Search Results: Philosophy from Berthoff Books

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.

Beacon Press, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 303 pages, with index. Preface and Introduction by the translator. First paperback edition of book issued 1944. Trade paperback, matte wraps age-tanned especially on spine, a few smudges to exterior, foxing to top edge, minimal shelf wear. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Verlag Ullstein, 1971. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 518 pages, with index of names and glossary of foreign words. Mit einer Einleitung von Hans Mayer. Paperback 11.75 x 17.95 cm, mottled dark brown wraps with title in black lettering on orange paper label with rough edges from wear, 1.9 cm tear to top edge of back cover, edges and pages age-tanned, bookstore price in pencil on front free end paper, binding solid, no markings within.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Soft cover. Good. 299 pages, with preface by the translator. Mass-market paperback, creases to spine, light shelf wear, edges age-toned with faint foxing to top, pages 43-50 stained tan as from laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 40 pages and rfep.

Princeton University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1743 pages, with index. With Introduction and Prefatory Notes. Fourteenth printing of 1961 edition. Fourteen different translators. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, very faint foxing to edges, pages slightly wavy at bottom, bottom corners bumped. Notes by former owner on a rear end paper; no markings observed on pages.

Oxford University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Good. 188 pages. Inaugural issue, Spring 1992, of Common Sense, a cross-disciplinary journal in the humanities. Thick journal, 6-7/8" x 10", reading crease and shelf wear including small loss patch along fore-edge near top. Critical marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) on approximately 15 pages in these articles: G. Thomas Tanselle "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute"; Manfred Frank "Toward a Philosophy of Style"; Bernard Williams "Left-Wing Wittgenstein, Right-Wing Marx"; a note by Joseph Frank on Heidegger's Nazism; and underscoring in a couple of other places.

James Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1839. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 551 pages, frontispiece portrait of the poet. Edited and with a Preface to the American Edition by Henry Reed, Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Super 8vo (7" x 10-3/4"), leather bound with frayed corners and rubbed edges, gilt lettering in black block on spine, backstrip peeling from top (boards and backstrip in need of professional restoration); front and rear blank free end papers torn out (?), edges and interior margins brown with age, hinges cracked, some pages age-browned and foxing of various degrees across others. Name of former owner (Prof.) Ann Evans (Berthoff) and date 1941 written on front pastedown, notes in pencil by Prof. Warner Berthoff observed in "The Excursion" (related to Emerson) and a few other places. A well-used copy of a historically significant American edition.

Ann Arbor Books (University of Michigan Press), 1957. Soft cover. Good. 202 pages, with index. Second impression of first edition as an Ann Arbor Book; originally published by Cambridge U. Press 1920. Trade paperback, wraps lightly soiled, creases to front at bottom corner, edges age-toned, foxing to rfep and inside back cover. Name of former owner written on ffep along with an extract, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages, notes on rfep and inside back cover.

The University of Chicago, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 228 pages. The inaugural issue of this academic thick journal. Includes Wayne C. Booth on Kenneth Burke and Burke's rejoinder; Quentin Bell "Art and the Elite"; Frank Kermode on novels; a story and essay about it by Eudora Welty. Trade paperback-sized, wraps worn especially with rubbing along spine, which is creased; some spots of foxing to the edges. Page 219-20, the first page of Welty's essay, is detached from the binding but in place (other individual pages might possibly come loose); first signature was detached and has been reglued. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages in the Burke section, those of Prof. Warner Berthoff on around 15 pages of the Kermode essay, one or two other marks observed.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 403 pages plus 57 front-matter pages. Edited and with an introduction by Ralph M. Eaton (Prof. of Philosophy, Harvard). The Modern Student's Library - Philosophy Series. Selections from a range of works on science and philosophical method (Discourse on Method; Meditations on the First Philosophy; Treatise on Man; others). 18mo (4-1/2" x 6-3/4"), red cloth with very faded gilt lettering, spine sunned, modest shelf wear, edges age-toned. Pencil notation on rear pastedown, name of former owner written on front pastedown, her underscoring and marginalia in ink on approximately 30 pages, almost all in the Introduction; underscoring observed on only one page of the selections themselves.

Harper Torchbooks, 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 265 pages. First Harper Torchbooks edition. Edited with an Introduction by Paul L. Holmer. Essays on faith, love, and "The Glory of Our Common Humanity." Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, wraps unevenly glued to spine in binding error so that back wrap's fore-edge is 3/32" short of the text block. Name of former owner written on ffep, bookstore price in pencil on inside back cover, pages bright and unmarked (except one small apparent printer's blotch observed).

Columbia University Press, 1941. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 301 pages, with index. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering, blind-stamped colophon and rules on front board, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned, corners bumped and worn, backstrip frayed along edges and peeling/reglued, 2" tear to second rear end paper. Former owner's name written and library/bookstore stamp "defective" on ffep (but binding solid and all pages present), underscoring and/or marginalia throughout. A well-used, still readable copy.

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.

University of California Press, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 253 pages. First paperback edition of collection published 1977. Essays translated from Polish by various translators. Trade paperback, wear to corners, faint foxing to top edge. A smattering of marginal notes in pencil throughout, with heavier notes in the essay on Dostoevsky and Swedenborg.

Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1743 pages, plus 80 pages of front matter including an Introductory Survey by Harrold; also, Chronological Outline (1830-1901), biographical chronologies, Selected Bibliography. Excerpts from writings on philosophy, social sciences, science by an array of authors including Carlyle, Macauley, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart Mill, Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson. Text is laid out in two columns per page. Royal 8vo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2"), faded blue buckram, faded lettering on spine overwritten by hand in silver gilt, hinges cracked (with tear to last page of book along gutter), edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, bookstore label remnant on rear free end paper. Name of former owner and year 1948 written on front free end paper, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages in the Introductory Essay and a few other pages.

The Modern Library, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1041 pages, with bibliography. Edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt. Writings of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, John Gay, Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill. 8vo, gray cloth with faded gilt lettering and ML logo in green insets, faded gray topstain, other edges age-toned, brown end papers with ML logo-based decoration, moderate wear to corners/crown/heel, bookstore sticker on ffep. Name of former owner written on ffep, marginalia here and there throughout - Locke's "Civil Government" is heavily annotated; John Day on "Virtue", Bacon's "Novum Organum", and the Introduction moderately; a smattering of small marks/underscoring/notes in other extracts. Will incur shipping surcharge becaue of the book's weight.

Meridian Books (The World Publishing Company), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 341 pages, with index and editor's preface. Selected by Ralph Barton Perry (for a 1942 edition; this is a reprint). Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed and with a few scratches, wear to corners, edges age-toned, p. 236-37 stained tan as from laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 75 pages and rear end papers.

Princeton University Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 278 pages. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Walter Lowrie. Small trade paperback, reading crease and bottom corner crease to front cover, 2" vertical scratch to front, edges of spine rubbed, remainder mark to bottom edge, wraps and edges slightly age-toned. Bookstore sticker mark on back cover, bookstore prices on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 35 pages, primarily in the "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" section of Fear and Trembling.

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 84 pages. Translated with an Introduciton by Otto Manthey-Zorn. 12mo, dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to bottom corners and heel, foxing to top edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia in red pencil by a (thoughtful) student throughout, and notes on ffep.