Two years ago, in a rare collaborative enterprise between rival music publishers, all five of Mr. Carter's quartets were brought out in one handsome volume, for which Mr. Mann wrote the preface.
If your backyard dream of delicious eggplants becomes a nightmare of bolting lettuce, take shelter in the woods with a copy of an extraordinarily handsome volume, THE BOOK OF FUNGI: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around the World (University of Chicago Press, $55), by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans.
Gossip in 1891 published a second revised edition of his Theory of the Chess Openings, which Diggle calls "a handsome volume with an appendix of sixty-one pages".
After Steven Spielberg's E.T. appeared in 1982, Ray commented that E.T. "would not have been possible without my script on The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies," Andrew Robinson pointed out in a most handsome volume, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema, with text by Robinson, photographs by Nemai Ghosh and drawings by Ray.
A big, handsome volume that displays Merrill's absorption and re-emission, transfigured, of every kind of experience this planet has to offer.
There's no denying that Reif Larson's The Selected Works of TS Spivet is a handsome volume; a novel beautifully presented, published, and illustrated with imagination and wit.
This handsome volume collects over 2,000 examples by such giants of the form as Charles Addams, Peter Arno and Roz Chast, with the entire run of 68,647 cartoons since the magazine's inception in 1925 assembled on two supplementary CDs.
But this hefty, handsome volume reveals anew the breadth, range and sheer fecundity of a central figure — maybe the central figure — in the evolution of the American musical theater.
It's a handsome volume, jacketed in silver and black, with a disarming cover photograph of Mr. Naipaul stooping, with a gap-toothed grin, to tie a loose shoelace.
Dozens of new Wagner books are appearing, including Millington's handsome volume and, later this year, the nine-hundred-page Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, whose entries range from "absolute music" to "Zurich," by way of "Baudelaire," "Nietzsche," and "pets".
