Search Results: Authors starting with D from Berthoff Books

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.

Harper Colophon Books, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages, with index, glossary, bibliography, suggestions for further reading, eight pages of musical examples. A survey of musical notation, style, the development of instruments and their sonorities, and many other topics related, especially, to early music and its performance. First Harper Colophon edition of book published 1954. Trade paperback, remainder mark - hole punched in front cover, wraps worn along their edges. Former owner's name written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.

Guanda, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 277 pagine, Bibliografica essenziale. An Italian literary critic looks at Roethke's poetic language, concepts of space and time, and particular poems. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wraps a bit scuffed with a few spots of soil, scant shelf wear. Inscribed by the author on front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff, who visited and corresponded with Italian americanists as a Fulbright scholar; author's name/address stamp on a rear end paper. Interior pages unmarked.

Southern Book Publishers, 1988. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 692 pages, with index, illustrations, 13 maps, five tables of economic and political data. Book first published 1977. Trade paperback, corner creases to front wrap, first 50 pages bent (but not dog-eared) at upper right, faint foxing to edges, end papers and ffep/rfep, stains to top edge, binding tight, S. African bookstore sticker on back wrap. Underscoring and margin brackets observed on fewer than five pages.

St. Martin's Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 143 pages, with b&w art reproductions on five plates. Nine essays by British, French and Canadian scholars. Foreword by George Steiner. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear, few foxing spots on top edge, in DJ with slight wear to edges. Inscribed by editor on ffep "For Warner Berthoff, in friendship." Highly critical notes in pencil by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (editor of Richards on Rhetoric; author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) on six pages, all in or related to the essay by Bernard Zelechow "The Myth of Translatability: Translation as Interpretation" and his understanding (or misunderstanding) of Susanne K. Langer.

Harvard Library Bulletin, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 442 pages. Text reprinted from the Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XXVIII, Number 4, October 1980. Offprint (with wraps of new design), 6-7/8" x 10-1/4", stapled in gray card wraps with black lettering, images on front and back wraps are views of the Howells house at Kittery Point, Maine, after sketches by Horace T. Carpenter, first published in Town & Country, 1903. Wraps age-toned around all edges and spine, bit of rust stain from the staples, otherwise fine with no marks.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 222 pages, with index, bibliography, chronology, notes on editors and contributors. Twentieth Century Views series. Introduction by David Thorburn. Trade paperback, scratch to front wrap and light soil to back, edges shelf-worn and with faint foxing. Pages bright, underscoring and small marginal marks on approximately 15 pages.

Penguin Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages, with index and bibliography. History of the Methodist church in the UK "shows how Methodism has . . . been a recurrent brand of Christianity since the earliest times." Mass-market paperback, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-tanned, pages unmarked.

Electa Napoli, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 248 pagine, con indice dei nomi, indice dei luoghi. Illustrated with art reproductions on color plates. Chapters include ones on English, French and German visitors to Italy. 4to (10" X 11-3/8" - 25.4 X ~29 cm), black cloth with white lettering on spine, end papers decorated with beautiful colored maps, scant shelf wear, a bit of sunning to exposed edges of boards, light dust soil to top edge, indentation from a paperclip to first few front-matter pages. Pictorial dust jacket has shelf wear, and a 1/2" tear to bottom edge of back panel. Pages unmarked. Laid in is a clipping from the Times Literary Supplement of July 31, 1998, being a revew of two English-language books on the Grand Tour. Heavy book may incur shipping surcharge.

Souvenir Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Foreword by Rimvyadas Silbajoris. 450 pages. Illustrated throughout with black and white cuts, mostly from photos, portraits, self-portraits of Pasternak alone or with family members, writers, and others. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4"), teal boards with dark raspberry quarter, spine sunned. Corners worn, lower front corner at spine has small tear; back cover nicked in two places along top. No markings in the text.

