Search Results: Titles starting with I from Berthoff Books

Pantheon Books, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 192 pages. Translated with a Preface and Notes by David Magarshack, with an essay on Translating Shakespeare translated by Manya Harari. The Notes provide brief biographical information on persons, chiefly artists and writers, mentioned in the text. Illustrated with b&w photos and artwork (by Leonid Pasternak) on plates, portrait drawings of BP, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky by G. Annenkov, ms. and letter facsimiles. 8vo, black cloth with rubbed gilt lettering on spine, faded gray topstain, age-toning and foxing to end papers, light shelf wear, smudges to boards. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Dec. 1959 written on ffep with one page-ref. note, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages. Laid in are several newspaper clippings on Pasternak, including his response in The New Yorker to comments on Dr. Zhivago by Edmund Wilson.

Reader's Digest Press (E.P. Dutton), 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 338 pages plus 12 pages front matter, with bibliography, index. Introductory comment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Illustrated with b&w photos on 12 double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light shelf wear, a little soil to edges and large brown stain to ffep, first index page dog-eared, in unclipped but fairly tattered DJ with chips and mended tears. Former price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or margin brackets (and a few notes) on approximately 85 pages.

St. Martin's Press, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 242 pages, with index, appendices on Sunni Islamic prophecies. The author is a former State Department official and director of the Brookings Institution's Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. Medium 8vo, black paper over boards with red gilt lettering on spine, practically no visible wear, in unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear. Pages bright and unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. Essays touch on Greek drama, Hamlet, Chekhov, G.B. Shaw, T.S. Eliot, plot and action, "the mimetic perception of action". 8vo, gray cloth browned with age and soiled, silver gilt lettering in black inset on spine, faded gray topstain, other edges age-tanned, gray end papers, wear particularly to crown and heel. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages.

Modern Library Paperback (Random House), 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 310 pages. 1957 paperback edition of translation first published 1935, from the French private (1920) and public (1924) first editions of Si le grain ne meurt. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, light soil to wraps and edges, foxing to inside of wraps, binding solid and supple, pages unmarked.

Studio editorale, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 206 pagine. Traduzione di Marisa e Luciana Bulgheroni. Italian edition of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930. Narrow trade paperback (c. 13 x 18.25 cm) in self-wraps, minimal shelf wear at crown and heel, pages age-tanned but unmarked.

Giulio Einaudi editore, 1977. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 158 + XXII pagine, Nota introduttiva, Nota bio-bibliografica, Bibliografia. "The Awakening è un romanzo americano che quando uscí, nel 1899, fece scandalo. L'America d'oggi l'ha riscoperto, come libro anticipatore d'una tematica femminista: la donna che non s'identifica col ruolo che le è imposto di moglie e madre di famiglia". Traduzione di Erina Siciliani. Centopagine: Collezione di narratori diretta da Italo Calvino. / Upscale mass-market paperback, light soil to wraps, practically no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Guanda, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 277 pagine, Bibliografica essenziale. An Italian literary critic looks at Roethke's poetic language, concepts of space and time, and particular poems. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wraps a bit scuffed with a few spots of soil, scant shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff, who visited and corresponded with Italian americanists as a Fulbright scholar; author's name/address stamp on a rear end paper. Interior pages unmarked.

Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 144 pages, con testimonianze di amici stranieri del poeta raccolte a cura di Leone Piccioni e uno scritto introduttivo di Jean Paulhan. The first 41 pages have poems, and from p. 45 to the end are the supplementary essays and short essays or notes from 50-some of the author's foreign friends including Rene Char, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Jules Supervielle, Allen Tate. Trade paperback-sized (16 x 23 cm), white card wraps with white paper (red and black lettering) French-fold DJ and glassine outer jacket similarly folded. There is little wear to the wraps or DJ, while the outer layer has some tears along the folds and a tear with 5 cm wide hole in the front panel. Some brown foxing spots to the glassine as well as a 2 cm. blue ink mark on front panel; foxing to edges of the text block. Pages bright and unmarked. Laid in are a gift message from Maria Vittoria Sebastiani… Read More

Marotta e Cafiero, 2002. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 195 pages. Trade paperback (14.5cm x 21cm), dark blue-gray pictorial wraps, slight shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, unmarked. Inscribed by the author on ffep to former owners Prof. Warner Berthoff and Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, who taught at Bryn Mawr College where the author studied.

