Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Berthoff Books

The Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1995. Soft cover. Good. 295 pages. Diary of one year in the poet's life, with wide-ranging observations on society and intellectual life. Trade paperback, wraps curling, light foxing to edges. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages, rfep and inside back cover.

Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 232 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with 16 color plates, numerous b&w cuts and plates. First American edition. Royal 8vo (7-1/4" x 10"), dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no visible shelf wear, scattered small spots of foxing to top edge, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ with small tear and to top of back panel, rumpling at crown, age-toned along edges on the inside, bit of sticker remnant on front panel.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Soft cover. Good. 180 pages, with chronology, notes on authors, selected bibliography. A Spectrum Book, in the Twentieth Century Views series. Authors include Auden, Kermode, T.S. Eliot, R.P. Blackmur, Allen Tate. Cover by Stanley Wyatt. Trade paperback, moderate wear and scuffing to wraps, foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages.

Penguin Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 92 pages, with Introduction by the translators and Notes on the Poems that help with the pronunciation of place names and give a date for each poem and context for some. First Penguin edition of this collection of 22 poems by the Russian poet, written in the 1950s. Included are his famous "Babiy Yar" (site of the mass murder of Jews in Kiev) and the long poem "Zima Junction", set in his native Siberia. Portrait photo of the poet on inside front cover. Mass-market paperback, wraps lightly soiled and foxed along spine, worn at crown, stain to two pages in Introduction from laid-in newspaper clipping, otherwise pages unmarked. Theh clipping is Yevtushenko's "Letter to America", written in Cuba after JFK announced the trade blockade of the island (Feb. 1962).

B. Schott's Söhne, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 47 pages. Comic Opera . . . "from a fable in 'The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves' by Wilhelm Hauff", Music by Hans Werner Henze, but this volume is the libretto only. "English Version by Eugene Walter" on label affixed to title page, covering a printed line containing a typo. Pamphlet format, 5-1/8" x 7-7/8", stapled in light-weight card wraps that are age-toned with light creases in a few places, staples rusted. Pages age-toned, unmarked.

Astra Press, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 141 pages, with index. Bibliography lists 2899 scholarly articles, conference proceedings, etc. published in 1945-85 on the political, intellectual, social and economic life of Yugoslavia and its constituent republics. 5-3/4" x 8-1/4", light blue wraps, spine and back wrap sunned, foxing to top edge and back wrap. UK bookstore price in pencil on ffep, no other markings observed.