Search Results: Authors starting with S from Berthoff Books

Samuel Weiser Inc., 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 254 pages, with index, illustrated with small line drawings and 10 b&w photos. "Including an account of meetings with G.I. Gurdjieff, A.R. Orage and P.D. Ouspensky. Second paperback printing of book published 1969. Trade paperback, slight rubbing to wraps, binding very tight. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, text pages bright and unmarked.

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute/Silk Road Studies Program, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 512 pages, with maps, graphs, tables. Chapters on the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Russia and Turkey. Trade paperback, tiny scratch to front wrap, almost invisible crease to back top corner, minor shelf wear. Pages clean, bright, unmarked. Not ex-library.

Charter Books (Grosset & Dunlap), 1978. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, with Index, Appendix "Organizational Structure of the SS". History with chapters on the formation of the SS, Kristallnacht, Heydrich, the Warsaw Ghetto, Adolf Eichmann, Himmler, more. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn with 1/4" tear at heel and rubbing along spine, foxing to top edge, edges and page margins age-tanned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets, one or two notes, on approximately 50 pages.

Brookings Institution, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 733 pages, with index. 8vo, binding tight. Previous owner's name on ffep. Text clean and unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 108 pages. First Penguin Classics edition. Edited by Frank Kermode, with Introduction, Suggestions for Further Reading, Brief Chronology, Textual Notes, Explanatory Notes. Mass-market paperback with glossy wraps, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing to top edge. Booksale price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 15 pages, all in the introduction or end-notes.

Harvard University Press, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 149 pages. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures of 1932-1933. Includes Preface to the Edition of 1964. Topics include Dryden, the English Romantic poets, and Matthew Arnold. Trade paperback, gray wraps sunned to aquamarine along spine, light wear to corners, very faint foxing to edges, pages bright. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in light pencil on approximately 25 pages

The Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1965. Soft cover. Fair. 189 pages. Subtitled on the cover, "Eight Essays on Literature and Education," the posthumously published book assembles previously uncollected essays and lectures. Besides the title lecture, it includes The Aims of Education (1950) and pieces on Ezra Pound, Dante, the classics, and American literature and language. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, spine creased and torn, light foxing to edges. The description as "fair" refers to the binding, which has been repaired at different times with both tape and glue; all pages are present, some are loose or a little damaged along binding, and text block is in two not entirely even blocks. The interior pages are bright and for the most part clean, with only a few marks. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his marginalia on approximately five pages in the 1953 lecture "American Literature and the American Language.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 86 pages. Jan. 1936 note by TSE describes this as a "second edition," compared with the version in which the play was produced at the Canterbury Festival in June 1935. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear with sharp corners, isolated dust stains on a few pages, in aged-toned DJ with small losses at crown, other light shelf wear, old price sticker on front panel, all flaps appear clipped but decoratively - $2.25 price on front flap is not clipped. A former owner's name sticker affixed to ffep, underscoring in pencil observed in two places.

Random House, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 237 pages, with index. Combined biographical and critical study. 8vo, flecked beige paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering and decoration, a bit of wear at the heel, fore-edge rough-cut, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with little wear. Extensive notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on rear end papers, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 50 pages - mostly small check marks or asterisks in margin, some notes in pencil in top margins.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1978. Soft cover. Good. 245 pages, with bibliography (source list). First paperback edition of biography published 1977. Eight pages of b&w portraits and photos of Turgenev's homes. Trade paperback, wraps age-toned, creases to corners and spine, a bit curled, foxing to top edge, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 85 pages plus extensive page-reference notes on rear end papers.

The Ecco Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 112 pages. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, a bit of very faint foxing to fore-edge. Date and price in pencil on ffep, two small pencil marks in the first poem, other pages bright and unmarked. Laid in are a clipping of a review of Graham's collected letters and three sheets on which his "The Dark Dialogues", published in Botteghe Oscure, Spring 1959, are typed out.

