Search Results: Books from Berthoff Books

Press of the Times, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 23 pages. Cover 6" x 9", staple bound in pale gray card with black lettering on the cover. Three of the five parts of the essay are based on a Fulbright lecture delivered at the University of Catania, November 1957. The pamphlet was the first separately published work by Prof. Warner Berthoff, who went on to write The Example of Melville, The Ferment of Realism, Literature and the Continuances of Virtue and other books on American and world literature, during his years of teaching at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University. The pamphlet, published by the Press of the Times in Berthoff's home town of Oberlin, Ohio, is clean and unmarked, not having been previously removed from the publisher's original packaging since publication in 1960. Will reduce shipping charge and send by USPS First Class, if feasible for purchaser's location.

Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1968. Soft cover. Good. 382 pages, with Introduction by R.P. Blackmur. Eighth printing of 1960 edition in the Laurel Henry James series. The novel was first published in 1877. Mass-market paperback, edges stained blue, wraps soiled, reading crease and crease to spine, shelf wear, foxing to edges, pages age-toned. Some orangish highlighting in the introduction, but it's light.

Signet (New American Library), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 431 pages, with a bibliography of Cooper's works and an Afterword by James Franklin Beard. Mass-market paperback, crease to front cover, soil visible to white back cover, foxing to edges, page margins age-tanned. Binding firm and supple, pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 242 pages, with index, 36 tables of economic, sociological and population data, 28 maps. A Pelican Original - Pelican Book A706. Mass-market paperback. This copy is listed as in "good" condition as an average of the beat-up exterior ("fair") and the unmarked pages ("very good"). Front cover discolored from being damp-stuck to another book, wraps heavily creased, 2" separation of front cover from spine at top, small tears at foot; foxing, stains and soil to edges and end papers; front matter pages dog-eared at bottom and slightly so at top. Not ex-library, former owner's name written on ffep, no marks on pages except for one tiny ink spot on page 155.

Horwitz Publications, 1965. Soft cover. Fair. 152 pages, with index, bibliography, map showing land quality. Mass-market paperback, creasing to corners and spine, spine chipped at heel, 1" tear along front wrap/spine at top, binding cracked and separated at p. 46-47, but both halves still attached to spine, pages and edges keeply age-tanned. Pages unmarked. This copy has two newspaper clippings (cuttings) laid in, sources not identified: a review of this book as a distillation of Ward's earlier The Australian Legend, and 1995 obituary of Ward, highlighting his career troubles because of an earlier Communist affiliation.

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.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 185 pages. Second printing (1983); novel first published in German 1968, in East Germany. Trade paperback, wraps curled and slightly soiled, faint foxing to edges and front end papers. Gift inscription on half-title, marks on approximately 45 pages - small marks in margins, a little bit of underscoring, and a few notes.

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.

The University of Chicago Press, 1960. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 82 pages. Second edition enlarged and revised (first published 1955), 1960; this is the ninth printing, 1970. English translations from 23 poets, along with miscellareous inscriptions and drinking songs. Lattimore's two prefaces include list of birthplaces of the poets; concordance matches his numbering with the numbering in various editions of the Greek. Two-page map. Large mass-market paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), wraps stained by foxing spots, foxing to top edge, crease to front top corner, other light shelf wear, old price sticker on front cover and another on back. Mark observed in margin of one page, three lines of page-reference notes written on inside back cover.

Bantam Books, 1974. Soft cover. Fair. 623 pages, with index, bibliography. Paperback edition of book published early that year. Introduction by Robert Conquest. Sixteen pages of b&w photos. General history and profile of the Soviet intelligence agency, including description of its structure, as well as accounts of famous Cold War incidents, assassinations, etc. Mass-market paperback, exterior beat-up with tear at top of backstrip, 3/4" chip to bottom corner of back cover, creasing, approximately last 60 pages crinkled/dog-eared at back bottom corner, edges and pages age-tanned. Mark in pen on back cover at bottom. Pages unmarked.

The Melville Society, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 90 pages. 8vo, in dove gray stapled wraps with black lettering, cover light-faded along spine and margins, streaks of rust-colored soil on front, grease spot on back.

EIR News Service, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 398 pages, with index, tables of economic data, author's Introduction to the English edition. English translation of book published in Russian in 2004. Prof. Stanislav Menshikov (1927-2014) was an eminent Russian economist in the Soviet period and thereafter. He co-chaired the Russian branch of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction. Menshikov's books about the USA, such as U.S. Corporations in World Markets (1958) and Millionaires and Managers (1966) provided a differentiated picture that was unusual during the Cold War. In 1988 his conversations with John Kenneth Galbraith were published in the book Capitalism, Communism, Coexistence. In The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, Menshikov applied his half-century of research and experience to analyze the first decade of Russia's post-Soviet economic experience, the effects of which still reverberate 30 years later. The book's chapters are: 1. A General Description of Russian Capitalism; 2. The… Read More

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.

Three Rivers Press (Random House), 2006. Soft cover. Fair. 363 pages. An account of police investigations and conflicts with organized crime in Boston. Trade paperback, wraps worn/creased/soiled, dust soil to end papers, last ~150 pages wavy from water damage (but not musty). Pencil notation on front free end paper, writing observed on one page in text.

Penguin, 1959. Soft cover. Good. 366 pages. The 14th century allegorical poem, translated into modern English with a 60-page introduction by J.F. Goodridge. There are also notes on the text. Four appendices contain a few passages from a different version of the text, the "C-text". Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, foxing and soil to wraps, 1" tear to bottom edge and horizontal scratch to front cover which reaches through the first couple of pages. Edges and pages age-browned but not brittle, binding firm and supple, pages unmarked.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 391 pages. First Vintage paperback edition of comic novel first published 1997. Trade paperback. Bottom of text block and back cover wavy as from damp. Pages bright and 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.

Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. 282 pages. First Noonday Press Printing. Mass-market paperback, spine sunned, foxing to inside and white sections of wraps. Date Feb. 1967 and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on half-title. Pages clean and unmarked. A free, unused, clean copy of 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.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1973. Soft cover. Poor. 1008 pages (of which SIX NUMBERED PAGES MISSING) + 60 pages of introduction and front matter, with Whitman's other poetic writings, index of titles, selected bibliography, chronology of Whitman's life and work, the poet's comments on his own work, and criticism by William Dean Howells, Van Wyck Brooks, D.H. Lawrence, Lewis Mumford, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Anthony Burgess, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Trade paperback (5-1/8" x 8-1/4"), wraps creased, curled and slightly soiled, spine creased and cracked in two places, foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), his marginalia observed on approximately 25 pages, the majority in the "Calamus" section. Condition of the book would be "Good," except for the fact that PAGES 205-210 (THREE DOUBLE-SIDED PAGES) ARE MISSING, being the last few stanzas of "Song of the Exposition" and the whole of "Song… Read More

Pegasus, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 352 pages, includes Notes on the Contributors--the 47 poets, playwrights, novelists, and critics whose works are excerpted. Divided into Part One "Writings of the War" and Part Two "Writings during the War." Cover 5-1/4" x 7-15/16", lightly soiled, lettering on spine light-faded. Binding tight (though one section, p. 223-258, evidently not fully glued to the binding during production). Text clean and unmarked.