1982réf. 37403Bonn: Boosey & Hawkes 1982. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 110 pp. With numerous musical examples. Boosey & Hawkes paperback books
2011réf. UBARMEM00drpFree Press 2011. Fine. Bartok Mira. The Memory Palace: A Memoir. New York : Free Press 2011. 306pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Free Press paperback books
1952réf. 132886Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1952. Vintage hand-tinted still photograph from the 1952 UK release of the 1952 US film. Burt Lancaster stars as a pirate who gets involved in a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A swashbuckler with enough swordplay and acrobatics to satisfy even the most discerning enthusiast. A story set in the Caribbean shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases to one corner else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955réf. 132989London: Waterlow and Sons / Hammer Film Productions 1955. Vintage hand-tinted still photograph from the 1955 UK film. One of several British films given American distribution by Twentieth Century Fox. Forrest Tucker stars as an American soldier hired by a German millionaire Marius Goring to smuggle a Polish scientist out of East Germany and into England. Shot on location in Germany and England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with an ink notation on the verso tiny corner creases and a faint pencil notation on the recto. Waterlow and Sons / Hammer Film Productions unknown books
réf. 374921Paris: Angel Records no date. Unbound. Fine. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album. Fine in a toned printed paper sleeve in a near fine cardboard sleeve with a sticker on the front panel and slight edgewear. Angel Records unknown books
2017réf. 66245Somerville: Candlewick Press 2017. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 450pp. Very good hardback in a very good dust jacket. Candlewick Press hardcover books
1960réf. 168176Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1959 British film. Based on the 1955 book "Adventure in Diamonds" about a secret mission to secure Dutch industrial diamond stocks from the Germans during World War II. Set and shot on location in the Netherlands. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1990réf. 37402Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Supérieur d'Archéologue et d'Histoire de l'Art Collège Érasme 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 448 pp. With illustrative plates. Institut Supérieur d'Archéologue et d'Histoire de l'Art Collège Érasme hardcover books
1939réf. 33893Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. PN U.E. 5904 1939. Quarto. Original publisher's light yellow wrappers printed in black. 7 pp. Verso of lower wrapper dated I January 1939. Ex libris the composer and pianist Ray Green 1908-1997 with his handstamp to outer corner of upper wrapper and handstamp of musicseller Grobe Music in San Francisco to lower portion. Slightly worn. Revised edition 1936 later issue. Somfai BB 64 p. 306. Szabolcsi Sz 49 pp. 332. Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 5904] unknown books
1978réf. 49701London: Thomas Land 1978. First trade edition. 47 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Cover art and internal prints by Thomas Perry. Review slip laid in. London: Thomas Land, unknown books
1962réf. 33875Wien: Universal Edition PN U.E. 7026 1962. Quarto. Original publisher's yellow printed wrappers. 71 pp. Text in German and Hungarian. Verso of lower wrapper dated "IV 71" Slightly worn. First Edition later issue of the revised version. Somfai BB 62 p. 306. Szabolcsi Sz 48 p. 332. A kékszakállú herceg vára Duke Bluebeard's Castle an opera in one act to a libretto by Béla Balázs was first performed in Budapest at the National Opera on 24 May 1918. Universal Edition [PN U.E. 7026] unknown books
1958réf. 161994N.p.: Gotham Film Releasing 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs of Eva Bartok from the US release of the 1958 German film here under the alternative release title "Naked Every Night." Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Criminology student Karin poses as a call girl in order to work on her thesis. She meets an old friend at an upscale brothel who desperately wants to quit the business. Shot on location in Berlin Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning soiling and faint creasing. Gotham Film Releasing unknown books
1942réf. 39227London: Hawkes & Son London Ltd. PN B. & H. 8296 1942. Folio. Dark ivory wrappers printed in purple. 1f. recto title verso performance notes and instrumentation 59 i publisher's catalogue "Music for Stringed Instruments" pp. With publisher's catalogue of works by Bartók printed in purple to verso of lower wrapper. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled small chip to upper outer corner and head of spine. Upper inner corners slightly creased. First Edition later issue. Szabolcsi 112 p. 352. First performed in Amsterdam on 23 April 1939 by Zoltán Székely as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg. Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. [PN B. & H. 8296] unknown books
