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Cambridge University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 308 pages, with index. A long subtitle informs that the book comprises Fay's lectures at Cambridge in 1919 to students including Royal Navy officers and U.S. Army personnel. 8vo, yellow cloth with red lettering, boards soiled and banged up (dents in spine, bumps to edges), some wavy areas as from damp on boards and front-matter pages near spine. Writing on ffep includes a former owner's name and bookstore price; copyright page stamped "withdrawn" from H.M. Stationery Office; pale yellow highlighting observed on three pages, but rest of the text is clean and unmarked.
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Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century
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The Gentry 1540-1640
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Cambridge University Press, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 55 pages, with Appendix showing landed wealth of 23 English Peers under Charles I. The Economic History Review Supplements - 1, published for the Economic History Society. Date inferred, not stated. Polemical pamphlet directed at the arguments of Prof. R.H. Tawney on the causes of the English Civil War. Journal format (approx. 7" x 10"), light-weight card-stock wraps with corner creases, light soil, age-tanning and light foxing, spine a bit rumpled. Name of former owner Prof. W.B. Berthoff with date July 1963 written on front cover, alongside price in pencil. Interior unmarked.
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The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Vol. II: The Struggle
by R.R. Palmer
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Princeton University Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 584 pages, with index, five maps. Volume II of a two-book series; Volume I, The Challenge, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-763. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned, edges and wraps age-toned. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.
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The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Vol. I: The Challenge
by R.R. Palmer
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Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 534 pages, with index and appendices, one of which provides excerpts from constitutions and other basic documents of several countries. Volume I of a two-book series; Volume II, The Struggle, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-766. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, wraps a little age-toned, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned and has water stain, tan stain from newspaper clipping on two pages of ToC. Name of former onwer written on ffep, only one mark to interior pages observed - an item circled in the ToC.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Five Books
by Francois Rabelais
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The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 764 pages, each book numbered separately, plus 31 pages of front-matter. Translated by Jacques LeClercq, who interpolated some explanations from Champion's Critical French edition; illustrated by Lynd Ward. 8vo, 2" thick, beige cloth with blue lettering on spine, end papers decorated with drawings - blemished patch on ffep, boards lightly soiled and shelf worn, backstrip rumpled at crown. Bookplate affixed to second front free end paper states the volume was awarded to (later Prof.) Warner Berthoff at the Hotchkiss School, 1943; that page is rumpled. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil observed on approximately 10 pages.
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The Letters of Rachel Henning
by Rachel Henning, ed. David Adams
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Penguin Books, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 292 pages. Edited by David Adams, foreword and illustrations by Norman Lindsay. The letters were first published in 1951-2, first Penguin edition 1969. Trade paperback, reading creases, soiling to wraps, edges and page margins age-tanned, binding supple. Pages unmarked.
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The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama
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Watts & Co., 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 310 pages, with bibliography and index. First Thinker's Library edition of book originally published 1936. The Thinker's Library #133. With original preface and short preface to Thinker's Library Edition, by the author. 4-1/2" x 7", faded red cloth with rubbed silver gilt lettering, very faded red (?) topstain, end papers decorated with Watts logo (W + oil lamp) in red as repeating pattern, light wear to corners, heavier to heel and crown, 3/4" tear along front edge of spine from crown, spine sunned, foxing to end papers and front matter pages, front hinge cracked at title page, a few pages accidentally dog-eared at top. Bookstore price in pencil and names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 45 pages. Laid-in clipping (from TLS?) of review of Lord Raglan's The Temple and the House, from August 1964.
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William Blake
by Kathleen Raine
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Praeger Publishers, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages, with index, chronology, select bibliography. 156 illustrations - b&w and color reproductions of Blake's artwork. World of Art series. Trade paperback, wraps worn at corners, spine creased, foxing to top edge, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 75 pages.
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The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. M.D. Herter Norton
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W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 93 pages. First Norton Library edition of translation first published 1932, revised 1959, of vignettes written 1899 and first published in German 1904. Includes one-page biographical note and three-page translator's Foreword. Printed with German original and English translation facing. Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4") with soil but scant shelf wear to wraps, foxing to top edge. Notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately five pages and underscoring in the lists of Norton Library titles at the end.
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Diaries of a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Edward Snow and Michael Winkler
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W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Annotated by the translators. A dozen pages of b&w photos. 8vo, plain paper wrappers, soiled and worn, reading crease. Note about review due date written on front cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil throughout and notes on rear end papers.
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Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1914-1921
by Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. M.D. Herter Norton
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W.W. Norton & Company, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 279 pages, with translator's introduction, ~40 pages of notes, list of correspondents. 8vo, gray cloth soiled and heavily sunned, with black lettering faded on front board and entirely gone from spine which has losses from previously applied sticky tape, tape remnants in 1" strip of back board along spine, corners worn to the cardboard, hinges loose but all pages attached, top edge dust-soiled and foxed, tan stain to title page and facing from laid-in newspaper clipping. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on front pastedown, gift inscription to her on ffep, underscoring and marginalia by both (hers from two readings 25 years apart) on end papers and throughout. Laid-in clipping from the NYRB Dec. 1985, a review by John Bayley of two other collections of Rilke's letters, conveys with the book.
