C 1395 (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. xii, 310 pp. [ISBN: 978-0268023065] Softbound. A fine bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bungay: Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, 1899. First edition. 767,[1],[12]pp. Sometime rebound in maroon cloth, gilt lettering, with original paper covers (these worn) bound in. Spine sunned to a lighter shade of red. A very good copy.(**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 1.4 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required for overseas orders. International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quote).…

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. [iv], 52 pp. Revised version, copyright 1955, 1968. First thus. Plate F. S. 332. Printed in U.S.A. Fine full orchestra score in wraps sewn into card covers. Previous owner, a conductor has made professional marks in blue and red pencil. Sewn into stiff card covers with manila endpapers. "Freedom is a noble thing! / Freedom makes man to have liking: / Freedom all solace to man gives, / He lives at ease that freely lives. // A Noble heart may have no ease, / Nor aught beside that may him plese / If Freedom fail. / For free liking is yearned for over all other thing, / Nor he that aye have lived free / May know well the misery, The anger, and the wretched doom / That is coupled to foul thralldom; / But if he hath essayed it / Then throughout all he should it wit; / And should think freedom more to prize / Than all the gold in world that is." "A patriotic work for chorus and orchestra written originally for a non-professional chorus. Copland confined himself to two-part choral writing and to introducing the chorus only in the final third. As he wanted to 'Make a big noise,' a large battery of percussion is called for in the orchestra. The piece was revised later for a performance conducted by Robert Shaw."-Vivian Perlis, 1998. An unflinching rebuke to Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin. "Freedom had surely been on Copland's mind when he found himself ensnared in the McCarthy-era political witch hunts. On April 4, 1949, Life magazine published a spread entitled 'Dupes and Fellow Travelers Dress Up Communist Fronts,' which included 50 photo portraits, including Copland's own. . . . Copland might very well have felt proud of the company in which he found himself: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller, Langston Hughes, Albert Einstein, Norman Mailer, Susan B. Anthony II, Lillian Hellman, and Copland's protégé Leonard Bernstein were among the 'dupes' pictured with him in the Life article."--MIT Libraries, "150 Years in the Stacks." 0.80. …

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black patterned blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel, violet patterned end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains [xii] 123 printed pages of text with 18 monochrome illustrations throughout. A little sun fading across the top of the boards and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Italian].…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 510 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1886. This volume offers an index and abstract of the episcopal register of Edmund Stafford, bishop of Exeter from 1395 to 1419. It is a valuable source for the study of medieval English ecclesiastical administration, diocesan history, clerical appointments, benefices, and local church affairs. Of interest to historians, genealogists, and researchers of the late medieval Church in England. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 524 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1886. Index and abstract of the contents of the register of Edmund Stafford, bishop of Exeter from 1395 to 1419, a valuable source for the study of late medieval ecclesiastical administration, diocesan history, appointments, benefices, and local church affairs in Devon and Cornwall. The work is of clear interest to historians of the English Church and to researchers tracing clerical careers and administrative practice in the later Middle Ages. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…