked. Includes a thematic index of all the symphonies and editorial revisions listed in back. Edited by H. C. Robbins Landon. Sinfonia [Hob. I:82]. ''The Clock,'' C major; Sinfonia. [Hob. I:83]. ''The Hen,'' G minor; Sinfonia [Hob. I:84]. Eb Major; Sinfonia [Hob. I: 85], ''The Queen,'' Bb major; Sinfonia [Hob. I:86], Dmajor; Sinfonia [Hob. I:87], A major. Printed in Wien.. Cloth. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Boston, Wien: Haydn Society, 1951 x, 404 pp. Red cloth, folio, full scores. Previous owner's stamp, a few dynamics marked in red in the Missa Brevis, else clean and unmarked. Edited by Carl Maria Brand. Includes Missa brevis in F; Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae; Missa Sanctae Caeciliae; Missa Sancti Nicolai. Thematic index of all of Haydn's masses. Printed in Wien.. Cloth. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920. 252 pp. A bit of rubbing to the edges. Spine darkened. All six plates by Eric Pape are present. Also an elaborate jousting scene by Pape on endpapers. Green cloth with gilt-decorated type and ornaments. 'Long, long ago when castles grim did frown, When massy wall and gate did 'fend each town; When mighty lords in armour bright were seen, And stelthy outlaws lurked amid the green And oft were hanged for poaching of the deer, Or, gasping, died upon a hunting spear;' The Gest proceeds in 'Fyttes.' . First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Eric Pape. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 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: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. 283 pp, 4pp advs. 8 plates by Gaston Fay, incl. frontis. Four Books, complete in one volume. A reprint of the 1867 Appleton edition. Corners bumped and frayed. Some slight evidence of dampness on boards extends only to end papers. A bit of foxing around plates. Fragment of acid paper bookmarks page 7. 'A young girl of extraordinary beauty was sitting before the bureau, on which a single candle burned. Her small, lovely oval head was that of a Venus; the tall, slender and graceful figure, that of a Juno. In conformity with the fashion of that day, her dark-brown and shining hair was arranged in hundreds of little curls, encompassed with a golden band, which terminated on her forehead in a serpent's head. Her eyes--the large blue eyes which contrasted so wondrously with the dark hair--were gazing at the mirror. A sad smile played about her beautiful, crimson lips, as she looked at the reflection of her own figure, at the lovely, rosy countenance, the full… Read More

Ilford, Essex, UK: Percy Grainger Society, 1985. 42 pp. A short tear and stain to to wraps, else very good. Subscription blank laid in. Contents entirely related to Grainger and the Saxophone. Percy Grainger and the Saxophone by Teresa Balough; A saxophone arranger looks at Grainger by Roger Cawkwell; Percy Grainger and the Intimae Saxophone by Paul Cohen; Percy Grainger: A recollection by Albert Goldberg; Art in Europe I by Percy Grainger; La Bernerdina (an arrangement of Josquin that may be played by saxes) by Percy Grainger; The orchestral use of saxophones by Percy Grainger; Grainger, Myself and what needs to be by Dana Perna. Several photos and musical examples. Seven photos and musical examples.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grand Street, 1999. 241 pp. + advs. Bumps to corners, else fine. Poetry--John Ashbery from ''Girls on the Run''; Kendra Borgmann ''Genus: Rosa,'' ''Bed,'' ''Now Showing at the Roxy,''; Tomas Harris, ''Danger Zones,'' ''Sea of Crisis,'' ''The Burning Afternoons of Cathay''; Fiction--Roberto Bolano, ''Phone Calls''; Fydor Dostoyevsky, ''Siberian Notebook'' (tr. Peter Constantine); Laura Hird, ''The Last Supper''; Bilge Karasu ''Fork''; Linda Le ''Voice Crisis'' (tr. Deborah Treisman); Cees Nooteboom, Portrait of an other; Andrew O'Hagan, ''The Sea Shore''; Ben Okri, ''Infinite Riches''; Artist's Portfolio--Yves Klein, notes by Walter Hopps; Cai-Guo Qiang Portfolio; David King, ''Enemies of the People''; Ana Mendieta wtih notes by Charles… Read More

172 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. First British edition. A fine DJ, now in an archival cover and a fine volume, perfect, but for a small black mark in the bright orange cloth near the gutter of the spine. Contents: The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Cortès and Montezuma, The King of Jazz, The Question Party, Belief, Tales of the Swedish Army, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Death of Edward Lear, Concerning the Bodyguard, The Zombies, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days. "Man, you from out of town or something? What do you mean you refuse to play 'Smoke'? How'd you get on this gig anyhow? Who hired you?"

St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Graywolf Press, 1989. 111 pp. 'It is said that when the world was young / allusions were very popular / as when Dante plucked Odysseus / from gentleman farming on Ithaka / and burned him in hell with other liars.'--from 'Talking Pictures of Ducks'. First Printing. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Librairie Floury, 1936. iv pp., 24 pp.+ 65 plates, 5 pp. Table d'illustrations, 1 p. adv. 1 p. colophon. Two color plates. A detail of Bonparte on the Arcole bridge reproduced on the front wrap in color. The spine and rear wrap are missing, front wrap with wear to edges and missing a piece impinging of decorative border. Internally good, sewing loose, but holding, with light tanning to page edges. Works by Antoine-Louis Barye (Tigre Royal Couche, Portrait de Jeune Fille); Boissard de Boisenier(Episode de retraite de Russie); Richard Parkes Bonington (Son portrait par lui-meme, La statue du Colleone a Venise); Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (La retraite de Russie); Thomas Couture (Les promises); Jacques-Louis David (Portrait de Mme Vigee-Le Brun, Marat; Le conventionnel, Gerard eet sa Famille; La Maraichere, Le Jardin du Luxembourg); Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix (Portrait de Leon Riesener; Dante et Virgile aux Enfers; La Femme au perroquet); Francois-Pascal Simon Gerard (Le salon de Gerard;… Read More