Search Results: Italian literature in translation from Berthoff Books

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 319 pages. A Story Press Book. First American edition of English translation, done from the Italian of Silone's first version of this anti-fascist novel. Written while Silone was in exile in Switzerland, it was first published in German 1936. 8vo, light green cloth with gilt lettering readable on front board but more faded on sunned spine, wraps soiled, fore-edge rough-cut, wear with fraying to corners/crown/heel, book slightly cocked, hinges cracked, text block a bit loose from binding though still attached - block slides to flush with bottom edge of the boards while unusually far down (3/8") from the top. Small newspaper clipping mentioning Silone taped to ffep, where there is also an old price in pencil. No markings observed on text pages.

The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 186 pages. First American edition of this translation of collected autobiographical and other prose sketches by the Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. These were written as vignettes for a Milan newspaper beginning in 1948 and first published in Italian in 1956, with additional sketches in 1961 and 1969 editions. 8vo, deep yellow cloth with brown lettering on spine, foxing/dust soil to top edge and top board edges, back board slightly bowed, otherwise practically no visible wear. Unclipped DJ is worn along top edges and smudged on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked.

Penguin Books, Inc., 1948. Soft cover. Fair. 187 pages. First Penguin Books edition, translation published in hardcover the previous year. Levi's autobiographical work relates to the period of his political exile starting in 1935, for opposing fascism, to a remote village. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn and chipped, outer glassine layer mostly peeled away, a few pages also chipped along top edge or fore-edge, pages age-browned and brittle. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on inside front cover, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 15 pages.

Horace Liveright, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 302 pages. Sixth printing of the 1925 Horace Liveright edition, translated by John Payne with a ~40-page introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh (Oxford U.). Red decorative printing on the title page, illustrated end papers. 8vo, black cloth, moderate shelf wear particularly visible at crown, lettering and decoration on spine is faded, rubbing and some scratches to boards, edges age-toned. A sturdy book. Sticker affixed to ffep verso reads "Dr. M.F. Evans In Appreciation - The Cosmos Club 1933." No writing or marks observed on pages.

Pengiun Books, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with bibliography. Edited with an introduction and glossary by T.J.B. Spencer. Elizabethan-era English translations and adaptations of Italian stories, made by William Painter, John Florio and others, and two new translations by the editor. Introduction includes section "Links with Shakespeare's plays." Mass-market paperback, crease to spine and rubbing along its edges, light shelf wear, edges and page margins age-tanned, pages unmarked.

Atheneium Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. First American edition of English translation from Silone's post-war revised version of his famous anti-fascist novel (first published 1933 when he was in exile in Switzerland, issued in English by Penguin Books 1934; revised 1949). Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Note on the Revision of Fontamara written by Silone 1959. Small 8vo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"), beige cloth with red/white/green lettering on spine, title blind-stamped from back board around to front, tan stain to front board from contact with another book, black topstain and end papers, scant shelf wear, vertical tan stains on p. 200-01 from laid-in newspaper clipping (Christian Science Monitor review of Silone's play The Story of a Humble Christian) which conveys with the book and on p. 70-1 evidently from a bookmark; book also falls open to that page. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1960 written on second fly-leaf, his marginalia observed on… Read More

Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 141 pages. Translation of novella published in Italian in 1960, set amid tensions between Italian fascists and socialists in post-war Switzerland. 8vo, black paper over boards with purple cloth quarter, silver and blue gilt lettering on spine and decoration, blue end papers, rough-cut fore-edge, practically no visible shelf wear, rear hinge loose inside rfep. Initials of former owner and date May 1961 written on half-title, pages unmarked. Laid-in photographic portrait of Silone clipped from a newspaper.

Grove Press, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 226 pages plus 10 pages front-matter. D.H. Lawrence's English translation of these late-19th-century stories was first published 1925. Note by Lawrence on the life and work of Verga serves as a preface. 8vo, gray paper over boards with brown cloth quarter, darker brown lettering on spine, foxing to boards and end papers, edges and page margins age-toned, light shelf wear. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia or notes observed on fewer than 10 pages, including ToC.

