Search Results: Language from Berthoff Books

Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 388 pages, with glossary of common elements in English place-names, select bibliography; plus 33 pages of front matter including an introduction explaining the etymology of place-names, list of abbreviations, maps of the counties of England before and after 1974. From the DJ: "Each entry includes the modern county in which the place-name appears, the name's most likely meaning and derivation, a typical earlier spelling with its date, and the name's spelling in the Domesday Book if it occurs there." 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, a bit of page-turning soil and a hint of dust soil to top edge, pages bright and unmarked; in price-clipped DJ with some shelf wear, small (1/4") chip to front panel at top right.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 175 pages, with index. Essays assembled as a posthumous collection, by Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce. 8vo, black cloth with blind letter B on front board, silver gilt lettering on spine, no visible exterior wear save light dust soil to top edge, extremely faint foxing to fore-edge, boards ever so slightly bowed; in DJ with diagonal chip to front flap as if price-clipped, except the (UK) price is present at the bottom of flap. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her marks and one note in very light pencil observed on approximately six pages and the rear flap of the DJ, and a few page reference notes related to Kleist in ink on the book's last page after the index.

Allyn and Bacon, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN, designed for English-speaking students. 146 pages, with Notes explaining many words and phrases, note on Grimm's Law to draw out German's similarity with English, Exercises for Retranslation, abbreviations list, and nearly 50-page vocabulary list. The German of the Grimms' tales is printed in the Fraktur font in this edition. 12mo, faded gray cloth with black lettering and decoration, spine sunned/discolored and worn at crown and heel, other wear to boards, edges/end papers/pages age-toned with spots of foxing or other stains on some pages, a couple of pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom. Names of three former owners on front pastedown and ffep, notes on front pastedown, rear end papers, and a few pages.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 272 pages. Translated from Spanish. Reprint of 1963 Norton Paperback edition of book first published in English 1957. Includes short publisher's note and biographical blurb. Trade paperback, crease to front bottom corner, other light shelf wear, light foxing to edges extends to first and last pages of text block. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on inside front cover, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 35 pages.

University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 191 pages, with index. Published as one of the Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. A study of the making of meaning, with central attention to "the triadic semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce [which] accounts for interpretation in logical terms: interpretation is a constituent of the sign". 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, gray end papers, rear board bowed, in dust jacket with light shelf wear, sticker on front panel, piece of clear tape on rear panel. Pages bright and unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 189 pages, with index, bibliography of Chomsky's works, two prefaces. Reprint of 1978 paperback edition of book first published 1975. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light shelf wear, bookstore sticker on back cover. From the library of Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits), her underscoring and/or notes on upwards of half the pages, inside covers and rfep.

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 484 pages, with index, abbreviations list, notes. Foreword by Martin Schwab. Twenty-seven lectures, first published in German 1984, English published here as Theory and History of Literature series Vol. 45. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits), her underscoring and/or (engaged, critical) marginalia in pencil on approximately 80 pages, extracts written out on half-title, notes on rfep and back cover.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 142 pages. A Doubleday Anchor Original, translated from the Danish edition published 1962, being the first American edition. Includes Biographical Introduction. Mass-market paperback, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) written on half-title, her notes there and on inside covers, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 50 pages.

Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 261 pages, with index, 78 photographs on b&w plates, 49 line drwings, 3 maps. Volume 25 in Ancient Peoples and Places series, general ed. Glyn Daniel. 8vo, brick-colored cloth with rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, worn especially at corners, both hinges cracked making the binding loose but all pages firmly attached, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing and tiny soil spots to top edge and fore-edge. Bookplate of former owner Ann E. Berthoff on ffep along with a stray pen mark. Text pages unmarked.