Search Results: Titles starting with R from Berthoff Books

Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 512 pages. First Trade Edition. Last of the four main Rabbit novels. 8vo, black cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering slightly rubbed on front board, pale mauve topstain, faint foxing to fore-edge, edges of boards a little sunned, in unclipped DJ with slight shelf wear. Pages bright and unmarked. Not ex-library.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 307 pages + A Note on the Author. 8vo, blue-gray boards faded especially at edges, soiled greenish-teal cloth quarter with rubbed gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine; bluish tint to top edge faded, other edges slightly age-toned. In original DJ, with foxing to interior and flaps, several ~1" tears and chips, including to folds and at top of spine where the first two letters of "John" are missing; unclipped (price $4.00), 16-line blurb on front flap, 18 lines under author's photo on rear flap. From the library of Prof. Warner B. Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike began the year this novel appeared and is held in the Updike Collection at Harvard's Houghton Library; his name is written on the ffep, his underscoring and notes appear on the rear pastedown and rfep and, not terribly obtrusively, throughout the text. A well-used copy.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 407 pages. Second of the Rabbit novels. 8vo, dark red cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge tinted blue, without visible shelf wear, corners sharp, in unclipped DJ with light wear and age-toning around top. Underscoring, margin marks, and some notes on approximately one-third of the pages; more extended notes in pencil on the rear end papers.

Librairie LaRousse, 1936. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Fair. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 104 pages. Avec une Notice biographique, une Notice historique et litteraire, des Notes explicatives, des Jugements, un Questionnaire et des Sujets de devoirs. Frontispiece - 1827 drawing "Grand combat entre le romantique et le classique." Mass-market paperback, wraps brown with age and soiled, chips to bottom of front wrap and top of backstrip, front wrap detached and lightly taped in place, pages also age-tanned. Notes and underscoring on approximately a dozen pages.

Oxford University Press, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 286 pages. Published in The World's Classics series. Introduction by P.N. Furbank. The selection of short stories includes four from Tolstoy's early "Crimea" period and five from after 1880. Mass-market paperback, reading crease and another vertical crease to front cover, light shelf wear, sticker remnant on back, foxing to top edge, edges and page margins age-toned, binding supple, pages unmarked.

Arrow Books, 1986. Soft cover. Good. 302 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos on 6 double-sided plates. Background investigation of the July 1985 sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand. Mass market paperback, creases to corners and spine, wear along spine and to heel, a few pages dog-eared at bottom, half-title page loose; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned. Text unmarked.

Univeristy of California Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 322 pages, with index of persons, lists of Rilke's works in German and French and his translations, and of German titles of Rilke's works, author's notes. First paperback edition of the English translation published 1964. The book, first published 1936, recounts the last seven years of Rilke's life (1919-1926). Included here is the author's foreword to the third edition (1952). Illustrated with four full-page b&w photos and an ms. facsimile. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, spine sunned, water stain at top of spine, soil to front cover, underscoring on back, foxing to top edge, page-turning soil to others. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 80 pages; Rilke's last poem written out by her on a blank page near end.

Fernand Hazan, 1950. Soft cover. Good. TEXT IN THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. Thirteenth volume in the Bibliothèque Aldine des Arts. Eight-page text followed by 24 color reproductions of works by the Fauvist painter Dufy. Mass-market paperback, self-wraps, age-toning and light foxing to white wraps and end papers, small chip to backstrip at heel, tears along edges of backstrip, which has been reglued at crown and heel to prevent further separation. No markings within, and color art reproductions are bright.

Arrow Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 448 pages. Second Arrow paperback edition of novel first published 1959. Called a "Roger Brook" story after the fictional ero. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, with Wheatley's customary mix of interests: British intelligence, and satanism. Mass-market paperback, wraps shelf-worn with rubbing along spine, remnant of sticker on front cover, edges/page margins age-tanned, foxing to top edge and inside covers. Old price notation on half-title, interior pages unmarked.

