Search Results: Politics from Berthoff Books

Da Capo Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Originally published in 1969, this edition with "new introduction by the author" - 1985. 635 pages, with index. Cover 6" x 9", crease in front cover, slight wear to corners. Dedication page slightly torn and creased at top. Tight, text is clean and unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 584 pages, with index, five maps. Volume II of a two-book series; Volume I, The Challenge, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-763. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned, edges and wraps age-toned. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 534 pages, with index and appendices, one of which provides excerpts from constitutions and other basic documents of several countries. Volume I of a two-book series; Volume II, The Struggle, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-766. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, wraps a little age-toned, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned and has water stain, tan stain from newspaper clipping on two pages of ToC. Name of former onwer written on ffep, only one mark to interior pages observed - an item circled in the ToC.

The Universal Library (Grosset & Dunlap ), 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 486 pages, with Bibliography and Index. 1971 printing of 1965 edition, book first published 1961. The book touches on the influences of Schiller, Ogaryov, Schelling, Saint-Simon, Hegel, George Sand, the 1848 revolutions, Slavophiles, and Westernizers. Trade paperback, decorative pattern on inside covers, wraps worn/rubbed/creased, binding supple. Old prices in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

EIR News Service, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 398 pages, with index, tables of economic data, author's Introduction to the English edition. English translation of book published in Russian in 2004. Prof. Stanislav Menshikov (1927-2014) was an eminent Russian economist in the Soviet period and thereafter. He co-chaired the Russian branch of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction. Menshikov's books about the USA, such as U.S. Corporations in World Markets (1958) and Millionaires and Managers (1966) provided a differentiated picture that was unusual during the Cold War. In 1988 his conversations with John Kenneth Galbraith were published in the book Capitalism, Communism, Coexistence. In The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, Menshikov applied his half-century of research and experience to analyze the first decade of Russia's post-Soviet economic experience, the effects of which still reverberate 30 years later. The book's chapters are: 1. A General Description of Russian… Read More

The Anti TV Licence Campaign, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good. 176 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and drawings (full-page and cuts). Account of how a popular movement turned back a broadcasting fee in New Zealand. Trade paperback, no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 319 pages. A Story Press Book. First American edition of English translation, done from the Italian of Silone's first version of this anti-fascist novel. Written while Silone was in exile in Switzerland, it was first published in German 1936. 8vo, light green cloth with gilt lettering readable on front board but more faded on sunned spine, wraps soiled, fore-edge rough-cut, wear with fraying to corners/crown/heel, book slightly cocked, hinges cracked, text block a bit loose from binding though still attached - block slides to flush with bottom edge of the boards while unusually far down (3/8") from the top. Small newspaper clipping mentioning Silone taped to ffep, where there is also an old price in pencil. No markings observed on text pages.

The Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown), 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 669 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Survey, two-page map of Chekhov's journey through Siberia to Sakhalin. Trade paperback, wraps age-tanned on and along spine, barely visible creasing to corners, foxing to edges, end papers, and a few pages at beginning and end of the book. Underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly marks, a few notes) by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 30 pages.

St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. 29 pages. Translation of poem by Soviet dissident (Ukrainian, born in the Donbass), written in 1976 just before his imprisonment. Stapled pamphlet (5-3/8" x 8-3/8") in glossy wraps, practically unworn, light diagonal crease across final three pages, pages bright and unmarked.

Freedom Publishing Co, 2002. Soft cover. Good. 203 pages, with index and bibliography. Foreword by former Australian Labor leader (and Governor-General) Bill Hayden. Trade paperback, soil to back wrap and a few tiny spots to edges, scant edge-wear, binding tight. Underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 40 pages, one marginal note.

Brookings Institution, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 733 pages, with index. 8vo, binding tight. Previous owner's name on ffep. Text clean and unmarked.

Melville House, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 374 pages, with index. 8vo, white boards with gilt lettering on spine, three out of four corners sharp and fourth one slightly bumped, in clean, unworn and unclipped DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.

ZAO Kapital, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL PUBLICATION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. 80 pages. Special issue of periodical, dedicated to projects for a Bering Strait tunnel, issued in connection with international conference held in Moscow, April 2007. Large-format (21.5 x 29.5 cm) journal, printed on glossy stock with color illustrations, light shelf wear and creasing to corners, few spots of soil to covers.

William Heinemann Australia, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 420 pages, with index and bibliography, b&w photos on plates. 8vo, black boards with white lettering on spine, edges and page margins age-toned, corners of a few pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom, in DJ with only light shelf wear, Australian bookstore price sticker on back panel. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, underscoring and/or margin bracktets (primarily the latter - short vertical lines) on approxiately 90 pages.

McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to inspect a Russian warship. 8vo, green cloth with black lettering on spine, wear at crown, dust soil to top edge, a few faint foxing spots to other edges, age-toning to end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is soiled and worn, with chipping and up to 1" tears, some mended with clear tape from the inside. Name of a former owner written on front pastedown, old prices in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Allen & Unwin, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages, with index and timeline. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to edges, binding solid, pages unmarked.

Schocken Books, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 335 pages, with index, list of illustrations, author's Preface, Introduction to the 1968 Edition by Herbert Read, Appendix of Additional Notes and Documents related to Spanish history, 122 b&w reproductions of Goya's works. First Schocken edition of book originally published 1948. Trade paperback, creases to spine and (diagonal) front wrap, light soil and wear to wraps, dust soil to top edge, faint foxing to fore-edge, a bit of page-turning soil to bottom corner. Notes or marks observed on rfep and two other pages.

The MIT Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 243 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Note, Notes on Contributors, among whom are Albrecht Wellmer, Juergen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, Martin Jay, Joel Whitebook, Richard Rorty, and Thomas McCarthy. Trade paperback, reading crease, crease across back cover near bottom, edges and page margins age-tanned, light wear to corners. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 65 pages.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 375 pages, with index. Third impression of British first edition of 1934. Translated from Italian by Henry Furst. Includes chapters on the Romantic Movement, Liberalism, German consolidation, the lead-up to World War I. 8vo, red cloth with almost completely rubbed away gilt lettering on spine, wear at crown, corners bumped and front top corner damaged with a 5/8" chip down to the cardboard, red topstain, faint foxing to end papers. Former owner's name and former bookstore prices (one sticker) on front free end paper. Pages unmarked.

Walker and Company, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First American edition (UK edition published 1984). 306 pages, with index, family tree to help keep the characters straight, b&w photos on four double-sided plates. Rivetting account of the life of a well-to-do family in northern Russia during the upheavals of the early 20th century. 8vo, tan buckram with gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners, some foxing to edges, pages mainly bright except for soil to a couple of them, in unclipped DJ with small chips and tears. Name of former owner written on ffep, notes on approximately eight pages and rfep, most of which are corrections of typos or grammar problems that should have been caught in copy-editing and proofreading.