Search Results: Yeats from Berthoff Books

The Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 530 pages. First printing thus. Frontispiece portrait of W.B. Yeats by John Butler Yeats the Elder, additional photographic portrait by Howard Coster. 1937 introduction by the author, essays divided into three groups: Ideas of Good and Evil (1896-1903); The Cutting of an Agate (1903-1915); Later Essays and Introductions. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), beige cloth with black quarter, gilt lettering on spine, wear to corners/crown/heel, boards lightly soiled, faint foxing to top edge, two stray pen marks on edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 150 pages and rear end papers.

Constable, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 231 pages, with index. The English critic's study of the heritage of 19th century Romantic poetry has Part One - Romantic Dilemmas, and Part Two - The Romantic Survival, in which Yeats, Auden, and Dylan Thomas are individually discussed. 8vo, dark blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on sunned spine, scant wear to exterior, faint foxing to edges; foxing to end papers and a few pages at the beginning and end of the book, with a stray spots on a few interior pages. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his marginalia in pencil, in a small, neat hand, on approximately 35 pages.

Louisiana State University, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 949 pages. The issue is dedicated to literature of England, Ireland, and the Commonwealth, and includes a section on Yeats with contributions by seven authors including Northrop Frye, Thomas Parkinson, Daphne Fullwood. Large (7-3/4" x 10") thick journal, crease to spine, wraps worn at corners and along spine, "Yeats Symposium" handwritten on front cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages and ToC, mostly in the Frye and Parkinson essays on Yeats. An article by Bruce King on Andrew Marvell's irony has marginalia by Prof. Ann Berthoff (author of The Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems).

Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 232 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with 16 color plates, numerous b&w cuts and plates. First American edition. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10"), dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible shelf wear, scattered small spots of foxing to top edge, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ with small tear and to top of back panel, rumpling at crown, age-toned along edges on the inside, bit of sticker remnant on front panel.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Soft cover. Good. 180 pages, with chronology, notes on authors, selected bibliography. A Spectrum Book, in the Twentieth Century Views series. Authors include Auden, Kermode, T.S. Eliot, R.P. Blackmur, Allen Tate. Cover by Stanley Wyatt. Trade paperback, moderate wear and scuffing to wraps, foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages.