Search Results: Literary history from Berthoff Books

The Modern Library, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with index, biographical note, frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, for other full-page b&w illustrations (two portraits of monarchs, London panorama, Swan Theatre. A Modern Library Chronicles Book. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned with light foxing. Marks and/or notes in light pencil on approximately five pages.

Press of the Times, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 23 pages. Cover 6" x 9", staple bound in pale gray card with black lettering on the cover. Three of the five parts of the essay are based on a Fulbright lecture delivered at the University of Catania, November 1957. The pamphlet was the first separately published work by Prof. Warner Berthoff, who went on to write The Example of Melville, The Ferment of Realism, Literature and the Continuances of Virtue and other books on American and world literature, during his years of teaching at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University. The pamphlet, published by the Press of the Times in Berthoff's home town of Oberlin, Ohio, is clean and unmarked, not having been previously removed from the publisher's original packaging since publication in 1960. Will reduce shipping charge and send by USPS First Class, if feasible for purchaser's location.

Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 102 pages, with index. Reference work published within the Goldentree Bibliographies series, lists writers, their works, and literary criticism written about them. Cover 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", stapled beige glossy wraps, small tear in front cover upper left, chip at top of back cover. Text clean and unmarked.

The Library of Congress Reference Department, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 55 pages. Four Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 8vo, stapled in matte card stock two-tone gray wraps, light shelf wear, age-browning to lighter gray part of wraps. Foxing spots on cover, pencil underscoring of single word or phrase on three pages, note in margin of one page.

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 229 pages, with index. Collection of essays, including ones on the English novel as of 1907, reading novels, several on interpretation, Appendix "The One Correct Interpretation." Trade paperback with shelf wear, creases to spine, poorly bound so that several pages and sections have come entirely or partially separated from the binding (but all are in place), pages bright. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her interesting and argumentative marginalia in pencil on approximately 25 pages.

Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 244 pages, with index, list of abbreviations; biographical note by Thomas H. English. Trade paperback, spine sunned and rubbed, loss to front wrap at upper corner from peeled sticker, light shelf wear. Underscoring and/or marks in pencil on approximately six pages, a few notes on inside back cover. Pages bright.

George H. Doran. Hardcover. Good/Good. 139 pages. No date stated, but between 1913 (author's death) and 1927. With a Memorial Introduction by H.W. Massingham. 4-1/2" x 6-3/4", dark blue buckram with gilt lettering and decorative pattern on spine, top edge decoratively tinted blue, corners sharp, foot of spine shelf-worn, in soiled DJ with wear, small tears and chipping at its corners. "August 1962" and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on ffep, with his notation "from library of Bettina Linn." Miss Linn (1905-1962), author and professor of English, was Berthoff's colleague at Bryn Mawr. Bookstore price notation in pencil on rear pastedown, Berthoff's and Linn's margin brackets and notes in pencil on rfep and a few pages (fewer than 10 observed).

Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 369 pages, plus 12 pages front matter, with indexes of titles, first lines, and explanatory material; bibliography; key to guitar chords used in the book; introduction. Decorations by William Bars. Sixty-five ballad topics are explored, some with several versions, and matched with Child ballad numbers. Piano settings and guitar chords are given for one of the versions each time, along with multiple verses. All were collected by Niles in Appalachia in the early 20th century. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4") green cloth with dark green lettering, dark green end papers have maps of Appalachia in knockout type, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges age-toned, faint foxing to fore-edge and on a few pages. No writing or marks observed. Laid in are two photographs of Niles, one being the trimmed remnant of the front panel of the DJ of this book, the other one evidently clipped from a magazine. Large book, may require shipping surcharge depending on destination. Read More

Verlag Ullstein, 1971. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 518 pages, with index of names and glossary of foreign words. Mit einer Einleitung von Hans Mayer. Paperback 11.75 x 17.95 cm, mottled dark brown wraps with title in black lettering on orange paper label with rough edges from wear, 1.9 cm tear to top edge of back cover, edges and pages age-tanned, bookstore price in pencil on front free end paper, binding solid, no markings within.

Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 344 pages, with general index, list of works of art reproduced (arranged by saint). The discussion by Harvard Professor Emeritus of English Kiely of the depiction of saints in Italian Renaissance art is illustrated throughout with color photographs of the art. Ten chapters each deal with one or a few saints, starting with the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist and including St. Augustine, St. Francis, and Catherine of Siena. Super 8vo (7" x 10"), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt end papers, printed on semi-gloss stock, practically no visible wear save a touch of dust to the top edge and smudge to the ffep; in DJ with light shelf wear. Pages unmarked.

Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, edges stained red, text block age-tanned. Light pencil notation on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Souvenir Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Foreword by Rimvyadas Silbajoris. 450 pages. Illustrated throughout with black and white cuts, mostly from photos, portraits, self-portraits of Pasternak alone or with family members, writers, and others. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4"), teal boards with dark raspberry quarter, spine sunned. Corners worn, lower front corner at spine has small tear; back cover nicked in two places along top. No markings in the text.

Harvest Books - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Soft cover. Good. 208 pages. Collection of essays written 1957-1982, including on William Hazlitt, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Coleridge and Wordsworth. Trade paperback, some smudges and light creases to wraps, sticker remnant on front cover. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 30 pages and inside back cover. Laid-in TLS clipping - review by Blythe of two books about trees.

The Melville Society, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 90 pages. 8vo, in dove gray stapled wraps with black lettering, cover light-faded along spine and margins, streaks of rust-colored soil on front, grease spot on back.

The Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown), 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 669 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Survey, two-page map of Chekhov's journey through Siberia to Sakhalin. Trade paperback, wraps age-tanned on and along spine, barely visible creasing to corners, foxing to edges, end papers, and a few pages at beginning and end of the book. Underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly marks, a few notes) by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 30 pages.

Ginn and Company, 1911. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 597 pages, with Index of Mythological Subjects and Sources, Index of Modern Authors and Artists, Rules for Pronunciation. 189 b&w illustrations, on single-sided plates against pale peach background and line drawings as cuts, color maps of Greece and Italy, each across two plates. New Edition Revised and Enlarged (first was published 1893). The author was professor of English and Classics at U. of California-Berkeley, whose lectures were so popular that they sometimes were held in an outdoor amphitheatre to accommodate guest listeners. 8vo, bluish black cloth with faded gilt lettering on sunned spine, blind-stamped title and colophon on front board, light blotches on boards, very faded blue or gray topstain, heavy wear to crown/heel/corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, hinges loose (front one shows cracking), binding loose at p. 311 but all pages attached, pull-out "family tree" on tissue paper is somewhat… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 141 pages. Reissue, with author's new preface and corrections, of book published 1975. Based on T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures given at U. of Kent, their point of departure is Eliot's 1944 essay "What Is a Classic?" Trade paperback, spine creased, light wear to edges of wraps. Condition is "fair" because ffep and p. 59-78 (as a clump) have separated from the binding. Pages are bright, notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on ffep and approximately six pages.

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1960. Soft cover. Good. 340 pages, with suggestions for further reading. Essays by three and a half dozen authors, from Aristotle to Auden, arranged for use by college students: a section of Theory, a section of "Essays, Narratives and Verse", and a short section offering topics for discussion. Trade paperback, wraps shelf-worn, front cover split from spine 2" at bottom and taped, 1/2" at top, spine creased, edges age-toned, a few pages stained tan as from laid-in newspaper clipping. Except for small marks next to a few titles in the table of contents, pages are clean.

Princeton University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 442 pages, with index. Medium 8vo (6.5" x 9.5"), beige cloth with gilt lettering on blue inset on spine, corners sharp, small bump to top of front board, back board slightly bowed, top edge dust-soiled, page turning soil to edges at bottom corner, end papers stained tan from laid-in clippings and rusted paperclip, in heavily worn unclipped DJ with chips and tears. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 25 pages, particularly in a chapter on Hart Crane's "The Bridge".

Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 395 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The third volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume study of Dostoevsky's life and work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with teal cloth quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, very slightly cocked, light dust soil to top edge, faintest foxing to fore-edge and end papers. DJ minimally worn. Inscribed by author on ffep to Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff "who have taught me the truth of the old sayng that old friends are the best." Note in pencil on rfep; interior pages unmarked.Laid in is clipping of V.S. Pritchett's review of this volume in the NY Review of Books, Sept. 25, 1986.