Search Results: Sociology from Berthoff Books

Dell Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 329 pages, with bibliography. A first-hand look at the Las Vegas gambling and vacation business as of 1998. Trade paperback, wraps creased and rubbed with losses along the spine and bottom corners, edges and page margins age-toned. Innards in good shape, with binding solid and supple, pages unmarked.

Random House, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 338 pages, with index, bibliography. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, faint foxing to edges and inside of wraps, page margins age-toned, binding solid and supple, Australian bookstore price sticker on back wrap. Underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 10 pages.

Scribner, 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 376 pages, with index, preface to the paperback edition (written after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the first edition having appeared in 1973). Trade paperback, creases to wraps at corners, faint foxing to top edge and end papers; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned, some soil and discoloration to wraps at spine and back cover, binding tight. Text unmarked.

Wideview Books, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 470 pages, with index. Illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos. First Wideview edition of book originally published 1976. A cultural history of the influence of Harold Acton, Brian Howard and their circle on British life between the wars. Trade paperback, light wear, faint foxing to top edge. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil notation on rear free end paper, underscoring and/or vertical lines in margin on approximately 15 pages.

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) on approximately 15 pages in these articles: G. Thomas Tanselle "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute"; Manfred Frank "Toward a Philosophy of Style"; Bernard Williams "Left-Wing Wittgenstein, Right-Wing Marx"; a note by Joseph Frank on Heidegger's Nazism; and underscoring in a couple of other places.

Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 324 pages plus 16 pages of b&w photographs, with index, bibliography, introduction by editors of the New American Nation series Henry Steele Commager and Richard Brandon Morris. First Harper Torchbook edition of book originally published 1960. Trade paperback, crease in spine, wraps lightly shelf worn and rubbed, page-turning soil to bottom corner, binding solid, erosion and one tiny hole in half-title page. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his notes in pencil on approximately six pages.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 269 pages (plus list of Vintage books), with index. First Vintage edition (V-584) of book published in hardcover 1969. Eight chapters of economic history, six-part Appendix containing diagrams of various processes: export-generating, import-replacing, patterns of economic activities, and a list of definitions. Mass-market paperback, average wear and age-toning to wraps, page margins age-toned, binding cracked at p. 184-85 and reglued - all pages attached, crease to p. 185. Name of former owner Prof. Ann Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia throughout first three chapters, but few thereafter; outline for imaginary colloquies, e.g. Jacobs - Suzanne K. Langer - Freya Stark - Jane Addams handwritten on rear end papers.

Rutgers University Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 268 pages, with Index and Bibliography. Published in the Global Perspectives on Aging series. Trade paperback, practically no visible wear, light smudges to top edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, one a former teacher.

Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1743 pages, plus 80 pages of front matter including an Introductory Survey by Harrold; also, Chronological Outline (1830-1901), biographical chronologies, Selected Bibliography. Excerpts from writings on philosophy, social sciences, science by an array of authors including Carlyle, Macauley, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart Mill, Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson. Text is laid out in two columns per page. Royal 8vo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2"), faded blue buckram, faded lettering on spine overwritten by hand in silver gilt, hinges cracked (with tear to last page of book along gutter), edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, bookstore label remnant on rear free end paper. Name of former owner and year 1948 written on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages in the Introductory Essay and a few other pages.

Prentice-Hall, 1979. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 615 pages, with indexes of names and subjects, glossary, other guidelines for students, many photographic illustrations, tables, sample questionnaires. Trade book (8" x 10"), hard cover with pictorial boards, corners bumped, smudge on spine near heel, front hinge cracked at half-title, a few pages dog-eared, pages unmarked. International orders may incur shipping surcharge.

Vintage Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages, with Index of Sources, Subject Index. First Vintage edition - V-682 (book copyright 1970). From back cover: ". . . what few social scientists would have dared to attempt: . . . an introduction to the economic study of history, in all of its complexity." Mass-market paperback, shelf wear includes nick along top edge of front cover, small tear at heel; pages age-tanned, binding tight, interior unmarked.

Oxford University Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 187 pages, with index, bibliography. The book discusses the social basis of cognition. 8vo, black paper over boards with beige quarter, copper gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 60 pages including rfep.

Sun Books, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 282 pages, with index and refernce notes. An appraisal of the Australian "way of life" by a psychologist. Mass market paperback, wraps rubbed and edge-worn, vertical crease to spine, edges and page margins age-toned, binding supple. Former owner's name stamp on half-title, bookstore price handwritten on back cover, no other markings observed.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 297 pages. First Vintage edition (V-32). Mass-market paperback, scratches to front cover, spine creased, foxing to wraps and edges, binding sturdy. Name of former owner written on half-title, handwritten notes on inside front cover and half-title, underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 355 pages. Fifth printing of work published 1914. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), brown buckram, black lettering and decoration, spine sunned, corners bumped, gray topstain. Old price and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout pages 1 - 110 and on rear end papers, rest of the pages clean.

Three Rivers Press (Random House), 2006. Soft cover. Fair. 363 pages. An account of police investigations and conflicts with organized crime in Boston. Trade paperback, wraps worn/creased/soiled, dust soil to end papers, last ~150 pages wavy from water damage (but not musty). Pencil notation on front free end paper, writing observed on one page in text.

The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 455 pages, with index. First printing of American first edition. Political, social, cultural history of the 20th century interwar period in the UK. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"), dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to crown/heel, cocked, light soil to boards, edges/end papers age-toned, one accidentally dog-eared page in index. Old price in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 272 pages. Translated from Spanish. Reprint of 1963 Norton Paperback edition of book first published in English 1957. Includes short publisher's note and biographical blurb. Trade paperback, crease to front bottom corner, other light shelf wear, light foxing to edges extends to first and last pages of text block. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on inside front cover, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 35 pages.

Stanford University Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 129 pages. Introduction by Marjory Wolf. Trade paperback, crease to spine, rubbed along spine, other shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, binding firm, rear end papers stained tan from newspaper clippings, one of which - NYT obituary of Pruitt, 1985 - is paperclipped to rfep. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil margin bracket observed on one page, notes written on inside back cover.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1965. Soft cover. Good. 202 pages, with index. Book originally published 1959. Trade paperback, crease in spine, minimal shelf wear, binding tight, foxing to top edge, pages 82-3 brown from previously laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner and date May 1966 written on ffep, small marks in margin of approximately 30 pages.