Igor Stravinsky by Corle Edwin Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Water damage at bottom edge has left pages slightly rippled and damp stains at bottom two inches of photographs. 245 pages plus illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 245p octavo, illustrated with art by Picasso, Klee, Chagall, Edward Weston etc. Lacking the jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover bound in black cloth. No marks or writing in book. Lacks a dust jacket. Cloth a bit rubbed at edges of boards. Good condition overall. 20th century modernist content including words and images by contributors such a Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Edward Weston, Aaron Copland, Picasso, Klee, Arnold Newman, Marc Chagall, etc.…

245 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Black cloth decorated with yellow stamping to spine and front board. Staining to red top edge. Toning to front free endpaper verso (page 2) and Stravinsky portrait on opposing page 3 caused by laid-in June 16, 1957 New York Times Magazine article regarding the composer. Picasso's red-toned illustration bound-in between pages 136-137 matched by a laid-in duplicate with its bottom fore-edge corners creased. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Features essays by Edwin Corle, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Boris de Schloezer, Henry Boys, Eugene Goossens, Arthur Berger, Osbert Sitwell, Aaron Copland, Nicolas Nabokoff, Merle Armitage, Samuel Dushkin, Lawrence Morton, Robert Craft, Cecil Smith, David Hall. The book was designed by Merle Armitage. Includes photographs and illustrations by Edward Weston, John Vachon, Arnold Newman, Antonio Frasconi, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Marc Chagall, P.G. Napolitano, et al.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near Like New with a like new dust jacket with the price unclipped, $6.00, First Edition, previously priced at $60.00 by an antiquarian bookstore and an original Gutenberg Books Rochester NY receipt for $60.00 is included, this comes from the estate of Cleveland Orchestra musicians Chris Haff Paluck and Gerald Paluck, pages clean and crisp, covers clean with the dust jacket protected by a plastic Mylar, no highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Thank you for your interest. We ship the same day or the next business day. b48. …

Cloth with Dust Wrapper. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Illustrations. Illustrated dust wrapper; slight chipping top edge and spine bottom. Illustrated front and rear end papers. Works of art by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Arnold Newman, Antonio Frasconi and others. Articles and Essays by Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Merle Armitage, Boris de Schloezer, Nicolas Nabokoff and others. From the dust wrapper: "This is not a book to settle a discussion about Stravinsky; it is a book to begin one." So states Edwin Corle in his foreword to the reader. The volume contains fifteen critiques ranging from the casual and personal to the scholarly and technical.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 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. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD.