Search Results: Authors starting with M from Berthoff Books

Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 139 pages. Discussion of birds by Max Nicholson, an early environmentalist and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund. Color frontispiece - painting of birds fighting over a fish in mid-air. Six appendices: bird ecology; data on nest and nestling losses; other data; data on speed and altitude of flight; bibliographical notes; scientific names of birds. 12mo (5" x 7-1/2"), green cloth with black lettering on spine, faded gray topstain, slightly cocked, wear at crown/heel/corners, boards lightly soiled, foxing to edges and some spots on pages, brown stains to end papers, UK bookstore sticker on rear pastedown. Underscoring or margin brackets observed on approximately five pages.

Astra Press, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 141 pages, with index. Bibliography lists 2899 scholarly articles, conference proceedings, etc. published in 1945-85 on the political, intellectual, social and economic life of Yugoslavia and its constituent republics. 5-3/4" x 8-1/4", light blue wraps, spine and back wrap sunned, foxing to top edge and back wrap. UK bookstore price in pencil on ffep, no other markings observed.

Collier Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 159 pages, with index. Fourth printing (1966) of first Collier edition. "A study of the ideals and the realities of the Revolution as revealed in the life of its most controversial spokesman" by the Oxford historian, author of longer works on the French Revolution and on Robespierre, as part of the Teach Yourself History series. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, wraps age-toned, binding tight. Old price in marker on front cover, interior pages unmarked.

Edward Arnold, 1994. Soft cover. Good. 480 pages, with index, four maps, 44 b&w illustrations on 14 double-sided plates (which have become detached from the binding but are present). Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, bottom back corner creased, foxing to edges. Notes in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

Penguin Books, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages, with glossary of proper names, note on books, letter to Lorenzo de' Medici. Translated with an introduction by George Bull. Mass-market paperback, creases to wraps, rubbed along spine, edges and page margins aged-tanned, first few pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom. Pencil marks on ffep, text 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.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 384 pages, with a list of the authors, and two major sections: U.S.A. and Latin America. Laid out in columns, encyclopedia-style, with entries for individual writers and for tendencies in writing. 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8), dark blue cloth with red stripes and gold lettering/embellishment on spine, dark blue end papers. The book itself is in beautiful shape, tight, only slight soil to edges and fading to tinted top edge, text clean and unmarked. In original DJ, which has tears and chipping, and has been mended. Heavy, will incur shipping surcharge.

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.

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 484 pages, with index, abbreviations list, notes. Foreword by Martin Schwab. Twenty-seven lectures, first published in German 1984, English published here as Theory and History of Literature series Vol. 45. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits), her underscoring and/or (engaged, critical) marginalia in pencil on approximately 80 pages, extracts written out on half-title, notes on rfep and back cover.

Éditions du Seuil, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 155 pages. Trade paperback, light creases in front wrap, smudges to back, edges and page margins age-tanned, bookstore sticker (Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Cambridge, Mass.) and price in pencil on epigraph page, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 576 pages, with index - "a concise and authoritative general introduction - social, political and historical - to the modern Arab world" first published 1976. Has Postscript (1980), two-page map, country profiles. A Pelican Book. Trade paperback, wraps creased, wear to corners and edges, edges and page margins tan from age, binding tight. Margin brackets and/or underscoring on approximately 25 pages.

Grove Press, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 298 pages, with index and bibliography, frontispiece illustration is portrait sketch of Apollinaire by Michel Larionow. Translated from the French by Denise Folliot from the French edition titled Apollinaire le Mal-Aimé. 5-1/4" x 8", green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dust soiling to top edge, light foxing and smudge to fore-edge, foxing and newspaper stains to end papers (laid-in clipping of Sept. 29, 1966 New York Times obituary of Apollinaire's friend André Breton conveys with this book), in unclipped, rubbed DJ with soiling at margins and 3/4" tear to back panel along spine. Notes in pencil by a former owner on rfep, pencilled margin bracket observed on one other page, else pages clean and unmarked.

W W Norton & Company Inc, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 468 pages, with index, notes, and list of correspondents. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. Illustrated with five b&w photos and one ms. facsimile. First Norton Library edition of collection published 1948. Includes selected Wartime Letters. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, with light wear and soil, dust soil/faint foxing to top edge. Pencil underscoring and/or marginalia (in a small, neat hand) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 65 pages.

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade paperback, minimal wear, faint foxing/dust soil to top edge, pages bright. Pencil underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on five pages in the introduction, no marks observed in the poems.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. 205 pages plus 11 pages front matter and translator's Preface. Trade paperback, crease to spine, binding cracked at p. 44-45, light shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Notes observed on two pages (one in preface, one in notes) and rear end papers.

New Directions, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages plus six of front matter/foreword. Translated by G. Craig Houston, Foreword by Denise Levertov. Collection first published 1960 as Vol. I of Selected Works. Fifteen essays and one lecture, first published between 1903 and 1938. Small trade paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), light soil to wraps, minimal shelf wear, foxing/dust soil to top edge. Pages bright and unmarked.

Rizzoli, 2006. Soft cover. Near Fine. 189 pages. Published in the Art Classics series. Introduction "Anti-Academy" by the Sicilian artist and anti-fascist activist Renato Guttuso, "His Life and Art" by Francesca Marini, who also edited the presentation of Caravaggio's masterpieces on color plates, Appendix including Chronological Table, Geographical Locations of the Paintings, Caravaggio's Writings, and Concise Bibliography. Translated from Italian by Miriam Hurley. 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" in self-wraps, very slight wear at front cover corners. Pages unmarked.

Perennial Classics (Harper & Row), 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 370 pages, with Bibliography and Chronology. Edited, with an Introduction, by Justin Kaplan. Mass-market paperback, scant shelf wear, light crease to spine, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Gateway (Henry Regnery Company), 1951. Soft cover. Good. 373 pages, with Note by translator and editor Phyllis Penn Kohler, Introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. The French aristocrat's memoir of his journey to Russia in 1839. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and soil to wraps, text block quite brown with age, a few accidentally dog-eared pages. No marks observed within.

Stanford Univ Press, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 369 pages, with index. 1978 printing of 1975 second edition of work first issued 1958. A book of the Soviet period, it looks at the pre-history of "Marxist-Leninist" notions of art, starting with the "radical democrat" writers of the 19th century. Ends with consideration of Soviet-era dissidents - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky. Trade paperback, wraps curled at corners and along fore-edge, shelf wear and small (1/4") split at back of spine at crown, dust soil to top edge, minor soil or scratches to fore-edge and back cover, a bit of foxing to end papers. Marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 15 pages in the Pasternak chapter, other pages unmarked.