Search Results: Inscribed books from Berthoff Books

Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 316 pages. Twenty-two stories, in Updike's eleventh collection. 8vo, Navy blue boards with usual Knopf gilt lettering, burgundy topstain, almost no visible wear, save sunning to exposed edges of boards. In unclipped DJ with slight wear and small pale tan stains to front panel and flap at top. Pages bright and unmarked. Two black marker dots to bottom edge as if remaindered, but this copy is also inscribed by the author on the ffep, "Dear Warner - You once said you liked these tales of reluctant but ineluctable aging, and here they are with admiration and affection, John." From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 52 pages, a cura e con una postfazione di Annalisa Cima. Testo e apparato critico di Rosanna Bettarini. Collezione Lo Specchio (I poeti del nostro tiempo). Posthumously published collection of poems by the 1975 Nobel Laureate in Literature. 15.5 x 20.5 cm, white card wraps, no visible wear but light foxing to wraps and end papers, in unclipped DJ with a stray pen mark at top left corner of front panel, spine sunned. Inscribed on ffep by the literary scholar and critic Marisa Bulgheroni (who is alluded to in one of the poems, according to an explanatory note) to her friends Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff.

Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 395 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The third volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume study of Dostoevsky's life and work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with teal cloth quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, very slightly cocked, light dust soil to top edge, faintest foxing to fore-edge and end papers. DJ minimally worn. Inscribed by author on ffep to Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff "who have taught me the truth of the old sayng that old friends are the best." Note in pencil on rfep; interior pages unmarked.Laid in is clipping of V.S. Pritchett's review of this volume in the NY Review of Books, Sept. 25, 1986.

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.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 703 pages, with index, b&w line drawings or other illustrations on 15 pages. Updike's sixth collection of non-fiction. 8vo, red cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, with no visible wear except pale blue topstain a wee bit sunned. Unclipped DJ is slightly rumpled around crown and has a barely visible scratch on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed on title page, "for Warner and Ann great considerers both / Cheers, John"; from the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Rutgers University Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 268 pages, with Index and Bibliography. Published in the Global Perspectives on Aging series. Trade paperback, practically no visible wear, light smudges to top edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, one a former teacher.

Neri Pozza Editore, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 626 pagine, a cura di Claudio Gorlier. Introduzione (C.G.), Notizie generali sui testi e sugli autori, Nota bibliografica. Those introductory materials comprise 77 additional pages of front matter. Anthology of humoristic writings of the American "west" (Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, many others) and essays in Italian translation. Series "Tradizione americana". 5" x 7-1/4" (~12.7x18.4cm), dark green leatherette with gilt lettering, only visible flaws are a few small black spots on the back board and bump along its top edge. Price sticker affixed to rear pastedown, dust jacket is lightly soiled and worn with small (up to 1 cm) tears to top edge. Inscribed by Grolier on the front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff in 1972, when WB was on a Fulbright tour visiting Italian Americanists. Interior pages bright and unmarked.

Stanford University Press, 1978. No Binding. Good. 35 pages plus 5 more of notes. Unbound offprint of chapter from Literature and Society in Imperial Russia, 1800-1914 (ed. Wiliam Mills Todd III). 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" pages stapled at upper left, light vertical crease to the whole, outer pages and edges age-toned with a few spots of foxing, not strongly inked - some type appears broken on some pages. Inscribed by the author to his Harvard collegaue Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose check marks or notes appear on a few pages. Will reduce shipping charge by 50% and send by first class mail if requested.

The Providence Athenaeum, 2005. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 29 pages. Chapbook published as part of the Philbrick Poetry Award. One of 300 copies printed. Cover art by Lucinda Bliss. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", stapled in glossy card stock, pages bright and unmarked except for correction of a typo on p. 28. Inscribed by author on title page to Prof. Warner Berthoff, a former teacher.

Sol, 1991. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN KOREAN. 341 pages, 1994 printing, double-sided b&w frontispiece plate has portrait photo of author with pictures of him at conferences verso. Selected critical essays (this info and translation of title are from inscription; see also Korean-language copyright page - second image) by Korean scholar of English-language literature. Trade paperback with self-wraps, only visible wear is sunning to spine. Inscribed by the author in English to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (Harvard U.) "with sincere respect and gratitude of a former student", June 1994.

Marotta e Cafiero, 2002. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 195 pages. Trade paperback (14.5cm x 21cm), dark blue-gray pictorial wraps, slight shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, unmarked. Inscribed by the author on ffep to former owners Prof. Warner Berthoff and Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, who taught at Bryn Mawr College where the author studied.