The Macmillan Company, 1938. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 717 pages, with index. Revised and enlarged edition (first was issued 1914). Prefaces to each edition by Prof. Coker (Yale), who wrote an introduction to the excerpts from each thinker, from Plato and other ancients, St. Augustine, through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, to Bentham. 8vo, gray cloth with black lettering and faded gilt decoration, spine and boards around edges sunned, black smudges on spine, bottom corners bumped, edges and end papers age-toned, binding firm. Old bookstore price in pencil and name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

D. Appleton-Century Company, 1926. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages, an edition for schools, edited by Max J. Herzberg, with an introduction, a short "word study" section at the end, reproduction of sculpted relief portrait of Crane in profile on frontispiece plate. 1926 is latest date shown. 12mo (5" x 7-1/4"), blue cloth with black lettering on red blocks, slight shelf wear and sunning, edges age-toned, pages barely so. Light pencil marks and a few notes on approximately 25 pages.

Destiny Image Publishers, 1999. Soft cover. Good. 122 pages + advertising pages at end. Trade paperback, scratch at bottom of front wrap, extending across bottom edge, otherwise minimal shelf-wear, edges and pages bright, underscoring and/on margin brackets on approximately 15 pages.

Harper Torchbooks, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 484 pages. First Harper Torchbook edition of work first published in 1885. Trade paperback, wraps and front matter pages separated from text block and reglued with result that first few pages and wraps as a whole are not quite flush with rest of the block, wraps a bit rubbed, edges and page margins age-toned. Name of former owner written on ffep, no marks observed on pages.

Meridian Books, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 219 pages, with author's and translator's prefaces. New edition of translation first published 1932. Deals with religion in the face of "a concerted revolt against the spirit of capitalist society." Mass-market paperback, spine browned, age-toning visible on white parts of wraps, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. The reason for "fair" rating is that ffep has been torn out; otherwise good. Pages bright, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 65 pages.

University of California Press, 1978. Soft cover. Fair. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe. 63 pages x 2 (same page number for facing DE and EN pages). Trade paperback, quite wavy and stiff from water damage, with stains to end papers, foxing to top edge, wear to corners of wraps. Name of former owner written on half-title along with notes and old price, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.

Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 96 pages, with chronology, catalogue, short glossary of technical terms, and reproductions of 85 works on plates. Published on the occasion of a Hayward Touring/British Museum Partnership exhibition. Foreword by Hayward curators Roger Malbert and Susan May, introduction by British Museum art historian Martin Royalton-Kisch. Squarish (7" x 8-5/8"), printed on glossy stock, light shelf wear includes small peel to clear outer layer of wraps at bottom of back cover, one page has tiny accidental crease to top corner. No writing or marks within.

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.

George Braziller, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 128 pages, with index and selected biblography. Forty-eight pages of text followed by 64 pages of b&w photographs (129 of them) of buildings, and diagrams. Part of the Great Ages of World Architecture series. Super 8vo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4"), dark olive paper over boards with black quarter and faded gilt lettering on spine, which is sunned; modest shelf wear, hinges cracked, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, foxing marks on some pages in center along spine, small ink stain on fore-edge. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her marginalia critical of the author's prose observed or approximately 14 pages.

Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 173 pages, with index, notes, bibliography, prefaces to the original edition and this one. First edition thus. A revised and enlarged edition of The Classics and Renaissance Thought (Harvard U. Press, 1955), originating as the Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in Feb. 1954. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, spine age-tanned, brown stain to rear end papers from laid-in newspaper clipping. Text preceded by three-page list of Harper Torchbooks titles. Name of former owner and date 1961 written in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages, additional notes on rfep and inside back cover. Laid-in clipping is a 1964 review by Frances Yates of Kristeller's Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, from The New York Review.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 422 pages, with index, illustrated with 12 b&w images (cuts) and seven double-sided color plates with reproductions of another two dozen artworks. Edited and with an introduction by David Bergman, the book is a selection of Ashbery's art criticism during three decades. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 9-5/8"), gray cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, condition is very good+, with just the faintest of foxing and/or dust-soil to the edges and end papers, page-turning soil to bottom corner, in unclipped DJ with only slight wear to flaps at top. Pages bright and unmarked.