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1960Best.-Nr. 168684New York: Time Magazine 1960. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Reproduces the script of a 1960 documentary film about contemporary art focusing on de Kooning Stravinsky and Fuller along with "Time" articles relating to same. Robert Snyder and Michael Sonnabend previously collaborated on the 1950 documentary "The Titan." Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with French flaps. Time Magazine unknown
2022Best.-Nr. x-0520371410Univ of California Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 168 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Univ of California Pr hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 313611New York: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket.; 688 pages. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 754181997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. Text is in Italian.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. unknown
1948Best.-Nr. 66950New York: Boosey and Hawkes 1948. Vintage Copy. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Boosey and Hawkes unknown
1982Best.-Nr. 65138New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. Crease to front flap. A few tears to jacket edges. Stated First Edition.; 9.45 X 6.61 X 1.57 inches; 471 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. 65771New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition.; 8.30 X 6 X 1.40 inches; 400 pages. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1959Best.-Nr. 59043New York: Grossman Publishers 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Good in wrappers. Owner ink address stamp to half title page. Creasing. Stated First Printing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Grossman Publishers unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 56389New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Some edge wear including a few small tears slight creasing to flaps. First Edition stated.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1975Best.-Nr. 47796New York: Da Capo Press 1975. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. Small tear and crease to rear panel. Minor wear including scraping to wrappers. First Paperback printing as stated.; A Da Capo Paperback; 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 228 pages. Da Capo Press unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 39959London: Encounter 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. Cover with original drawing by Jean Cocteau.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Encounter unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 31632New York: Doubleday 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner inscritption. Soiling and some staining. First Edition stated.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Doubleday hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 41313Berlin Moscou St. Pétersbourg .: Édition Russe de Musique PN R.M.V. 127 1912. Folio. Newly bound in quarter dark green cloth with mid-brown paper boards dark red title label gilt to upper and spine. 1f. recto title verso blank i named cast list ii synopsis i orchestration i recto dedication "À Alexandre Benois" verso blank 7-156 pp. 1f. errata tipped in to rear pastedown. With text in Russian and French. Named cast for the first performance by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris on 13 June 1911 includes Tamar Karsavina Le Ballerine Vaslav Nijinsky Petrushka Orlow Le Maure and Enrico Ceccheti Le vieux Charlatan; the performance was conducted by Monteux with maître du ballet Fokine and sets and costumes designed by Benois and executed by Anisfeld sets and Caffi and Worobiew costumes. Small area of faint dampstaining and minor cockling to upper inner margins. An attractive copy. First Edition first issue. Rare. Kirchmeyer 12-1. Hirsch II 905. De Lerma P15. White p. 193. Crawford p. 533. "The emergence of Stravinsky as a modernist with an individual manner unlike any other can be dated with some precision to his early work on Petrushka. In March 1910 during the later stages of composing The Firebird he had experienced the famous 'fleeting vision' out of which The Rite of Spring was to grow. But when Diaghilev and Nijinsky visited him in Lausanne in September 1910 they found him at work on something quite different a concert piece for piano and orchestra called 'Petrushka's Cry'. Together with a 'Russian Dance' composed soon afterwards this music was to form the basis of the ballet which Diaghilev instinctively urged him to write instead. . It is from the systematic attempt to render the particular flavour of traditional Russian life into music that Petrushka derives many of its freshest and most original qualities. . Looked at in general terms the opening sequence of Petrushka is a prototype of later Stravinskian form. Its underlying rhythmic design may not be complex in the same way as that of The Rite of Spring or the later Russian works but its