Search Results: Authors starting with O from Berthoff Books

University of Missouri Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 269 pages, with index. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, black end papers, corners sharp, light edge wear at heel and crown, faint foxing to top edge, binding tight, in DJ with 3/4" tear in top panel near spine. Names of former owners written on half-title, pages bright and unmarked.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 263 pages, with index, bibliography, list of mentioned flora and fauna, chronological and genealogical tables of people who owned Barton's End since 1556. 33 illustrations - line drawings of flora and fauna, some garden-layout diagrams. 8vo, dove gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, boards sunned at extremities, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to end papers, smudges to a few pages. In worn DJ with creases, rubbing, chips and tears. Pencil note on ffep by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff recording whom the book was a gift from; her marginalia in pencil observed on two other pages.

Penguin Books, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 389 pages, with index, bibliography, note on weights and measures. Reprint edition of book first published 1957. Back wrap: "A picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance." Mass-market paperback, wear and creases to wraps, edges and page margins age-tanned. Names of former owners written on first page, notes on inside back cover and last page, underscoring or margin lines on approximately 15 pages.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 320 pages. Selected and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather, this collection was first assembled in 1925, from stories written in the 1880s-1890s. Set in Maine. Mass-market paperback, worn wraps reglued along spine and mended with clear tape. This copy belonged to Prof. Warner Berthoff, who wrote "The Art of Jewett's Pointed Firs" (The New England Quarterly, March 1959); his marks and other marginalia are on approximately 25 pages of the Preface, "Pointed Firs", and one other story.

Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 173 pages, with index, notes, bibliography, prefaces to the original edition and this one. First edition thus. A revised and enlarged edition of The Classics and Renaissance Thought (Harvard U. Press, 1955), originating as the Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in Feb. 1954. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, spine age-tanned, brown stain to rear end papers from laid-in newspaper clipping. Text preceded by three-page list of Harper Torchbooks titles. Name of former owner and date 1961 written in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages, additional notes on rfep and inside back cover. Laid-in clipping is a 1964 review by Frances Yates of Kristeller's Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, from The New York Review.