1928réf. 33878Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. PN U.E. 8779 1928. Quarto. Original publisher's light green wrappers printed in dark green. Parallel title in French and English. 88 pp. Verso of lower wrapper dated VII July 1928. Initials to upper margin of title in blue pencil. Wrappers slightly worn and browned. First Edition of the 2-piano arrangement. Somfai BB 91 p. 311. Szabolcsi Sz 83 p. 340. Bartók performed the premiere of his first concerto in Frankfurt 1 July 1927 conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 8779] unknown books
1937réf. 40607Budapest: Magyar Kórkus PN M.K. 321 1937. Small quarto. Original publisher's light pink decorative wrappers with titling in dark pink. Three songs for male chorus based on traditional tunes: Nincs boldogtalanabb parasztembernél No-one's more unhappy than the peasant; Egy kettő három négy One two three four; and Nincsen szerencsésebb parasztembernél No-one is happier than the peasant. Wrappers slightly worn. Minor internal wear; browned and brittle; edge tears. First Edition. Szabolcsi 104. Stevens p. 339. "During 1935-6 Bartók composed his last choral pieces the Twenty-Seven Two- and Three-part Choruses bb111 for children's and women's choruses and Elmúlt időkből 'From Olden Times' bb112 three songs for male chorus. Both works present Bartók's own fashionings of folk texts the short choruses dealing with the domestic world of childhood and adolescence the longer male chorus songs with the joys and sorrows of peasant life." Malcolm Gillies in Grove Music Online. Magyar Kórkus [PN M.K. 321] unknown books
1908réf. 40603Budapest: Karl Rozsnyai PN R.K. 338 1908. Folio. Unbound as issued. Laid into original publisher's mid-green wrappers with decorative element and titling in silver. 1f. recto title verso blank 3-39 i incipits of the 14 bagatelles. Wrappers worn; spine slightly chipped with minor loss and remnants of old tape. Very slightly worn and browned internally. First Edition. Somfai BB 50 p. 304. Szabolcsi Sz 38 p. 327. "By the time the Fourteen Bagatelles Opus 6 were written Bartok's expressive vocabulary was beginning to assume its definitive shape. Years later he marked the beginning of his personal style by those pieces. . The Bagatelles demonstrate many of the devices which later became an integral party of his technique." Stevens: The Life and Music of Béla Bartók p. 328. Karl Rozsnyai [PN R.K. 338] unknown books
réf. 39912The designs represent the characters Bluebeard Judith his current wife 2 and his 3 former wives. Sheet size 456 x 305 mm. Some minor light browning. In very good condition overall. "Bluebeard's Castle Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára literally The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle is a one-act Symbolist opera . to a Hungarian libretto by his friend and poet Béla Balázs. Based on the French folk legend or conte populaire as told by Charles Perrault it l. deploys just two singing characters: Bluebeard Kékszakállú and his newest wife Judith Judit; the two have just eloped and she is coming home to his castle for the first time." Wikipedia ". the one-act opera A Kékszakállú herceg vára 'Bluebeard's Castle' 1911 is however a masterful Hungarian emulation of the realism of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Written to an expressionistic libretto by Béla Balázs about the 'mystery of the soul' the action of Bluebeard's Castle is negligible involving just two singing protagonists Bluebeard and his new wife Judith who progress through the opening of the eponymous castle's seven doors drawn by the woman's curiosity. The opera's climactic turning-point comes at the fifth door to Bluebeard's kingdom after which Judith's jealousy becomes obsessive leading to her eventual entombment along with all Bluebeard's previous wives and eternal darkness. Bartók's work changed the course of Hungarian opera by successfully developing a fluid form of Hungarian declamation of Balázs's ballad-like text based largely upon the inflections of parlando rubato folksong." Malcolm Gillies in Grove Music Online Perdziola an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater opera and ballet has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Lyric Theatre of Chicago American Ballet Theater Shakespeare Theater in Washington Boston Ballet and Miami Ballet as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom the Finnish National Ballet the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards. unknown books
