Resultados de búsqueda: Philosophy from Berthoff Books

Columbia University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 646 pages, with index. History of major schools of thought divided into eight sections chronologically since the beginning of the European settlement. Each section has a bibliographical Guide to the Literature. Medium 8vo, dark red cloth, gilt lettering in black inset on spine, blind-stamped colophon on front board, black topstain, wear to corners, boards a bit faded and soiled, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Old price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately half the pages by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (as a student).

Princeton University Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 520 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book first published in 1972). No subsequent volumes exist. Trade paperback, creases in spine and front wrap, shelf wear to especially to heel and corners, faint foxing to top edge, light soil to other edges. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on half title, her underscoring and notes on approximately 105 pages including title page, and on rfep and inside back cover.

Harper Torchbooks, 1959. Soft cover. Very Good. 254 pages. First Harper Torchbooks edition. Translated, selected and with an introduction by Alexander Dru. Includes Chronological Table of life, works, and historical events. Trade paperback, rubbed along spine, shelf wear, wraps not flush with text-block fore-edge because of glue pulling away from spine, but all pages attached. Name of former owner written on ffep, marginalia observed on approximately 15 pages, chiefly small marks; notes written on 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

University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 191 pages, with index. Published as one of the Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. A study of the making of meaning, with central attention to "the triadic semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce [which] accounts for interpretation in logical terms: interpretation is a constituent of the sign". 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, gray end papers, rear board bowed, in dust jacket with light shelf wear, sticker on front panel, piece of clear tape on rear panel. Pages bright and unmarked.

Cambridge University Press, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages, with index and bibliography. Introduction by R.G.A. Buxton. Trade paperback, wraps age-toned, foxing to top edge, brown toning streak to top and fore-edges, pages 202-03 stained tan as from laid-in clipping, slight shelf wear, bookstore price in pencil on ffep. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (author of Literature and the Continuances of Virtue), his underscoring and marginalia in pencil on approximately 60 pages, particularly in Louis Gernet's essay "'Value' in Greek Myth", and inside back cover.

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.

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.

Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 170 pages, with index. Edited and introduced by H.P. Rickman. Trade paperback, backstrip peeled at crown, otherwise light shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 30 pages including half-title and rfep.

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.

New American Library (A Mentor Book), 1963. Soft cover. Good. 432 pages, with Editor's Preface, Translators' Preface, General Introduction, suggested Books for Further Reading. Eighth printing of this edition. "A new selection with an introduction and commentary by Renford Bambrough." Mass-market paperback, very light creases to wraps at top corners, tear in front cover along fore-edge near top, page margins age-tanned, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Urizen Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 88 pages, with Selected Bibliography of Criticism of Eugenio Montale's Works Published in Britain and the United States 1936-1969. Collection of short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature, first assembled in 1972. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, puce end papers, sharp corners and no visible shelf wear, boards bowed, dust soil to top edge, in unclipped DJ with light wear, rubbed along lines parallel to spine and a few other spots. Pages bright and unmarked.

Harper & Row, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 435 pages, with Index of Names, Index of Subjects, List of English Translations, Appendix of verses in German. "Being the translation of eleven chapters of Die Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert", translation revised by H.H. Hartwell and the editorial staff of the SCM Press. Introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan. Chapters on Lessing, Kant, Herder, Novalis, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Feuerbach, others. 8vo, deep aqua cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear, a little browned along spine, faint spotting to top edge. in unclipped DJ with heavy wear, chipping around edges, losses to front flap fold. Date 1964 and name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil on approximately 40% of the pages, notes on rear end papers.

Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 265 pages, with index and bibliography. First Harper TB edition, published 50 years after the book's first appearance, with a new preface by Jaroslav Pelikan. Trade paperback, spine age-tanned, minimal shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep and title page, his underscoring and/or marginalia on ffep and approximately five other pages.

The University of Chicago Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 323 pages plus 31 front-matter pages, with index, Author's Introduction, essay by translator "Tillich's Concept of the Protestant Era". 8vo, blue cloth with spine and board extremities sunned, faded gilt lettering on spine, boards rubbed/soiled, wear to corners, edges age-toned. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on front pastedown, his underscoring and/or marginalia (from student years) on approximately 130 pages, particularly heavy in the Introduction.

Indiana University Press (A Midland Book), 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 129 pages, includes Introduction, Note on the Text, and Preface to the Midland Edition by the translator and editor Peter Gay. Trade paperback, clean and with minimal shelf wear, last page and three blank rear end papers separated from binding and almost imperceptibly reglued, faint foxing to top edge, black mark on ffep, small marks in pencil observed on approximately five pages.

The Macmillan Company, 1938. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 717 pages, with index. Revised and enlarged edition (first was issued 1914). Prefaces to each edition by Prof. Coker (Yale), who wrote an introduction to the excerpts from each thinker, from Plato and other ancients, St. Augustine, through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, to Bentham. 8vo, gray cloth with black lettering and faded gilt decoration, spine and boards around edges sunned, black smudges on spine, bottom corners bumped, edges and end papers age-toned, binding firm. Old bookstore price in pencil and name of former owner written on ffep, pages unmarked.

Beacon Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 201 pages, with index. First paperback edition. Essays by the neo-Marxist sociologist on late-20th century American society. Trade paperback, reading crease, some shelf wear, faint foxing to edges and white back cover. Pages unmarked.

University of California Press, 1978. Soft cover. Fair. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe. 63 pages x 2 (same page number for facing DE and EN pages). Trade paperback, quite wavy and stiff from water damage, with stains to end papers, foxing to top edge, wear to corners of wraps. Name of former owner written on half-title along with notes and old price, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.