thomson stein (42 risultati)

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. VG+/VG+ Vinyl Record. 2 LPs, gatefold with booklet. Ex-library stamps, faint surface scuffs on vinyl. Music by Thomson, Text by Gertrude Stein, The Santa Fe Opera conducted by Raymond Leppard, with Mignon Dunn, Batyah Godfrey, Avuva Orvath, Ashley Putnam. James Atherton, Philip Booth, William Lewis, Linn Maxwell, Helen Vanni. Directed by Peter Wood, scenery and costumes by Robert Indiana.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. lite smoker odor, book has moderate edge wear, light corner wear, moderate sun fading to spine, tiny tear at top of spine, light smudging across cover, otherwise presentable and readable.

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Color-illustrated wraps with cream lettering. 144 pp. 117 color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from February 17 through May 29, 2017.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Revised Edition. Rear front corner rubbed, otherwise light edge and extremity wear, short note pencilled lightly on front cover.

[6p] includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, about the collaborators [with photos of Stein & Thomson] synopsis, company bios & photos, about the theater and company, lightly-worn cheaply produced program booklet.

Staple Bound. Condizione: Very Good. Book has light wear to corners, some smudges to back cover. Otherwise an attractive copy - tight binding, unmarked pages, no major defects or reading wear.

Staple Bound. Condizione: Very Good. Book has light shelfwear, some scuffing to the cover. Light toning to the back cover. Otherwise an attractive copy - tight binding, unmarked pages, no major defects or reading wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in green wrappers with a cloth-spine. 8.5 x 11". The publication date of February, 1999 is written on the front cover, but the copyright pages states 1998. This proof predates the smaller, advance copy commonly offered.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Fine. For voice and piano. Plate number, 41673. Publisher's printed price of 60 cents on the front cover.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 144 pages. 10.00x9.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Limited Edition. 160 page tall soft cover opera score about Susan B. Anthony. Text by Gertrude Stein, music by Virgil Thomson, scenario by Maurice Grosser, musical director Otto Luening, staged by John Taras, costumes and sets designed by Paul du Paul with first production by Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University May 7-15, 1947. This copy is a the first edition, limited to 1000 copies. Frontis photos of Stein and Thomson by Carl Van Vechten. Cover art by Robert J. Pontabry. Cover corner is creased and spine bottom edges are starting to tear, and lightly soiled. Interior is very good condition - no markings. This copy was from Otto Luening's estate, but his ownership is not provable.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Four nested bifolia making 16 pages. Fine. For voice and piano. Plate number, 46979. Frances (Fanny) Blood was an English illustrator and friends with philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft; Stein's portrait of her originally appeared in the collection *Geography and Plays*.

Loose-leaf. Condizione: Good. Later Printing. Musical setting for this poem, inspired by a Spanish dancer. Later printing, with 75¢ cover price. Light wear, some creasing, short tear to lower rear cover. 12 pages, counting covers (7 of printed music). Size: 9" by 12".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Robert Indiana (illustratore). Covers are age tones. Ink stamp on front cover. Small area rubbed through on front cover at top near spine.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. First printing. Preface and Notes by Virgil Thomson. Volume Three of the Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (series editor Carl van Vechten). Association copy with the name of the Hollywood actor and Los Angeles poet "Bob Crosson" on front endpaper and date of 5-5-57. Crosson's first book "Geographies" included a sequence on Gertrude Stein. xii. 294 pp. Near fine in black cloth in a very good dust jacket (upper corners slightly bumped, some light toning to the pages, more severe toning to the spine of the dj, some shipping to the corners of the dj at the folds.).

First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with some fading and light wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Black cloth. No DJ.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. lvi, [5], 447 pages. Former owner detached leaves of the introduction from page xv through xxx - otherwise the book is as new: no spine crease, no inscriptions. 12 x 9 inches. Customers outside North America please request an accurate shipping quote before ordering.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG, wraps, 4to, first commissioned and performed at Columbia University in 1947; here performed at Lenox in 1972 for which Thomson has inscribed this copy, 1/1000, to Julian Kendall. Text by Stein, Music by Thomson, lacks the van Vechten photographs. Inscribed/ Signed by VIP othe.

Spiral Bound. Condizione: Very Good+. Very clean and tight textblock with minimal edge wear. 205p. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Paperback.

Condizione: Very Good. 16 pp., original decorated paper wrappers, light smudges to the rear cover, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. 33 1/3 rpm recording (LM-2756). Record is in fine condition, the enclosed libretto is near fine, and the record sleeve shows minor rubbing. This is a surprisingly scarce recording of a landmark American opera. "The cast is substantially identical with that of the original [1934] production.".

First Trade Edition. 4to Fine copy Wilson & Uphill E7b 8 pages loose in printed wrappers, as issued.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Complimentary copy with card from the publisher laid in. Limited to 1,000 copies. Black-and-white illustration. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Original printed flexible boards. The binding is worn at the base of the spine panel. Very good condition. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white illustration; Folio; 144, i pages.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Trade edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Music shop stamp on the front cover, faint crease on the rear wrapper, light toning, light edgewear, near fine. For voice and piano. There was another version of this score printed in a limited run of 110 copies by J. Fischer & Bro. for the Berkshire School Musicale Association.

Scenario by Maurice Grosser. 144 [1] pp. Folio, original printed flexible boards. Former owner's small blind-embossed name stamp in the upper corner of the title page; clipped portrait of Stein and Thomson affixed opposite title page; very light use to boards. Complete vocal score.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. (grey decorated cloth, no dust jacket) [binding intact, lower tips bumped (with some exposure of boards), but the main thing to know is that the spine is severely damaged, with most of the cloth spine covering missing]. (two B&W photographs) This opera, first performed at Columbia University in May 1947, was inspired by the life and career of Susan B. Anthony, and includes a wide range of historical characters, among them Daniel Webster, Anthony Comstock, Ulysses S. Grant and Lillian Russell. This is No. 45 of 55 copies (of which only 50 were for sale) which were "printed on special paper, cloth bound and numbered . and are signed [on the limitation page] by Virgil Thomson." (The regular trade edition was 1,000 copies in wrappers.) NOT included with this copy are the three original portrait photographs by Carl Van Vechten which were originally issued with each of the numbered copies. (However, portrait photos of Stein and Thomson form a double frontispiece to the volume.) ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.****.

4°. 37 S.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. First trade edition of Stein's ten prose portraits, one of 400 numbered copies issued without lithographs. Stein's artist subjects include Guillaume Apollinaire, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Bernard Faÿ, Georges Hugnet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kristians Tonny, and Virgil Thomson, who would adapt Stein's methods to another medium and produce dozens of his own musical portraits over the coming decades. A well-preserved copy with both the original glassine and paper dust jacket. 9'' x 6.5''. Original cream wrappers. In original cream dust jacket and original glassine. Text in English and French. 85, [7] pages. Light edgewear. Small stain to jacket front panel corner. Toning and several tears/chips to glassine. Most leaves unopened. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 100 numbered copies 4to A little creasing to corners and a short tear at foot of spine, else a very nice copy. Wilson & Uphill E2a 8 pages, loose in printed tan wrappers, as issued.