Composition And Rhetoric from Berthoff Books

Oxford University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Good. 188 pages. Inaugural issue, Spring 1992, of Common Sense, a cross-disciplinary journal in the humanities. Thick journal, 6-7/8" x 10", reading crease and shelf wear including small loss patch along fore-edge near top. Critical marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits)… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 132 pages. Inaugural issue, February 1983, of the academic journal Representations, with lead articles by the co-chairs of its editorial board: Stephen Greenblatt "Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion; Svetlana Alpers "Interpretation without Representation, or, the Viewing of Las Meninas." Thick journal, 7" x 9-3/4", back cover… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Company, 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 229 pages, with Index and Chronological List of Authors Quoted. Classic guide to ways of writing and speaking in English. Small 8vo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4"), dark blue buckram with wear to crown/heel/corners, boards soiled, spine sunned, rubbed-away title reritten by hand on spine in silver gilt, edges age-toned. Names of… Read more about this item

University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 191 pages, with index. Published as one of the Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. A study of the making of meaning, with central attention to "the triadic semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce [which] accounts for interpretation in logical terms: interpretation is a constituent of the sign".… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape (, 1970. Soft cover. Good/Good. 79 pages, with Notes, Selected Bibliography, A Note on the Author. Cape Editions 43. Translation of short work originally published 1926. Includes Sergei Yesenin's "Farewell Poem" in English translation and Mayakovsky's 1926 "To Yesenin", with Russian original and English translation on facing pages. Mass-market paperback size, elegant format of white wraps… Read more about this item

Harper Torchbooks, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 338 pages, with Index and a separate Index of Fallacies. Trade paperback, remaindered copy (hole punched through front cover and to page xxii), a bit of shelf wear and creasing to wraps, falls open at p. 154-55 but all pages attached, small notation and small smudge to front cover, very faint foxing… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1981. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 197 pages, with translator's prefaces to the first (1958) and this English editions. Originally published in French, 1947. Theme and variations: one incident told in 99 different styles. Trade paperback, wear to corners, small tears at bottom of spine, wraps had separated and are reglued leaving the first signature… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 148 pages, with bibliography and list of dates. First paperback edition. Divided into Alphabetical List of Terms; Terms Classified according to Divisions of Rhetoric; Terms by Type; Ornaments. Trade paperback, lettering on spine faded, light soil to wraps, scant shelf wear. Bookplate of Prof. Ann E.… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 229 pages, with index. Collection of essays, including ones on the English novel as of 1907, reading novels, several on interpretation, Appendix "The One Correct Interpretation." Trade paperback with shelf wear, creases to spine, poorly bound so that several pages and sections have come entirely or partially separated from the binding… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 244 pages, with index, list of abbreviations; biographical note by Thomas H. English. Trade paperback, spine sunned and rubbed, loss to front wrap at upper corner from peeled sticker, light shelf wear. Underscoring and/or marks in pencil on approximately six pages, a few notes on inside back cover. Pages bright.… Read more about this item

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 484 pages, with index, abbreviations list, notes. Foreword by Martin Schwab. Twenty-seven lectures, first published in German 1984, English published here as Theory and History of Literature series Vol. 45. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 514 pages, with index. Second printing. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, light soil and toning to wraps, creases in spine. Marginalia in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

St. Martin's Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 143 pages, with b&w art reproductions on five plates. Nine essays by British, French and Canadian scholars. Foreword by George Steiner. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear, few foxing spots on top edge, in DJ with slight wear to edges. Inscribed by editor on ffep… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1967. Soft cover. Good/Very Good. 94 pages. Translated from French by Annette Lavers, Colin Smith. Cape Editions 3, General editor: Nathaniel Tarn. Small paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), minimal shelf wear, light foxing to white wraps, edges and half-title, in unclipped DJ sunned on spine. Pages bright, underscoring and marginal notes by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff… Read more about this item