Search Results: Titles starting with F from Berthoff Books

ZAO Kapital, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL PUBLICATION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. 80 pages. Special issue of periodical, dedicated to projects for a Bering Strait tunnel, issued in connection with international conference held in Moscow, April 2007. Large-format (21.5 x 29.5 cm) journal, printed on glossy stock with color illustrations, light shelf wear and creasing to corners, few spots of soil to covers.

Petits Classiques Larousse, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 287 pages, avec Biographie, Contextes, Tableau chronologique, "Genèse de l'oeuvre". Édition présentée, annotée et commentée par Guillaume Peureux. Illustrated with b&w reproductions, some full-page and some cuts, of drawings from classic editions of the Fables. Wonderful, pretty little edition with tons of supporting material and ample footnotes explaining archaic terms and expressions. Small paperback (11cm x 17cm), reading crease to front wrap, light stain to fore-edge, minimal shelf wear. Handwritten index of page numbers of some of the fables, on inside back cover; text pages bright and unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1978. Soft cover. Good. 228 pages, plus 21 Roman-numeral introductory pages including pronunciation guide, history of the fable. Reprint of Handford's translation first published 1954. Illustrated (b&w) by Brian Robb. Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed especially along spine, creases to spine, edges and page margins age-tanned, front-matter pages up through p. 2 detached (as a single unit) from binding but all pages present. Pages unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 110 pages. Twenty-two sonnets, seven odes, other poems and light verse. 8vo, ivory cloth with gilt lettering, corners sharp, tiny spots of soil on front board, faint foxing to edges, in unclipped DJ with light soil near top, fold in bottom of front flap. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Museum of Modern Art, 1955. Soft cover. Good. 193 pages, with prologue by Carl Sandburg. Book catalogue of the famous 1955 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which subsequently toured the world for eight years. Black and white photos interspersed with sayings and verses. Cover design by Leo Lionni. Softcover catalogue, 8-1/4" x 11", wraps reglued slightly (1/16") out of alignment, wraps worn/toned/soiled, page margins age-toned, unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 278 pages. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Walter Lowrie. Small trade paperback, reading crease and bottom corner crease to front cover, 2" vertical scratch to front, edges of spine rubbed, remainder mark to bottom edge, wraps and edges slightly age-toned. Bookstore sticker mark on back cover, bookstore prices on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 35 pages, primarily in the "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" section of Fear and Trembling.

Text Publishing, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 184 pages, with bibliography, chronology, text of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos and drawings (plates and cuts). Published to accompany the Film Australia/ABC television documentary "Federation". Small trade paperback (5" x 8"), scant edge-wear, binding tight. Underscoring in red ink on approximately 20 pages.

German Historical Institute, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 pages. Occasional Paper No. 6, being the proceedings of a memorial event held at Bryn Mawr College in 1992. Preface by the editor. Greetings from Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr. Essays "Felix Gilbert at BMC" by Barbara Miller Lane, "Insight and Energy: Reflections on the Work of Felix Gilbert" by Gordon A. Craig. Small pamphlet (5-1/2" x 8-3/8") stapled in printed card wraps, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to wraps and top edge, pages unmarked.

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 312 pages, with index, appendix and bibliography on various aspects of folklore and folk arts. Illustrated with b&w photos on 16 double-sided plates. The author visited Italy and travelled around the country in the early 1950s. Medium 8vo (9-1/4" x 6-1/8"), faded orangish cloth with spine especially sunned, black lettering on spine, corners/crown/heel frayed, pages age-toned, a couple of pages accidentally creased at bottom corner. Name of former owner, booksale price, other notes in pencil on ffep, a few small marks in margins of some pages in the Sicily section.

Minerva, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 220 pages. Fourteen stories translated from French. Collection first appeared 1978 in French from Gallimard as Le Coq de Bruyère. English translation first issued 1983. Mass-market paperback, spot of erosion on front wrap, scant edge-wear, edges and page margins age-toned, pages unmarked.

Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 77 pages. American edition. 12mo (5-1/4" x 7-1/2"), green cloth with paper labels on front and spine, the latter with loss at one end; worn at crown and heel, rubbing along spine, boards and labels soiled, former price in pencil on ffep, pages age-toned but unmarked. A strip of pretty, cancelled French postage stamps from 1995, featuring illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables, laid in by former owner and conveys with this book.

