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Pantheon Books (Random House), 1976. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with Subject Index, Index of Persons and Places. Seventeen b&w illustrations (reproductions of artworks, maps, etc.) in an eight-page section. Looking at a time under Hanoverian rule and Whig political dominance, when crimes like deer-stalking incurred the death penalty, the book "radiates into high politics and low, challenging the conventional, accepted accounts of eighteenth-century society" (back cover). Trade paperback, reading crease and other minor creasing and wear to wraps, heavy foxing to edges but pages bright, binding tight. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil observed on approximately 15 pages.
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
by E.P. Thompson
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Anni Mirabiles 1921-2925: Reason in the Madness of Letters
by R.P. Blackmur
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The Library of Congress Reference Department, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 55 pages. Four Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 8vo, stapled in matte card stock two-tone gray wraps, light shelf wear, age-browning to lighter gray part of wraps. Foxing spots on cover, pencil underscoring of single word or phrase on three pages, note in margin of one page.
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Pablo Picasso: Fifty-five Years of His Graphic Work
by Pablo Picasso, ed. Bernhard Geiser, Milton S. Fox
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Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1955. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 178 pages plus 27 Roman-numeralled front matter pages. 168 art reproductions selected and introduced by Bernhard Geiser, with biography and documentation by Hans Bolliger, translation by Lisbeth Gombrich. Includes list of the works, bibliography of Picasso's graphic art, list of books illustrated by Picasso. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/8"), black cloth with white lettering and decoration faded on spine. "Fair" condition refers to the exterior: torn backstrip has been reglued and is chipped at the heel and rough along its edge, shelf wear, rear board a bit bowed, dust soil/foxing to edges and end papers. The interior is in better shape, with no marks or writing.
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
by Erwin Panofsky
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Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Soft cover. Fair. 358 pages, with index, list of the 95 illustrations (b&w art reproductions). Introduction "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline", followed by seven essays - reprints and revisions. Additional illustrations include line drawings in the text. Mass-market paperback, binding disintegrated and reglued with additional repairs with clear tape (hence some signatures uneven), backstrip creased and with losses, wraps soiled and worn, edges soiled and age-toned. Names of former owners written on half-title, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 25 pages.
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Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
by Dora and Erwin Panofsky
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Harper Torchbooks, 1965. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 178 pages, with index, list of the 67 b&w illustrations, prefaces to first edition (1955), second (1961), and this Harper Torchbook edition. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to edges/end papers. Underscoring and/or marginalia observed on a few pages (fewer than five) and notes on rfep.
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Checklist of Melville Reviews
by Steve Mailloux & Hershel Parker
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The Melville Society, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 90 pages. 8vo, in dove gray stapled wraps with black lettering, cover light-faded along spine and margins, streaks of rust-colored soil on front, grease spot on back.
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Men, Women, Vines
by Thomas Parkinson
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Ark Press, 1959. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Good/Fair. 54 pages, cover design by Ariel Parkinson (both front wrap and DJ are lithographed). Poems written during years when the author was studying Yeats. Edition limited to 650 copies, this being one of 200 of them with a lithographed Tweedweave Text dust-jacket. Approx. 6" x 9", bottom corner a little bent, edges age-toned, text block detached from wraps but all pages present and attached to each other, soil and stains to wraps and end papers, heavier age-toning to DJ and dark water stain along top of front panel. Inscribed by the author to former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, "with much affection." No marks on pages.
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Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays
by Thomas Parkinson (ed.)
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Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Soft cover. Good. 176 pages, with bibliography, chronology, and notes on contributors. First printing. Published in the Twentieth Century Views series. Includes essays by Thomas Parkinson (the editor), John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Spender, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate and others. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, foxing to edges and end papers with a few spots on pages, binding tight. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Jan. 1969 written on ffep, (mostly) his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 30 pages.
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The Arab Mind
by Raphael Patai
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Scribner, 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 376 pages, with index, preface to the paperback edition (written after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the first edition having appeared in 1973). Trade paperback, creases to wraps at corners, faint foxing to top edge and end papers; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned, some soil and discoloration to wraps at spine and back cover, binding tight. Text unmarked.
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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise. A Companion Guide
by Patricia Ward, Karen Thomas
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The Film Company, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 32 pages. Cover 8-1/2" x 11", pamphlet in stapled dark teal wraps with knock-out title and inset drawing in black of sailing ship on front cover, corners and edges of cover slightly bumped, a few barely perceptible smudges on cover. This is the Companion Guide only, for the film Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise; transcript is not included. A pretty pamphlet, with b&w photo cuts throughout the clean and unmarked text pages.
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A Photographic History of Cambridge
by Patricia H. Rodgers, Charles Sullivan, Staff of the Cambridge Historical Commission
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The MIT Press, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 162 pages, with Bibliography, Index of Cambridge Commercial Photographers 1858-1945, Foreword by Harvard Professor of History Oscar Handlin. Eighty-one b&w photos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 1844-1945, with historical annotation of each. Landscape layout trade paperback (10-1/2" x 8"), light shelf wear, rubbing to wraps especially along spine. Gift inscription on half-title, interior pages unmarked.