Princeton University Press, 1982. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 208 pages, with prefaces to the first (1972) and this new, second edition; Notes, Select Bibliography, List of Illustrations - of which there are 50, b&w reproductions of art, and Chronology of events in 1848-51. Two appendices in French: an ad for an exhibition of Courbet's work, and a letter he wrote to Champfleury. Trade paperback, reading crease, light wear to corners, light foxing to end papers and front matter pages. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 85 pages and inside back cover, evidently dating from when he taught about the literary history of this period. Laid in is a 1992 clipping from the TLS, a review of an edition of the letters of Courbet.

Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 87 pages, with index, list of illustrations. Besides the 40-some b&w illustrations (photos of artifacts and art works) on plates, there is a two-page frontispiece diagram "General Plan of the Excavations" at the site in Sicily. First English Translation stated. Series: Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. Text runs through page 51, followed by plates on glossy stock. Small booklet (~5-3/8" x 7-5/16", 13 x 18.5 cm), light blue wraps, spine sunned, wraps soiled, wear includes 1/2" tear at crown, foxing to edges and first plate. Main defect is that p. 64 and 65 are stuck together near top, with ~1" diameter damage to two of the plates. Pencil marks in margin of approximately 15 of the text pages.

Thomas Y. Crowell Company (Apollo Editions), 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 276 pages, translation of work published 1889. Introduction by Richard Pipes (Harvard scholar, author of Russia under the Old Regime). Brandes, a famous Danish literary critic, had visited Russia in 1887 as the guest of a writers' society. Divided into nine chapters on Russian society and culture, seven on Russian writers including Pushkin, Gogol and the Ukrainian influence, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. ToC provides a precis of what's in each chapter. Trade paperback, moderate shelf wear and rubbing to wraps, university bookshop stamp on fore-edge, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Sierra Club - Ballantine Books, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 159 pages. Collection of photographs first published by the Sierra Club in 1962, date of the Preface by Porter, Foreword by Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower, and Introduction by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch. Selections from Thoreau's writings, matched with color nature photographs by Porter. Trade paperback (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), printed on glossy paper throughout. Book is slightly cocked, wraps soiled, worn along spine and chipped along top edge of front cover, curled at corners, front free end paper wavy. The interior is in very good condition, without marks.

Serra e Riva Editori, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 287 pagine, Postfazione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Traduzione di Chiara Spallino Rocca. Italian translation of American novelist Evelyn Scott's 1923 autobiographical Escapade, an account of her running away to Brazil with her husband. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, extremities a little sunned. Unclipped dust jacket smudged in a few places. Title of the English original written in pencil on the title page, other pages bright and unmarked. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), a friend of Prof. Bulgheroni.

Didier, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 539 pages, with index. Thèse pour le doctorat ès lettres preséntée par Maurice Gonnaud à la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Paris Trade paperback format, banged up at corners, but interior in very good condition and unmarked. Inscribed by the author and his wife on ffep "Pour Ann et Warner ce livre d'un 'Haverford boy' de l'anee 1951-1952 avec toute notre fidele et chaleureuse amitié - Michele et Maurice." Prof. Gonnaud and Prof. Warner Berthoff were colleagues at Bryn Mawr College in the 1950s and friends ever after.

D.C. Heath and Company, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 90 pages, with suggestions for additional reading. Introduction by the editor. Ten essays on aspects of British economic and social history 1750-1850. Trade paperback, reading crease, creases to corners, rubbed along spine, wraps age-tanned and lightly soiled, foxing to edges/wraps/end papers, small pencil notation on front cover at upper right. Pages unmarked.

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages. English translation by George Miller of book published in French the year before. The journalist author was born in Algeria. High-quality mass-market paperback, scant wear to edges, diagonal creases to a few pages, edges/page margins age-tanned. Yellow highlighting observed on five pages.

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 355 pages. Fifth printing of work published 1914. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), brown buckram, black lettering and decoration, spine sunned, corners bumped, gray topstain. Old price and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout pages 1 - 110 and on rear end papers, rest of the pages clean.

Harper Colophon Books, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages, with index, glossary, bibliography, suggestions for further reading, eight pages of musical examples. A survey of musical notation, style, the development of instruments and their sonorities, and many other topics related, especially, to early music and its performance. First Harper Colophon edition of book published 1954. Trade paperback, remainder mark - hole punched in front cover, wraps worn along their edges. Former owner's name written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.