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Published by New World Records, NYC, 1977
Seller: Moneyblows Books & Music, Lee, NH, U.S.A.
Book
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VG+/VG+ Vinyl Record. 2 LPs, gatefold with booklet. Ex-library stamps, faint surface scuffs on vinyl. Music by Thomson, Text by Gertrude Stein, The Santa Fe Opera conducted by Raymond Leppard, with Mignon Dunn, Batyah Godfrey, Avuva Orvath, Ashley Putnam. James Atherton, Philip Booth, William Lewis, Linn Maxwell, Helen Vanni. Directed by Peter Wood, scenery and costumes by Robert Indiana.
Published by G. Schirmer, 1947
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. lite smoker odor, book has moderate edge wear, light corner wear, moderate sun fading to spine, tiny tear at top of spine, light smudging across cover, otherwise presentable and readable.
Published by G Schirmer, Inc., 1948
Seller: Friendly Books, Lakewood, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Fair. Soft cover without dust jacket. Cover has wear and curling to corners, edges and some tears to spine. Complete vocal score with writing throught out in pencil, underlining and red markings. Does not detract to readability of notes and words. Some curling noted to corners throughout book. Pages intact.
Published by Boosey & Hawkes, New York, 1968
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Coos Bay, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Rear front corner rubbed, otherwise light edge and extremity wear, short note pencilled lightly on front cover.
Loose-leaf. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Musical setting for this poem, inspired by a Spanish dancer. Later printing, with 75¢ cover price. Light wear, some creasing, short tear to lower rear cover. 12 pages, counting covers (7 of printed music). Size: 9" by 12".
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with some fading and light wear.
Published by Random House, 1998 [1999], New York, 1998
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in green wrappers with a cloth-spine. 8.5 x 11". The publication date of February, 1999 is written on the front cover, but the copyright pages states 1998. This proof predates the smaller, advance copy commonly offered.
Published by Boosey and Hawkes, 1968
Seller: Book Stop, Inc., Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert Indiana (illustrator). Covers are age tones. Ink stamp on front cover. Small area rubbed through on front cover at top near spine.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. 160 page tall soft cover opera score about Susan B. Anthony. Text by Gertrude Stein, music by Virgil Thomson, scenario by Maurice Grosser, musical director Otto Luening, staged by John Taras, costumes and sets designed by Paul du Paul with first production by Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University May 7-15, 1947. This copy is a the first edition, limited to 1000 copies. Frontis photos of Stein and Thomson by Carl Van Vechten. Cover art by Robert J. Pontabry. Cover corner is creased and spine bottom edges are starting to tear, and lightly soiled. Interior is very good condition - no markings. This copy was from Otto Luening's estate, but his ownership is not provable.
Published by Music Press, New York, 1947
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 157 pages : portraits. Publisher's paper wrappers square, light wear to corners, wear to front and rear panels, previous owner's signature to upper fore-corner of front panel, edges darkened; contents unmarked. One of an edition of 1000 copies. 690 grams.
Published by G. Schirmer, New York, 1971
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Quarto. Four nested bifoliums making 16 pages. Fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 46979. Frances (Fanny) Blood was an English illustrator and friends with philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, Stein's portrait of her originally appeared in the collection *Geography and Plays*. This musical setting is well represented in institutions but seemingly scarce in the trade.
Published by G. Schirmer, New York, 1948
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Three nested bifoliums making nine pages. Music shop stamp on the front wrapper, sticker shadow and small abrasion on the front wrapper from the removal of a price sticker, light toning, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 41673. Publisher's printed price of 60 cents on the front wrapper.
Published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953
Seller: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. Original Publisher's Cloth in Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. 294 pages. Very Good Condition in Good dust jacket with light edgewear. No inscriptions, not price-clipped (AC-22-17).
Published by G. Schirmer, 1948
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good. (1948) sheet music; standard use wear to edges of cover; paper label with name of opera on spine; there is also a typed note paperclipped to title page from the Schirmer performance department loaning this copy of the opera to Nonesuch Records; there is a small mark on fore-edge, but no internal markings; Four Saints in Three Acts, unusual in its form and for its depiction of European saints by an all-black cast when it was first performed in 1934. Scarce. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
Published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York,, 1948
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Trade Edition. 4to Fine copy Wilson & Uphill E7b 8 pages loose in printed wrappers, as issued.
Published by A-R Editions, Middleton, WI, 2008
ISBN 10: 0895796295ISBN 13: 9780895796295
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. lvi, [5], 447 pages. Former owner detached leaves of the introduction from page xv through xxx - otherwise the book is as new: no spine crease, no inscriptions. 12 x 9 inches. Customers outside North America please request an accurate shipping quote before ordering.
Published by Music Press, Arrow Music, 1948
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1/1000 regular copies, complete vocal score. Paper-bound with cloth spine, edges show wear, spine has name of opera in white, general age and soiling all around. Pen name on inside front cover. 144pp. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011.
Published by Music Press, Inc., New York, 1948
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Scenario by Maurice Grosser. 144 [1] pp. Folio, original printed flexible boards. Former owner's small blind-embossed name stamp in the upper corner of the title page; clipped portrait of Stein and Thomson affixed opposite title page; very light use to boards. Complete vocal score.
Published by New York: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 1964., 1964
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 33 1/3 rpm recording (LM-2756). Record is in fine condition, the enclosed libretto is near fine, and the record sleeve shows minor rubbing. This is a surprisingly scarce recording of a landmark American opera. "The cast is substantially identical with that of the original [1934] production.".