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 165 pages, with b&w photographs and maps (location and trail). Several of the walking or hiking routes go through wildlife sanctuaries; it appears that most of these trails are still available. Introduction gives basic advice on hiking. About 7-1/2" x 9", wraps worn/rubbed along edges and spine, a little creasing to back cover. Pages unmarked.

Calder and Boyars, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 143 pages. Three film scripts translated from Swedish, plus six double-sided plates with b&w stills from the films. Second printing. 1963 remark by Bergman in the front matter: "The theme of these three films is a 'reduction' - in the metaphysical sense of that word. Through a Glass Darkly - certainty achieved. The Communicants - certainty unmasked. The Silence - God's silence - the negative impression." Trade paperback, creases to spine, light shelf wear, light soil and minor creases to wraps, edges age-toned, pale foxing to plates and to some pages, especially those facing the plates. Handwritten check mark in the margin of one page, no other writing observed.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 241 pages. Collected essays and reviews from the author's first ten years as a writer. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"), gray paper over boards with pale gray cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine and front, rough-cut fore-edge, dust soil to top edge, in unclipped DJ with shelf wear, flaps have creases, curling, discoloration at edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Liberal Arts Press, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. 90 pages, with Selected Bibliography. Introduction by Stuart M. Brown, Jr. First published 1726 (these are five of 15 sermons published together), a decade before Butler became Clerk of the Closet to Queen Caroline and, later, Bishop of Durham. The topics are "Human Nature" and "Love of Our Neighbor". 5-3/8" x 8" pamphlet in gray stapled card wraps, discolored to brown around edges, smudge to upper right of front cover; edges age-toned, page margins barely so. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Dover Publications, 2012. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 421 pages. A collection of long out-of-print Victorian-era (both English and American) novels of the supernatural, edited with an Introduction by E.F. Bleiler. The five authors are Mrs. J.H. Riddell, Wilhelm Meinhold, Amelia B. Edwards, Vernon Lee, and Charles Willing Beale. Trade paperback. The "good" condition designation is between the "fair" wraps (nothing missing, but heavily worn and creased) and the "very good" unmarked interior pages. Edges age-toned, some foxing to front-matter pages, former owner's name written on ffep.

William Heinemann Australia, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 420 pages, with index and bibliography, b&w photos on plates. 8vo, black boards with white lettering on spine, edges and page margins age-toned, corners of a few pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom, in DJ with only light shelf wear, Australian bookstore price sticker on back panel. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, underscoring and/or margin bracktets (primarily the latter - short vertical lines) on approxiately 90 pages.

Atheneium Publishers, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 240 pages. First American edition of English translation from Silone's post-war revised version of his famous anti-fascist novel (first published 1933 when he was in exile in Switzerland, issued in English by Penguin Books 1934; revised 1949). Foreword by Malcolm Cowley, Note on the Revision of Fontamara written by Silone 1959. Small 8vo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"), beige cloth with red/white/green lettering on spine, title blind-stamped from back board around to front, tan stain to front board from contact with another book, black topstain and end papers, scant shelf wear, vertical tan stains on p. 200-01 from laid-in newspaper clipping (Christian Science Monitor review of Silone's play The Story of a Humble Christian) which conveys with the book and on p. 70-1 evidently from a bookmark; book also falls open to that page. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1960 written on second fly-leaf, his marginalia observed on… Read More

Random House, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 269 pages, with index, illustrated with two maps (Israel, Jerusalem), eight double-sided plates of black and white photos. First American edition. 8vo, turquoise cloth, light blue end papers, boards bowed, back board frayed and gouged at bottom, stains to edges of boards at top and bottom, coffee stain to fore-edge extends slightly onto pages, former owner's name on front and rear end papers and bottom edge, in unclipped DJ curled at edges, small tears at top, damage cut away (by 1/2") at bottom of rear panel. Interior in far better shape than the beat-up exterior: not ex-library, no markings observed to pages.

Simon and Schuster, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 298 pages, with index, glossary, pronunciation guide, three maps, 13 unnumbered full pages of b&w photos. Clarion imprint. Fourth paperback printing. Trade paperback, one signature (p. 171-202) printed upside down, light shelf wear, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.