Signet (The New American Library), 1954. Soft cover. Fair. 144 pages. First Signet printing of translation issued by Farrar, Straus and Young in hardback; Italian novel published 1950. Foreword by Paolo Milano. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, rubbing along spine, edges decoratively stained red, binding loose - text block detached and reglued/taped, brown stains to inside of covers, pages brown and brittle with age. Verses handwritten on inside front cover, underscoring/marginalia observed on one other page.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages. Collection of plays first published in hardback 1952. Edited by Eric Bentley, translations by Bentley, Gerardo Guerrieri, Arthur Livingston, Edward Storer. Mass-market paperback, wraps a little shelf worn and rubbed along spine, patches of foxing to edges, binding tight. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Vintage International (Random House), 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 276 pages. Thirty-seven short stories. Trade paperback, light foxing and soil to wraps, creases to corners of front cover, faint foxing to top edge, page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Columbia University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tr. from the Italian by William A. Packer, edited by George Saunders. The Italian edition appeared in 1977. 158 pages. Cover 6-1/8" x 9-1/4", cloth bound gray with gold and red lettering on spine. DJ in very good condition with one tiny (3/16") tear and crease at top of back. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

Urizen Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 88 pages, with Selected Bibliography of Criticism of Eugenio Montale's Works Published in Britain and the United States 1936-1969. Collection of short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature, first assembled in 1972. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, puce end papers, sharp corners and no visible shelf wear, boards bowed, dust soil to top edge, in unclipped DJ with light wear, rubbed along lines parallel to spine and a few other spots. Pages bright and unmarked.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 360 pages. First American edition of English translation of Silone's anti-fascist novel, sequel to Bread and Wine and Fontamara. 8vo, black cloth with patterned weave, faded gilt lettering on front board and spine, fore-edge rough-cut, light shelf wear with small hole in cloth at bottom of front board, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, foxing to end papers. Old price and other notation in pencil on ffep, text pages unmarked.

Carcanet, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 216 pages, with Foreword by author, Introduction by translator. Appendix of translations of Italian passages in the text. Short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature on a wide array of authors including Dante, Boccaccio, Defoe, Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, many others. 8vo, forest green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear (corners sharp), dust soil to top edge, few spots of foxing to fore-edge. Pages bright, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 10 pages.

Simon and Schuster, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 306 pages, with chronology of when and where the stories were published in Italian (1895-1934), note on bibliography, note on Italian pronunciation. First printing. Introduction by Frances Keene. Stories grouped in four sections: Sicilian Tales, Tales of Humor and Irony, Tales of Frustration, Tales of Anguish and Hope. 8vo, patterned paper over boards with beige cloth quarter, black lettering on spine, rough-cut fore-edge, patterned end papers, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-toned. Names of former owners on ffep verso, margin notes in pencil observed on ToC and three other pages (marking a typo and two translation errors).

Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages. Translation of historical play published in Italian 1969, set in the 13th century and the biography of Pope Celestine V. Includes 18 pages of historical notes on the Conclave of Perugia, Pope Boniface VIII, and the treatment of Celestine by Dante and Petrarch. 8vo, brown paper over boards with lighter brown cloth quarter, black lettering on spine, blind-stamped colophon, dark olive end papers, rough-cut fore-edge, foxing to edges spills onto some page margins, little shelf wear. Pencil marks in margin on approximately 10 pages of the introductory chapters. Laid-in newspaper clipping of review by Irving Howe of a different one of Silone's books, Emergency Exit.

Collins and Harvill Press, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 128 pages. Translation of book published in Italian 1961 - memoir and stories by the aristocratic author of The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa. Introduction by E.M. Forster. Illustrated with b&w photos on six double-sided plats. 8vo, blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine, tan end papers, little wear, faint foxing to edges, in unclipped DJ with a few tears mended with tape from the inside, chips including a large one (3" wide, 1/4" deep) to front panel at top, foxing to flap folds, rubbed along spine. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages unmarked.