Search Results: Authors starting with B from Berthoff Books

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.

The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 530 pages. First printing thus. Frontispiece portrait of W.B. Yeats by John Butler Yeats the Elder, additional photographic portrait by Howard Coster. 1937 introduction by the author, essays divided into three groups: Ideas of Good and Evil (1896-1903); The Cutting of an Agate (1903-1915); Later Essays and Introductions. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), beige cloth with black quarter, gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners/crown/heel, boards lightly soiled, faint foxing to top edge, two stray pen marks on edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 150 pages and rear end papers.

B. Schott's Söhne, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 47 pages. Comic Opera . . . "from a fable in 'The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves' by Wilhelm Hauff", Music by Hans Werner Henze, but this volume is the libretto only. "English Version by Eugene Walter" on label affixed to title page, covering a printed line containing a typo. Pamphlet format, 5-1/8" x 7-7/8", stapled in light-weight card wraps that are age-toned with light creases in a few places, staples rusted. Pages age-toned, unmarked.

Anchor Books (Doubleday-Random House), 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 395 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book published the previous year. Addresses domestic surveillance excesses in the George W. Bush years. Trade paperback, very light wear along edges, pages bright and unmarked.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 465 pages, with index, acronyms list. A study of the secretive National Security Agency. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/4"), maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, in price-clipped dust jacket with Brodart protective cover, stains to jacket on spine and a few smudges elsewhere. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, old price in pencil on front free end paper, pages unmarked.

The Odyssey Press (Bobbs-Merrill), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 1330 pages plus 35 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, with overall introduction, bibliography of general studies of English poetry in this period, intro and selected bibliography for each poet, index to titles and first lines. Included are works by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell. Twelve illustrations include portraits and first edition facsimiles. Sixty-page section of musical settings. Trade paperback, 2-1/2" thick, shelf wear and scratches to wraps, spine sunned and creased (not split), tear to fore-edge of one page in the Notes section. Name of former owner written on half-title, interior pages unmarked.

Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 228 pages. Introduction by Kate Simon. Artwork by four dozen artists, interspersed with short text excerpts by even more writers. 8-1/2" x 11" paperback printed on heavy stock, next to no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 534 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. 8vo, cream paper over boards with black quarter and gilt lettering/logo on front board and spine, shelf wear to corners, light smudges near bottom of boards, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear, rumpled at crown, soil to flaps. Inscribed by author on title page with personal note to Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, former owners of the book. Pages bright and unmarked.

Éditions du Seuil, 1953. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 127 pages. Trade paperback, typical edge wear for book's age; spine, edges and page margins age-toned with a few small spots of foxing to pages. Name of former owner W.B. Berthoff, date Feb. 1968 written on ffep, his underscoring and margin notes in pencil observed on eight pages (seven of them in introduction). Inventory #473 is an English translation of this work.

Phaidon Publishers Inc, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 361 pages plus 19 pages front matter and Editor's Introduction. Translated and Edited with Notes and Illustrations by Jonathan Mayne. Has Index, Biographical Note, Appendix of translations of lines of verse kept in French in the text, Notes on the Illustrations, which are 68 b&w plates (art reproductions) as well as drawings. 12mo (4-1/2" x 7-3/8"), reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, spine sunned, scant wear, edges age-toned, foxing to end papers, one page folded up at bottom because of trim error (if unfolded, it protrudes). Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Jan. 1956 written on ffep, his notes there and on approximately 40 other pages - underscoring and/or marginalia.

Constable, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 231 pages, with index. The English critic's study of the heritage of 19th century Romantic poetry has Part One - Romantic Dilemmas, and Part Two - The Romantic Survival, in which Yeats, Auden, and Dylan Thomas are individually discussed. 8vo, dark blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on sunned spine, scant wear to exterior, faint foxing to edges; foxing to end papers and a few pages at the beginning and end of the book, with a stray spots on a few interior pages. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his marginalia in pencil, in a small, neat hand, on approximately 35 pages.

Penguin Classics, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. 364 pages, with Index, Genealogies of English Kings, Translator's Introduction which includes life of the Venerable Bede. Translation by Leo Sherley-Price first issued 1955, revised in 1968 by R.E. Latham; this is 10th printing of 1968 edition. Mass-market paperback, scant wear, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Chatto & Windus - Collins, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 378 pages, with index, chronology, list of Huxley's works, illustrated with 15 b&w photos on plates. 8vo, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners sharp, discoloration of boards along bottom and behind the large chip in DJ front panel, foxing and stains to edges, in unclipped (UK price), soiled and shelf-worn DJ with large triangular chip to front panel at bottom, repaired holes in back panel and flap, corners cut off from back panel. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

Anchor Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 494 pages, with bibliography, index of first lines, index of short titles and names in titles. Edited with an introduction, notes, and variants by William B. Hunter, Jr. Also includes a chronology of Jonson's life and musical settings for some works. Large mass-market paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), creases to spine and front bottom corner, spine sunned, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

Claymont Communications, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 383 pages. New American edition of autobiography of the British intelligence operative and associate of Gurdjieff, first published 1961. Trade paperback, minor edgewear, edges have splotchy brown stains as from liquid (but pages not wavy). Name of former owner written on inside front cover, old price in pencil on half-title, interior pages unmarked.

Harvard University Press, 1986. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 499 pages, with index of names. "This edition of The Harvard Book has been specially published for the faculty and staff members of the University on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College." Preface by the editor. 8vo, crimson cloth with gilt lettering and logo, color faded at bottom and along spine as from cleaning, back board a little scratched, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in presentation card from then-President of Harvard Derek Bok.

Dover Publications, Inc., 1973. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 97 b&w photos of New York City, taken by Berenice Abbott in the 1930s. Originally published 1939 as Changing New York; intro by Audrey McMahon and captions by Elizabeth McCausland are from that first edition. Eleven pages of front matter including list of plates. Landscape-layout paperback, 11-1/4" x 10", heavy wear along the bottom edges of the wraps, lighter wear elsewhere, inside covers stained/soiled with blue flecks, pages a bit rippled as from damp damage. Pages unmarked.

Columbia Univ Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 174 pages, with bibliography and index. 8vo, light gray cloth with blue gilt lettering on spine, boards a little bowed and damp-stained, light soil to end papers, in DJ with soil and edge wear. Inscribed by author on ffep "For Warner Berthoff - In appreciation & respect", January 1976. Pages unmarked.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. 307 pages. Foreword by Bentley. Collection of "the best of Shaw's musical writing" (back cover). Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, faint foxing to top edge and inside covers. Name of former owner written on title page, pages unmarked.

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.