Search Results: Literary criticism from Berthoff Books

Counterpoint (Perseus Books Group), 2003. Soft cover. Good. 393 pages plus 22 intro pages, with index. Introduction by Hermione Lee. Collected criticism and essays, including travel and autobiographical essays by the British novelist. Trade paperback, fig-colored end papers, reading crease, scant shelf wear, light smudges to edges. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, names written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 90 pages.

Press of the Times, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 23 pages. Cover 6" x 9", staple bound in pale gray card with black lettering on the cover. Three of the five parts of the essay are based on a Fulbright lecture delivered at the University of Catania, November 1957. The pamphlet was the first separately published work by Prof. Warner Berthoff, who went on to write The Example of Melville, The Ferment of Realism, Literature and the Continuances of Virtue and other books on American and world literature, during his years of teaching at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University. The pamphlet, published by the Press of the Times in Berthoff's home town of Oberlin, Ohio, is clean and unmarked, not having been previously removed from the publisher's original packaging since publication in 1960. Will reduce shipping charge and send by USPS First Class, if feasible for purchaser's location.

The Library of Congress Reference Department, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 55 pages. Four Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 8vo, stapled in matte card stock two-tone gray wraps, light shelf wear, age-browning to lighter gray part of wraps. Foxing spots on cover, pencil underscoring of single word or phrase on three pages, note in margin of one page.

Harvard University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 242 pages, with index. Essays on various topics, including Milton, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, the Bible, Freud. 8vo, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light wear to boards, in unclipped DJ with rubbing along spine and flap folds, shelf wear, 1/4" tear at crown. Bookstore price and names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff in pencil on ffep, their (very engaged) marginalia on approximately 130 pages.

Hutchinson of London, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 328 pages, with Index and Alphabetical table of cited poems by Marvell. Published posthumously, with Preface by John Butt. 8vo, gray cloth sunned to light tan on spine, gilt lettering in brown inset on spine, slightly age-toned edges have some small coffee stains, light shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems, Princeton U. Press 1970); this, her working copy of Leishman's book, has her underscoring and or notes in pencil on approximately 120 pages, front pastedown and rear end papers; some of the marginalia are only small check marks, others are more substantial.

New Directions, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages. Translated from French by Martin Turnell. Paperback reprint of 1950 edition. Mass-market paperback, wraps soiled, soil to edges especially top, light shelf war, paperclip damage to page 42-43. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Jan. 1969 written on ffep, his underscoring and notes on approximately 16 pages.

Random House, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 556 pages. First American edition. Essays written by the English critic for the Statesman, the Observer, a dozen other periodicals, and as introductions for books. Sections on Modernism, Classics, Novels, Criticism, and individual contemporary poets. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), beige cloth with copper gilt and black lettering on spine and front board (author's name on front is only half black, in apparent production error), green topstain, minimal wear with sharp corners, slight dust soil along top, foxing to rough-cut fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with shelf wear, 1/2" tear to front panel at bottom, crease in back flap. Former price in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Soft cover. Good. 183 pages, with chronology of important dates, profiles of contributors, selected bibliography. Edited with an introduction by Northrup Frye. A Spectrum Book, Twentieth Century Views series. Trade paperback, reading crease, wraps rubbed, little shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 50 pages, particularly dense in Harold Bloom's essay "States of Being: The Four Zoas".

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.

Random House, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 237 pages, with index. Combined biographical and critical study. 8vo, flecked beige paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering and decoration, a bit of wear at the heel, fore-edge rough-cut, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with little wear. Extensive notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on rear end papers, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 50 pages - mostly small check marks or asterisks in margin, some notes in pencil in top margins.

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 141 pages. Reissue, with author's new preface and corrections, of book published 1975. Based on T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures given at U. of Kent, their point of departure is Eliot's 1944 essay "What Is a Classic?" Trade paperback, spine creased, light wear to edges of wraps. Condition is "fair" because ffep and p. 59-78 (as a clump) have separated from the binding. Pages are bright, notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on ffep and approximately six pages.

Princeton University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 442 pages, with index. Medium 8vo (6.5" x 9.5"), beige cloth with gilt lettering on blue inset on spine, corners sharp, small bump to top of front board, back board slightly bowed, top edge dust-soiled, page turning soil to edges at bottom corner, end papers stained tan from laid-in clippings and rusted paperclip, in heavily worn unclipped DJ with chips and tears. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 25 pages, particularly in a chapter on Hart Crane's "The Bridge".

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 369 pages, with selected bibliography. Essays written in 1950s and later cover Kleist, Goethe, Heine, Novalis, Nietzsche, Hoelderlin, Thomas Mann and others. 8vo, orangish red cloth with black lettering on spine, little wear but cocked, faint foxing to edges and end papers. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, their underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 35 pages and front pastedown.

The University of Chicago, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 228 pages. The inaugural issue of this academic thick journal. Includes Wayne C. Booth on Kenneth Burke and Burke's rejoinder; Quentin Bell "Art and the Elite"; Frank Kermode on novels; a story and essay about it by Eudora Welty. Trade paperback-sized, wraps worn especially with rubbing along spine, which is creased; some spots of foxing to the edges. Page 219-20, the first page of Welty's essay, is detached from the binding but in place (other individual pages might possibly come loose); first signature was detached and has been reglued. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages in the Burke section, those of Prof. Warner Berthoff on around 15 pages of the Kermode essay, one or two other marks observed.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Soft cover. Good. 187 pages. Essays translated from Spanish by William Trask and others. Mass-market paperback, wraps age-tanned - brown on spine, crease to spine, binding cracked at p. 54-55 but all pages attached, foxing to top edge, little shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 12 pages.

Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1963. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 154 S. mit Bibliographie. Beihefte zum Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, Heft 11. 17 x 24 cm, matte wraps faded in places, chipped at bottom of backstrip and along fore-edge of back cover at bottom. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 175 pages, with index. Essays assembled as a posthumous collection, by Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce. 8vo, black cloth with blind letter B on front board, silver gilt lettering on spine, no visible exterior wear save light dust soil to top edge, extremely faint foxing to fore-edge, boards ever so slightly bowed; in DJ with diagonal chip to front flap as if price-clipped, except the (UK) price is present at the bottom of flap. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her marks and one note in very light pencil observed on approximately six pages and the rear flap of the DJ, and a few page reference notes related to Kleist in ink on the book's last page after the index.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 703 pages, with index, b&w line drawings or other illustrations on 15 pages. Updike's sixth collection of non-fiction. 8vo, red cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, with no visible wear except pale blue topstain a wee bit sunned. Unclipped DJ is slightly rumpled around crown and has a barely visible scratch on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed on title page, "for Warner and Ann great considerers both / Cheers, John"; from the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Viking Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 407 pages, with index, reference notes. Discusses Auden's work up until 1939, when he moved to the USA. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, tan flecked end papers, light wear to heel, sunned at crown, foxing to edges and some spots on a few pages, boards slightly bowed, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear and curling. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 70 pages.

University of Minnesota Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 47 pages. Cover 5-1/2" x 8". Not a reprint, the pamphlet has the publisher's price sticker on the cover and publisher's black-out on the back cover of a line stating a different price for all pamphlets in the series. The cover is staple bound, with slight rubbing of the cover fold line from handling. Text absolutely clean and unmarked. Our inventory consists of copies provided to the author. Will reduce shipping charge and send by USPS First Class, if feasible for purchaser's location.