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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. M.D. Herter Norton
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W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 245 pages, with Foreword and Notes by the translator. German originals and English translations are printed facing. 8vo, tan boards with light brown cloth quarter, faded black lettering on spine, fore-edge rough-cut, corn-yellow end papers, heavy wear to corners/crown/heel, top half of backstrip reglued where it was peeling, edges of boards rubbed, soil to boards, top edge dust-soiled, hinges loose, bookstore sticker from Smith & Hardwick, Birmingham, Alabama on front pastedown. Name of former owner Ann Evans (Berthoff) and date 1944 written on ffep, her marks or notes observed on approximately 10 pages.
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American Thought: A Critical Sketch
by Morris Raphael Cohen
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Collier Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 448 pages, with index of names and subject index. First paperback edition of book published posthumously by the Free Press (Macmillan) in 1954. Edited and with a Foreword by the author's son Felix S. Cohen, who also died before publication. From the wraps: "A great American thinker surveys ideas in history, science, religion, law, politics, philosophy, economics and aesthetics." Mass-market paperback, light wear with slightly more at bottom of front cover, water stain to top edge, binding tight and pages fairly bright. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and a note by him written on ffep, a few small marks in front matter; underscoring and marginalia by Prof. Ann Berthoff on approximately 15 pages related to C.S. Peirce.
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Exercises in Style
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New Directions, 1981. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 197 pages, with translator's prefaces to the first (1958) and this English editions. Originally published in French, 1947. Theme and variations: one incident told in 99 different styles. Trade paperback, wear to corners, small tears at bottom of spine, wraps had separated and are reglued leaving the first signature very slightly out of alignment, incipient foxing to top edge. Note by former owner on half-title, interior pages bright and unmarked.
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The Tudors: Personalities and Practical Politics in Sixteenth Century England
by Conyers Read
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Henry Holt and Company, 1937. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 264 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w art reproductions - portraits of five Tudor monarchs on plates. 8vo (5-3/4" x 8-3/4"), black cloth with almost entirely faded gilt lettering on spine, corners/crown/heel quite worn, hinges cracked, faded topstain, edges/page margins/pale blue end papers age-tanned, ink blot on bottom edge (not remainder mark), drawing clipped from magazine affixed to ffep with crossed-out caption below it and stain on front pastedown opposite, typed list of pre-Tudor rulers of England with handwritten annotations glued (apparently) to rfep. Names of former owners written on front pastedown and ffep. Marginalia on more than half the pages - many just small marks, some substantial; handwritten epigraph on page opposite half-title, additional notes on rear endpapers and pastedown.
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English Prose Style
by Herbert Read
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Henry Holt and Company, 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 229 pages, with Index and Chronological List of Authors Quoted. Classic guide to ways of writing and speaking in English. Small 8vo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4"), dark blue buckram with wear to crown/heel/corners, boards soiled, spine sunned, rubbed-away title reritten by hand on spine in silver gilt, edges age-toned. Names of two former owners written on front pastedown and ffep, their underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 100 pages (the notes of the first owner, a minister and later professor of speech, reflect his interest in homiletics).
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Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art throughout the Ages
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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 378 pages, with index. Art history overview from prehistoric times to early 20th century. More than 600 illustrations (b&w art reproductions, mostly cuts). Translated from French by Florence Simmonds. Based on lectures given by the author in 1902-03 at the Ecole du Louvre, "completely revised and [with a] new chapter by the author". 12mo (5" x 7-1/4"), red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, spine sunned and rubbed, withdrawn library book with Bryn Mawr College bookplate affixed to front pastedown, various marks crossed out, card sleeve; smudges to cover, moderate wear to crown/heel/corners, edges age-toned. No marks observed within.
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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
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Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (and Pocket Books, Inc.), 1954. Soft cover. Good. Published in the Pocket Library of Great Art, the book is "in effect a 'guided tour' through the works of Camille Pissarro, one of the greatest and most beloved of the French Impressionists" (from the front flap). Pages unnumbered. Includes (one page each) biographical notes, excerpts from Pissarro's letters to his son Lucien, small bibliography. Forty-two art reproductions on plates, of which more than 30 are in full color; some fold-outs for larger horizontal paintings. Mass-market paperback with self-wraps, rough-cut fore-edge, crease to spine, wraps rubbed, edges age-toned, some of the fold-out plates are creased or rumpled at the outer edge from use. Pages unmarked, colors bright.
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Constable's England
by Graham Reynolds
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art / George Braziller, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 184 pages, with Introduction, Biographical Summary, Further Reading list. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello, then-director of the MMA. Reynolds was a British art historian and museum curator, expert on Constable's work.This book was published in conjunction with an MMA exhibition of the same title. The catalogue section is illustrated with color reproductions of the paintings. Almost square (9-1/4" x 10-3/16"), medium blue cloth with black lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to rear end papers from laid-in newspaper clipping, erased pencil price on ffep, interior pages on satin-finish stock bright and unmarked. DJ has a one-inch area of wear along bottom of front panel and one mark by pen on rear flap. The laid-in clipping is from the TLS, a review of a 2002 exhibition book on Constable.
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Homoeopathic Reasoning
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1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 18 pages. Paper presented at the Symposium, Homoeopathy: The Renaissance of Cure, San Francisco, March 29, 1980. On the principles and practice of homoeopathy, with examples. 5-3/8" x 8-1/2" pamphlet, staple-bound in cream card wraps with slight discoloration along fold and light soil. Pages unmarked.
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