Adam Daly (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: fine trade paperback. 1st printing.

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Paperback. Condition: fine trade paperback. 1st printing. A novel with Lovecraftian overtones.

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Paperback. Condition: New.

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Condition: New. In English.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good.

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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Very Good Condition - Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Little known in the English-speaking world, Ferruccio Busoni's Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music (originally published in 1907) is a daringly progressive statement about the necessary freedom and future of music, its broad and prescient outlook all the more fascinating for its having arrived so early. Busoni was a composer, composition teacher and virtuoso concert pianist of early twentieth-century Europe, born Italian but working in Germany, and a highly respected figure in his time. Sketch was written immediately prior to his mentoring of avant-garde composers such as Arnold Schoenberg and Edgard Varèse, whose ground-breaking work came to define twentieth-century classical music. Yet Busoni's writing is steeped in ornate, deeply poetic language, in nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism. As a bygone era metamorphoses into the new one that will stretch all the way to John Cage, he even brandishes news of the first keyboard-based electric sound synthesiser with enthralled delight. This edition features a new translation into English by Pamela Johnston, a foreword by Adam Harper, and includes the rare and remarkable Epilogue, an abstract imagining of a 'Realm of Music'. It has been prepared in the hope that Busoni's passion for the eternally new freedoms of musical creativity might not only refresh the way we encounter twentieth century music, but might inspire twenty-first century musicians and listeners to rediscover the deepest questions in musical philosophy and resume the constant struggle for the music of the future.…

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Soft cover. 8vo. pp 156. Large format paperback. Signed by the author on the half title page. ISBN: 1899293337 Fine.

Glossy Boards. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Immaculate and unread; Glossy boards, minimally edge-rubbed; 288p., including author pseudonyms. Size: 4to - 9 3/4" - 12" Tall. Color Illustrations (illustrator). Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 394 pages. 8.19x5.83x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Standard paperback binding. Pen inscription by the author on title page. Very slight "bumps" to corners. The Reins of The Transfinite is the third part of the No Name Now Trilogy, which began with The Outcast's Burden, and continued with The Minotaurs of Terror. It concerns a bunch of totally uncooptable human monsters, who acquire magnified, 'meta-human' powers as a consequence of encountering a demiurge-figure, who becomes their sorcerer-mentor. Representing God as he would be in the author's view - if he existed, which he almost certainly doesn't - he turns all the familiar tropes of Divinity on their head and plunges the world and civilisation into total annihilation. But the monsters survive the 'Meta-Apocalypse', and then have to deal with the ennui of a totally barren existence, and descend into the horror vacui of what seems to be the Ultimate Abyss. And yet they miraculously resurrect again in the third part, and then have the challenge of creating a new civilisation from the debris of the old, or a virtual nothingness, which they proceed to tackle. But meanwhile, in another dimension or space-time region, the world continues after the 'Meta-Apocalypse' as it has. And yet the parallel-world created by the monsters is slowly secreted into it. So conflict ensues between the increasingly desperate and diabolically deranged outcasts and their equally evil enemies fighting to save the social order. This leads to a tumultuous climax, with various twists along the way. The characters are really archetypal figures, representing and embodying mythological potentialities and philosophical ambitions that bring them inevitably into violent confrontation with all who oppose them. In this context, the book is essentially a study of the irrepressible drive towards 'Totality' that the author believes exists in each and every individual to varying degrees. Yet whereas most people settle for compromises of various kinds in their lives, the outcasts refuse all compromise and take their obsessions to the most extreme lengths imaginable, with devastating consequences for humanity and themselves. The reader may have to suspend disbelief, but the author firmly maintains that what may appear to be fantastical could potentially be actual on another plane. Size: Octavo. 560 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Satire; Horror & ghost stories; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1789014123. ISBN/EAN: 9781789014129. Dewey Code: 823.92. Inventory No: 90492. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

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Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: vi, 289. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Yellow dust jacket with black pen illustration at front. Green buckram boards with gilt lettering to front and spine and green silk ribbon.ISBN: 1872621805 Fine, a clean, solid, tight copy.