Search Results: Frank Kermode from Berthoff Books

The Modern Library, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with index, biographical note, frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, for other full-page b&w illustrations (two portraits of monarchs, London panorama, Swan Theatre. A Modern Library Chronicles Book. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned with light foxing. Marks and/or notes in light pencil on approximately five pages.

Harvard University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 242 pages, with index. Essays on various topics, including Milton, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, the Bible, Freud. 8vo, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light wear to boards, in unclipped DJ with rubbing along spine and flap folds, shelf wear, 1/4" tear at crown. Bookstore price and names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff in pencil on ffep, their (very engaged) marginalia on approximately 130 pages.

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 229 pages, with index. Collection of essays, including ones on the English novel as of 1907, reading novels, several on interpretation, Appendix "The One Correct Interpretation." Trade paperback with shelf wear, creases to spine, poorly bound so that several pages and sections have come entirely or partially separated from the binding (but all are in place), pages bright. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her interesting and argumentative marginalia in pencil on approximately 25 pages.

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 141 pages. Reissue, with author's new preface and corrections, of book published 1975. Based on T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures given at U. of Kent, their point of departure is Eliot's 1944 essay "What Is a Classic?" Trade paperback, spine creased, light wear to edges of wraps. Condition is "fair" because ffep and p. 59-78 (as a clump) have separated from the binding. Pages are bright, notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on ffep and approximately six pages.

The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Soft cover. Good. 93 pages. Introduction by Frank Lentricchia. Four lectures given as the Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine. The first is on the "recovery" of Botticelli in the 19th century. Trade paperback, light soil and wear to wraps especially at heel, binding tight, pages bright. Notes, mostly in pencil, by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 55 pages.

Chilmark Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 234 pages. First American edition. With an introduction by William Phillips. Writers touched on include Paul Valery, Edmund Wilson, Northrop Frye, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Robert Musil, Pasternak, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, J.D. Salinger, Nabokov, William Golding. 8vo, deep yellow cloth with black lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, slightly cocked, pale tan stains to end papers, in rubbed and worn unclipped DJ with 1/4" chip at crown and light foxing/soil to interior. Underscoring and marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 15 pages are concentrated in the chapter on Musil. Two laid-in newspaper clippings, reviews of other books by Kermode from the TLS and the NYT Book Review, are protected with tissue paper to prevent further staining.

Penguin Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 108 pages. First Penguin Classics edition. Edited by Frank Kermode, with Introduction, Suggestions for Further Reading, Brief Chronology, Textual Notes, Explanatory Notes. Mass-market paperback with glossy wraps, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing to top edge. Booksale price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 15 pages, all in the introduction or end-notes.