Search Results: Authors starting with L from Berthoff Books

University of California Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 238 pages, with index, b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. 8vo (5-3/4" x 8-1/2"), dark gray cloth with gilt lettering against red box on spine, slight wear to corners, heel and crown; light foxing to top edge, in DJ with bookstore stickers on spine and rear panel. Former owner's name written and stamped on ffep, no other markings observed, pages bright.

Librairie Larousse, 1942. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 122 pages, avec une Notice biographique, une Notice historique et littéraire, des Notes explicatives, des Jugements, un Questionnaire et des Sujets de devoirs, per Henri Maugis. Mass-market paperback (11cm x 15.3cm), foxing to top edge, former price in pencil on cover, former owner's name written on half-title, pencil notes in Table of Contents and a few other pages (three observed). Age-toning to pages is slight, for a book this age.

University of California Press, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 148 pages, with bibliography and list of dates. First paperback edition. Divided into Alphabetical List of Terms; Terms Classified according to Divisions of Rhetoric; Terms by Type; Ornaments. Trade paperback, lettering on spine faded, light soil to wraps, scant shelf wear. Bookplate of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (ed. Richards on Rhetoric) on inside front cover, her name written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages and inside back cover.

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 756 pages. Edited and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. 18mo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"), yellow cloth with green lettering, faded green stain to edges, light shelf wear, boards soiled, back hinge cracked but all pages attached. Underscoring and marginalia in ink by previous owner, Prof. Warner Berthoff, (and some possibly by an earlier owner) on approximately 75 of the pages; many of the stories are clean and unmarked.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 245 pages, with index, list of illustrations (100 b&w, 8 color plates). Written after the author's retirement as Professor of Art at Smith College, the book combines biography with discussion of Daumier's works, both cartoons and his scupture and paintings, in the context of 19th century French history. Super 8vo (7-1/2" x 9-3/8"), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 1/2" tear to cloth along top edge of front board, scant shelf wear, touch of dust soil to top edge, faint tan stain and foxing to end papers, very faint foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with chips and tears (up to 1/2") and dust soil along top edges, lighter wear at bottom, crease to back flap. Pages unmarked.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with index. First American printing. Essays, short memoir pieces, interviews with the poet; section of short essays on jazz. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, crease to front cover, faint foxing to fore-edge. Marginalia on approximately five pages.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 280 pages, with index. Back wrap: ". . . a pioneering book dealing with the contrast between England before the coming of industry and England in the twentieth century." Trade paperback, light shelf wear, front wrap curls outward, foxing to top edge, binding solid. Date written on ffep, notes on inside back cover and rfep, underscoring and marginalia (of which about two-thirds are small marks in margin, the remainder more substantial notes) on approximately 110 pages.

The University of Michigan Press, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 90 pages. Poems by the scholar best known for his translations of Homer and Aeschylus. 8vo, decoratively mottled red paper over boards with black lettering, red topstain, exposed top edges of boards sunned, minimal shelf wear, isolated spots of light foxing to front-matter pages, tan stain to front pastedown and ffep from laid-in newspaper clipping, in unclipped DJ with chip at crown, spine sunned, light shelf wear. Inscribed on half-title "To Ann and Warner from Dick", to former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, colleagues of the author at Bryn Mawr College, interior pages bright and unmarked. The laid-in clipping, a laudatory review from UK press (most likely the TLS), conveys, as does a laid-in small piece of paper on which WB typed out a later poem by Lattimore, "Forlorn Dream Song" (for John Berryman).

The University of Michigan Press, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 109 pages. First book of Lattimore's selected poems includes a section of "Sonnets from the Encyclopaedia Britannica" and a few translations from Greek and from French. 8vo, decoratively mottled blue paper over boards with gray lettering, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, some foxing and soil to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped DJ with wear chiefly along top edges, 1" tear to front panel at top, light soil, spine a bit discolored. Date Sept. 1958 and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (colleague of Lattimore at Bryn Mawr College) written on ffep, signed by author in green ink on same page; interior pages bright and unmarked.

