Search Results: American History from Berthoff Books

Dell Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 329 pages, with bibliography. A first-hand look at the Las Vegas gambling and vacation business as of 1998. Trade paperback, wraps creased and rubbed with losses along the spine and bottom corners, edges and page margins age-toned. Innards in good shape, with binding solid and supple, pages unmarked.

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.

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.

Avon Books, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with bibliography, index. "The explosive inside story of the CIA's supersecret airline" (front cover), first Avon printing of book published 1979. History from Cold |War period, especially Vietnam War. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, barely worn, binding tight, pages slightly age-toned but unmarked.

The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Two-volume set. 977 pages consecutively numbered across the two volumes (Volume 1 contains pages 1-500), with index to both volumes at the end of Volume 2. 8vo, blue cloth, slight shelf wear, page-turn soil to bottom edges, Vol. 1 has a few pages chipped or folded at outside bottom corner. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and "June 1946" written on each front pastedown, pages clean, bright for their age, and unmarked.

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 255 pages, with index, three maps, suggestions for further reading. Chicago History of American Religion. Book first published 1981. Trade paperback, crease to upper corner of back cover and slight fold to about 20 pages behind it, two bookstore stickers on back, very faint foxing to top edge, binding tight. Former owner's name on inside front cover, pages bright and unmarked.

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.

St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 282 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Combined autobiography and analysis of American mafia. Gray paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine, photographically decorated end papers, very slight wear along bottom of boards. Unclipped DJ has a little edge wear, small crease to bottom of front flap.

Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages. Historical b&w picture book on Carlisle, Massachusetts, published in the Images of America series on the bicentennial of its founding as a town (its territory was settled in the 17th century as an extension of adjacent Concord, Mass., and in the form of many farms). Trade paperback-sized, very light shelf wear, printed on semi-gloss stock, pages bright and unmarked.

Bryn Mawr College Library, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 233 pages. Essays contributed by Bryn Mawr College alumnae including Katharine Hepburn, Hanna Holborn Gray, Emily Vermeule; faculty including Felix Gilbert, Jane Oppenheimer, Mabel Lang; friend of BMC Eudora Welty. Poems by faculty member Richmond Lattimore. 8vo, dark red cloth with gilt lettering in black inset on spine, red end papers with white torch (or paisley) repeating pattern, corners sharp, faint water stain to front board and tiny spots of soil to back, light foxing to edges with a few spots on front-matter pages. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Odyssey Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 946 pages, with index. Selections of literary and civic prose, and verse, from John Smith to James Fenimore Cooper - over two centuries. Trade paperback, front and spine creased, back rubbed, shelf-worn, 3/4" tear to front cover at bottom of spine. Book is 1-1/2" thick. "Compliments of Odyssey Press" label pasted on inside of front cover. Text clean and unmarked.

Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 324 pages plus 16 pages of b&w photographs, with index, bibliography, introduction by editors of the New American Nation series Henry Steele Commager and Richard Brandon Morris. First Harper Torchbook edition of book originally published 1960. Trade paperback, crease in spine, wraps lightly shelf worn and rubbed, page-turning soil to bottom corner, binding solid, erosion and one tiny hole in half-title page. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his notes in pencil on approximately six pages.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 591 pages, with index. First Vintage (paperback) edition. Eleven maps, 16 pages of b&w photos. On the final years of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam, from the Paris Peace Agreements of 1973 through the fall of Saigon. Large trade paperback (6-1/8" x 9-1/4"), red remainder mark on top edge, wear at heel and rear bottom corner. Pages unmarked but margins are age-tanned.

Ballantine Books, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 603 pages, with index, selected bibliography, notes and sources list, b&w photos on seven double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), light gray paper over boards with dark gray quarter, scant shelf wear, soil to edges, in unclipped dust jacket with scant wear and outer plastic jacket. Former library book, with stamps and stickers.

University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 Roman-numeralled pages precede the 226 photographs on unnumbered pages, some of which take up a page or more, while some are smaller photos grouped on one page. Black and white photographs taken by the author Eudora Welty in her native Mississippi, most of them during her time as a Works Progress Administration "publicity agent, junior grade" during the Great Depression; at the end of the book are photos of her family. Introduction by Reynolds Price is followed by a 1989 interview with Welty on her career in photography, its techniques and various cameras. 9" x 10", reading crease, light shelf wear, a bit of soil to edges, pages unmarked. Bonus: a laid-in 2009 clipping from the TLS - essay by Paul Binding, an appreciation of EW's work in this field. The higher cost that shipping this heavy book will incur has been incorporated into the price.

Writer's Showcase (iUniverse), 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 444 pages. Autobiographical sketches by a veteran of fighting and reconstruction on Okinawa at the end of World War II, his childhood on a Missouri farm, and later life and travels in the USA (Wyoming, Chicago, St. Louis, California) and abroad (Mexico, India, Turkiye). Illustrated with 34 b&w photographs. Trade paperback without visible shelf wear, light smudge to bottom edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed on half-title in 2016 to a fellow veteran of post-war life on Okinawa.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 297 pages. First Vintage edition (V-32). Mass-market paperback, scratches to front cover, spine creased, foxing to wraps and edges, binding sturdy. Name of former owner written on half-title, handwritten notes on inside front cover and half-title, underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

Harvard University Press, 1986. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 499 pages, with index of names. "This edition of The Harvard Book has been specially published for the faculty and staff members of the University on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College." Preface by the editor. 8vo, crimson cloth with gilt lettering and logo, color faded at bottom and along spine as from cleaning, back board a little scratched, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in presentation card from then-President of Harvard Derek Bok.

Columbia University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 646 pages, with index. History of major schools of thought divided into eight sections chronologically since the beginning of the European settlement. Each section has a bibliographical Guide to the Literature. Medium 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt lettering in black inset on spine, blind-stamped colophon on front board, black topstain, wear to corners, boards a bit faded and soiled, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately half the pages by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (as a student).

Lulu.com, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 200 pages. Illustrated with five double-sided pages of black and white photos. Trade paperback, barely shelf-worn, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This is a poignant and clear-eyed memoir of the Great Depression, by an American woman who became well-educated (graduating from Vassar, being in the circle of F.O. Mattheissen at Harvard) despite the hardships of her childhood. She relates the pre-history of the loss of her father, and her courageous mother's battle to save her family and, eventually, earn her degree in theology and ordination as a minister.