Resultados de búsqueda: Politics from Berthoff Books

Kharvest, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 735 pages, with index, chronology and glossary of terms. B&w and color (hue shifted slightly toward red end of the spectrum) reproductions throughout the copious text. Covers historical period 988 (Christianization of Rus) to 2000. Edition published in Minsk, Belarus, of this "History of Russian Art: a Short Guide for Students" (translation of title; book is in Russian only). 8vo (6 x 8-3/4"; ~15 x 22 cm), 6.35 cm (2-1/2") thick, glossy pictorial boards, remnant of price sticker on back board, small scratch to back board at top near spine, barely perceptible wear to fore-edge. No markings inside or out. Heavy book, overseas orders may incur shipping surcharge.

Gateway (Henry Regnery Company), 1951. Soft cover. Good. 373 pages, with Note by translator and editor Phyllis Penn Kohler, Introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. The French aristocrat's memoir of his journey to Russia in 1839. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and soil to wraps, text block quite brown with age, a few accidentally dog-eared pages. No marks observed within.

Bantam Books, 1974. Soft cover. Fair. 623 pages, with index, bibliography. Paperback edition of book published early that year. Introduction by Robert Conquest. Sixteen pages of b&w photos. General history and profile of the Soviet intelligence agency, including description of its structure, as well as accounts of famous Cold War incidents, assassinations, etc. Mass-market paperback, exterior beat-up with tear at top of backstrip, 3/4" chip to bottom corner of back cover, creasing, approximately last 60 pages crinkled/dog-eared at back bottom corner, edges and pages age-tanned. Mark in pen on back cover at bottom. Pages unmarked.

Pluto Press, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 118 pages, with index. Introduction by Australian Labor Party figure Martin Ferguson. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, Australian bookstore price sticker on back wrap, binding tight. Underscoring on approximately 7 pages.

Collins, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 200 pages, with Foreword by Ian Fraser. Letters written by and to the sharp-tongued New Zealand businessman and politician (b. 1939) in 1970-1982, two years before his libertarian New Zealand Party played a spoiler role in national elections, helping bring NZ Labour and its neoliberal deregulation policies to power. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, aqua end papers, incipient foxing to edges, scant shelf wear, in DJ with edge-wear especially at crown and heel, small tear in the back panel and nick to the front where a bit of white shows. Name of a former owner and bookstore price written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.

The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 490 pages plus 21 of front matter, with index. Selected and edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, who wrote a Foreword. Translated by Lynn Solotaroff, Bernard Guilbert Guerney and the editor. Explanatory same-page footnotes throughout. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with black cloth quarter, silver lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, red topstain, foxing to fore-edge and some spots on end papers and a few interior pages. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on approximately 30 pages (in pencil) and rfep.

Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 397 pages, with index and glossary of names. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson, with his introduction and preface; also an author's preface for this first English paperback edition. Letters by Czech playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel, later President of the Czech Republic, to his wife - the only writing allowed him during four years of imprisonment in Czechoslovakia. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, rubbing along spine, soil and faint foxing to edges. From the library of Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, with one page of her and two pages of his page-reference notes on end papers, underscoring and marginalia (mostly his, in a small, neat hand) throughout; recommendation is to choose a different copy, if you suspect these notes may be distracting or of no interest. A bonus is two laid-in clippings from the Times Literary Supplement: a 1987 interview of Havel on the tenth anniversary of the Charter 77 human rights movement, and a… Leer más

The Continuum Publishing Company, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 166 pages plus xvii front-matter pages, with references, bibliography, notes on contributors. Foreword by Jonathan Kozol. Essays by several Australian educators influenced by Freire. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, smudged, wear to corners, sticker remnant on front cover, faint foxing to top edge, one page dog-eared. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 20 pages, chiefly in the Foreword and the reference notes.

Scribner, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 567 pages, with index. First Scribner trade paperback of book published 2003. "With a new afterword". Illustrated with more than 130 b&w photos on plates. Hilary Clinton's autobiography up through Bill Clinton's second term. Eighteen-point "Reading Group Guide" at the end. Large trade paperback (9-1/8" x 6-1/8"), slight curl to wraps, 1/4" tear to backstrip at crown, small foxing-type stain on rear end papers. Pages unmarked.

University of Missouri Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 269 pages, with index. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, black end papers, corners sharp, light edge wear at heel and crown, faint foxing to top edge, binding tight, in DJ with 3/4" tear in top panel near spine. Names of former owners written on half-title, pages bright and unmarked.

Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 338 pages plus xviii front-matter pages including Preface and Introduction by the editor. Memoirs by the Russian aristocrat, geographer and anarchist, originally written in English during his long exile, after 1874, in western Europe and England. Mass-market paperback, wraps age-tanned, wear includes horizontal scratch on front cover, original price blacked out on cover. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 120 pages - the majority being thin vertical lines or x marks in the margins, though there are some notes.

Éditions du Seuil, 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 155 pages. Trade paperback, light creases in front wrap, smudges to back, edges and page margins age-tanned, bookstore sticker (Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Cambridge, Mass.) and price in pencil on epigraph page, binding tight, pages unmarked.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 174 pages plus front matter/introduction of 66 pages. Introduction by the translator. Autobiographical essays by 19th century Russian writer most famous as a literary critic from what he called the "organic" school, as against the "logical" criticism of Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, et al. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, crease to front top corner, binding tight, pages bright. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately a dozen pages.

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.

The Macmillan Company, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 230 pages, with index, bibliography. From jacket blurb: "A portrait of the most praised and vilified of modern Churchmen--Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church--and of the dilemma he faced as religious leader in a militantly secular society." 8vo, deep red cloth with gilt lettering, maroon topstain, rough-cut edges, practically no wear except a 3" light horizontal scratch to front board. Unclipped dust jacket has light soil and wear including horizontal scratch to front panel. Pages unmarked.

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.

Columbia University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tr. from the Italian by William A. Packer, edited by George Saunders. The Italian edition appeared in 1977. 158 pages. Cover 6-1/8" x 9-1/4", cloth bound gray with gold and red lettering on spine. DJ in very good condition with one tiny (3/16") tear and crease at top of back. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 143 pages, with biographical chronology, index of names, notes on the pictures. Black and white photos and facsimiles (mss., newspaper headlines), both full-page and cuts, throughout. Translated from German; the author was Moscow correspondent of West German Radio and Television. The turmoil around the publication of Dr. Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Pasternak is featured. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2", olive cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear (corners sharp), dust soil to top edge, touches of faint foxing to end papers, in unclipped DJ with wear to edges, foxing and soil. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia observed on seven pages. Two newspaper clippings are laid in: a photo of Pasternak, and a review by Marc Slonim from the NYT Book Review (1959) of two books of translations of P's poems.

Columbia University Press, 1939. Soft cover. Good. 67 pages, ith an introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. Follows the text of the 1796 English edition. 5" x 7-3/8", card wraps, stapled through the text block only, darkened along spine. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his notes (made as a student) throughout.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 98 pages, plus 14 pages of front matter including preface, introduction, and list of the 18 participants in a symposium held Dec. 5-6 1975 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Talks by Harry Levin, Carl Schorske, Henry May, Leo Marx, Henry Nash Smith are followed by transcribed panel discussion. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", stapled in red card wraps with black lettering, sunned along spine, worn at heel, light vertical crease in back cover, set in typewriter font, double-spaced. Inscribed by editor on title page to Prof. Warner Berthoff. Pages unmarked.