Search Results: Titles starting with A from Berthoff Books

The Abingdon Press, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1452 pages, with index. Color maps on six plates. First edition, second printing. Foreword by David G. Downey, five-page list of the scholars who contributed. Includes overall articles and book-by-book commentaries on the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament, and the New Testament. The text is laid out in two columns. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2" x 2-1/4" thick), dark blue cloth scuffed, faded gilt lettering on spine, wear especially to crown and heel, hinges cracked, edges and end papers age-toned with some foxing spots. Pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in worn, unclipped DJ with chip to top of front panel, spine age-browned, rubbed along spine, light soil and faint foxing inside and out. Pages unmarked. Clipping of review of this book by G.S. Fraser in the NYT Book Review is laid in, along with clipping of Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby".

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.

Random House, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 340 pages, with index, appendix listing associates of Abu Nidal. "The secret life of the world's most notorious Arab terrorist." 8vo, black boards with black cloth quarter, red gilt lettering on front board and spine, corners sharp, remnants and marks from pieces of tape on boards, library stamps and rust-colored damp stains to edges (extending up to 1/16" onto some page margins), binding solid, in un-price-clipped, soiled DJ with stains and some damaged places clipped away. Ex-library, with library stamps on end papers. Exterior unsightly, but text pages unmarked.

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 214 pages. First American edition. Third of 12 in the roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time. 8vo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4"), olive paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, corners bumped, 1-1/2" separation of backstrip at rear of spine from top reglued, edges age-toned, bookstore price in pencil on ffep. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Aug. 1957 written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia in very light pencil on approximately 60 pages.

NRF - Gallimard, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 213 pages. "Dixième edition" - same year as the fancier first edition versions. Small trade paperback on ordinary paper, wraps soiled, creases to corners, shelf wear especially at crown, heavy foxing to end papers and some spots on pages, which are brown with age but unmarked. Name of former owner and dateline June 20, 1958 - Paris, written on ffep.

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.

Dell, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 384 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with drawings (cuts). Fourth printing, first published in 1961. Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed, creases to spine and back wrap, edges decoratively tinted blue and have foxing, end papers foxed and age-tanned, page margins age-toned. Marginal notes observed on fewer than five pages.

Independently published (Berthoff Books), 2024. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 241 pages. Memoir by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (1924-2022), who taught writing at U. Mass-Boston. "This is a memoir of places lived in and loved, stayed at length in, visited briefly, places dreamed about. . . The places here remembered have, mostly, disappeared. . . In these sketches and stories I have tried to suggest how things were, not only for me but for characters in their landscapes, those for whom these places were home." There are chapters on "homeplaces" in 1930s Alabama and Iowa, postwar Manhattan, other cities, towns, and farms. Part II, "Poetics of Travel," ranges from bicycling in postwar Europe to visits during half a century to Sicily, Ireland, Yugoslavia, and the Isle of Canna in the Hebrides. There is a glossary of persons and places mentioned but not identified in the text. Trade paperback, clean and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 316 pages. Twenty-two stories, in Updike's eleventh collection. 8vo, Navy blue boards with usual Knopf gilt lettering, burgundy topstain, almost no visible wear, save sunning to exposed edges of boards. In unclipped DJ with slight wear and small pale tan stains to front panel and flap at top. Pages bright and unmarked. Two black marker dots to bottom edge as if remaindered, but this copy is also inscribed by the author on the ffep, "Dear Warner - You once said you liked these tales of reluctant but ineluctable aging, and here they are with admiration and affection, John." From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in the Updike Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard U.

Counterpoint (Perseus Books Group), 2003. Soft cover. Good. 393 pages plus 22 intro pages, with index. Introduction by Hermione Lee. Collected criticism and essays, including travel and autobiographical essays by the British novelist. Trade paperback, fig-colored end papers, reading crease, scant shelf wear, light smudges to edges. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, names written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 90 pages.

Vintage Books (Random House), 1989. Soft cover. Good. 405 pages, with 12 tables, five maps, index, Further Reading suggestions, 54 illustrations (mostly photos) in a 24-page picture section. First paperback edition of book published 1987, the fourth in Hobsbawm's history of the world series. Trade paperback, slight shelf wear, sticker remnant on back cover, a few flecks of foxing to top edge, binding tight. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly small marks) by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and by an earlier owner (in barely visible gold highlighter) on approximately 60 pages.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 256 pages, with index, bibliography, nine maps, 102 b&w illustrations (art reproductions) on plates. Medium octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4"), dark green cloth, rubbed gilt lettering in red insets on spine, little shelf wear, faded red topstain, page-turning soil and small water spots to fore-edge, foxing to end papers. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1963 written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 140 pages.

The Modern Library, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with index, biographical note, frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, for other full-page b&w illustrations (two portraits of monarchs, London panorama, Swan Theatre. A Modern Library Chronicles Book. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned with light foxing. Marks and/or notes in light pencil on approximately five pages.

Princeton University Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 584 pages, with index, five maps. Volume II of a two-book series; Volume I, The Challenge, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-763. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned, edges and wraps age-toned. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 534 pages, with index and appendices, one of which provides excerpts from constitutions and other basic documents of several countries. Volume I of a two-book series; Volume II, The Struggle, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-766. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, wraps a little age-toned, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned and has water stain, tan stain from newspaper clipping on two pages of ToC. Name of former onwer written on ffep, only one mark to interior pages observed - an item circled in the ToC.

Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 204 pages. First Penguin edition of Powell's fourth novel, published 1936 by Duckworth. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear includes crease to rear bottom corner, two horizontal scratches to front cover, edges and pages brown from age, underscoring and/or marginalia observed on three pages.

Penguin Books, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. 175 pages, with introduction by H. Mattingly (1948), select bibliography, glossary, two maps (Roman Britain, Germany in the Time of Tacitus). Translation revised by Handford in 1970. Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, light wear to corners, writing on inside front cover, old price on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by a former owner on approximately 15 pages.

Avon Books, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages, with bibliography, index. "The explosive inside story of the CIA's supersecret airline" (front cover), first Avon printing of book published 1979. History from Cold |War period, especially Vietnam War. Mass-market paperback, edges tinted yellow, barely worn, binding tight, pages slightly age-toned but unmarked.

Chatto & Windus - Collins, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 378 pages, with index, chronology, list of Huxley's works, illustrated with 15 b&w photos on plates. 8vo, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners sharp, discoloration of boards along bottom and behind the large chip in DJ front panel, foxing and stains to edges, in unclipped (UK price), soiled and shelf-worn DJ with large triangular chip to front panel at bottom, repaired holes in back panel and flap, corners cut off from back panel. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.