Published by Mercury Music Corporation, New York, 1935
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Single sheet folded in half with a single leaf insert making six pages. Music shop stamp on the front cover, faint crease on the rear wrapper, light toning, light edgewear, near fine. For voice and piano. There was another version of this score printed in a limited run of 110 copies by J. Fischer & Bro. for the Berkshire School Musicale Association, this trade edition appears to be similarly uncommon.
Seller: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, Germany
Signed
Albumblatt, in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert - mit s/w-Reproporträtfoto unter rotbraunes Passepartout (4°) gerahmt.
Published by J. Fischer & Bro., New York, [1935], 1935
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 100 numbered copies 4to A little creasing to corners and a short tear at foot of spine, else a very nice copy. Wilson & Uphill E2a 8 pages, loose in printed tan wrappers, as issued.
Published by New World Records, New York, 1977
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Pop artist Robert Indiana's vivid serigraph poster for the 1977 New World Records release of The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson's 1947 opera about Susan B. Anthony, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein: "The right to sleep is given to no woman." Indiana had long been an active admirer of The Mother of Us All, designing sets for several stage productions, including the Santa Fe Opera's 1976 bicentennial production, whose recording is advertised here. The typography features Indiana's signature tipped O in MOTHER, a design element that recalls his iconic LOVE sculpture and stamp. For more on Indiana and The Mother of Us All, see David Littlejohn, "Artists on the Opera Stage" in The Ultimate Art (1992). A really attractive promotional poster, whose minor flaws would be mitigated by proper framing. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Published by JHW Editions, 1997
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 20 (sale item)* limited to 25 numbered copies hors commerce, this being copy #15; small folio, [2 leaves] (title, contents & colophon), [8] (text), [3] (music) pp., with two sheets on thin handmade paper as guards, 40 (book) pp., CD; all fine in a very good red clamshell case. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Published by Music Press Inc., 1947
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. THE MOTHER OF US ALL, Music Press Inc., 1947, first edition, moisture staining to spine, much less to base of front cover, else a vg+ copy. 1/55 copies specially bound and SIGNED by composer Virgil Thompson. Lacking the three photographs taken by Carl Van Vechten which accompanied this work which is most often the case. Music inspired by the life and times of Susan B. Anthony.
Published by JHW Editions, New York, 1992
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
unbound. Condition: fine. Limited. Red cloth folio clamshell case containing a CD, a 40 page 4to paperback booklet, and loose folio sheets of text an music, handsomely printed at the Stinehour Press. [New York]: JHW Editions, circa 1992. Limited edition -- number 153 of 275 copies. A fine copy, as new. The text consists of three previously printed pieces by Gertrude Stein on Pablo Picasso: "Picasso" (1909); "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1923); and PICASSO (1938). Thomson's piece is entitled "Bugles & Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso" (30 April 1940), with the score is reproduced in facsimile from the original manuscript. The CD is a performance of the piece, recorded at Steinway Hall, New York City, 1992.
Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Limited Numbered Edition. Copy #65 of 275 (300 total with 25 hors commerce) About fine in red clamshell box. (Mild bump at upper edge of box. ) Printed on Arches Wove paper at the Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont. The cover paper for Gertrude Stein's monograph has been specially made by Paul Wong at the Dieu Donne Papermill. The box covered in imported Brillianta cloth. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Features a facsimile of Virgil Thomson's score of "Bugles & Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso" composed 30 April 1940 Paris, and Gertrude Stein's "Picasso" and "If I Told Him" a completed portrait of Picasso. (1948) A CD of Suzzan Craig on piano playing the Thomson piece at Steinway Hall, NYC on 11 November 1992 is set inside a compartment. A lovely production. ; 11 1/4" X 14 1/4".
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1953
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition of volume three of the Yale edition of Stein's unpublished writings, collected under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stein's partner Alice B. Toklas on the front free endpaper, "A peace offering to dear Elizabeth with love from Alice Paris 4 - VI - 54." The recipient, Elizabeth Miriam Squire Sprigge was an English biographer and longtime nemesis of both Stein and Toklas and one of Stein's harshest critics. In several letters to close personal friends following Stein's death, Toklas expressed her disdain towards Sprigge, on one occasion in particular when she asserted to Sylvia Beach that Toklas was surely the true writer of Stein's work (Toklas, Staying on Alone). Toklas sent the first edition of the posthumous work to Sprigge as a sort of peace offering in the midst of the feuding, however, she late rescinded all kind gestures with the 1957 publication of Sprigge's Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work which proved to be contentious, "vulgar and mistaken" according to Toklas. Laid in is a photograph of Stein's grave and a sealed envelope containing âhorse hair from sofa rue Christine [Stein's home]â and âthorns from rose bush at Bellingen." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. "The present volume has in it landscape and love poetry and much mention of people and a great deal about the War, the first World War" (Virgil Thompson, introduction. Included are poems, dialogues, descriptions, landscapes, abstractions, comments on people and incidents, poetic and naturalistic recountings of daily life in Spain, Paris, Nimes, and other places.
Published by Éditions de la Montagne, Paris,, 1930
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Wrappers. First Edition. Illustrations by Picasso, Tchelitchef, Bérard, Tonny and E. Berman Of 100 numbered copies with illustrations, this is one of only 25 copies on Holland Van Gelder paper, signed by the author and by the translators. Fine unopened copy in original outer glassine protective wrapper Wilson & Uphill A15b.