Search Results: German literature in translation from Berthoff Books

Schocken Books, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS. As such, the book lacks page numbers, but 320-page length stated. A new translation, based on the restored text; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Includes a biographical chronology. Trade paperback-sized, scant wear, pages bright inside and on edges. Underscoring/mark observed on one page, in the translator's preface.

Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 628 pages, with introduction "Disclosure of a Poet", editorial notes, index of titles in German, chronological list of poems. Edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Erich Fried. Nearly 500 poems, translated from German by 35 translators. Trade paperback, 1-3/4" thick, crease to spine, wraps curled and worn with 1/2" tear to front cover along fore-edge; faint foxing, smudges and small dents to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 125 pages and inside back cover. laid-in sheaf of clipped essays and reviews on Brecht published 1960-62, from the TLS, the New York Times, the Listener, and by Prof. Victor Lange in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, conveys with the book.

Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. Soft cover. Good. 419 pages plus several-page catalogue of Dover Books. Edited with an Introduction by E.F. Bleiler. Multiple translators listed on copyright page. Illustrated with seven b&w reproductions of drawings by Hoffmann. Trade paperback, outer coating of wraps peeling in a few spots, light crease to front cover at bottom, faint foxing to top edge, ToC page dog-eared, binding supple, pages bright. Name of former owner written on ffep, marks and/or notes in light pencil on approximately 40 pages.

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade paperback, minimal wear, faint foxing/dust soil to top edge, pages bright. Pencil underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on five pages in the introduction, no marks observed in the poems.

Schocken Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages. "A new translation based on the restored text." First paperback edition. With Publisher's Note, Translator's Preface, Afterword to the German Critical Edition (Malcolm Pasley), biographical chronology, bibliography. Trade paperback, very light shelf wear and rubbing along spine, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Annotated by the translators. A dozen pages of b&w photos. 8vo, plain paper wrappers, soiled and worn, reading crease. Note about review due date written on front cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil throughout and notes on rear end papers.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. 205 pages plus 11 pages front matter and translator's Preface. Trade paperback, crease to spine, binding cracked at p. 44-45, light shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Notes observed on two pages (one in preface, one in notes) and rear end papers.

Penguin Books, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 267 pages. Reprint of 1967 edition, introduction by the translator. Mass-market paperback, moderate shelf wear, scratch and sticker remnant on back cover, edges soiled and age-tanned, light foxing to end papers. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately half the pages.

New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 451 pages, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Collection includes Don Carlos, the Letters on Don Carlos, the essays "Theater Considered as a Moral Institution" and "On the Aesthetical Education of Man", some poems, and the Ghost Seer. Trade paperback, shelf wear, chip to heel, edges and page margins age-tanned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

Bantam Books, 1961. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 360 pages. Ninth printing. Stories in the original German with translations, critical introductions, notes and vocabulary by the editor. Includes stories by Goethe, Hoffmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Kafka, others. Mass-market paperback, wraps soiled, rubbed, worn at corners, 1" tear to top edge of back cover taped from inside, foxing to top edge, edges/end papers/page margins tan with age. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1964. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 367 pages, with English prose translations below the German poems; index of first lines. Published in the Penguin Poets series. 1969 reprint. Introduced and edited by David Luke. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear and soil, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Underscoring and/or (intelligent) notes on approximately 20 pages and inside covers.

Grove Press/Evergreen Black Cat, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 172 pages, with Bibliographical Notes. "English versions by Eric Bentley", who wrote a Foreword dated 1964. The plays besides the title play are In Search of Justice, The Informer, The Elephant Calf, The Measures Taken, The Exception and the Rule. Fragments of another are provided in an appendix. A second appendix contains a translation of an official East German criticism of Brecht from 1965. Mass-market paperback, light foxing to top edge and wraps, minimal shelf wear, page margins age-toned.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with index of names, index of works, illustrated with b&w reproductions of portraits on four double-sided plates. English translation of a work issued in German 1957, revised 1977. Trade paperback, creases to spine, foxing to edges, scant shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on front free end paper, her underscoring and/or marginalia (about half and half small marks and short notes) on inside front cover and approximately half the pages.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 93 pages. First Norton Library edition of translation first published 1932, revised 1959, of vignettes written 1899 and first published in German 1904. Includes one-page biographical note and three-page translator's Foreword. Printed with German original and English translation facing. Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4") with soil but scant shelf wear to wraps, foxing to top edge. Notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately five pages and underscoring in the lists of Norton Library titles at the end.

W W Norton & Company Inc, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 468 pages, with index, notes, and list of correspondents. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. Illustrated with five b&w photos and one ms. facsimile. First Norton Library edition of collection published 1948. Includes selected Wartime Letters. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, with light wear and soil, dust soil/faint foxing to top edge. Pencil underscoring and/or marginalia (in a small, neat hand) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 65 pages.

New York Review Books Classics, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages. Stories selected and translated from German by Joel Rotenberg. Introduction by the Irish writer John Banville. Small trade paperback (5" x 8"), little wear, a bit of dust soil to top edge, sticker remnants on back cover, binding tight, pages bright. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 10 pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 720 pages. Second printing of 1944 single-volume edition; first published 1927 in two volumes, from the German Der Zauberberg (1924). 8vo, black cloth with blind-stamped lettering and Borzoi logo barely visible. Much-used copy with heavy wear to the exterior: backstrip reglued but missing pieces, boards worn down to the cardboard (it's a wartime edition), some damp damage, hinges cracked, red topstain faded, edges and end-papers age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep. Text block remains quite readable: all pages attached, binding supple, tears or chips to a few pages. The underscoring and/or marginalia observed on approximately 150 pages are mostly small marks in light pencil, but there are a couple of chapters with heavier annotation in ink. An interesting reading copy for some.

John Calder, 1976. Soft cover. Good. 93 pages, with two-page introduction and one-page biographical chronology on Mörike. The 1856 novella is a fictionalized account of Mozart's travelling, with Constanze, to Prague for the premiere of Don Giovanni. Translated from German by Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and light creasing to wraps, rubbed along spine, break in spine about 1" from the heel which is not visible from the interior of the book, a little discoloration and old price sticker on back cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Pages unmarked. Will reduce shipping charge and mail first-class if desired and feasible.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 130 pages. Novel first published in German 1979. Imagined meeting and dialogue of the writers Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode. 8vo, mauve paper over boards with purple-gray cloth quarter and gilt lettering on spine, touch of dust soil to top edge, a little foxing to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped DJ with 1/2" tear (mended from inside) to front panel at top, flaps slightly curled, handwritten correction of an error in front flap blurb and a note on back flap. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia - some small marks, some substantial - in pencil on approximately 50 pages and end papers.