Search Results: Authors starting with V from Berthoff Books

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 84 plates from the MMA collection, preceded by eight pages of introduction by William M. Ivins, Jr. and list of the plates. Limited edition: 2000 copies printed. Reproductions of paintings and etchings include full images and details. 4to (9-1/8" x 11-3/4"), gray cloth soiled and age-tanned around margins of boards, shelf wear, outer cloth layer of spine missing and cloth frayed along it, printed on glossy paper with light foxing to free end papers (which are blank), hinges loose with 1/2" split at top and bottom of front hinge. Plates are in good condition. Christmas 1944 gift inscription on first free end paper, other pages unmarked.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 113 unnumbered pages. Spiral-bound desk calendar for 1978 features the Unicorn Tapestries and the Cloisters museum (Metropolitan Museum of Art), which houses them. Introduction by Bonnie Young, associate curator at the Cloisters. 7" x 9", slight shelf wear. Each week's page has seven spaces for notes and a caption for the facing glossy art reproduction. The art includes details of the tapestries and photos of sculpture and other features of the Cloisters buildings and their rooms. No writing within; could be saved for use in 2034, while the art may be enjoyed at any time.

The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 355 pages. Fifth printing of work published 1914. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), brown buckram, black lettering and decoration, spine sunned, corners bumped, gray topstain. Old price and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia throughout pages 1 - 110 and on rear end papers, rest of the pages clean.

Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar, 1964. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 451 pages, some black and white illustrations. The reader includes works by and about Heinrich von Kleist. 8vo, beige cloth with rubbed black and gold lettering and decoration, moderate soil and wear including bump to top corner and text block, edges and pages age-tanned. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on first free end paper along with an old price, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 40 pages.

Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 87 pages, with index, list of illustrations. Besides the 40-some b&w illustrations (photos of artifacts and art works) on plates, there is a two-page frontispiece diagram "General Plan of the Excavations" at the site in Sicily. First English Translation stated. Series: Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. Text runs through page 51, followed by plates on glossy stock. Small booklet (~5-3/8" x 7-5/16", 13 x 18.5 cm), light blue wraps, spine sunned, wraps soiled, wear includes 1/2" tear at crown, foxing to edges and first plate. Main defect is that p. 64 and 65 are stuck together near top, with ~1" diameter damage to two of the plates. Pencil marks in margin of approximately 15 of the text pages.

University of California Press, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 413 pages, with bibliography, glossary. First paperback edition of verse translation done in 1971 by Allen Mandelbaum. With thirteen drawings by Barry Moser. Trade paperback, curl and light soil to front cover, very faint foxing to edges and along top of ffep. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Jewish Museum, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 168 pages, exhibition catalogue on semi-gloss stock with art reproductions, glossary, bibliography, and introductory essays. 8-1/2" x 11", light edge wear, eroded spot at top of back wrap. Margin brackets or underscoring on approximately five of the pages.

Jonathan Cape (, 1970. Soft cover. Good/Good. 79 pages, with Notes, Selected Bibliography, A Note on the Author. Cape Editions 43. Translation of short work originally published 1926. Includes Sergei Yesenin's "Farewell Poem" in English translation and Mayakovsky's 1926 "To Yesenin", with Russian original and English translation on facing pages. Mass-market paperback size, elegant format of white wraps with green lettering, pink DJ soiled along the spine, flaps decoratively clipped. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written in pencil on ffep, her notes on same page, and underscoring/marginalia on approximately 20 pages; other pencil notations on rfep.

Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. PARTLY BILINGUAL EDITION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. Edited and Introduced by Patricia Blake. Ten pages of explanatory notes. Original Meridian Book, first printing (April 1960). Blake's introduction is a 40-page essay on Mayakovsky's life, death, work, and the politics surrounding him in the Soviet Union. The dozen poems are printed with the Russian originals and Reavey's translations facing; the satirical drama The Bedbug was translated by Hayward. Mass-market paperback, spine faded, light soil to wraps, foxing to edges and end papers, binding tight. Pages bright and unmarked.

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 93 pages, including 15 pages of photographs of performances of Jedermann (Everyman). Mass-market paperback, black smudge near top of front cover, a bit of chipping to top edge. Pencil notation on inside back cover, gift inscription from one friend to another on ffep.

New York Review Books Classics, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages. Stories selected and translated from German by Joel Rotenberg. Introduction by the Irish writer John Banville. Small trade paperback (5" x 8"), little wear, a bit of dust soil to top edge, sticker remnants on back cover, binding tight, pages bright. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 10 pages.