intricacy of rhythmic detailing and its mixture of a highly fluid pattern of melodic stress with an inert background harmony laid the groundwork for a technique which through many changes of superficial style was to serve him for the rest of his life." Walsh: The Music of Stravinsky pp. 24-29. "Petroushka proved just as successful with the public and critics as The Firebird had been; but it was undoubtedly a more original work. In the first place Stravinsky had been able to play a leading part in the construction of the scenario which had not been the case with The Firebird. Secondly whereas the music of The Firebird showed that the pupil had learnt all that his master had had to teach him in Petrushka for the first time the authentic voice of the new master is heard." TNG Vol. 18 pp. 244-245. The rare first edition first issue of Stravinsky's colorful and well-loved ballet inspired by the St. Petersburg Shrove-tide Fair. Édition Russe de Musique [PN R.M.V. 127] unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 1-0393097706W W Norton & Co Inc 1967. Paperback. New. annotated edition edition. 224 pages. 8.50x6.25x0.50 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc paperback
1950Best.-Nr. 1084781950. Signed. STRAVINSKY Igor. Photograph inscribed. No place 1950. Black-and-white postcard portrait measuring 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches; matted and framed entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 12 inches. $2200.Postcard photograph of Igor Stravinsky inscribed ÒPour Monsieur Maurice Dubois avec mes meilleurs compliments Igor Stravinsky 1950.Ó""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for an individual soundÉ For many years he was with Schoenberg one of the two unofficial poles of Western music"" ANB. The postcard portrait is dated September 1948 and is attractively matted and framed with a page of music from Stravinsky's Four Etudes. An attractive inscribed and signed framed piece in fine condition. unknown
1988Best.-Nr. 97808Lausanne : TML 1988. broché. RAMUZ. - STRAVINSKY.L'histoire du soldat. Ramuz-Stravinsky. Septantième anniversaire 1918 - 1988. Lausanne TML1988 225x220mm 89 pages photos n/b broché. Très bel exemplaire. No hidden customs fees for orders shipped to the U.S.A with a value of up to 800 USD PDDP shipping we pay the VAT in advance TML unknown
1949Best.-Nr. 73026NY: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1949. First edition. 245 pp. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown. Design by Merle Armitage. Contributions by Cocteau Satie Klee Weston Osbert Sitwell Aaron Copland Picasso Chagall and concluding with a discography and works. Small “Ex Libris / Clive Elliott” stamp on the front free endpaper. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 33014Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel 1984. Hardcover. Fine. Small folio. 386 pp. Illustrated. Kunstmuseum Basel hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. G0486285251I5N00Dover Publications Incorporated 1995. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dover Publications, Incorporated paperback
1949Best.-Nr. 039407New York: Duell Sloan And Pearce 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 245 Pp. A Much-Enlarged Edition Of Armitage's 1936 Book Which Was The First English Language Book About Stravinsky With Much New Material Added. Black Cloth Printed In Yellow. End Sheets By Carlos Dyer And Edward S. Stevens Jr. Designs And Drawings By Merle Armitage And Executed By Al Ewers. Portrait Photographs By Edward Weston John Vachon Fred Plaut Arnold Newman; Portraits Of Stravinsky By Klee Pablo Picasso Russell Cowles J E Blanche Marc Chagall Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano; Drawings By Carlus Dyer And E S Stevens. Inscribed From Merle Armitage His Wife And His Daughter To Dorothy Brett. "Editor And Book Designer Merle Armitage Wrote A Book About This Time In New Mexico. Taos Quartet In Three Movements Was Originally To Appear In Flair Magazine But The Magazine Folded Before Its Publication. This Short Work Describes The Tumultuous Relationship Of D. H. Lawrence His Wife Frieda Dorothy Brett And Mabel Dodge Sterne A Wealthy Patron Of The Arts. Armitage Took It Upon Himself To Print 16 Hardcover Copies Of This Work For His Friends. Richard Pousette-Dart Executed The Drawings For Taos Quartet That Was Published In 1950." Wikipedia. A Near Fine Example With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Complete Not Price Clipped No Fading Slight Browning And Faint Splash Marks On Spine Panel 1/4" Closed Tear At Center Of Top Edge Of Spine. Duell, Sloan And Pearce hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 039411New York: G. Schirmer 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 158 Pp. A Compilation Of Articles With New Articles By Goosens Komroff Danz Rodriguez And Armitage Written For This Book. The Book Is Near Fine Almost No Wear. Inscribed On A Label Attached Opposite The Colophon From Illustrator Carlos Dyer To Critic Lincoln Kirstein And With Ownership Signature Of Paul Cadmus. G. Schirmer hardcover
