Search Results: Authors starting with E from Berthoff Books

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1975. Soft cover. Fair. 384 pages, with indexes of subjects, places, names; selected bibliography; tables of incidents and punishments. Illustrated with art and document reproductions. First Norton Library edition of 1968 book. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, front cover separated from spine in 2" tear at bottom, front matter pages and through p. 18 detached from binding, foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 70 pages.

Cambridge University Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 317 pages, with index, bibliography, notes, and two introductions (first and second editions). First published 1934, this second edition (1961; this copy is reprint) revised and continued by H.M. Waidson. From Kleist and Goethe into mid-20th century. Trade paperback, minimal wear, spine sunned, faint foxing and dust soil to edges, binding supple, bookstore price sticker on back cover, pages bright and unmarked.

A.A. Wyn, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 509 pages, with short introduction, biographical note. First edition thus. Ten tales, illustrated with 27 full-page color and b&w lithographs by Richard Lindner. Royal 8vo (7" x 9-3/4"), dark red cloth with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, faded red topstain, wear to boards especially corners/crown/heel which has 1/2" tear at front of hinge, spine sunned, water spot and other soil to boards, edges and end papers age-tanned. Gift inscription on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owners (later Profs.) Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 10 pages. Laid in is clipping of 1952 TLS review of a different Hoffmann collection.

Southern Methodist University Press, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 221 pages, with glossary, bibliography, index, list of the nearly 200 illustrations which are mostly b&w photos as cuts, plus 16 color plates. First SMU Press edition of book published 1994. Large trade paperback (8-3/8" x 11"), top right corner a bit bent on front cover and about half the pages, otherwise scant shelf wear, printed on semi-gloss and glossy (for color plates) stock. Pages bright and unmarked.

Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, edges stained red, text block age-tanned. Light pencil notation on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 520 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book first published in 1972). No subsequent volumes exist. Trade paperback, creases in spine and front wrap, shelf wear to especially to heel and corners, faint foxing to top edge, light soil to other edges. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on half title, her underscoring and notes on approximately 105 pages including title page, and on rfep and inside back cover.

Harper & Row, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 2-volume set. Vol. 1 - 2430 pages. Vol. 2 - ISBN 10 number 0-06-044373-1, 2902 pages. Each volume has index. Vol. 1 ends with Walt Whitman. Each volume identified as professional complimentary copy, with stamp on front pastedown. Large 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), ivory boards with silver gilt lettering, only observed defect is light soiling to top and bottom edges. Heavy books, orders for the set will incur shipping surcharge.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 557 pages, with index. Third printing. Published posthumously. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Wilson in 1920, and eight other plates. 8vo, beige cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, backstrip sunned, boards soiled and water-stained, foxing to edges, book a bit cocked with bowed back board. Bookplate of former owner Charles H. Mullen affixed to front pastedown, booksale price in pencil on ffep. Pages clean and unmarked. A free, unused, clean copy of Prof. Warner Berthoff's Edmund Wilson - University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 67, 1968, 47 pages, will be sent with this book unless buyer notifies that it's not wanted.

The Ecco Press, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 320 pages. Uncorrected page proof. Divided into three sections: essays on Blackmur, memoirs of Blackmur, texts by Blackmur - reviews and essays. 8vo, plain gray wraps age-toned, spine sunned to brown, corners creased. Marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff observed on approximately 10 pages.

Dover Publications, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages, with bibliography, index, b&w photographs throughout, many by Armin Landeck. First paperback edition of book published 1974. Trade paperback, crease at bottom corner of front cover, other light wear to wraps, which do not lie absolutely flat to the text block, very faint foxing to top edge and some along margins of inside covers. Pages unmarked.