Didier, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 539 pages, with index. Thèse pour le doctorat ès lettres preséntée par Maurice Gonnaud à la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Paris Trade paperback format, banged up at corners, but interior in very good condition and unmarked. Inscribed by the author and his wife on ffep "Pour Ann et Warner ce livre d'un 'Haverford boy' de l'anee 1951-1952 avec toute notre fidele et chaleureuse amitié - Michele et Maurice." Prof. Gonnaud and Prof. Warner Berthoff were colleagues at Bryn Mawr College in the 1950s and friends ever after.

Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 293 pagine, Indice dei nomi, Premessa, Introduzione. Biblioteca di studi Americani. By the Italian critic and Americanist, chapters on Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Henry James. Trade paperback, wraps worn and soiled with creases to back cover at bottom, numbers stamped on front. Inscribed by Prof. Gorlier on the front free end paper to Prof. Warner Berthoff during the latter's visit to Turin in 1972 for lectures under the Fulbright program. Interior pages unmarked.

Armand Colin, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 264 pages. Cover 4-3/4" x 6-1/2", small crease near bottom of front cover, soiling of bottom edge. Binding tight. Inscribed by Gonnaud on the title page "Affectueusement a tous deux". Handwritten correction of a typo on p. 56 (possibly by Gonnaud); underscoring by previous owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on one page of the introduction; otherwise text is clean and unmarked.

Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 1965. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 275 pages plus list of other titles from the publisher. Note bio-bibliografiche, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, edges of wraps and heel worn, crease to bottom of ffep, water spots on front cover. Price in pencil on inside back cover. Inscribed by author on ffep to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose handwritten notes appear on a few pages in the index and bibliography. In a separate note (not included), Berthoff wrote about this volume, "The book is the Italian standard work on CBB . . . The book seems to me to describe who Brown would have been if he'd been a representative European intellectual in the main historical stream.

Gribaudi, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 114 pages. By the Italian writer Nereo Condini, who relocated to the United States. Mass-market paperback, white card wraps with a bit of foxing, little wear, pages age-toned, foxing spots on some pages, in white DJ with deep flaps, black lettering, foxing and smudges. Inscribed by author on ffep in 1972 to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, "To dear Prof. Berthoff from an Italian friend." Interior unmarked.

Bulzoni Editore, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 243 pages. Universita di Roma, Facolta di lettere e filosofia, Istituto di letteratura inglese e americana, Studi e ricerche 19. Inscribed by author on ffep to Prof. Warner Berthoff "con rispetto e amicizia," at Harvard, September 1986. Title page stamped "campione gratuito." Cover 6" x 8-1/2", orange self-wraps sunned on and along spine. Interior clean and unmarked.

Pierre Seghers, 1961. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 223 pages. Poètes d'aujourd'hui 81. Présentation par Mario Maurin; Choix de textes; Bibliographie, portraits, fac-similés. Table des illustrations (12). 13.65 x 16 cm, creases to spine, wear along spine and front top edge of wraps, scratches near top of front cover, edges age-toned with foxing to fore-edge extending as brown stain along fore-edge of some pages near beginning and end of the book. Inscribed by author on half-title to his friends and colleagues at Bryn Mawr College Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff; one pencilled note observed, being the poet's dates, written on the title page, other pages unmarked.

2017. Soft cover. Good. 182 pages. Illustrated with photos on 14 plates, some in color. Autobiography by Fran Morris, whose family (descended in part from a branch of the Mendelssohn family) left Germany as refugees from Nazism in 1938 and came to the USA via England and Switzerland. Morris attended Bennington College and became a pianist and music teacher. She wrote this memoir between 2001 and approximately 2017 (publication date not stated). Trade paperback, wraps creased, scratched, wavy; glassine outer layer torn and partially missing, repaired with clear tape. Inscribed by the author on the title page to friends.

Oxford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 316 pages, with Index, chronology ("A Calendar"), bibliography of criticism. Essays by long-time professor at Amherst on the lives and works of Thomas Hardy, Yeats. E.A. Robinson, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams. 8vo, dusty teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, slightly cocked. Unclipped dust jacket is worn at crown/heel/corners and has a 2" chip and 1" tear to the top edge of rear panel, spine sunned. Inscribed by author on front free end paper to friend and colleague Prof. Warner Berthoff, the latter's underscoring and/or marginalia (in a small, neat hand) in pencil on approximately 120 pages.