Search Results: Education from Berthoff Books

Greensboro Historical Society, 2013. Soft cover. Near Fine. 112 unnumbered pages. Foreword by John I. Mattill, edited by Electa Kane Tritsch. Color photographs of murals created by the artist Anne Waterman Mattill for the children's reading area at the Concord Public Library (Massachusetts) almost monthly for two and a half decades. 11" x 5" landscape format, no visible wear, pages bright and unmarked. From the library (not stated) of Ann Evans Berthoff, a lifelong friend of the artist from their girlhood in Iowa to when both lived in Concord for many years.

Bryn Mawr College Library, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 233 pages. Essays contributed by Bryn Mawr College alumnae including Katharine Hepburn, Hanna Holborn Gray, Emily Vermeule; faculty including Felix Gilbert, Jane Oppenheimer, Mabel Lang; friend of BMC Eudora Welty. Poems by faculty member Richmond Lattimore. 8vo, dark red cloth with gilt lettering in black inset on spine, red end papers with white torch (or paisley) repeating pattern, corners sharp, faint water stain to front board and tiny spots of soil to back, light foxing to edges with a few spots on front-matter pages. Pages bright and unmarked.

Graywolf Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 197 pages. Autobiography of critic and English literature teacher at Amherst. 8vo, black paper over boards, silver gilt lettering, scant wear, some foxing to fore-edge and end papers, touch of dust soil to top edge, folded spot in top edge of one page. Unclipped dust jacket has wear to top right corner, crease in front flap, foxing to interior. Name of former owners written on front free end paper, marginalia in pencil on approximately 40 pages.

German Historical Institute, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 pages. Occasional Paper No. 6, being the proceedings of a memorial event held at Bryn Mawr College in 1992. Preface by the editor. Greetings from Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr. Essays "Felix Gilbert at BMC" by Barbara Miller Lane, "Insight and Energy: Reflections on the Work of Felix Gilbert" by Gordon A. Craig. Small pamphlet (5-1/2" x 8-3/8") stapled in printed card wraps, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to wraps and top edge, pages unmarked.

Harvard University Press, 1986. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 499 pages, with index of names. "This edition of The Harvard Book has been specially published for the faculty and staff members of the University on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College." Preface by the editor. 8vo, crimson cloth with gilt lettering and logo, color faded at bottom and along spine as from cleaning, back board a little scratched, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in presentation card from then-President of Harvard Derek Bok.

University of Virginia Press, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 88 pages plus 20 Roman-numeraled front matter including the introduction. 76 pages of color plates, reproductions of paintings by the artist in residence at U. Virginia, including his mural "The Student's Progress"; additional cuts illustrate the introduction and interview. Beattie, a professor of literature at U. Va. who wrote the introduction and interviewed the author, is his wife. Squarish book (10-1/4" x 10"), gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible wear to boards, in DJ with shelf wear to bottom edges. Pages unmarked.

The Hotchkiss School, 1942. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 158 pages plus 16 pages of advertising. Senior class yearbook, 1942, from the Hotchkiss School, Lakewood, Connecticut. Dedicated to Hotchkiss alumni then (1942) serving in World War II. Imperial 8vo (8" x 10-3/4"), embossed silver gilt lettering on front board, wear to corners/crown/heel, crack in binding at middle of book (all pages well attached). Small marks in pencil next to some names in the Upper Middle Class (of 1943), the class of the yearbook's former owner, on two pages.

University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 303 pages, with index. The collection, many of the pieces originally published in The Hudson Review, includes essays on Robert Frost, other modern poets, some short book reviews, reflections on teaching. 8vo, dark blue cloth with silver gilt lettering, blue end papers, not visibly worn, touch of dust soil to edges. Dust jacket crisp (no price, might be advance copy). Inscribed by author on title page to friends and colleagues Profs. Warner and Ann Berthoff. Pages bright and unmarked.