Pop Culture from Berthoff Books

The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 455 pages, with index. First printing of American first edition. Political, social, cultural history of the 20th century interwar period in the UK. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"), dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to crown/heel, cocked, light soil to boards, edges/end papers… Read more about this item

Grove Press, Inc., 1961. Soft cover. Good. 286 pages. Essays (chapters) on aspects of mid-20th-century art and popular culture in America. Trade paperback, creases and some soil/foxing to wraps, top edge dust-soiled, edges and end papers age-toned with foxing, tan stage from laid-in newspaper clipping on p. 28-29. Names of former owners Profs. Warner and Ann Berthoff written… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber, Inc., 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 251 pages, with bibliography. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light mark to back cover as well as bookstore sticker. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately half the pages.

Dell Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 329 pages, with bibliography. A first-hand look at the Las Vegas gambling and vacation business as of 1998. Trade paperback, wraps creased and rubbed with losses along the spine and bottom corners, edges and page margins age-toned. Innards in good shape, with binding solid and supple, pages unmarked. … Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 327 pages. Collection of book reviews, essays, reminiscences and parodies, first published in 1955-65. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu", on Ted Williams. 8vo, yellow cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge tinted brown, unusually heavy foxing to boards, soil to their exposed edges, only faint foxing to… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 756 pages. Edited and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. 18mo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"), yellow cloth with green lettering, faded green stain to edges, light shelf wear, boards soiled, back hinge cracked but all pages attached. Underscoring and marginalia in ink by previous owner, Prof. Warner Berthoff, (and some possibly by… Read more about this item