Random House, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, bibliography, table of centigrade to Fahrenheit temperature conversions. More than a cookbook, the book has several-page historical introductions to each chapter (e.g., "Antipasti", "Fish and Shellfish", "Breads", etc.), as well as comments with each recipe. Illustrated throughout in color with photos of the food and reproductions of Italian art. Quarto (~10" x 13.5"), color-printed boards (same images as on DJ), end papers color-printed with Giovanna Garzoni still life, glossy stock for pages, wear to corners, unmarked. DJ is price-clipped, tears and rubbing to edges including a 3" tear (mended with tape) and creases to back panel at bottom. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 340 pages. Volume III of the English Masterpieces series, edition copyright 1950, fourth printing - January 1955. Cover 5-1/4" x 7-5/8", cloth-bound dark blue with tan lettering on cover and spine, corners and ends of spine worn, front cover bumped on fore-edge side. Binding solid, pages bright, margin brackets and notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 15 of the pages.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 403 pages plus 57 front-matter pages. Edited and with an introduction by Ralph M. Eaton (Prof. of Philosophy, Harvard). The Modern Student's Library - Philosophy Series. Selections from a range of works on science and philosophical method (Discourse on Method; Meditations on the First Philosophy; Treatise on Man; others). 18mo (4-1/2" x 6-3/4"), red cloth with very faded gilt lettering, spine sunned, modest shelf wear, edges age-toned. Pencil notation on rear pastedown, name of former owner written on front pastedown, her underscoring and marginalia in ink on approximately 30 pages, almost all in the Introduction; underscoring observed on only one page of the selections themselves.

Harper Torchbooks, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 305 pages, with index, chronology, bibliography, translator's preface, introduction by Hans J. Hillerbrand. First Harper Torchbooks edition. Trade paperback, hole punched through front cover and ffep (remainder mark), written number and sticker remnant on front cover, spine rubbed and sunned, shelf wear, light foxing to top edge. Underscoring in pencil on seven pages in introduction, notes on rfep; other pages bright and unmarked.

Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 177 pages, with List of Poets cited. An alphabetical list of terms related to versification and the composition and reading of poetry. Author's essay "By Way of a Preface" is dated 1956. 8vo, faded blue cloth with black lettering, heavily worn at corners and spine with backstrip torn along edges and reglued to spine, boards soiled, edges/end papers age-toned. Name of former owner written on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 10 pages and notes on rear end papers. The interior of the book is in good condition; "fair" applies to the binding.

Marsilio Editori, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 101 pages, with index of names and concepts, and select bibliography. 4-3/4" x 8". No visible wear, no markings within.

Triquarterly Books - Northwestern University Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 61 pages. Trade paperback (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") in pictorial wraps, only visible wear is at bottom right corner of front cover, and the faintest hint of foxing to top edge and fore-edge. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. (Berthoff Books inventory #WBB-400 is an inscribed hardback copy of this title.)

University of Illinois Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 293 pages, with author index, subject index, glossary of abbreviations, 18 tables. Overview of late-Soviet economic, domestic and foreign policies, written by the future Australian intelligence official when he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, practically unworn, pages bright and unmarked, in unclipped DJ with no price shown (review copy?) and minimal wear.

Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 261 pages, with index, 78 photographs on b&w plates, 49 line drwings, 3 maps. Volume 25 in Ancient Peoples and Places series, general ed. Glyn Daniel. 8vo, brick-colored cloth with rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, worn especially at corners, both hinges cracked making the binding loose but all pages firmly attached, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing and tiny soil spots to top edge and fore-edge. Bookplate of former owner Ann E. Berthoff on ffep along with a stray pen mark. Text pages unmarked.

Pantheon, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages, with introduction by John Berger, map of Sicily across two pages. Translated from Italian by Justin Vitiello and Madeline Polidoro. Interviews with and monologues by residents of impoverished villages in western Sicily, collected by the Italian sociologist, poet, and apostle of non-violent action. Small trade paperback (~5" x 8"), shelf wear and rubbed along edges of spine, stains to a couple of pages as from laid-in newspaper clippings. Underscoring and/or marginalia on ~15 pages of the main text, mostly small pencil marks in margins; heavier annotation by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff in the introduction (highly critical) and Dolci's preface (appreciative).