The University of Chicago Press, 1960. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 82 pages. Second edition enlarged and revised (first published 1955), 1960; this is the ninth printing, 1970. English translations from 23 poets, along with miscellareous inscriptions and drinking songs. Lattimore's two prefaces include list of birthplaces of the poets; concordance matches his numbering with the numbering in various editions of the Greek. Two-page map. Large mass-market paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), wraps stained by foxing spots, foxing to top edge, crease to front top corner, other light shelf wear, old price sticker on front cover and another on back. Mark observed in margin of one page, three lines of page-reference notes written on inside back cover.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 274 pages, Includes earlier collections Sestina for a Far-off Summer and The Stride of Time, poems by this scholar of Greek and translator of Homer, in full. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), orange cloth with blue gilt lettering on faded spine, scant shelf wear, very faint foxing to edges and end papers, in unclipped DJ with tears and chips especially at crown/heel, spine and margins of panels sunned, foxing to inside. Clipped photo of Dick Lattimore affixed to ffep, where he inscribed the book to friends and colleagues (at Bryn Mawr College) Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff. Also signed by the author on the title page.

Louisiana State Univ Press, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 65 pages. The last book of poems by Richmond Lattimore, Prof. emeritus of Greek at Bryn Mawr College and translator of Homer. Includes poems on mortality, and translations from several languages including Wallace Stevens into Italian. Trade paperback, white wraps soiled and age-toned, tan stains to inside covers, half-title reattached with tape. Names of former owners and price written on half-title, notes (all but one in pencil) on approximately five pages.

Penguin Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 527 pages, with index, bibliography, glossary, chronological table, maps, list of the 329 b&w illutrations. Part of the Pelican History of Art; first paperback edition, based on third edition (1968); first published 1956. Two sections: Sickman on Painting and Sculpture, Soper on Architecture. Trade paperback, creases to spine, light shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 357 pages, with index, illustrated with 24 b&w and color photos. Published in the Literary Lives series. Trade papaerback, light shelf wear including to corners, 1" crease to front cover at top. Inscribed by author on title page to a friend and older teacher, who helped with the book; interior pages bright and unmarked.

Methuen - Mandarin, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 330 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with nine maps and five double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Mass-market paperback, crease to front wrap at upper right, faint foxing to edges and light soil to wraps, page margins slightly age-toned. No markings observed to text.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 191 pages plus Index and translator's Preface. Sixth printing of 1957 Vintage edition, translation by R.R. Palmer first published 1947, the book in French - 1939. Appendix: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Mass-market paperback, water stains and slight waviness to top of the text block, light wear and creases to wraps, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 20 pages.

German Historical Institute, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 pages. Occasional Paper No. 6, being the proceedings of a memorial event held at Bryn Mawr College in 1992. Preface by the editor. Greetings from Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr. Essays "Felix Gilbert at BMC" by Barbara Miller Lane, "Insight and Energy: Reflections on the Work of Felix Gilbert" by Gordon A. Craig. Small pamphlet (5-1/2" x 8-3/8") stapled in printed card wraps, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to wraps and top edge, pages unmarked.

New York Review Books, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 403 pages with index, additional section on unnumbered pages of about 50 b&w photos by A. Costa, each with a substantial caption verso; a few b&w drawings elsewhere in book. Introduction by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, photos by A. Costa. NYRB Classics series edition of book first published 1950. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light smudges to wraps and edges, pages bright and unmarked.

Hamish Hamilton, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 561 pages, with short introductory note signed "A.H." (?). First "Novel Library" edition of Tolstoy's last novel, published 1899 - 23 years after Anna Karenina and the spiritual crisis he experienced at that time. 18mo (4-1/4" x 7"), decorative paper over boards with red cloth quarter, gilt lettering to spine, worn at corners and along edges of boards, faint foxing to top edge and end papers, a few pages accidentally dog-eared, hinges loose but not cracked. Name of former owner on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately five pages and notes on rear pastedown, other pages fairly bright and unmarked.

The Modern LIbrary, 1931. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 950 pages. Date of printing not stated, but indicated as 1931 by list of ML titles at the back of the book. Constance Garnett's translation of Tolstoy's classic novel (1878) first appeared in 1901. 4-1/2" x 6-5/8", green cloth over flexible boards, gilt ML logo on front and lettering on spine, backstrip greatly sunned, torn and separated from spine (reglued), back board detached and front board partially so, faded topstain, end papers decorated with ML logo pattern, slightly cocked, wear to corners, hinges cracked inside the end papers. "Fair" condition refers to the exterior; interior pages are good. Old price in pencil written on ffep, pencil marks in margin on approximately 100 pages, underscoring on a few, page-reference notes by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on rear end papers.