Search Results: Authors starting with W from Berthoff Books

Faber & Faber, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 469 pages, with index of titles and first lines, plus 23-page preface by the editor. First paperback edition. Frontispiece photo of Auden. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, foxing to top edge, end papers and page margins age-toned. Pages unmarked.

The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 214 pages. Essays on 20th century literature and criticism; Dr. Johnson's poetry; Flann O'Brien; Russia and Russian writers (Zhivago); role of radio. 8vo, black cloth with silver and blue gilt lettering on spine, raspberry end papers and topstain, only slight shelf wear at heel, in unclipped scarcely worn DJ. Underscoring and marginalia in light pencil on approximately 35 pages, chiefly in the essays on Zhivago and on "The New Puritanism".

Penguin Books, 1978. Soft cover. Good. 275 pages. Lectures given by Wain at Oxford in the 1970s discuss, among others, Auden, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, William Empson. Last 15 pages are an Appendix containing poems written by Wain in 1973-76. Trade paperback, crease to spine, foxing to edges; a few front-matter pages, detached because of weakening glue in binding and reattached with tape, are not quite flush with fore-edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 20 pages.

HarperCollins, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 330 pages, with index. Written by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. Illustrated throughout with color photos and diagrams. Sets forth a vision of Earth's future, humankind's relationship with Nature. Portrait-book size (7-3/4" x 10"), green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, brown end papers, bookplate "With the Compliments of HRH The Prince of Wales and The Prince of Wales Foundation" affixed to front free end paper, . Unclipped dust jacket has light edge wear. Old price in pencil on half-title, no other marks observed.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1973. Soft cover. Poor. 1008 pages (of which SIX NUMBERED PAGES MISSING) + 60 pages of introduction and front matter, with Whitman's other poetic writings, index of titles, selected bibliography, chronology of Whitman's life and work, the poet's comments on his own work, and criticism by William Dean Howells, Van Wyck Brooks, D.H. Lawrence, Lewis Mumford, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Anthony Burgess, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Trade paperback (5-1/8" x 8-1/4"), wraps creased, curled and slightly soiled, spine creased and cracked in two places, foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), his marginalia observed on approximately 25 pages, the majority in the "Calamus" section. Condition of the book would be "Good," except for the fact that PAGES 205-210 (THREE DOUBLE-SIDED PAGES) ARE MISSING, being the last few stanzas of "Song of the Exposition" and the whole of "Song… Read More

Guiod Perss (American Press), 1966. Soft cover. Good. 793 pages plus 22 Roman-numeraled pages of front matter, with index and list of abbreviations. With introductions and commentaries by Catholic Bishops and experts, responses by Protestant and Orthodox scholars. The Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph Gallagher was the translation editor. Introduction by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. Essay "An Adventure in Ecumenical Cooperation" by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller. Includes Prayer of the Council Fathers and Prayer of Pope John XXIII. Each document has a separate introduction and a response. A 48-page Appendix includes opening speech by Pope John XXIII, chronological list of the 21 ecumenical councils of the Church, chronology of Vatican II, one-paragraph i.d. of contributors to this volume. Mass-market paperback, fourth printing, wraps worn, with creases, and a bit discolored, edges and page margins age-tanned, pages themselves toned but not brittle, binding firm. Former price in pencil on ffep, underscoring… Read More

Methuen, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 188 pages. Fourteen short stories by the Renaissance man Eugene Walter, born in Mobile, Alabama. "Sparklingly witty stories from the Gulf of Mexico" reads the front cover; most of the stories are set along the U.S. Gulf coast. Mass-market paperback (first UK edition), minimal shelf wear, old price written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Livingston University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 91 pages, with index of first lines. Poems are grouped into four sections: Contraband, Contradance, Contradiction, and Counterpoint. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" in white card wraps with a few faint foxing-like marks on front cover, dust soil to top edge, practically no wear; DJ decorated with lizard wearing a spiffy metallic plume has small spots of soil, rubbing, and light shelf wear, with sunned spine. Inscribed to friends Ann and Warner Berthoff "with lizardy good wishes". Corrections on approximately a dozen pages and the rear DJ flap, evidently handwritten by the author (with Eugene, one wouldn't know that they weren't printed in "handwritten" style, but three quarters of the corrections are in the same ink as the inscription). From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff.

The Willoughby Institute, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 59 pages. Poems by the inimitable Renaissance man from Mobile, Alabama, illustrated throughout with his drawings. Thirty-five poems including "The Quarterback's Lament" and such works of the Reagan era as "Goodbye to Mr. Edwin Meese, or, The Triumph of Dolly Parton". 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" paperback in cream card wraps with a little water stain at bottom of front cover, touch of dust soil/foxing to top edge, in DJ with tiny spots of soil, wear along top and to front bottom corner. Inscribed by the author on half-title to "Ann & Warner" (Berthoff), his friends. Her marks in the ToC - one indicating two poems listed in the wrong order, another bracketing a poem on Wanda Landowska that's listed in the ToC but doesn't appear in the book.