Rockland Editions, 1939. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 231 pages. From an edition of 925 copies "printed for Rockland Editions at the Spiral Press," New York, Sept. 1939. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas H. Johnson. The intro includes a Foreword and two essays: one biographical and the other on Taylor's poetry. The notes include a glossary, notes to this edition, account and index of Taylor's library, description of the manuscript of "Poetical Works," and a bibliography. The poetry is divided into sections: Gods Determinations, Five Poems, and Sacramental Meditations. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 10"), brown boards with beige coarse-wove quarter, paper title label on the spine, top edge is trimmed, other edges rough-cut; soil to boards, corners bumped and frayed, spine rubbed with a few strands of the quarter-binding coming unwoven; edges, end papers and page margins age-toned, with a darker tan stain to front end papers; three pages… Read More

Bonus Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 267 pages, with index, maps, foreword by former CIA director James Woolsey. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/4"), black cloth, unclipped dust jacket, scant wear, outer clear plastic jacket. Former library book with relevant stickers, card pocket, stamps. Pages bright and unmarked.

Tudor Publishing Co., 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. 12 pages of text and list of the plates, with one b&w art reproduction in that intro; 15 one-sided color plates. American edition, printed in France, of work copyrighted by Fernand Hazan of Paris in the Petite Encyclopédie de l'Art series. The short biographical intro encompasses the development of Cubism. Small (10.5 x 14.3 cm) paperback, reading crease, slight soil/discoloration to white wraps, minimal shelf wear, pages unmarked.

Reader's Digest Press (E.P. Dutton), 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 338 pages plus 12 pages front matter, with bibliography, index. Introductory comment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Illustrated with b&w photos on 12 double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light shelf wear, a little soil to edges and large brown stain to ffep, first index page dog-eared, in unclipped but fairly tattered DJ with chips and mended tears. Former price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or margin brackets (and a few notes) on approximately 85 pages.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages, with index. Former library book with card sleeve remnants on rear end papers, library marks on spine and elsewhere, bit clipped from absent DJ's flap affixed to front pastedown. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 70 pages; her notes on end papers and half-title include the observation - "better than anything the women's movement went on to produce", and a reminiscence of Mary Ellman treating her as having an independent personality and intellectual interests, in Harvard circles in 1950. 8vo, light blue cloth with faded white and silver gilt lettering on spine, mustard end papers, wear to corners/crown/heel, old price notation on ffep.

Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1076 pages. Chosen and edited by Richard Ellmann. Poets from Anne Bradstreet to Imamu Amiri Baraka. 8vo, wear to heel and bottom corners, a spine a bit concave making foredge uneven, accidental crease to rfep. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book will incur additional shipping charge.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, glossary. Account by U.S. News and World Report editor ranges from Iran-Contra to freeing kidnap victims in Italy to other cover ops in Central America. Features "the private notebooks of Oliver North." Blue paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, practically no wear to boards, faint foxing and remainder mark on top edge. Unclipped dust jacket has shelf wear, crease to rear flap at bottom corner, chip at crown. Old price in pencil written on first free end paper, underscoring and/or margin brackets in pen on approximately 60 pages.

Chatto and Windus, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 119 pages, with the author's notes and corrigenda. 8vo, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on the sunned spine, wear to crown and heel, faint foxing to edges, a bit more to end papers. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Chatto & Windus, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 201 pages. Edited with a 73-page introduction by John Haffenden. Published two years after Empson's death, the book includes "Three stories: a one-act melodrama", unpublished poems and fragments, uncollected poems, "The Royal Beasts: a fable", and "The Elephant and the Birds: a plan for a ballet" with letters concerning the last from the Empson Papers. 8vo, light gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible wear, light toning to end papers, edges and page margins age-tanned, in clipped DJ with UK bookstore price label affixed next to where the original price was clipped, back flap a little soiled. Pages unmarked.

Self-published, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. 264 pages, with bibliography, illustrated throughout with color cuts (photographs and diagrams). "An earthshaking revelation of what is happening to our planet", by Prof. Lance Endersbee, who was Dean of Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor, emeritus, of Monash University, past president of the Institution of Engineers Australia. From the back panel: "This impressive, quietly argued book warns that the deep groundwater, on which three billion people . . . depend for most of their drinking water and food, is running out at an unprecedented rate. It throws new light on many popular and scientific beliefs about the origins and extent of the world's water, natural gas and petroleum deposits, the mechanics of deep earthquakes, the continuing but still not understood expansion of the earth, and the causes of climate change." Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4"), blue cloth with gilt lettering, printed on glossy stock,… Read More