Search Results: Books in Italian (libri in italiano) from Berthoff Books

Donzelli editore, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 143 pagine. "Negli anni i materiali scampati al rogo autobiografico sono precipitati in cristalli di racconti, dove il tempo fantastico della mente s'incrocia con la storia e i oghi diventano i contrafforti della memoria." Small trade paperback-sized (12.5 x 21 cm) in pictorial self-wraps, a few accidantal ink marks on back cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), a friend of the author; his notes in pencil in two of the stories, including "Lettera da Persefone", of which his English translation was published in the Sewanee Review, Vol. 111, No. 3, Summer 2003.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 267 pagine, a cura di Aurora Ciliberti, Introduzione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Italian translation of Auden's collection City without Walls and Other Poems. Trade paperback, light wear at crown, faint foxing-type marks to wraps, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 52 pages, a cura e con una postfazione di Annalisa Cima. Testo e apparato critico di Rosanna Bettarini. Collezione Lo Specchio (I poeti del nostro tiempo). Posthumously published collection of poems by the 1975 Nobel Laureate in Literature. 15.5 x 20.5 cm, white card wraps, no visible wear but light foxing to wraps and end papers, in unclipped DJ with a stray pen mark at top left corner of front panel, spine sunned. Inscribed on ffep by the literary scholar and critic Marisa Bulgheroni (who is alluded to in one of the poems, according to an explanatory note) to her friends Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff.

Casa Editrice F. Le Monnier, 1963. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 165 pagine + XII pagine Premessa, etc.; Bibliografia. Trade paperback in soiled plain white wraps, wear to edges of covers, pages age-tanned. Fore-edge rough-cut, some of the pages are not cut at all on the top edge. The former owner, Prof. Warner Berthoff, who lectured on American literature several times in Italy in the Fulbright program, may have read the preface and first chapter, but the uncut sections are obviously unread. No marks on the pages.

Neri Pozza Editore, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 626 pagine, a cura di Claudio Gorlier. Introduzione (C.G.), Notizie generali sui testi e sugli autori, Nota bibliografica. Those introductory materials comprise 77 additional pages of front matter. Anthology of humoristic writings of the American "west" (Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, many others) and essays in Italian translation. Series "Tradizione americana". 5" x 7-1/4" (~12.7x18.4cm), dark green leatherette with gilt lettering, only visible flaws are a few small black spots on the back board and bump along its top edge. Price sticker affixed to rear pastedown, dust jacket is lightly soiled and worn with small (up to 1 cm) tears to top edge. Inscribed by Grolier on the front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff in 1972, when WB was on a Fulbright tour visiting Italian Americanists. Interior pages bright and unmarked.

Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 159 pagine, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, rough-cut edges, wraps age-toned and lightly soiled, pages age-tanned and unmarked. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), who lectured on American literature in Italy under the Fulbright program.

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.

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.

Electa Napoli, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 248 pagine, con indice dei nomi, indice dei luoghi. Illustrated with art reproductions on color plates. Chapters include ones on English, French and German visitors to Italy. 4to (10" X 11-3/8" - 25.4 X ~29 cm), black cloth with white lettering on spine, end papers decorated with beautiful colored maps, scant shelf wear, a bit of sunning to exposed edges of boards, light dust soil to top edge, indentation from a paperclip to first few front-matter pages. Pictorial dust jacket has shelf wear, and a 1/2" tear to bottom edge of back panel. Pages unmarked. Laid in is a clipping from the Times Literary Supplement of July 31, 1998, being a revew of two English-language books on the Grand Tour. Heavy book may incur shipping surcharge.

Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 293 pagine, Indice dei nomi, Premessa, Introduzione. Biblioteca di studi Americani. By the Italian critic and Americanist, chapters on Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Henry James. Trade paperback, wraps worn and soiled with creases to back cover at bottom, numbers stamped on front. Inscribed by Prof. Gorlier on the front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff during the latter's visit to Turin in 1972 for lectures under the Fulbright program. Interior pages unmarked.

Henry Holt and Company, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN with English notes and explanations. 188 pages plus 34-page Italian-English vocabulary list. Edited by Joseph G. Fucilla, Elton Hocking. Reprint of book first published 1939. Preface, introduction and exercises (for English-speaking students of Italian) in English. Extensive explanatory footnotes in English. Large 12mo (5-1/4" x 7-5/8"), blue-green cloth with black lettering, boards soiled, small paint splatters on front board near bottom, a little frayed at heel and corners, faint foxing and age-toning to edges. Pages unmarked.

Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 1965. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 275 pages plus list of other titles from the publisher. Note bio-bibliografiche, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, edges of wraps and heel worn, crease to bottom of ffep, water spots on front cover. Price in pencil on inside back cover. Inscribed by author on ffep to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose handwritten notes appear on a few pages in the index and bibliography. In a separate note (not included), Berthoff wrote about this volume, "The book is the Italian standard work on CBB . . . The book seems to me to describe who Brown would have been if he'd been a representative European intellectual in the main historical stream.

Gribaudi, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 114 pages. By the Italian writer Nereo Condini, who relocated to the United States. Mass-market paperback, white card wraps with a bit of foxing, little wear, pages age-toned, foxing spots on some pages, in white DJ with deep flaps, black lettering, foxing and smudges. Inscribed by author on ffep in 1972 to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, "To dear Prof. Berthoff from an Italian friend." Interior unmarked.

Marsilio Editori, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 101 pages, with index of names and concepts, and select bibliography. 4-3/4" x 8". No visible wear, no markings within.

Bulzoni Editore, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 243 pages. Universita di Roma, Facolta di lettere e filosofia, Istituto di letteratura inglese e americana, Studi e ricerche 19. Inscribed by author on ffep to Prof. Warner Berthoff "con rispetto e amicizia," at Harvard, September 1986. Title page stamped "campione gratuito." Cover 6" x 8-1/2", orange self-wraps sunned on and along spine. Interior clean and unmarked.

Gruppo Editoriale Giunti, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 318 pages. Reprint of 1964 130th anniversary edition of the classic. Illustrazioni di Attilio Mussino. Imperial 8vo, 21.6 x 29.2 cm (8-1/2 x 11-1/2"), blue covering over boards with gilt title and decoration, green end papers with illustration, printed on semi-gloss paper, almost no visible wear except a small chip and stains near bottom of pages 8-9 in the gutter. Dust jacket is price-clipped, light shelf wear, 1" tear to top edge of front panel. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.