Search Results: Drama from Berthoff Books

Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. PARTLY BILINGUAL EDITION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. Edited and Introduced by Patricia Blake. Ten pages of explanatory notes. Original Meridian Book, first printing (April 1960). Blake's introduction is a 40-page essay on Mayakovsky's life, death, work, and the politics surrounding him in the Soviet Union. The dozen poems are printed with the Russian originals and Reavey's translations facing; the satirical drama The Bedbug was translated by Hayward. Mass-market paperback, spine faded, light soil to wraps, foxing to edges and end papers, binding tight. Pages bright and unmarked.

Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 370 pages, with general index and index to Brecht's works. Sections: The Man, The Artist, Pitfalls of Commitment, The Real Brecht; part 5 includes chronology of his life, descriptive list of works, bibliography, and "Brecht in America." Mass-market paperback, spine creased and rubbed, wraps age-toned and with average wear. Marginalia, mostly small check marks but one or two notes, observed on approximately 15 pages and inside front cover.

Grove Press, 1966. Soft cover. Fair. 144 pages. Fourth printing of first Evergreen Black Cat Edition. "Revised English version" by Eric Bentley, who first translated the play in 1947, with his introduction dated 1965. Mass-market paperback, reading crease, spine soiled and split 1" at bottom, creases and tear to back cover, shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, tan stains to inside front cover and ffep. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, doodles on back cover, underscoring and marginalia throughout. Laid-in clipping from the TLS is a 1983 review by Timothy Garton Ash of Ronald Hayman's biography of Brecht.

Random House, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Vol. 1 - 1186 pages, Vol. 2 - 1236 pages. Second printing. Glossary in Vol. 2. Each volume has a b&w frontispiece, photo of a theater or performance. 8vo, green buckram sunned on spine, titles on spine faded, some rubbing and soil, greenish gray topstain, light shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned, page-turning soil. Vol. 1 has cracked hinges. Name of former owner written on front pastedown of each volume. Underscoring and/or marginalia on a small smattering of pages. Heavy books, will incur shipping surcharge.

The Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 81 pages. First published by Faber and Faber in 1990. Trade paperback, light foxing to wraps, which are very slightly curling along fore-edge. Laid-in clipping from the Harvard Gazette of April 26, 1991 is an interview of Heaney by Peter Costa, about his adaptation of the play by Sophocles; clipping protected with tissue paper to prevent staining the book.

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 451 pages, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Collection includes Don Carlos, the Letters on Don Carlos, the essays "Theater Considered as a Moral Institution" and "On the Aesthetical Education of Man", some poems, and the Ghost Seer. Trade paperback, shelf wear, chip to heel, edges and page margins age-tanned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

Watts & Co., 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 310 pages, with bibliography and index. First Thinker's Library edition of book originally published 1936. The Thinker's Library #133. With original preface and short preface to Thinker's Library Edition, by the author. 4-1/2" x 7", faded red cloth with rubbed silver gilt lettering, very faded red (?) topstain, end papers decorated with Watts logo (W + oil lamp) in red as repeating pattern, light wear to corners, heavier to heel and crown, 3/4" tear along front edge of spine from crown, spine sunned, foxing to end papers and front matter pages, front hinge cracked at title page, a few pages accidentally dog-eared at top. Bookstore price in pencil and names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 45 pages. Laid-in clipping (from TLS?) of review of Lord Raglan's The Temple and the House, from August 1964.

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.

Dover Publications, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 367 pages. First Dover edition of Randolph T. Weaver's translation, published 1929 by George G. Harrap & Co., of the 1924 study of Commedia dell' Arte. Subtitled: "The Improvisation - Scenarios - Lives - Attributes - Portraits and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell' Arte." With index, bibliography, new pictorial supplement. The list of illustrations is six and a half pages long, as the 259 b&w reproductions appear throughout the book, both cuts and full-page. 8" x 10-3/4" paperback, spine sunned and rubbed along edges, light shelf wear, edges/end papers age-toned with a bit of light foxing. One date circled on copyright page, no other marks observed. Laid-in is a newspaper clipping - 1991 review of two other books on the Comedia dell' Arte.

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 93 pages, including 15 pages of photographs of performances of Jedermann (Everyman). Mass-market paperback, black smudge near top of front cover, a bit of chipping to top edge. Pencil notation on inside back cover, gift inscription from one friend to another on ffep.

Grove Press/Evergreen Black Cat, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 172 pages, with Bibliographical Notes. "English versions by Eric Bentley", who wrote a Foreword dated 1964. The plays besides the title play are In Search of Justice, The Informer, The Elephant Calf, The Measures Taken, The Exception and the Rule. Fragments of another are provided in an appendix. A second appendix contains a translation of an official East German criticism of Brecht from 1965. Mass-market paperback, light foxing to top edge and wraps, minimal shelf wear, page margins age-toned.

Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar, 1964. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 451 pages, some black and white illustrations. The reader includes works by and about Heinrich von Kleist. 8vo, beige cloth with rubbed black and gold lettering and decoration, moderate soil and wear including bump to top corner and text block, edges and pages age-tanned. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on first free end paper along with an old price, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 40 pages.

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.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 86 pages. Jan. 1936 note by TSE describes this as a "second edition," compared with the version in which the play was produced at the Canterbury Festival in June 1935. 8vo, black cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear with sharp corners, isolated dust stains on a few pages, in aged-toned DJ with small losses at crown, other light shelf wear, old price sticker on front panel, all flaps appear clipped but decoratively - $2.25 price on front flap is not clipped. A former owner's name sticker affixed to ffep, underscoring in pencil observed in two places.

Xlibris, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. 247 pages. Six plays. Trade paperback in pictorial wraps, barely shelfworn at bottom with slight curl (no crease) to upper right front corner. Tight, bright, clean and unmarked, save for author's inscription on inside front cover to former owners Prof. Warner Berthoff and Prof. Ann E. Berthoff - "Teachers and friends (since 1956!).

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages. Collection of plays first published in hardback 1952. Edited by Eric Bentley, translations by Bentley, Gerardo Guerrieri, Arthur Livingston, Edward Storer. Mass-market paperback, wraps a little shelf worn and rubbed along spine, patches of foxing to edges, binding tight. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

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.

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.

ICM Artists, 1980. Soft cover. Good. 34 pages (including covers, which are numbered). Souvenir Book for 1980 North America Tour of the Peking Opera Theatre. B&w and full-page color photos. Large pamphlet (9-1/4" x 12") stapled in stiff card wraps, light shelf wear, heavier at top of fold where there is creasing and a 1" tear, rubbed along spine. Pages unmarked.