Search Results: Titles starting with S from Berthoff Books

Chatto & Windus, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 328 pages. Murdoch's 16th novel. 8vo, olive green cloth with gilt lettering (and small water-spot) on spine, light shelf wear, slightly cocked, faint foxing to top edge, tan stain as from laid-in clipping on ffep, in unclipped DJ with light soil and foxing. Bookstore sticker from Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London - "The World's Greatest Bookshop" - on front pastedown with written annotation "June 10, 1974", name of former owners written on ffep, their marginalia in pencil on a smattering of pages throughout, being chiefly small marks but also a few notes, and more extensive notes with page references on rear end papers.

New Directions, 1958. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 286 pages plus 12 pages front matter. First published 1949, reissued with a new introduction by Babette Deutsch, in the wake of Pasternak's receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Three short stories are included: "Aerial Ways", "Letters from Tula", "The Childhood of Luvers", as well as poems. Mass-market paperback, wraps quite worn and soiled, edges/end papers/page margins age-browned. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Dec. 1958 ritten on ffep, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 65 pages.

Asyla, Inc., 1967. Soft cover. Good. 95 pages, of which 76 are a special section on Robert Lowell. Includes his poem "Spring," based on an ode of Horace, and, at page 21 facing the poem a b&w photo portrait of Lowell by Trudi Fuller, previously affixed but now only laid-in. Trade paperback-size journal, soiled white wraps with red lettering, "Robert Lowell" hand written on spine, tear and chip at top of spine, dust-soil to top edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on nine pages, all in Thomas Parkinson's essay on "For the Union Dead." Our listing WBB-656 is Salmagundi #37, from 1977, dedicated to Lowell on his 60th birthday.

Skidmore College, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 163 pages, Spring 1977 issue, with two new Lowell poems, and essays by himself and eleven others. Preface by the editor, "For Robert Lowell, on His 60th Birthday." Drawings by Richard Upton. Thick journal, trade-paperback size, wraps rubbed along spine and chipped at heel, remainder mark across each edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Our listing WBB-692 is an earlier, 1966-67 issue of Salmagundi, likewise featuring Lowell.

Signet Classics (The New American Library), 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 216 pages. First printing of this edition in the Signet Classic Poetry Series, General Editor John Hollander. Edited by Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey, with Introduction, General Note on the Text, Note on this Edition, Chronology, and Selected Bibliography. Mass-market paperback, light soil and small scratch to wraps, crease in spine, binding tight. Inscribed, obviously, not by Milton but by Prof. MacCaffrey to friends and colleagues. Underscoring and a few notes on approximately 20 pages in the Introduction; pages with the poems are unmarked.

Pegasus, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 411 pages. Translated and Edited by William B. Edgerton, with notes on Russian names and spelling, bibliography of Russian sources. Fourteen tales by the Russian prose master Leskov. Trade paperback, spine sunned, foxing to fore-edge, light shelf wear, binding tight. Underscoring and margin bracket on two pages of introduction, stories themselves are unmarked.

Hill and Wang, Inc., 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 384 pages, with index and appendix - i.d. blurbs on actors, actresses, playwrights and plays. 32 essays on the English, French and American theatre, actors, and playwrights. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Allan Wade. Foreword by Leon Edel. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

Mainstream Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, with list for further reading. Illustrated with b&w photos (cuts and plates, many portraits) and color ones on 12 double-sided plates. History is interspersed with accounts of travelling through the Highlands. The author formerly headed the Scottish Crofters Union. Super 8vo (8" x 11"), gray buckram with gilt lettering on spine, pale melon end papers, corners bumped but scant other wear. faint foxing to edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Octagon Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 256 pages, with index. A survey of secret societies from ancient to modern times, including the Assassins, Knights Templar, Sufi, Mithra cults, Rosicrucians, others. 8vo, red material over boards, in dust jacket, with outer transparent jacket heavy-stapled all the way through the DJ and the boards, edges and page margins age-tanned, bookstore sticker and another sticker affixed to end papers, chipping to end papers along fore-edge. Old prices in pencil on front pastedown, names of most recent former owners written on flyleaf, two kinds of highlighting: margin brackets on approximately 30 pages, yellow highlighting by an earlier owner on approximately 95 pages.

