Search Results: Titles starting with N from Berthoff Books

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages. Collection of plays first published in hardback 1952. Edited by Eric Bentley, translations by Bentley, Gerardo Guerrieri, Arthur Livingston, Edward Storer. Mass-market paperback, wraps a little shelf worn and rubbed along spine, patches of foxing to edges, binding tight. Name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Columbia University Press, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good. 437 pages, with notes and index. First published 1985, this edition issued in the Columbia Classics in Philosophy series, with a new introduction by Lydia Goehr and a new conclusion by Frank Ankersmit. Trade paperback, scarcely worn, underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 15 pages and rfep.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. stated. 177 pages plus 21 front matter pages including Introduction (by the translator, covering Epicureanism and other philosophical and political context in which the poem was written) and Note on This Translation, with Brief Bibliography. Copley, Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Michigan, translated De Rerum Natura from the Latin hexameter of Lucretius into "a somewhat loosened form" of iambic pentameter (as he had done with Virgil's Aeneid), and into "contemporary English", the back cover blurb states. Trade paperback, very slight curl to front cover, scarcely worn except for page-turning smudge at bottom corner. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

Cupsa Editorial, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN SPANISH. 219 pages. Small paperback (4-1/2" x 6-5/8"), minimal shelf wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Oxford University Press - Cambridge University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 447 pages, with Preface by the chairman of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible, comprised of representatives of various Protestant denominations, and translators' Introduction. Seventh printing. The edition includes some explanatory footnotes on terms and alternate readings. Medium 8vo (6" x 9-1/4"), dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, light soil to boards, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to fore-edge, end papers, and a few pages at each end of the book. Pages unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 189 pages, with index, bibliography of Chomsky's works, two prefaces. Reprint of 1978 paperback edition of book first published 1975. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light shelf wear, bookstore sticker on back cover. From the library of Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits), her underscoring and/or notes on upwards of half the pages, inside covers and rfep.

Oxford University Press, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 654 pages, with index of authors, index of titles and first lines, sources and notes. Trade paperback, creases to spine where printed image is eroded, crease to front top right corner, price sticker on back cover, edges and page margins age-toned, price written in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked.

Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1076 pages. Chosen and edited by Richard Ellmann. Poets from Anne Bradstreet to Imamu Amiri Baraka. 8vo, wear to heel and bottom corners, a spine a bit concave making foredge uneven, accidental crease to rfep. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book will incur additional shipping charge.

The Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 642 pages, with bibliography of books of poetry by all the included authors. April 1928 fifth issue of April 1923 New and Enlarged Edition of anthology originally published 1917. American and British verse. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), dark red buckram with faded gilt lettering on spine and decoration on front board, a few water splotches to boards, flexible boards, bumped corners, small tear at crown, one or two front matter pages creased at bottom right. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date March 1960 written on ffep, a few pencil marks on front matter pages including check marks in ToC, one note in ToC, none observed in the poems.

Ballantine Books, 1956. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 149 pages, mass-market paperback format, edge-wear and corner creases to cover, scratch to fore-edge, small tear/chip in p. 29-30 not affecting text. "This is an original collection, not a reprint" stated. Four short novels: The Man Who Studied Yoga, by Mailer; The Engines of Hygeia, by Phillips; A Room at the Inn, by Rainer; and Field Guide to the Western Birds, by Stegner. Pages age-tanned, unmarked.

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute/Silk Road Studies Program, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 512 pages, with maps, graphs, tables. Chapters on the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Russia and Turkey. Trade paperback, tiny scratch to front wrap, almost invisible crease to back top corner, minor shelf wear. Pages clean, bright, unmarked. Not ex-library.

Dover Publications, Inc., 1973. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 97 b&w photos of New York City, taken by Berenice Abbott in the 1930s. Originally published 1939 as Changing New York; intro by Audrey McMahon and captions by Elizabeth McCausland are from that first edition. Eleven pages of front matter including list of plates. Landscape-layout paperback, 11-1/4" x 10", heavy wear along the bottom edges of the wraps, lighter wear elsewhere, inside covers stained/soiled with blue flecks, pages a bit rippled as from damp damage. Pages unmarked.

Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 228 pages. Introduction by Kate Simon. Artwork by four dozen artists, interspersed with short text excerpts by even more writers. 8-1/2" x 11" paperback printed on heavy stock, next to no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. 282 pages. First Noonday Press Printing. Mass-market paperback, spine sunned, foxing to inside and white sections of wraps. Date Feb. 1967 and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on half-title. Pages clean and unmarked. A free, unused, clean copy of Berthoff's Edmund Wilson - University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 67, 1968, 47 pages, will be sent with this book unless buyer notifies that it's not wanted.

HarperEntertainment, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrations by Pat Steir, Afterword by the author. Book of poems by the singer-songwriter. Trade paperback with glossy self-wraps, light dust soil, minimal shelf wear. Gift inscription on inside of front flap, otherwise unmarked.

Random House, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 121 pages. Collection of poems published while the author was Poet Laureate of the United States. 8vo, charcoal gray and light gray paper over boards, red lettering on spine, scant wear, foxing to top edge, stain on front end papers, in unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear. Pages bright and unmarked.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 130 pages. Novel first published in German 1979. Imagined meeting and dialogue of the writers Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode. 8vo, mauve paper over boards with purple-gray cloth quarter and gilt lettering on spine, touch of dust soil to top edge, a little foxing to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped DJ with 1/2" tear (mended from inside) to front panel at top, flaps slightly curled, handwritten correction of an error in front flap blurb and a note on back flap. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia - some small marks, some substantial - in pencil on approximately 50 pages and end papers.

The Noonday Press, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 183 pages. Second printing. List of contributors with notes at the end. Contents of this inaugural issue of Cecil Hemley's fat journal Noonday include The Last Summer, a short novel by Boris Pasternak, with an introductory note by its translator, George Reavey; Isaac Bashevis Singer "A Tale of Two Liars"; William Earle "Notes on the Death of Culture"; Karl Jaspers essay "The Individual and the Collectivity". Trade paperback-size, wraps soiled, crease to spine, cocked, edges and inside covers age-toned with light foxing. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on eight pages in the Jaspers article.

Phaidon Paperback, 1971. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 308 pages, with 186 illustrations (black and white plates), notes, bibliographical note, index. Large trade paperback (7" x 9-3/4"), wraps a bit creased and with light shelf wear. Underscoring and or marginalia in purple ink on approximately 70 pages are in most instances only small marks in the margins.

Plume (New American Library), 1971. Soft cover. Good. 253 pages plus 23 pages front matter, preface and introduction; with Index, Suggested Books for Further Reading, Leonardo Material in the U.S., Reconstruction of Leonardo's Inventions. First printing of Plume/NAL edition; work originally published 1960. The selection, begun by former Director of the NY Metropolitcan Museum of Art Francis Henry Taylor and his wife and completed by her after his death, groups excerpts from the notebooks under headings such as "The Painter", "The Sculptor", "The Inventor", "The Musician", etc., ending with biography-related excerpts in a chapter called "The Whole Man - The Man Himself - The Enigma". 16 b&w reproductions. Trade paperback, crease to spine with split opposite at which p. 97-98 partially detached, light soil/foxing to wraps, foxing to top edge, red remainder mark to bottom edge, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Page-reference notes in… Read More