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The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
by Paul Klee, ed. Felix Klee
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University of California Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 434 pages plus 20 front matter and editor's preface, with Index and List of Illustrations, which include dozens of drawings by Paul Klee and eight double-sided plates of b&w photos. There are four Diaries, edited by Paul's son Felix Klee; PK's "A Brief Autobiography" illustrated with ms. facsimile; Genealogical Chart; Recollections by FK and "Felix Calendar" - PK's chronicle of his son's childhood. Trade paperback, light age-discoloration and shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, tan stain as from laid-in newspaper clipping to inside back cover with very light transfer to facing page. One instance of pencil underscoring in preface, small pencil marks observed in margin of two other pages.
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Hart's Bridge
by Sherman Paul
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University of Illinois Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 315 pages, with index. 8vo, blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine and decoration on front board, light shelf wear, light soil and incipient foxing to top edge and end papers, with a few spots or smudges on pages. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, a friend of Sherman Paul and author of Hart Crane: A Reintroduction (U. of Minnesota, 1989); his underscoring and marginalia - criticisms and queries - on approximately 35 pages and rear end papers.
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Time in New England
by Paul Strand, ed. Nancy Newhall
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Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 249 pages. Strand's b&w photographs printed on semi-glossy stock, with texts (poems, sermons, laws, essays) selected by the editor interspersed. Foreword by Newhall, Introduction by Strand. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"), grayish-brown cloth with white lettering, wear to corners/crown/heel with chip to backstrip at crown, edges/end papers age-toned. The book has a slight musty smell, most likely related to the ink or paper-finish (other books with which it was stored, in dry conditions, have no odor). Gift card affixed to front pastedown, pages unmarked.
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The Protestant Era
by Paul Tillich, tr. James Luther Adams
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The University of Chicago Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 323 pages plus 31 front-matter pages, with index, Author's Introduction, essay by translator "Tillich's Concept of the Protestant Era". 8vo, blue cloth with spine and board extremities sunned, faded gilt lettering on spine, boards rubbed/soiled, wear to corners, edges age-toned. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on front pastedown, his underscoring and/or marginalia (from student years) on approximately 130 pages, particularly heavy in the Introduction.
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The Religious Situation
by Paul Tillich, tr. H. Richard Niebuhr
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Meridian Books, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 219 pages, with author's and translator's prefaces. New edition of translation first published 1932. Deals with religion in the face of "a concerted revolt against the spirit of capitalist society." Mass-market paperback, spine browned, age-toning visible on white parts of wraps, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. The reason for "fair" rating is that ffep has been torn out; otherwise good. Pages bright, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 65 pages.
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Victorian Boston Today: Ten Walking Tours
by Pauline Chase Harrell, Margaret Supplee Smith (eds.)
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The Victorian Society in America, New England Chapter, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine. 142 pages, with index of architects, art, architectural styles; 30 b&w illustrations, maps. 5" x 7", illustrated matte wraps, minimal shelf wear, binding tight. Names of former owners written on title page, very light aqua stain on copyright page. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The Three Worlds of Boris Pasternak
by Robert Payne
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Indiana University Press, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 220 pages. First Midland Book paperback edition of personal/literary/political portrait published 1961, the year after Pasternak's death. His three worlds are as poet, novelist, and political figure. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings on four double-sided plates. Trade paperback, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, light soil to edges, binding tight, 1/2" black marker line on ffep, possibly a crossed-out price; pages unmarked. Laid in is a clipping from the NYT Review of Books - letter to the editor from Pasternak's sister Lydia Pasternak Slater, weighing in on a controversy about inaccuracies in Payne's book.
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Unforgotten Years
by Logan Pearsall Smith
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Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 297 pages. Cover 5-1/4" x 8-1/4", cloth bound, small spot on front board, corners slightly worn. Marginal note in pencil by a former owner, Prof. Warner Berthoff, on one page of the chapter on Walt Whitman; otherwise text is clear and unmarked. Label pasted on ffep states "With the compliments of the Author." Evidently the initial recipient was Lucy Donnelly, long-time head of the Department of English at Bryn Mawr College. Pasted on rfep is a letter to Miss Donnelly from John A. Reed, VP of Little, Brown, dated Dec. 21, 1938, advising that a paragraph on p. 294 has been altered in all copies of the book except those, like this one, "sent out before the matter was called to our attention" by the estate of M. Carey Thomas, the former President of Bryn Mawr College and cousin of the author. The replacement paragraph, concerning Thomas's attitude towards money, is supplied in the letter, while…
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To Live in Pronouns: Selected Love Poems
by Pedro Salinas, tr. Edith Helman, Norma Farber
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W W Norton & Company Inc, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION SPANISH-ENGLISH. 230 pages, with foreword by Edith Helman, index of first lines in Spanish, chronology of the author's life (1891-1951) and works. Spanish originals verso face the translations recto. 8vo, deep turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, rough-cut fore-edge, barely any wear; in DJ with light foxing and soil, 1/4" tear to front panel, bookstore sticker on front panel, front flap not price-clipped, but clipped at bottom. Pages bright and unmarked.
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