1962Best.-Nr. 1004541962. First Edition. Signed. STRAVINSKY Igor. CRAFT Robert. Expositions and Developments. Garden City New York: Doubleday 1962. Octavo original black cloth original dust jacket. $2500.First edition warmly inscribed on the half title to neighbor and longtime friend Miranda Levy ""To my dear Miranda with love and kisses from I Stravinsky Nov /63.""""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for an individual soundÉ For many years he was with Schoenberg one of the two unofficial poles of Western music"" ANB. In these conversations with his protg conductor Robert Craft who coauthored seven books with him Stravinsky discusses his childhood in St. Petersburg Russia; recalls such musical luminaries as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; reflects on the intersection of music and modern recording technology; and discusses scores including The Firebird The Rite of Spring and his then-new work The Flood. Illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographs. Inscribed to Miranda Levy a founding member of the Santa Fe Opera and wife of pioneering television director Ralph Levy whose credits include directing the original I Love Lucy pilot episode. Miranda ""met Stravinsky at the Aspen Colorado Music Festival in 1950 then hosted him on a New Mexico visitÉ When the composer let it be known he was interested in D.H. LawrenceÉ Miranda introduced Stravinsky to Lawrence's widowÉ Miranda and Ralph Levy moved to Los Angeles and bought a house less than a block from Stravinsky'sÉ Just as she had once kept Santa Feans up to date on the latest news and gossip she now regaled Igor and Vera Stravinsky with daily updates on movie studio gossip"" Albuquerque Journal.Dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends and edges. A very nearly fine inscribed presentation/association copy. hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. 028516New York: G. Schirmer 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fair DJ. 158 Pp. A Compilation Of Articles With New Articles By Goosens Komroff Danz Rodriguez And Armitage Written For This Book. The Book Is Fine No Wear And Inscribed By Stravinsky To Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano Who Illustrated This Book "To Giovanni Napolitano Sincerely I Strawinsky March 37". With The Scarce Pink Dj Worn And Chipped With Very Large Piece Missing At Bottom Of Front Panel And Spine Leaving Title And Editor's Name On Spine But Removing Some Of Descriptive Text At Bottom Of Front Panel Flaps Intact Tape Reinforcement Inside Of Dj. G. Schirmer hardcover
Best.-Nr. Z1-C-084-00667Boosey And Hawkes. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some wear and barcode page may have been removed but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Boosey And Hawkes unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 152209New York: Simon and Schuster 1978. First edition of this authoritative biography of Igor Stravinsky. Quarto original cloth profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the collection of Tony Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie Applause and Annie as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family "Those Were the Days". His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway's most successful scores ever with "Tomorrow" and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation – from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z's Grammy-winning sampling of "It's the Hard-Knock Life" four decades later – and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. With his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Designed by Edith Fowler. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents 1978 is a monumental documentary biography of Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971 assembled by the composer's widow Vera Stravinsky 1888-1982 and his longtime musical associate and amanuensis Robert Craft 1923-2015. Departing from conventional narrative the authors tell the story of one of the twentieth century's supreme musical figures largely through primary materials hundreds of photographs letters diary entries contracts and other documents drawn from the Stravinsky archive many published here for the first time accompanied by Craft's connecting commentary and a wealth of annotation. The result is an unusually intimate chronicle that follows Stravinsky from his Russian childhood and the epoch-making early ballets The Firebird Petrushka and The Rite of Spring through his years in Switzerland France and the United States illuminating not only his music but the artists writers and impresarios among them Diaghilev Picasso and Cocteau who populated his extraordinary life. Vera a painter and former dancer who became Stravinsky's second wife and Craft who lived within the Stravinsky household for more than two decades were uniquely placed to compile this rich and authoritative record. Simon and Schuster hardcover
