Search Results: Authors starting with U from Berthoff Books

P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 223 pages, with index. The authors of this early biography of Pope John XXIII are a veteran of the Vatican Secretariat of State and a Romance language professor at Seton Hall University. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. 8vo, gilt paper over boards with white cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, edges of boards rubbed, edges age-toned. Price-clipped DJ is heavily worn and has creasing, numerous chips and tears, the latter repaired with clear tape; ink highlighting mark on rear flap. Previous ownership info blacked out on ffep, underscoring and/or margin marks on approximately 50 pages.

Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 144 pages, con testimonianze di amici stranieri del poeta raccolte a cura di Leone Piccioni e uno scritto introduttivo di Jean Paulhan. The first 41 pages have poems, and from p. 45 to the end are the supplementary essays and short essays or notes from 50-some of the author's foreign friends including Rene Char, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Jules Supervielle, Allen Tate. Trade paperback-sized (16 x 23 cm), white card wraps with white paper (red and black lettering) French-fold DJ and glassine outer jacket similarly folded. There is little wear to the wraps or DJ, while the outer layer has some tears along the folds and a tear with 5 cm wide hole in the front panel. Some brown foxing spots to the glassine as well as a 2 cm. blue ink mark on front panel; foxing to edges of the text block. Pages bright and unmarked. Laid in are a gift message from Maria Vittoria Sebastiani… Read More

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.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 388 pages, with index of authors and index of poems. "Revised and Enlarged Edition" after previous edition issued 1920. Spans Thomas Hardy (b. 1840) through Robert Graves (b. 1895) and a few lesser-known poets born up to 1902. Preface by the editor and a biographical blurb for each poet. 16mo (5" x 7-5/8"), red cloth with a few water splotches and tiny paint specks to boards, blind-stamped title/editor's name on front board, gilt lettering on sunned and soiled spine, corners slightly worn, crown and heel more so, faded tint and water splotch (not extending onto pages) to top edge, other edges and page margins age-toned. Bookstore price in pencil and former owner's name in ink written on ffep, check marks next to and lines between authors' names on five pages of the ToC, no other marks or writing observed within.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 260 pages. Stories written in 1971-1978. 8vo, light gray boards, red cloth backstrip with gilt and silver gilt lettering, top edge decoratively tinted charcoal gray, faint foxing to fore-edge, corners sharp, in lightly shelf-worn and lightly soiled unclipped DJ. Notation in pencil on ffep, text pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 359 pages. First Trade Edition. Included novella "Rabbit Remembered" is a sequel to the Rabbit tetralogy of novels. Twelve short stories. 8vo, golden cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, pale orange topstain, corners sharp, faint foxing to fore-edge and light smudge on ffep, in unclipped DJ with minor shelf wear at heel. Pages bright and unmarked. Not ex-library.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 282 pages. Stories dating from 1960-1972. 8vo, gray-green cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge tinted purple, very slightly cocked and back board very slightly bowed, faint foxing to fore-edge, page-turning soil to bottom corner, in unclipped DJ with minimal shelf wear. Pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 327 pages. Collection of book reviews, essays, reminiscences and parodies, first published in 1955-65. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu", on Ted Williams. 8vo, yellow cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge tinted brown, unusually heavy foxing to boards, soil to their exposed edges, only faint foxing to text-block edges, minimal shelf wear, in unclipped, age-toned DJ with 1" tear in front panel at top, raggedy along crown, normal shelf wear to bottom, light foxing to interior. "Good" rating is a compromise between the foxed boards and the mostly clean pages - only one margin bracket in pencil observed, and a tiny pencil note on rfep.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 303 pages, with index of Greek mythological references. "First and second printings before publication." The Centaur received the National Book Award for Fiction in 1964. 8vo, gray boards sunned tan and lightly soiled, black cloth backstrip with gilt and silver gilt lettering, top edge decoratively tinted red, other edges and page margins age-toned, in unclipped ($4.00) DJ with considerable wear to edges and two tears in back flap fold (1" at bottom, 2" in middle). Names of former owners Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep with date March 1963, his marginalia on front flap of DJ and approximately 13 pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 458 pages. First edition, second printing. 8vo, blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at their extremities and with small spots of soil, blue tint to top edge faded and foxed, in unclipped DJ that's raggedy across the top (chips and tears) and has small chips at the heel. Small pencil marks in the margins of a smattering of pages, and one or two notes.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 919 pages, with index. Second printing before publication. 8vo, light blue cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, boards sunned at top and bottom, top edge decoratively tinted red, page-turning soil to bottom edge, front pastedown pasted a little bit over the edge of the board and tanned from previously laid-in newspaper clipping, faint foxing to rough-cut fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with some creases and folds in flaps, wear at top, light soil to back panel. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 501 pages, with index, b&w illustrations (cuts) throughout. Updike's last collection of non-fiction writing, published posthumously. Edited by Christopher Carduff. 8vo, black cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge stained red with just a hint of soil and a tiny nick, in unclipped DJ with no visible wear. Pages bright and unmarked. Berthoff Books inventory #WBB-502 is the trade paperback version of this edition, in very good condition.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 292 pages. Third printing. Short stories from late in Updike's life, all but one written in the 21st century. 8vo, deep turquoise cloth with gilt and silver gilt lettering, corners sharp, tiny spots of paint along bottom of boards, first 100 pages and front panel of DJ slightly wavy at top from damp; minimal shelf wear to unclipped DJ, white streak on front panel. Pages bright and unmarked.

