Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de Veery Books

Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK: Peter Barnitt, 2003. 32 pp. 176 items. Ashendene Press, etc. . Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2005. 367 pp. A half-inch tear and another small half-inch piece missing in dj, associated rubbing on one corner of book, approx. 3/8 inch, visible in photo. Otherwise fine. 'He inserted the letter into the beggar's brass pencil cup. The last enveliope in the deck was made of sawtooth-edged crepe paper, a pleasing shade of violet. The person who had sent the letter apparently answered to a romance novel cognomen. Aboe the return address she had written the name Desdemona Dauphin. Sylvia had released her silly roman a clef The Bell Jar under an arch pseudonym as well. Victoria something. Desdemona Dauphin lived in nearby Saint James. He couldn't help but be curious. He stopped in a little auberge. Ted was out of breath and wanted to rest or possibly sleep for a few hours. His room had a small bed, a table and a chair, and a full-length mirror that he attempted to take down from the wall while avoiding looking into the glass. The mirror was… Leer más

Pöcking-Startnberger See unpag. 852 items. Five full-page illustrations in black and white. P.O. has marked one item and written on front of wraps. Contents: Allgemeines, Varia und Sittengeschichte; Literatur und Illustrierte Bücher, Originalgraphik, Plakate; Malerei, Zeichnung, Graphik (einschliesslich Künstler); Architektur; Nachtrag;. Illus.: Das Titelblatt aus Max Klingers Radierfolge ''Rettungen ovidischer Opfer,'' Canaletto-Visentini, Urbis Venetetiarum Prospectus Celebriores, Eine der 105 ganzseitigen Originalradierungen von Marc Chagall suz ''Bibel,'' Eine Seite aus dem originalen Schmuch-Entwurfsbuch der Firma Kott 1870-1873, Fonrana's ''Il Tempio Vaticano'' von 1694 in einem Prachtexemplar. . Wraps. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Mattapan, Massachusetts: L. W. Curry, Rare Books, 1969. 86 pp. 990 items. Cover soiled, tanned, creased, with library catalog stickers on spine and some annotations, inside and out. . Wraps. Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Florence, Italy: Sotheby's, 1989. unpag. Lots 1001-1327. Sticker shadow on front, otherwise fine. Josephus Flavius; Klauber, Historiae biblicae veteris et novi testamenti; Chagall-Malraux, Et sur le terre, one of 25; Capoferro, Gran simulacro dell'arte, e del-l'uso della scherma, Siena, 1610; and more.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Normal, Illiinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. 158 pp. Wear to edges, a black mark on back wrap. ''Let's suppose that the memory is like a jade cabinet, but a cabinet belonging to an infinitely resolute collector. Each time we look inside, the jade appears to be the same, yet the mind is forever replacing one chimera for another that resembles it. Let's suppose that the memory is a cabinet of chameleons and the mind as unstable as the moon.'' 'The novel travels from Oxford to Egypt where one million ibis mummies wait to be transformed into fertilizer, where Baconfield the architect will cause a pyramid to collapse, and where a scorned and bloated hunger artist who speaks in tongues will plot a bloody revenge.'--from the jacket. ''Our father, Angus Sperry, once described how certain butterflies risk their lives sailing the infinite airs above the seas to flock together at the resonant place (as he called it): an obscure tree, a ragged expanse of beach, a certain… Leer más

