Search Results: Reference from Berthoff Books

The Abingdon Press, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1452 pages, with index. Color maps on six plates. First edition, second printing. Foreword by David G. Downey, five-page list of the scholars who contributed. Includes overall articles and book-by-book commentaries on the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament, and the New Testament. The text is laid out in two columns. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2" x 2-1/4" thick), dark blue cloth scuffed, faded gilt lettering on spine, wear especially to crown and heel, hinges cracked, edges and end papers age-toned with some foxing spots. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

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.

University of California Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 148 pages, with bibliography and list of dates. First paperback edition. Divided into Alphabetical List of Terms; Terms Classified according to Divisions of Rhetoric; Terms by Type; Ornaments. Trade paperback, lettering on spine faded, light soil to wraps, scant shelf wear. Bookplate of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (ed. Richards on Rhetoric) on inside front cover, her name written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages and inside back cover.

The Macmillan Company, 1953. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1456 pages, with Index, Bibliography, Table of Authors. Revised edition (2nd) 1953. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"), 2-1/2" thick, blue cloth with faded gilt lettering, corners frayed, hinges cracked, backstrip loose from binding at foot, large almost-chip in backstrip reglued at crown, edges age-toned and lightly soiled. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his name written on ffep, marginalia on approximately 120 pages - the great majority being small pencil x's and check marks, but some pages, especially in the chapters on Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain, have underscoring and notes (in his small, neat hand). Heavy book, orders will incur shipping surcharge.

Oxford University Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1518 pages, with Prefaces to first and second editions, List of Contributors, list of Abbreviations, list of Popes and Anti-Popes, short biography of Frank Leslie Cross, compiler of the 1957 first edition. The dictionary is laid out in two columns; the content is encyclopedic, with some entries several paragraphs long. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2" x 3" thick), dark blue cloth slightly smudged, gilt lettering on spine, shelf wear, foxing to top edge and page-turning soil to bottom edge, moderate crease to backstrip, pages a bit wavy at bottom from tilt on shelf (not from damp). Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 384 pages, with a list of the authors, and two major sections: U.S.A. and Latin America. Laid out in columns, encyclopedia-style, with entries for individual writers and for tendencies in writing. 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8), dark blue cloth with red stripes and gold lettering/embellishment on spine, dark blue end papers. The book itself is in beautiful shape, tight, only slight soil to edges and fading to tinted top edge, text clean and unmarked. In original DJ, which has tears and chipping, and has been mended. Heavy, will incur shipping surcharge.

Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 177 pages, with List of Poets cited. An alphabetical list of terms related to versification and the composition and reading of poetry. Author's essay "By Way of a Preface" is dated 1956. 8vo, faded blue cloth with black lettering, heavily worn at corners and spine with backstrip torn along edges and reglued to spine, boards soiled, edges/end papers age-toned. Name of former owner written on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 10 pages and notes on rear end papers. The interior of the book is in good condition; "fair" applies to the binding.

The University of Chicago Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 755 pages, with index. Bibliographical reference compendium covering a wide range of areas of history, social sciences, economy, and the arts, compiled by 50+ specialists under auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council with support from the U.S. Office of Education. Sections on Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia. Medium 8vo, light olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, sharp corners and unworn edges, faint foxing to top edge, in DJ with edge-wear and a hole in fold to back flap. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked.

Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine. 184 pages. Essays include surveys of UK archival sources, profiles of individual archives, and accounts of sources available for research on specific topics like Anglo-Russian relations in the 18th century. 8vo, glossy paper over boards, practically no visible wear, tiny soil spots on top edge and in the margin of one page; pages bright and otherwise unmarked.

Astra Press, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 141 pages, with index. Bibliography lists 2899 scholarly articles, conference proceedings, etc. published in 1945-85 on the political, intellectual, social and economic life of Yugoslavia and its constituent republics. 5-3/4" x 8-1/4", light blue wraps, spine and back wrap sunned, foxing to top edge and back wrap. UK bookstore price in pencil on ffep, no other markings observed.