The University of Chicago, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 228 pages. The inaugural issue of this academic thick journal. Includes Wayne C. Booth on Kenneth Burke and Burke's rejoinder; Quentin Bell "Art and the Elite"; Frank Kermode on novels; a story and essay about it by Eudora Welty. Trade paperback-sized, wraps worn especially with rubbing along spine, which is creased; some spots of foxing to the edges. Page 219-20, the first page of Welty's essay, is detached from the binding but in place (other individual pages might possibly come loose); first signature was detached and has been reglued. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages in the Burke section, those of Prof. Warner Berthoff on around 15 pages of the Kermode essay, one or two other marks observed.

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 165 pages, with b&w photographs and maps (location and trail). Several of the walking or hiking routes go through wildlife sanctuaries; it appears that most of these trails are still available. Introduction gives basic advice on hiking. About 7-1/2" x 9", wraps worn/rubbed along edges and spine, a little creasing to back cover. Pages unmarked.

Da Capo Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Originally published in 1969, this edition with "new introduction by the author" - 1985. 635 pages, with index. Cover 6" x 9", crease in front cover, slight wear to corners. Dedication page slightly torn and creased at top. Tight, text is clean and unmarked.

Pegasus, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 352 pages, includes Notes on the Contributors--the 47 poets, playwrights, novelists, and critics whose works are excerpted. Divided into Part One "Writings of the War" and Part Two "Writings during the War." Cover 5-1/4" x 7-15/16", lightly soiled, lettering on spine light-faded. Binding tight (though one section, p. 223-258, evidently not fully glued to the binding during production). Text clean and unmarked.

The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 330 pages. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles W. Daves. The introduction includes a short Life of Butler (1612-1680) and section "The Character Tradition before Butler." 8vo, Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light foxing to boards at top and to edges, name of former owner written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked, in lightly worn and rubbed, unclipped DJ with some barely visible foxing.

Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 447 pages plus index pages: Indexes of Subjects, Names of Persons and Books, Names of Places. 1924 edition edited and with introduction by R.W. Chapman, 1948 reprint. Double-page map, six b&w illustrations (art reproductions and facsimiles) on plates, one of which is detached. 16mo (5" x 7-1/2"), dark blue cloth, rubbed gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped colophon and decorative rules on boards, blue topstain, wear to crown/heel/corners includes 1" tear along backstrip at top, light soil, a few foxing spots to end papers, a couple of pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom. Gift inscription on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia, mostly small marks in pencil, on approximately 65 pages and notes on rear end papers.

Harper Torchbooks, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 312 pages. Winds of Doctrine is a collection of six essays on 19th-20th century issues in philosophy, including ones on Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, modernism, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Platonism and the Spiritual Life is a nearly 100-page essay. Trade paperback, sunned to brown on spine, light shelf wear, crease to front cover at bottom corner. Name of former owner on ffep, no marks within.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 325 pages plus 12 pages front matter and laid-in errata sheet. Large catalogue for 1974-75 exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada, to which works were lent from 21 museum, university and library collections. Catalogue prepared by a team at the Department of Prints and Drawings, MFA Boston. Includes list of lending institutions, preface, conceptual explanations of the exhibition and its catalogue, glossary. Text and art reproductions interspersed throughout. 9-1/2" x 11" softcover book, black wraps with red lettering, black on red on backstrip, wraps worn and mottled, front cover separated and taped in place, dust soil to top edge, some foxing to edges and inside covers. Pages unmarked. Heavy book may incur shipping surcharge to some destinations.

George Braziller, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 277 pages, with index. Essays by the art historian, written in 1937-1976, chiefly in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. II (of four) of Schapiro's Selected Papers, which are arranged by topic, rather than chronologically. Three essays on Cezanne, three on abstract art, others on individual artists, one on the 1911 Armory Show as the introduction of modern art in the USA. Eleven color plates (art reproductions), many b&w cuts. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant wear except small hole in cloth near heel, tan stain to rear end papers from laid-in newspaper clipping, in unclipped DJ with wear at extremities especially small tears (1/4") and creases at crown. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil (one mark in ink) by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 40 pages - his in an essay on Courbet, both in the section on abstract art. Bonus: the laid-in three-page… Read More