Faber and Faber Ltd, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 170 pages. 16 short stories by the Scottish poet. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black lettering on spine, faint foxing to edges and end papers, bottom corners bumped, minimal other wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped, worn along edges, water stains to back panel, pale foxing to interior. Names of former owners and provenance of gift written on first free end paper, small dots next to story titles in the ToC, no marks in text.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 256 pages, with index, glossary. Account by U.S. News and World Report editor ranges from Iran-Contra to freeing kidnap victims in Italy to other cover ops in Central America. Features "the private notebooks of Oliver North." Blue paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, practically no wear to boards, faint foxing and remainder mark on top edge. Unclipped dust jacket has shelf wear, crease to rear flap at bottom corner, chip at crown. Old price in pencil written on first free end paper, underscoring and/or margin brackets in pen on approximately 60 pages.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 360 pages. First American edition of English translation of Silone's anti-fascist novel, sequel to Bread and Wine and Fontamara. 8vo, black cloth with patterned weave, faded gilt lettering on front board and spine, fore-edge rough-cut, light shelf wear with small hole in cloth at bottom of front board, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, foxing to end papers. Old price and other notation in pencil on ffep, text pages unmarked.

Faber and Faber, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good. 254 pages, with index. Essays on 20th century interwar English literature - not a comprehensive account, but selective: on T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, some others. 8vo, black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, end papers slightly age-toned. Unclipped dust jacket has wear along top edge, pale foxing to flaps and inside along the top. Author's inscription to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on front free end paper is barely visible (erased?) and ffep is wavy in that place; WB's underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 20 pages.

Carcanet, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 216 pages, with Foreword by author, Introduction by translator. Appendix of translations of Italian passages in the text. Short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature on a wide array of authors including Dante, Boccaccio, Defoe, Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, many others. 8vo, forest green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear (corners sharp), dust soil to top edge, few spots of foxing to fore-edge. Pages bright, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 10 pages.

The Ecco Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 112 pages. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, a bit of very faint foxing to fore-edge. Date and price in pencil on ffep, two small pencil marks in the first poem, other pages bright and unmarked. Laid in are a clipping of a review of Graham's collected letters and three sheets on which his "The Dark Dialogues", published in Botteghe Oscure, Spring 1959, are typed out.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 252 pages, with index of titles and index of first lines. First printing. Author's Note to this selection explains that he chose sequences of poems from his most recent three collections, updating some, and individual poems from earlier. 8vo, yellow cloth with gilt lettering on black inset on spine, corners sharp, faint foxing to boards, edges and end papers; end papers stained tan from laid-in clippings. Unclipped, shelf-worn DJ has chip at crown, 1/4" tears to top of back panel. Pencil notation on ffep, pencil marks and one note in margins of fewer than 10 pages. Two laid-in clippings - one an unidentified response to this book, the other is the NYT obituary of Lowell from 1977.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 102 pages. First edition stated. 8vo, gray cloth with black lettering, slightly cocked, soiled and age-browned on spine and along edges; wear to corners, crown, heel; edges, end papers and page margins age-toned. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, family gift inscription dated Jan. 1945 to him on ffep, his marginalia on 10 pages in "The Ballad of Billie Potts.

Penguin Books, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 270 pages plus 28 pages front matter and introduction, with index of titles, index of first lines. Introduced and edited by Michael Hamburger. Plain prose English translation appears on each page below the German verses. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, faint foxing visible on faux label on front and on top edge. Notes written on inside back cover, pencil underscoring and/or marks in margin of approximately 10 pages, in introduction.

New Directions, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION SPANISH-ENGLISH. 180 pages, with Biographical Chronology. Edited by the author and Donald M. Allen, translations by Roy Campbell, Edwin Honig, Rolfe Humphries, Harriet de Onis. Spanish originals and English translations on facing pages. Mass-market paperback, slight shelf wear, rubbing along spine, faint foxing to top edges, light foxing/age-toning to inside covers and end papers. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in 1971 clipping from the TLS, which conveys with the book, concerns Lorca's "lost play" El Publico.

Grove Press, Inc., 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 107 pages. First printing. Translated and with an Introduction by Anselm Hollo. Poems by one of the two leading poets (with Yevgeni Yevtushenko) of the Soviet cultural "thaw" beginning in the late 1950s. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, corners sharp, light dust soil to top edge, tan vertical stain on p. 9 and facing, light foxing to end papers. Unclipped DJ has a bit of soil and wear along edges, two small tears (1/2" and 1/4") to top of back panel. Old price in pencil on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.