The William Dean Howells Memorial Committee, 1987. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 43 pages. "A publication of the William Dean Howells Curatorship Fund established at Harvard University in 1978 by John N. M. Howells '34." One of "One hundred and fifty copies printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by Werner Mueller after designs by Greer Allen." Author's note explains that this small edition "basically reproduces the original version" of the talk he gave in Emerson Lecture Hall, at Harvard, May 1, 1987 as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Howells' birth; a "somewhat amplified and altered" version subsequently appeared in The New Yorker. 5" x 8-1/4" in white wraps, encased in gray French-fold DJ with red and black lettering on the front. The DJ is very slightly sunned along the spine and its front flap has a vertical crease along the edge (7/16" at top, 1/4" at bottom). Three tiny… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 407 pages. Second of the Rabbit novels. 8vo, dark red cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top edge tinted blue, without visible shelf wear, corners sharp, in unclipped DJ with light wear and age-toning around top. Underscoring, margin marks, and some notes on approximately one-third of the pages; more extended notes in pencil on the rear end papers.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 279 pages. Nineteen short stories, originally published 1959-1962. Updike's fifth book, second collection of stories. 8vo, gray-green paper over boards, red cloth backstrip, usual Knopf gilt lettering, minimal shelf wear, in unclipped ($4.00) DJ tanned on spine, edges of flaps and along top, with shallow chipping at crown and heel, 1/8" tear to front panel at top and slight rumpling along top. Pages age-toned, pencil mark in margin observed on one page.

Knopf, 1977. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 185 pages. Sixth (overall) printing, second edition: "A new edition of his first novel with an introduction by the author." 8vo, brown cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, orange topstain, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ ($7.95 plus handwritten notation directly under printed price) with minor edgewear but 3/8" chip to top corner of front panel. Pages clean and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 174 pages. 8vo, light green boards, hunter green cloth backstrip with rubbed gilt and silver gilt lettering, front bottom corner gently bumped, top edge decoratively tinted pinkish, a bit of faint foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with chipping at crown and to top of front panel, 3/4" tear to top of back panel. Marginalia by former owner Warner Berthoff (not stated) on approximately 60 pages, mostly small marks in light pencil.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 307 pages + A Note on the Author. 8vo, blue-gray boards faded especially at edges, soiled greenish-teal cloth quarter with rubbed gilt and silver gilt lettering on spine; bluish tint to top edge faded, other edges slightly age-toned. In original DJ, with foxing to interior and flaps, several ~1" tears and chips, including to folds and at top of spine where the first two letters of "John" are missing; unclipped (price $4.00), 16-line blurb on front flap, 18 lines under author's photo on rear flap. From the library of Prof. Warner B. Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike began the year this novel appeared and is held in the Updike Collection at Harvard's Houghton Library; his name is written on the ffep, his underscoring and notes appear on the rear pastedown and rfep and, not terribly obtrusively, throughout the text. A well-used copy.

Knopf, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 95 pages. Sixty-two poems from after Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 came out. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, no visible wear save light sunning to bottom and top edges of boards, in clean and crisp unclipped DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.