ISBN: 9780671621179 - selected letters of virgil thomson (27 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. WITH SLIPCASE SIGNED BY VIRGIL THOMSON 183/250. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 413 clean, unmarked pages/index; dj w/unclipped price.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. Near fine in near fine DJ. 413 pages.

hardcover. Zustand: very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. 413 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper. New York; Summit Books, (1988). Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very good hardcover, very good dust jacket.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. very good(+). First. 413 pages. 8vo, green cloth-backed boards, d.w. (price-clipped, spine sunned). New York: Summit Books, (1988). Near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing (complete number line) hardcover and dust jacket in excellent, unmarked, next-to-pristine condition (slightest handling). The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 413 pages. INCLUDES a review slip and loose glossy photograph of Thompson (same image that appears on the DJ). [1.7 lbs]. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No dustjacket as issued. Limited Edition. Number 196 of 250 copies. Signed by Thomsom on the limitation page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Spine fully sunned. Text unmarked. The slipcase shows some sunning along the edges. 8vo. 413pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Very large softcover, glosy wrapper, pale rose background, a small purple-tinted photo of Thomson at top front, 413 pages. Mint.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 413 pages. Published in 1988. Collection of letters by subject. One of the most important books on music of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Virgil Thomson's "Selected Letters". Deeply absorbing letters from a composer who was also a man-of-letters. "There have been previous collections of the writings of the Grand Old Man of American music, but none as various and personally revealing as this. All his life, Thomson has been a meticulous correspondent, unfailingly courteous, crisp, and elegant, and it is a special pleasure to see these employed on minutiae as well as on such major matters as working on a libretto with Gertrude Stein. Two testy letters to a dilatory watch-repair company are models of their kind. But perhaps the heart of the volume is the letters Thomson returned to correspondents who took issue with him during his years on the New York Herald Tribune as the best, and certainly the most knowledgeable, music critic ever to write for an American newspaper. We see only Thomson's side of the correspondence, but his good sense and generosity of spirit, often in response to clearly irate muddle-headedness, is something to marvel at. The Pages have selected the letters from what they describe as a staggering quantity with great skill, to show Thomson in all his diversity. The concise identifying notes are both necessary and unobtrusive" (Publishers Weekly). Virgil Thomson is a central figure in 20th-century music. His correspondence, that is to say, his flawless writing, not only complements but demonstrates his unique genius. An absolute "must-have" title for Virgil Thomson collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest composers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER VIRGIL THOMSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0671621173.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket a nice clean copy, almost new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket a very nice clean copy, almost new, remainder mark on top edge.

Quarter Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Some slight shelf wear, stain to bottom edge (remainder mark?). Ffep marked with old pricing (in pencil) and previous owner's inscription.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED by the author. Laid-In. Includes slipcase. Minimal wear.

hardcover. Zustand: As New. Summit Books limited signed edition in green slipcase.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Limited. Edited by Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page. 413 pages, 8vo, light green buckram (evenly faded to beige), matching buckram slipcase (uneven fading). New York: Summit Books, 1968. Limited edition. Very good(-) condition; would be near fine if not for the fading. No. 4 of 250 copies; signed in full by Thomson on the limitation page.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Complete with the matching protective slip case; 413 pages; Description: 413 p. ; 25 cm. Includes index. Number 69 of a signed and limited edition of 250 only. Subjects: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Composers --United States --Correspondence 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a first edition copy of the regular trade edition. Jacket is lightly edge worn with a half inch long thin crescent stain to head of rear panel which also has a few random red marks. Top corners lightly bumped, binding firm. Inscribed on front free end-paper to screenwriter, film director, producer and actor James Bridges and to Jack Larson, actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. Signed V. T. and dated 19 May '88. Larson wrote the libretto for the opera "Lord Byron" composed by Virgil Thomson. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Complete with the matching protective slip case; 413 pages; Description: 413 p. ; 25 cm. Includes index. Number 69 of a signed and limited edition of 250 only. Subjects: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Composers --United States --Correspondence 1 Kg.…

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in slipcase. 1st. 8vo, 413 pp., Signed, limited edition of 250 copies, Edited by Tim & Vanessa Weeks Page.

Cloth. Limited First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Fully bound in sage-green cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. Beige endpaper. 413pps. No dustjacket, as issued. There is a touch of sunning to the spine and a few small specks of soiling near the top of the fore-edge, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The slipcase, of the same sage-colored cloth over boards, is mildly rubbed. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Virgil Thomson -- without further inscription -- on a special limitation page. ".As composer, critic, and memorialist, Virgil Thomson has been a crucial figure in American cultural life for more than half a century -- an elegant and improbable synthesis of boulevardier sophistication, churchy consonance, and Midwestern plain speaking. The roster of artists with whom he collaborated includes Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Truman Capote, Frederick Ashton, John Houseman, Lincoln Kirstein, Robert Flaherty, John Cage, Florine Stettheimer, and many others. If we were to enumerate the people with whom Thomson came into contact over the course of his long career, this introduction would quickly devolve into a laundry list of the century's most glittering and brilliant personalities. Many of these will, as it happens, make an appearance or two in this collection of letters, culled from some twenty-five thousand documents spanning the years from World War I through the mid-1980s. The letters reveal Thomson as a diligent artist; a shrewd businessman; a staunch, confident critic (of music, books, landscapes, and people, by turn); a sympathetic and sensitive friend; a skillful reporter; a resolute champion of modernism in all its guises; a bon vivant and a man of the world who never forgot his Kansas City roots." -- from the Introduction. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. SIGNED by the Author. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; Classical; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0671621173. ISBN/EAN: 9780671621179. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25711. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, large thick, INSCRIBED to the noted dancer Erick Hawskins and his wife."love, love, NY 28 May 1988".vvclstctn4. Inscribed by Author(s).