No Binding. Very Good. Nine loose sheets. Eight ironically captioned drawings by the versatile poet/artist/writer Eugene Walter, printed on 8-1/2" x 11" white card stock, covered with a larger, folded sheet of red paper. There are two copies of the cartoon "The Commitee meets to discuss the future of the Committee." No date or publisher is indicated, only the artist's handwritten copyright statement. The top-most sheet is very lightly soiled and rumpled at the upper right corner. The red portfolio cover is a bit sunned and worn. A piece of cardboard is inserted to protect the sheets from creasing. From the library of Walter's friend Ann Evans Berthoff.

Decatur House Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 152 pages. Fourteen short stories by the multi-talented Eugene Walter of Mobile, Alabama, collected and published shortly after his return from 30 years living in Europe. 8vo, plum cloth with gilt lettering on spine, mauve end papers, miminal wear. In unclipped dust jacket with wear along the spine and flap folds, light soil. Pages bright and unmarked.

Soft cover. Good. 12 pages including front and back, stapled in pamphlet form. Evidently a concert program: "Lyrics by Eugene Walter, Music by Donald Ashwander, Fred Baldwin, Alexis Biolley & Francis Imbragulio". Performer listed after each poem (song): Phyllis Demetropoulos - soprano, Greg Riley - tenor, Teri Ann Willams - soprano, Linda Evans - alto. Most of the authors and performers are from the Gulf Coast, which suggests that the undated concert program may have been for an event in Eugene Walter's home town, Mobile, Alabama. A few smudges to the covers, staples rusted. From the library of Walter's friend Ann Evans Berthoff.

The Willoughby Institute, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 60 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-5/8" x 8-1/2" pamphlet style, stapled in pale blue wraps without visible wear, faded along fold, staples rusted, end papers pink, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper, slight soil and faintest foxing to top edge; DJ has some small soil spots, beginnings of a crease at front bottom corner. Signed by the author with his swash and "e". From the library of his friend Ann E. Berthoff (not stated).

Crane Hill Publlishers, 1992. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. New Enlarged Edition, ~70 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" soft cover in self-wraps, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper, water spots and rippling to front cover inside and out, reading crease, crease to back cover at top corner. Inscribed by the author "with Pokey and Weedy greetings" and his name and swash. From the library of his friend Ann E. Berthoff (not stated). Our inventory # AEB-456 is a first edition of The Pokeweed Alphabet.

Horwitz Publications, 1965. Soft cover. Fair. 152 pages, with index, bibliography, map showing land quality. Mass-market paperback, creasing to corners and spine, spine chipped at heel, 1" tear along front wrap/spine at top, binding cracked and separated at p. 46-47, but both halves still attached to spine, pages and edges keeply age-tanned. Pages unmarked. This copy has two newspaper clippings (cuttings) laid in, sources not identified: a review of this book as a distillation of Ward's earlier The Australian Legend, and 1995 obituary of Ward, highlighting his career troubles because of an earlier Communist affiliation.

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 255 pages, with index, three maps, suggestions for further reading. Chicago History of American Religion. Book first published 1981. Trade paperback, crease to upper corner of back cover and slight fold to about 20 pages behind it, two bookstore stickers on back, very faint foxing to top edge, binding tight. Former owner's name on inside front cover, pages bright and unmarked.

The Visionary Company, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 186 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Crane and various artists' portraits of him and one fold-out art reproduction - Tasso's Oak by Peter Blume. Spring 1982; formerly the Hart Crane Newsletter. Remembrances (including by Malcolm Cowley), poems, critical essays, book reviews. Trade paperback-size, wraps lightly worn, scuffed, rubbed. Set in typewriter font, pages bright with no writing or marks observed.

Harper Perennial, 2005. Soft cover. Good. 1016 pages, with index and bibliography. First published by HarperCollins in 1999; this edition has a new preface written after Pope John Paul II's death in April 2005. Illustrated with eight double-sided b&w plates of photos from his earlier life and eight color ones from the years of his papacy. Trade paperback, creases and curl to wraps, wear to corners, ex-library with stamps and stickers on cover and ffep. Pages unmarked.

University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 28 Roman-numeralled pages precede the 226 photographs on unnumbered pages, some of which take up a page or more, while some are smaller photos grouped on one page. Black and white photographs taken by the author Eudora Welty in her native Mississippi, most of them during her time as a Works Progress Administration "publicity agent, junior grade" during the Great Depression; at the end of the book are photos of her family. Introduction by Reynolds Price is followed by a 1989 interview with Welty on her career in photography, its techniques and various cameras. 9" x 10", reading crease, light shelf wear, a bit of soil to edges, pages unmarked. Bonus: a laid-in 2009 clipping from the TLS - essay by Paul Binding, an appreciation of EW's work in this field. The higher cost that shipping this heavy book will incur has been incorporated into the price.

University Press of Mississippi, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 280 pages, with index, Appendix listing authors reviewed. Edited, with an introduction, by Pearl Amelia McHaney. 8vo, beige cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, maroon end papers, no visible shelf wear but front board bowed, in crisp, barely worn DJ with a couple of patches of very faint foxing to the interior. Small check mark observed in margin of one page, otherwise pages bright and clean.