Search Results: Titles starting with O from Berthoff Books

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 919 pages, with index. Updike's fourth collection of non-fiction prose. 8vo, green cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top corner of rear board a little frayed, in unclipped DJ with light wear along top, bookstore sticker on back panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book, may require extra postage.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 174 pages. 8vo, light green boards, hunter green cloth backstrip with rubbed gilt and silver gilt lettering, front bottom corner gently bumped, top edge decoratively tinted pinkish, a bit of faint foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with chipping at crown and to top of front panel, 3/4" tear to top of back panel. Marginalia by former owner Warner Berthoff (not stated) on approximately 60 pages, mostly small marks in light pencil.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Noonday), 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 223 pages. Revised edition. Three plays, based on works by Hawthorne and Melville. Introduction (1965) by Robert Brustein. Director's Note (1965) by Jonathan Miller. Trade paperback, very slight rubbing and shelf wear to wraps, faintest foxing to top edge, price sticker at bottom of front wrap, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Stanford University Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 129 pages. Introduction by Marjory Wolf. Trade paperback, crease to spine, rubbed along spine, other shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, binding firm, rear end papers stained tan from newspaper clippings, one of which - NYT obituary of Pruitt, 1985 - is paperclipped to rfep. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil margin bracket observed on one page, notes written on inside back cover.

Dover Publications, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 228 pages, with indexes (general, photographers, photographs in chronological order). 196 Prints from the Collection of the New York Historical Society - black and white. Introduction and captions by Mary Black, curator of painting and sculpture. Quarto-sized (9" x 12") paperback, wear to corners and edges (especially front bottom and heel) of wraps, small tear to top edge of ffep, printed on semi-gloss stock. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge depending on destination.

The Modern Library, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 640 pages. First Modern Library edition of novel first published 1908. Author's preface. 18mo (4-1/4" x 6-5/8"), boards flexible by design, faded red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, spine sunned, moderate shelf wear includes chipping at crown, faded red topstain, edges and page margins age-toned, end papers with decorative Modern Library logo, hinges cracked but all pages attached. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked. Nice small copy of work Modern Library rated #87 of 100 best novels of 20th century.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. 191 pages, with author's Foreword to this First Vintage Edition. Eleven stories set in the fictional town of Olinger, Penna., all first published in The New Yorker 1954-64, three previously collected in The Same Door, seven in Pigeon Feathers, and one appearing here for the first time in a collection. Mass-market paperback, spine faded and rubbed, little shelf wear, edges and pages age-toned. Name of former owner Warner Berthoff and date Jan. 1965 written on title page, his underscoring of two phrases in the Foreword; text of stories unmarked.

The New Press, 1998. Soft cover. Good. 305 pages, with index. Large trade paperback, reading crease and minor shelf wear, coffee stains to fore-edge including one that has made the bottom 4" of the last 50 pages a bit wavy from the liquid damage. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 50 pages.

Swallow Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 336 pages plus 15 front-matter pages, with index. Essays and reviews, chiefly concerning 20th-century poets. Trade paperback, very slight shelf wear. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, underscoring and marginalia by one of then, Prof. Ann E. Berthoff; pages bright.

Cambridge University Press, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 231 pages, with index, glossary, list of abbreviations. Texts in German Philosophy series. Introduction, translation and notes by Richard Crouter. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, binding tight, bookstore sticker on back cover. Price in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

Columbia University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tr. from the Italian by William A. Packer, edited by George Saunders. The Italian edition appeared in 1977. 158 pages. Cover 6-1/8" x 9-1/4", cloth bound gray with gold and red lettering on spine. DJ in very good condition with one tiny (3/16") tear and crease at top of back. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

Penguin Classics, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 234 pages, with List of Principal Characters, note on the Historical Background, and Appendix "The origin of On the Eve". Turgenev's novel is set on the eve of Russia's great reforms of the 19th century. This edition first published 1950, this is sixth reprint. Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, reading crease, light shelf wear, foxing to edges especially top, edges and page margins age-tanned, two pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom. Names of former owners written on ffep along with some notes; underscoring and/or marginalia on apprxomately five other pages.

Bantam Books, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 204 pages. 1963 edition, 26th printing - 1973 or later. Introduction by Max Hayward and Leopold Labedz; Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Congress of Soviet Writers, against censorship, in 1967; explanatory note about prison terminology and certain Soviet persons and institutions; the 1962 "In Place of a Preface" note by Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of the journal Novy Mir, who published this first work by Solzhenitsyn set in the Soviet prison camps; a short biographical note on Solzhenitsyn as of the 1960s. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, foxing to top edge, pages age-tanned. Pages unmarked.

Oliver Ditson, 1916. Soft cover. Good. 235 pages, with index of song titles, plus 40-page introduction and notes on each song by Sharp. The songs are given with piano accompaniment and their many verses. The songbook with sewn binding opens compfortably to be read by pianist. Soft cover 4to (9-1/2" x 12-1/2"), covers worn/soiled/age-toned with 1-1/2" chip to backstrip at bottom, edges age-toned, pages lightly so. Former library book - stamped accordingly on first free end paper, where subsequent owner's name is also written. Pencil underscoring and/or notations on a few pages.

Indiana University Press, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 439 pages, with Notes and Sources section. Fourth printing of Midland Giant edition (1974), collection first published 1968. Drawings by Franz Altschuler. The Table of Contents lists the country whose version of each tale is included - all European except for one ancient Egyptian. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wraps lightly worn, black marker remainder mark (?) on front cover and front free end paper, edges a little smudged with faint foxing to top edge. Binding tight, pages unmarked.

Pluto Press, 1999. Soft cover. Fair. 248 pages, with index. Trade paperback in graphic-design wraps, no visible shelf wear, binding tight, pages bright. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately half the pages, which is the reason this copy is not listed as "very good.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 526 pages, with index, Selected Bibliography, several photographic plates, eight pages of maps and tables. 8vo, light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, boards sunned to crown/foot/edges, pictorial end papers, faint foxing to edges and end papers, in DJ with light soil and edge wear, horizontal crease near bottom of front panel. South African bookstore price on half-title, no markings observed in text.

Harper & Row, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 314 pages, with index and bibliographical essay, 52 illustrations - b&w photos. Harper Torchbooks. Trade paperback, wraps with soil, creases, chips; remainder mark - hole punched at upper right through cover, front matter and pages to 11; bookstore price sticker on front. soil to edges, edges, end papers and page margins age-toned; crack to binding before TOC. Pages unmarked.

Bantam Books, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 372 pages + 12 of front matter, with Notes including bibliography of criticism, Glossary, genealogy of Orestes chart. Second printing of Bantam edition, from Viking hardcover edition 1975. Nearly 100-page introductory essay "The Serpent and the Eagle" by the translator and W.B. Stanford. Mass-market paperback, wear to wraps, top edge foxed, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

The MIT Press, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 328 pages plus 11 pages front matter and preface, with index. Twelve essays by the Harvard art historian, written in 1994-2000. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos, art reproductions, drawings. Topics include the history of architectural drawing, particular works by Leonardo da Vinci, Palladio, and others. 7-1/4" x 9-1/4", burnt orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, practically no visible wear, very slightly cocked, touch of dust to top edge at crown, remainder mark to bottom edge. Pages bright and unmarked.