Search Results: Titles starting with T from Berthoff Books

Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1963. Soft cover. Fair. 106 pages, with bibliography. Published in the Writers and Critics series. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn with 1" chip at bottom and 1/2" at top of spine, which has been reglued and reinforced with tape (leaving front cover not quite flush with fore-edge), diagonal crease across front, foxing to inside covers and many pages, mostly appearing as light smudges around the margins. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 30 pages including end papers.

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages, with index. First printing. Seven b&w illustrations (art reproductions), also maps. History of 18th-century insurgency of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica. 8vo, brown cloth with orange lettering on spine, dark green end papers; the book is cocked, but has minimal shelf wear, a few pages slightly dented along fore-edge. Unclipped dust jacket has slight curl along top edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 320 pages. Small 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering on sunned spine, little shelf wear; edges, end papers and page margins age-toned with light foxing and soil. Name of former owner and date Oct. 1960 written on ffep, no marks to text pages.

The Jewish Museum, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 168 pages, exhibition catalogue on semi-gloss stock with art reproductions, glossary, bibliography, and introductory essays. 8-1/2" x 11", light edge wear, eroded spot at top of back wrap. Margin brackets or underscoring on approximately five of the pages.

A.A. Wyn, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 509 pages, with short introduction, biographical note. First edition thus. Ten tales, illustrated with 27 full-page color and b&w lithographs by Richard Lindner. Royal 8vo (7" x 9-3/4"), dark red cloth with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, faded red topstain, wear to boards especially corners/crown/heel which has 1/2" tear at front of hinge, spine sunned, water spot and other soil to boards, edges and end papers age-tanned. Gift inscription on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owners (later Profs.) Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 10 pages. Laid in is clipping of 1952 TLS review of a different Hoffmann collection.

University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with Name Index. Essays by literary critic and professor of English Literature on 19th-century and modern poets. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering, maroon end papers, corners sharp, back board a little bowed, touch of dust soil to top edge. Dust jacket has shelf wear, creases to flaps. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends Profs. Warner (co-dedicatee of the book) and Ann Berthoff, her notes in pencil on fewer than 10 pages.

The Viking Press, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 57 pages. 8vo, marbled gray boards with blind-stamped "MM" logo on front board and green cloth quarter-binding, foxing to top and bottom edges, spine sunned. Pencil note by former owner on ffep. Binding tight, pages clean, bright and unmarked.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 570 pages. Translated and edited by Henry Steinhauer. Includes works by Wieland, Kleist, Thomas Mann. Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, wraps soiled, front cover eroded in one spot, dust-soil to top edge, a few spots of foxing to other edges and end papers. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her X mark through the translator's preface where he explains the "radical surgery" he performed on Kleist's prose; no other marks to pages observed.

Harper & Row, 1990. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, illustrated with photographs on four double-sided plates. Mass-market paperback (Harper Paperbacks), rubbing along spine and especially to front wrap, which has two eroded patches (largest one 2" long), faint foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, small singes to inside front cover and ffep. No markings observed to text.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1965. Soft cover. Good. 464 pages, with typical Norton Critical Edition background, analysis, criticism; selected bibliography. Includes Hardy's autobiography. Essay authors include Auden, D.H. Lawrence. Edited by Scott Elledge. Trade paperback, 2" tear along front of spine at top, creases to spine and front cover, back cover and edges age-toned, light tan paper stains to end papers, small water stain to inside front cover and ffep. Underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 30 pages.

Theological Studies, Inc., 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 193 pages (Vol. 46, pp. 405-597). Main articles Jos. A. Fitzmyer "The Biblical Commission and Christology," John Honner "Unity-in-Difference: Karl Rahner and Niels Bohr," Richard J. Clifford "The Hebrew Scriptures and the Theology of Creation," and a review of publications during celebration of the 1600th anniversary of Athanasius (1974-1984). All authors S.J. Thick journal, trade paperback format, wraps slightly soiled, shelf wear, upper right corner slightly bumped, pages bright and unmarked.

Avon Book, 1957. Soft cover. Good. 254 pages. Avon G1037. "The gaudiest scamp in the annals of crime - . . . salty, humorous and compelling" - from book's promotional pages. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear and reading crease, foxing to wraps and edges, crease at upper corner of back; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned. Pages unmarked.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages, with index. Former library book with card sleeve remnants on rear end papers, library marks on spine and elsewhere, bit clipped from absent DJ's flap affixed to front pastedown. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 70 pages; her notes on end papers and half-title include the observation - "better than anything the women's movement went on to produce", and a reminiscence of Mary Ellman treating her as having an independent personality and intellectual interests, in Harvard circles in 1950. 8vo, light blue cloth with faded white and silver gilt lettering on spine, mustard end papers, wear to corners/crown/heel, old price notation on ffep.

Meridian Books, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 303 pages, with bibliography and reference notes. Author's note explains that final chapter, "Parody, Tragic and Comic", was enlarged after the first edition (1958, Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown). Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, faint foxing to wraps and edges, a bit more on end papers and inside covers, pages unmarked.

Grove Press, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 228 pages. New edition of collection first published 1930. With an introduction by Angel Del Rio; translated by Angel Flores. The "three intense tragedies" (back-cover blurb) here are The Two Mothers; The Marquis of Umbria; Every Inch a Man. Trade paperback, matte wraps with minimal shelf wear, edges and back cover age-tanned, binding tight. Pages unmarked.

Grove Press, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 254 pages. With an Introduction by Edward Albee. 5-1/4" x 8-1/4", pictorial wraps, edges slightly rubbed, a few scratches and nicks to front cover, binding tight, pages clean, bright, unmarked.

New Directions, 1944. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 178 pages, with Introduction by Harry Levin (1944). This version issued in 1944 or so, based on 1924 Knopf edition. The tales - "A Simple Heart," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," and "Herodias" - are described by Levin as containing Flaubert's "maturest writing." 12mo, blue cloth with black lettering on sunned spine, red crayon scribbling on boards, shelf wear, frayed at crown and heel, dust soil and faint foxing to edges, end papers and page margins age-toned. Name of former owner Prof. Ann Berthoff written on half-title verso, Christmas 1946 gift inscription to her from Eugene Walter under nicknames, her underscoring and notes in the Introduction, small pencil marks in margins of approximately 15 other pages.

Indiana University Press, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 220 pages. First Midland Book paperback edition of personal/literary/political portrait published 1961, the year after Pasternak's death. His three worlds are as poet, novelist, and political figure. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings on four double-sided plates. Trade paperback, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, light soil to edges, binding tight, 1/2" black marker line on ffep, possibly a crossed-out price; pages unmarked. Laid in is a clipping from the NYT Review of Books - letter to the editor from Pasternak's sister Lydia Pasternak Slater, weighing in on a controversy about inaccuracies in Payne's book.

Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 249 pages. Strand's b&w photographs printed on semi-glossy stock, with texts (poems, sermons, laws, essays) selected by the editor interspersed. Foreword by Newhall, Introduction by Strand. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"), grayish-brown cloth with white lettering, wear to corners/crown/heel with chip to backstrip at crown, edges/end papers age-toned. The book has a slight musty smell, most likely related to the ink or paper-finish (other books with which it was stored, in dry conditions, have no odor). Gift card affixed to front pastedown, pages unmarked.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 61 pages. 8vo, deep magenta cloth with turquoise gilt lettering, faint foxing to edges, in scarcely worn DJ. One small mark in ToC. Inscribed on half-title by the author to the former owners, her teachers and friends. Inventory #WBB-840 is a softcover copy of this first edition.