Resultados de búsqueda: Essays from Berthoff Books

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.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 919 pages, with index. Updike's fourth collection of non-fiction prose. 8vo, green cloth with usual Knopf gilt lettering, top corner of rear board a little frayed, in unclipped DJ with light wear along top, bookstore sticker on back panel. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book, may require extra postage.

Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 374 pages plus viii front matter pages, with Bibliography and Index. First U.S. edition. Essays by several historians on controversies over German motives in World War I, with Fritz Fischer's work refuting claims about Germany's war intentions as a touchstone. Mass-market paperback, creases to spine, wraps lightly soiled and shelf-worn, paint stain on back cover at bottom, edges and page margins age-tanned. Pages unmarked.

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 192 pages, with Selected Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Chronology of Important Dates. 14 essays, including by the Russian formalist Tynyanov, Isaiah Berlin, Andrei Sinyavsky. Trade paperback, very light shelf wear, rubbing and smudge to back cover, binding tight, pages bright and 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.

Icon Editions (Harper & Row), 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 266 pages, plus index. Thirteen essays written in the 1970s and 1980s debate the legacy of Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism in particular. Six plates with b&w art reproductions. Keynote essays by Clement Greenberg view the debate about Modernism as rooted in art criticism of the late 1930s, which dealt with "the complex relationship between art, culture and politics" (back cover). Trade paperback, spine sunned, reading crease, light soil to edges. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 80 pages, concentrated in five of the essays.

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.

The University of Michigan Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 230 pages. Poets on Poetry series. Essays touch on 16th-century poetry, Walt Whitman, many 20th-century poets. Trade paperback, almost no visible shelf wear, spine sunned, very faint foxing to fore-edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 222 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's 223 color art reproductions. The novelist's second collection of essays on art, 18 pieces selected by him chiefly from his writings as art critic for the New York Review of BOoks, keyed to exhibitions he visited, including single-artist shows of Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and others, up to Andy Warhol. Imperial 8vo (8-1/4" x 10-1/4"), black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping on boards, printed on semi-gloss stock, very slight wear to corners/crown/heel. Pages unmarked. Unclipped DJ shows wear and rubbing along edges. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), whose nearly 50-year correspondence with Updike is held in Harvard's Houghton Library; laid in is a "With the compliments of the author card" from Knopf. Also laid in is an appreciation of this book, clipped from Harvard Magazine of April 2006. Leer más

University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with Name Index. Essays by literary critic and professor of English Literature on 19th-century and modern poets. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering, maroon end papers, corners sharp, back board a little bowed, touch of dust soil to top edge. Dust jacket has shelf wear, creases to flaps. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends Profs. Warner (co-dedicatee of the book) and Ann Berthoff, her notes in pencil on fewer than 10 pages.

New Directions, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages plus six of front matter/foreword. Translated by G. Craig Houston, Foreword by Denise Levertov. Collection first published 1960 as Vol. I of Selected Works. Fifteen essays and one lecture, first published between 1903 and 1938. Small trade paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), light soil to wraps, minimal shelf wear, foxing/dust soil to top edge. Pages bright and unmarked.

Impress, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. 466 pages. Essays on a variety of writers and other topics by the prolific reviewer and professor of English at Amherst. Trade paperback, slightest shelf wear, touch of dust soil to edges, handful of page reference notes written in pencil on rear free end paper. Pages bright and unmarked.