Search Results: Titles starting with T from Veery Books

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1993. pp. 229. Wraps illustrated with a photo of a marble head of Antinouos. 'Like waves washing against a pebbled shore, her sentences soothe, then hypnotize; before long the sound of her voice--slightly weary, serenely wise--becomes that of Reason itself . . . [Her essays] display a moralist and critic of remarkable range and sympathy.'--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World. 'It goes without saying that we do not possess a single Greek statue in the state which its contemporaries knew it: we can barely discern, here and there on the hair of a Kore or a Kouros of the sixth century, the traces of reddish color, like palest henna, which attest to their pristine character of painted statues alive with the intense, almost terrifying life of mannequins and idols which also happen to be masterpieces of art. Those hard objects fashioned in imitation of the forms of organic life have, in their own way, undergone the equivalent of… Read More

New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1920. pp. 91-174. Wraps with creases, chips, and soiling. Dust soiling on page edges, with some darkening on first pages where not covered by wraps, otherwise, pages are supple and clean. First and last plates listed in TOC not present. Contents: America's Best Season in the Theatre--Kenneth Macgowan; Folk Playmaking; A New Nativity Play--Eunice Tietjens; D'Annunzio and Dr. McClintock--Ralph Roeder; The Theatre in France--Huntly Carter; Stage Machinery and Lighting Equipment for Small Theatres and Community Buildings--Irving Pichel; Constantin Korovin--Oliver M. Sayler; Notes on the Spanish Theatre--Stark Young; Gloves--Gilbert Cannan; Editorial, Chronicle, Bookshelf. Illustrations: Cover Design Norman-Bel Geddes; Portrait of Robert Edmond Jones (this plate is not present in this copy); Two scenes from The Power of Darkness, settings by Lee Simonson; Four Designs by Hermann Rosse; Four designs for Richard III by Robert Edmond Jones; Design and four costumes for… Read More

New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Quarto. Score. 36.pp.(S.P.A.M. 55) Twenty-Seventh Season 1945-46. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1948. Dedicated to the Walden String Quartet.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: McSweeney's, 2001. iv, 29 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. Illustrated on cover by photograph of Seager. With an introduction by John Warner and tributes to Allan Seager by Joan Fry and Steven Connelly. Seager's second published story, originally published in Best American Short Stories, 1935. 'John got a roll of canvas, a reel of packthread, a leather palm-guard and a needle and went down into the hold. He rigged up an electric light in a wire cage and swung it from a hook over his head. The eighteen lay there in a row. They were quite stiff and, when the ship rolled, sometimes an arm would come up and pause until the ship rolled back. But they were in the shadow and he did not watch them much because the sewing was hard work, about an hour to each one. He jabbed his finger with the needle three or four times and that made it harder. When he got one ready, he would put it over his shoulder and stagger up the companionway to the deck. / High above him beside… Read More

Society for the Publication of American Music 49 pp. Score. Society for the Publication of American Music. (S.P.A.M.). Tenth Season 1928-1929. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, New York, copyright [1929]. Dedicated to the Heermann Quartet. VG. Rabbi James G. Heller (1892-1971) wrote program notes for the Cincinnati Orchestra from 1924 to 1941.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Persea Books, 1997. 87 pp. Author's first book. Nobles published Bluestone Walk in 2000. His poetry has appeared in Agni, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburgh Review, Paris Review, Pequod, and Volt. On the jacket Paul Klee's The Idea of Firs (Der Idee der Tannen) 1917. 'Edward Nobles poetry is distinguished by its astonishing precision, its careful concentration of the eye on the object, and the tautness of the rhythms.'--Marjorie Perloff. 'Here, / I can know no thing and be / pure longing, a fish, thrashing stopped, for it is dead. Or I will be // transformed, a god of fish, / and each shall before me lie / outstretched on a golden plate, / surrounded by springs of plastic / (perfect through time) and a slice / of lemon, for its bitterness.'--from ''The God of Fish.''. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1954. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 28 pp. (score) and 6 parts. Composed Mexico, D. F., 1942. For six players. I: Indian Drum, Glokenspiel, Small Indian Drum; II: Side Drum I, Xylophone, Indian Drum, Tenor Drum; III: Side Drum II, Suspended Cymbal; IV: Tenor Drum, Chimes, Claves, One Maraca, Suspended Cymbal; V Tympani, Small Gong; VI: Bass Drum, Large Gong.

