Resultados de búsqueda: English History from Berthoff Books

McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to inspect a Russian warship. 8vo, green cloth with black lettering on spine, wear at crown, dust soil to top edge, a few faint foxing spots to other edges, age-toning to end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is soiled and worn, with chipping and up to 1" tears, some mended with clear tape from the inside. Name of a former owner written on front pastedown, old prices in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 55 pages, with Appendix showing landed wealth of 23 English Peers under Charles I. The Economic History Review Supplements - 1, published for the Economic History Society. Date inferred, not stated. Polemical pamphlet directed at the arguments of Prof. R.H. Tawney on the causes of the English Civil War. Journal format (approx. 7" x 10"), light-weight card-stock wraps with corner creases, light soil, age-tanning and light foxing, spine a bit rumpled. Name of former owner Prof. W.B. Berthoff with date July 1963 written on front cover, alongside price in pencil. Interior unmarked.

Labor Publications, Inc., 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 123 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. Trade paperback, minor wear to corners, edges and pages bright, pages unmarked.

HarperCollins, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 330 pages, with index. Written by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales, with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. Illustrated throughout with color photos and diagrams. Sets forth a vision of Earth's future, humankind's relationship with Nature. Portrait-book size (7-3/4" x 10"), green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, brown end papers, bookplate "With the Compliments of HRH The Prince of Wales and The Prince of Wales Foundation" affixed to front free end paper, . Unclipped dust jacket has light edge wear. Old price in pencil on half-title, no other marks observed.

Penguin Classics, 1983. Soft cover. Very Good. 364 pages, with Index, Genealogies of English Kings, Translator's Introduction which includes life of the Venerable Bede. Translation by Leo Sherley-Price first issued 1955, revised in 1968 by R.E. Latham; this is 10th printing of 1968 edition. Mass-market paperback, scant wear, edges and page margins age-toned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

World Pub, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 340 pages, with index, illustrated with black and white photos on eight double-sided plates. 8vo, brown boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine and coat of arms on front board, shelf wear, rubbing and scratch to boards, former price sticker on front board, remnant of clear tape on back board, dust-soil to top edge, faint foxing to fore-edge, brown pictorial end papers with coat of arms, binding solid, pages bright and unmarked. Not ex-library.

D.C. Heath and Company, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 90 pages, with suggestions for additional reading. Introduction by the editor. Ten essays on aspects of British economic and social history 1750-1850. Trade paperback, reading crease, creases to corners, rubbed along spine, wraps age-tanned and lightly soiled, foxing to edges/wraps/end papers, small pencil notation on front cover at upper right. Pages unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 308 pages, with index. A long subtitle informs that the book comprises Fay's lectures at Cambridge in 1919 to students including Royal Navy officers and U.S. Army personnel. 8vo, yellow cloth with red lettering, boards soiled and banged up (dents in spine, bumps to edges), some wavy areas as from damp on boards and front-matter pages near spine. Writing on ffep includes a former owner's name and bookstore price; copyright page stamped "withdrawn" from H.M. Stationery Office; pale yellow highlighting observed on three pages, but rest of the text is clean and unmarked.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 263 pages, with index, bibliography, list of mentioned flora and fauna, chronological and genealogical tables of people who owned Barton's End since 1556. 33 illustrations - line drawings of flora and fauna, some garden-layout diagrams. 8vo, dove gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, boards sunned at extremities, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to end papers, smudges to a few pages. In worn DJ with creases, rubbing, chips and tears. Pencil note on ffep by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff recording whom the book was a gift from; her marginalia in pencil observed on two other pages.

The Macmillan Company, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 455 pages, with index. First printing of American first edition. Political, social, cultural history of the 20th century interwar period in the UK. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"), dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to crown/heel, cocked, light soil to boards, edges/end papers age-toned, one accidentally dog-eared page in index. Old price in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Lear Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 90 unnumbered pages, with note from the publishers. Each engraving has Hogarth's commentaries, taken from an early edition of his complete works. Imperial 8vo (8-1/2" x 11"), tan paper over boards with rust-colored quarter, black lettering, wear at crown and heel, light foxing to end papers and the first couple of front matter pages. Pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages, with index and bibliography. History of the Methodist church in the UK "shows how Methodism has . . . been a recurrent brand of Christianity since the earliest times." Mass-market paperback, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-tanned, pages unmarked.

Random House, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with index and chronological table. Illustrated with b&w photos on 16 double-sided plates. Biography first published in the UK one year after Mountbatten's assassination in 1979; this is American first edition. 8vo, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine, sunned about extremities, faint dust soil to top edge. Dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed, worn around edges. Old price in pencil on front free end paper, interior pages unmarked.

Faber & Faber, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 257 pages, with index, illustrated with two double-sided plates of photographs and documents. 8vo, black boards with gilt lettering on spine, slight vertical stain from edges of DJ flaps on end-papers, corners sharp, minor foxing to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, in unclipped DJ that looks great from the outside, has tan damp-stain on the inside at bottom. Approximately half the pages have underscoring and/or margin brackets, and a couple of instances of marginalia, written by previous owners.

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.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 387 pages, with index, bibliography, six pages of family trees, illustrated with b+w photographs on eight double-sided plates. 8vo, gray-green boards with gilt lettering on spine, pale yellow end papers, sharp corners, almost no shelf wear, couple of tiny dents to back board, light foxing/soil to top and fore-edge, in unclipped UK dust-jacket with light edge wear and toning. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked.

J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 339 pages, with index, bibliography, reference notes. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-3/4" x 9-1/2"), green paper over boards with blue quarter, rubbed gilt lettering on spine, green end papers, one spot of heavy wear along fore-edge of front board, text block chipped at top corner, faint foxing/soil to edges. Old price and other notations in pencil on half-title, interior pages unmarked.

Schocken Books, 1967. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 520 pages, with index, Preface, and Preface to the Second Edition (first was issued 1964). Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, reading crease, light foxing to top edge. Underscoring and marginalia by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on half-title and approximately 65 pages.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 192 pages, with index, bibliography, list of dramatis personae, diagram of the Souls circle. Covers the influence of this group as "an elite in English society, 1885-1930", which included influentials such as Lord Curzon and PM Arthur Balfour. Wide trade paperback (7-3/8" x 9-5/8"), practically no visible wear. Errata slip laid in. Name of former owners written on inside front cover, interior pages unmarked.

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages, with index. First printing. Seven b&w illustrations (art reproductions), also maps. History of 18th-century insurgency of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica. 8vo, brown cloth with orange lettering on spine, dark green end papers; the book is cocked, but has minimal shelf wear, a few pages slightly dented along fore-edge. Unclipped dust jacket has slight curl along top edges. Pages bright and unmarked.