Search Results: Titles starting with C from Berthoff Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 214 pages, with index. 8vo, beige cloth in lightly worn DJ, very faint foxing to top edge. Former owners' names on front pastedown, binding tight, pages bright, underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 60 pages.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (and Pocket Books, Inc.), 1954. Soft cover. Good. Published in the Pocket Library of Great Art, the book is "in effect a 'guided tour' through the works of Camille Pissarro, one of the greatest and most beloved of the French Impressionists" (from the front flap). Pages unnumbered. Includes (one page each) biographical notes, excerpts from Pissarro's letters to his son Lucien, small bibliography. Forty-two art reproductions on plates, of which more than 30 are in full color; some fold-outs for larger horizontal paintings. Mass-market paperback with self-wraps, rough-cut fore-edge, crease to spine, wraps rubbed, edges age-toned, some of the fold-out plates are creased or rumpled at the outer edge from use. Pages unmarked, colors bright.

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1975. Soft cover. Fair. 384 pages, with indexes of subjects, places, names; selected bibliography; tables of incidents and punishments. Illustrated with art and document reproductions. First Norton Library edition of 1968 book. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, front cover separated from spine in 2" tear at bottom, front matter pages and through p. 18 detached from binding, foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 70 pages.

Rizzoli, 2006. Soft cover. Near Fine. 189 pages. Published in the Art Classics series. Introduction "Anti-Academy" by the Sicilian artist and anti-fascist activist Renato Guttuso, "His Life and Art" by Francesca Marini, who also edited the presentation of Caravaggio's masterpieces on color plates, Appendix including Chronological Table, Geographical Locations of the Paintings, Caravaggio's Writings, and Concise Bibliography. Translated from Italian by Miriam Hurley. 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" in self-wraps, very slight wear at front cover corners. Pages unmarked.

Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages. Historical b&w picture book on Carlisle, Massachusetts, published in the Images of America series on the bicentennial of its founding as a town (its territory was settled in the 17th century as an extension of adjacent Concord, Mass., and in the form of many farms). Trade paperback-sized, very light shelf wear, printed on semi-gloss stock, pages bright and unmarked.

Ann Arbor Paperbacks (The University of Michigan Press), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 226 pages plus 13 front matter pages including list of the 24 b&w illustrations (photos of artwork) and author's introduction of this edition of work first published 1935; index, bibliography. On art produced by the "meeting of the Germanic, Celtic, and Roman Mediterranean world with Christian mysticism" in Charlemagne's court; the book "traces these influences, bringing into focus the nascent elements that gave rise to Western Europe's aesthetic tradition" - from back cover. Trade paperback (5-3/8" x 7-7/8"), shelf wear, rubbing along spine, 1/2" tear along front top of spine, foxing to edges and end papers. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on inside front cover, her notes on half-title, inside back cover, and approximately 40 other pages.

Schocken Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages. "A new translation based on the restored text." First paperback edition. With Publisher's Note, Translator's Preface, Afterword to the German Critical Edition (Malcolm Pasley), biographical chronology, bibliography. Trade paperback, very light shelf wear and rubbing along spine, binding tight, pages bright and 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.

E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION LATIN-ENGLISH. 190 pages plus 18 pages front matter and introduction (by Quincy Howe, Jr.), with Glossary of names and place names, index of first lines for each language. Collaborative translation by a Latin scholar and a poet into fairly modern American English verse. 8vo, raspberry cloth with white lettering on spine, boards practically unworn, dust soil to top edge, page-turning soil at bottom right corner, back board very slightly bowed, faint foxing to edges, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ clipped at bottom of flaps (but original price not clipped), soiled especially along folds.

Grove Press, 1966. Soft cover. Fair. 144 pages. Fourth printing of first Evergreen Black Cat Edition. "Revised English version" by Eric Bentley, who first translated the play in 1947, with his introduction dated 1965. Mass-market paperback, reading crease, spine soiled and split 1" at bottom, creases and tear to back cover, shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, tan stains to inside front cover and ffep. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, doodles on back cover, underscoring and marginalia throughout. Laid-in clipping from the TLS is a 1983 review by Timothy Garton Ash of Ronald Hayman's biography of Brecht.

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.

Bryn Mawr College Library, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 233 pages. Essays contributed by Bryn Mawr College alumnae including Katharine Hepburn, Hanna Holborn Gray, Emily Vermeule; faculty including Felix Gilbert, Jane Oppenheimer, Mabel Lang; friend of BMC Eudora Welty. Poems by faculty member Richmond Lattimore. 8vo, dark red cloth with gilt lettering in black inset on spine, red end papers with white torch (or paisley) repeating pattern, corners sharp, faint water stain to front board and tiny spots of soil to back, light foxing to edges with a few spots on front-matter pages. Pages bright and unmarked.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 325 pages plus 12 pages front matter and laid-in errata sheet. Large catalogue for 1974-75 exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada, to which works were lent from 21 museum, university and library collections. Catalogue prepared by a team at the Department of Prints and Drawings, MFA Boston. Includes list of lending institutions, preface, conceptual explanations of the exhibition and its catalogue, glossary. Text and art reproductions interspersed throughout. 9-1/2" x 11" softcover book, black wraps with red lettering, black on red on backstrip, wraps worn and mottled, front cover separated and taped in place, dust soil to top edge, some foxing to edges and inside covers. Pages unmarked. Heavy book may incur shipping surcharge to some destinations.

Penguin Books, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 251 pages. Penguin edition of comic novel first published 1965. Mass-market paperback, creases and light soil to wraps, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, margin marks and/or notes on approximately 30 pages.

The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 330 pages. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles W. Daves. The introduction includes a short Life of Butler (1612-1680) and section "The Character Tradition before Butler." 8vo, Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light foxing to boards at top and to edges, name of former owner written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked, in lightly worn and rubbed, unclipped DJ with some barely visible foxing.

Harvest Books - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Soft cover. Good. 208 pages. Collection of essays written 1957-1982, including on William Hazlitt, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Coleridge and Wordsworth. Trade paperback, some smudges and light creases to wraps, sticker remnant on front cover. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 30 pages and inside back cover. Laid-in TLS clipping - review by Blythe of two books about trees.

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.

Random House, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 237 pages, with index. Combined biographical and critical study. 8vo, flecked beige paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering and decoration, a bit of wear at the heel, fore-edge rough-cut, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with little wear. Extensive notes in pencil by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on rear end papers, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 50 pages - mostly small check marks or asterisks in margin, some notes in pencil in top margins.

The Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown), 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 669 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Survey, two-page map of Chekhov's journey through Siberia to Sakhalin. Trade paperback, wraps age-tanned on and along spine, barely visible creasing to corners, foxing to edges, end papers, and a few pages at beginning and end of the book. Underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly marks, a few notes) by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 30 pages.

Wideview Books, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 470 pages, with index. Illustrated with 16 pages of b&w photos. First Wideview edition of book originally published 1976. A cultural history of the influence of Harold Acton, Brian Howard and their circle on British life between the wars. Trade paperback, light wear, faint foxing to top edge. Names of former owners written on inside front cover, pencil notation on rear free end paper, underscoring and/or vertical lines in margin on approximately 15 pages.