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: HarperCollins, 1991. 209 pp. One-half inch repairable tear to fore edge of dj. Some dust speckling to top of page edges. Bone-white paper boards nearly pristine. Unread. From the flap: 'Like her essays, collected in the much-praised Letters from the Country. Carol Blv's stories are often about the fugitive state of sweetness and light in America today. Her typical protagonist is a responsible woman. adjusted to the narrowness of local life but trying to work in a little taste, aspiration, beauty, against the odds. For 'culture' comes in various ways these days to places like Clayton, Minnesota: some enhancing, some silly, some corrupt. The 'tender organizations' have to work like bandits to stay alive. // In the title story, Cheryl Hasted's good country sense is put to the test by the new art teacher, Mercein Gall, who taunts her conventional ideas ('Next you'll be telling me a psychotherapist doesn't see his women patients as women') while they… Read More

New York: Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, 1972. 147 pp. 179 Lots. About 100 illustrations, perhaps 10 in color. Including Benbridge, Cassatt, Hassam, Inness, Kensett, Neagle, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and Rubens Peale, Stuart, Tate, Charles Hawthorne, George Henry Hall, Guy Wiggins, John Frederick Peto, John Singer Sargent, Carl Oscar Borg, William De La Montainge Cary, Gilbert Gaul, Edwin Willard Deming, Charles Craig, W. Meuttman, Albert Bierstadt, Matthias Sandor, Frank Tenney Johnson, Bert G. Phillips, Peter Rindisbacher, Henry H. Cross, Frederick A. Verner, Olaf C. Seltzer, Junius B. Stearns, Robert Salmon, Frederick J. Waugh.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London, Mainz, New York: Schott. Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Volumes I & II of 2. Schott.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Provost and Fellows of Eton College, 1990. 122 pp. 237 items. More than 60 illustrations including four in color. Light soiling with some bumps to corners. Heavy card stock covers, inside fine. Contents: Foreward by Charles E. Pierce, Jr.; Foreward By Chistopher Burge; Preface by Paul Quarrie; Eton College, School & Collections; From Foundation to 1600 (Nos. 1-11); The Seventeenth Century (12-30); The Eighteenth Century (31-82); The Nineteenth Century and Later (83-94); Oriental Manuscripts (95-97); Armenian Printing (98-104); Bookbindings (105-123); Schoolbooks, Calssical and Others (124-147); Schoolbooks Printed at Eton (148-154); Thomas Gray: The Poet of Eton (155-167); Etoniana (168-175); The Topham Collection (176-222); The Roman Drawings at Parrocel (211-222); English Watercolors (223-237); References cited. Highlight: early autograph dfaft of Gray's Elegy; Herodotus, Historiae, texxt in the hand of Joannes Argyropoulos, Florence,… Read More

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, 1998. 256 pp. + adv. Contents: Tolstoy's American Translator: Letters to Elizabeth Hapgood, and article by Robert Whittaker; Tell Me Why; Evening on the Zattere; Midsummer Night in Venice; Venice: The Return in Winter, poems by Mark Rudman; From The Negro-Lover, a novella excerpt by Joyce Carol Oates; The Banquet; The Caravan; The Week after Easter, poems by Rachel Hadas; From Incisions, a novel excerpt by Gabriel Motola; Rivalry, a story by David H. Lynn; Recitation, a poem by David Wagoner; Where Dad Lived; Alarms; Hills, poems by Kevin Casey; Still Life, a poem by Elliot Figman; When We Parted, a poem by Tom Wayman; The Guitarist, a poem by David Breskin; Finch Nested, a poem by Kathryn Winograd; Grounded, a poem by Kawita Kandpal; The Competition, a poem by Rachel Levine; Killer, a story by Catherine Seto; Over the Moon, a story by Blake Maher; Decadence, a story by Brian Bouldry; No Last Names, a novel excerpt by Leslie Pietrzyk; Among the Missing,… Read More

69 pp. + ads. Plate 17453. Vocal score, wraps, quarto 8.5 x 11 in. Front cover reattached with Japan paper, some wear to spine and edges, yet very good. Likely a printing from 1992-, given the 62 W. 45th St. address on the wraps. Printed in England. Trial by Jury is a one-act comic opera that could be considered a seminal venture in their partnership. It premiered at the Royalty Theatre in London in March, 1875.

New York: C. F. Peters Corporation 13 pp. score. Parts for Recorder (Flute), Oboe (Violin or Viola da Gamba), Keyboard, and Violincello. Largo, Vivace, Andante. Edited by Waldemar Woehl.. Wraps. 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.

Very Good. Folio. End paper split in back, previous owner's signature, else very good,104 pp. Full score, rust-colored linen boards, paper wraps bound in. Printed in Poland. Copyright Przedstawicielstwo Wydawnict Polskich assigned to SESAC, Inc., N.Y.