Kolwyck-Jones, Books on Art, 1989. 130 pp. 1264 items. Some wear and a light crease. Terse but voluminous. Many unusual items.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Antiquariat Inlibris, 2004. 36 pp. 50 items. Price sticker shadow on front and rear. In German. Not illustrated. Interesting descriptions. Includes a post card from Anton Webern. A letter in french from Karl Marx. A cadenza by Jan Kubelik.. Wraps. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Barrow Street Inc., 2003. 112 pp. Poetry, Works in progress, Barrow Street books prize winner Joshua Corey. Contributors include: Nin Andrews, Christopher Arigo, Helen Barnard, Karen Brennan, Julian Parke Billups, Forrest C. Buchly, Kimberly Burwick, Reid Bush, Jeffrey S. Chapman, Peter Danbury, Amanda Deutch, Jennifer K Dick, Carrie Etter, Ryan Flaherty, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Frank Giampietro, Susan Goslee, Eve Grubin, Robert Krut, David Lehman, Richard Lehnert, Lesle Lewis, Timothy Liu, Sabrina Orah Mark, Sandy McIntosh, Abby Millager, Ben Miller, Deborah Owen Moore, Julie Paegle, Joyce Peseroff, Derek Pollard, Larry Rapant, Elizabeth Ring, William Rushton, Art Schwartz, Shane Seely, Hilary Sideris, Alex Silberman, Richard Sime, Sandra Simonds, Frances Sjoberg, Ed Skoog, Virgil Suarez, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Camille-Yvette Welsch, Mike White, Scott Withiam. . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Barrow Street Inc., 2001. 100 pp. Poetry. Contributors include: Will Alexander, Renee Ashley, Joseph Bathanti, Stephen Burt, Jefferson Carter, Liza Charlesworth, Sharon Chmielarz, Diane di Prima, Ron Drummond, Valerie Egar, Eric Elshtain, Jocelyn Emerson, Jeffrey Encke, Justine Fitzgerald, Peggy Garrison, Edvidge Giunta, Rachel Hadas, Scott Hightower, Jane Hirshfield, Walter Holland, Phoebe Hoss, Janet Kaplan, David Keller . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1961. 80 pp. 1677 items. Contents: I. Periodicals and Books in Series. II. General and Miscellaneous Works; III. Near East: Ancient Civilisations; IV. Near and Middle East: Medieval and Modern Civilations; V. India, Pakistan, Burma Ceylon, Afganistan; VI. South-East Asia: Siam, Indo-China; Malaya, East Indies VII. China, Manchuria, Korea; VIII. Central and N. E. Asia; IX. Japan, Formosa; X. Africa and African languages; XI. Autralasia and Oceania; XII. Oriental Religions and Philosophy; XIII. Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Archaeology, Pre-History; XIV. Oriental Languages and Literature; Addenda to all sections.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

New York: Knopf, 1991. 64 pp. dj light crinkling at edges, tanning to edges of flaps, price sticker shadow in pastedown. Otherwise fine. 'When the Queen of Darkness heard his voice, / That mortal stranger, saw him lift the lyre / And watched the dull throng of dead rejoice / To hear him tell of earth and earth's desire, / Of pain, of longing, / she was not amused.'--from Noch Einmal, an Orpheus. [Once again, to Orpheus]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1961. Soiling to wraps with bumping to extremities, PO sig on half title. Inside clean. "Violent in its blood, the dark book / Hangs like a tree of night upon the sky. / It batters history, that genesis, / Word that whelped a world up, / While priest and king and all / Raged at the syntax they were swaddled by."-- from "The Book". Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

London: William Weston Gallery, 1988. unpag. 79 items, all illustrated in b&w. A special catalogue of unusually fine etchings and lithographs by 19th and 20th century European masters from teh William Weston Gallery. . Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: English National Opera, 1976. unpag., approx. 20 pp. Rubbing and tear to top of spine. A playbill with for Mozart's opera in three acts, Libretto by Abbe Varesco, first performed at Munich on January 29, 1781. Articles by David Cairns, Alfred Einstein. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 1996. 215 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTERVIEW: Richard Ford, The Art of Fiction No. 147, Amos Oz, The Art of Fiction No. 148 , FEATURE: Bernard Cooper, Labyrinthine, FICTION: Laurel Anne Berger, The Storks, Rhidian Brook, A Real Disaster, Robert Olen Butler, "Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover", Patricia Eakins, The Garden of Fishes, Richard Stern, Audit, POETRY: Sarah Arvio, Visits from the Seventh, Frank Bidart, The Return, Scott Cairns, Two Poems, Alfred Corn, Philosophy, Irving Feldman, Lives of the Poets, Joseph Harrison, The Cretonnes of Penelope, John Kinsella, Two Poems, Campbell McGrath, Two Poems, Joyce Carol Oates, Immobility Defense, Sharon Olds, 71 B.C.E., Kathleen Peirce, Three Poems, J.S. Renau, Night Out, Pattiann Rogers, The Art of Raising Gibbons and Flowers, Ira Sadoff, Language, Robyn Selman, 1945-1995, Patricia Storace, A Grecian Sword, c.348 B.C., Adriana Szymanska, Two Poems, ART: Louise Bourgeois, The… Leer más

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1957. 80 pp. 1601 items. Contents: I. Periodicals; II. General and Miscellaneous Works, Archaeology; III. The Ancient East: Egypt, Babylonia, etc. IV. Near East: Medieval and Modern Civilisations V. The Middle East: Persia, Afganistan, Caucasus, Western Turkestan, etc.; VI. India, Burma, Ceylon; VII. South-East Asia: Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Indo-China; VIII. China, Manchuria, Korea; IX. Central and N. E. Asia; X. Japan; XI. Africa; XII. Australasia, Melanesia, Oceania; XIII. Oriental Religions and Philosophy; XIV. Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Archaeology, Pre-History; XV. Oriental Languages and Literature; Addenda.. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.