Search Results: English History from Berthoff Books

Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of foxing to top edge, binding tight. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly small marks) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and by an earlier owner (in barely visible gold highlighter) on approximately 60 pages.

University of Michigan Press, 1962. Soft cover. Good. 341 pages plus 106-page foreword and biography, with index. Edited from the Original Manuscripts and with a Life of John Aubrey by Oliver Lawson Dick. Foreword by Edmund Wilson. Ann Arbor Paperback reprint of Secker and Warburg 1949 edition. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wear to corners of back cover, foxing to edges and a few of the end papers. Notes in pencil on inside back cover and margins of approximately 12 pages (mostly small check marks).

Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, edges stained red, text block age-tanned. Light pencil notation on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 214 pages, with index. 8vo, beige cloth in lightly worn DJ, very faint foxing to top edge. Former owners' names on front pastedown, binding tight, pages bright, underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 60 pages.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1975. Soft cover. Fair. 384 pages, with indexes of subjects, places, names; selected bibliography; tables of incidents and punishments. Illustrated with art and document reproductions. First Norton Library edition of 1968 book. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, front cover separated from spine in 2" tear at bottom, front matter pages and through p. 18 detached from binding, foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 70 pages.

Wideview Books, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 470 pages, with index. Illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos. First Wideview edition of book originally published 1976. A cultural history of the influence of Harold Acton, Brian Howard and their circle on British life between the wars. Trade paperback, light wear, faint foxing to top edge. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil notation on rear free end paper, underscoring and/or vertical lines in margin on approximately 15 pages.

Anchor Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 494 pages, with bibliography, index of first lines, index of short titles and names in titles. Edited with an introduction, notes, and variants by William B. Hunter, Jr. Also includes a chronology of Jonson's life and musical settings for some works. Large mass-market paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), creases to spine and front bottom corner, spine sunned, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

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.

Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 192 pages, with index, illustrated with 26 b&w and 4 color doubled-sided plates. Profiles of Russia's Catherine the Great, France's Marie Antoinette, and half a dozen 19th and early 20th century female royals, by Marie-Christine (nee von Reibnitz), Princess Michael of Kent. 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, wear to crown, heel and corners, bookstore sticker on front board, smudge on ffep verso. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 30 pages.

Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 388 pages, with glossary of common elements in English place-names, select bibliography; plus 33 pages of front matter including an introduction explaining the etymology of place-names, list of abbreviations, maps of the counties of England before and after 1974. From the DJ: "Each entry includes the modern county in which the place-name appears, the name's most likely meaning and derivation, a typical earlier spelling with its date, and the name's spelling in the Domesday Book if it occurs there." 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, a bit of page-turning soil and a hint of dust soil to top edge, pages bright and unmarked; in price-clipped DJ with some shelf wear, small (1/4") chip to front panel at top right.

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 534 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. 8vo, cream paper over boards with black quarter and gilt lettering/logo on front board and spine, shelf wear to corners, light smudges near bottom of boards, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear, rumpled at crown, soil to flaps. Inscribed by author on title page with personal note to Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, former owners of the book. Pages bright and unmarked.

American Subscription House, 1856. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 396 pages + 96-page appendix which is "A Description, statistical and geographical of the countries of Europe". Volume II ONLY of a two-part history, published for American readers "by subscription only". Vol. II covers France, England, Australia, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, and Italy after the fall of Rome. Forty illustrations on single-sided plates, many in color, are engravings from drawings by Felix Darley and others; pull-out map of the world. Medium 8vo, marbled paper over boards (worn along edges) with leather quarter and corners, worn at corners and along spine, gilt lettering and gilt-embellished hubs and other decoration on spine; all edges marbled, top and fore-edge faded, ripples along a streak on fore-edge as if scratched; marbled end papers, stiff stock of ffep and rfep vertically cracked but not torn through; pages age-toned, chips to fore-edge of front free end papers and… Read More

Ballantine Books, 1976. Soft cover. Good. 624 pages, with index, genealogical table, source references. Second printing (1980) of Ballantine edition; book first published 1975. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Biography of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Prince of Wales/King Edward VIII, who abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, reading creases, crease to back cover, paint and other stains to wraps, soil to fore-edge, pages age-tanned. Previous owner's name embossed on front and back cover - a barely visible stamp. Pages unmarked.

Edward Arnold, 1994. Soft cover. Good. 480 pages, with index, four maps, 44 b&w illustrations on 14 double-sided plates (which have become detached from the binding but are present). Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, bottom back corner creased, foxing to edges. Notes in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

Chatto & Windus, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 108 pages, with index. Fourth impression, book first published 1943. 8vo (5-3/4" x 9"), tan cloth with faded brown lettering on spine, backstrip separated 5" down spine and reglued, chip to crown, light soil to boards, book slightly cocked, edges age-toned, foxing to end papers, rfep and index pages roughly trimmed or chipped at bottom. Names of former owners written on ffep, pencil notation on rear pastedown, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 16 pages.

Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 160 pages, with index. Pelican Books A248, reprint of 1953 Penguin Books edition which was published "with additions"; first published in 1931 on the basis of a series of BBC radio broadcasts. Illustrated with 8 doubled-sided black and white plates of period drawings. Mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps, cover and edges lightly soiled from reading but scarcely worn. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, text pages bright, clean and unmarked.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 225 pages, with index, numerous figures and tables, eight b&w illustrations on plates. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible wear, pages bright and unmarked, in clean and crisp DJ with a tad of curl to the top of the flaps.

Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price on front free end paper, another notation on rear fep. Interior pages unmarked.

Melville House, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 374 pages, with index. 8vo, white boards with gilt lettering on spine, three out of four corners sharp and fourth one slightly bumped, in clean, unworn and unclipped DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.